{"591910":{"#nid":"591910","#data":{"type":"news","title":"IC Ph.D. Student Marisol Villacres Receives Faculty for the Future Fellowship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Interactive Computing doctoral student \u003Cstrong\u003EMarisol Villacres\u003C\/strong\u003E received the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.facultyforthefuture.net\/\u0022\u003EFaculty for the Future Fellowship\u003C\/a\u003E from the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.slb.com\/about\/foundation.aspx\u0022\u003ESchlumberger Foundation\u003C\/a\u003E for the 2017-18 academic year.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis year, 38 fellowships were awarded out of over 600 applications. This fellowship is awarded based on the applicant\u0026rsquo;s academic ability, leadership qualities, and engagement in outreach activities toward underserved communities with STEM as a development instrument in their home countries.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe fellowship will grant Villacres a maximum of $50,000 this year to continue her education and pursue her degree, with an option to renew the fellowship for next year, as well.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EVillacres is a \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ic.gatech.edu\/academics\/human-centered-computing-phd-program\u0022\u003Ehuman-centered computing\u003C\/a\u003E student, who was born and raised in Ecuador. She already holds a faculty position in a computer science program at Escuela Superior Polit\u0026eacute;cnica del Litoral, a university in her home country. Since beginning her work in academia, she has been interested in exploring the design of technologies that could empower vulnerable populations.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor her Ph.D., she is interested in designing culturally appropriate information technologies for helping low-income Latino immigrant parents to successfully support their children\u0026rsquo;s education.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;By funding my Ph.D., the fellowship is enabling me to pursue my career goal, which is to promote the design and evaluation of interventions based on Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) for empowering vulnerable populations to improve their socio-economic conditions,\u0026rdquo; she said. \u0026ldquo;Being selected is a great honor. It not only validates my career goal in a certain way, but gives me additional tools to show others that women from developing countries are capable of achieving the same academic goals as people, men or women, from other countries.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe goal of the Faculty for the Future Fellowship is to generate conditions that result in more women pursuing scientific careers by lowering the barriers they face when entering STEM disciplines. Fellows are expected to return to their home countries after completion of their studies to contribute to economic, social, and technological advancement by strengthening the STEM teaching and research faculties of their home institutions, and also to pursue positions in the public sector where their newly acquired skills can help provide evidence-based support for STEM policymaking.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"School of Interactive Computing doctoral student Marisol Villacres received the Faculty for the Future Fellowship from the Schlumberger Foundation for the 2017-18 academic year."}],"uid":"33939","created_gmt":"2017-05-18 20:43:05","changed_gmt":"2017-05-18 20:43:05","author":"David Mitchell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-05-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-05-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"591908":{"id":"591908","type":"image","title":"Marisol Villacres","body":null,"created":"1495139938","gmt_created":"2017-05-18 20:38:58","changed":"1495139938","gmt_changed":"2017-05-18 20:38:58","alt":"Marisol Villacres","file":{"fid":"225582","name":"Lucia-Villacres-Photo.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Lucia-Villacres-Photo.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Lucia-Villacres-Photo.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":73239,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Lucia-Villacres-Photo.jpg?itok=wCu26-mF"}}},"media_ids":["591908"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"}],"keywords":[{"id":"174459","name":"Faculty for the future fellowship"},{"id":"174460","name":"schlumberger foundation"},{"id":"174461","name":"marisol villacres"},{"id":"10621","name":"hcc"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDavid Mitchell\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["david.mitchell@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}