{"180351":{"#nid":"180351","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Buzzworthy Achievements","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe following Georgia Tech employees and units have been honored in recent months:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EStamps Health Services\u003C\/strong\u003E received accreditation by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELauren McDow\u003C\/strong\u003E, career advisor in the College of Business, received a Chancellor\u2019s Customer Service Excellence Award of the Year \u2013 Individual from the University System of Georgia.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics and Computing\u003C\/strong\u003E was honored by the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) and the TAG Education Collaborative as one of the winners of the first annual S.T.E.M. Education Awards.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERebecca E. Burnett\u003C\/strong\u003E, director of the Writing and Communication Program in the School of Literature, Media and Communication, received the Meada Gibbs Outstanding Teacher Award from the Association for Business Communication.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMarta Garcia\u003C\/strong\u003E, assistant vice president of Development, was presented the insignia of Knight in the National Order of Merit from Francois Delattre, ambassador of France to the United States.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAjit Yoganathan\u003C\/strong\u003E, Regents\u2019 Professor and vice chair for research for the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, received the Pritzker Distinguished Lectureship Award from the Biomedical Engineering Society.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJohn Crittenden\u003C\/strong\u003E, professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been appointed to serve on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s Environment Panel of the Science Advisory Board.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EZachary Hayes\u003C\/strong\u003E, associate registrar, received the GeorgiaBEST MVP award during her \u201cGeorgiaBEST Services: It\u2019s All About YOU!!\u201d presentation at the Georgia Summit.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAndr\u00e9s J. Garc\u00eda\u003C\/strong\u003E, a Woodruff Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering, has been named the 2012 recipient of the Clemson Award for Basic Research from the Society for Biomaterials.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAwards for this feature are accepted on an ongoing basis. Provide name, title, unit and honor (spelling out acronyms) to \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:editor@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eeditor@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe following Georgia Tech employees and units have been honored in recent months.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The following Georgia Tech employees and units have been honored in recent months."}],"uid":"27445","created_gmt":"2013-01-07 10:40:54","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:13:26","author":"Amelia Pavlik","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-01-07T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2013-01-07T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1259","name":"Whistle"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1506","name":"faculty"},{"id":"54121","name":"faculty and staff achievements"},{"id":"18441","name":"faculty and staff awards"},{"id":"167018","name":"staff"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:amelia.pavlik@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EAmelia Pavlik\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstitute Communications\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}