{"616865":{"#nid":"616865","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Hosts State Legislative Leaders at ATDC HealthTech Summit","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWith health care a major focus at the state and national levels, the Georgia Institute of Technology welcomed Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan and other state legislative leaders to campus for a health summit focused on how technology drives innovation, leads to better patient outcomes, and reduces costs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDuncan, joined by Georgia state Sens. Dean Burke, Greg Kirk, and Ben Watson, toured the Institute\u0026rsquo;s Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) to learn more about the incubator\u0026rsquo;s efforts to support health technology (HealthTech) innovation and meet startup leaders in its portfolio.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBurke\u0026nbsp;spearheaded the visit from the state government delegation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA program of the Enterprise Innovation Institute, Tech\u0026rsquo;s economic development arm, ATDC is the state of Georgia\u0026rsquo;s technology startup incubator. Created in 1980, ATDC has helped its companies generate more than $12 billion in revenue and raise in excess of $3 billion in investment capital.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;One of my most ambitious goals is for Georgia to become the technology capital of the East Coast. Incubators like ATDC are critical to that vision,\u0026rdquo; Duncan, a Tech alum, said. \u0026ldquo;Georgia boasts the top talent coming out of our world-class university system, business-friendly environment, low cost of living, high quality of life, and emerging venture capital presence necessary to grow from the Silicon Valley of the South to the Tech Capital of the East Coast.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe delegation received an overview of ATDC\u0026rsquo;s focused efforts to support HealthTech innovation and startups, including the July 2018\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/2018\/06\/12\/georgia-tech-launch-health-technology-initiative-advanced-technology-development-center\u0022\u003Elaunch of the ATDC HealthTech Program\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESupported with a financial gift from NASCO, the ATDC HealthTech Program focuses on helping entrepreneurs launch viable companies in that sector, Kirk Barnes, ATDC\u0026rsquo;s HealthTech catalyst explained to the delegation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERecently, ATDC entered into a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/2018\/10\/29\/navicent-health-announces-collaboration-georgia-institute-technology\u0022\u003Ecollaboration with Navicent Health\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;Center for Disruption \u0026amp; Innovation (CfDI) to support the development of new technologies, treatments, and care created by healthcare technology-oriented companies based in the state. The goal: to improve the health and lives of patients in central and south Georgia.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIt\u0026rsquo;s a goal that resonated with Duncan.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s encouraging to see the system built around these ideas and to see these ideas commercialized,\u0026rdquo; the lieutenant governor said. \u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s not just about cutting costs, it\u0026rsquo;s about improving service and quality of care.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;m appreciative of the impressive work being done at Georgia Tech and ATDC, and I look forward to working alongside them as lieutenant governor.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESince its launch, the ATDC HealthTech Program\u0026rsquo;s portfolio of companies has grown to 48\u0026nbsp;and includes a host of technologies ranging from\u0026nbsp;digital health and medical devices to drug discovery tools and healthcare robotics.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne of those companies, Rimidi Inc.,\u0026nbsp;a\u0026nbsp;provider of software and clinical analytics for chronic disease management,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/atdc.org\/news-from-our-companies\/rimidi-closes-6-575-million-series-a-with-strategic-investment-from-eli-lilly\/\u0022\u003Eraised more than $6.5 million\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in its Series A-1 financing, which included an investment from Eli Lilly and Co.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETee Faircloth, who helped spearhead the summit, is founder of Coordinated Care Inc. (CCI), an ATDC HealthTech company. CCI, one of the companies the delegation met, works with urban and rural hospitals to move patients back to their local hospitals for rehabilitation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFaircloth said such summits give state leaders valuable insight into how public support of programs such as ATDC and public-private partnerships such as the one with NASCO work.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;With the incoming administration\u0026rsquo;s focus on rural healthcare, it\u0026rsquo;s great to see them embrace innovation as an agent of change so early on. This summit continues the dialogue of how we, as technology companies focused on bringing solutions and innovation to healthcare, can work with state and local leaders,\u0026rdquo; Faircloth said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We want to find areas where we can work together in these public-private partnerships to leverage the resources of the Atlanta and Georgia ecosystems so that we really improve healthcare for all Georgians.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia\u0027s lieutenant governor, state senators see how ATDC leads startup innovation in health technology"}],"uid":"28137","created_gmt":"2019-01-25 14:15:58","changed_gmt":"2019-01-28 18:19:48","author":"P\u00e9ralte Paul","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-01-25T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-01-25T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"616866":{"id":"616866","type":"image","title":"Geoff Duncan ATDC Visit 1","body":null,"created":"1548425913","gmt_created":"2019-01-25 14:18:33","changed":"1548433517","gmt_changed":"2019-01-25 16:25:17","alt":"Georgia Lt. 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Later that day, state leaders will gather \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/calendar.gatech.edu\/event\/616051\u0022\u003Eat McCamish Pavilion\u003C\/a\u003E for the inaugural swearing in ceremony.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gov.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EOffice of Government and Community Relations\u003C\/a\u003E, it\u0026rsquo;s business as usual to promote Tech\u0026rsquo;s legislative priorities. After securing the final round of construction funding last year for the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/renewal.library.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EPrice Gilbert Library and Crosland Tower renewal project\u003C\/a\u003E, this year Tech will request $4.3 million for planning and design funds for Tech Square Phase III, a two-tower complex in Tech Square to enhance innovation and academic programming.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech will also seek to strengthen partnerships for Georgia Smart Communities programming, an initiative out of Georgia Tech that serves both metro and rural communities throughout the state to enhance infrastructure through technology-based solutions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETogether with the University System of Georgia (USG), the Georgia Tech team will also work to promote important System-wide priorities. This includes $82.6 million in new Formula Funds for enrollment growth, shared among all USG institutions to support critical day-to-day operations and academic quality, and $75 million in Major Repair and Rehabilitation Funds to repair aging facilities across the USG, including more than $100 million for Tech in deferred maintenance needs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOn Tuesday, Feb. 12, Georgia Tech will join the USG\u0026rsquo;s other research institutions under the Gold Dome for the annual Student Day at the Capitol. This event allows students to share their appreciation for the ongoing support from state lawmakers and learn more about Georgia\u0026rsquo;s legislative and budgetary processes.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDuring the 2019 legislative session, Georgia Tech will have 13 students serving full-time as interns to legislators, committees, and staffers through the Georgia Legislative Internship Program, offered in collaboration with the Georgia General Assembly and colleges and universities throughout Georgia.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia General Assembly will begin its 2019 legislative session on Monday, Jan. 14, with new and returning faces under the Gold Dome following elections in November.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Georgia General Assembly will begin its 2019 legislative session on Monday, Jan. 14, with new and returning faces under the Gold Dome following elections in November."}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2019-01-07 19:51:36","changed_gmt":"2019-01-08 13:17:01","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-01-07T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-01-07T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"616012":{"id":"616012","type":"image","title":"Georgia State Capitol","body":null,"created":"1546890617","gmt_created":"2019-01-07 19:50:17","changed":"1546890617","gmt_changed":"2019-01-07 19:50:17","alt":"Georgia State Capitol. 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When you engage externally, you get to hold up a mirror and really see what the outside world thinks of you. Whether you think you\u0026rsquo;re doing well or not, the outside world will let you know.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBurke and his Community Relations staff regularly receive feedback from hundreds of visiting students, parents, and teachers. The department works with schools and centers across campus to bring students from metro Atlanta and beyond to campus to see engineering and computing demos to get excited about STEM. One impactful event the office holds twice a year, Middle Grades Discover Georgia Tech, brings 200-240 students to campus. They divide the students into groups of about 25 students per rotation to keep them actively engaged.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;There is universal excitement among the students about the visits,\u0026rdquo; Burke said. \u0026ldquo;We approach the visits with the overall goal of exposure. 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But, he said most groups welcome the idea of the Institute doing something to enrich the lives of their children.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor Burke, being able to engage with young minds is the most rewarding part of his job.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;I see the joy on their faces, whether they\u0026rsquo;re middle school students coming here for a one-day experience or high school students who I get to spend a little more time with,\u0026rdquo; he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to working in Community Relations, Burke co-teaches an Honors Program special topics course, Near Peer Mentoring: An Urban Education Experience (HTS 2813), with Carol Subino Sullivan, senior academic professional with the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBurke said the course spawned from an observation about seven years ago that, at the time, there were only about 40 Tech students who came from the Atlanta Public Schools system.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nBurke worked with CTL to apply for the Near Peer Mentoring Challenge Grant. They received the grant, and Burke and Sullivan designed the course to look at the obstacles preventing Atlanta Public Schools students from attending Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s challenging because the data that you\u0026rsquo;re combing through paints a very grim story about what happens in urban education circles,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;There is such a wide gap in terms of the rigor that students in predominately low-income communities get to experience. There\u0026rsquo;s also a lack of belief in themselves and what they think they can do. It goes back to the exposure issue.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the course, Tech students spend one day in class and one day at Atlanta Public Schools\u0026rsquo; BEST Academy doing one-on-one mentoring with middle school students. The goal is for the high school students to apply to and attend a four-year university.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s very impactful for the high school students, but the immediate impact is on our Tech students,\u0026rdquo; Burke said. \u0026ldquo;There isn\u0026rsquo;t a week that goes by that I don\u0026rsquo;t hear from a Tech alumnus regarding something in their professional life that reminds them of the work we did in the class or draws them back to want to do more.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBurke said his work always reminds him of the responsibility that comes from Georgia Tech being a public university.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We create a lot of jobs and contribute patented technologies to the world. But I\u0026rsquo;m cognizant of the fact that many of the children in the communities we talk to are not going to attend Tech,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;Their parents work in jobs where what we do at Tech has little to no impact on their lives. So, what more can we do to honor ourselves as a public entity to those who have less? I think about that all of the time.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe said that one answer largely lies with working with children, and he recently wrote a paper in an economic development journal outlining details.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;A key contribution universities can make for economic development is through opportunities to deeply engage primary and secondary grade students in activities that could lead them to pursue a STEM career, Burke said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We can\u0026rsquo;t be everything to everybody,\u0026rdquo; he said, \u0026ldquo;but we can be mindful and try to meet people where they are.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003EMusic, Music, Music\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen he isn\u0026rsquo;t working, Burke is a frequent concert-goer, an avid music lover, and a musician. In his suburban Chicago high school, he was a governor\u0026rsquo;s music scholar who played five instruments. He was supposed to study music, but he gave it up to defy his father, who was a jazz pianist.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;He always said, \u0026lsquo;You\u0026rsquo;re gonna regret giving up music.\u0026rsquo; But, I never really gave it up; I just stopped playing the instruments,\u0026rdquo; Burke said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe recently started playing music again, learning a new instrument \u0026mdash; a Fender jazz bass guitar. He listens to UK soul music, such as Incognito. He also listens to a lot of jazz artists.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I try to find artists who are taking the genre in a new direction \u0026mdash; any direction,\u0026rdquo; he said.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;Whether it\u0026rsquo;s Kamasi Washington, Tom Misch, Radiohead, or Thom Yorke as a solo artist, they take the genre in a new direction. 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This year, three of Georgia\u0026rsquo;s members of Congress spent some of that time with Georgia Tech, as well as more than 25 of their staffers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECongressman Buddy Carter, who represents Georgia\u0026rsquo;s first congressional district along the coast, visited the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/atdc.org\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EAdvanced Technology Development Center\u003C\/a\u003E (ATDC) in Tech Square to learn more about how ATDC is engaged in the health care startup industry. Congressman Carter, a health care professional himself, heard from health care startups about how the federal government might empower entrepreneurs in their pursuit of innovative ideas that better serve patients and families. He also met with staff in Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid to receive an update about what they are doing to help students afford a Georgia Tech degree. They also discussed the impact of current and proposed federal policies related to financial aid.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUp in Smyrna, Congressman Jody Hice visited the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gtri.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Research Institute\u003C\/a\u003E (GTRI)\u0026rsquo;s Cobb County Research Facility (CCRF) located near Dobbins Air Reserve Base. Though Congressman Hice represents Georgia\u0026rsquo;s tenth congressional district in the eastern part of the state, he was visiting CCRF as part of his service on the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/armedservices.house.gov\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EHouse Committee on Armed Services\u003C\/a\u003E, specifically in his role as a member of the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities, which oversees and authorizes the Department of Defense\u0026rsquo;s $88 billion research enterprise.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBack in Atlanta, in his capacity on the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.armed-services.senate.gov\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESenate Committee on Armed Services\u003C\/a\u003E, Georgia Tech alum and Georgia Senator David Perdue (BS IE \u0026rsquo;72, MS OR \u0026rsquo;75) hosted a roundtable at the Bill Moore Student Success Center to discuss the importance of Georgia\u0026rsquo;s nine military installations to the state\u0026rsquo;s economy and local communities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELastly, 25 staff members of Georgia\u0026rsquo;s congressional offices gathered on campus for Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Congressional Staff Visit. This annual gathering allows Georgia- and D.C.-based congressional staffers to come to campus for an update on the people, places, and programs of Georgia Tech. This year, the group was briefed on:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EResearch in Antarctica to test drilling for ice on Europa by \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/schmidt.eas.gatech.edu\/project-rise-up\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EDr. Britney Schmidt\u003C\/a\u003E, Assistant Professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.rh.gatech.edu\/news\/609512\/researchers-help-close-security-hole-popular-encryption-software\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EInternet-of-things and supply chain security\u003C\/a\u003E by Dr. Alenka Zajic, Associate Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Dr. Milos Prvulovic, Associate Chair in the School of Computer Science;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ECell manufacturing technologies by \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.roylab.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EDr. Krish Roy\u003C\/a\u003E, Robert A. Milton Endowed Chair in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E3-D printing for medical devices by \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/temlab.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EDr. Scott Hollister\u003C\/a\u003E, Professor in the School of Biomedical Engineering; and\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scc.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EStudent Competition Center\u003C\/a\u003E by students on several of the teams including EcoCar 3, GT Motorsports, GT Off-Road, HyTech Racing, GT Solar Racing, Wreck Racing and RoboJackets.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe group also engaged with Dr. Charles Isbell, Executive Associate Dean in the College of Computing and Dr. Ashok Goel, Professor in the School of Interactive Computing, about \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/602011\/computing-researchers-share-whats-next-artificial-intelligence-top-conference\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eartificial intelligence\u0026rsquo;s impact\u003C\/a\u003E on everything from workforce to policy.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We are grateful that these Members of Congress and their staff would spend time learning how the people and technologies here at Georgia Tech are impacting their constituents,\u0026rdquo; said Robert Knotts, Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Director of Federal Relations. \u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s important for them to visit with our amazing faculty, staff and students on campus so they can see firsthand how the Georgia Tech community is impacted by decisions they make in DC.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Several of Georgia\u0027s congressional members and staff visited campus in August."}],"uid":"27987","created_gmt":"2018-09-04 19:10:02","changed_gmt":"2018-09-06 20:44:49","author":"Laura Means","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-09-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-09-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"610881":{"id":"610881","type":"image","title":"2018 Congressional Staff group photo","body":null,"created":"1536088177","gmt_created":"2018-09-04 19:09:37","changed":"1536088177","gmt_changed":"2018-09-04 19:09:37","alt":"2018 Congressional Staff group photo","file":{"fid":"232584","name":"DSC_0027.JPG","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/DSC_0027.JPG","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/DSC_0027.JPG","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":553272,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/DSC_0027.JPG?itok=3SpKstzq"}},"610879":{"id":"610879","type":"image","title":"Rep. 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Among the first member organizations to offer their unique capabilities and expertise include: Chick-fil-A, Delta Air Lines, Genuine Parts Company, Grainger, Siemens, as well as Georgia-Pacific\u0026#39;s parent company Koch Industries.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPoint A\u0026#39;s members will explore use cases for applying Industry 4.0 innovations, including robotics, artificial intelligence, blockchain, machine learning and autonomous vehicles, among others, to tackle some of the supply chain\u0026#39;s most pressing challenges, including retail models, network efficiency and data visibility.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERead the entire article \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.naylornetwork.com\/ppi-otw\/articles\/index-v2.asp?aid=502694\u0026amp;issueID=57281\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Initial 15,000 sq.ft. space at Atlanta\u0027s TechSquare Labs opens in June"}],"uid":"28159","created_gmt":"2018-05-15 13:48:24","changed_gmt":"2018-05-15 13:48:24","author":"Kelly Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-05-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-05-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"408751":{"id":"408751","type":"image","title":"Georgia Pacific","body":null,"created":"1449254188","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:36:28","changed":"1475895134","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:14","alt":"Georgia Pacific","file":{"fid":"202201","name":"140923_gp.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/140923_gp_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/140923_gp_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":35557,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/140923_gp_0.jpg?itok=_Lz1tCbM"}}},"media_ids":["408751"],"groups":[{"id":"372221","name":"Renewable Bioproducts Institute (RBI)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39461","name":"Manufacturing, Trade, and Logistics"},{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"},{"id":"39511","name":"Public Service, Leadership, and Policy"},{"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.smith@gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["kelly.smith@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"605815":{"#nid":"605815","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia-Grown Graduates","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFor many Georgia Tech graduates, Georgia has always been home.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESome grew up attending Tech football games and cheering for the Yellow Jackets; others grew up in Bulldog families but decided that white and gold was more to their liking.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/features\/georgia-grown-graduates\u0022\u003ERead a few of this year\u0026rsquo;s Georgia-grown stories.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFor many Georgia Tech graduates, Georgia has always been home.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"For many Georgia Tech graduates, Georgia has always been home. 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But coming from high school with a strong background in math, science, and economics, Wani found himself drawn to industrial engineering, particularly because of the field of data analytics, which is playing a growing role in American politics: \u0026ldquo;Data analytics has had a huge role in the last few elections \u0026ndash; in terms of tracking how voters think and predicting how states will swing,\u0026rdquo; he said in a recent interview.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWani\u0026rsquo;s family comes from the territory of Kashmir \u0026ndash; the disputed region between India and Pakistan \u0026ndash; and he explained that after the British Partition in 1947, Kashmiris were promised the chance to vote on which country they would join. To this day they have not received that opportunity. \u0026ldquo;Public service is the idea of participation in government, the idea that we have the right of self-determination, the idea of civic engagement -- that was engrained in me at a very young age,\u0026rdquo; Wani noted. \u0026ldquo;Some of my family were involved in Kashmiri politics. Learning about the struggle itself really fostered my interest in civics, government, and public participation.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEven before arriving at Tech, Wani had looked at public service programs offered by the Institute and felt drawn to the Federal Jackets Fellowship program. Once at Tech, Wani joined business fraternity \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gtakpsi.com\/\u0022\u003EAlpha Kappa Psi\u003C\/a\u003E, where he met ISyE senior Lois Johnson, who had interned as a Federal Jacket at the White House operations office in fall 2016. Johnson encouraged Wani to apply for the program, and she was able to advise him on how prepare for the essay writing and interviews that are part of the selection process.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUltimately, Wani applied for and was selected for a Federal Jackets Fellowship, the stipend of which allowed him to take an unpaid internship with the U.S. House of Representative\u0026rsquo;s Committee on Science, Space, and Technology (CSST) during the fall 2017 semester. This committee, Wani explained, has jurisdiction over federal science research programs at agencies, such as the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Energy, and even NASA. \u0026ldquo;That really appealed to me, having an engineering background and getting to work with other engineers and scientists \u0026ndash; Ph.D.s and experts in these fields,\u0026rdquo; Wani said. \u0026ldquo;I thought it would be the best way to bring Georgia Tech to the Hill, but also to bring the Hill back to Georgia Tech: fostering that symbiotic relationship.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen the House was in session, Wani spent much of his time in committee hearings \u0026ndash; about two each week \u0026ndash; on topics that ranged from quantum technology to geo engineering to the cybersecurity of the U.S. electrical grid. He helped write policy memos for CSST committee members, so they could prepare in advance for the expert speakers brought in to give testimony and he wrote opening statements for Congressional members that went into the record of the hearings. Knowing that something he wrote is now part of the permanent Congressional record is Wani\u0026rsquo;s proudest accomplishment from his internship.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlthough Wani worked on the Democratic side of the CSST, there were, he said, \u0026ldquo;plenty of bipartisan issues or policies.\u0026rdquo; These included the U.S. and Israel Space Cooperation Act and the Women and Minorities in STEM Booster Act of 2017.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUnsurprisingly, Russian interference in the 2016 election was \u003Cem\u003Ethe\u003C\/em\u003E hot topic when Wani was at the Capitol. He attended several meetings of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe \u0026ndash; also known as the Helsinki Commission \u0026ndash; where he learned more about what Russia is doing to further its own political goals. The CSST had its own committee meeting about the Russian-backed Kaspersky antivirus software, which had been used by the Departments of Defense (DoD) and Homeland Security (DHS). Kaspersky has been used by the Russian government to hack American data, and ultimately, the software was banned by the DoD and DHS. \u0026ldquo;That was definitely my most memorable experience,\u0026rdquo; Wani commented.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen asked what he took away from his internship, Wani paused. \u0026ldquo;I think a long-term sense of optimism,\u0026rdquo; he said after a moment. \u0026ldquo;Now I really understand the importance of compromise \u0026ndash; you\u0026rsquo;re not always going to get what you want, but you can still work together. Understanding that both parties want the world to be a better place gives me optimism.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;And in day-to-day politics, we lose sight of the fact that our institutions are greater than we often acknowledge them to be,\u0026rdquo; he added. \u0026ldquo;For example, I was able to tour the Capitol a few times, and there\u0026rsquo;s a place where there\u0026rsquo;s a star on the tile, which marks where Abraham Lincoln\u0026rsquo;s desk stood when he was a member of Congress. Standing where Abraham Lincoln stood \u0026ndash; that was really cool. Walking by the Supreme Court everyday on the way to work or going to Arlington National Cemetery or to the monuments blew my mind. It reminded me that whatever you may think of politics, these institutions have been here before us and hopefully will last after us.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I was in constant awe of where I was.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFor more information on the Federal Jackets internship program, visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gov.gatech.edu\/internships\/dc\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.gov.gatech.edu\/internships\/dc\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMuiz Wani, an ISyE sophomore, participated in Georgia Tech\u0026#39;s Federal Jackets program during the fall 2017 semester as an intern for the U.S. House of Representative.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Muiz Wani, an ISyE sophomore, participated in Georgia Tech\u0027s Federal Jackets internship program during the fall 2017 semester."}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2018-02-21 15:31:10","changed_gmt":"2018-04-13 15:09:37","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-02-21T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2018-02-21T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"602679":{"id":"602679","type":"image","title":"Muiz Wani at the U.S. Capitol","body":null,"created":"1519225634","gmt_created":"2018-02-21 15:07:14","changed":"1521674447","gmt_changed":"2018-03-21 23:20:47","alt":"Muiz Wani at the U.S. Capitol","file":{"fid":"230268","name":"Muiz-Wani.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Muiz-Wani.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Muiz-Wani.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":439935,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Muiz-Wani.jpg?itok=HMzetUr0"}},"602680":{"id":"602680","type":"image","title":"Muiz Wani with his fellow interns on the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology","body":null,"created":"1519225703","gmt_created":"2018-02-21 15:08:23","changed":"1519225703","gmt_changed":"2018-02-21 15:08:23","alt":"Muiz Wani with his fellow interns on the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology","file":{"fid":"229713","name":"MW With Co-Interns1.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/MW%20With%20Co-Interns1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/MW%20With%20Co-Interns1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":784994,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/MW%20With%20Co-Interns1.jpg?itok=zZtnfTWB"}},"602681":{"id":"602681","type":"image","title":"The Washington Monument, one of the many places Muiz Wani visited as an intern in Washington, D.C.","body":null,"created":"1519225754","gmt_created":"2018-02-21 15:09:14","changed":"1519225754","gmt_changed":"2018-02-21 15:09:14","alt":"The Washington Monument, one of the many places Muiz Wani visited as an intern in Washington, D.C.","file":{"fid":"229714","name":"Washington Monument.JPG","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Washington%20Monument.JPG","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Washington%20Monument.JPG","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":472089,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Washington%20Monument.JPG?itok=USKQQ2wf"}}},"media_ids":["602679","602680","602681"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/b.gatech.edu\/2ik0ldW","title":"Lois Johnson: A Life of Public Service"}],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"177184","name":"Muiz Wani"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"177185","name":"Federal Jackets"},{"id":"10231","name":"Washington D.C."},{"id":"2202","name":"House of Representatives"},{"id":"408","name":"NASA"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:shelley.wunder-smith@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EShelley Wunder-Smith\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EStewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; 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Election to the NAE is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EProfessors Timothy Lieuwen and Jianjun (Jan) Shi are two of this year\u0026rsquo;s 83 new NAE members. They\u0026rsquo;re joined by adjunct faculty member and former College of Engineering Dean\u0026nbsp;Gary S. May.\u0026nbsp;The group will be formally inducted during a ceremony at the NAE\u0026#39;s annual meeting in Washington, D.C., in September.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We are delighted that the National Academy of Engineering has recognized our Georgia Tech faculty members for their outstanding contributions to engineering and as leaders in their fields,\u0026rdquo; said Steve McLaughlin, dean and Southern Company Chair in the College of Engineering. \u0026ldquo;We also take great pride that our former dean and Tech alumnus, Gary May,\u0026nbsp;has been recognized, not only for his research, but also for his advocacy in bringing more underrepresented students into engineering. Their induction is a testament to the quality of our faculty members and their contributions to the engineering profession.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.energy.gatech.edu\/lieuwen-elected-national-academy-engineering\u0022\u003ELieuwen\u003C\/a\u003E is the executive director of Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.energy.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EStrategic Energy Institute\u003C\/a\u003E and professor and David S. Lewis Jr. Chair in the Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering. He was honored for \u0026ldquo;contributions to research and development in low-emissions gas turbine combustion systems and U.S. energy policy.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/isye.gatech.edu\/users\/jianjun-shi\u0022\u003EShi\u003C\/a\u003E was recognized for \u0026ldquo;the development of data fusion-based quality methods and their implementation in multistage manufacturing systems.\u0026rdquo; He serves as Carolyn J. Stewart Chair and professor in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nMay was elected for \u0026ldquo;contributions to semiconductor manufacturing research and for innovations in educational programs for underrepresented groups in engineering.\u0026rdquo; The 1985 alumnus (electrical engineering) is currently chancellor of the University of California Davis and an adjunct faculty member in Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAcademy membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to \u0026quot;engineering research, practice, or education, including, where appropriate, significant contributions to the engineering literature.\u0026rdquo; The NAE also makes selections based on \u0026quot;the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology, making major advancements in traditional fields of engineering, or developing\/implementing innovative approaches to engineering education.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe trio joins nearly three dozen other Georgia Tech NAE members. They include Provost and K. Harrison Brown Family Chair Rafael L. Bras, President Emeritus G. Wayne Clough and College of Computing Dean and John P. Imlay Chair Zvi Galil.