{"id":44373,"date":"2019-06-11T12:08:48","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T16:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering-draft\/news\/2019\/06\/gretchen-macht-named-to-pbns-40-under-forty-list\/"},"modified":"2024-01-30T16:11:27","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T21:11:27","slug":"gretchen-macht-named-to-pbns-40-under-forty-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/mcise\/gretchen-macht-named-to-pbns-40-under-forty-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Gretchen Macht Named to PBN&#8217;s 40 Under Forty List"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5807\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5807\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/Gretchen-in-lab-cropped.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[44373]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5807 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/Gretchen-in-lab-cropped-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"Gretchen Macht in SIS lab\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5807\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">URI Assistant Professor Gretchen Macht in the Sustainable Innovation Solutions Lab<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Providence Business News (PBN) has named University of Rhode Island Assistant Professor Gretchen Macht to\u00a0its <a href=\"https:\/\/pbn.com\/event\/2019-forty-under-40\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2019 40 Under Forty<\/a> list.<\/p>\n<p>The list recognizes individuals under the age of 40 who have\u00a0excelled in their chosen profession and are\u00a0involved in their communities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am truly honored to receive this recognition,&#8221; said Macht, who has taught systems engineering at URI since 2015. &#8220;I attribute my success to the research I&#8217;ve conducted in the <a href=\"http:\/\/egr.uri.edu\/sislab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sustainable Innovative Solutions<\/a> (SIS) Laboratory and the support I&#8217;ve received from my family and the URI community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the SIS Lab, Macht and her students use\u00a0technology to research sustainable systems that are based on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/features\/the-human-factor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">human factors<\/a>, such as how people think and behave.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/40-Under-Forty-logo.png\" rel=\"lightbox[44373]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5857\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/40-Under-Forty-logo-296x300.png\" alt=\"PBN 40 Under Forty logo\" width=\"188\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a>One project Macht worked on in the last year was <a href=\"https:\/\/today.uri.edu\/news\/uri-professor-students-working-to-improve-rhode-islands-voting-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RI VOTES<\/a> (Voter OperaTions &amp; Election Systems). With the goal of\u00a0streamlining the voting process in Rhode Island, Macht and her team used technology to examine the source of delays at voting precincts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGretchen is applying engineering to some of the greatest challenges to sustainability of our time,&#8221; said URI College of Engineering Dean Raymond Wright. &#8220;Her work is interdisciplinary and novel. It&#8217;s wonderful to see this recognition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Macht and the other 40 Under Forty honorees will be recognized at an event at\u00a0Aldrich Mansion in Warwick on July 18.<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ecbe\/kunal-mankodiya-named-to-pbns-40-under-40\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kunal Mankodiya<\/a>, an assistant professor in URI&#8217;s Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, received the PBN honor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Providence Business News (PBN) has named University of Rhode Island Assistant Professor Gretchen Macht to\u00a0its 2019 40 Under Forty list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":44376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/mcise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/mcise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/mcise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/mcise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/mcise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/mcise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78119,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/mcise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44373\/revisions\/78119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/mcise\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/mcise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/mcise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/mcise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}