{"id":412,"date":"2015-07-22T00:44:54","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T00:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reu.engr.uga.edu\/?p=412"},"modified":"2015-07-31T17:43:41","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T17:43:41","slug":"participant-highlight-ishmael-rogers-2015-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reu.engr.uga.edu\/?p=412","title":{"rendered":"PARTICIPANT HIGHLIGHT \u2013 ISHMAEL ROGERS \u2013 2015 PROGRAM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ishmael Rogers wants to design more functional prosthetics that connect to the body\u2019s nervous system through artificial intelligence. As if that weren\u2019t challenging enough, <a href=\"https:\/\/reu.engr.uga.edu\/?p=186\" target=\"_blank\">he also wants to make the devices lightweight, durable and more affordable than current options by creating them on 3D printers<\/a>. Ishmael, who will graduate from Atlanta Metropolitan State College this year with degrees in chemistry, mathematics and pre-engineering, is one of ten young scientists from acros<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">s the nation selected to participate in the UGA College of Engineering\u2019s Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program in nanotechnology and biomedicine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Written by <a href=\"http:\/\/news.uga.edu\/staff\/articlesby\/wooten-mike\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Wooten<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reu.engr.uga.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ishmael.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-413\" src=\"https:\/\/reu.engr.uga.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ishmael.jpg\" alt=\"ishmael\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1742\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reu.engr.uga.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ishmael.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/reu.engr.uga.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ishmael-300x255.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reu.engr.uga.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ishmael-1024x871.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ishmael Rogers wants to design more functional prosthetics that connect to the body\u2019s nervous system through artificial intelligence. As if that weren\u2019t challenging enough, he&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,52,83,24,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-program","category-2015-projects","category-highlights","category-news","category-participants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reu.engr.uga.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reu.engr.uga.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reu.engr.uga.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reu.engr.uga.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reu.engr.uga.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/reu.engr.uga.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":514,"href":"https:\/\/reu.engr.uga.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions\/514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reu.engr.uga.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reu.engr.uga.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reu.engr.uga.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}