{"219051":{"#nid":"219051","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Hosts Director of NIFA, U.S. Department of Agriculture","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Sonny Ramaswamy, Director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA, USDA\u2019s extramural research arm) visited Georgia Tech\u2019s campus on June 20 to meet and discuss Georgia Tech\u2019s expertise and research with implications on the needs of farmers, ranchers and agricultural producers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERamaswamy kicked off his visit with a seminar for students and faculty: \u201cSetting the Table for a Hotter, Flatter, More Crowded Earth.\u201d He described the research outlook for the USDA and how Georgia Tech researchers are uniquely poised to tackle grand challenges like feeding a growing population in light of dwindling resources such as land and water. This and other major challenges will require multi-faceted approaches and expertise ranging from engineering and cybersecurity to social sciences. \u003Ca href=\u0022\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/setting_the_table_march2013-final.pdf\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EHis presentation is available here. \u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERamaswamy toured Georgia Tech\u2019s Agricultural Technology Research Program and met with EVP for Research Stephen Cross. The visit closed with a multidisciplinary research roundtable, including bioenergy researcher and professor Art Ragauskas (School of Chemistry and Biochemistry); sphingolipid researcher and professor Al Merrill (School of Biology); and aquaponics researcher Steven Van Ginkel (School of Civil and Environmental Engineering).\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27854","created_gmt":"2013-06-25 09:50:36","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:14:27","author":"Alyssa Nordin","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-06-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-06-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"216501":{"id":"216501","type":"image","title":"Dr Sonny Ramaswamy","body":null,"created":"1449180114","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 22:01:54","changed":"1475894882","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:02","alt":"Dr Sonny Ramaswamy","file":{"fid":"197126","name":"sonny_ramaswamy.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/sonny_ramaswamy_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/sonny_ramaswamy_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":108999,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/sonny_ramaswamy_0.png?itok=v3Zwhfyb"}}},"media_ids":["216501"],"groups":[{"id":"47398","name":"GCR (Office of Government and Community Relations)"}],"categories":[{"id":"131","name":"Economic Development and Policy"},{"id":"133","name":"Special Events and Guest Speakers"}],"keywords":[{"id":"15363","name":"Government and Community Relations"},{"id":"68481","name":"NIFA"},{"id":"171278","name":"Sonny Ramaswamy"},{"id":"68491","name":"United States Department of Agriculture"},{"id":"67611","name":"usda"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"},{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"},{"id":"39541","name":"Systems"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tnagel@gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ETeri Nagel\u003C\/a\u003E, Office of Government and Community Relations\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}