{"620284":{"#nid":"620284","#data":{"type":"news","title":"External News - Christine Heitsch Awarded UIUC Department of Mathematics Alumni Awards","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EChristine Heitsch was recently awarded the UIUC Alumni Achievement Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe UIUC Alumni Achievement Award is given to alumni who, by outstanding achievement, have demonstrated the value derived from a mathematics education (BS, MS, or PhD). Nominees may qualify for outstanding professional achievement; cumulative performance through the years; or recent acknowledgement by community or professional peers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFrom the award website:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChristine Heitsch\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cem\u003EBS Mathematics (with Highest Distinction and Magna Cum Laude) 1994\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nChristine Heitsch is a Professor in the School of Mathematics at Georgia Institute of Technology and is Director of the Southeast Center for Mathematics and Biology (SCMB), an NSF-Simons Research Center for Mathematics of Complex Biological Systems. She received her PhD from University of California Berkeley in 2000. During her trail-blazing career she has leveraged mathematics, especially combinatorics, to understand the role and function of RNA in biological systems.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/math.illinois.edu\/alumni\/heitsch\u0022\u003ERead more about Christine Heitsch.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Christine Heitsch has recently been given the Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement from UIUC"}],"uid":"34518","created_gmt":"2019-04-10 16:26:54","changed_gmt":"2019-04-10 17:02:00","author":"sbarone7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-04-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-04-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"620286":{"id":"620286","type":"image","title":"heitsch_alumni_slide","body":null,"created":"1554915625","gmt_created":"2019-04-10 17:00:25","changed":"1554942315","gmt_changed":"2019-04-11 00:25:15","alt":"","file":{"fid":"236195","name":"heitsch_alumni_slide2.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/heitsch_alumni_slide2.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/heitsch_alumni_slide2.png","mime":"image\/png","size":92064,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/heitsch_alumni_slide2.png?itok=9p96FLUB"}},"620283":{"id":"620283","type":"image","title":"heitsch_alumni","body":null,"created":"1554913493","gmt_created":"2019-04-10 16:24:53","changed":"1554913505","gmt_changed":"2019-04-10 16:25:05","alt":"","file":{"fid":"236181","name":"alumni-award-recipients-ALL WITH TYSON.JPG","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/alumni-award-recipients-ALL%20WITH%20TYSON.JPG","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/alumni-award-recipients-ALL%20WITH%20TYSON.JPG","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":544638,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/alumni-award-recipients-ALL%20WITH%20TYSON.JPG?itok=IPHOw5lp"}}},"media_ids":["620286","620283"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/math.illinois.edu\/alumni\/department-mathematics-alumni-awards","title":"UIUC Alumni Awards"},{"url":"https:\/\/math.illinois.edu\/mathematics-alumni-award-recipients","title":"UIUC Recent Awardees"},{"url":"https:\/\/math.illinois.edu\/alumni\/heitsch","title":"UIUC Christine Heitsch 2019 Recipient of Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement"}],"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":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:comm@math.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESal Barone\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}