Buzzworthy Achievements

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Atlanta, GA | Posted: February 17, 2014

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These employees and units have received honors in recent months.

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These employees and units have received honors in recent months.

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These employees and units have received honors in recent months:   

  • Bob Canada of the Department of Housing received the Procurement Officer of the Year award from the Governmental Procurement Association of Georgia. 
  • Marilyn Somers, director of the Living History Program, received the 2013 Award for Excellence in Alumni Relations from the Georgia Education Advancement Council.  
  • Lance Fortnow, chair of the School of Computer Science, has a book, The Golden Ticket: P, NP and the Search for the Impossible, on the Amazon 2013 Best Books of the Year: Science List. 
  • Ravi Bellamkonda, the Wallace H. Coulter Professor and Departmental Chair in Biomedical Engineering, has been selected to receive the Society for Biomaterials’ Clemson Award for Applied Research.  
  • Baabak Ashuri, assistant professor in the School of Building Construction, was recently named to Engineering News Record Southeast’s “Top 20 Under 40” List for 2014.
  • Cheryl LaFoy, director of event operations for the Georgia Tech Athletic Association, received a Georgia Tech Police Department Community Partner Award.
  • Kelly Comfort, an associate professor in the School of Modern Languages, won a Regents’ Teaching Excellence Award for 2013.  
  • The College of Computing won the 2013 Regents’ Teaching Excellence Award for an Outstanding Department.
  • Matt Nagel, director of media relations and issues management in Institute Communications, has been selected to join the National Press Club. 
  • Biing-Hwang “Fred” Juang, Motorola Foundation Chair Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
  • Ellen Zegura, professor in the College of Computing, has been named an Association for Computing Machinery Fellow.  
  • Mark Edward Hay, professor in the School of Biology; Hang Lu, professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Suresh Menon, professor in the School of Aerospace Engineering; and Henrik Christensen, professor in the School of Interactive Computing, have been elected American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows.     

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  • Created On: Feb 17, 2014 - 10:08am
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