{"502001":{"#nid":"502001","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Prof. Stephen Ruffin to be Honored as Diversity Champion","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Office of the Vice President for Diversity this week announced that Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering professor\u003Cstrong\u003EStephen Ruffin\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;has been chosen to receive a 2015 Diversity Champion Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA longtime Georgia Tech faculty, Ruffin also serves as the director of both the NASA Georgia Space Grant Consortium and the head of the National Space Grant Consortium Directors. As a faculty and as a administrative leader, Ruffin has consistently worked to expand the Institute\u0027s accessibility to previously unrepresented groups.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I cannot think of anyone more deserving,\u0022 said GT-AE Chair Vigor Yang.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Diversity Champion Awards recognize students, staff, faculty, and units who have actively demonstrated and positively promoted the concepts of diversity, equity, and inclusion within the Georgia Tech campus community. Each year, one member of the faculty, staff, and student body, and a unit (e.g., office, department, school, lab) is selected and recognized at the Diversity Symposium Awards Luncheon.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERuffin will be officially recognized at that luncheon, Sept. 9.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Office of the Vice President for Diversity this week announced that Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering professor Stephen Ruffin has been chosen to receive a 2015 Diversity Champion Award."}],"uid":"30502","created_gmt":"2016-02-17 13:46:52","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:46","author":"Sapna Mistry","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-08-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-08-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"501991":{"id":"501991","type":"image","title":"Dr. Stephen Ruffin","body":null,"created":"1455904800","gmt_created":"2016-02-19 18:00:00","changed":"1475895261","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:21","alt":"Dr. Stephen Ruffin","file":{"fid":"204736","name":"ruffin-stephen1.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ruffin-stephen1_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ruffin-stephen1_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":4954,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/ruffin-stephen1_0.jpg?itok=M4qObT-z"}}},"media_ids":["501991"],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"169939","name":"Diversity Champion"},{"id":"126111","name":"GT-AE"},{"id":"169940","name":"Office of the Vice President for Diversity"},{"id":"169894","name":"Stephen Ruffin"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["kathleen.moore@ae.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}