{"406981":{"#nid":"406981","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech receives U.S. Department of Commerce research grant","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe U.S. Department of Commerce\u2019s Economic Development Administration (EDA) has awarded the Georgia Institute of Technology a Science and Research Park Development Grant \u2014 one of 12 such awards to universities and government entities the agency announced on May 22.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe $460,707 grant will be used to study the feasibility of expanding Technology Enterprise Park (TEP) on Atlanta\u2019s west side into a health and bioscience hub.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis grant provides us an exceptional opportunity for Georgia Tech and the city of Atlanta to help create high-paying jobs and economic opportunity for the city\u2019s west side,\u201d said Chris Downing, associate vice president of the Enterprise Innovation Institute, Tech\u2019s chief statewide economic development arm. Downing led the effort in crafting the grant proposal. The University Financing Foundation, Invest Atlanta, and the Atlanta Housing Authority also served as partners in the project proposal.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe target area encompasses approximately 60 acres and will assess the viability of expanding TEP\u2019s footprint. Georgia Tech founded the technology park, which is located at North Avenue and Northyards Boulevard, in 2004.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs planned, the vision for the expanded park would be the interconnection of parcels of land owned by the project\u2019s collaborators and supporters. Those include Tech, the Atlanta Housing Authority, and the city of Atlanta, among others. The goal is to create a health and bioscience hub in an economically distressed part of the city.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs a hub it would be a natural location for startups in the health and bioscience sectors spinning out from area schools, including Tech, Georgia State University, Emory University, Morehouse School of Medicine, and Clark Atlanta University.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EExisting health and bioscience companies such as CardioMems, Kemira, and CryoLife would be able to expand their current operations without leaving the area, and it would be a magnet for leading-edge research and innovation enterprises such as the Global Center for Medical Innovation and the Georgia Tech Research Institute.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe project will study the best practices Georgia Tech has implemented in the development of the neighboring Technology Square in Midtown, which serves as a model for innovation-led economic development success. This area of the west side could enjoy a similar outcome, Downing said. \u201cIt has the potential to create thousands of jobs and deliver hundreds of millions of dollars in economic output.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Science and Research Park Development Grants are part of the Regional Innovation Strategies program, which is being run by the EDA Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. It is a new initiative designed to advance innovation and capacity-building activities in regions across the country through three different types of grants: i6 Challenge grants, Cluster Grants for Seed Capital Funds, and Science and Research Park Development Grants.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn March, Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker announced the recipients of the i6 Challenge Grants, which included $500,000 to Georgia Tech to support a sweeping innovation and entrepreneurship initiative in Athens, Augusta, and downtown Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"This award will fund a research study to see the feasibility of expanding Technology Enterprise Park on Atlanta\u0027s westside into a health and bioscience hub."}],"uid":"28137","created_gmt":"2015-05-22 17:31:08","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:18:21","author":"P\u00e9ralte Paul","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-05-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-05-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"407221":{"id":"407221","type":"image","title":"Technology Enterprise Park","body":null,"created":"1449254168","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:36:08","changed":"1475895132","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:12","alt":"Technology Enterprise Park","file":{"fid":"202139","name":"contact_side.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/contact_side_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/contact_side_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":11979,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/contact_side_0.jpg?itok=Hd3cCSGS"}}},"media_ids":["407221"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/2015\/03\/31\/georgia-tech-receives-us-department-commerce-i6-challenge-grant","title":"Georgia Tech receives U.S. Department of Commerce i6 Challenge Grant"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"139","name":"Business"},{"id":"131","name":"Economic Development and Policy"}],"keywords":[{"id":"115351","name":"Commerce Department"},{"id":"815","name":"economic development"},{"id":"126811","name":"Economic Development Administration"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"106361","name":"Business and Economic Development"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022titles\u0022\u003EMedia Relations Representative\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022email\u0022\u003EEmail:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022phone\u0022\u003EPhone:\u0026nbsp;404-894-6016\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["peralte.paul@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"406741":{"#nid":"406741","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tech\u2019s Campus Gets \u2018Smart\u2019","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s campus is home to many research laboratories, but how often is Tech itself the subject?