{"57005":{"#nid":"57005","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Robert Butera Named to Graduate Studies Post","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERobert J. Butera, Jr. has accepted a part-time appointment as faculty director of Graduate Studies. In this position, Dr. Butera serves as a faculty counterpart to Gail Potts, who is the director of the Office of Graduate Studies at Georgia\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nTech.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Butera will work with the office to find ways of improving the efficiency, quality, and delivery of graduate programs on campus. The majority of  his time will be spent on issues such as fellowships and training grant administration, information technology infrastructure for graduate\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nprograms, and campus-wide policies for graduate degrees. These issues cross many administrative units, such as the Registrar\u0027s Office, the Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid, and the Office of Sponsored Programs. He will work with all of these units to develop best practices for providing high quality, efficient delivery of services to all Georgia Tech graduate students.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile Dr. Butera\u0027s new position is 25 percent of his time and is effective immediately, he will continue with his research and teaching activities\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nas an associate professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Georgia Tech and with the Laboratory for Neuroengineering. He has been a member of the ECE faculty since 1998.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Robert J. Butera, Jr. has accepted a part-time appointment as faculty director of Graduate Studies. In this position, Dr. Butera serves as a faculty counterpart to Gail Potts, who is the director of the Office of Graduate Studies at Georgia \nTech.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Robert J. Butera, Jr. named faculty director of Graduate Studies"}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2009-11-24 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:00","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-11-24T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2009-11-24T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"57006":{"id":"57006","type":"image","title":"photo of Robert Butera","body":null,"created":"1449175342","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:42:22","changed":"1475894403","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:03","alt":"photo of Robert Butera","file":{"fid":"190508","name":"tze96352.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tze96352_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tze96352_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":14464,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tze96352_0.jpg?itok=WTdFVrDu"}}},"media_ids":["57006"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/fac_profiles\/bio.php?id=18","title":"Electrical \u0026 Computer Engineering Professor Robert Butera"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.neuro.gatech.edu\/index.html","title":"Laboratory for Neuroengineering"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"2248","name":"Graduate Studies"},{"id":"5443","name":"Neuroengineering"},{"id":"1924","name":"Robert Butera"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EContact Jackie Nemeth\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}