{"645657":{"#nid":"645657","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Dan Margalit Wins the Geoffrey G. Eichholz Faculty Teaching Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECongratulations go to Professor\u0026nbsp;Dan Margalit, who has been awarded the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ctl.gatech.edu\/faculty\/awards\/eichholz\u0022\u003EGeoffrey G. Eichholz Faculty Teaching Award\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis award was established in 2005 through a gift from School of Mechanical Engineering\u0026#39;s Regents\u0026rsquo; Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Eichholz. It was created to reward senior faculty members who made a long-term contribution to introductory undergraduate education and were outstanding teachers for students taking freshman and sophomore core courses. Recently, the award has broadened to recognize faculty at any point in their careers who excel in teaching core and general education courses, and who help students establish a solid foundation for their education at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to his success as an effective and engaging instructor, Prof. Margalit is recognized for his leadership on MATH 1553 Intro. Linear Algebra over the years, including coauthoring the online interactive textbook \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/textbooks.math.gatech.edu\/ila\/\u0022\u003EInteractive Linear Algebra\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;which is the course textbook for MATH 1553.\u0026nbsp;Every semester, this\u0026nbsp;course is taken by many GT students from several key majors, and thus plays an important role in their educational foundation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThis award was established in 2005 through a gift from School of Mechanical Engineering\u0026#39;s Regents\u0026rsquo; Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Eichholz.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"This award was established in 2005 through a gift from School of Mechanical Engineering\u0027s Regents\u2019 Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Eichholz. "}],"uid":"34518","created_gmt":"2021-03-23 18:32:45","changed_gmt":"2021-03-23 18:32:45","author":"sbarone7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-03-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-03-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"606948":{"id":"606948","type":"image","title":"Dan Margalit","body":null,"created":"1528819520","gmt_created":"2018-06-12 16:05:20","changed":"1528819520","gmt_changed":"2018-06-12 16:05:20","alt":"","file":{"fid":"231511","name":"20160717.Dan Margalit.sq250.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/20160717.Dan%20Margalit.sq250.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/20160717.Dan%20Margalit.sq250.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":95058,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/20160717.Dan%20Margalit.sq250.jpg?itok=BERrx-93"}}},"media_ids":["606948"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/textbooks.math.gatech.edu\/ila\/","title":"Interactive Linear Algebra"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ctl.gatech.edu\/faculty\/awards\/eichholz","title":"Geoffrey G. Eichholz Faculty Teaching Award"}],"groups":[{"id":"1279","name":"School of Mathematics"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"173647","name":"_for_math_site_"}],"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:comm@math.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESal Barone\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}