{"641634":{"#nid":"641634","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Students win Georgia Tech\u0027s President\u2019s Undergraduate Research Awards","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EUndergraduate Public Policy undergraduate students, Sophia Cohen and\u0026nbsp;Emma Menardi, have both received one of the competitive\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.undergradresearch.gatech.edu\/content\/presidents-undergraduate-research-awards\u0022\u003EPresident\u0026rsquo;s Undergraduate Research Awards\u003C\/a\u003E, or PURA, to conduct undergraduate research with a Georgia Tech faculty member. \u0026nbsp;Public Policy majors learn valuable research skills in their courses and many choose to apply these by doing independent research or working on professors\u0026rsquo; projects. \u0026nbsp;Many have received the PURA, which provides either a small stipend or support for research expenses. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the Fall 2020, second-year BSPP student Sophia Cohen continued her work with\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/spp.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/richard-barke\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ERichard Barke\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;School of Public Policy undergraduate program coordinator, on options for improving passenger rail services in Georgia; she has contacted officials in the private and public sector about past and current efforts and spent much of the current semester developing a massive database of passenger rail policies, plans, institutions, and stakeholders in all fifty states (except Hawaii).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEmma Menardi\u0026nbsp;is a second-year BBSP student, with a dual major in\u0026nbsp;major in\u0026nbsp;History, Technology, and Society,\u0026nbsp;interested in research around HIV stigma and how it may affect health services provided to youth. She wrote an initial paper in a previous course on Law, Medicine, and Ethics offered through the School\u0026rsquo;s Law, Science, and Technology (LST) Program, and she is now enthusiastic to expand upon that research with her faculty advisor,\u0026nbsp;LST Director\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/spp.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/66bcb397-b9a9-546a-bb7d-b83a6405affb\u0022\u003EChad Slieper\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen asked about the PURA awards, Richard Barke, said \u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;m delighted to hear of multiple students in our school receiving funding.\u0026nbsp; Working on a research project alongside a faculty member is an excellent experience for young researchers.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp; He added that, \u0026ldquo;these early inroads to research, publishing, and networking can set up our students for careers in academia, consulting, law, and government service.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Undergraduate Public Policy undergraduate students, Sophia Cohen and Emma Menardi, have both received one of the competitive President\u2019s Undergraduate Research Awards, or PURA, to conduct undergraduate research with a Georgia Tech faculty "}],"uid":"35258","created_gmt":"2020-11-24 16:16:57","changed_gmt":"2020-11-24 16:28:28","author":"lmckenzie7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-11-24T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2020-11-24T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"641633":{"id":"641633","type":"image","title":"PURA Award Winners","body":null,"created":"1606234462","gmt_created":"2020-11-24 16:14:22","changed":"1606234462","gmt_changed":"2020-11-24 16:14:22","alt":"","file":{"fid":"243808","name":"449f5894-9421-4e60-84a0-e571cf3b1422.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/449f5894-9421-4e60-84a0-e571cf3b1422.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/449f5894-9421-4e60-84a0-e571cf3b1422.png","mime":"image\/png","size":456622,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/449f5894-9421-4e60-84a0-e571cf3b1422.png?itok=zO0NjtEs"}}},"media_ids":["641633"],"groups":[{"id":"1289","name":"School of Public Policy"}],"categories":[{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["lmckenzie7@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}