{"51176":{"#nid":"51176","#data":{"type":"news","title":"DeMillo joins Carter Partnership Foundation board","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Richard A. DeMillo, The John P. Imlay Jr. Dean of the College of Computing at Georgia Tech, has joined the Board of Directors of the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Partnership Foundation (JRCPF), the former president and first lady\u2019s Atlanta-based foundation that provides grants and awards to recognize the best practices in campus-community partnership programs and the best new ideas for student-led community service projects to solve community based problems.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDeMillo, who is stepping down as dean effective Nov. 1 to become a joint Distinguished Professor in Georgia Tech\u2019s Colleges of Computing and Management, said the appointment is a perfect opportunity to put both his academic and professional experience to use in service of tangible, humanitarian goals.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cPresident Carter\u2019s reputation for service speaks for itself, and I\u2019m grateful for the opportunity to lend whatever advice and counsel I can to the Carter Partnership Foundation\u2019s efforts,\u201d DeMillo said. \u201cIn the College of Computing, we have focused in recent years on \u2018Computing for Good,\u2019 which means exploring the ways in which computing can be put to work for the direct benefit of communities and individuals, supporting the best kinds of social progress. The JRCPF gives me the chance to do just that.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDeMillo said he\u2019s particularly enthused about the foundation\u2019s ServiceBook application (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.servicebook.org\u0022 title=\u0022www.servicebook.org\u0022\u003Ewww.servicebook.org\u003C\/a\u003E), which provides an Internet-based community for the exchange of ideas, best practices, syllabi and other forms of collaboration in academic service-learning. \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Richard A. DeMillo, The John\nP. Imlay Jr. Dean of the College of Computing at Georgia Tech, has\njoined the Board of Directors of the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter\nPartnership Foundation (JRCPF), the former president and first lady\u2019s\nAtlanta-based foundation that provides grants and awards to recognize\nthe best practices in campus-community partnership programs and the\nbest new ideas for student-led community service projects to solve\ncommunity based problems.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:40:48","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:04:33","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-09-08T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-09-08T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}