{"id":74183,"date":"2018-07-10T16:02:17","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T20:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/?p=74183"},"modified":"2022-10-21T15:13:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T19:13:25","slug":"bird-20-under-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/2018\/07\/10\/bird-20-under-40\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird Recognized as an Outstanding Educator in Prism\u2019s 20-Under-40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Liz Sheeley<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Assistant Professor James Bird (ME, MSE) was recognized by the American Society for Engineering Educators in the summer edition of <em>Prism<\/em> magazine as one of 20 high-achieving researchers and educators under 40.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_74185\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-74185\" style=\"width: 949px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/eng\/files\/2022\/09\/14-7395-BIRD-34-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"939\" height=\"2676\" class=\"size-full wp-image-74185\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-74185\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assistant Professor James Bird (ME, MSE) uses a high speed camera to capture images of droplets. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m honored and humbled to be included among such talented scholars,\u201d\u00a0Bird said. <em>Prism<\/em> has recognized these 20 faculty members as all sharing a demonstrated talent for teaching, research with a real-world impact, or oftentimes, both. All of the faculty were chosen from recommendations by their schools and colleagues with research by the <em>Prism<\/em> staff.<\/p>\n<p>Bird\u2019s recognition comes from his research in understanding how microscopic aerosol droplets form from bursting bubbles, which could be extremely useful in improving climate modeling and disease transmission.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his research, Bird was also recognized for his contributions to science communications. As his research has a visual element, Bird chooses to supplement his publications with video to convey his findings in a publicly accessible way. He has also developed a graduate course on science communications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Professor James Bird (ME, MSE) was recognized by the American Society for Engineering Educators in the summer edition of Prism magazine as one of 20 high-achieving researchers and educators under 40.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13786,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[236,909,908],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13786"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127205,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74183\/revisions\/127205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}