{"62544":{"#nid":"62544","#data":{"type":"news","title":"John H. and Cherie Morris Meet with Morris Fellowship Recipients","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJohn H. Morris (BIE 1965) and his wife, Cherie, were on\ncampus October 21, 2010, to meet and dine with some of the current ISyE\ngraduate students who are recipients of the Morris Fellowship. Morris\nestablished the graduate fellowship, which has helped ISyE leverage its\nstrength in attracting many of the best and brightest students to Georgia Tech,\nas part of the Campaign for Georgia Tech in 2000. This year, the Fellowship is\nproviding support to ten graduate students. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EOne of those students, Jessica Heier-Stamm, said that the\nMorris Fellowship has afforded her the opportunity to focus on the research\nthat interests her most, namely applying quantitative industrial engineering\nmethodologies to the challenges of humanitarian relief, disaster response, and\npublic health.\u0026nbsp; Because of the\nfellowship,\u201d states Heier-Stamm, \u201cI have also had time to devote to service\nactivities that reach future engineers and scientists.\u0026nbsp; All of these have increased my awareness of\nthe broader research community, including professional development\nopportunities, contacts, and funding agencies.\u201d \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EMorris, who stays in touch with the fellowship program,\nstates that he owes a great deal of his success to Georgia Tech and ISyE. \u201cI am\nvery proud and thankful to be able to help ISyE stay number one by helping to\nattract top graduate students. I am very impressed by the quality and breadth\nof the students and know they will be successful.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EMorris is retired co-chair of StoneCreek Capital, a merchant\nbanking firm that sponsors leveraged acquisitions and leveraged buildups in\npartnership with management teams. He is a former trustee of the Georgia Tech\nFoundation and an emeritus member of the ISyE Advisory Board. Additionally,\nMorris is a member of the ISyE Hall of Fame and the ISyE Academy of Distinguished\nAlumni, and he was honored with the College of Engineering Distinguished\nAlumnus Award in 1996.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJohn H. Morris (BIE 1965) and his wife, Cherie, were on\ncampus October 21, 2010, to meet and dine with some of the current ISyE\ngraduate students who are recipients of the Morris Fellowship.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"John H. and Cherie Morris Meet with Morris Fellowship Recipients"}],"uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-11-04 14:55:29","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:42","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-11-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-11-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"62340":{"id":"62340","type":"image","title":"Seated (L to R): Mike Thomas, John H. Morris, Cherie Morris..Standing (L to R): Hyunwoo Park, Heng Su, Jessica Heir-Stamm, Stefania Stefansdottir, Ran Li, Trustin Clear, Yingyi Zhu, Fatma Kilinc-Karzan. Not pictured: Yijie Wang and Haiyue Yu.","body":null,"created":"1449176355","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:59:15","changed":"1475894541","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:21","alt":"Seated (L to R): Mike Thomas, John H. Morris, Cherie Morris..Standing (L to R): Hyunwoo Park, Heng Su, Jessica Heir-Stamm, Stefania Stefansdottir, Ran Li, Trustin Clear, Yingyi Zhu, Fatma Kilinc-Karzan. Not pictured: Yijie Wang and Haiyue Yu.","file":{"fid":"191446","name":"Group_shot.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Group_shot_2.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Group_shot_2.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":4119774,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Group_shot_2.jpg?itok=hVa8hEI1"}}},"media_ids":["62340"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"11052","name":"Morris Fellowship"}],"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:barbara.christopher@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara \nChristopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}