{"662033":{"#nid":"662033","#data":{"type":"news","title":"From Ice Hockey to Iron Man: Kristen Jakubowski Awarded ASEE eFellows Postdoc Fellowship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhen Kristen Jakubowski suffered a season-ending concussion midway through her third year on the ice hockey team at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, she didn\u0026rsquo;t anticipate that it would take the rest of her time in college to recover.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The journey of injury and recovery required a lot of mental stamina because no one knew when I was going to get better, and it took longer than anyone expected,\u0026rdquo; Jakubowski said. \u0026ldquo;But that experience was also the entry into my research in rehabilitation and helping people with mobility impairments.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUltimately, that concussion led Jakubowski to shift her degree in biomedical engineering from a sports focus to a focus in rehabilitation, eventually earning a master\u0026rsquo;s and then a Ph.D. in the field. This fall, she\u0026rsquo;s joining the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University as an American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/efellows.asee.org\/home\u0022\u003EeFellows Postdoctoral Fellow\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/news\/ice-hockey-iron-man-kristen-jakubowski-awarded-asee-efellows-postdoc-fellowship\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERead the full story on the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering website.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJakubowski will work on assistive technology and robotics to aid impaired mobility\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Jakubowski will work on assistive technology and robotics to aid impaired mobility"}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2022-10-12 13:33:12","changed_gmt":"2022-10-12 15:29:01","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-10-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2022-10-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"662032":{"id":"662032","type":"image","title":"Kristen Jakubowski","body":null,"created":"1665588373","gmt_created":"2022-10-12 15:26:13","changed":"1665588373","gmt_changed":"2022-10-12 15:26:13","alt":"Kristen Jakubowski","file":{"fid":"250755","name":"F1219_SRAL_CGP_7230_Kristen Jakabowski_HighRes.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/F1219_SRAL_CGP_7230_Kristen%20Jakabowski_HighRes.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/F1219_SRAL_CGP_7230_Kristen%20Jakabowski_HighRes.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1566491,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/F1219_SRAL_CGP_7230_Kristen%20Jakabowski_HighRes.jpg?itok=rzoBskqe"}}},"media_ids":["662032"],"groups":[{"id":"1237","name":"College of Engineering"},{"id":"289141","name":"Women in Engineering (WIE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}