{"620552":{"#nid":"620552","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Sarah Collins and Michael Wigal Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETwo SoM graduate students, Sarah (Sally)\u0026nbsp;Collins and Michael Wigal, have been awarded the prestigious NSF GRFP (National Science Foundation Graduate Reasearch Fellowship Program) fellowships.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) helps ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science and engineering in the United States and reinforces its diversity. The program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master\u0026#39;s and doctoral degrees at accredited United States institutions.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe fellowship offers a three-year annual stipend of $34,000 along with a $12,000 cost of education allowance, opportunities for international research and professional development, as well as the prestige from winning one of the most competitive fellowships one can get\u0026nbsp;in the sciences.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESally and Michael are two of the only three Georgia Tech College of Science\u0026nbsp;graduate students to recieve an NSF GRFP fellowship this year.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/people.math.gatech.edu\/~scollins62\/\u0022\u003ESarah (Sally) Collins\u003C\/a\u003E is a second year PhD student who recieved her B.A. in Mathematics from Boston College in 2015. Sally studies low-dimensional topology and geometry with a special interest in Khovanov homology and braided surfaces.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/people.math.gatech.edu\/~mwigal3\/\u0022\u003EMichael Wigal\u003C\/a\u003E is a first year student in the ACO (Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization) program working with Professor Xingxing Yu. Michael\u0026#39;s research interests lie in graph theory and partial orders.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPrevious NSF GRFP fellowships at SoM:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nsfgrfp.org\/\u0022\u003ENSF Graduate Research Fellowship\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E2011\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Sarah Fletcher\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E2015\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Anna Kirkpatrick\u0026nbsp;\u0026amp; Joseph Walsh\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E2016\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Justin Lanier \u0026amp; Samantha\u0026nbsp;Petti\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E2019\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003ESarah Collins \u0026amp; Michael Wigal\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Two SoM graduate students have been awarded the prestigious NSF GRFP fellowships, and constitute 2 of the 3 total NSF GRFP\u0027s awarded to CoS this year."}],"uid":"34518","created_gmt":"2019-04-17 15:35:44","changed_gmt":"2019-04-17 18:53:47","author":"sbarone7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-04-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-04-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"620549":{"id":"620549","type":"image","title":"collins_wigal_NSF_slide","body":null,"created":"1555514492","gmt_created":"2019-04-17 15:21:32","changed":"1555514492","gmt_changed":"2019-04-17 15:21:32","alt":"","file":{"fid":"236285","name":"collins_wigal_NSF_slide.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/collins_wigal_NSF_slide.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/collins_wigal_NSF_slide.png","mime":"image\/png","size":36536,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/collins_wigal_NSF_slide.png?itok=g2rdX0k-"}}},"media_ids":["620549"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.nsfgrfp.org","title":"NSF (GRFP)"}],"groups":[{"id":"1279","name":"School of Mathematics"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"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=\u0022comm@math.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESal Barone\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}