{"529661":{"#nid":"529661","#data":{"type":"news","title":"College of Computing Celebrates Students, Staff and Faculty","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech computing community gathered this week to celebrate outstanding students, staff, and faculty during the 25\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E annual College of Computing Awards Celebration.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EZvi Galil, the John P. Imlay Jr. Dean of Computing, hosted the luncheon event held April 25 at the Klaus Advanced Computing Building. More than 35 awards were presented to recognize achievements during the 2015-2016 academic school year.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis celebration to recognize student, staff, and faculty achievements each year is vitally important to the life and community of the College,\u201d Galil said during his remarks. \u201cCongratulations to all of our award winners.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA few highlights of the students awards included the Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Award, which was presented to Justin \u0022Eric\u0022 Cook for his dedication and commitment to his fellow students, and the Donald V. Jackson Fellowship Award for graduate students, which was presented to Katherine Cannella, Aditi Dhar, and Apurv Verma for exemplifying academic excellence and leadership.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA number of staff members were also honored during the event. Wes Kirkbride, College of Computing academic advisor, earned the Outstanding Staff and Service Award; Ben Powell, College of Computing director of finance administration, received the Outstanding Supervisory staff and Service Award; and Marcus Johnson, College of Computing director of faculty administration, received the Outstanding Staff for Community Leadership Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESeveral faculty members received awards as well. Among these were winners of the Dean\u2019s Office Awards. Presented by Senior Associate Dean\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECharles Isbell, this year\u2019s awards were presented to:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMark Riedl, School of Interactive Computing associate professor, received the James C. Edenfield Faculty Fellowship Award for his work in artificial intelligence.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EJacob Eisenstein, School of Interactive Computing assistant professor, received the James D. Lester III Family Award for his recent work on understanding and managing online writing.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EDana Randall, ADVANCE professor of computing in the School of Computer Science, received the Dean\u2019s Award for her work and commitment to the advancement of women in academic scientific and engineering careers.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe event concluded with service acknowledgements for nine staff and faculty members with either 10 or 25 years of service at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/awards\/pastrecipients\u0022\u003EClick here\u003C\/a\u003E to see a complete list of this year\u0027s winners.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech computing community gathered this week to celebrate outstanding students, staff and faculty during the 25\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E annual College of Computing Awards ceremony.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The College of Computing recently hosted its 25th annual awards celebration for students, staff and faculty."}],"uid":"32045","created_gmt":"2016-04-26 13:35:56","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:21:28","author":"Ben Snedeker","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-04-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-04-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"530181":{"id":"530181","type":"image","title":"CoC Awards 2016","body":null,"created":"1461942000","gmt_created":"2016-04-29 15:00:00","changed":"1475895310","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:55:10","alt":"CoC Awards 2016","file":{"fid":"88929","name":"art_for_compiler.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/art_for_compiler_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/art_for_compiler_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":192877,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/art_for_compiler_0.jpg?itok=bYmcQQ8E"}}},"media_ids":["530181"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[{"id":"133","name":"Special Events and Guest Speakers"}],"keywords":[{"id":"276","name":"Awards"},{"id":"654","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBen Snedeker\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENews \u0026amp; Media Relations Manager\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["albert.snedeker@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}