{"423531":{"#nid":"423531","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tracie Dinkins Receives the Staff Hero Award from the College of Engineering","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s College of Engineering recognized Tracie Dinkins with this year\u2019s Hero Award. Dinkins is the financial manager for the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME). She was one of three staff members recognized for exceptional service to the college. The Hero Award recognizes an individual who:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EIs a role model and sets a positive work example\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EIs the person that everyone turns to for support or solutions\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EDemonstrates that no job is too big or too small\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EIs committed to the delivery of excellent service at all times\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EProduces exemplary work\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA cash award accompanies the recognition. Dinkins has worked for Georgia Tech for more than 16 years and is responsible for grants management, Georgia Tech foundation accounting, and procurement compliance. The College of Engineering has approximately 350 staff members providing critical support to our faculty, researchers and students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI was honored to have been nominated and extremely pleased to have won.\u0026nbsp; I am so very proud to be part of the BME team, we have something good going on here with important research, a great staff, bright students and excellent faculty.\u0026nbsp; My work ethic is to always be efficient and knowledgeable about my chosen craft. Being proactive, working smarter and not harder are my number one goals. \u0026nbsp;I am a teacher at heart so if I can point someone else towards the same work ethic then I do not mind sharing a little knowledge to help get them there. If they succeed at what they do, then I succeed as well,\u201d said Dinkins.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECongratulations from the Biomedical Engineering Department!\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Tracie Dinkins Receives the Staff Hero Award from the College of Engineering"}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2015-07-09 15:02:19","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:00","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-07-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-07-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"423511":{"id":"423511","type":"image","title":"Tracie Dinkins with the Hero Award","body":null,"created":"1449254319","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:38:39","changed":"1475895162","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:42","alt":"Tracie Dinkins with the Hero Award","file":{"fid":"202727","name":"tracie_dinkins_staff_award_july2015.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tracie_dinkins_staff_award_july2015_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tracie_dinkins_staff_award_july2015_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":136774,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tracie_dinkins_staff_award_july2015_0.jpg?itok=xqggRFiG"}},"423501":{"id":"423501","type":"image","title":"Tracie Dinkins with CoE Dean Gary May","body":null,"created":"1449254319","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:38:39","changed":"1475895162","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:42","alt":"Tracie Dinkins with CoE Dean Gary May","file":{"fid":"202726","name":"img_7196_cropped.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/img_7196_cropped_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/img_7196_cropped_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":160226,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/img_7196_cropped_0.jpg?itok=sH06PfLw"}}},"media_ids":["423511","423501"],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"133921","name":"Hero Award"},{"id":"133911","name":"Tracie Dinkins"}],"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:wrich@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Manager\u003Cbr \/\u003EDepartment of Biomedical Engineerings\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["wrich@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}