{"652088":{"#nid":"652088","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Home at Georgia Tech: Then and Now","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWritten By Zoe Elledge\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor most Yellow Jacket students, Georgia Tech was a temporary home. They spent four or more years on campus and left. Some never returned. Others have made a regular pilgrimage back to Atlanta, sometimes coinciding with Homecoming.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd then there are alumni who made Georgia Tech a home for a second time, returning after graduation as a faculty or staff member.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENearly a thousand current faculty and staff members hold Georgia Tech degrees. In the College of Engineering, they include the dean, Raheem Beyah, who received his master\u0026rsquo;s and Ph.D. degrees in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHis Double Jacket status pales in comparison to some of his peers. Sixteen College faculty boast three of more Georgia Tech diplomas. The group spans seven of the eight schools, with research fields that include drones, signal processing, and chemical behaviors of soils.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhy did they come back to Georgia Tech \u0026mdash; or in a few cases, why did they never leave? Why is campus a special place for them? As we prepare for Homecoming 2021, these longtime Jackets, including ECE Professor James Stevenson Kenney,\u0026nbsp;reflect on a lifetime at Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/2021\/10\/home-georgia-tech-then-and-now\u0022\u003ERead more about Kenney and his fellow alumni\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESixteen College of Engineering faculty members, including ECE Professor James Stevenson Kenney,\u0026nbsp;have three or more Georgia Tech degrees and have made their alma mater home again.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Sixteen College of Engineering faculty members, including ECE Professor James Stevenson Kenney,\u00a0have three or more Georgia Tech degrees and have made their alma mater home again."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2021-10-26 17:20:39","changed_gmt":"2021-10-26 17:24:12","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-10-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-10-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"652089":{"id":"652089","type":"image","title":"J. Stevenson Kenney","body":null,"created":"1635269014","gmt_created":"2021-10-26 17:23:34","changed":"1635269014","gmt_changed":"2021-10-26 17:23:34","alt":"photo of J. Stevenson Kenney","file":{"fid":"247403","name":"Steve Kenney.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Steve%20Kenney.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Steve%20Kenney.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":282240,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Steve%20Kenney.jpg?itok=N7E7RkP8"}}},"media_ids":["652089"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/james-stevenson-kenney","title":"J. Stevenson Kenney"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu","title":"Georgia Tech"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"594","name":"college of engineering"},{"id":"181535","name":"J. Stevenson Kenney"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jason.maderer@coe.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJason Maderer\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECollege of Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jason.maderer@coe.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}