{"583945":{"#nid":"583945","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Monica McNerney Wins 2016 Three Minute Thesis Competition","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAfter successfully boiling years of research on bacterial biosensors down to a three-minute presentation, Monica McNerney took home first place at Georgia Tech\u0026#39;s Three Minute Thesis competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMcNerney, a doctoral student in Bioengineering, was one of 10 doctoral students to compete\u0026nbsp;in\u0026nbsp;the final round of the competition on Nov. 15. Her presentation,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EBacterial Biosensors: Low-cost, Field-friendly Nutrition Tests\u003C\/em\u003E, earned McNerney a $2,000 research travel grant.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe following finalists also took home research travel grants:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ESecond Place:\u0026nbsp;Tesca Fitzgerald, Human Centered Computing,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cem\u003ET\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cem\u003Eeaching Robots to Learn Skills\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EThird Place:\u0026nbsp;Bharath Hebbe Madhusudhana, Physics,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cem\u003EReading out the Geometry from an Atom\u0026#39;s Memory\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EPeople\u0026#39;s Choice (tie):\u0026nbsp;Aravind Samba Murthy, Electrical and Computer Engineering, \u003Cem\u003ERecovering Kinetic Energy Using Electric Motors\u003C\/em\u003E,\u0026nbsp;and\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\tBharath Hebbe Madhusudhana, Physics,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cem\u003EReading out the Geometry from an Atom\u0026#39;s Memory\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor more information about the annual competition, visit\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/grad.gatech.edu\/3MT\u0022\u003Egrad.gatech.edu\/3MT\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMonica McNerney, a doctoral student in Bioengineering, won the 2016 Three Minute Thesis competition. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Monica McNerney, a doctoral student in Bioengineering, won the 2016 Three Minute Thesis competition.  "}],"uid":"32894","created_gmt":"2016-11-16 16:51:31","changed_gmt":"2016-11-16 19:33:51","author":"Brian Gentry","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-11-16T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2016-11-16T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"583961":{"id":"583961","type":"image","title":"Monica McNerney, 2016 3MT Winner","body":null,"created":"1479321418","gmt_created":"2016-11-16 18:36:58","changed":"1479321418","gmt_changed":"2016-11-16 18:36:58","alt":"Monica McNerney, 2016 3MT Winner","file":{"fid":"222625","name":"2016 3MT Winner .jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2016%203MT%20Winner%20.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2016%203MT%20Winner%20.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":416755,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/2016%203MT%20Winner%20.jpg?itok=-xSsPMiP"}}},"media_ids":["583961"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/grad.gatech.edu\/3MT","title":"Three Minute Thesis Competition"}],"groups":[{"id":"221981","name":"Graduate Studies"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"172735","name":"Three Minute Thesis competition"},{"id":"1808","name":"graduate students"},{"id":"172462","name":"CTL"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tatianna.richardson@grad.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ETatianna Richardson\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAcademic Programs Manager\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["tatianna.richardson@grad.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}