{"68921":{"#nid":"68921","#data":{"type":"news","title":"BBUGS announces new leadership for 2011-2012","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Bioengineering and Bioscience Unified Graduate Students (BBUGS) group announces new student leadership for the 2011-2012 academic year.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBBUGS is currently the largest, most diverse, graduate student group on the Georgia Tech campus and is an interdisciplinary student group, comprised of 8 different departments, with their home in the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience.  BBUGS serves as the core student group for the bioengineering and bioscience community and is open to all Georgia Tech and Emory University students from bio-related fields.\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 1998, the student organization began as a student leadership council of a NSF-funded Engineering Research Center which was focused on tissue engineering research. Since this time, biotechnology research experienced exponential growth on both campuses.  The group soon recognized that expansion was needed as more and more graduate students with verying interests began to get involoved. For this reason, in 2007, the group reorganized and BBUGS was created to encompass students from multiple departments and organize through formation of seven committees.\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe committees integrate traditional graduate education with elements of life beyond graduate school including industry, education and outreach, clinical seminar series, networking, and political\/public policy. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe 2011-2012 BBUGS Leadership:\n\n\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeneral Directors\u2028 - Stacie Gutowski (BME) and Alice Li (BME)\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEducation \u0026amp; Outreach Committee \u2013 Ashley Allen (BioE-BME), Patricia Pacheco (BioE-ME) and Jessilyn Dunn (BME)\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustry Committee\u2028- Akhil Srinivasan (BME), Qingfen Pan (BioE-ME) and Gareth Gunavasen (ECE)\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPublic Policy Committee\u2028- Alex Caulk (BioE-ME), Inthu Somasuntharam (BME) and Roy Wang (BioE-ME)\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EResearch Committee\u2028- Maryam Doroudi (Biology) and Ailia Gardezi (BioE-ECE)\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESocial Committee Chair - Eli Fine (BME) and Chris Quinto (BME)\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003EProfessional Development Committee\u2028- Lauren Priddy (BioE-BME) and Jenna Wilson (BioE-BME)\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Committee\u2028- Jonathan Lyon (BME)\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Interdisciplinary graduate student group kicks off new year"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBBUGS announces new leadership for 2011-2012 year\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27195","created_gmt":"2011-07-25 08:25:22","changed_gmt":"2022-05-26 17:09:36","author":"Colly Mitchell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-08-31T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-08-31T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"68922":{"id":"68922","type":"image","title":"Bioengineering \u0026 Bioscience Unified Graduate Students (BBUGS)","body":null,"created":"1449177214","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:13:34","changed":"1475894599","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:19","alt":"Bioengineering \u0026 Bioscience Unified Graduate Students (BBUGS)","file":{"fid":"192686","name":"bugs_on_grass.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/bugs_on_grass_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/bugs_on_grass_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":376131,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/bugs_on_grass_0.png?itok=o0GbGwWn"}}},"media_ids":["68922"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.bbugs.gatech.edu\/","title":"http:\/\/www.bbugs.gatech.edu\/"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ibb.gatech.edu\/","title":"Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience"}],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. 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