{"286241":{"#nid":"286241","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"John Portman gifts $2.5 million endowment to College of Architecture","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech has just announced a $2.5 million gift to endow the dean\u2019s chair and name it in John Portman\u2019s honor. According to the university, the chair will enhance the college\u2019s ability to attract and retain the very best academic leaders.\u0026nbsp;\u201cJohn is very devoted to Georgia Tech,\u201d Mickey Steinberg, a senior advisor and long-time colleague of John Portman\u0026nbsp;said. \u201cGeorgia Tech is really where he got his start.\u201d\u0026nbsp;Dean Steven P. French will be the first to hold the chair.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27714","created_gmt":"2014-03-26 20:11:11","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:27:02","author":"Kyle James","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"middlebury","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/saportareport.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/john-portman-donates-2-5-million-to-georgia-tech-agrees-to-have-deans-chair-named-after-him","dateline":{"date":"2014-03-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-03-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1224","name":"School of City \u0026 Regional Planning"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"926","name":"College of Architecture"},{"id":"2078","name":"dean"},{"id":"5884","name":"john portman"}],"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":""}}}