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"NAE membership is one of the highest distinctions for engineers"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETwo current College of Engineering faculty members and an adjunct professor (and former dean) have been named to \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nae.edu\/178117.aspx\u0022\u003Ethe National Academy of Engineering. \u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Two current College of Engineering faculty members and an adjunct professor (and former dean) have been named to the National Academy of Engineering. 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The discussion centered around best practices for how all players can work together to help the national security sector thrive in the state.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This meeting was a great example of the benefit of bringing together the military community groups from around Georgia,\u0026rdquo; said Senator Perdue.\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;We heard some very impressive presentations and had a productive discussion about best practices for increasing our role as a state in our national defense. Maintaining our national security is one of the most important jobs we have in Congress. As a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, I am proud of the role our state plays in providing for our national security.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENational security has been and continues to be a crucial part of Georgia\u0026rsquo;s economy. Georgia Tech plays a unique role in this. In addition to performing the second-most university-based research and development work for the Department of Defense in the country, the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gtri.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI)\u003C\/a\u003E is engaged with several military bases throughout the state. In particular, GTRI is expanding its footprint in Cobb County adjacent to Dobbins Air Force Base. GTRI also has employees in Warner Robins to support the work GTRI does with Robins Air Force Base.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech also serves transitioning service members around the state to assist them in securing high-quality jobs in the civilian world through the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/pe.gatech.edu\/military-programs\u0022\u003EVeterans Education Training and Transition Program (VET\u003Csup\u003E2\u003C\/sup\u003E)\u003C\/a\u003E. One of the first of its kind in the nation, this program equips veterans for civilian careers through a combination of classroom learning and\/or online instruction as well as internship opportunities with employer partners seeking to hire veterans. All active duty military, reserve, or National Guard personnel, veterans and military spouses who are transitioning to a civilian career are eligible.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;m pleased that Senator Perdue turned to Georgia Tech when convening military community leaders from around the state to discuss how we can all work together in order to help Georgia\u0026rsquo;s national security sector thrive,\u0026rdquo; said Georgia Tech President G. P. \u0026ldquo;Bud\u0026rdquo; Peterson. I\u0026rsquo;m incredibly proud of the work that researchers at Georgia Tech continue to do to help our Department of Defense solve some of its toughest problems.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech Welcomes Senator Perdue, Leaders from Georgia\u2019s Military Communities"}],"uid":"27987","created_gmt":"2017-05-15 20:02:39","changed_gmt":"2017-05-16 13:41:46","author":"Laura Means","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-05-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-05-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"591796":{"id":"591796","type":"image","title":"Sen Perdue Military Group","body":null,"created":"1494942085","gmt_created":"2017-05-16 13:41:25","changed":"1494942085","gmt_changed":"2017-05-16 13:41:25","alt":"Sen Perdue Military Group","file":{"fid":"225549","name":"Sen Perdue Military Community Meeting_2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Sen%20Perdue%20Military%20Community%20Meeting_2.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Sen%20Perdue%20Military%20Community%20Meeting_2.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":600376,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Sen%20Perdue%20Military%20Community%20Meeting_2.jpg?itok=UJGxsxsj"}}},"media_ids":["591796"],"groups":[{"id":"47398","name":"GCR (Office of Government and Community Relations)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"10681","name":"veterans"},{"id":"174436","name":"vet2"},{"id":"2325","name":"Government Relations"},{"id":"67621","name":"federal relations"},{"id":"525","name":"military"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"145171","name":"Cybersecurity"},{"id":"39481","name":"National Security"},{"id":"39511","name":"Public Service, Leadership, and Policy"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"585790":{"#nid":"585790","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Lois Johnson: A Life of Public Service","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBeing devoted to public service in a variety of ways has long motivated Lois Johnson, a junior in Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Stewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering (ISyE). In this interview, she discusses her various leadership roles on Tech\u0026rsquo;s campus, the Federal Jackets Fellowship that enabled her to intern this past fall at the White House, and the inspiration that came from meeting President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama while she was there.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETell us a little bit about your background and how you ended up at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EI am originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, but my formative years were spent in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Oak Ridge was the geographical center of the Manhattan Project during World War II, and our local economy still heavily relies on scientific research and development.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOur public high school had fantastic efforts to expose its students to the positive impact that pursuing STEM careers could have on our local community, country, and world. So, my incredible and influential teachers at Oak Ridge High School (ORHS), as well as a good friend and Yellow Jacket from ORHS, inspired me to attend Georgia Tech, as a relatively close and prestigious, technologically focused university.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYou have said, to use your words, that you are \u0026ldquo;a proponent of servant leadership.\u0026rdquo; What shaped your perspective in this regard? \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo me, servant leadership consists of devoting my time and my career to advancing others and their well-being. I\u0026rsquo;d be lying if I didn\u0026rsquo;t credit a lot of my interest in being a public servant to President Obama. I am so lucky to have grown up the past eight years with a president who has always empowered and encouraged young people to engage with the government. I am inspired to be a part of a group \u0026ndash; in this case, the federal government \u0026ndash; that impacts every single person living in this country and others around the world.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat are some of your leadership roles and activities around Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s campus? \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EI was formerly a part of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/wreckultimate.wordpress.com\/\u0022\u003EWreck\u003C\/a\u003E, Tech\u0026rsquo;s awesome women\u0026rsquo;s Ultimate Frisbee team; headed the operations of \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gt3daystartup.com\/\u0022\u003E3 Day Startup\u003C\/a\u003E, a business hackathon; and helped establish \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/spoonuniversity.com\/chapter\/gatech\u0022\u003ESpoon University\u003C\/a\u003E, a journalism-focused club centered on food-related topics on our campus.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EI am also an active member of \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gtakpsi.com\/\u0022\u003EAlpha Kappa Psi\u003C\/a\u003E, the co-ed professional business fraternity. I have served as our chaplain, vice president of operations, and director of public relations, among others. This organization has shaped my college experience more than any other I have participated in. It has advanced my personal and professional growth and given me a community I can always rely on. If it wasn\u0026rsquo;t for AKPsi, there\u0026rsquo;s no way I would have had the confidence necessary to obtain the White House internship.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EI am also in the process of starting a nonprofit organization on campus called Sunday Dinner Project (SDP). SDP will bring together groups of people with different perspectives or fundamentally opposing views over a meal to listen to each other and discover the commonalities they share.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDescribe your role as an intern at the White House. What is your proudest accomplishment?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EI was an intern for White House Operations. I tracked purchases and acquisitions of tens of thousands of dollars of goods and services. I also managed scheduling and logistics of 27 conference rooms serving over 5,000 employees and various stakeholders, triaged requests, and coordinated large events for senior staff members. My proudest accomplishment was my development of two supply chains that streamline the fulfillment of facilities requests and goods and services requests. The supply chains and process maps increased distribution and fulfillment efficiency of furniture, appliances, etc. across the entire White House campus.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat was your favorite experience from living in D.C.?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EI was able to get tickets to the National Museum of African American History and Culture, which opened in September 2016. It was powerful, educational, and moving, and had a lasting impact on the way I look at the past, present, and future. Anyone visiting D.C. should try to check it out and allot a solid chunk of time to fully immerse themselves in the museum. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDid you get to meet President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama? What was that experience like?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EI did, and both experiences were insanely emotional. They are both huge role models for me, and I know they are important guiding lights in many lives around the country and the world. That made me feel inexplicably lucky to be in their presence. Both have an incomparable balance of being both strong and approachable, both preacher and listener.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe president met with all the interns and told us, \u0026ldquo;Be kind. Be useful. Be fearless.\u0026rdquo; Mrs. Obama inspired me to continue a career in public service, and she also spoke of her journey personally and professionally and shared with us some of the most important lessons she learned along the way.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWould you recommend the Federal Jackets program to fellow Georgia Tech students, and why?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAbsolutely! I was offered an unpaid internship in an expensive city, and I knew that in order to afford the incredibly unique experience I needed to seek outside funding. If it wasn\u0026rsquo;t for the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gov.gatech.edu\/internships\/dc\u0022\u003EFederal Jackets Fellowship\u003C\/a\u003E, I would not have been able to work at the White House at all.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe fellowship was the foundation of the most pivotal four months of my life \u0026ndash; opening my eyes to the world of public service. 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CAEML researchers aim to overcome current limitations by employing behavioral models, which look at the behavior, or output, of a chip instead of the internal processes described by physical models most commonly used in today\u2019s designs.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E The CAEML team will create a systematic method for generating behavioral models, which the industry has had only limited success with in the past. The work will draw on deep networks, associative memories, and other research areas within the field of machine learning.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E Researchers will take a comprehensive approach, developing a methodology that is applicable to large systems, with the understanding that most microelectronic systems are comprised of more than just a single chip. Even a \u201csystem on a chip\u201d consists of a package as well as the semiconductor chip, and the system performance is highly affected by the interactions between the two, according to Madhavan Swaminathan, a professor and CAEML site director at Georgia Tech.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u201cWith the interface between the chip and the package disappearing through integration, e.g. System in Package technologies, systems need to designed, modeled, and optimized holistically,\u201d said Swaminathan. \u201cOur goal in CAEML is to address systems in such a way that intellectual property can be protected and re-spins minimized.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs an I\/UCRC, CAEML will collaborate closely with companies, who will help evaluate and select projects. The corporate connections will help researchers better understand the real-world problems faced by manufacturers and provide a pipeline of ideas between academia and industry. They also will help fund the center\u2019s work; currently, 11 companies have committed a total of $550,000 for the first year. NSF will contribute an additional $450,000 per year.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E The collective goal is to create a system to make the design evaluation process much easier, says Paul Franzon, a professor of electrical engineering and CAEML site lead at NC State.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u201cI like to say that a silicon chip is the most complex artifact made by man,\u201d Franzon said. \u201cThere are billions of components in a chip-- it is mind-boggling. We\u2019re creating models that help deal with these complexities, so that when we design chips, we design them to work the first time.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022center\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/publish.illinois.edu\/advancedelectronics\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EVisit the CAEML Program Website Here\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022center\u0022\u003EFor more information, contact Dr. Madhavan Swaminathan (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:madhavan.swaminathan@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emadhavan.swaminathan@ece.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E)\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Center for Advanced Electronics through Machine Learning (CAEML) seeks to accelerate advances by leveraging machine-learning techniques to develop new models for electronic design automation (EDA) tools create and verify chip designs for market."}],"uid":"27863","created_gmt":"2016-08-02 14:22:40","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:22:12","author":"Christa Ernst","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-08-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-08-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"558021":{"id":"558021","type":"image","title":"Madhavan Swaminathan","body":null,"created":"1470161828","gmt_created":"2016-08-02 18:17:08","changed":"1475895361","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:56:01","alt":"Madhavan Swaminathan","file":{"fid":"206714","name":"madhavanswaminathan_official_inst_photo.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/madhavanswaminathan_official_inst_photo.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/madhavanswaminathan_official_inst_photo.png","mime":"image\/png","size":267955,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/madhavanswaminathan_official_inst_photo.png?itok=Z4KZ1FXL"}}},"media_ids":["558021"],"groups":[{"id":"197261","name":"Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"}],"keywords":[{"id":"39591","name":"computational modeling"},{"id":"94171","name":"Electronics Packaging"},{"id":"9167","name":"machine learning"},{"id":"24251","name":"Madhavan Swaminathan"},{"id":"167954","name":"semiconductor fabrication"},{"id":"166968","name":"the Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"168380","name":"the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["madhavan.swaminathan@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"555041":{"#nid":"555041","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Helicopter Display Emulator Facilitates System Testing","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhen the U.S. Army updates the defensive and offensive software on its UH60M Black Hawk and AH64D Apache helicopters, the improved systems must be fully tested to make sure they\u2019re working properly. That includes evaluating how information is represented on the multi-function display (MFD) and multi-purpose display (MPD), which use symbology to display threats to aviation platforms.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUntil recently, that testing required the use of a real helicopter or costly display components that must be configured to operate in a laboratory environment. Thanks to an MFD\/MPD emulator developed by the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) in collaboration with the Army Reprogramming Analysis Team (ARAT), the testing can now be done on ordinary laboratory computers anytime it is needed. The new emulator saves a significant amount of money and can help get software updates to deployed Army aviation forces faster.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis is an exact replica of what\u2019s on the helicopter, so when they\u2019re testing the software upgrades in the laboratory, they see exactly what the pilot is going to see in the helicopter cockpit,\u201d said William Miller, a GTRI principal research scientists who helped lead the project. \u201cWhen the final software for the electronic warfare system is deployed to the field, it is already tested with the display. That saves money and time.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe project began with two days of observation into the operation of a multi-function display in operational helicopters at Dobbins Air Reserve Base north of Atlanta and Redstone Arsenal in Alabama. GTRI engineers watched as the pilots put the Aviation Survivability Equipment (ASE) through all its operations and recorded what happened on video.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENext, a development team led by GTRI Research Scientist Heyward Adams began developing the emulator in a standard military Windows-based computer, using cards to simulate the sensors that would normally be providing data to the MFD. The emulator plugs into the aircraft\u2019s 1553 bus, and can simulate inputs from two radar warning receivers: the AN\/APR 39A(V)1\/4 and AN\/APR 48A .\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThough the lab-based computer isn\u2019t flight-worthy, it provides the exact look-and-feel of the Apache and Black Hawk EW systems so Army mission software developers can make sure the graphical elements are clear and correct.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe ingest the data that\u2019s coming out of the cards just like the real hardware would in the helicopter and represent it accurately,\u201d Adams said. \u201cThe graphics we generate provide the exact look and feel, which we showed to pilots of the helicopter to make sure we were accurate.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe emulator is already in use by Army mission software developers in the ARAT laboratories in Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD. The GTRI researchers say the system could be easily adapted to other aircraft.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe framework we used to develop the emulator is scalable, so it\u2019s not tied to just one specific multi-function display,\u201d Adams said. \u201cOur system is set up in such a way that we could quickly and cost-effectively emulate other systems, or even an entire cockpit.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe ASE tracks threats such as surface-to-air missiles. Because the helicopters fly at low altitudes, there\u2019s little time to react, and no time for errors. Most threats are handled automatically, but the crew needs to know what is happening at all times.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cFor pilots flying these helicopters, this is a primary display for all the threat information they are encountering,\u201d said Miller. \u201cThis is their lifeline, and pilots have to be confident that the system will work right every time.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E177 North Avenue\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAtlanta, Georgia 30332-0181 USA\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Contacts\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon (404-894-6986) (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or Ben Brumfield (404-385-1933) (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:ben.brumfield@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eben.brumfield@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAn emulator program developed by the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is helping the U.S. Army test software updates to get them fielded faster.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"An emulator program is helping the U.S. Army test software updates to get them fielded faster."}],"uid":"27303","created_gmt":"2016-07-25 11:00:57","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:22:08","author":"John Toon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-07-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-07-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"555011":{"id":"555011","type":"image","title":"Apache Helicopter","body":null,"created":"1469458356","gmt_created":"2016-07-25 14:52:36","changed":"1475895353","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:55:53","alt":"Apache Helicopter","file":{"fid":"206585","name":"apache.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/apache.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/apache.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1601346,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/apache.jpg?itok=7nbgF91W"}},"555021":{"id":"555021","type":"image","title":"Helicopter Emulator","body":null,"created":"1469458439","gmt_created":"2016-07-25 14:53:59","changed":"1475895353","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:55:53","alt":"Helicopter Emulator","file":{"fid":"206586","name":"emulator-4564.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/emulator-4564.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/emulator-4564.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1596980,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/emulator-4564.jpg?itok=2YbwSjbD"}}},"media_ids":["555011","555021"],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"147","name":"Military Technology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"6373","name":"apache"},{"id":"170498","name":"Black Hawk"},{"id":"7407","name":"emulator"},{"id":"6370","name":"helicopter"},{"id":"172207","name":"software update"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39481","name":"National Security"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71881","name":"Science and Technology"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJohn Toon\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EResearch News\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E(404) 894-6986\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jtoon@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"543261":{"#nid":"543261","#data":{"type":"news","title":"GTPE Collaborates with Georgia Department of Economic Development to Fund Program for 7,000 Soldiers","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech Professional Education is collaborating with the Georgia Department of Economic Development (GDEcD) to offer an online entry-level course for veterans transitioning from the military to corporate life. To ensure Georgia service members are provided employment opportunities and assistance in their transition, GDEcD is funding the cost of the Veterans Education Training and Transition (VET\u003Csup\u003E2\u003C\/sup\u003E) 101 program for all active duty service members transitioning from Ft. Stewart and Ft. Benning (up to 7,000).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cDuring two decades of serving in the military, I never once had to review a job description, create a resume, or participate in an interview,\u201d said James Wilburn, director for Military Programs at Georgia Tech Professional Education. \u201cThe VET\u003Csup\u003E2 \u003C\/sup\u003E101 program will provide much needed assistance to our men and women transitioning from the service. With the number of soldiers being cut dramatically at bases nationwide, we worked to create an online course that transitioning veterans will be able to access anywhere in the world giving them the skills they need to start the transition process into the corporate workforce.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe reduction in military force announced in 2015-16 will have the largest impact to Georgia\u2019s military installations \u2013 specifically Ft. Benning and Ft. Stewart. This short online course, \u201cVET\u003Csup\u003E2 \u003C\/sup\u003E101,\u201d will teach career soft skills, including resume building and interview skills. The course is based on \u003Cem\u003EBoots to Loafers, Finding Your True North\u003C\/em\u003E by retired Lt. Col. John W. Phillips. Phillips currently collaborates with the Military Program, (VET\u003Csup\u003E2\u003C\/sup\u003E), offered through Georgia Tech Professional Education, and his book is required reading for students enrolled.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe new online VET\u003Csup\u003E2 \u003C\/sup\u003E101 course will be a prerequisite to the traditional VET\u003Csup\u003E2\u003C\/sup\u003E program. VET\u003Csup\u003E2\u003C\/sup\u003E is a fully-funded program and there are no costs for service members nor is there any cost to the corporate partners providing internships. The program combines professional education with job experience by partnering active, transitioning and recently separated service members with an employer to receive classroom and online instruction. After completing a week of academic training, veterans have the opportunity to demonstrate their skills in a three-week internship placement opportunity with an employer.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe look forward to leveraging the good work of Georgia Tech Professional Education in developing a training system for our state\u2019s military personnel as they transition into the civilian workforce,\u201d said Ben Hames, Deputy Commissioner of Workforce, Georgia Department of Economic Development. \u201cThis online course provides us with an additional tool to support our veterans.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGDEcD\u2019s Operation: Workforce initiative, designed to connect transitioning service members with career opportunities in the civilian workforce, continues to partner with Georgia Tech Professional Education to support these and other workforce development opportunities for veterans. Registration is available at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/pe.gatech.edu\/courses\/vet%C2%B2-101-resume-building-and-interview-skills-for-service-members?utm_campaign=SAV-VET101\u0026amp;utm_source=Postcard-Militarybases\u0026amp;utm_medium=directmail\u0026amp;utm_content=VET101\u0022\u003Epe.gatech.edu\/VET101\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EABOUT GEORGIA TECH PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gtpe.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Professional Education\u003C\/a\u003E is an academic division of the Georgia Institute of Technology, offering professional master\u2019s degrees, short courses, and certificate programs to meet the needs of working professionals and industry partners. Programs are available at the Georgia Tech Global Learning Center in Atlanta, the Georgia Tech-Savannah campus, and worldwide through a variety of formats. In addition to professional course offerings, the division manages meeting and event facilities, and administers K-12 outreach and English as a Second Language programs. Last year alone, Georgia Tech Professional Education served individuals representing more than 3,000 companies, with an enrollment of more than 26,000.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor more information on the Military Program offered by Georgia Tech Professional Education, please visit:\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/pe.gatech.edu\/savannah-campus\/military-programs\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/pe.gatech.edu\/savannah-campus\/military-programs\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETo ensure Georgia service members are provided employment opportunities and assistance in their transition, Georgia Department of Economic Development\u0026nbsp;is funding the cost of the Veterans Education Training and Transition (VET\u003Csup\u003E2\u003C\/sup\u003E) 101 program for all active duty service members transitioning from Ft. Stewart and Ft. 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As a result, many in the Tech community may not be aware of the herculean effort that transformed the campus for the Olympics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/features\/20th-anniversary-atlanta-games\u0022\u003EThis story\u003C\/a\u003E takes a look at Tech\u2019s role in the Olympics through the eyes of some of the key contributors. For those who were at Georgia Tech or living in Atlanta in 1996, it will be a walk down memory lane. For those who were not, we hope the story provides insight into some of the work that occurred before the Games, and how it shaped Tech\u2019s Olympic legacy that remains today.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFirst-hand accounts include\u003C\/strong\u003E:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/features\/20th-anniversary-atlanta-games#Edwards\u0022\u003EMichael Edwards\u003C\/a\u003E, who served as Olympic venue manager for the aquatic center;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/features\/20th-anniversary-atlanta-games#Anton\u0022\u003EAnnie Ant\u00f3n\u003C\/a\u003E, who served as an Olympics envoy while a PhD student at Tech;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/features\/20th-anniversary-atlanta-games#Clough\u0022\u003EG. 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But after earning two bronze stars for his heroic service during World War II, life took him on a different path. Financial struggles meant he had to enter the workforce instead of becoming a helluva engineer.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEighty years later, and it has still been on his mind. A fellow veteran and volunteer from the group No Veteran Dies Alone contacted Congressman Bob Dold, who got in touch with Georgia Tech about Mr. Gryzbowski\u2019s story. When President G.P. \u201cBud\u201d Peterson caught word, we started packing a special shipment for this hero.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the package? A RAT cap, the headgear traditionally worn by all Georgia Tech freshmen since 1915, and a copy of the T-Book that helps any new Yellow Jacket get acclimated to the traditions of Georgia Tech. Also in the package is a letter from President Peterson welcoming Gryzbowski as an honorary freshman in our incoming class.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGeorgia Tech would have been honored to have you as a student,\u201d Peterson says in the letter. \u201cI can\u2019t thank you enough for the sacrifices you have made to serve our country and our world.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELike many of our students, Gryzbowski says he has always been interested in fixing things. He told the Chicago Tribune he once asked a civil engineer what it takes to become one, and he was told, \u201cA lot of figuring.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWell, figuring I like,\u201d Gryzbowski said. \u201cI like fiddling with numbers.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlong with all the freshman must-haves, Peterson included an invitation to campus.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIf you are ever in the area, we at Georgia Tech would be honored to have you on our campus,\u201d he wrote.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESee more coverage of this story from \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.today.com\/news\/104-year-old-wwii-veteran-realizes-his-dream-becoming-college-t95421\u0022\u003ENBC\u0027s Today Show\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/suburbs\/lake-county-news-sun\/news\/ct-lns-veteran-honorary-georgia-tech-lovell-st-0530-20160530-story.html\u0022\u003EChicago Tribune\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Army veteran named an honorary member of the incoming class"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EChester Gryzbowski of Chicago hoped to study civil engineering at Georgia Tech, but WWII changed those plans. 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He described a new DOE initiative to establish regional innovation partnerships.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMoniz said different regions have different needs, opportunities and resources, including natural, human and institutional resources. He added that Georgia Tech could serve as an institutional resource for the Southeast.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We think that is good policy because those portfolios will take on different characters in different parts of the country,\u0022 he said.\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Carbon Neutral Energy Solutions (CNES) Laboratory is designed to foster industry collaboration and support translational and pre-commercial research in clean, low carbon energy technologies. Research spans all aspects of the energy cycle from production and generation to distribution and use, and is focused on addressing the most pressing energy and environmental challenges. Core research conducted within the lab includes solar technologies, combustion, gasification, catalysis and bio-catalysis, as well as carbon capture and sequestration.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u2019re honored to have Secretary Moniz back on the Georgia Tech campus, and it was especially meaningful to have him see one of our showcase facilities,\u201d said Tim Lieuwen, executive director of the Georgia Tech Strategic Energy Institute. \u201cWe have a strong, mutually beneficial relationship with the Department of Energy as we work together to find clean, reliable, affordable and sustainable sources of energy.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELieuwen hosted the secretary for a tour of the CNES Lab, which has LEED Platinum status and was funded in part by Recovery Act funding through the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST.)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Strategic Energy Institute at Georgia Tech was established to serve as a conduit for integrating, facilitating, and enabling Institute-wide programs in energy research and development.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMoniz also spent time with Georgia Tech partner, the Southern Company. Southern Company has worked with Georgia Tech\u2019s Strategic Energy Institute on a number of research initiatives, including a promising 2005-2007 study on wind. DOE is a longtime supporter of and partner in Southern Company\u2019s efforts to invent America\u2019s energy future through robust, proprietary research and development (R\u0026amp;D).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThrough the Energy Innovation Center, Southern Company is extending its R\u0026amp;D commitment by identifying better, more reliable and more efficient ways to increase value for customers through products and services. Many of the ideas being tested in the center come from the Southern Company system\u0027s more than 26,000 employees, while others are surfaced through partnerships with leading universities, research organizations and like-minded companies such as Nest and Tesla.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSouthern Company\u2019s decades-long partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy has produced cutting-edge technologies that are reshaping electricity generation in America,\u201d said Southern Company Energy Innovation Center Vice President Michael E. Britt. \u201cThrough the Energy Innovation Center at Tech Square and our partnership with Georgia Tech, Southern Company is expanding on its longstanding commitment to finding real energy solutions in coordination with like-minded leaders in R\u0026amp;D \u2013 from established corporations to fast-growing startups.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to the work taking place at the Energy Innovation Center, Southern Company operates DOE\u2019s National Carbon Capture Center in Alabama and has received DOE support for the development of the world\u2019s most advanced coal plant in Mississippi and two of the first new carbon-free nuclear units in a generation of Americans in Georgia.