{"78921":{"#nid":"78921","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Petit Institute Announces its 2012 Class of Petit Undergraduate Research Scholars","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience at Georgia Tech announces its 2012 class of Petit Undergraduate Research Scholars. \u0026nbsp;The \u0022Petit Scholars\u0022 are top undergraduate students from Atlanta-area universities chosen from a highly competitive selection process to conduct independent research projects for a full year at the Petit Institute.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Petit Scholars program is administered by the Petit Institute and Todd McDevitt, a Petit Faculty Fellow and\u0026nbsp;associate professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, who volunteers as the faculty advisor for the program. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0022We had a very competitive applicant pool this year,\u0022 McDevitt said. \u0026nbsp;\u0022Due to the generosity of various donors, we were able to award nineteen research scholarships this year.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFrom January through December of 2012, each of the 19 scholars will be mentored by a graduate student or postdoctoral fellow in a Petit Institute laboratory. \u0026nbsp;During this period, the scholars will work to develop their own research projects which they themselves have selected after a thorough interview process with potential mentors. \u0026nbsp;Research is conducted within the areas of cancer biology, biomaterials, drug design, development and delivery, molecular evolution, molecular cellular and tissue biomechanics, regenerative medicine, stem cell engineering and systems biology. \u0026nbsp;Many scholars will have made enough progress in their research by the end of the year\u0026nbsp;to participate on scientific publications and\/or present at conferences. \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe class of 2012 is represented by students from Georgia Tech, Emory University, Spelman College and Agnes Scott College.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E2012 Class of Petit Scholars:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMichael Butler - Georgia Tech\u003Cbr \/\u003EFrederick Damen - Georgia Tech\u003Cbr \/\u003EKyle Ferguson - Georgia Tech\u003Cbr \/\u003EKelsey Gratton - Georgia Tech\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlexandria Harrison - Spelman College\u003Cbr \/\u003ESusan Hastings - Georgia Tech\u003Cbr \/\u003EKathleen Heller - Georgia Tech\u003Cbr \/\u003EJacob Johnson - Georgia Tech\u003Cbr \/\u003ETaylor Kavanaugh - Georgia Tech\u003Cbr \/\u003ELu Ling - Georgia Tech\u003Cbr \/\u003ERobert Mannino - Georgia Tech\u003Cbr \/\u003EMohamad Ali Najia - Georgia Tech\u003Cbr \/\u003EMarc Powell - Georgia Tech\u003Cbr \/\u003ESydney Rowson - Georgia Tech\u003Cbr \/\u003EAbhinav Sharma - Emory University\u003Cbr \/\u003EAndrew St. James - Georgia Tech\u003Cbr \/\u003EPatrick Strane - Georgia Tech\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnirudh Sundararaghavan - Georgia Tech\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlexandra Wagner - Agnes Scott College\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESince its inception in 2000, the program has supported hundreds of top undergraduate researchers who have gone on to distinguished careers in research, medicine and industry.\u0026nbsp; Originally established as a summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program from a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant awarded to the Georgia Tech\/Emory Center for Tissue Engineering, the program was expanded to a full year research opportunity that has grown from funding 10 scholars per year to 19 scholars in 2012.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFunding for the Petit Scholars is supported by Atlanta area community members, including the Friends of the Petit Institute, as well as corporate sponsorship. \u0026nbsp;If you are interested in donating to this valuable program, please\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:colly.mitchell@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Econtact us\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ibb.gatech.edu\/petit-scholars\u0022\u003EPetit Scholars program information\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"19 top undergraduate scholars chosen from competitive selection process"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPetit Institute announces its 2012 class of Petit Undergraduate Research Scholars -\u0026nbsp;19 top undergraduate scholars chosen from competitive selection process\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"19 top undergraduate scholars chosen from competitive selection process"}],"uid":"27195","created_gmt":"2012-01-17 15:33:14","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:10:57","author":"Colly Mitchell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-01-23T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2012-01-23T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"81151":{"id":"81151","type":"image","title":"2012 Class of Petit Undergraduate Research Scholars","body":null,"created":"1449178079","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:59","changed":"1475894696","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:56","alt":"2012 Class of Petit Undergraduate Research Scholars","file":{"fid":"193901","name":"photo-2012_scholars-200pixels.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/photo-2012_scholars-200pixels_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/photo-2012_scholars-200pixels_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":66343,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/photo-2012_scholars-200pixels_0.jpg?itok=GJg_qM4n"}}},"media_ids":["81151"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ibb.gatech.edu\/","title":"Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ibb.gatech.edu\/petit-scholars","title":"Petit Scholars info and application"}],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. 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