{"397331":{"#nid":"397331","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Smith Receives Teaching Excellence Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty\/bio\/smith_1\u0022\u003EJohn Matthew Smith\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor in the \u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of History, Technology, and Society\u003C\/strong\u003E, has been awarded the 2015 CETL\/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence\u0026nbsp;Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis is the fourth year in row that faculty members of the \u003Cstrong\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts\u003C\/strong\u003E have received this award, including Anne Pollock (2014), Karen Head and Shatakshee Dhongde (2013), and Jin Liu (2012).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis award, offered through the joint support of CETL and BP America, provides Georgia Tech with the opportunity to highlight excellent teaching and the educational innovation that Junior Faculty bring to campus as they discover new knowledge through their research and choose teaching methods that make their knowledge accessible, applicable, and exciting to the learners they connect with in their classrooms and beyond.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPast recipients have been selected based on variety of criteria, including educational innovations and outreach, connections between research and teaching, impact on students\u0027 lives, and a passion for teaching and learning.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn 2014 Smith also received the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/news-and-events\/story?id=291581\u0022\u003EIvan Allen College Teacher of the Year\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cetl.gatech.edu\/faculty\/tfs\u0022\u003EClass of 1969 Teaching Fellow\u003C\/a\u003E awards.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EJohn Matthew Smith is an historian of the twentieth century United States, specializing in race, sports, and popular culture. He is also the undergraduate adviser for the Sports, Society, and Technology (SST) program.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty\/bio\/smith_1\u0022\u003EJohn Matthew Smith\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor in the \u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of History, Technology, and Society\u003C\/strong\u003E, has been named a recipient of the 2015 CETL\/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence\u0026nbsp;Award.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"John Matthew Smith, assistant professor in the School of History, Technology, and Society, has been named a recipient of the 2015 CETL\/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award."}],"uid":"27889","created_gmt":"2015-04-17 15:39:45","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:18:03","author":"Beth Godfrey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-04-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-04-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"397311":{"id":"397311","type":"image","title":"John Matthew Smith","body":null,"created":"1449246361","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:26:01","changed":"1475895115","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:51:55","alt":"John Matthew Smith","file":{"fid":"76017","name":"johnsmithweb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/johnsmithweb.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/johnsmithweb.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":97065,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/johnsmithweb.jpg?itok=6dEF2s6c"}}},"media_ids":["397311"],"groups":[{"id":"1288","name":"School of History and Sociology"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"101","name":"Award"},{"id":"1601","name":"CETL"},{"id":"4151","name":"excellence"},{"id":"1506","name":"faculty"},{"id":"2518","name":"hts"},{"id":"171404","name":"Smith"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJohn Matthew Smith\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:john.smith@hts.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejohn.smith@hts.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}