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2008 Seed Grant Call for Proposals (June 17, 2008)
With funding from Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Emory University, and Georgia Tech's College of Engineering, College of Computing, College of Architecture, GVU Center and Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines at Georgia Tech, the Health Systems Institute (HSI) has established a seed grant funding program to support collaborative and interdisciplinary research projects that will help stimulate innovative healthcare research and promote improvements in healthcare. The seed grant awards are specifically designed to provide funding for novel projects that demonstrate a high potential for enhanced diagnostic capabilities of diseases, lead to new inventions that yield new patents, licenses and/or commercial products, lead to high quality peer-reviewed publications and those with high potential to leverage seed funding into extra-mural support.
For more information relating to the program and to submit a letter of intent and proposal, please visit http://www.hsi.gatech.edu/seedgrantcfp/.
Brani Vidakovic Elected as Fellow of American Statistical Association (May 12, 2008)
The American Statistical Association (ASA) has selected Brani Vidakovic, Professor of Bioengineering Statistics at The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering and HSI, as a 2008 Fellow. Each year, ASA members nominate their peers as fellows of the ASA. From the ASA By-Laws: "By the honorary title of Fellow the Association recognizes full members of established reputation who have made outstanding contributions in some aspect of statistical work." Given annually, this is a great honor as the numbers of recipients are limited to no more than 1/3 of 1% of the ASA membership.
ABOUT ASA
The American Statistical Association (ASA) is a scientific and educational society founded in 1839 with the following mission: To promote excellence in the application of statistical science across the wealth of human endeavor. For more information about the organization, visit http://www.amstat.org/.Gregory Abowd named HSI Interim Director (April 28, 2008)
College of Engineering Dean Don Giddens announced that College of Computing Professor Gregory Abowd will be the interim director of the Health Systems Institute (HSI).
Abowd, Distinguished Professor of Interactive Computing, will oversee HSI as a committee headed by Giddens leads an international search for a new director. He has served as associate director since August 2006.
HSI is a joint research effort that includes Tech, Emory University and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.
HSI's Brad Jones Recipient of FACES Postdoctoral Fellowship (April 17, 2008)
Brad Jones, a Ph.D. student with the Health Systems Institute, has been selected to receive the third annual FACES Postdoctoral Fellowship. This grant is awarded to promising scientists to assist in the early stages of postdoctoral training and is for a one year term. It can be used to purchase research equipment, for travel, and other research and career development expenses. The funds will be made available to Mr. Jones once he accepts a postdoctoral position in an engineering or science related field at a U.S. college or university.
ABOUT FACES
Facilitating Academic Careers in Engineering and Science (FACES) is a National Science Foundation-sponsored effort between Georgia Tech, Morehouse, Emory University and Spelman. Its aim is to increase the number of African-Americans attaining doctorates in engineering and science. The ultimate goal of the FACES program is to alter the "face" of the engineering and science professoriate, such that it includes a greater number of African-Americans. An essential part of realizing these goals is to motivate African-Americans to enter graduate school. The academic year undergraduate research program is the component of FACES that addresses this need.HSI's Mahima Ashok Recipient of Georgia Tech Women's Forum Scholarship (March 17, 2008)
Please join us in congratulating Mahima Ashok, one of four winners of the Georgia Tech Women's Forum (GTWF) Scholarship. Mahima is a Ph.D. student in the Center for Interactive Systems Engineering (CISE) laboratory. The GTWF Scholarship Fund awards annual scholarships to female students based on financial need, academic achievement and leadership.
Founded in 1981, the Georgia Tech Women's Forum (GTWF) is an organization comprised of employees from all facets of the Georgia Tech community and remains firm in their mission to provide opportunities for women at Georgia Tech. They accomplish this via networking sharing, learning and leadership. Program speakers at monthly meetings provide a variety of perspectives on issues of interest to today's professional women.
More information relating to the scholarship and the Georgia Tech Women's Forum Scholarship can be found at http://www.chemistry.gatech.edu/gtwf.
An Assistant Who May Need the Occasional Battery (March 16, 2008)
POINT-AND-CLICK devices have long controlled computer screens. But soon they may also control some household robots that can trundle around living rooms, doing useful jobs.
Read the article in its entirety within the New York Times website.