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMoniz also took the opportunity during his remarks to recognize leaders at Georgia Tech such as former U.S. Sen. Sam Nunn, namesake and distinguished professor in Georgia Tech\u2019s Nunn School of International Affairs, and Provost Rafael Bras for their roles in advising federal energy and national security policy makers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We get lots of advice from Georgia Tech and we appreciate it,\u0022 Moniz said.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EU.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Dr. Ernest Moniz today visited the Georgia Institute of Technology delivering the keynote address for the second installment of the Quadrennial Energy Review.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz visited the Georgia Institute of Technology Tuesday, May 24."}],"uid":"28797","created_gmt":"2016-05-23 11:07:33","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:21:42","author":"Lance Wallace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-05-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-05-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"539841":{"id":"539841","type":"image","title":"U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz at Tech Square","body":null,"created":"1464706800","gmt_created":"2016-05-31 15:00:00","changed":"1475895329","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:55:29","alt":"U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz at Tech Square","file":{"fid":"216681","name":"16c10303-p27-001.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/16c10303-p27-001.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/16c10303-p27-001.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1387103,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/16c10303-p27-001.jpg?itok=5y7if0ws"}},"539871":{"id":"539871","type":"image","title":"Secretary of Energy tours CNES Laboratory","body":null,"created":"1464706800","gmt_created":"2016-05-31 15:00:00","changed":"1475895329","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:55:29","alt":"Secretary of Energy tours CNES Laboratory","file":{"fid":"216684","name":"moniz_tours_cnes_sm.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/moniz_tours_cnes_sm_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/moniz_tours_cnes_sm_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":257142,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/moniz_tours_cnes_sm_0.jpg?itok=Fpj-Opg7"}},"539861":{"id":"539861","type":"image","title":"Secretary of Energy tours Southern Company Innovation Center","body":null,"created":"1464706800","gmt_created":"2016-05-31 15:00:00","changed":"1475895329","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:55:29","alt":"Secretary of Energy tours Southern Company Innovation Center","file":{"fid":"216683","name":"16c10303-p27-003.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/16c10303-p27-003.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/16c10303-p27-003.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1223947,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/16c10303-p27-003.jpg?itok=9DTzzgYq"}}},"media_ids":["539841","539871","539861"],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"133","name":"Special Events and Guest Speakers"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"}],"keywords":[{"id":"663","name":"Department of Energy"},{"id":"3441","name":"DOE"},{"id":"170313","name":"Ernest Moniz"},{"id":"167357","name":"SEI"},{"id":"167358","name":"Strategic Energy Institute"},{"id":"36441","name":"Tim Lieuwen"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"106361","name":"Business and Economic Development"},{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELance Wallace\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:lance.wallace@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elance.wallace@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lance.wallace@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"529991":{"#nid":"529991","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Commerce secretary, White House official, business leaders among commencement speakers","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology will confer degrees in three separate commencement ceremonies May 6-7 including speeches from John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Mary Rockett Brock, philanthropist and co-owner of the Atlanta Dream; and Penny Pritzker, U.S. Secretary of Commerce.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMore than 2,000 will receive bachelor\u2019s degrees in two ceremonies on May 7, and the graduate ceremony May 6 will award 900 master\u2019s degrees and 180 doctorates.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Ph.D. hooding ceremony kicks off the two days of ceremonies at McCamish Pavilion at 10 a.m. May 6. Doors open at 9 a.m., and graduating students should arrive at the adjacent Zelnak Practice Facility no later than 9:15 a.m. Tickets are not required for this event.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Ph.D. and Master\u2019s Commencement Ceremony is 7 to 9 p.m. in McCamish. Doors open at 5:30 p.m., and graduating students should arrive at Zelnak no later than 6 p.m. The speaker is John Holdren, who serves as an assistant to U.S. President Barack Obama for sciences and technology. During the ceremony, the Institute will confer an honorary doctorate upon Michael Tennenbaum, a Georgia Tech alumnus and founder of the Tennenbaum Institute for Enterprise Transformation at Georgia Tech. Tickets are not required for this event.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Bachelor\u2019s degree ceremonies are both May 7 with the first from 9 to 11:30 a.m. in McCamish. Doors open at 7:30 a.m., and graduating students should arrive at Zelnak no later than 8 a.m. Graduates will be from the following programs:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EComputer Science and Computational Media in the College of Computing.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EComputational Media in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EIndustrial Design, Building Construction and Architecture in the College of Architecture.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPsychology, Discrete Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, and Biology in the College of Sciences.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EEnvironmental Engineering, Civil Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Polymer and Fiber Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Aerospace Engineering in the College of Engineering.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECoca-Cola Enterprises CEO John Brock, a double Georgia Tech graduate in chemical engineering, and his wife, Mary Rockett Brock, will receive honorary doctorates during the ceremony. It is the first time in the history of the Institute that a married couple has received honorary degrees. Mary Brock is also a keynote speaker. The Brocks co-chaired the successful $1.8 billion Campaign Georgia Tech, which concluded in December 2015.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe final ceremony of the weekend is 3 to 5:30 p.m. at McCamish and features an address by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker. 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We want to develop and establish similar processes for therapeutic cell manufacturing.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUltimately, the growing need for these cell therapeutics could require large-scale production facilities similar to those used in today\u2019s pharmaceutical production. But living stem cells and immune system cells are readily affected by the varying conditions under which they are grown, stored and packaged, meaning the same type of cell produced at different facilities could behave very differently. Unless those cells can be produced with consistency, in large scale and at low cost with high quality, use of the new cell therapies could be limited and their promise would not extend to large numbers of patients.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe critical goal is to either minimize differences caused by varying manufacturing conditions, or to have a very defined characterization process so we exactly know how much the cells have changed and what specific characteristics are predictive of their efficacy in patients,\u201d explained Roy, who will lead the new center. \u201cThat consistency will allow us to produce affordable products that can make this new technology available to the large community of people who need it.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe new center will collaborate with research and clinical institutions around the country, especially those at which The Marcus Foundation funds research on cell-based therapies, including Duke University, the University of Miami, City of Hope, Emory University, as well as the University of Georgia and other national and international universities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAccess to this network will provide us a huge advantage by bringing together experts to work on a common problem,\u201d Roy said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Stem cell treatments and cell-based immunotherapies are, and will be, the treatment of the future,\u201d said Bernie Marcus, who co-founded The Home Depot. \u201cManufacturing and characterization of stem cells and immune cells is a major first step, and that is why The Marcus Foundation chose Georgia Tech and its teams \u2013 they have the experience and the personnel to achieve key goals in this process.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe new center will be a collaboration among research groups at Georgia Tech, as well as numerous outside institutions, noted Georgia Tech President G.P. \u201cBud\u201d Peterson.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cReproducible production of high-quality therapeutic cells and understanding what markers predict cell effectiveness could give clinicians worldwide new tools in the battle against some of the most difficult human health challenges we face today,\u201d Peterson said. \u201cTransitioning these cells into broad clinical use will require the kind of multidisciplinary collaboration that Georgia Tech is known for. Beyond Georgia Tech, this effort will involve The Marcus Foundation, top clinical institutions, the private sector and the Georgia Research Alliance.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe center will involve multiple research organizations at Georgia Tech, including the Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology, the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute and the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience. Also involved will be faculty researchers from the College of Sciences, College of Computing, and various schools in the College of Engineering, which includes the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering operated by Georgia Tech and Emory University. The center will also work closely with the Center for Immunoengineering at Georgia Tech, the Georgia Immunoengineering Consortium, and the Regenerative Engineering and Medicine (REM) Center, a partnership between Georgia Tech, Emory University and the University of Georgia.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere is no question that stem cell and immune cell manufacturing have the potential to significantly impact our lives, especially as we age,\u201d said Ravi Bellamkonda, chair of the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering. \u201cWe are fortunate to have a visionary foundation in The Marcus Foundation, and the foresight of the Georgia Research Alliance providing leadership in this endeavor.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWork of the center will help make new cell-based therapies more widely available to patients.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe timing of this investment in cell manufacturing by The Marcus Foundation is absolutely critical,\u201d said Robert E. Guldberg, executive director of Georgia Tech\u2019s Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience. \u201cCell therapies are being evaluated in nearly 9,000 clinical trials worldwide, but their potential to impact human healthcare will be severely limited until we can scale up their production reproducibly and at low cost. There are currently FDA-approved, clinically effective cell therapy products sitting on the shelf and unavailable to patients because the cost of manufacturing them is simply too high.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe cell manufacturing effort grew, in part, out of a major planning grant awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to the Georgia Research Alliance in 2014. That effort focused on developing a road map for cell manufacturing in the state of Georgia \u2013 an initiative expected to provide significant economic development benefits. Georgia Tech has been leading this road mapping effort that involves more than 30 industry partners and 16 academic institutions as well as key federal agencies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe NIST grant kick-started our efforts to develop a national road map for cell manufacturing,\u201d said Michael Cassidy, president and CEO of the Georgia Research Alliance. \u201cThe cell manufacturing industry is an emerging and growing industry with annual revenues of about $1 billion. This initiative has the potential to turn scientific research into new businesses and jobs for Georgia.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EInitial funding is for five years, and ultimately the center will be expected to support itself with corporate, government and nonprofit funding, Roy said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis is a unique public-private philanthropic partnership to address a grand challenge,\u201d he added. \u201cWe hope to make significant contributions to improving cell-based treatments and lowering their cost. 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Planning and design for the project is underway as a result of the $1.7 million state allocation in FY15.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESheheane and his colleagues will also advocate for the following initiatives:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESecure $1.62 million to expand startup incubator ATDC. \u003C\/strong\u003EThe second of a two-year expansion project, this funding would provide additional professional coaching staff to support creation of new start-up companies in Georgia.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EStrengthen partnerships with Georgia AgriTech Innovation Initiative. \u003C\/strong\u003EThis GTRI-led initiative involves building industry-focused partnerships to pursue and solve grand challenges in agriculture and to position Georgia as the leader in cutting-edge research, technology development and education.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003ETogether with the University System of Georgia (USG), the Georgia Tech team will also work to secure important systemwide items:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESecure renewal of the provision allowing carry-forward of certain USG funds. \u003C\/strong\u003EUnder this provision, USG institutions can carry a small amount of funds from one fiscal year to the next, allowing for better planning and allocation of resources.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESecure $54.45 million in new Formula Funds to be shared among all USG institutions. \u003C\/strong\u003EThis funding supports critical day-to-day operations and is essential to maintaining academic quality.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESecure $60 million in Major Repair and Rehabilitation Funds to repair aging facilities across the System.\u003C\/strong\u003E Georgia Tech\u2019s allocation will be directed toward more than $100 million in deferred maintenance needs.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDuring the legislative session, the Office of Government and Community Relations also engages external partners in sharing Tech\u2019s story. Members of the Capitol Jackets advocacy network, which includes alumni and partners on campus, receive a biweekly newsletter with updates from the Gold Dome. (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gov.gatech.edu\/state\/capitol-jackets-advocacy-network\u0022\u003ELearn more or sign up\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo demonstrate their appreciation for ongoing support from state lawmakers, the Georgia Tech community will convene at the State Capitol for the annual Georgia Tech Student Day at the Capitol on Feb. 1. (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gov.gatech.edu\/events\/2016-gt-student-day-capitol\u0022\u003ELearn more\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEach session, Georgia Tech students have the opportunity to serve full-time as interns to legislators, legislative committees, or legislative staffers through the Georgia Legislative Internship Program, offered in collaboration with colleges and universities throughout Georgia and the Georgia General Assembly. 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And for three friends who went into business together to create Honeysuckle Gelato, a craft gelato business based in Atlanta, 2015 has turned out to be the sweetest year yet.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe trio, Khatera Ballard, Wes Jones, and Jackson Smith, founded the company in 2011 and sold the gelato \u2014 an Italian-style ice cream \u2014 via a food truck and through direct small-batch manufacturing sales to local Atlanta chefs and restaurateurs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cFrom the beginning, we have had a very specific goal of being the Southeast\u2019s major regional gelato brand,\u201d said Ballard, who met Jones and Smith when she married one of their friends. That goal includes creating more than 250 flavor combinations and sourcing most of its ingredients, including all of its dairy, from Georgia farmers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHoneysuckle Gelato\u2019s focused strategy appears to have paid off for the three business partners, who are the Georgia Manufacturing Extension Partnership\u2019s (GaMEP) December Faces of Manufacturing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia\u2019s manufacturing industry is a critical component of the state\u2019s economy. The Faces of Manufacturing series shows how the 365,000 Georgians who work in the industry \u2014 including more than 53,000 in food manufacturing \u2014 help their communities stay economically strong and viable.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHoneysuckle Gelato\u2019s products are now found in more than 100 restaurants and 85 retail outlets across the Southeast, including a regional deal with Whole Foods. Just this year, the company inked a deal with Delta Air Lines, which now offers Honeysuckle Gelato to first class passengers on some cross-country flights.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOn July 7, on an Atlanta to Los Angeles flight, Honeysuckle Gelato made its debut,\u201d Smith explained.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStarting a business was a longtime dream for Smith and Jones, who have been friends since the second grade. After college, Smith spent two years teaching in China but then moved to New York City in 2010 and began working as a tutor under the No Child Left Behind program. He searched for a permanent job, eventually landing an ice cream production manager position under Jon Snyder, a local gelato legend in New York.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEventually, he moved back to Atlanta and began experimenting with making gelato in his parents\u2019 kitchen. That led to discussions with Jones, and eventually Ballard, who relocated to Atlanta from Tulsa, Oklahoma, to found the company.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn coming up with the company\u2019s name, Smith, the creator behind the flavors, said the idea was to highlight a sweet and fresh sense of nostalgia and give a nod to its roots as a business based in the South.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Delta agreement, plus the company\u2019s opening of a retail shop in Atlanta\u2019s Ponce City Market, doubled their manufacturing output this year. Additionally, Jones said, \u201cThese two opportunities allowed us to add two new full-time jobs to our team and several new hourly-based employees.\u201d The company has a total staff of 18.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout Honeysuckle Gelato\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFounded in 2011, Honeysuckle Gelato is a craft dessert manufacturer headquartered in Atlanta. Today, the company has 18 employees and its products can be found in retail locations across the Southeast. Additionally, Honeysuckle Gelato is served in restaurants across Atlanta and the company recently opened its first retail location in Ponce City Market. Since its launch, the company has created more than 250 flavor combinations, its top seller being Sea-Salted Caramel. Visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/honeysucklegelato.com\u0022\u003Ewww.honeysucklegelato.com\u003C\/a\u003E?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the Faces of Manufacturing\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEach month, GaMEP will highlight a different person as the Face of Manufacturing. 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David Perdue, R-Ga, and Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering Professor George Nemhauser.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe ceremony for Ph.D. and master\u2019s degree graduates will be from 7 to 9 p.m., Dec. 11, at McCamish Pavilion on 10th Street. No tickets are required to attend. Students should arrive no later than 6 p.m. and report to Zelnak Center, adjacent to McCamish. Bernard Marcus, co-founder of The Home Depot, will be presented an honorary degree during the graduate degree ceremony.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe evening\u2019s speaker will be George Nemhauser, the A. Russell Chandler III Chair and Institute Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. The 2015 recipient of the Georgia Tech Class of 1934 Distinguished Professor Award, Nemhauser is an expert on operations research, combinatorial and integer optimization and sports scheduling.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Dec. 11 ceremony will also include the first-ever graduates from the groundbreaking Online Master of Science in Computer Science program. More than 20 OMSCS graduates are expected to be present to receive their degrees.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe bachelor\u2019s degree ceremony will be 9 to 11:30 a.m., Dec. 12, also at McCamish Pavilion. Tickets are required for guests. Students should arrive at the Zelnak Center no later than 8 a.m. Sen. Perdue, a Georgia Tech alumnus and the junior senator from Georgia will deliver the Commencement address. Perdue has more than 40 years of business experience as the former CEO of Reebok athletic brand and Dollar General stores.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMore than 1,200 will receive bachelor\u2019s degrees while the graduate ceremony will award 969 master\u2019s and 196 doctorates.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFall Commencement at the Georgia Institute of Technology Dec. 11-12 will feature speeches from U.S. Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga, and Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering Professor George Nemhauser.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Fall Commencement at the Georgia Institute of Technology Dec. 11-12 will feature speeches from U.S. Sen. 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We are delighted that Delta\u2019s collaborative research center will provide even greater opportunities for Georgia Tech students, faculty, and staff to work with this outstanding global airline,\u201d said Georgia Tech President G.P. \u201cBud\u201d Peterson.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDelta has pioneered many firsts in the airline industry including the use of a hub and spoke system in 1955, being the first U.S. airline with motion graphic maps in the cabin showing the aircraft\u2019s position and route in 1992, and launching the first mobile baggage tracking app in 2011.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe innovation center at Georgia Tech will also be a first for any college in the United States.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis facility is the first of its kind for the domestic aviation industry. Tapping into the bright minds at Georgia Tech is an opportunity to gain new perspectives and approaches across Delta for changes that will advance our business now and for years to come,\u201d said Gil West, executive vice president and chief operating officer for Delta. \u201cAt Delta we are continuously seeking to improve and elevate our operations and the customer experience.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EInside the space, Georgia Tech students will have the opportunity to improve Delta\u2019s day-to-day business operations as well as customer experience.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe new research center will be completed by 2016 in the Centergy Building. The building is already home to other industry innovation centers for The Home Depot, Coca-Cola Enterprises, Panasonic, and AT\u0026amp;T.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDelta also plans to invest $3 million to the Georgia Tech Foundation to fund the Georgia Tech Advanced Manufacturing Pilot Facility (AMPF). The AMPF establishes Georgia Tech as a national leader in advanced manufacturing with a collaboration among the Schools of Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, and Interactive Computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are grateful to The Delta Air Lines Foundation for their generous commitment that will facilitate breakthrough research in advanced manufacturing,\u201d President Peterson said.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Deepening ties with Georgia Tech, Delta will open a research and development center on campus"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDelta Air Lines plans to open an innovation center on Georgia Tech\u0027s campus, using Yellow Jacket innovation to help solve the company\u0027s problems, explore new ideas, and create a better customer experience.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Delta Air Lines plans to open an innovation center on Georgia Tech\u0027s campus, using Yellow Jacket ideas and innovation to help solve the company\u0027s problems and create a better customer experience."}],"uid":"28058","created_gmt":"2015-11-13 15:21:19","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:58","author":"Steven Norris","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-11-13T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-11-13T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"469641":{"id":"469641","type":"image","title":"Delta Airlines innovation center coming to Georgia Tech.","body":null,"created":"1449257160","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:26:00","changed":"1475895218","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:38","alt":"Delta Airlines innovation center coming to Georgia Tech.","file":{"fid":"203865","name":"istock_000021445884_large.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/istock_000021445884_large_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/istock_000021445884_large_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":4069847,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/istock_000021445884_large_0.jpg?itok=Sx5MmGfE"}},"346181":{"id":"346181","type":"image","title":"Centergy Building, ATDC Headquarters","body":null,"created":"1449245670","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:14:30","changed":"1475895068","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:51:08","alt":"Centergy Building, ATDC Headquarters","file":{"fid":"201940","name":"atdc-centergy-building2_0.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/atdc-centergy-building2_0_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/atdc-centergy-building2_0_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1343870,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/atdc-centergy-building2_0_0.jpg?itok=TcQkkTrF"}}},"media_ids":["469641","346181"],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"147811","name":"airlines"},{"id":"489","name":"atlanta"},{"id":"56811","name":"Delta"},{"id":"147861","name":"delta air lines"},{"id":"147791","name":"delta airlines"},{"id":"147821","name":"delta and georgia tech"},{"id":"815","name":"economic development"},{"id":"290","name":"Economy"},{"id":"246","name":"Georgia Institute of Technology"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"4449","name":"ideas"},{"id":"3161","name":"industry"},{"id":"147801","name":"innovaiton center"},{"id":"167040","name":"science"},{"id":"623","name":"Technology"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"106361","name":"Business and Economic Development"},{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELisa Grovenstein\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EInstitute Communications\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404.894.8835\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lisa.grovenstein@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"477591":{"#nid":"477591","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Students Create the Next at Fall Capstone Expo","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECapstone Design Expo isn\u0027t your average science fair. This year\u0027s participants, the bulk of whom are about to graduate, came up with projects that tackled real needs- increasing the efficiency of businesses, designing life-altering medical products, or developing products that could disrupt commercial markets. The team that earned the best overall project award, Need A Hand, developed better 3D printed prosthetic limbs for \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.notimpossiblenow.com\/the-latest\/project-daniel-3d-printed-prosthetic-anniversary\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EProject Daniel\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/notimpossible.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ENot Impossible Labs\u003C\/a\u003E- a charity that supplies prosthetics to some of the 50,000 amputees who have been maimed during the brutal war in Sudan. They were so inspired by the project that they plan to tweak continue tweaking their designs to send files for even better limbs to Sudan.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022They told us their design wasn\u0027t as good as they wanted it to be,\u0022 explained Brian Jo, one of the five mechanical engineers who comprised the team.\u0022 They wanted it to be more useful, more powerful, and more versatile. they told us to make a better design. Using the same tools that they had, and adding \u0026nbsp;a little bit more onto that, we decided to make a different design. We made it cheaper, more efficient, and more powerful. It was difficult, because over there in Sudan they have limited tools. Using what we had we created a design able to achieve all of the goals.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWe\u0027re hoping that while Not Impossible Labs is in Sudan we can continue to send them designs as we develop them. There\u0027s still room for improvement.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnother winner was \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/expo.gatech.edu\/projectdetails\/submission043\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ETeam Cold Cap\u003C\/a\u003E, an interdisciplinary team made up of mechanical and biomedical engineering students who developed a chilled apparatus for chemotherapy patients to wear that would prevent them from losing their hair during cancer treatments, greatly boosting the morale of those battling the disease. According to team member Alexandra Richardson they have three\u0026nbsp;provisional patents filed and are exploring options to take the Cold Cap to market.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOther teams were sponsored by local or national companies. \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/expo.gatech.edu\/projectdetails\/submission087\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EA group of\u0026nbsp;ISyE students\u003C\/a\u003E worked with Orpheus Brewing in Atlanta, identify a bottleneck in their brewing process and allowing them to increase production by 25 percent at no extra cost. Coca-Cola, which was the premiere sponsor of Capstone, sponsored several teams, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/expo.gatech.edu\/projectdetails\/submission118\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eincluding one which developed a door-less cooler\u003C\/a\u003E shown to increase sales and another that \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/expo.gatech.edu\/projectdetails\/submission074\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Efound ways to improve their weekly shipping forecast\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/expo.gatech.edu\/projectdetails\/submission021\u0022\u003ESkyveillance\u003C\/a\u003E, which was made of electrical and computer engineering majors, built an integrated network of antennas to detect signals transmitted by drones- a valuable tool as government agencies seek ways to regulate drone activity in restricted airspace.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShowing that you don\u0027t have to be bound by your discipline, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/expo.gatech.edu\/projectdetails\/submission057\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ea group of mechanical engineering students\u003C\/a\u003E with virtually no aerospace experience took on the challenge of fabricating mounting and cabling hardware and conducting thermal\/structural analysis for the RECONSO cubesat\u0026nbsp;which is being built at Georgia Tech and has a launch date in 2017.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOverall 113 teams from five schools (biomedical engineering, electrical and computer engineering, industrial design, industrial and systems engineering, and mechanical engineering) participated\u0026nbsp;in this semester\u0027s design expo, capping off their undergraduate careers in style. With commencement quickly approaching many have already lined up jobs with companies like Delta, The Home Depot, Proctor \u0026amp; Gamble, and St. Jude Medical. Others will move on to graduate school or look for ways to turn their projects into startup companies, like \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/expo.gatech.edu\/projectdetails\/submission006\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ECardiacConnect\u003C\/a\u003E, a biomedical team which received a golden ticket to the the 2016 Inventure\u0026nbsp;Prize.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe 2015 Fall Capstone Design Expo confirmed that Georgia Tech students are indeed \u0022Creating the Next\u0022. For pictures from the event, view our \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/megeorgiatech\/albums\/72157661930211816\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EFlickr page\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E2015 Fall Capstone Design Expo Winners\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EOverall Winner\u003C\/em\u003E - Need a Hand: Project Danieal\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EInterdisciplinary \u003C\/em\u003E- Cold and Bold: Chemotherapy Cold Cap\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMechanical Engineering\u003C\/em\u003E - \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/expo.gatech.edu\/projectdetails\/submission115\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ERight on Track: CSX Lag Screw Installation\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis team was sponsored by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.csx.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ECSX\u003C\/a\u003E. Students developed an innovative tool to assist with installation of lag screws on rail roads that would help improve employee health, safety, and performance. CSX transportation works closely with Georgia Tech research labs and this project was a great example of how industry is leveraging collaboration between academic research and education.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EElectrical \u0026amp; Computer Engineering\u003C\/em\u003E - Fret-Master 5000: MIDI Smart Guitar\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EIndustrial Design\u003C\/em\u003E - JAVAM: Human and Cargo Access for the Elderly\/HMI Study\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EBiomedical Engineering\u003C\/em\u003E - Nasaid: NasalBliss\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EIndustrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering\u003C\/em\u003E - RaceTrac Petroleum: Supply \u0026amp; Distribution\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWriter: Ben Wright\u003Cbr \/\u003EPhotos: Candler Hobbs\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Students Create the Next at Fall Capstone Expo"}],"field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Students Create the Next at Fall Capstone Expo"}],"uid":"27987","created_gmt":"2015-12-09 17:42:19","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:16","author":"Laura Means","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-12-09T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-12-09T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"477571":{"id":"477571","type":"image","title":"Fall 2015 Capstone winners","body":null,"created":"1449766800","gmt_created":"2015-12-10 17:00:00","changed":"1475895230","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:50","alt":"Fall 2015 Capstone winners","file":{"fid":"99322","name":"screen_shot_2015-12-04_at_12.08.10_am_0.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/screen_shot_2015-12-04_at_12.08.10_am_0_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/screen_shot_2015-12-04_at_12.08.10_am_0_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":300200,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/screen_shot_2015-12-04_at_12.08.10_am_0_0.png?itok=kPiuNROa"}},"477581":{"id":"477581","type":"image","title":"Fall 2015 Capstone cube sat","body":null,"created":"1449766800","gmt_created":"2015-12-10 17:00:00","changed":"1475895230","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:50","alt":"Fall 2015 Capstone cube sat","file":{"fid":"99323","name":"screen_shot_2015-12-04_at_12.23.23_am.