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EThe Smart Energy Campus Program uses Georgia Tech as a living laboratory and collects data from energy utility systems all over campus. Through collaboration among multiple campus departments, insights from this project will directly impact energy planning and consumption on campus in many ways, with the hope of making Tech\u2019s energy utility systems more efficient.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003ESmart Energy Campus is a joint sustainability research initiative with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory (ASDL), and Georgia Tech Facilities Management. Beginning in 2013, the idea behind this project was to see if Georgia Tech researchers could be of use to Facilities by utilizing data analysis as well as modeling and simulation tools to evaluate and optimize different energy systems on Tech\u2019s campus.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003E\u201cIt is extremely exciting to know that our team is supporting some of the most brilliant complex-system designers in the world,\u201d said Mark Demyanek, assistant vice president of Operations and Maintenance within Facilities Management. \u201cUsing our built environment as a living laboratory is a concept that is growing in higher ed, and I believe we at Georgia Tech are leading that growth in a thoughtful and responsible way.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EAlready, the Smart Energy Campus Program has created software for the Facilities Management Energy Conservation team to use when analyzing utility consumption trends and identifying potential energy efficiency projects. This project is designed to save labor hours, resources, and money by quickly identifying buildings that have unusually high energy usage, and then notifying teams to remedy the problem.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003E\u201cThe Smart Energy Campus Program is trying to take advantage of new modeling tools and large amounts of data to gain deeper insight and predict what can happen in terms of energy utilization on campus,\u201d said Scott Duncan, research engineer in the ASDL.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EThe Facilities Management team consists of five people who meet with the research team several times per month. The research members on the team have included graduate students, research engineers, and postdoctoral fellows, all of whom serve as another set of eyes to interpret the data and help Facilities see problems in different ways. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003E\u201cThis program is revolutionary in getting access to data,\u201d said Duncan. \u201cIf we were doing this program for a community outside of campus, it would be difficult to get access to this much data.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EWith so much data, the project continues to grow and the mission evolves. Building a predictive model of campus energy is no easy feat.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003E\u201cWe keep finding things to do and smaller side projects to work on,\u201d said Duncan. Through thermal network and electric grid modeling of campus, researchers will have greater agility and insight to see where energy is not being used efficiently, as well as analyze the effects of energy system technology upgrades.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EThrough the research effort, areas of improvement will be more visible and enable Facilities to channel resources toward areas of need. The ultimate vision of the research team is a \u201csmart\u201d system that will identify and react to problems and inefficiencies on its own, potentially without human assistance.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003E\u201cWith any luck, one day soon, campuses across the world can use these tools to manage their facilities resources more efficiently,\u201d said Demyanek.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s campus is home to many research laboratories, but how often is Tech itself the subject of research?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech\u2019s campus is home to many research laboratories, but how often is Tech itself the subject of research?"}],"uid":"27507","created_gmt":"2015-05-26 15:34:59","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:18:21","author":"Rachel Isaac","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-05-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-05-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"406711":{"id":"406711","type":"image","title":"Holland Plant 1","body":null,"created":"1449254168","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:36:08","changed":"1475895132","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:12","alt":"Holland Plant 1","file":{"fid":"76143","name":"holland_1.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/holland_1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/holland_1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2968317,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/holland_1.jpg?itok=norKd6On"}},"406721":{"id":"406721","type":"image","title":"Holland Plant 2","body":null,"created":"1449254168","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:36:08","changed":"1475895132","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:12","alt":"Holland Plant 2","file":{"fid":"76144","name":"holland_2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/holland_2.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/holland_2.