Inside: In remembrance . 2 THE Reunion giving . 3 In Brief . 3 Campus Events . 4 WHISTLE FACULTY/STAFF N EWSPAPER Volume 30, Number 40 • December 5, 2005 T HE G EORGIA I NSTITUTE OF T ECHNOLOGY Tech plans NCAA appeal TA instruction model earns School of Undergraduate eorgia Tech has notified the Mathematics Regents’ Teaching Award NCAA that the Institute will student named Gappeal the penalties handed David Terraso recipient of the 2005 Regents’ down by the NCAA Division I Institute Communications Teaching Excellence Award in the Committee on Infractions. and Public Affairs Department/Program Division. Marshall Scholar The Institute will make its The program’s success has prompt- David Terraso appeal to the NCAA Infractions hat once was a short course ed the Center for the Enhancement of Institute Communications Appeals Committee within the next devoted to helping interna- Teaching and Learning to use it as a and Public Affairs 60 days, and the entire process is W tional teaching assistants template for a new course for all expected to last three to four (TAs) has grown to become a model undergraduate TAs at Georgia Tech. yan Haynes has the heart of a months. for TA instruction across campus. “I spent a semester observing TAs doctor, the brain of a research The violations and penalties Ten years ago, the School of in their classes, talking with profes- scientist and the tenacity of a involve the improper certification Mathematics created its Teaching sors and students to see what we R computer programmer. All he needs of student-athletes in four sports Assistant Development Seminar as a might do to improve the situation,” now to help him realize his dream of due to an inadvertent misapplica- way to address communication diffi- said Cathy Jacobson, English as a developing life-changing medical tech- tion of NCAA eligibility certification culties between math students and Second Language instructor in the nologies is the acumen of a business rules by Athletic Association and international teaching assistants. School of Mathematics. executive. As the only 2006 Marshall Institute staff members. The NCAA Since then, it has expanded to pro- The situation was that some math Scholar from a Georgia public univer- Committee on Infractions vide training for all new TAs in the students had difficulty understanding sity, Haynes will get the chance to announced on Nov. 17 its decision School of Mathematics, resulting in and communicating with the TAs sharpen his business skills at the to place Georgia Tech on two years better ratings from students in their whose native language wasn’t English. University of Cambridge next year as probation, vacate results in several course/instructor opinion surveys. With the variety of native languages he pursues a master’s degree in nan- Now it’s being recognized by the otechnology enter- Appeal continued, page 2 University System of Georgia as TAs continued, page 2 prise and a degree in bioimaging sci- ences at Imperial College London a year later. Committee looks at challenges of multi-campus governance “I feel that a lot of really good Dan Treadaway faculty hiring and promotion practices The Senate also heard a presenta- basic science Institute Communications from Savannah to Singapore to tion from Scott Wills, chair of the research just stays and Public Affairs France. He said the committee will be Undergraduate Curriculum in the laboratory Ryan Haynes focusing on four categories of faculty: Committee, on the impact that the when it could be s Georgia Tech has expanded full-time faculty not located at the increasing volume of student peti- out there helping patients,” said beyond local and even nation- Atlanta campus, faculty who have tions is having on various faculty Haynes, a senior in the Department of A al borders, the issue of unified rotating assignments among different committees hearing and ruling on Biomedical Engineering. “I like clinical faculty governance and integration campuses, faculty involved in study those petitions. In particular, Wills work because it gets things to has become increasingly complex. abroad experiences and research fac- said that student appeals of policies patients more directly. I feel business To help address this issue, the ulty. related to withdrawals, readmission is the avenue to translate basic sci- Institute last spring created the While the committee has met only and other academic regulations now ence to clinical applications.” Committee on Multi-campus Faculty twice to date, Hayes said he expects occupy about 75 percent of the time The program at Cambridge, he Development, Governance and the group to be very active in the allotted for committee meetings. said, will prepare him to take nan- Integration. Committee Chair Monson spring semester. “The way that students think about otechnology and biotechnology solu- Hayes III, professor of Electrical and this process has shifted over the past tions into the marketplace. The Computer Engineering and associate few years,” Wills explained. He