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/screen_shot_2015-12-04_at_12.23.23_am_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/screen_shot_2015-12-04_at_12.23.23_am_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":273994,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/screen_shot_2015-12-04_at_12.23.23_am_0.png?itok=Zz5a8XO3"}}},"media_ids":["477571","477581"],"groups":[{"id":"47398","name":"GCR (Office of Government and Community Relations)"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"170736","name":"capstone design expo 2015"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"449161":{"#nid":"449161","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Receives $30 Million Grant from The Kendeda Fund","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology has received a commitment for $30 million from The Kendeda Fund to build what is expected to become the most environmentally advanced education and research building ever constructed in the Southeast. The investment represents The Kendeda Fund\u2019s largest single grant and ranks among the largest capital gifts ever received by Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGiven the Southeast\u2019s heat, humidity and variable fresh water supplies, the development of any building aiming for zero net energy and water consumption brings unique challenges. Building a facility that meets Living Building Challenge 3.0 criteria \u2014 as The Kendeda Fund and Georgia Tech hope to do \u2014 will provide the opportunity to create a living-learning laboratory for hands-on educational and research opportunities that will be a model for the region and similar environments around the world.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAccording to Georgia Tech, the project will be integrated into the Institute\u2019s Eco-Commons, a series of campus green spaces designed to conserve natural resources, including energy and water, and provide the community with educational and recreational amenities. This endeavor not only supports Georgia Tech\u2019s goal to use its resources as efficiently as possible, but also manages stormwater runoff and helps protect drinking water sources.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGeorgia Tech is honored to partner with The Kendeda Fund on this groundbreaking project. The Living Building Challenge aligns with our longstanding vision for the campus and provides a unique opportunity to physically demonstrate how Georgia Tech practices thoughtful stewardship of all of our resources and how our innovative thinking can transform future generations,\u201d said Steve Swant, executive vice president for Administration and Finance at Georgia Tech. \u201cThese are disciplines we have proudly instilled in our campus master planning as well as our academic, research and community outreach efforts.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Kendeda Fund has committed to investing $25 million over the next several years to privately fund 100 percent of the design and construction costs of the project as well as an additional $5 million to support programming activities. The Kendeda Fund and Georgia Tech intend for the project to become the first Living Building Challenge 3.0-certified facility of its size and function in the Southeast.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Living Building Challenge is a program, advocacy tool and philosophy that defines the most advanced measure of sustainability possible in the current built environment. Meeting the challenge requires close adherence to some of the most stringent building performance standards in the world. To be certified under the program, a building must meet all the program requirements over a full 12-month period of continued operations and full occupancy.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe could not imagine a better partner than Georgia Tech to join us in pursuing the Living Building Challenge,\u201d said Barry Berlin, a long time advisor to The Kendeda Fund who oversees its investments and Atlanta-area philanthropy. \u201cThis project builds on nearly two decades of work by The Kendeda Fund to advance sustainability throughout Atlanta\u2019s built environment. We look forward to helping an entire region learn what\u2019s possible as we embrace the most rigorous building performance standards in the world.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPending final approval by the University System of Georgia Board of Regents and reaching defined milestones, the goal is to begin construction in 2017 with occupancy targeted for late 2018 and building certification planned for 2020.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E#\u0026nbsp; #\u0026nbsp; #\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAbout The Kendeda Fund\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Kendeda Fund is one of the leading philanthropic investors in civic and environmental programs in the Atlanta area, and is committed to providing solutions to social and ecological challenges at the local and national levels. The Fund accomplishes its mission by advancing green building design, community-design and public interest architecture; championing community wealth building and sustainability strategies; and leveraging innovation of cities to advance equity and sustainability. Previously, The Kendeda Fund provided $300,000 in funding for Georgia Tech\u2019s Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business. Learn more at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.kendedafund.org\u0022 title=\u0022www.kendedafund.org\u0022\u003Ewww.kendedafund.org\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAbout the Georgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology, also known as Georgia Tech, is one of the nation\u2019s leading research universities, providing a focused, technologically based education to more than 25,000 undergraduate and graduate students. Georgia Tech has many nationally recognized programs, all top-ranked by peers and publications alike, and is ranked in the nation\u2019s top 10 public universities by U.S. News and World Report. It offers degrees through the Colleges of Architecture, Computing, Engineering, Sciences, the Scheller College of Business, and the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts. As a leading technological university, Georgia Tech has more than 100 centers focused on interdisciplinary research that consistently contribute vital research and innovation to American government, industry, and business.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETech receives funding to pursue the first Living Building Challenge 3.0-certified facility of its size and function in the Southeast.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Tech receives funding to pursue the first Living Building Challenge 3.0-certified facility of its size and function in the Southeast."}],"uid":"27918","created_gmt":"2015-09-17 15:11:32","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:33","author":"Laura Diamond","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-09-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-09-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"449181":{"id":"449181","type":"image","title":"Tech Tower","body":null,"created":"1449256264","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:11:04","changed":"1475895189","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:09","alt":"Tech Tower","file":{"fid":"203285","name":"tech_tower_ii.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tech_tower_ii_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tech_tower_ii_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":5997542,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tech_tower_ii_0.jpg?itok=42L1g--1"}},"449201":{"id":"449201","type":"image","title":"EcoCommons landscape","body":null,"created":"1449256264","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:11:04","changed":"1475895189","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:09","alt":"EcoCommons landscape","file":{"fid":"203287","name":"ecocommons_landscape.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ecocommons_landscape_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ecocommons_landscape_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":109228,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/ecocommons_landscape_0.jpg?itok=rcNEGnRk"}}},"media_ids":["449181","449201"],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"137","name":"Architecture"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"213","name":"energy"},{"id":"807","name":"environment"},{"id":"479","name":"Green Buzz"},{"id":"168515","name":"livingbuilding"},{"id":"166890","name":"sustainability"},{"id":"788","name":"Water"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"},{"id":"71911","name":"Earth and Environment"},{"id":"71901","name":"Society and Culture"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELaura Diamond\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["laura.diamond@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"448691":{"#nid":"448691","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Student Steps into Washington D.C. Summer Internship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003ETaylor See, a fourth-year student in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at the Georgia Institute of Technology, participated in an internship in the office of Georgia Congressman Tom Price in Washington, D.C., this past summer. She saw an abundance of healthcare and biomedical engineering-related issues being debated, and got a glimpse of future legislative and funding implications related to science, healthcare, and research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EWith her biomedical engineering and medical interests, she sought to apply to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and other federal health-related departments. She ended up accepting an internship with Price, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for more than 10 years. More importantly to See, Price worked in private practice as an orthopedic surgeon. Before his election to Congress, Price was an assistant professor at Emory University\u2019s School of Medicine and medical director of the orthopedic clinic at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, teaching resident doctors in training.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cWhile the majority of what I did was quite different than anything in my BME major or even the engineering curricula at Georgia Tech, I came across many things in Washington that relate to biomedical research and remind me of my classes and professors,\u201d said See, who is from Memphis, Tennessee.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EOne of those things is the 21\u003Csup\u003Est\u003C\/sup\u003E Century Cures Act (HR 6), federal legislation that received overwhelming bipartisan approval in the House of Representatives. Among other things, the act makes research collaborations easier; incorporates the patient perspective in drug development and the regulatory review process; promotes personalized medicine; streamlines clinical trials, making it less expensive to bring drugs to market; provides incentives for developing drugs that treat rare diseases; and basically helps \u201cthe entire biomedical ecosystem coordinate more efficiently to find faster cures while investing in 21\u003Csup\u003Est\u003C\/sup\u003E century science and next generation investigators,\u201d according to See.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EThe 21\u003Csup\u003Est\u003C\/sup\u003E Century Cures Act, which has moved to the Senate for consideration there, would also create a $10 billion innovation fund over five years for the NIH and a\u0026nbsp;$550 million innovation fund for the FDA. In addition, there are special provisions to\u0026nbsp;make room for young or new researchers.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cI had the opportunity to attend healthcare and medical briefings almost everyday, put on by third-party organizations or offices trying to gain support for their legislation,\u201d said See.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003ETo her surprise, one briefing featured Ravi Bellamkonda, chair of the Coulter Department at Georgia Tech and Emory (and president of The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering). After the briefing, See sat in on a meeting with Bellamkonda and Robert Knotts, director of federal relations for Georgia Tech, during sessions with congressional office staffers.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EIn the Georgia Tech D.C. Internship program, students work full time with a member of Congress, a congressional committee, or an executive branch office in or around Washington, D.C., for about 10 weeks during the summer, and 16 weeks during spring or fall. Students secure their own internship based on academic performance and personal interests.\u0026nbsp;The opportunity includes a $5,000 stipend in the summer or a $7,500 stipend in the spring or fall to offset expenses (housing, transportation, and living expenses). This program is open to both undergraduate and graduate students of all majors.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EIn See\u2019s case, the experience took her outside of the usual BME comfort zones.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cWorking on legislation is not something the average biomedical engineer has the opportunity to do,\u201d she said. \u201cWhile this may not further me in a medical career, learning about the legislative process is extremely important. I learned that so much of what biomedical engineers accomplish is funded by government agencies and that all of the regulations in the health and science industry flow through the government.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003ESee gained new insights and came away with some ideas on how the process might be improved, and how she might become part of the process.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cIf researchers and doctors helped make the regulations on the front end, I think we would not only save time and money, but better policies could be developed at the onset,\u201d she said. \u201cI had a lot of opportunities to learn about the government\u0027s involvement and investment in healthcare and medical research. I may have some interest in going into medical policy, so I think this was great exposure.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gov.gatech.edu\/internships\/dc%20%20\u0022\u003ERead more about the internship program here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECONTACT:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:wrich@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Manager\u003Cbr \/\u003EWallace H. 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The group, consisting of 25 staff from both U.S. Senate offices and most of Georgia\u2019s U.S. House districts, convened on campus to learn more about the innovative ways Georgia Tech is engaged in federally funded research, student entrepreneurship initiatives, K-12 programs and economic development.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPresident G. P. \u201cBud\u201d Peterson kicked off the visit by welcoming the guests and sharing an update on the tremendous momentum surrounding the Institute\u2019s educational and research programs. He highlighted recent successes, including the opening of the interdisciplinary Engineered Biosystems Building, the campus address by President Obama on college access and affordability, and the welcoming of the best qualified, most diverse freshman class in Georgia Tech history.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Congressional staff members attended demonstrations and briefings highlighting Georgia Tech\u2019s expertise in areas such as smart textiles manufacturing, research commercialization and disaster preparedness. These sessions included a tour of the Smart Textiles Lab, a presentation by Professor Julie Swann from the School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering and a breakfast with representatives from Waffle House and the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce to discuss the importance of partnership between universities and industry and the invaluable impact it has on economic development.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe staffers particularly enjoyed a discussion on student-led innovation and entrepreneurship with Professor Craig Forest from the School of Mechanical Engineering and a rock star panel of student entrepreneurs: Rachel Ford, Scott Schroer and Megan Fetcher. The discussion focused on the entrepreneurial culture growing throughout the Institute, and the students shared how a myriad of resources on campus, particularly the InVenture Prize competition, aided in their success as \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/nique.net\/news\/2015\/09\/04\/congressional-staffers-congregate-at-tech\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eyoung entrepreneurs\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis annual visit is a special opportunity to showcase what Georgia Tech is doing for the state and nation,\u0022\u0026nbsp;said Tech federal relations director Robert Knotts. \u0022Federal funding and federal policies have a major impact on Georgia Tech\u2019s successes. Allowing these congressional staffers to see firsthand what we\u2019re doing with federal funding is incredibly important.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo close out the visit, participants learned about Georgia Tech\u2019s involvement in training the next generation of scientists and engineers through a variety of K-12 programs offered on campus for students and teachers alike. Staffers observed demonstrations by students and teachers from Meadowcreek High School who participated in summer programs hosted by Georgia Tech\u2019s Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics and Computing (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ceismc.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ECEISMC\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Office of Government and Community Relations often hosts federal officials and their staff on campus to promote the Institute\u2019s strategic vision and goals as they pertain to federal research and education programs and policies. 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In this new role, Divan will also serve as director of the Georgia Tech Center for Distributed Energy, which will focus on enabling the transition of the global electrical energy infrastructure from a fossil-fuel powered, top-down controlled system to a massively-distributed, resilient, smart, and sustainable system.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We are excited to welcome Deepak back to Georgia Tech,\u0026rdquo; said Steven W. McLaughlin, the Steve W. Chaddick School Chair of ECE. \u0026ldquo;He is internationally recognized and respected in the electrical energy arena, and he will be an effective leader in developing the energy delivery systems of the future.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAn ECE faculty member since 2004, Divan works in the areas of dynamic grid control, advanced and integrated power electronics, and sustainable energy systems. 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Wayne Clough.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOpinions have changed in recent years, said Clough, who led an independent panel investigation of the Department of Defense and response to the storm.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cHurricane Sandy was a wake-up call that this could happen to anyone,\u201d Clough said. \u201cSandy changed people\u2019s minds and \u2026 in many ways had more of an impact than Katrina did.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPanelists listed several cities at risk, including Miami, Tampa, Charleston and Norfolk.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESome cities are at risk because of geography, rising sea levels and climate change. 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As a national leader in producing outstanding underrepresented engineering graduates, Georgia Tech is pleased to partner with Intel in this transformative initiative.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe gift will expand several Georgia Tech initiatives already underway, including:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ceed.gatech.edu\/summer-engineering-institute-sei\u0022\u003ESummer Engineering Institute\u003C\/a\u003E. The three-week Summer Engineering Institute hosts rising 11\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E- and 12\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E-graders from around the country. Students learn basic engineering and computer science techniques and gain hands-on experience through working in teams to solve real-world engineering problems.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ceed.gatech.edu\/programs\/undergrad\/rise\u0022\u003ERISE\u003C\/a\u003E. 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May, was in Washington, D.C. this week to receive his Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM). May is\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2015\/03\/27\/president-obama-honors-outstanding-science-mathematics-and-engineering-m\u0022 rel=\u0022nofollow\u0022\u003Eone of 14 individuals and one organization\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;named as the newest recipients of the PAESMEM. May was accompanied at the ceremony by his wife, LeShelle May, as well as other family members.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I could not be more honored to receive this recognition from President Obama,\u201d said May. \u201cMentoring engineering students and broadening participation among underrepresented groups has been a pillar of my career, and it is truly gratifying for my contributions to be acknowledged. 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Others include: AT\u0026amp;T Mobility, Home Depot, Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. and ThyssenKrupp Elevator Americas.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESouthern Company joins a number of companies that have come to Georgia Tech to create innovation and research centers. Others include: AT\u0026amp;T Mobility, Home Depot, Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. and ThyseenKrupp Elevator Americas.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Energy Innovation Center will be a place where ideas, innovation and investment intersect"}],"uid":"27918","created_gmt":"2015-04-01 12:01:56","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:17:54","author":"Laura Diamond","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-04-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-04-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"367821":{"id":"367821","type":"image","title":"Georgia Tech signage","body":null,"created":"1449245827","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:17:07","changed":"1475895105","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:51:45","alt":"Georgia Tech signage","file":{"fid":"74870","name":"14c1002-p1-006.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/14c1002-p1-006.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/14c1002-p1-006.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":4902919,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/14c1002-p1-006.jpg?itok=cWZEl0Bz"}}},"media_ids":["367821"],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"131","name":"Economic Development and Policy"}],"keywords":[{"id":"815","name":"economic development"},{"id":"3671","name":"Enterprise Innovation Institute"},{"id":"73351","name":"innovation center"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"106361","name":"Business and Economic Development"},{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELaura Diamond\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["laura.diamond@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"392341":{"#nid":"392341","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech receives U.S. Department of Commerce i6 Challenge Grant","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe U.S. Department of Commerce has awarded the Georgia Institute of Technology a $500,000 i6 Challenge grant to support a sweeping innovation and entrepreneurship initiative in Athens, Augusta, and downtown Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs part of the award announcement on March 31, Jay Williams, the assistant secretary of commerce for economic development, visited the Enterprise Innovation Institute (EI\u003Csup\u003E2\u003C\/sup\u003E), Tech\u2019s chief economic development and business outreach unit.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe toured and met with several startup companies incubating at the Advanced Technology Development Center, one of EI\u003Csup\u003E2\u003C\/sup\u003E\u2019s economic development programs. Williams also met with Georgia Tech President G.P. \u201cBud\u201d Peterson and Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe i6 Challenge is a national competition that seeks to fund small, but targeted high-impact initiatives that support startup creation, innovation, and commercialization.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe award, which Georgia Tech is matching with an additional $517,787, will be used to provide education, support, and programs to develop the entrepreneurial community in Georgia in the three communities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt will be administered through EI\u003Csup\u003E2\u003C\/sup\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESpecifically, the award will:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EFurther the development of startup ecosystems in Athens and Augusta, both located in economically distressed counties.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EServe as a catalyst for the growth of two university-anchored startup ecosystems in downtown Atlanta.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhat\u2019s exciting about this grant is that it really is about partnerships \u2014 the cross-community and multi-university partnerships we have in Atlanta, Athens, and Augusta,\u201d EI\u003Csup\u003E2\u003C\/sup\u003E\u0026nbsp;Vice President Stephen Fleming said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn Augusta, Tech will be working with the Clubhou.se, a technology-oriented, non-profit business and community incubator. In Athens, Tech has partnered with Four Athens, that community\u2019s technology incubator.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn Atlanta, Tech is collaborating with Georgia State and Clark Atlanta universities, Morehouse College, the Morehouse School of Medicine, and Spelman College to develop entrepreneurship programs that support their unique visions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELucror Resources, an Atlanta-based developer, is partnering with Tech in the development of an entrepreneurial hub in downtown Atlanta\u2019s Flatiron building that will include the city\u2019s Women\u2019s Entrepreneur Initiative.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBy P\u00e9ralte C. 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In 2014, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released a cybersecurity framework to help businesses start a cybersecurity program or improve an existing one. The framework was developed in collaboration with public and private organizations, including companies, trade associations, and the U.S. Chamber\u0027s Cybersecurity Working Group.\u0026nbsp;The framework features a number of industry-vetted actions that businesses can take to assess and strengthen their state of security over time. It provides organizations--including their customers, partners, and suppliers--with common language for understanding their current cybersecurity posture, setting goals for cybersecurity improvements and much more.\u0026nbsp;Who should attend?\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EYou\u0027ve heard something about a cyber framework--you\u0027re not exactly sure what it is--and want to learn more.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EYou have cybersecurity or risk-management responsibilities for your organization--whether private or public.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EYou have a cybersecurity program for your business and want to strengthen it.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EYou\u0027re a large company looking for ways to communicate about cyber with your small and midsize supply chain partners\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor more information and to register, visit \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.uschamber.com\/event\/georgia-2015-cybersecurity-summit\u0022 title=\u0022https:\/\/www.uschamber.com\/event\/georgia-2015-cybersecurity-summit\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.uschamber.com\/event\/georgia-2015-cybersecurity-summit\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Managing Cyber Risks in a Time of Advanced \u0026 Sophisticated Threats to Business"}],"uid":"27987","created_gmt":"2015-07-01 09:40:25","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:12:22","author":"Laura Means","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-07-15T09:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2015-07-15T14:30:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-07-15T14:30:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-07-15 13:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-07-15 18:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-07-15 18:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"419821":{"id":"419821","type":"image","title":"2015 Cybersecurity Summit","body":null,"created":"1449254269","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:37:49","changed":"1475895157","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:37","alt":"2015 Cybersecurity Summit","file":{"fid":"202609","name":"022222_10_cybersecurityatlanta_gachamber_0.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/022222_10_cybersecurityatlanta_gachamber_0_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/022222_10_cybersecurityatlanta_gachamber_0_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":32050,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/022222_10_cybersecurityatlanta_gachamber_0_0.jpg?itok=Xw-W7Y60"}}},"media_ids":["419821"],"groups":[{"id":"47398","name":"GCR (Office of Government and Community Relations)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1789","name":"Conference\/Symposium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78771","name":"Public"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"391771":{"#nid":"391771","#data":{"type":"news","title":"InVenture for a younger generation","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAfter watching a neighbor struggle with a bathroom flood, Luke Gunter wondered why something didn\u2019t alert her when water reached a dangerously high level.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGunter teamed up with two friends and together they invented Watto Motto, a device that detects when water is about to overflow a bathtub or sink and sounds an alarm as an alert.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThey designed multiple prototypes. They interviewed potential customers and researched market needs. They followed steps used by many Georgia Tech student inventors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut they\u2019re not students at Tech. They\u2019re fifth-graders at Due West Elementary in Marietta.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDue West is one of four elementary schools participating in this year\u2019s InVenture Challenge. The program started in 2012 to expose more students to engineering and entrepreneurship.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAn extension of the annual InVenture Prize for Georgia Tech undergraduates, the InVenture Challenge encourages K-12 students to identify problems and test solutions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt was complicated but really a lot of fun,\u201d Gunter said. \u201cWe weren\u2019t sure it was going to work and we were scared it would break, but when it worked we starting jumping because we really thought we were going to mess it up. \u201c\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETop teams from each of the 11 elementary, middle and high schools participating in the challenge will exhibit their work on campus April 1.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStudents participating in the challenge work collaboratively and make the designs themselves, which allows learning to occur naturally, said Roxanne Moore, a research engineer with Tech\u2019s Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing (CEISMC) who helps run the program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis is the first year elementary schools participated. Nancy Ernstes, a gifted teacher at Cheatham Hill Elementary, wanted her students to take part after seeing the success her daughter\u2019s roommate had with the 2014 InVenture Prize. The roommate, Rachel Ford, won second-place as a member of team Succette, which created smarter baby pacifiers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe InVenture Challenge encourages students to take risks and learn from their mistakes, said Ernstes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt has made them understand that engineering is really at their level and they can develop ideas and push themselves in that way,\u201c she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe students tackled problems big and small.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cNo one wants melted ice cream,\u201d said Fernando Kirkconnell.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo prevent that, the fifth-grader from Cheatham Hill Elementary helped create Cold To Go, a plastic device that will keep ice cream cold and fresh.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe three-member team designed a double-walled plastic cup, filled with a mix of rubbing alcohol and water that people can freeze. 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Worldpay executives are also mentoring entrepreneurs at the center, providing both payments expertise and Worldpay\u2019s global resources to support companies within the new program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAs the leaders in modern money, Worldpay is creating new payments experiences for software and applications that business owners use to run their businesses smarter across all channels,\u201d said Worldpay US President and CEO Tony Catalfano. \u201cTo sustain our competitive advantage, we must continue to innovate and attract top talent, both key drivers behind this groundbreaking partnership.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe ATDC has empowered scores of entrepreneurs to grow their ideas into successful companies,\u201d added Catalfano, who also serves as the board chairman of the American Transaction Processors Coalition. \u201cOur commitment is about investing in the smartest, most-creative innovators so the next generation of financial technology will be built right here in Georgia.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are always focused on bringing businesses to our state, but we also want to encourage the next generation of entrepreneurs to build their businesses right here in Georgia,\u201d said Georgia Lieutenant Governor Casey Cagle. \u201cThis is a groundbreaking public-private partnership that will create jobs and help secure Georgia\u2019s place as the country\u2019s leader in financial technology for another generation. I congratulate Georgia Tech and Worldpay on this collaboration and look forward to seeing the results.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe announced partnership underscores Georgia Tech\u2019s statewide economic development mission.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis gift from Worldpay will enhance the innovation ecosystem that is rapidly developing in Tech Square,\u201d said Georgia Tech President G.P. \u201cBud\u201d Peterson. \u201cWe are fulfilling our mission to create new products that will foster new companies and job opportunities for all of Georgia.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs a statewide startup incubator, ATDC is always looking at the technologies that are of interest to entrepreneurs in Georgia, said ATDC Director Stephen Fleming.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cFinancial technology is important for us and the state because it\u2019s a sector where Georgia is a leader,\u201d added Fleming. \u201cATDC will use Worldpay\u2019s gift and executive mentorship to ensure that Georgia stays at the cutting edge of FinTech.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMore than 70 percent of all U.S. payments are processed in Georgia\u2019s \u201cTransaction Alley,\u201d according to the American Transaction Processors Coalition. More than 60 percent of the industry\u2019s companies are based in metro Atlanta, supporting more than 40,000 jobs in the state.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETuesday\u2019s announcement comes on the heels of Worldpay\u2019s announced relocation of its U.S. headquarters to Midtown Atlanta this year. The company will invest more than $10 million to move more than 600 employees to the city and add an additional 600 workers over the next four years.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAbout Worldpay\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWorldpay is a leading global payments technology and services company, which allows merchants to accept payments anywhere in the world, across any channel.\u0026nbsp;Headquartered in London and operating in over 30 countries, the company offers services across the entire payments value chain, including transaction capturing, merchant acquiring and transaction processing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn 2014, the business processed a total of 10.7 billion transactions with a value of more than half a trillion dollars, making it one of the largest payments companies in the world.