In brief: campus news and notes

CIOS opinion survey opening

Georgia Tech’s Course-Instructor Opinion Survey opens Nov. 24 and will continue through Dec. 14 for students to offer feedback on fall 2008 course. For more information, visit
www.coursesurvey.gatech.edu/login.cfm.

COA’s Smith remembered

Joseph N. Smith III, former assistant dean and professor in the College of Architecture, died Nov. 5. An alumnus, Smith also is recipient of the college’s highest honor, the Philip Trammell Shutze Medal.

Smith, an avid watercolorist, was a faculty member in the College of Architecture from 1963 to 1981, where he taught studios and served as assistant dean for Instruction.

He is credited with establishing the then-school’s first foreign studies program, developing the planning study for a new architecture buildng and the 3 1/2 year master of Architecture graduate program. A selection of Smith’s watercolors are on display in the West Architecture Building. For more information, visit www.coa.gatech.edu.

PRSA winners announced

The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) and Georgia Tech Communications & Marketing were winners at the Public Relations Society of America’s Phoenix Awards.

GTRI received top honors in the following categories: Marketing, Business to Business (GTRI: Problem.Solved); Web site—external (www.GTRI.gatech.edu); Research/Evaluation (“What’s the Differentiator: GTRI Problem.Solved”); and Annual Reports–Nonprofit.

Communications & Marketing received top honors for the Institute’s internal Web site for sustainability, www.GreenBuzz.gatech.edu.