{"310651":{"#nid":"310651","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Defending Champion BME Nosed Out in Buzz Award Competition","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe old Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team used to have a saying. They\u2019d dust it off and wave it nearly every fall, after almost, but not quite, winning the World Series: \u201cWait until next year.\u201d Well, the Georgia Institute of Technology is a long way from Brooklyn, but this year, the hard-working, dedicated staff at the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) can understand the Dodgers\u2019 angst.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBME was nosed out last week in the annual College of Engineering competition for the Buzz Award for Staff Appreciation. So, BME had to hand the trophy off to this year\u2019s champion, the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aeronautical Engineering (AE).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEvery year, the staffs of Tech\u2019s various schools and departments compete for recognition, but the means of competition changes each time. Last year, BME took home the trophy in a t-shirt contest, with a winning design from student Marisa Casola, a Petit Scholar in Melissa Kemp\u2019s lab (and a layout editor for the \u003Cem\u003EPioneer\u003C\/em\u003E). Her artistic rendering of a profiled head with a multitude of diverse ideas popping out of it, surrounded the winning message, \u201cGreat Minds Don\u2019t Think Alike,\u201d reflecting the interdisciplinary approach that has become inextricably linked with Tech\u2019s bio community philosophy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut this year, the competition was in poster design, and AE won the trophy with a design that featured a bunch of staff photos overlaid with a shot of the AE building, and the message: \u201cThey are our bricks. They are our mortar. They are the key to our success.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe decision was based on a vote of the associate deans and myself,\u201d explains Gary May, dean of Georgia Tech\u2019s College of Engineering. \u201cAE stood out because of the collage of all the staff images integrated with the image of the AE building. It was very impressive and must have taken quite a bit of time to complete.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJust like Lord Stanley\u2019s Cup, which goes to the National Hockey League champion, or the World Series Trophy in baseball, the glass Buzz Trophy exchanges hands when a new champion is crowned. BME\u2019s victory last year ended a two-year run by the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cNo one should be disappointed \u2013 there can only be one winner,\u201d May assures. \u201cAll of the posters were good, and I am grateful to all who participated. We look forward to another spirited competition next year.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Aerospace Engineering ends Biomedical Engineering\u0027s winning streak for annual staff award."}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAerospace Engineering ends Biomedical Engineering\u0027s winning streak for annual staff award.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Aerospace Engineering ends Biomedical Engineering\u0027s winning streak for annual staff award."}],"uid":"27195","created_gmt":"2014-07-25 11:21:43","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:48","author":"Colly Mitchell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-07-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-07-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJerry Grillo\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Officer II\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}