The Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine received a Grand Award and an Award of Excellence and Tech Topics won an Award of Excellence from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education District III.

The Alumni Magazine received the Grand Award in the general news story or series category for "Viewing Cancer in a New Light," a 24-page special section that appeared in the Winter 2005 edition.

Managing editor Kimberly Link-Wills received an Award of Excellence in the feature writing category for the Fall 2005 Alumni Magazine cover story "The Road Less Traveled," which chronicled the Appalachian Trail journey of Gene Espy.

Tech Topics received an Award of Excellence from CASE for its 2005 issues.

The awards will be presented during the 2006 CASE District III conference in Nashville, Tenn., in February.

Another campus organization received CASE recognition as well. John Toon, manager of the Institute's Research News and Publications Office, won the Grand Award for speech writing.

The speech, "Innovation in Our Future: the Challenges Ahead" was written for Wayne Hodges, vice provost for Economic Development and Technology Ventures, and delivered at a national meeting of electric membership cooperatives.