{"73042":{"#nid":"73042","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tech\u0027s 1st Female Engineering Professor Passes Away","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Helen Grenga, the first full-tenured female engineering professor at Georgia Tech, passed away on April 14.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGrenga\u0027s appointment to metallurgy professor in 1968 opened the door to many more distinguished women faculty members and students at Georgia Tech.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile she came to Georgia Tech as a postdoctoral fellow in chemistry, Grenga retired a professor and administrator. During her time at Tech, Grenga held several administrative positions on campus, including director in the Office of Graduate Studies and Research. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EShe was secretary, vice president and then president of the national Society of Women Engineers (SWE) in addition to being longtime faculty advisor for the student chapter of SWE. She also served as professor emeritus in the School of Materials Science and Engineering.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAt Georgia Tech, she held the office of president of Sigma Xi and Phi Kappa Phi. She was a recipient of numerous awards, including the prestigious Georgia Tech ANAK Faculty Award and the Georgia Tech Women\u0027s Leadership Conference\u0027s Women of Distinction Outstanding Faculty Member Award.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGrenga obtained her B.A. in chemistry in 1960 from Shorter College and her Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of Virginia in 1967. She was employed by the Food and Drug Administration for a few years until she began her career in academia. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 2001, Grenga published a book entitled Movies on the Fantail, a compilation of the diary writings of her brother, James Grenga, and other sailors\u0027 accounts while aboard the destroyer USS Barr.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Dr. Helen Grenga, the first full-tenured female engineering professor at Georgia Tech, passed away on April 14.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Grenga was Tech\u0027s first full-tenured female prof"}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2006-04-17 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:23","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-04-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2006-04-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"73043":{"id":"73043","type":"image","title":"Helen Grenga","body":null,"created":"1449177971","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:26:11","changed":"1475894671","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:31"}},"media_ids":["73043"],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ELisa Grovenstein\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=lgrovenste3\u0022\u003EContact Lisa Grovenstein\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-8835\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lisa.grovenstein@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}