{"588981":{"#nid":"588981","#data":{"type":"news","title":"College of Sciences Faculty Win NSF Early-Career Awards","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFive faculty members in the College of Sciences are among the recent recipients of the early-career grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The highly competitive awards are from the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/funding\/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503214\u0022\u003ENSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER)\u003C\/a\u003E program; they provide five years of funding to junior faculty.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOf the five College of Sciences CAREER award recipients, four are assistant professors in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.math.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Mathematics\u003C\/a\u003E. Their names and research interests are:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.math.gatech.edu\/users\/mdamron6\u0022\u003EMichael K. Damron\u003C\/a\u003E - dynamical systems, probability, and statistics\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\t\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/people.math.gatech.edu\/%7Eeezra3\/\u0022\u003EEsther Ezra\u003C\/a\u003E - discrete geometry, combinatorics, probability, discrepancy theory, and approximation algorithms\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\t\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/math.columbia.edu\/%7Ehom\/\u0022\u003EJennifer C. Hom\u003C\/a\u003E - low-dimensional topology, Heegaard Floer homology, knot theory, concordance, and Dehn surgery\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\t\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/people.math.gatech.edu\/%7Ekwickelgren3\/\u0022\u003EKirsten G. Wickelgren\u003C\/a\u003E - algebra, geometry, and topology\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\t\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/reddi\/amit%20r.\u0022\u003EAmit R. Reddi\u003C\/a\u003E, an assistant professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.chemistry.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E, is the fifth College of Sciences CAREER awardee. Reddi studies metalloproteins. His lab is interested in determining the cellular, molecular, and chemical mechanisms by which these proteins are activated in cells and their roles in cell metabolism and physiology.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;I\u0026#39;m thrilled - but not at all surprised - by the recognition of accomplishment and promise by our early-career colleagues that these NSF CAREER awards signal. Their successes reflect the vigor they bring to their respective schools and to mathematics and the sciences at Georgia Tech,\u0026quot; says College of Sciences Dean Paul M.\u0026nbsp;Goldbart.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe CAREER awards are NSF\u0026#39;s most prestigious grant to support junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars. Through five years of sustained support, the award enables promising and talented researchers to build a foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Five faculty members in the College of Sciences receive the early-career grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF)."}],"uid":"34465","created_gmt":"2017-03-20 14:11:31","changed_gmt":"2017-03-20 16:58:35","author":"math-csg1b","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-06-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-06-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1279","name":"School of Mathematics"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"173647","name":"_for_math_site_"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}