{"397891":{"#nid":"397891","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Kosal Receives Institute Teaching Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn Friday,\u0026nbsp;April 20th, Nunn School Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/kosal.inta.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EMargaret E. Kosal\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;was awarded the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cetl.gatech.edu\/faculty\/teachingaward\u0022\u003E2015 CETL\/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKosal\u2019s teaching was recognized for her ability to enable students to understand the context in which technology and policy choices affect the real world. She was recognized for \u201cempowering her students to understand the interactive causal, intervening, and determinant roles at play among science, technology, and policy that are necessary for solving the issues of\u0026nbsp;today\u0026nbsp;and in the future. In encouraging her students to explore, understand, and explain the multi-fold connections between technology and policy, Dr. Kosal is developing in her students the capacity to lead as well as understand.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe CETL\/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, offered through the joint support of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cetl.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECenter for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(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. Recipients of this award demonstrate educational innovations; impact on students\u0027 lives, both in and beyond the classroom; passion about teaching and learning; connections between research and teaching; educational outreach beyond the classroom; teaching excellence in core classes, required classes, and large classes; and good Georgia Tech citizenship.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKosal is also one of six Georgia Tech faculty currently highlighted on the front page of the Georgia Institute of Technology homepage as part of the \u201c\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/features\/teaching-tech\u0022\u003EListen as Six Stellar Faculty Share Their Teaching Strategie\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/features\/teaching-tech\u0022\u003Es\u003C\/a\u003E\u201d video feature.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Kosal Receives Institute Teaching Award"}],"field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Kosal Receives Institute Teaching Award"}],"uid":"28062","created_gmt":"2015-04-20 14:00:05","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:41","author":"Jenilee Trew","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-04-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-04-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"397881":{"id":"397881","type":"image","title":"kosal_teachingaward","body":null,"created":"1449246371","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:26:11","changed":"1475894564","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:44","alt":"kosal_teachingaward","file":{"fid":"75715","name":"kosal_teaching_award_2015.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/kosal_teaching_award_2015.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/kosal_teaching_award_2015.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2050999,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/kosal_teaching_award_2015.jpg?itok=ryLMCV4Y"}}},"media_ids":["397881"],"groups":[{"id":"1285","name":"Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"}],"categories":[{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"}],"keywords":[{"id":"11687","name":"Margaret E. Kosal"}],"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":""}}}