{"56432":{"#nid":"56432","#data":{"type":"news","title":"2009 Michael Birnbaum Scholars Announced","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETwo BME undergraduate students were recognized with the 2009 Michael Birnbaum Scholars award:\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENatalie Joe \u003C\/strong\u003E - advisor: Todd McDevitt, PhD \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EVenkata Damaraju \u003C\/strong\u003E - advisors: Suzie Eskin, PhD and Larry McIntire, PhD\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThese $1000 awards are given to BME undergraduate students to help support continuation of their post-PURA undergraduate research experience.  This is the third undergraduate awarded from the McDevitt laboratory.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMichael Birnbaum is presently a Consultant to Medtronic and teaches the Pacing Systems Training and Fellows Program.  Throughout his career, he has had a passion for teaching and education, devoting much of his time to community activites to share the world of biotechnology with high school students.  Mr. Birnbaum also spent time conducting training sessions for the Georgia Tech Tissue and Engineering Center\u0027s REU and URS students.   \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EUpon Mr. Birnbaum\u0027s retirement from Medtronic, John Davis, then the VP for Operations in the Southeast for Medtronic, wanted to do something more than a \u0022gold watch.\u0022 He felt the thing dearest to Mr. Birnbaum\u0027s heart was training and educating young people and, as a result, Medtronic established a fund to support Georgia Tech undergraduate BME students in their research. The award is given each year to post-PURA awardees to extend their research experiences in the laboratory.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Natalie Joe and Venkata Damaraju Recognized"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Two BME undergraduate students were recognized with the 2009 Michael Birnbaum Scholars award:\n\nNatalie Joe (Todd McDevitt, PhD, advisor) and Venkata Damaraju (Suzie Eskin, PhD and Larry McIntire, PhD, advisors)","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"2009 Michael Birnbaum Scholars Announced"}],"uid":"27195","created_gmt":"2009-01-05 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:06","author":"Colly Mitchell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-01-05T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2009-01-05T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1613","name":"Biomedical Engieering"},{"id":"1612","name":"BME"},{"id":"516","name":"engineering"},{"id":"1611","name":"Michael Birnbaum"},{"id":"167285","name":"scholarship"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EColly Mitchell\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EParker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=cmitchell6\u0022\u003EContact Colly Mitchell\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-5982\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["colly.mitchell@ibb.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}