\u0026nbsp;The company employs over 4,700 people in markets throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWorldpay US is headquartered in Georgia, and recently announced it will move its headquarters to Midtown Atlanta this year.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWorldpay is owned by private equity firms Advent International and Bain Capital alongside management and employees.\u0026nbsp;For additional information, visit Worldpay.com.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAbout Georgia Tech\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the world\u2019s premier research universities. Georgia Tech is a national and international leader in scientific and technological research and education and is the nation\u2019s leading producer of engineers as well as a leading producer of female and minority engineering Ph.D. graduates. Ranked among the top public universities by U.S. News \u0026amp; World Report, the Institute enrolls more than 23,000 students within its six colleges. For additional information, visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\u0022 title=\u0022www.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ewww.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAbout the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) is one of the oldest and largest university-based startup incubators in the country. ATDC, which is celebrating its 35th anniversary this year, has graduated about 150 companies from its program. ATDC is a unit of the Enterprise Innovation Institute, Georgia Tech\u2019s chief economic development arm. For additional information, visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.atdc.org\u0022 title=\u0022www.atdc.org\u0022\u003Ewww.atdc.org\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EATDC will hire a FinTech expert to serve as an Entrepreneur in Residence to mentor and guide startups. 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More than 500 students signed up for this year\u2019s contest.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Once again we were impressed with what\u0026nbsp;Georgia Tech\u0026nbsp;students invent to solve some of the problems facing society,\u0022\u0026nbsp;said Chris Reaves, director of Undergraduate Research and Student Innovation, and one of InVenture\u2019s organizers.\u0026nbsp;\u0022InVenture is part of the changing culture at Georgia Tech where our students are becoming entrepreneurs.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis year\u2019s finalists are:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEqip\u003C\/strong\u003E: Eqip is a website marketplace that allows musicians to experiment with expensive audio tools before committing to a purchase. Team members are Shehmeer Jiwani and Adam Szaruga, both computer science majors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFlame Tech Grill Defender\u003C\/strong\u003E: Flame Tech is a safety device for gas grills that alerts users when gas levels become dangerous. Team members are Alex Roe, a computer science major; Scott Schroer, a mechanical engineering major; and Will Sweet, a business administration major.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHaplit\u003C\/strong\u003E: Haplit is an interactive device for teaching Braille to those who were born blind or are living with degenerative diseases. Team members are Philip Bale, a computer science major; Megan Fechter, a business administration major; and Chandler Matz, a computer engineering major.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOculoStaple\u003C\/strong\u003E: The OculoStaple is a medical device to safely treat ptosis, drooping of the upper eyelid. 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Team members are Ricardo De Andrade, who is majoring in industrial engineering and computer science; and Miguel Oller, a mechanical engineering major.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe winning team earns $20,000 and the second-place team receives $10,000.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBoth the first- and second-place finishers will receive free US patent filings by Georgia Tech\u2019s Office of Technology Licensing and a spot in Georgia Tech\u2019s startup accelerator program, Flashpoint.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA $5,000 People\u2019s Choice Award will go to the fans\u2019 favorite invention. Voting will be by text messaging during the finale.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe finale will take place April 1 at the Ferst Center for the Arts on campus. 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This federal law affects practically all of Georgia Tech\u2019s $700 million in funded research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs a result of this law, there are now tighter timeframes and increased responsibility for award recipients. This means administrative reports will have to be submitted more quickly and often with a greater level of documentation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIf you perform government-funded research, financial performance and technical performance are linked in the minds of the agencies,\u201d said Jilda Garton, vice president for research and general manager of Georgia Tech Research Corporation. \u201cThe idea that you can perform the research now and catch up on the paperwork later is something we will have to be more careful about.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Uniform Requirements were developed in response to a directive from President Barack Obama to streamline guidance and increase accountability for federal grants. 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For example, purchasing materials or supplies that cost more than $3,000 will require getting two quotes and choosing the less expensive option, or ensuring a valid reason for not choosing the less expensive option.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cPrior to this law, we didn\u2019t require bids on anything under $10,000, but that has changed to $3,000,\u201d said Garton. \u201cTherefore, a lot more purchases will have to be documented.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBecause this change will require many university procurement systems to be updated, this purchasing requirement will not go into effect until July 1, 2016.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe good news for Georgia Tech is that if you make purchases through Buzzmart there is already a competitive process, so you won\u2019t have to provide additional documentation,\u201d Garton said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch6\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFrom \u2018Should\u2019 to \u2018Must\u2019\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h6\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGarton noted that many rules that used to be \u201cgood practices\u201d under the old regulations are now requirements. The word \u201cshould\u201d has changed to \u201cmust,\u201d and her office counted 823 \u201cmusts\u201d in the new document.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut, award recipients will not receive additional funding to help them comply with the Uniform Requirements. Some may view this as another administrative burden.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cHow can we do more with the same amount of funding is the trick,\u201d Garton said. \u201cOur interdisciplinary taskforce and department administrators from the College of Engineering, the College of Sciences, the College of Architecture, the College of Computing, and GTRI have been working on this since April. They have been part of the process because they will get the operational responsibility. We are doing our very best to make these changes as modest as possible, to automate systems wherever we can, and to bring everything into compliance.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe plan is to streamline the research administration process and create an electronic pathway to make it easier for faculty to do what they need to do and get the documentation required.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are trying to give them better tools, easier access, faster ways to do things, and improve the information they have to manage,\u201d Garton said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAll faculty members already have access to My Research Portal, an online system that provides customized access to every system they will need for research administration.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIf we do it right, this will be a win for the government and a win for us, too,\u201d said Garton. \u201cWe will be able to give our faculty a better handle on what\u2019s happening with their grants in real time. 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By capitalizing on strong momentum and expertise in entrepreneurship at Tech, we would be helping create more companies and more jobs in Georgia.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, Sheheane and his colleagues will also advocate for the following initiatives:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESecure $5 million for the modernization and expansion of the Holland Plant.\u003C\/strong\u003E This upgrade would provide additional capacity to provide air conditioning to 75 of Tech\u2019s 200 buildings on campus, including the Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons, the Campus Recreation Center, as well as several residence halls and academic buildings.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EStrengthen support for Georgia Tech \u201cB-Units.\u201d \u003C\/strong\u003EThe \u201cB\u201d budget supports non-academic economic development programs. This funding maintains our ability to leverage state funds and attract significant external funding through the Enterprise Innovation Institute (EI2) and Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI).\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETogether with the University System of Georgia, the Georgia Tech team will also work to secure important budgetary items:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E$44.4 million in new Formula Funds\u003C\/strong\u003E to be shared among all University System of Georgia institutions. Funding supports critical day-to-day operations and is essential to maintaining academic quality.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E$60 million in Major Repair and Rehabilitation Funds\u003C\/strong\u003E to repair aging facilities across the System. Georgia Tech\u2019s allocation will be directed toward more than $100 million in deferred maintenance needs.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGeorgia Tech has consistently benefitted from strong support from the state,\u201d said Sheheane. \u201cLast year we received planning funds for the renewal of the Georgia Tech Library, which will be moving forward over the next year.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are fortunate that Georgia has the seventh highest appropriation for higher education in the nation,\u201d he added.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo demonstrate their appreciation for ongoing support from state lawmakers, the Georgia Tech community will convene at the State Capitol for the annual Georgia Tech Student Day at the Capitol on January 13, the second day of the 2015 session. \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.calendar.gatech.edu\/event\/344511\u0022\u003ELearn more about Student Day at the Capitol \u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDuring the legislative session, the Office of Government and Community Relations also engages external partners in sharing Tech\u2019s story. 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It also gives him a chance to take an entrepreneurial approach in a real-world setting by working with a Fortune 50 company.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cHome Depot is smart enough to realize that we have one of the best colleges in the nation sitting right here, full of a ton of bright minds getting one of the best educations out there,\u201d Turner said. \u201cHaving us here and paying us for the work that we do is really driving new technologies at Home Depot. There are so many innovative things at Georgia Tech \u2014 we can take that knowledge and bring it here to the technology center.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt also helps fulfill part of Tech\u2019s strategic vision to ensure that innovation and entrepreneurship become fundamental characteristics of every graduate.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis partnership is about co-innovation to create new opportunities and to solve problems, which in turn helps establish enhanced market competitiveness,\u201d\u0026nbsp;said Stephen E. 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As part of National Manufacturing Day, Tech and its business partners are showcasing Georgia\u0027s successes with plant tours, education roundtables, and symposiums across the state including:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.mfgday.com\/events\/2014\/power-partners-inc-\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EPower Partners\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E in Athens\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.mfgday.com\/events\/2014\/win-tech-inc-\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EWin-Tech\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E in Kennesaw\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.mfgday.com\/events\/2014\/newton-college-and-career-academy\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003ENewton College and Career Academy\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E in Covington\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EEvco Plastics\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E in Calhoun\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EArmstrong World Industries\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E in Macon\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E(For a complete list of tours and symposiums across Georgia and registration information, please visit Georgia Tech\u0027s dedicated National Manufacturing Day page \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/mfgday.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Evia this link\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETech, through three key business and economic development units, supports initiatives and leads state efforts to keep manufacturing a robust part of the economy:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gamep.org\u0022\u003EGeorgia Manufacturing Extension Partnership\u003C\/a\u003E (GaMEP), a federally and state funded unit of Tech\u0027s Enterprise Innovation Institute, works extensively with businesses \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gamep.org\/about-us\/regional-locations\/\u0022\u003Eacross the state\u003C\/a\u003E to reduce costs, increase productivity and revenue, incorporate best technological practices, and save or create jobs.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.manufacturing.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Manufacturing Institute\u003C\/a\u003E leverages Tech\u0027s wealth of faculty research and expertise across the different fields that affect manufacturing, from management and engineering to robotics and policy.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ceismc.gatech.edu\/content\/about-ceismc\u0022\u003ECenter for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing\u003C\/a\u003E (CEISMIC) partners with business, education groups, and local K-12 school districts throughout Georgia to ensure students\u0027 curriculum best prepares them in STEM -- science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe tours and other events highlight the sector\u0027s importance, says GaMEP Director \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gamep.org\/about-us\/about-gamep\/gamep-management-team\/#fite\u0022\u003EKaren Fite\u003C\/a\u003E. 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This major grant, one of the single largest gifts in Georgia Tech\u2019s history, affirms the Institute\u2019s position as a leading driver of the future of the forest bioproducts industry.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003E\u201cWe are extremely grateful to the Institute of Paper Chemistry Foundation for entrusting us with this generous gift,\u201d said Georgia Tech President G.P. \u201cBud\u201d Peterson. \u201cThrough the Renewable Bioproducts Institute, we will maximize Georgia Tech\u2019s and the state of Georgia\u2019s strengths in sustainability and innovation to develop real-world applications as well as educate the next generation of leadership in the forest and bioproducts industry.\u201d \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003EThe Institute of Paper Chemistry Foundation represents the legacy of the Institute of Paper Chemistry (IPC), founded in Appleton, Wisconsin, in 1929 to provide scientific research and future leaders for the paper industry. IPC became the Institute of Paper Science and Technology (IPST) when it relocated to Atlanta in 1989. It subsequently merged with Georgia Tech in 2004.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003ELast week, Georgia Tech announced that the Institute would be renamed the Renewable Bioproducts Institute (RBI) to reflect its expanding engagement with a broader range of biomaterials processing industries. Like the university\u2019s other nine interdisciplinary research institutes representing Georgia Tech\u2019s core research areas, RBI brings together a multidisciplinary capability to identify opportunities and address the complex challenges of its industry and government research partners.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003E\u201cWe believe the relaunching of the Institute as the Renewable Bioproducts Institute is a natural development in its evolution and an important advance in its progress,\u201d said IPCF board chair George Lanier. \u201cGeorgia Tech is demonstrating its commitment to this industry, which is so important to Georgia and the nation. The industry\u2019s emerging opportunities can be effectively developed there.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003EAll interdisciplinary research institutes at Georgia Tech are designed to facilitate research collaborations with industries and other partners to develop opportunities in strategic market areas, emphasizing economic development and applied technology.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003E\u201cWe deeply appreciate the confidence IPCF has placed in us,\u201d said RBI executive director Norman Marsolan, \u201cand we will continue its legacy of growth in bioproducts research and industry leadership development. We are on the threshold of a new era of development of this renewable, sustainable natural resource, and we pledge our efforts to justify IPCF\u2019s faith in us by contributing to the full realization of its potential.\u201d\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003EThe Renewable Bioproducts Institute benefits from a significant endowment originating with the Institute of Paper Chemistry. That endowment has contributed to the support of more than 1,500 graduate alumni through the years and currently supports more than 50 paper science and engineering students who advance the research mission of IPST\/RBI through their faculty-directed research. RBI will continue to build on that legacy by working closely with industrial partners to foster an innovative, competitive and profitable bioproducts industry, while the endowment will continue to support graduate studies in paper science and engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003EFor more information on RBI, please visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/features\/renewable-bioproducts-institute\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/features\/renewable-bioproducts-institute\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Paper Chemistry Foundation Gift Supports Future of Forest Bioproducts Research and Education"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology has received a $43.6 million gift from the Institute of Paper Chemistry Foundation (IPCF).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Georgia Institute of Technology has received a $43.6 million gift from the Institute of Paper Chemistry Foundation (IPCF)."}],"uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2014-06-09 13:19:28","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:33","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-06-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-06-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"299211":{"id":"299211","type":"image","title":"Renewable Bioproducts Institute","body":null,"created":"1449244552","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:55:52","changed":"1475895000","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:50:00","alt":"Renewable Bioproducts Institute","file":{"fid":"199489","name":"14c10769-p1-001.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/14c10769-p1-001_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/14c10769-p1-001_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":3166611,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/14c10769-p1-001_0.jpg?itok=wolJ_eVq"}}},"media_ids":["299211"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/features\/renewable-bioproducts-institute.","title":"Additional information:"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"42941","name":"Art Research"},{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"93791","name":"Renewable Bioproducts Institute"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"},{"id":"39471","name":"Materials"},{"id":"39491","name":"Renewable Bioproducts"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71881","name":"Science and Technology"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["Nagel@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"312091":{"#nid":"312091","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Program Seeks to Broaden College Participation","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Salvation Army Boys \u0026amp; Girls Clubs of Greater Atlanta is partnering with the Taco Bell Foundation to present \u0022Graduate for Mas,\u0022 a new program designed to provide guidance, support, resources, and access to scholarship funds that help young adults graduate on time and complete post-secondary education. This week, Georgia Tech hosted nearly 100 students on campus to hear from our students and other volunteers about weighty matters like time management, high school performance, and financial planning for college.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith many of the participants becoming the first in their families to attend college, special resources like professional graduation coaches and (?)access to contacts in the Georgia Student Finance Commission are important components of the program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe event here on campus provides an immersive college campus experience. Although many of the participants live only miles from our campus, many have not had an opportunity to explore our campus or consider the possibility of studying at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Salvation Army Boys \u0026amp; Girls Clubs of Greater Atlanta is partnering with the Taco Bell Foundation to present \u0022Graduate for Mas,\u0022 a new program designed to provide guidance, support, resources, and access to scholarship funds that help young adults graduate on time and complete post-secondary education.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech hosted \u0022Graduate for Mas.\u0022"}],"uid":"27213","created_gmt":"2014-08-01 09:39:21","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:48","author":"Teri Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-08-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-08-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47398","name":"GCR (Office of Government and Community Relations)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"3447","name":"K-12"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech Office of Government and Community Relations\u003Cbr \/\u003E404.894.1238\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"302031":{"#nid":"302031","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Two Georgia Institute of Technology Professors Invited to Speak at Nanotech and Technology Innovation Conference in Washington DC","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology Professors William J. Koros and Satish Kumar have been invited to speak at the 2014 TechConnect World Innovation Symposium in Washington DC on June 15\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E \u2013 18\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E.\u0026nbsp; Held in conjunction with the National SBIR Conference and the 3rd annual National Innovation Summit and Showcase, TechConnect World is the world\u2019s largest multi-disciplinary multi-sector conference comprised of private industry, government and academic innovators and technology business developers, and funders. The annual conference is sponsored by TechConnect, a technology development organization whose goal is to match emerging technology innovators with investment and production opportunities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKoros is currently the Roberto C. Goizueta Chair and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Membranes at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Professor Koros joined the School of Chemical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology in 2001. He has published over 350 articles and holds 14 US Patents in the areas of sorption and transport of small molecules in membranes, barrier materials and sorbents. His research has been recognized by the AIChE Institute Award for Excellence in Industrial Gases Technology in 1995 and the AIChE Separation Division Clarence Gerhold Award in 1999. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2000, and was named a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers in 2002 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2003. In 2008, Koros received the Alan S. Michaels Award for Innovation in Membrane Science and Technology from the North American Membrane Society. He also received the William H. Walker Award for Excellence in Chemical Engineering Publications in 2010, and in 2011 he was selected as the 63rd AICHE Institute Lecturer. Professor Koros will be presenting \u201c\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.techconnectworld.com\/World2014\/a.php?i=215\u0022\u003ENanotechnology-Enabled Expansion of the Boundaries on Large Scale Low Energy Intensity Separations\u003C\/a\u003E,\u201d on Tuesday, June 17th.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKumar is a Professor with the School of Materials Science and Engineering. He received his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India and obtained his post-doctoral experience in Polymer Science and Engineering under the tutelage of Professor R. S. Stein at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He conducted research as a foreign collaborator at C.E.N.G., Grenoble France. During 1984-89, he worked in the Polymer Branch at the Air Force Research Laboratory, WPAFB OH. He joined Georgia Institute of Technology in 1989. His current research and teaching interests are in the areas of structure, processing, and properties of polymers, fibers, and composites with a focus on carbon nanotubes and other nano materials. He has conducted fiber processing and structure-property studies on a broad range of polymers including synthetic and natural polymers, as well as carbon fibers. Kumar will present \u201c\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.techconnectworld.com\/World2014\/a.php?i=1292\u0022\u003EDevelopments in and Potential of Polymer Nanocomposites\u003C\/a\u003E,\u201d on Wednesday, June the 18\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETechConnect World 2014 will be held at the Gaylord Convention Center from June the 15\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E through the 18\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E. For abstract information, click the title links in the above article. For more information and registration, please \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.techconnectworld.com\/World2014\/about\/\u0022\u003Efollow this link to the TechConnect World website\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Institute of Technology Professors William J. 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TAG selected the 40 technology companies based on their \u201cinnovation, financial impact and their efforts at spreading awareness of the state\u2019s technology initiatives\u2026\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETen of the 40 companies are either graduates or current members of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.atdc.org\/\u0022\u003EAdvanced Technology Development Center\u003C\/a\u003E (ATDC), Georgia Tech\u2019s incubator for technology companies. Nine companies, including two of the ATDC firms, are headed by Georgia Tech alumni. Other companies have connections through a student founder, faculty advisor or research collaboration.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe ATDC graduates are Accelarad, Emcien Corporation, Innovolt, MessageGears and Patientco. Current ATDC companies include Azalea Health, Rigor, Sensiotec, SoftWear Automation and Springbot. The \u201cTop 40 Innovative Technology\u201d companies showcased their products and services at the TAG Georgia Technology Summit held in March at the Cobb Galleria Center.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThrough the accomplishments of alumni entrepreneurs, the assistance of ATDC and other connections, Georgia Tech is contributing to the state\u2019s economy through the development of innovative technology companies,\u201d said Stephen Fleming, Georgia Tech vice president and executive director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.innovate.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EEnterprise Innovation Institute\u003C\/a\u003E which oversees the ATDC. \u201cThe companies selected by TAG demonstrate the broad-based impact Georgia Tech has on the state\u2019s technology community.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe 40 companies chosen for the honor were selected from among 120 applications submitted by companies from across Georgia.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe 2014 Top 40 finalists are an elite group of innovators who represent the very best of Georgia\u2019s technology community,\u201d Tino Mantella, president and CEO of TAG, said in the organization\u2019s news release on the companies. \u201cThe 2014 Top 40 finalists are shining examples of what makes our state such a hotbed for technology, and we applaud them for standing out as leaders in Georgia\u2019s technology community.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to the ATDC incubator, Georgia Tech also operates the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.venturelab.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EVentureLab\u003C\/a\u003E program to help researchers spin off companies from the Institute\u2019s research program. Other efforts aimed at startup companies include Flashpoint, an accelerator for technology companies, and the NSF I-Corps program, which helps faculty develop companies from research funded by the National Science Foundation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe complete list of innovative companies is available on the TAG website. \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.tagonline.org\/news-press\/tag-names-top-40-innovative-technology-companies-in-georgia-march\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.tagonline.org\/news-press\/tag-names-top-40-innovative-technology-companies-in-georgia-march\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E177 North Avenue\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAtlanta, Georgia\u0026nbsp; 30332-0181\u0026nbsp; USA\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHalf of the companies included on the Technology Association of Georgia\u2019s (TAG) 2014 \u201cTop 40 Innovative Technology Company\u201d list have direct connections to the Georgia Institute of Technology.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Half of the companies on the Technology Association of Georgia\u2019s 2014 list of innovative companies have direct connections to Georgia Tech."}],"uid":"27303","created_gmt":"2014-05-09 10:37:34","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:22","author":"John Toon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-05-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-05-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"296141":{"id":"296141","type":"image","title":"Centergy Building, home to ATDC","body":null,"created":"1449244514","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:55:14","changed":"1475894995","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:55","alt":"Centergy Building, home to ATDC","file":{"fid":"199405","name":"centergy-bldg_0.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/centergy-bldg_0_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/centergy-bldg_0_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1801953,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/centergy-bldg_0_0.jpg?itok=TIpmO3NK"}}},"media_ids":["296141"],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"131","name":"Economic Development and Policy"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4238","name":"atdc"},{"id":"9683","name":"companies"},{"id":"341","name":"innovation"},{"id":"166994","name":"startups"},{"id":"167668","name":"Stephen Fleming"}],"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\u003EJohn Toon\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EResearch News\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E(404) 894-6986\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jtoon@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"294291":{"#nid":"294291","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Head of ARPA-E Visits Georgia Tech","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECheryl Martin, acting director of the United States Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) visited the Georgia Tech campus to meet with faculty and students on Wednesday, April 23.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;In a roundtable discussion at the Carbon Neutral Energy Solutions Laboratory at Georgia Tech, Senator Johnny Isakson and Georgia Tech executive vice president for research Steve Cross briefed Martin on Georgia Tech\u2019s strong partnership with the state and other collaborators to build an innovation ecosystem in Georgia and drive economic development, and the importance of continued investment in innovation. Representatives from industry, the startup community including Invest Atlanta, Georgia Research Alliance and Tech faculty engaged in a lively discussion around the importance of public-private partnerships and Martin\u2019s work to understand and combat challenges presented in technology commercialization.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMartin\u2019s remarks underscored the importance of actively engaging with federal stakeholders, emphasizing the value of forming networks in the energy sector. Campus visits like this one are organized by the Institute to elevate awareness of Georgia Tech\u2019s comprehensive research portfolio and to keep a pulse on new opportunities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMartin also leads ARPA-E\u2019s Technology-to-Market program, which helps breakthrough energy technologies succeed in the marketplace. Prior to joining ARPA-E, Dr. Martin was an Executive in Residence with Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELearn more about Georgia Tech\u2019s energy research at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.energy.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ewww.energy.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Cheryl Martin, acting director of the United States Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) visited the Georgia Tech campus to meet with faculty and students."}],"uid":"27213","created_gmt":"2014-05-01 07:23:47","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:18","author":"Teri Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-05-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-05-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"294301":{"id":"294301","type":"image","title":"Cheryl Martin, ARPA-E","body":null,"created":"1449244331","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:52:11","changed":"1475894993","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:53","alt":"Cheryl Martin, ARPA-E","file":{"fid":"199343","name":"martin.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/martin_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/martin_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":6465202,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/martin_0.jpg?itok=VgHR4x0i"}},"294311":{"id":"294311","type":"image","title":"Cheryl Martin and Senator Isakson","body":null,"created":"1449244331","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:52:11","changed":"1475894993","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:53","alt":"Cheryl Martin and Senator Isakson","file":{"fid":"199344","name":"martin2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/martin2_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/martin2_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":4597717,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/martin2_0.jpg?itok=8b5ivehh"}}},"media_ids":["294301","294311"],"groups":[{"id":"47398","name":"GCR (Office of Government and Community Relations)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"57041","name":"ARPA-E"},{"id":"213","name":"energy"},{"id":"67621","name":"federal relations"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"}],"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\u003ETeri Nagel\u003C\/a\u003E, Georgia Tech Office of Government and Community Relations\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"292921":{"#nid":"292921","#data":{"type":"news","title":"United States Energy Secretary Visits Georgia Tech","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EOn Wednesday, April 16, United States Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz visited Georgia Tech to deliver the keynote address at the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.inta.gatech.edu\/sam-nunn-forum\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESam Nunn Bank of America Policy Forum\u003C\/a\u003E and to learn more about energy research and education initiatives on campus.