said Membership of the Committee on Imperial program will allow him to director of Georgia Tech Savannah, that while the appeals process used Multi-campus Faculty apply the things he’s learned at presented an overview on the com- to be viewed as a vehicle reserved for Development, Governance and Cambridge to medical imaging tech- mittee’s work at the Nov. 29 meeting very unusual or extenuating circum- Integration nologies — potentially benefiting of the Academic Senate and General stances, it’s now perceived as a much patients with neurological disorders Faculty. more readily accessible option. • Yves Bertholot, Mechanical such as Parkinson’s disease and “Georgia Tech has become a multi- Wills said the committees involved Engineering Alzheimer’s disease. campus institution that is geographi- in the petition and appeals processes It’s a career path that seems natu- cally dispersed throughout the world,” • Molly Cochran, International Affairs are encouraging faculty and appropri- • Monson Hayes, Electrical and ral to the Calhoun, Louisiana, native said Hayes. “The committee has been ate administrative staff to talk about who received his first computer when Computer Engineering charged with identifying any hurdles ideas for better defining the process. he was five and started experimenting • Tom Horton, GTRI that geographically dispersed faculty He said that if action is not taken in with computer programming at age are encountering in the application of • Jack Lohmann, Associate Provost the near future, the committees face 11. policies and procedures related to • Howard Rollins, International the possibility of not having adequate In high school, he developed a dis- faculty governance and faculty devel- Education time to spend on other critical duties. tance education program that united opment.” • Chen Zhou, Industrial and Systems math students over the Internet. The Hayes said the issues involved Engineering For more information... project earned first place honors at could range from varying levels and • Tong Zhou, Electrical and Computer Faculty governance quality of Internet access at different campuses to ensuring consistency in Engineering www.facultysenate.gatech.edu Scholar continued, page 3 WWW.WHISTLE.GATECH.EDU 2 December 5, 2005 “QUOTE- Thomas Stelson, emeritus vice president of research, dies ormer administrator Thomas E. said. “He saw the importance of been based.” Stelson, who helped charter the interdisciplinary research long before His efforts F course toward greater research it became popular and, more impor- enjoyed wide fac- UNQUOTE” funding is being remembered by col- tantly, he invested resources in pro- ulty support. In a leagues for his contributions to moting this. He was the principal driv- local newspaper Georgia Tech. er, under President Joe Pettit, in article, Electrical “Somebody from comparably sized Stelson, 77, died Nov. 13 of com- aligning resource allocation and orga- and Computer nizational structures at Tech so as to Engineering systems would probably look twice plications from brain surgery. As vice president for research from 1974- promote research at a time when the Associate because of the financial challenges 1988, he has been credited with Institute was just beginning to Professor Art and the institutional questions in transforming the school from a teach- emerge as a research-intensive place. Koblasz called terms of are we going to have a ing institution to one of the country’s “My own career was impacted him “the perfect regional transit system, and what is leading research universities. During through Tom’s vision and willingness guy to set the course for research at MARTA’s role going to be. It could Stelson’s tenure, annual research to take a risk. He re-created the Georgia Tech. He could motivate, be somewhat daunting for someone spending grew from $8 million to Bioengineering Center and agreed to steer and keep order.” from the outside to come in and $120 million. my proposal to start the Emory- A memorial service is scheduled deal with that from the beginning.” College of Engineering Dean Don Georgia Tech Biomedical Technology for 1 p.m. on Jan. 7 at Sandy Springs —Michael Meyer, professor in the Giddens called Stelson “one of the Research Center that became the United Methodist Church. foundation upon which much of our School of Civil and Environmental giants of Georgia Tech.” “Tom was a real visionary,” he current bioengineering efforts have Engineering, on locating a qualified successor to run the city’s bus and rail system. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) TAs, cont’d from page 1 large amount of the problem solving, In addition to classroom and video teaching and grading for a lecture lessons, the program has begun class, it’s essential that they be up to incorporating microteaching, in which spoken by international TAs, language the task. TAs prepare a 10-minute lesson and differences had the potential to be a “I felt like our TAs didn’t have a get feedback from their peers.