{"39940":{"#nid":"39940","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Ga. Tech Grad Student Speaks to Members of Congress","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EErik Axdahl, an aerospace engineering graduate student at the Georgia Institute of Technology, recently traveled to Washington, D.C. as part of the Citizens for Space Exploration (CSE)initiative. CSE works with elected officials, corporate and individual contacts to ensure continued political and public support for the nation\u0027s space programs.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAxdahl joined undergraduate and graduate students from colleges and universities across the nation to  inform U.S. Congressional members of the importance they place onthe space program. The students wanted to ensure that their representatives were aware of their support of NASA.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAxdahl noted, \u0022It\u0027s important to be on the Hill to put a face on the space program.\u0022 Axdahl is from Duluth, Minnesota, where he graduated from Duluth East High School in 2003. He received a bachelor of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics degree from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis in 2007.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Students Express Support of Space Programs"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Erik Axdahl, an aerospace engineering graduate student at the Georgia Institute of Technology, recently traveled to Washington, D.C. as part of the Citizens for Space Exploration (CSE)initiative.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Tech student travels to D.C. to support NASA."}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2008-06-05 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:10","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-06-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-06-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"39941":{"id":"39941","type":"image","title":"Erik Axdahl","body":null,"created":"1449174136","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:22:16","changed":"1475894241","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:37:21","alt":"Erik Axdahl","file":{"fid":"189612","name":"tik53776.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tik53776_1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tik53776_1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":643888,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tik53776_1.jpg?itok=Gp0RK_W7"}}},"media_ids":["39941"],"groups":[{"id":"1183","name":"Home"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"155","name":"Congressional Testimony"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"2081","name":"Capital Hill"},{"id":"408","name":"NASA"},{"id":"167146","name":"space"}],"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":""}}}