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WyAtUV8U6AY\u0026amp;list=PLiVQMdi0PkPtSWjy1KDIL7mbi5Ix1W-Q_\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EView Secretary Moniz\u0027s keynote address \u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EThemed \u201cU.S. Competitiveness Amid a Changing Natural Gas Landscape: A View from the Southeast,\u201d the policy forum provided a platform for Secretary Moniz to urge leaders in energy research like Georgia Tech to focus on energy independence, cost, and security, and we can do all three if we apply our innovation thinking.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003EAfter the forum, director of the Georgia Tech Strategic Energy Institute Tim Liewen hosted the Secretary in focused meetings with faculty and students. 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The list, known as \u201cInnovation U 2.0,\u201d uses case studies to describe innovation-related attributes of each university, including goals and aspirations, leadership, entrepreneurship, industry and community partnering and technology transfer.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech is one of only six universities \u2013 Carnegie Mellon University, North Carolina State University, Purdue University, Stanford University and the University of Utah are the others \u2013 to be included in both the 2014 and 2002 versions of the report.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOne of the more heartening aspects of the Georgia Tech story is that the institution has largely stayed true to the aspirations of the founders back in the 19th century,\u201d the Innovation U 2.0 report says. \u201cThose aspirations were to develop a first class technological university, one that combined excellence in academic education with a hand \u2018in the shop,\u2019 and one that enabled Georgia to create a modern economy.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe report goes on to note that Georgia Tech\u2019s vision is more than just aspiration.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAll of those things have been achieved and the bar continues to be raised as its impact is felt throughout the world,\u201d the report continues. \u201cGeorgia Tech is one of the great American stories [of how] sustained inspired leadership, diligence in execution, and an ever-expanding vision and culture can accomplish amazing things.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EInnovation U 2.0 quotes from Georgia Tech\u2019s strategic plan, which was approved in 2010, and cites examples of how it has been implemented:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u201cGeorgia Tech \u2013 a place that is both theory and science-driven but also a place that has become very good at fostering technological innovation, applications, and knowledge-based enterprise.\u201d\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u201cOne of the assumptions and themes of this book of cases is that innovation, entrepreneurship, and private sector interest is enhanced when universities do more research and problem-solving in the context of interdisciplinary centers and institutes. Georgia Tech has wholeheartedly embraced that assumption.\u201d\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u201cThese involvements put Georgia Tech in fairly exclusive company among institutions that are able to launch and maintain these fairly complex partnership relations with other institutions as well as corporate technology leaders.\u201d\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u201cOf note, roughly 50% of licenses executed by Georgia Tech in 2012 were granted to Georgia companies.\u201d\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u201cGeorgia Tech takes its innovation mission seriously, and has done so for a long time.\u201d\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Enterprise Innovation Institute (EI\u003Csup\u003E2\u003C\/sup\u003E), home to the majority of Georgia Tech\u2019s economic development and business assistance programs, gets special attention in the report.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe programs are quite diverse in terms of clients or participants, physical and organizational location, and collectively they encompass a continuum that extends from early technology and venture development to established firms with significant history,\u201d it says of EI\u003Csup\u003E2\u003C\/sup\u003E. \u201cThese programs leverage a mix of state, federal, and private sector funding to enhance economic development in the state of Georgia. Conceptually, the programs and clients are all united by the emphases on innovation and entrepreneurship, and the structure enables program leadership to share best practices and policies across the heterogeneous mix.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESumming up EI\u003Csup\u003E2\u003C\/sup\u003E, Innovation U 2.0 concludes: \u201cAmong the cases in this volume, [Georgia Tech\u0027s EI\u003Csup\u003E2\u003C\/sup\u003E] is probably the most novel organizational solution to the inherent diversity of activities that fall under the labels of innovation and entrepreneurship, and one that seems to have enough authority to give it a fair trial.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETechnology Square was under construction when the 2002 Innovation U report was done. The 2014 version notes the impact of the midtown development, which is home to not only EI\u003Csup\u003E2\u003C\/sup\u003E, but also the Scheller College of Business, Georgia Tech Professional Education, Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center, Technology Square Research Building, and Barnes \u0026amp; Noble Georgia Tech Bookstore.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cTechnology Square can be seen as an intentional design effort by Georgia Tech to foster inter-sector engagement by creating a mixed-use district,\u201d says the report. \u201cTechnology Square is still only 10 years old. It is early and the aspiration is that this area will evolve into a high tech bazaar with a large variety and number of entities involved.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EInnovation U 2.0 was produced by Louis G. Tornatzky, who recently retired from California Polytechnic State University, and by Elaine C. Rideout of North Carolina State University. 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This model asks students to view pre-filmed lectures at home, then treats class time as a dedicated problem-solving workshop.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDonald Webster, associate chair and professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, began teaching the inverted course concept back in the fall of 2012.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cEven as a professor with a lot of experience, [it was] a little terrifying, definitely a leap of faith,\u201d Webster said. \u201cBut problem-solving \u2014 that\u2019s how students learn.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEncouraged by fellow faculty members, Webster spent six months planning the design and schedule of his new model. In spring 2013, he launched his first inverted course, a fluid mechanics class, known as CEE 3040.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt was a learning experience.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cA lot of things went really well, some things changed,\u201d Webster said. But from the start, he said, it was \u201cvital that as an instructor, I was thoughtful about the setup of the course and how students accessed information.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor example, at first, his class sessions relied purely on group work. But in his second iteration of the fluid mechanics course, he began to work example problems at the start of the class.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EClassroom Environs\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe dynamic of Webster\u2019s fluid mechanics classroom looks something like this:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBefore coming to class, students view a handful of short lecture videos, which typically average eight to 11 minutes in length. 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When this happens, students effectively become one another\u2019s learning resources, acting as teaching assistants to their peers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EStudent Experience\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStudent feedback on this model has been overwhelmingly positive. Webster attributes this to two factors: the active problem solving, which lets students see if they\u2019ve truly grasped the concept; and the control enabled by the videos, which students can pause, rewind or rewatch.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDiane Jlelaty, a third-year civil engineering student, agrees with that assessment. She has taken two inverted courses taught by Webster, a dynamics course and, this semester, a fluid mechanics class.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn her view, any technically heavy course can benefit from the inverted format, specifically for the increased opportunity to practice problem solving.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOn exams, we\u2019re not asked to describe theory, we\u2019re asked to perform question problems,\u201d she said. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of difference producing a solution yourself, since it has to come from your own understanding of the materials, and learning via lecture.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJlelaty, who will work in an applied computing mechanics lab in Switzerland this summer, recommends the inverted course model to all students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIf it\u2019s ever even a question, take it without a second of hesitation,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019ve never felt so good about a course as I do this one.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOf the less positive feedback from students, most seems to stem from surprise that they had enrolled in a flipped course. Currently, the OSCAR registration system lacks indicators to denote which teaching model a class will follow. Instructors using the inverted model generally announce their intentions on the first day of class. To find out ahead of time if a class will follow the inverted model, students can email the professor of the course in question.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOther challenges for students have been related to class format, grading, and the level of engagement from the professor, all of which varied based on the class and instructor.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELessons Learned\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt hasn\u2019t all been smooth sailing. In Webster\u2019s third semester teaching the inverted course, student results on the midterm didn\u2019t meet expectations \u2014 which, he said, could have shaken his faith in the whole model.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut after a firm talk with the class, he readministered the exam, and scores were remarkably better than those earned by students in a regular lecture format.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENow in his fourth iteration of the inverted fluid mechanics course, Webster continues to refine his design. He has begun to require attendance, having seen that students who come to class perform remarkably better on exams.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWendy Newstetter, director of Learning Sciences Research for the College of Engineering, said the situated feedback enabled by the inverted model allows for just-in-time teaching tailored to student needs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhen you first flip, the classroom setting becomes a window on the problems students are having on a grand scale, and that\u2019s a moment we\u2019ve never had before,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s eye-opening.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EStudents and professors are jointly exploring new territory when it comes to inverted, or flipped, classes.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Students and professors are jointly exploring new territory when it comes to inverted, or flipped, classes."}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2014-04-24 10:51:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:15","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-04-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-04-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"292351":{"id":"292351","type":"image","title":"The \u0022Flipped\u0022 Classroom","body":null,"created":"1449244313","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:51:53","changed":"1475894991","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:51","alt":"The \u0022Flipped\u0022 Classroom","file":{"fid":"199276","name":"162275301-a.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/162275301-a_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/162275301-a_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1828554,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/162275301-a_0.jpg?itok=jm1ti2eN"}}},"media_ids":["292351"],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1506","name":"faculty"},{"id":"91991","name":"flipped classroom"},{"id":"3823","name":"learning"},{"id":"166847","name":"students"}],"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\u003EElana Burton\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstitute Communications\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"284671":{"#nid":"284671","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Westside Initiative Outlines Goals for 2015","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn Friday, February 21\u003Csup\u003Est\u003C\/sup\u003E, you may have seen groups of middle school girls walking (or running) around campus as they completed a scavenger hunt on campus.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThey also received tours of the Invention Studio, a presentation from the GT Urban Honey Bee Project, and demonstrations from different GVU labs. These activities were all part of the second annual InGirls Immersion day at Georgia Institute of Technology hosted by the Westside Communities Alliance (WCA) and organized by WCA leadership in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAfter the day\u2019s activities, the 35 girls from Sylvan Hills Middle School completed evaluation forms.\u0026nbsp; Their comments included:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI really look forward to going to Georgia Tech.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGT is very amazing and I hope I will be able to come.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis was a great trip! I am really considering Georgia Tech as my college.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI love Georgia Tech!\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe WCA is a partnership between Atlanta\u2019s westside communities and institutes of higher education, led by Dean Royster of the Ivan Allen College of the Liberal Arts and Dean French of the College of Architecture. The WCA began in April 2011 as an initiative to bring coherence to long-standing and recent efforts by Georgia Tech to partner with neighboring communities. These communities include: Bankhead, Centennial Park, Home Park, Vine City, Washington Park, and other neighborhoods west of the I-75\/85 Connector.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFull-time staff members came on board in August 2012, and the WCA has grown exponentially since then. Some highlights from the past year and a half include:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EVolunteer service projects.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPresentations on panels and in classes.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EThree awards \/ certificates from community organizations.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EReceiving two grants for program implementation.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EProviding programmatic support for community events.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAttending numerous community meetings and posting notes to the WCA website.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EOrganizing and supporting community tours.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ECollaborating with faculty to shape various GT courses and projects.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EFacilitating discussions on community development and education.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to a dynamic website, the WCA also maintains a Facebook and Twitter account (both updated daily) and a calendar that has been called \u201cthe most up-to-date calendar of events on the Westside\u201d by Cicely Garrett, Food Systems Innovation Manager at Atlanta Community Food Bank.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis consistent presence has allowed the WCA and Georgia Tech to stand out among community leaders. Christi Jackson, Executive Director of the Conservancy at Historic Washington Park, who worked with the WCA on an event in September, had the following to say: \u0022This year, the WCA has stepped up to become a true resource for the entire Historic Washington Park\u0026nbsp;District. Whether it is providing technical assistance or volunteers, we rely on the expertise provided by our growing association with the WCA. Ultimately, the Westside Communities Alliance helps us be successful as an organization.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMoving forward, the WCA has three primary goals:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Col\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAnchoring the WCA within westside communities by having a physical presence on the westside.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ELong-term sustainability for the WCA.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EIncreasing Georgia Tech enrollment from westside Atlanta public high schools from 0 percent to 25 percent by fall 2016.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ol\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGoal 1: \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn attempting to secure a long-term place to house the WCA office and provide space for community classes and meetings, WCA staff has been an integral part of the E.R. Carter for the Historic Westside Collective. This is a group seeking to turn the historic E.R. Carter School (most recently KIPP WAYS Academy) on Joseph E. Lowery Blvd into a Multipurpose Community Center. The space is centrally located between Georgia Tech, Georgia State University, and the Atlanta University Center. It is adjacent to the Ashby MARTA Station, and has ample parking and amenities, including 22 classrooms, 11 offices, a cafetorium, and outdoor space. The WCA convened multiple meetings with the steering committee, prepared a proposal for Atlanta Public Schools (APS), and participated in a meeting with City of Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed to help move this initiative forward.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGoal 2: \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe WCA seeks to increase its value to community members outside of its current communication and promotional services, programmatic support, technical expertise, and volunteer provision. Beginning in late April, the WCA will host a community studio series covering a range of development and transit topics (one of the four issue areas of the WCA). Local experts and professors will conduct a seminar on their particular research interest for a non-academic audience. Participating organizations will receive a stipend to support their work upon completion of the free course.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGroups such as Youth Enrichment Program (YEP!) and Circle K have been working on the westside for over 5 and 10 years, respectively.\u0026nbsp; The WCA provides a venue for additional students and student groups to be introduced to westside opportunities and potential partners.\u0026nbsp; The Office of Leadership and Civic Engagement and the Office of Minority Educational Development have been very supportive of WCA endeavors with student organizations thus far.\u0026nbsp; Therefore, in April, the WCA will invite incoming Georgia Tech student leadership to meet westside community partners and make connections for service projects for academic year 2014-15.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo ensure sustainability, funding opportunities are extremely important for the WCA. Two projects have been funded by the Ford Foundation and the City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs.\u0026nbsp; The WCA continues to work with advocates throughout the Institute to secure internal and external funding for future initiatives.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGoal 3:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the academic year 2013-14, one African American student from Atlanta Public Schools was admitted to Georgia Tech as a traditional, full-time freshman. This student did not reside on the Westside.\u0026nbsp; APS faces a host of educational challenges such as racial and income segregation, school closings, and interim leadership, among others. Currently, APS has a 50 percent high school graduation rate. The average SAT score in 2013 was 1097 at Washington High School, which is less than three miles from Georgia Tech, where the average SAT score for the incoming freshman class was 2105.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMany west Atlanta youth grow up within walking distance of Georgia Tech, but never visit the campus. Moreover, Georgia Tech students overwhelmingly view the westside as a place that \u201cneeds help\u201d without understanding the cultural and historical relevance of these neighborhoods. This is one benefit Georgia Tech receives from participating in the InGirls program. Westside students get to experience the campus, while Georgia Tech faculty, staff, and students have the opportunity to interact with local youth. Near Peer and Project ENGAGE are examples of successful programs that provide opportunities to introduce these two groups. Both working with Coretta Scott King Young Women\u2019s Leadership Academy and BEST Academy, Project ENGAGE hires 12 students to conduct lab research in the Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, and Near Peer matches Georgia Tech students with westside high school students in a mentorship program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe WCA seeks to act as a clearinghouse for any and all westside projects involving Georgia Tech and other community partners. The WCA lifts up existing work, such as Project ENGAGE, architecture design studios, digital media projects, and service work by student organizations. WCA also works to foster new relationships and initiatives to improve quality of life in west Atlanta. Georgia Tech\u2019s efforts to compile knowledge about widespread programs is evident through movements within the Institute, such as the Office of Government and Community Relations K12 web portal to supplement their hard-copy report and Dr. Ellen Zegura\u2019s and Dr. Colin Potts\u2019 Service Learning and Community Engagement Council.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn achieving all of these goals, the Westside Communities Alliance hopes to sustain and advance Georgia Tech\u2019s presence and influence on the westside. More importantly, the WCA can bring together westside stakeholders (institutions of higher education, community residents, public and private agencies, and funders) to work toward a coherent vision for west Atlanta\u2019s future. The WCA truly believes that, by working together, we can develop comprehensive solutions for complex community challenges, rebuild thriving urban neighborhoods, and help the westside of Atlanta do better.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn Friday, February 21\u003Csup\u003Est\u003C\/sup\u003E, you may have seen groups of middle school girls walking (or running) around campus as they completed a scavenger hunt on campus.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The WCA began as an initiative to bring coherence to Georgia Tech efforts to partner with neighboring communities. 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So when a National Science Foundation grant led to development of an input device that would allow kids with disabilities to operate tablet computers, she wanted to commercialize the technology to get it into the hands of the children.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut after talking with more than a hundred potential users of the device, she learned the real need was for a generic interface system able to connect a wide range of input devices \u2013 big button switches, joysticks, sip-and-puff straws and others \u2013 to the tablet computers. And it turned out that the market was much larger than Howard imagined, extending to adults with disabilities and potentially even persons with Alzheimer\u2019s.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA professor in the Georgia Tech \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/fac_profiles\/bio.php?id=135\u0022\u003EHoward\u003C\/a\u003E has now launched a company, Zyrobotics, to commercialize the device, and a prototype has already been developed. The company, run by a former graduate student, won\u2019t be the next IBM, but it will help disabled children do what all kids want to do: play video games and interact with computers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAssistance with refining the device came through the Innovation Corps (I-Corps\u2122), a National Science Foundation program that helps NSF-funded researchers learn about starting up a company \u2013 and by talking to potential customers, determine whether there\u2019s really a market for what they\u2019ve developed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWithout I-Corps, I wouldn\u2019t have thought to pursue this,\u201d said Howard, who holds the title of Motorola Foundation Professor. \u201cThey showed us how to talk about the technology in terms that the general public could understand. And I-Corps made us take a step back and ask if what we had developed was really of value to potential customers.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EI-Corps Innovation\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA dozen Georgia Tech teams \u2013 each composed of a faculty member, entrepreneurial lead and industry mentor \u2013 have now gone through the six-week I-Corps program. About a third of them have, like Howard, revised their plans and decided to move forward with forming a company and creating a product based on the results of NSF-supported research. The program is part of a national effort to turn research discoveries into new companies and new products, supporting economic development and building understanding of what it means to be an entrepreneur.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThrough the Innovation Corps, NSF seeks to accelerate the development of new technologies, products and processes that arise from fundamental research,\u201d said Rathindra (Babu) DasGupta, the NSF\u2019s program director for I-Corps. \u201cThe goals of I-Corps are to spur translation of fundamental research, to encourage collaboration between academia and industry, and to train students to understand innovation and entrepreneurship.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe program provides mentoring and funding designed to move the results of NSF-supported research through the early stages of company formation. \u201cNSF investments strategically strengthen the nation\u2019s innovation ecosystem by addressing the challenges inherent in the early stages of the innovation process,\u201d DasGupta added.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EI-Corps at Georgia Tech\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBecause of its long experience with forming companies from university research, in July 2012 Georgia Tech was selected to be among the first institutions to become \u201dnodes\u201d teaching the I-Corps curriculum. The program is basically a boot camp that shows what it\u2019s like to form a startup company \u2013 and ensures that there\u2019s a real market for a fledgling company\u2019s proposed product. About 25 teams from universities around the country participate each time the program is taught at one of the I-Corps nodes, including Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe I-Corps process is very similar to the scientific method, which scientists and engineers are familiar with,\u201d explained Keith McGreggor, who directs the I-Corps program at Georgia Tech. \u201cWe use this process to turn fiction \u2013 what you might think is true \u2013 into fact by doing experiments and testing hypotheses in the real world with customers instead of in the laboratory.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI-Corps puts faculty members and graduate students through a pressure cooker environment that simulates a real startup. Not everyone is cut out for entrepreneurship, McGreggor noted. Faculty members often have a skill set \u2013 collaborating with other researchers, teaching students and publishing papers \u2013 that\u2019s different from the skills needed to produce products and services that non-researchers are willing to buy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe centerpiece of the program is \u201ccustomer discovery\u201d in which the teams must talk with at least 100 potential customers about their proposed product. This interaction with the real world almost inevitably leads to what I-Corps calls \u201cthe pivot,\u201d which occurs when the teams, based on the customer feedback, realize they\u2019ve been developing a product for which there isn\u2019t a market. In many cases, that realization leads to new, and successful, directions for the technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cEveryone starts out with one idea about what they want to do, and they almost always change to something else that they are also capable of doing,\u201d McGreggor said. \u201cIt can be difficult for people to switch gears, but what\u2019s beautiful about this program is that they do switch.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt the end of the six weeks, the teams decide whether or not to go forward with their idea. For Georgia Tech teams, fledgling companies that emerge from the process can join \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/venturelab.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EVentureLab\u003C\/a\u003E, a program that helps researchers form companies, create prototypes, bring in experienced management and obtain early-stage funding. VentureLab companies can go on to be members of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.atdc.org\/\u0022\u003EAdvanced Technology Development Center\u003C\/a\u003E (ATDC), Georgia Tech\u2019s accelerator program that helps entrepreneurs launch and build successful companies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMarketing MOFs\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.chbe.gatech.edu\/faculty\/walton\u0022\u003EKrista Walton\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.chbe.gatech.edu\/faculty\/sholl\u0022\u003EDavid Sholl\u003C\/a\u003E used the I-Corps process to confirm the market need for metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), a new materials technology with a broad range of potential market applications. With NSF support, the researchers had developed a way to scale up the synthesis of MOFs, a class of nanomaterials, but weren\u2019t sure what direction to take next \u2013 a classic problem for technologies that have many possible applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBy talking with more than 100 potential customers, we went through numerous refinements in our understanding of how we can create a sustainable business with our technology,\u201d said Sholl, who is now chair of Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.chbe.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cWe saw over and over again that the issues that obsess researchers doing fundamental research and the issues that matter to customers are often not the same.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETalking with the customers required a large investment of time, but Sholl \u2013 who is also a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Energy Sustainability \u2013 was pleased with the level of interest in the technology. The potential customers he and Walton interviewed also identified applications they had never considered.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs a result of the process, Sholl and Walton \u2013 an associate professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering \u2013 formed Inmondo Tech, and are working with several initial customers to develop a first product.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESmartphone Questions\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ic.gatech.edu\/people\/gregory-abowd\u0022\u003EGregory Abowd\u003C\/a\u003E, the benefits of I-Corps were different. A serial entrepreneur with a record of launching successful companies, Abowd felt he knew how to commercialize technology he developed that helps connect young patients with their doctors through handheld devices. But he wanted to apply I-Corps\u2019 systematic process to starting up a new company.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI\u2019ve had some successful and unsuccessful startup efforts, but I really didn\u2019t understand what were the important elements of the successful ones,\u201d said Abowd, who is a Regents\u2019 and Distinguished Professor in Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ic.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Interactive Computing\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cI was intrigued with the idea of being a little more structured going into this one, because I had learned there are an infinite number of ways to make mistakes in the business world.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe company, established as L.S.Q. LLC in Georgia, will provide a way to ask questions of smartphone users at times when they aren\u2019t actively using their handheld devices. Building on the original purpose of the technology, which was to boost interaction with children who have chronic diseases, Abowd sees many possible applications, including surveys designed for the small screens of mobile devices.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u2019ll ask questions at a point when people are interacting with their phones, but at a point of pause,\u201d he explained. Abowd has assembled a team and is talking with potential customers. He expects to form a joint venture with a market research firm in early 2014 and develop a product quickly.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAdvice to Others\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhat advice do the teams give faculty members and graduate students thinking about the I-Corps opportunity?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere is a growing network to help with commercialization, both at Georgia Tech and around the country,\u201d noted Abowd. \u201cA successful startup requires a lot of effort, and it\u2019s more than a full-time job. I-Corps gives you a six-week exposure to help you determine whether this is right for you.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI-Corps requires a large investment of time, something that can be difficult if faculty members aren\u2019t prepared for it, Howard noted. To be successful, at least one member of the team has to be available nearly full-time during the six-week program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI would recommend this 100 percent, and have already talked with other faculty members about I-Corps,\u201d she said. \u201cThis process is very different from what we normally do in research and teaching, and it has changed the way I think about what I do. It was a great experience for us.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI-Corps teams follow a rigorous application process designed to determine whether team members are truly committed to launching and building a startup, McGreggor noted. That can be daunting.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI-Corps simulates a startup, so it puts a lot of heat on the team to see if they are going to stay together when they get into a company,\u201d he said. \u201cWe challenge the researchers in ways that they have probably not been challenged since they were graduate students. It is exquisitely uncomfortable for some people.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBroader Impacts\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI-Corps has also changed the way that Georgia Tech approaches startup companies. Customer discovery and early pivoting to serve the marketplace, for instance, are now at the core of Georgia Tech\u2019s VentureLab and Flashpoint programs, which serve all researchers regardless of their funding sources, McGreggor said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cFaculty members are forced to look into the face of a world that may not want what they have produced,\u201d McGreggor said. \u201cWhat we\u2019ve learned is that when entrepreneurs get it wrong, it\u2019s usually because they are building something that nobody really wants. This has really changed our approach to doing things in VentureLab.