{"65953":{"#nid":"65953","#data":{"type":"news","title":"CoE Dean Don Giddens Wins GT Ambassadors Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECoE Dean Don Giddens was recently awarded the GT Ambassadors Award for The Most Georgia Tech Spirit. The award is one of five awards given annually at the Up With the White and Gold Awards Ceremony to outstanding faculty and staff nominees by the GT Ambassadors as part of an effort to recognize those who work hard to positively affect the quality of education, research, and student life at Tech.\u0026nbsp; As with all of the GT Ambassadors\u0027 awards, a number of nominations are submitted anonymously by the entire organization, and then the top honorees (receiving the most nominations) are placed on a ballot for the organization to select a winner.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis particular award recognizes those professional members of the Tech community whose commitment extends beyond their realm of expertise to the a genuine love of and spirit for the Institute. Dean Giddens was naturally one of the top candidates for the Most Georgia Tech Spirit Award, as his commitment has spanned over 50 years from his time as a student here for all of his degrees, up until his impending retirement.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis year, the award was presented at the Up With the White and Gold ceremony on April 28th, in the Student Center Ballroom.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"CoE Dean Don Giddens was recently awarded the GT Ambassadors Award for The Most Georgia Tech Spirit."}],"uid":"27195","created_gmt":"2011-05-04 13:34:03","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:08:41","author":"Colly Mitchell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-05-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-05-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"63744":{"id":"63744","type":"image","title":"Don P. Giddens","body":null,"created":"1449176708","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:05:08","changed":"1475894559","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:39","alt":"Don P. Giddens","file":{"fid":"191865","name":"Giddens.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Giddens_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Giddens_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1037696,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Giddens_0.jpg?itok=pfze_qiD"}}},"media_ids":["63744"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/","title":"Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.coe.gatech.edu\/","title":"College of Engineering"}],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"},{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"13048","name":"CoE Dean Don Giddens Wins GT Ambassadors Award"},{"id":"2549","name":"Don Giddens"},{"id":"248","name":"IBB"}],"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":""}}}