{"id":3652,"date":"2015-06-18T12:25:30","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T16:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/?p=3652"},"modified":"2022-07-26T16:58:33","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T20:58:33","slug":"kudos-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2015\/06\/kudos-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Kudos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AMITABH BASU<\/strong>, assistant professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, has been awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award. 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