{"409171":{"#nid":"409171","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Executive Director Norman Marsolan attends TAPPI Papercon in Nashville","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETAPPI PaperCon\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn April, RBI executive director Norman Marsolan attended TAPPI PaperCon in Nashville.\u0026nbsp; The events included the awards dinner at which Professor Art Ragauskas received the Gunnar Nicholson Gold Medal Award.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ipst.gatech.edu\/news\/2014\/140613_ragauskas.html\u0022\u003ESee related story\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFormer IPC employee Doug Dugal was honored with the Henry Joachim Distinguished Service Award at the event.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Renewable Bioproducts Institute, in its former incarnation as IPST, hosted a table at PaperCon\u2019s first annual Alumni Soir\u00e9e.\u0026nbsp; About a dozen paper schools participated, providing displays featuring their schools and inviting alumni to gather for laughs and refreshments.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAgenda 2020 Meeting\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENorman also attended the quarterly meeting of Agenda 2020 In Raleigh June 4, where team updates on development of priority research roadmaps were featured. PhD student Chad Hume, sponsored by ME Professor David Rosen, attended Agenda 2020\u2019s Drier Web team workshop June 3, preceding the quarterly meeting. RBI recently hosted the Black Liquor Concentration team as well. RBI considers the work of the teams to provide an avenue of insight into industry research priorities, and therefore as one important input to its research plans.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Norman attends TAPPI Papercon and Agenda 2020 meeting"}],"uid":"27178","created_gmt":"2015-06-01 13:12:37","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:18:25","author":"Amna Jamshad","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-06-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-06-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"409161":{"id":"409161","type":"image","title":"Executive Director, Norman Marsolan","body":null,"created":"1449254195","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:36:35","changed":"1475895137","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:17"}},"media_ids":["409161"],"groups":[{"id":"372221","name":"Renewable Bioproducts Institute (RBI)"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1270","name":"conference"},{"id":"1796","name":"meeting"},{"id":"53291","name":"Norman Marsolan"},{"id":"93811","name":"RBI"},{"id":"4174","name":"renewable"},{"id":"125221","name":"TAPPI"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39491","name":"Renewable Bioproducts"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKelly B. Smith, Marketing \u0026amp; Communication\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["kelly.smith@ipst.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}