{"376981":{"#nid":"376981","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Robotics Nonprofit Establishes $5K Fellowship for Women and Underrepresented Minorities","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Robotics has established a $5,000 fellowship to be awarded each year to an incoming Georgia Tech Ph.D. student. The fellowship is available to women and underrepresented minority students accepted to Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/phdrobotics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Erobotics Ph.D. program\u003C\/a\u003E through the School of Interactive Computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe intent of the award is to help Georgia Tech increase the number of women and minorities in robotics and computing, and it will be awarded to admitted Ph.D. students who have demonstrated significant academic accomplishment and potential.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe have far too few women and members of certain minorities, such as African Americans and Hispanics, working in robotics and computing,\u201d said Henrik Christensen, KUKA Chair of Robotics and executive director of Georgia Tech\u2019s Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines. \u201cAt Georgia Tech, we\u2019re striving to change this in a number of ways.\u0026nbsp;This fellowship can help by bringing more folks to the field in the first place, and we\u2019re grateful to Georgia Robotics for its generosity and support.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Robotics was established in 2007 by Georgia Tech \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/tucker-balch\u0022\u003EAssociate Professor Tucker Balch\u003C\/a\u003E to support robotics research and education at the Institute and around the state of Georgia, and the new fellowship delivers on the nonprofit organization\u2019s mission.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe were created to support robotics research and education at Georgia Tech,\u201d said Balch, now president of Georgia Robotics. \u201cWe\u2019re extremely pleased to deliver on that mission in this concrete way.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe one-time $5,000 award will be provided to one student each year.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Robotics has established a $5,000 fellowship to be awarded each year to an incoming Georgia Tech Ph.D. student."}],"uid":"27998","created_gmt":"2015-02-11 10:59:11","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:50","author":"Brittany Aiello","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-02-12T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-02-12T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"377211":{"id":"377211","type":"image","title":"Fellowship Feature Story - Tucker Balch","body":null,"created":"1449246205","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:23:25","changed":"1475894385","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:39:45","alt":"Fellowship Feature Story - Tucker Balch","file":{"fid":"75177","name":"fellowship-feature-tucker-balch_0.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/fellowship-feature-tucker-balch_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/fellowship-feature-tucker-balch_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":14863,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/fellowship-feature-tucker-balch_0.jpg?itok=9Q_YMuSf"}}},"media_ids":["377211"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"368","name":"Fellowship"},{"id":"11890","name":"henrik christensen"},{"id":"78271","name":"IRIM"},{"id":"913","name":"PhD"},{"id":"667","name":"robotics"},{"id":"1938","name":"Tucker Balch"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39521","name":"Robotics"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETyler Sharp\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPR and Social Media Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tsharp@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etsharp@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["tsharp@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}