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1099236,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/holland_2.jpg?itok=Nmuuw_Ub"}},"406731":{"id":"406731","type":"image","title":"Holland Plant 3","body":null,"created":"1449254168","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:36:08","changed":"1475895132","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:12","alt":"Holland Plant 3","file":{"fid":"76145","name":"holland_3.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/holland_3.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/holland_3.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2136713,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/holland_3.jpg?itok=aIA-BAVH"}}},"media_ids":["406711","406721","406731"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/facilities.gatech.edu\/","title":"Facilities"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.asdl.gatech.edu\/","title":"Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"126801","name":"aerospace systems design laboratory"},{"id":"100921","name":"ASDL"},{"id":"213","name":"energy"},{"id":"3157","name":"Facilities"},{"id":"479","name":"Green Buzz"},{"id":"166890","name":"sustainability"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:stucomm@gatech.edu\u0022\u003ERachel Isaac\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EInstitute Communications\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"406931":{"#nid":"406931","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Board of Regents Approves Next Steps for Tech Square, Dining Projects","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EThe High Performance Computing Center, West Campus Dining Commons, and new degree opportunities were among those items approved at the May 19 Board of Regents meeting.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EThe Board approved the lease agreement for the High Performance Computing Center \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/2015\/05\/19\/georgia-tech-moves-forward-technology-square-expansion-project\u0022\u003Ebeing built on Spring Street\u003C\/a\u003E on the south side of the Georgia Tech Bookstore in Tech Square. The 750,000-square-foot project will include space for Georgia Tech research and industry partners and has a targeted opening of 2018.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EThe Board also approved Georgia Tech\u2019s selection of Juneau Construction of Atlanta for the West Campus Dining Commons project. When completed, the commons will offer space for 610 people and be located at the corner of McMillan and Eighth Streets. Construction at the Van Leer Interdisciplinary Design Commons, part of the recently announced Texas Instruments Plaza project, was also authorized at the meeting.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003ETwo named faculty positions \u2013 the G. Niles Bolton Professorship in the College of Architecture, and the Southern Company Dean\u2019s Chair in the College of Engineering \u2013 were approved following recent philanthropic support for these positions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EIn academic news, the Board approved the establishment of an interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in quantitative bioscience. The program follows the success of Tech\u2019s other bio-focused Ph.D. programs in bioengineering and bioinformatics. The Online Master of Science in Computer Science program will modify its curriculum requirements, bringing the total number of hours from 36 to 30 to earn the degree. Tech will also begin offering a dual degree program for the Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering with an Italian partner, Sapienza-University di Roma. This is the second partnership for the degree program, which is also offered through Georgia Tech in Atlanta and GT-Lorraine in Metz, France.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EFinally, the Board approved the installation of energy optimization and water savings improvements at the Holland Chilled Water Plant and 10th Street Chiller Plant. Savings from the project will have a simple pay-back of 4.72 years.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe High Performance Computing Center, West Campus Dining Commons, and new degree opportunities were among those items approved at the May 19 Board of Regents meeting.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The High Performance Computing Center, West Campus Dining Commons, and new degree opportunities were among those items approved at the May 19 Board of Regents meeting."}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2015-05-26 16:27:48","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:18:21","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-05-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-05-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"256841":{"id":"256841","type":"image","title":"University System of Georgia","body":null,"created":"1449243856","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:44:16","changed":"1495650034","gmt_changed":"2017-05-24 18:20:34","alt":"University System of Georgia","file":{"fid":"225350","name":"bor200.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/bor200.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/bor200.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":65945,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/bor200.jpg?itok=yjyEhQi6"}}},"media_ids":["256841"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/usg.edu\/","title":"University System of Georgia"}],"groups":[{"id":"1259","name":"Whistle"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"728","name":"Board of Regents"},{"id":"10088","name":"BOR"},{"id":"1400","name":"Construction"},{"id":"172","name":"infrastructure"},{"id":"2096","name":"philanthropy"},{"id":"726","name":"University System of Georgia"},{"id":"1966","name":"usg"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:kristen.bailey@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EKristen Bailey\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstitute Communications\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}