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe I-Corps approach has also changed the role of graduate students in the startup process, and opened it more to junior faculty members. In the past, VentureLab had assumed that only tenured faculty would have the time and flexibility to commit to a startup. Now, he says, the program makes no distinction among researchers, and realizes that the graduate students involved in developing a technology may be the right team members to go forward as part of the new company. That makes creating a startup a real alternative to traditional post-graduation opportunities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBeyond the new enterprises begun, the I-Corps program is having a larger impact on the universities whose faculty members have participated.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAdditional successes of the program have been far-reaching,\u201d said the NSF\u2019s DasGupta. \u201cFaculty are taking what they learned in I-Corps about innovation and technology transfer back to their universities and training their students differently. The participation of students and post-docs in I-Corps has also had favorable impacts: they report that their employability is enhanced by their participating in I-Corps.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe program was launched in 2011, and continues to evolve as NSF tracks the results. In addition to its teams of researchers, entrepreneurs and mentors, I-Corps is also focusing on nodes and sites to bring the concepts to a larger group of NSF researchers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe continue to explore ways to expand the program\u2019s impact nationally, and at the state and local levels,\u201d DasGupta added.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E177 North Avenue\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAtlanta, Georgia\u0026nbsp; 30332-0181\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Contacts\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) (404-894-6986) or Brett Israel (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:brett.israel@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ebrett.israel@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) (404-385-1933).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech was one of the first nodes in the NSF\u0027s I-Corps program, which helps faculty members commercialize research discoveries. 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\u003Cstrong\u003EFebruary 14 \u2013 March 1, 2014\u003C\/strong\u003E. Music, dance, theatre, digital, literary and visual arts flourish at the technological research university, inspiring and reflecting research and education.\u0026nbsp; Kicking off with the world premiere of \u0022Radical Love\u0022 by DramaTech Theater on February 14, the 2014 Festival includes works that showcase the convergence of art and technology, and also works that are solely artistic in nature.\u0026nbsp; The Festival will be held at venues across the Georgia Tech campus.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe schedule of Festival events and performances is below:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFriday, February 14\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMembers of New Orleans Airlift discuss \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.dithyrambalina.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDithyrambalina\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHear members of\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;New Orleans Airlift\u003C\/em\u003E, a team of artists, musicians and architects from New Orleans, discuss\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EDithyrambalina\u003C\/em\u003E, a sonic playground, performance venue and laboratory for musical architecture in New Orleans.\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia Tech Research Building 107, 11:00 a.m. \u003Cbr \/\u003EFree\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EDramaTech Theater presents \u003Cem\u003ERadical Love\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/em\u003EThe story of a student resistance movement during dictator Milosevic\u0027s reign in former Yugoslavia.\u003Cbr \/\u003EDramaTech Theater, 8:00 p.m. \u003Cbr \/\u003ETickets: 404-894-3481 or \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/dramatech.org\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ewww.dramatech.org \u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESaturday, February 15\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPat Metheny Unity Group with Chris Potter, Antonio Sanchez, Ben Williams and Giulio Carmassi \u003Cbr \/\u003EFerst Center for the Arts, 8:00 p.m. \u003Cbr \/\u003ETickets: 404-894-9600 or \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ferstcenter.gatech.edu\/index.php\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ewww.ferstcenter.gatech.edu \u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EDramaTech Theater presents \u003Cem\u003ERadical Love\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/em\u003EThe story of a student resistance movement during dictator Milosevic\u0027s reign in former Yugoslavia.\u003Cbr \/\u003EDramaTech Theater, 8:00 p.m. \u003Cbr \/\u003ETickets: 404-894-3481 or \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/dramatech.org\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ewww.dramatech.org \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMonday, February 17 \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EDanceTech Contemporary Master Class\u003Cbr \/\u003E DanceTech hosts Dancefx Athens director Allison Hayn for a contemporary master class for dancers\u003Cbr \/\u003E CRC Studio C, 1:30 p.m.\u003Cbr \/\u003E Tickets: $10, available at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gtdancetech.wix.com\/index\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/gtdancetech.wix.com\/index \u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ESchool of Architecture NAAB Open House\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003EIn honor of the National Architectural Accreditation Board (NAAB) team visit, the School of Architecture presents a display of architectural works by faculty and students.\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003ECohen Gallery, East Architecture Building\u003Cbr \/\u003E4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. \u003Cbr \/\u003EFree\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWednesday, February 19\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EOpen Hours for Exhibition Tours \u003Cbr \/\u003EFerst Center for the Arts, 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. \u003Cbr \/\u003EFree\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThursday, February 20\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EOpen Hours for Exhibition Tours \u003Cbr \/\u003EFerst Center for the Arts, 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. \u003Cbr \/\u003EFree\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAndroids, Shape Shifters and Vampires: Black Women\u0027s Afrofuturist Feminist Cultural Productions \u003Cbr \/\u003EAuthor talk by Susana Morris, Auburn University\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia Tech Library Ferst Room, 11:00 a.m. \u003Cbr \/\u003EFree\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPoetry@Tech presents Visiting Poets Jeffrey McDaniel, Jon Sands and Vivek Sharma\u003Cbr \/\u003ERobert C. Williams Papermaking Museum Kress Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. \u003Cbr \/\u003EFree\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gtband.net\/gt-percussion-ensemble-concert-band-and-symphonic-band-concert\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Symphonic Band, Concert Band and Percussion Ensemble\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Georgia Tech School of Music presents the Percussion Ensemble, Concert Band and Symphonic Band featuring the music of Gustav Holst, David Maslanka, Steven Bryant and the premiere of a new piece by James David that was commissioned by the GT Symphonic Band. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFerst Center for the Arts, 7:30 p.m. \u003Cbr \/\u003EFree\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EDramaTech Theater presents \u003Cem\u003ERadical Love\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/em\u003EThe story of a student resistance movement during dictator Milosevic\u0027s reign in former Yugoslavia. \u003Cbr \/\u003EDramaTech Theater, 8:00 p.m. \u003Cbr \/\u003ETickets: 404-894-34811 or \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/dramatech.org\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ewww.dramatech.org \u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFriday, February 21\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003ESCPC Options presents: Learn to Paint\u003Cbr \/\u003ESCPC, SGA and Paper and Clay present this interactive class where students will learn how to create their own masterpiece based on an existing painting. \u003Cbr \/\u003EStudent Center, Crescent Room \u003Cbr \/\u003ESession 1: 4:00 p.m., Session 2: 7:00 p.m. \u003Cbr \/\u003ETickets: $10 (includes materials and snacks) available \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.techstuff2.gatech.edu\/ePOS?this_category=ROOT27_SUBCAT305\u0026amp;store=808\u0026amp;form=shared3%2fgm%2fmain.html\u0026amp;design=808\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eonline\u003C\/a\u003E. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/guthman.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EMargaret Guthman Musical Instrument Competition Finals \u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKlaus Advanced Computing Building, 7:00 p.m. \u003Cbr \/\u003EFree\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EDramaTech Theater presents \u003Cem\u003ERadical Love\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/em\u003EThe story of a student resistance movement during dictator Milosevic\u0027s reign in former Yugoslavia. \u003Cbr \/\u003EDramaTech Theater, 8:00 p.m. \u003Cbr \/\u003ETickets: 404-894-34811 or \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/dramatech.org\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ewww.dramatech.org \u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESaturday, February 22\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EGeorgia Tech Pulse presents Laasya 2014\u003Cbr \/\u003EClassical Indian Dance Competition\u003Cbr \/\u003EFerst Center for the Arts, 5:00 p.m. \u003Cbr \/\u003ETickets:\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.laasya2014.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.laasya2014.com\u0022 title=\u0022www.laasya2014.com\u0022\u003Ewww.laasya2014.com\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EDramaTech Theater presents \u003Cem\u003ERadical Love\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/em\u003EThe story of a student resistance movement during dictator Milosevic\u0027s reign in former Yugoslavia. \u003Cbr \/\u003EDramaTech Theater, 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. \u003Cbr \/\u003ETickets: 404-894-34811 or \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/dramatech.org\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ewww.dramatech.org \u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESunday, February 23\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EGeorgia Tech Symphony Orchestra\u003Cbr \/\u003EFerst Center for the Arts, 3:00 p.m. \u003Cbr \/\u003EFree\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMonday, February 24\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EInteractive Art Installations:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cem\u003ECortex\u003C\/em\u003E - Interactive AI installation by GT students Zane Cochran and Harrison Daniels\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cem\u003EViewpoints AI\u003C\/em\u003E - Interactive AI installation by GT students Mikhail Jacob and Ivan Sysoev \u003Cbr \/\u003EFerst Center for the Arts Galleries, 5:00 p.m. \u003Cbr \/\u003EFree\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ETechArts Music Showcase:\u003Cbr \/\u003E6:30 p.m. - Showcase Reception T-Shirt Giveaway\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E7:00 p.m. - Performances: \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cem\u003EGenerative Electronics\u003C\/em\u003E- computer-generated music by GT student Chad Miller\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cem\u003EYantric Metabolae\u003C\/em\u003E- interactive electronic music by GT students Thom Jordan and Govinda Ram Pingal\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Merry Go Rounds\u003C\/em\u003E- twee music by 12-member GT student band\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003EFerst Center for the Arts\u003Cbr \/\u003EFree\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETuesday, February 25 \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003ELecture by John Henry, curator of \u003Cem\u003EEngineered Art: An International Sculpture Exhibition at Georgia Tech\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELecture will be followed by a guided tour of the exhibition \u003Cbr \/\u003E11:00 a.m. \u003Cbr \/\u003EStudent Center 301, Free\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPaper and Clay presents Mold Pouring Workshop\u003Cbr \/\u003ELearn how to mold your own ceramics \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/studentcenter.gatech.edu\/crafts\/Pages\/default.aspx\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EPaper and Clay\u003C\/a\u003E (Student Center 3rd Floor), 5:00 p.m. \u003Cbr \/\u003ESlips available for $4, workshop is free to watch\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EInteractive Art Installations:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cem\u003ECortex\u003C\/em\u003E - Interactive AI installation by GT students Zane Cochran and Harrison Daniels\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cem\u003EViewpoints AI\u003C\/em\u003E - Interactive AI installation by GT students Mikhail Jacob and Ivan Sysoev \u003Cbr \/\u003EFerst Center for the Arts Galleries, 5:00 p.m. \u003Cbr \/\u003EFree\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ETechArts Creative Expression Showcase:\u003Cbr \/\u003E6:30 p.m. - Showcase Reception T-Shirt Giveaway\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E7:00 p.m. - Performances:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cem\u003ETai Chi Impression\u003C\/em\u003E- modern and Chinese dance by GT student Shel Han\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cem\u003EEmeralds of the Alhambra, Remembering Convivencia in Muslim Spain\u003C\/em\u003E- literary presentation by GT professor Dr. John Cressler\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cem\u003EApprentice: An AI Drawing Partner for Collaborative Art Making\u003C\/em\u003E-research presentation by GT student Nicholas Davis\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFeel the Power of the Dork Side- \u003C\/em\u003Ecomedy with GT professor Dr. Pete Ludovice\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003EFerst Center for the Arts\u003Cbr \/\u003EFree\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWednesday, February 26\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EOpen Hours for Exhibition Tours \u003Cbr \/\u003EFerst Center for the Arts, 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. \u003Cbr \/\u003EFree\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cem\u003EStudent View\u003C\/em\u003E reception\u003Cbr \/\u003ECelebrating an exhibition of student artwork by GT Communications students \u003Cbr \/\u003EFerst Center for the Arts, 6:00 p.m. \u003Cbr \/\u003EFree\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPaper and Clay presents Origami Workshop\u003Cbr \/\u003EExplore the ancient Japanese art of paper folding \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/studentcenter.gatech.edu\/crafts\/Pages\/default.aspx\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EPaper and Clay\u003C\/a\u003E (Student Center 3rd Floor), 7:00 p.m. \u003Cbr \/\u003EFree\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Rebel (and other myths) \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EContemporary dance performance choreographed by GT Artist-in-Residence Jonah Bokaer\u003Cbr \/\u003EFerst Center for the Arts, 8:00 p.m. \u003Cbr \/\u003EFree\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis piece was commissioned by SCAD for the 2014 deFINE ARTS Festival \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EDramaTech Theater Presents \u003Cem\u003EBlack Box Comedy Festival \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/em\u003EImprov troupes from across the nation converge in this 10th annual event\u003Cbr \/\u003ETickets: 404-894-3481 or \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.blackboxcomedy.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ewww.blackboxcomedy.com \u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThursday, February 27\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EOpen Hours for Exhibition Tours \u003Cbr \/\u003EFerst Center for the Arts, 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. \u003Cbr \/\u003EFree\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EOpening reception for \u0022Mapping Place: Africa Beyond Paper\u0022 exhibition\u003Cbr \/\u003EExplore the ways that the changing representation and projection of space has shaped our approach to Africa. \u003Cbr \/\u003ERobert C. Williams Papermaking Museum, Free\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAn Africa-Atlanta 2014 Event \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EGeorgia Tech Jazz Ensemble \u003Cbr \/\u003EFerst Center for the Arts, 7:00 p.m. \u003Cbr \/\u003EFree\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EDramaTech Presents \u003Cem\u003EBlack Box Comedy Festival\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EImprov troupes from across the nation converge in this 10th annual event\u003Cbr \/\u003ETickets: 404-894-3481 or \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.blackboxcomedy.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ewww.blackboxcomedy.com \u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFriday, February 28\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EFestival Closing Reception at Clough Art Crawl\u003Cem\u003E- \u003C\/em\u003EGeorgia Tech student artwork and performances\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/art.clough.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EClough Undergraduate Learning Commons\u003C\/a\u003E, 4:00 p.m.- 8:00 p.m. \u003Cbr \/\u003EReception begins at 5:30 p.m. \u003Cbr \/\u003EFree\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EDramaTech Theater Presents \u003Cem\u003EBlack Box Comedy Festival\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EImprov troupes from across the nation converge in this 10th annual event\u003Cbr \/\u003ETickets: 404-894-3481 or \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.blackboxcomedy.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ewww.blackboxcomedy.com \u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESaturday, March 1\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003ECarolina Chocolate Drops \u003Cbr \/\u003EFerst Center for the Arts, 8:00 p.m. \u003Cbr \/\u003ETickets: 404-894-9600 or \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ferstcenter.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ewww.ferstcenter.gatech.edu \u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EDramaTech Theater Presents \u003Cem\u003EBlack Box Comedy Festival\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EImprov troupes from across the nation converge in this 10th annual event\u003Cbr \/\u003ETickets: 404-894-3481 or \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.blackboxcomedy.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ewww.blackboxcomedy.com \u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe schedule of Festival exhibitions is below:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/art.clough.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EClough Art Crawl\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EStudent Exhibition \u003Cbr \/\u003EClough Undergraduate Learning Commons, Open through Festival \u003Cbr \/\u003EFree\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/features\/gt-engineered-art\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EEngineered Art: An International Sculpture Exhibit at Georgia Tech \u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELocated across campus--walking tour maps are located at Clough Information Booth and Student Center Box Office\u003Cbr \/\u003EOpen through Festival\u003Cbr \/\u003EFree\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ipst.gatech.edu\/amp\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EMapping Place: Africa Beyond Paper\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EExplore the ways that the changing representation and projection of space has shaped our approach to Africa. \u003Cbr \/\u003EOpen daily beginning February 28, M-F 9am-5pm. \u003Cbr \/\u003ERobert C. 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Georgia Tech\u2019s plans are outlined in a document released by the White House on Thursday, entitled \u201cCommitments to Action on College Opportunity:\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003ETo expand participation in its\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/finaid.gatech.edu\/promise\u0022\u003EG. Wayne Clough Georgia Tech Promise\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003Eprogram by 10 percent. The program provides qualified Georgia residents from low-income families a full scholarship\u2014tuition, fees, books, room, and board\u2014and allows students to graduate debt free.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ETo deliver \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.admission.gatech.edu\/apply\/programs-high-schoolers\/distance-calculus-program\u0022\u003Etechnology assisted, college level calculus courses\u003C\/a\u003E to low-income high school students. These efforts are designed to make participating students better prepared for STEM study at any college, earn college credits while in high school, and be more competitive for acceptance and access to college. In collaboration with guidance counselors and graduation coaches, Georgia Tech will also offer family financial planning to the participating students.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ETo provide incremental opportunities for first-generation students at all levels to participate in off campus programs of travel, education, and research by awarding supplemental scholarships. This assistance and the programmatic experiences will help participants develop the necessary skills and networks to succeed professionally in STEM fields.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ETo underwrite the full cost of attendance for students from the most underserved regions of Georgia, through the support of community partners and an investment from the university. Participants will be expected to work on campus for 10 hours per week. Mentoring and financial counseling will also be available.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are committed to making a Georgia Tech education within reach of every qualified Georgia resident, regardless of family income,\u201d Peterson said. \u201cBy expanding the G. 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Most students will pay less than $7,000 for a graduate degree from Georgia Tech\u2019s top 10 College of Computing. The traditional master\u2019s program can cost nearly $45,000 for on-campus students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSince we announced the online Master of Science in Computer Science last May, our goal has been to create the best possible academic experience for our online students, just as we try to do for all of Georgia Tech\u2019s residential students,\u201d said Georgia Tech Provost Rafael L. Bras. \u201cToday marks the culmination of several months of extremely hard work by faculty, administrators and staff at Georgia Tech and the beginning of a new opportunity for lifelong learners.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOMS CS received 2,360 applications during a three-week period in October, which is approximately 75 percent more applications than are received for the on-campus program during an entire year. Of those 2,360 applicants, 401 students were offered admission during the Spring 2014 semester (additional applicants will be admitted for subsequent terms). With about 375 students enrolling, and several more deferring admission for summer or fall, OMS CS\u2019 first admissions class boasts a yield rate of greater than 95 percent.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe United States and the world need more computing professionals, and I\u2019m proud that Georgia Tech and our college are leading the way to help educate them,\u201d said College of Computing Dean Zvi Galil. \u201cWe will treat all of our OMS CS students, and especially this first cohort, as partners in helping to optimize the courses and infrastructure required to support them.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOf the approximately 375 students for Spring 2014, about 330 are U.S. citizens or permanent residents, in contrast to Georgia Tech\u2019s on-campus MS CS students, about 90 percent of whom are international. OMS CS students\u2019 average age is 34.8, about 11 years older than their on-campus counterparts.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis program addresses a clear and growing need globally: to provide flexible, high-quality education in vital fields for a price that\u2019s affordable for working professionals,\u201d said Nelson Baker, Georgia Tech\u2019s dean of professional education. \u201cAlmost every student enrolled this spring is also working full time, something that would be extremely difficult to do in a traditional program. OMS CS represents a valuable option to a population of students who need it.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMore than 80 of the initial students are employees of AT\u0026amp;T, which provided $2 million to support program costs. The company intends to use OMS CS as a significant training option for its workforce.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis new approach is a huge step toward revolutionizing higher education by making an advanced technical curriculum more accessible and affordable,\u201d said Bill Blase, senior executive vice president for human resources at AT\u0026amp;T. \u201cWe need highly skilled software engineers, network engineers and data scientists. Through this program, we will enhance training for our current workforce and ensure a great pipeline for these roles and others going forward.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe five initial OMS CS courses were developed according to the Udacity model for massive online courses. They include courses on Advanced Operating Systems, Computer Networks, Software Development Process, Machine Learning and AI for Robotics.\u0026nbsp; Udacity has hired additional staff to support the technical infrastructure and answer student questions about accessing course materials. Georgia Tech will provide support personnel for all academic and enrollment questions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cToday, every industry, from healthcare and commerce to automotive and agriculture, is transforming and creating a huge unfulfilled demand for technical skills,\u201d said Sebastian Thrun, founder and CEO of Udacity. \u201cAt Udacity, our mission is to set up students for success. Today\u2019s announcement is historic and sets the foundation for a new way to approach and deliver education to students across the globe.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech has scheduled two additional application periods for OMS CS: March 3-23 (admission for Summer 2014) and April 21-May 11 (admission for Fall 2014). 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The event also addressed how manufacturing drives economic growth and positions America as a world leader.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EImmediately after a speech by President Barack Obama at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.selectusasummit.com\/\u0022\u003Ethe Select USA Investment Summit\u003C\/a\u003E on Thursday, Peterson also moderated a panel that discussed how America\u2019s universities can better partner with the world\u2019s leading businesses and industries.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAs the United States moves more toward an innovation-based economy, it will be increasingly dependent upon cutting-edge research, development and the transfer of technology,\u201d Peterson said. \u201cUniversities have been able to successfully integrate each of these into the overall mission of higher education. 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An active volunteer with the Atlanta Harm Reduction Coalition, a partner of the Westside Communities Alliance (WCA), she reflects on the opportunity to volunteer for the 23\u003Csup\u003Erd\u003C\/sup\u003E Annual Hands On Atlanta Day on October 5.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELast Saturday, a group of Georgia Tech students and I journeyed over to the Bellwood Boys and Girls Club to volunteer at the opening event for Hands On Atlanta Day. Student volunteers represented multiple organizations, including the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, Black Graduate Student Association, WCA, and Circle K. We all worked hand in hand to give more life to an already vibrant boys and girls club.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMany of the projects reminded us of our carefree days as elementary students, which was long before we all accepted the challenge to become Georgia Tech students. From painting murals and cornhole platforms to revamping the playground areas and building reading lofts, volunteering at the Bellwood Boys and Girls Club was very much like a morning full of arts and crafts. We even got to decorate birdhouses!\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBeyond being able to show our creative prowess, we got a chance to develop a deeper understanding of our service. The volunteer event was organized and funded primarily by Ivan Allen IV (pictured above with staff), grandson of Mayor Ivan Allen, Jr. The namesake of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts left a legacy of social courage for racial progression in a major southern city. Seeing Ivan IV live his grandfather\u2019s visions was very moving, and it was even more special knowing that we were a part of his grandfather\u2019s vision too.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWe are very appreciative of Ivan Allen IV, the Ivan Allen College, WCA, The Salvation Army Boys \u0026amp; Girls Clubs of Greater Atlanta, and Hands On Atlanta for organizing such an enjoyable and insightful event. I think it is wonderful and necessary that the Ivan Allen College and WCA are taking the initiative to serve our neighbors, communities in the Westside. This volunteering event allowed my peers and me to see that it is important to give back to our communities, especially those to which we are historically linked. If you want to walk, live, and breathe the Tech motto of \u201cProgress and Service,\u201d you\u2019re at Georgia Tech. 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He called for change in the U.S. model for interaction with Africa which \u0022is based upon a premise that we know better than they.\u0022 \u0026nbsp;\u0022Listen, rather than lecture,\u0022 said Ward. Another insight was that, despite the vastness and diversity of Africa, a commonality among its people is the \u0022huge premium placed on personal interaction. It\u0027s a fundamental behavior.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe array of fall activities have included the Atlanta premiere of a penetrating film biography of the award-winning author (The Color Purple) and activist, Alice Walker, and a conversation with Walker and the filmmaker; the theatrical production of\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EMother to Mother\u003C\/em\u003E, an intensely moving, one-woman play by author Sindiwe Magona; screenings of film clips by Chadian film maker Mahamat-Seleh Haroun (Bye By Africa, A Screaming Man) who was interviewed by IAC film scholar Angela Dalle Vacche; a dialogue with award-winning journalist and Civil Right icon Charlayne Hunter-Gault with tastings from her South African vineyard; and the Georgia Tech Africa Student Union\u2019s Taste of Africa.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EComing Up:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDecember 14, 2013\u2014March 9, 2014\u2014Romare Bearden: \u0026nbsp;A Black Odyssey\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;(Arts \u0026amp; Culture).\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Rich in symbolism and allegorical content, Bearden\u0027s Odyssey series creates an artistic bridge between classical mythology and African American culture. Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGrand Opening of Africa Atlanta 2014 and \u0022Mapping Place: Africa Beyond Paper,\u0022 February 13\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;(Arts \u0026amp; Culture)\u2014Robert C. Williams Paper\u0026nbsp;Museum, Georgia Tech. This exhibition\u0026nbsp;explores how the changing representation and projection of space has shaped our approach to Africa. The exhibition also asks what we learn when we place African artifacts in the cultural space from which they come, rather than simply relocating them in the aestheticized space of museums. The exhibition runs through May 16.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EVisit\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.africaatlanta.org\u0022\u003Ewww.africaatlanta.org\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to learn more about this citywide year-long series of events highlighting Atlanta as a nexus for reinventing the cultural and economic bonds among Africa, Europe, and the Americas.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAfrica is the last frontier for enterprise,\u0022 said Haskell Ward, SVP for government relations at Black Rhino Group, during the first of eigh fall pre-events for \u003Cstrong\u003EAfrica Atlanta 2014\u003C\/strong\u003E. Upcoming activities include an Atlanta film premiere, author\/film-maker dialogues, a theatrical production, a special fundraiser, a food festival, and the opening of a major art exhibition.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27889","created_gmt":"2013-10-31 14:10:47","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:15:14","author":"Beth Godfrey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-10-31T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-10-31T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"250141":{"id":"250141","type":"image","title":"The Last Frontier - Africa Atlanta 2014 Fall Activities are Underway!","body":null,"created":"1449243795","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:43:15","changed":"1475894929","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:49","alt":"The Last Frontier - Africa Atlanta 2014 Fall Activities are Underway!","file":{"fid":"198079","name":"1_2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/1_2_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/1_2_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":26875,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/1_2_0.jpg?itok=2WoBBAey"}}},"media_ids":["250141"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"42891","name":"Georgia Tech Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"60031","name":"Africa Atlanta 2014"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"252291":{"#nid":"252291","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Starter Offers Alternative Funding Method for Medical Research","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFunding for research is a highly competitive endeavor under the best of circumstances. For Georgia Tech doctoral student Troy Alexander, a new avenue for funding has opened.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlexander works as a researcher in \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.kubaneklab.biology.gatech.edu\/index.html\u0022\u003ESchool of Biology Professor Julia Kubanek\u2019s group\u003C\/a\u003E. His latest project seeks to accelerate the discovery of new medicines for the treatment of cancer and infectious diseases by studying Fijian red algae.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo help raise funds to support this research, Alexander and Kubanek posted the project on Georgia Tech Starter, a university-based, peer-reviewed crowdfunding platform for faculty-sponsored scientific research projects.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlexander established a fundraising goal of $9,450 to fast-track the discovery of these new medicines through a combination of biomedical screening, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and multivariate statistical analysis of his library of marine chemical compounds from the Fijian organisms. By identifying unknown molecules, the research will prioritize exploration of previously unseen structures that can exhibit strong potency toward microbial and human cancer cell lines.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThese molecules previously unknown to science will be carried forward for purification, structure determination, and development as treatments for disease,\u201d Alexander said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech Starter is a perfect venue for making human medicine research advances more accessible to a general audience, he added.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAccording to Allison Mercer, an applied physicist at Georgia Tech Research Institute \u2013 and the mastermind behind \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/starter.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Starter\u003C\/a\u003E \u2013 using crowdfunding for science means there is a community of people invested in the research, witnessing its benefits and outcomes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere is incredible potential for contributors to engage with scientists in a way that hasn\u2019t been done before: A project that is successfully funded converts into a blog through which only project supporters can monitor the progress of the project, ask the scientists questions, and witness world-class research at Tech as it unfolds.