{"114351":{"#nid":"114351","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Buzzworthy Achievements: Spring Honors Roundup","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe following Georgia Tech employees or units have been honored in recent months:\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThomas Barker\u003C\/strong\u003E, assistant professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, was awarded the Junior Investigator Award by the American Society for Matrix Biology.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EVicki Birchfield\u003C\/strong\u003E, associate professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, was awarded the distinction of Chevalier de l\u2019Ordre Nationale du Merite (Knight in the French National Order of Merit) by decree of the President of the French Republic.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETurgay Ayer\u003C\/strong\u003E, assistant professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, was honored for his research in breast cancer screening policies with three awards during the 2011 Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) annual meeting. \u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESigrun Andradottir\u003C\/strong\u003E, professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, was presented with the Kuhn Award for her paper, \u201cAdaptive Random Search for Continuous Simulation Optimization,\u201d co-authored with Andrei Prudius, at the 2011 INFORMS annual meeting. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEberhard Voit\u003C\/strong\u003E, professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, was elected a fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Campus Recreation Center, in partnership with LEAD and the China Summer Program\u003C\/strong\u003E, won the NASPA-Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education Bronze Award of Excellence in the Athletic and Recreation Program category. \u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBen Wang\u003C\/strong\u003E, the executive director of the Manufacturing Research Center, has been named the Eugene C. Gwaltney Jr. Chair in Manufacturing Systems in the College of Engineering.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJohn Krige\u003C\/strong\u003E, professor in the School of History, Technology and Society, has won the Doreen and Jim McElvany 2011 Nonproliferation Challenge for his essay, \u201cThe Proliferation Risks of Gas Centrifuge Enrichment at the Dawn of the NPT: New Light on the Negotiating History.\u201d\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMark Styczynski\u003C\/strong\u003E, assistant professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, received funding through the Grand Challenges Explorations initiative to pursue a global health research project. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMichael Filler\u003C\/strong\u003E, an assistant professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, was awarded the Early Faculty Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation. \u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELarry McIntire\u003C\/strong\u003E, Wallace H. Coulter Chair in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, was elected to be a council delegate from the Section on Engineering to the American Association for the Advancement of Science. \u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESubmissions will be accepted on an ongoing basis. Provide name, title, unit and honor (please spell out all acronyms) to \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:editor@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eeditor@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe following Georgia Tech employees or units have been honored in recent months.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The following Georgia Tech employees or units have been honored in recent months."}],"uid":"27445","created_gmt":"2012-03-05 15:57:48","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:11:48","author":"Amelia Pavlik","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-03-05T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2012-03-05T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1259","name":"Whistle"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"9443","name":"achievements"},{"id":"276","name":"Awards"},{"id":"1506","name":"faculty"},{"id":"26011","name":"faculty honors"},{"id":"26021","name":"honors roundup"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:amelia.pavlik@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EAmelia Pavlik\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-385-4142\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}