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut, before taking a step to gain the world\u2019s attention through \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/starter.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ETech Starter\u003C\/a\u003E, researchers need to consider several things, Alexander said: One is the amount of funding to request.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe amount we seek to raise should be large enough to make an impact on our research, but it shouldn\u2019t be so large to sound insurmountable to potential donors,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAnother item to consider is how easily one can make their research appeal to a broader audience,\u201d he said. \u201cDo you have any tangible goals that can be achieved within the first year as proof of progress to donors? Are you willing to commit to engaging with the audience \u2013 from making the video to maintaining social media contact? These are huge commitments, and they need to be managed without becoming a drain on research time.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELastly, Alexander advises that the goals of the project need to be easy to explain and justify. Short-term goals should be clear to give investors something to anticipate. And, he said, researchers should be prepared for the contingency that the funds might not be raised.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELike other crowdfunding platforms, Georgia Tech Starter operates with an all-or-nothing funding strategy. Only if the project goal amount is reached within a 60-day window, are donors\u2019 credit cards charged. This helps assure supporters that the researchers will only receive the pledged money if they have enough total funds to achieve the stated project goals. Some research efforts are scalable, but many are not.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIf it costs a million dollars to launch a telescope into space, it doesn\u2019t do you any good to get halfway there,\u201d said Mercer.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStudents interested in taking advantage of Tech\u2019s crowdfunding site can visit starter.gatech.edu to submit their contact information.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe process for getting a project posted on Georgia Tech Starter includes a comprehensive peer review of the project to ensure that: it is achievable; the requested funding amount is enough to complete the project; and the researchers on the project have the knowledge, skills, and abilities to get the research done right. Through the peer review process, researchers will receive feedback on how to better craft the project\u2019s message for posting.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe do everything we can to support the project creators so they can be successful,\u201d said Mercer.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFunding for research is a highly competitive endeavor under the best of circumstances. 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At the direction of President G.P. \u201cBud\u201d Peterson, an institutional task force has been formed to monitor the developments in Washington, D.C. and develop specific plans that would sustain Tech operations should the hiatus extend for a prolonged period of time.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBecause Georgia Tech relies on the U.S. government to fund research and student financial aid, any interruption in the operations of the federal government has an impact.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe ability for Georgia Tech to recover the costs of federally funded research is an example of almost immediate impact. A shutdown would affect each federal agency in a slightly different way, and the ability to receive payment may vary with the type of contract, or grant and funding source. Overall, the effect is likely to be profound. Non-federal research funding and the associated revenue should not be affected in the near-term. Tech\u2019s\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.osp.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E Office of Sponsored Programs\u003C\/a\u003E has compiled guidance provided by major federal research agencies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThere is some risk for those students who receive federal financial aid, but the number affected and the severity of the impact depends on the length of the shutdown. Georgia Tech does not anticipate a problem for fall semester but if a shutdown lasts for a few weeks or longer, the impact on future semesters will be reevaluated. The \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.bursar.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EBursar\u2019s Office\u003C\/a\u003E will hold any such students harmless until the resumption of federal government operations.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWith the majority of federal agency operations suspended, Georgia Tech is developing contingency plans that will enable continuity of campus operations without federal funding.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Plans will enable continuity of campus operations in case of prolonged hiatus"}],"uid":"27299","created_gmt":"2013-10-04 09:12:50","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:15:00","author":"Michael Hagearty","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-10-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-10-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"242631":{"id":"242631","type":"image","title":"U.S. Capitol","body":null,"created":"1449243704","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:41:44","changed":"1475894919","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:39","alt":"U.S. Capitol","file":{"fid":"197827","name":"united_states_capitol_west_front_edit2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/united_states_capitol_west_front_edit2_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/united_states_capitol_west_front_edit2_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":331737,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/united_states_capitol_west_front_edit2_0.jpg?itok=IYecxd40"}}},"media_ids":["242631"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.osp.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech Office of Sponsored Programs"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"}],"keywords":[],"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":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"234751":{"#nid":"234751","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Congressional Staffers Visit Georgia Tech","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThirteen congressional staffers participated in a day-long campus visit to learn more about the research that makes Georgia Tech one of the top technological universities in the world and an economic engine for our country.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPresident G.P. \u201cBud\u201d Peterson welcomed the guests and kicked off the visit with an update on the Institute\u2019s tremendous momentum. He highlighted recent successes, including the mention by President Obama of Georgia Tech\u2019s online Masters degree in Computer Science, the opening of the AT\u0026amp;T Foundry in Tech Square and the visit to campus by the new Secretary of Commerce.\u0026nbsp; The congressional staffers also saw demonstrations and briefings that highlighted expertise in \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gtri.gatech.edu\/strategic-initiatives\/cyber-operations\u0022\u003Ecybersecurity\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.innovations.gatech.edu\/wearable\/\u0022\u003Ewearable technologies\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/newsroom\/release.html?nid=208451\u0022\u003Esensor systems for healthcare applications\u003C\/a\u003E. Gary May, dean of the College of Engineering, delivered a lunch presentation discussing challenges and opportunities presented with the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.innovationdeficit.org\/\u0022\u003Einnovation deficit\u003C\/a\u003E facing the nation and the importance of federal funding for research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGeorgia Tech has many interests before Congress, from research funding to student aid,\u201d said Tech federal relations director Robert Knotts. \u201cThe visit was a great opportunity to tell our story through Tech\u2019s faculty and students who are so passionate about the impact their work can have.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EParticipants also learned about Tech\u2019s music technology, digital media and K-12 outreach prowess in an interactive workshop. Working with high schoolers from Gwinnett County where Tech\u2019s NSF funded \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/earsketch.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EEarsketch\u003C\/a\u003E curriculum is being rolled out, staffers learned computing principles through collaborative computational music composition and remixing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gov.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EThe Office of Government and Community Relations\u003C\/a\u003E often hosts federal officials and staffers on campus to promote the Institute\u0027s strategic vision and goals as they pertain to federal research and education programs and policies.\u0026nbsp; If you are interested in inviting a federal official, please contact Robert Knotts.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Students, faculty demonstrate Tech\u2019s impact on state, nation and world"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThirteen congressional staffers participated in a day-long campus visit to learn more about the research that makes Georgia Tech one of the top technological universities in the world and an economic engine for our country.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27213","created_gmt":"2013-09-05 14:38:59","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:14:49","author":"Teri Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-09-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-09-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"234761":{"id":"234761","type":"image","title":"Congressional Staffers with President Peterson","body":null,"created":"1449243641","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:40:41","changed":"1475894908","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:28","alt":"Congressional Staffers with President Peterson","file":{"fid":"197641","name":"groupphoto.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/groupphoto_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/groupphoto_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1962764,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/groupphoto_0.jpg?itok=B5gyWoqo"}}},"media_ids":["234761"],"groups":[{"id":"47398","name":"GCR (Office of Government and Community Relations)"}],"categories":[{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"},{"id":"133","name":"Special Events and Guest Speakers"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"143","name":"Digital Media and Entertainment"},{"id":"147","name":"Military Technology"},{"id":"148","name":"Music and Music Technology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"73121","name":"congressional staffers"},{"id":"67621","name":"federal relations"},{"id":"60311","name":"federal research"},{"id":"1486","name":"government"},{"id":"767","name":"Policy"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39481","name":"National Security"},{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"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:tnagel@gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ETeri Nagel\u003C\/a\u003E, Georgia Tech Office of Government and Community Relations\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"231531":{"#nid":"231531","#data":{"type":"news","title":"U.S Secretary of Commerce Tours Georgia Tech-Based Medical Innovation Center","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EU.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker on Aug. 23 visited the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.devices.net\/\u0022\u003EGlobal Center for Medical Innovation\u003C\/a\u003E (GCMI) near Georgia Tech\u2019s campus as a part of her nationwide listening tour during her first 100 days in office.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESecretary Pritzker is visiting business leaders, Department of Commerce employees and innovation and entrepreneurial centers, such as GCMI, around the country during her tour. She promised to report what she learns on the listening tour to President Obama in an effort to help strengthen the economy and create American jobs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOne of the things that we\u2019re interested in at the Department of Commerce is helping entrepreneurs take their ideas from concept to market,\u201d Pritzker said. \u201cIt requires a collaboration of a number of different types of expertise.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA unique collaboration of engineering and bioscience expertise was the idea behind GCMI.\u0026nbsp; The Center\u2019s goal is to create an ecosystem of experts in different areas to help innovators design, build and test new medical devices faster and cheaper than they could alone.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOne of the things that we want to do is continue to encourage that kind of innovation process so that we can have new companies that are starting up that will create good jobs in America,\u201d Pritzker said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt GCMI, Pritzker toured laboratories and design studios with Georgia Tech representatives and members of the media. She examined implants for facial reconstruction surgery, learned about a new vision testing device and saw a $35,000 \u201cdrill press on steroids\u201d \u2014 a Haas CNC Milling Machine \u2014 that innovators use to bring their designs to life.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Global Center for Medical Innovation, located at 575 14th street in midtown Atlanta, is a state-of-the-art medical device development center working with leading medical and academic institutions and startup companies in the region. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGCMI is positioned to help innovators overcome the hurdles associated with bringing new medical technologies from the lab into the clinic,\u201d said Tiffany Karp, general manager and COO at GCMI. \u201cThe presence of GCMI in Atlanta is promoting the growth of the Southeast\u2019s medical device industry by keeping technology in the region and attracting interest from other parts of the country.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs an independent, non-profit organization, GCMI brings together universities, clinicians, inventors, engineers, designers, researchers, marketers, attorneys and investors, all working to speed new medical innovations from concept to commercialization. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGCMI is a full-service product development organization \u2014 a one-stop-shop where entrepreneurs can design, engineer and test prototypes of their medical devices \u2014 \u201criffing off each other,\u201d as Pritzker put it. The Center is the first and only one of its kind in the Southeast.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u2019re most proud of the speed at which we\u2019re developing from clean sheet of paper to functional prototype to proof of concept,\u201d said Mark McJunkin, director of operations at GCMI.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPritzker saw the unique mix of engineering and bioscience expertise first hand as she met with John O\u2019Shaughnessy of Matrix Surgical USA, a company that designs and develops sterile surgical implants for trauma surgery in GCMI\u2019s Class 10,000 clean rooms. Pritzker held a model skull containing one of these implants, which are patient specific based on CT scans, modifiable by surgeons and eliminate the need for bone grafts. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Department of Commerce supported the creation of GCMI, Pritzker said, and in 2010, GCMI was one of six winners of the Department of Commerce\u2019s i6 Challenge, a grant competition designed to support the nation\u2019s best ideas for technology commercialization and entrepreneurship.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne recurring theme that Pritzker has heard at other stops on the tour is that businesses are having a hard time finding skilled labor. She pointed to GCMI\u2019s apprenticeship programs as one way to get young people excited about creative problem solving.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI think Georgia Tech is developing a really interesting ecosystem of introducing young people in fourth, fifth and sixth grade to the excitement of innovation,\u201d Pritzker said. \u201cWe need ecosystems around the country that are helping folks, both people who are unemployed as well as our young people, to gain the skills that our businesses need.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDershika Patel, a fifth-year biomedical engineering student at Georgia Tech, was the team leader in the apprentice program at GCMI, where she learned how to apply what she\u2019s learned as a student to bring medical products from \u201cbenchtop to bedside,\u201d she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBeing in school is great, but having the skills that it takes to get medical technologies to the market is a whole different ballgame,\u201d she told Pritzker. \u201cIt is a great program.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAfter touring GCMI, Secretary Pritzker had lunch with Georgia Tech President G.P. \u201cBud\u201d Peterson, where they discussed the Institute\u2019s role in fostering an innovation ecosystem. 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Below is a quote from Georgia Tech President Bud Peterson on the topic:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOne of the ways that colleges and universities can offer affordable educational opportunities to more students is through \u2018technology assisted education.\u2019 Georgia Tech is partnering with industry to offer an Online Master of Science in Computer Science that will help address the nation\u2019s growing shortage of qualified workers in STEM fields and provide promising career opportunities to thousands of students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs one of the leading technological universities in the US, Georgia Tech is committed to helping students maximize the value of their educational investment. To this end, we\u2019re implementing measures to help improve college completion rates, control costs, continuously improve quality, and offer online education for lifelong learning.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u2014 Georgia Tech President G. P. \u201cBud\u201d Peterson\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAdditional information on Georgia Tech OMS CS: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.omscs.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.omscs.gatech.edu\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFAQ on the OMS CS: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.omscs.gatech.edu\/faq\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.omscs.gatech.edu\/faq\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.amplifier.gatech.edu\u0022 title=\u0022www.amplifier.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ewww.amplifier.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"President Barack Obama gave a speech today in Buffalo, NY addressing the challenges in higher education"}],"uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2013-08-22 12:53:52","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:14:46","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-08-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-08-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"66420":{"id":"66420","type":"image","title":"G.P. \u0022Bud\u0022 Peterson","body":null,"created":"1449177169","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:12:49","changed":"1475894589","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:09","alt":"G.P. \u0022Bud\u0022 Peterson","file":{"fid":"193311","name":"g.p._bud_peterson.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/g.p._bud_peterson_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/g.p._bud_peterson_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2186478,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/g.p._bud_peterson_0.jpg?itok=-Z2U6fP5"}}},"media_ids":["66420"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.amplifier.gatech.edu\/","title":"Amplifier Blog"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/president\/","title":"Georgia Tech President G.P. (Bud) Peterson"}],"groups":[{"id":"1183","name":"Home"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"42911","name":"Education"}],"keywords":[{"id":"61391","name":"AT\u0026T"},{"id":"72161","name":"Georgia Tech President Bud Peterson"},{"id":"66341","name":"OMS CS"},{"id":"72171","name":"President Barack Obama"},{"id":"66311","name":"Udacity"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["nagel@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"230771":{"#nid":"230771","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Works to Attract the Next Generation of Scientists and Engineers","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECandela Rojas says she didn\u2019t know anything about computer coding before last January. In fact, the freshman at Gwinnett County\u2019s Lanier High School couldn\u2019t even explain it.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cA bunch of numbers and computer commands,\u201d was her best guess. Eight weeks later, she had recognized the power of computing and could \u201cmake the computer do what I want.\u201d What made the difference is a coding program developed at the Georgia Institute of Technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEarSketch is one of several Georgia Tech initiatives that researchers and staff members are making available to K-12 students around the state and the country. From the Nerdy Derby to online lessons and underwater tours, every program uses creative and different tactics. But the goal of each is the same: to get more students interested in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. Many are designed to provide STEM outreach with a focus on minorities and underserved students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EServing the State\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThough it doesn\u2019t have an education college, Georgia Tech is one of the state\u2019s leaders as Georgia attempts to increase the number of STEM students, expand its future workforce and drive the economy. For 25 years, the Institute\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ceismc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECenter for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics and Computing\u003C\/a\u003E (CEISMC) has connected Georgia Tech with educational groups, schools, corporations and opinion leaders around the state and nation. The 48-member staff has two key initiatives for students: STEM awareness and preparation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMany K-12 children have never seen a scientist. Some have never seen a lab,\u201d said CEISMC Director \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ceismc.gatech.edu\/about-ceismc\/ceismc-staff\/richard-millman\u0022\u003ERichard Millman\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cFor children to decide if they want to pursue STEM fields, they must first be introduced to the field in a way that intrigues them. Thanks to many of the faculty of Georgia Tech, the excitement of research can be brought to the K-12 schools.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECEISMC also focuses on STEM teacher professional development using content enrichment initiatives, including initiatives funded by the federal government\u2019s Race to the Top program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESimilarly, the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gtri.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Research Institute\u003C\/a\u003E (GTRI) \u2013 Georgia Tech\u2019s applied research organization \u2013 has made STEM a top priority. As part of its core mission, GTRI is helping educate the leaders of a technologically driven world.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur team will continue to bring excitement, vitality and good science to classrooms across the state,\u201d said GTRI Director and Georgia Tech Vice President Robert McGrath. \u201cAt the same time, we will concentrate our resources, attempting to have direct and significant impact on the future careers and livelihoods of targeted groups of students. My hope and experience suggests that such notable impact can and will be contagious.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDiscovering the World\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrincipal research engineer Jud Ready is growing nanotubes in his lab at GTRI\u2019s Baker Building. Approximately 30 high school students are watching his every move, some even suggesting which gases to use during the experiment. Ready can see their wide eyes and amazed looks as the nanotubes grow. He answers their questions and offers others in return. But there are no students with him in the lab. They are 66 miles away at Jasper County High School.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EReady is teaching a lesson, using videoconferencing technology, as part of GTRI\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.d2d.gatech.edu\/prod\/\u0022\u003EDirect-to-Discovery\u003C\/a\u003E (D2D) program. The five-year-old initiative connects Georgia Tech researchers with Georgia\u2019s K-12 schools using high-speed Internet connections and high-definition, real-time video, allowing students to participate in research as it happens.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI was introduced to science in the second grade during a field trip to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I watched the scientists shatter flowers using liquid nitrogen,\u201d said Ready, who regularly leads D2D lessons. \u201cEvery student should have the opportunity to discover and explore their own personal interests.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELater in the lesson, Ready places the nanotubes under his scanning electron microscope, giving the students a glimpse of something impossible to replicate in their regular classroom.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJasper County is the latest high school to participate in D2D. Earlier lessons have taken place with Barrow and Ware County schools, where students have peered underwater at the Georgia Aquarium and controlled telescopes in Australia to see the stars.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cDue to economics and distance, our students don\u2019t have the chance to regularly attend or engage with museums, aquariums or labs for educational opportunities,\u201d said Joseph Barrow, superintendent of Ware County Schools. \u201cWe saw D2D as a golden opportunity to figuratively tear down the brick and mortar walls of our system and to literally bring the world to our students.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBecause of D2D\u2019s flexibility, Georgia Tech researchers don\u2019t participate in every lecture. Sometimes schools use the technology to create their own opportunities. For instance, one of Ware County\u2019s elementary schools connected with former First Lady Barbara Bush, who read students a story and spoke about the importance of reading. A high school class has connected with NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt takes three to five years to develop a textbook, which is then used in a classroom for about 10 years,\u201d said Jeff Evans, a GTRI principal research engineer and one of the D2D leaders. \u201cBy the time some students read it in the book, the technology is already obsolete. Direct to Discovery is an evolutionary leap beyond a textbook, and exposes students to the technologies of today and tomorrow.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMentoring the Next Generation\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStudies show that students who do not perform well in algebra have limited career options in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo help students pass through what educators call the algebra \u201cgateway,\u201d Georgia Tech offers \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ceismc.gatech.edu\/cmp\/akca\u0022\u003EAll Kids Count in Atlanta\u003C\/a\u003E. The math-tutoring program is available to students at Centennial Place Elementary School, as well as the B.E.S.T. Academy Middle and High Schools and Coretta Scott King Middle and High Schools \u2013 both of which are single gendered, African-American schools.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEach week, Georgia Tech work-study students work one-on-one with students in need of remedial help or assistance preparing for school and statewide, standardized tests. All Kids Count mentors also increase student interest in STEM by facilitating hands-on science activities and teaching students about technology through blogging, computer programming and other activities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAll Kids Count in Atlanta is just one of a plethora of mentoring programs offered by Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ceismc.gatech.edu\/cmp\/pathways\u0022\u003EPathways into STEM Program\u003C\/a\u003E, another partnership between CEISMC and the Atlanta Public Schools, provides mentors to students at the B.E.S.T. Academy High School and Coretta Scott King High School.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPathways mentors are AmeriCorps members who are in the schools between 12 and 40 hours per week. They help students not only develop their math and science skills, but also prepare them for the college and scholarship application processes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMost of these students are the first in their families to pursue college and they don\u2019t know what is required or how the process works,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ceismc.gatech.edu\/about-ceismc\/ceismc-staff\/taneisha-lee\u0022\u003ETaneisha Lee\u003C\/a\u003E, director of the Pathways Program. \u201cHaving a strong support system and information early on is very important for students to be successful.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIndeed, the Pathways Program has made a significant impact. Over the last four years, nearly 90 percent of students who participated in Pathways went on to attend a two- or four-year college or university, and nearly half of the students pursued STEM degrees.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Pathways Program has been so successful that CEISMC expanded it into Gwinnett County\u2019s Lilburn and Radloff Middle Schools and Meadowcreek High School. It has also been incorporated into GoSTEM, a larger initiative that targets the Latino K-12 population in Gwinnett County.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEnhancing Outreach to Hispanics\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECurrently only 2 percent of Hispanics are employed in the STEM fields compared to 6 percent of whites and 15 percent of Asians, according to a recent report by the U.S. Department of Commerce\u2019s Economic \u0026amp; Statistics Administration. Regardless of race or origin, higher education is a gateway to high-quality, high-paying STEM jobs, the report found.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat\u2019s why Georgia Tech is partnering with the Gwinnett County School System on a new initiative called \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cmp-ceismc.gatech.edu\/gostem\u0022\u003EGoSTEM\u003C\/a\u003E that aims to enhance the K-12 STEM educational experience for Latinos, as well as strengthen the pipeline of Hispanic students pursuing STEM degrees in college.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFunded by The Goizueta Foundation, GoSTEM is a community-focused program that brings resources for students, families and teachers to address the factors that impede Latino students from going into STEM fields. GoSTEM tries to reach students early on in elementary school and continues support through middle and high school.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe program provides schools-based math, science and engineering college preparation programs conducted by Georgia Tech mentors, extracurricular activities such as robotic competitions and community service projects, as well as summer camps. Pathways to College, which is part of the Pathways Program, also helps Latino high school students with their college application process and provides them with STEM career information and resources.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe want to get students interested in STEM careers and give them the tools they need to pursue their dreams,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ceismc.gatech.edu\/about-ceismc\/ceismc-staff\/diley-hernandez\u0022\u003EDiley Hernandez\u003C\/a\u003E, GoSTEM program director. \u201cThis is a good step in preparing them for the future and opening their eyes to the array of opportunities and choices ahead of them.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGoSTEM also conducts a variety of community-wide events and campus tours to empower Latino parents and guardians, and provide them with information on how to guide their students to college and possibly a STEM career. For K-12 teachers, GoSTEM offers fellowships for CEISMC\u2019s Georgia Intern Fellowships for Teachers (GIFT) to help them develop and implement a STEM curriculum through a summer internship at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGoSTEM is currently being offered at one cluster of Gwinnett County Public Schools including six elementary schools, two middle schools and one high school. Hernandez plans to expand the reach of the community-wide programs in the years ahead.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEngaging African-Americans in Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFewer than 3 percent of Ph.D.s are awarded to African-Americans. Georgia Tech is working to change that statistic.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo increase the number of under-represented minorities in STEM fields, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/facultystaff\/faculty_record.php?id=111\u0022\u003EManu Platt\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, and Professor Emeritus \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/faculty\/nerem\u0022\u003ERobert Nerem\u003C\/a\u003E, have created \u003Ca href=\u0022projectengage.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EProject ENGAGE\u003C\/a\u003E (Engaging New Generations at Georgia Tech through Engineering).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe program is a partnership between Georgia Tech and two single-gendered African-American public schools \u2013 the all-male Benjamin Carson B.E.S.T Academy and the all-female Coretta Scott King Young Women\u2019s Leadership Academy. It aims to introduce rising juniors and seniors to biomedical engineering by providing a hands-on experience in a research lab.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe first cohort of students, six from each school, began their research fellowship at Georgia Tech in June 2013. During the summer, they will work 40 hours per week and they will continue on throughout the school year dedicating 15 to 20 hours per week.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe fellowship kicks off with a four-week biology boot camp, developed and taught by three high school teachers who spent last summer in Georgia Tech\u2019s biomedical labs learning the fundamentals. After the boot camp, the student fellows move into the lab where they are mentored by either a Ph.D. candidate or a postdoctoral researcher. The goal is for each student to present his or her project at a science fair before the end of the school year.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProject ENGAGE is more than just the research fellowship. Ph.D. candidates and postdoctoral scholars regularly visit B.E.S.T. and Coretta Scott King high schools to introduce biomedical engineering topics and discuss their research goals. The teens are also invited to visit Platt\u2019s lab at Georgia Tech throughout the year, either in person or virtually via high-bandwidth video conferencing developed by the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe more barriers we remove between these students and research universities, the more likely they will feel that they, too, deserve to be on campus and can be just as successful,\u201d Platt said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProject ENGAGE, which also includes mentoring partnerships with CEISMC and may expand even further, is supported by the National Science Foundation through the Emergent Behaviors of Integrated Cellular Systems Science and Technology Center.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EManufacturing a Better Future\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBringing manufacturing back to the United States could create new high-quality jobs for Americans. Georgia Tech is helping ensure that the next generation has the interest and skills necessary to fill those positions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith the help of a $7.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation, Georgia Tech and the Griffin-Spalding County School System have teamed up to bring manufacturing technologies to middle and high school students in this low-income and highly diverse school district.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe five-year initiative \u2013 led by Georgia Tech\u2019s George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering in collaboration with CEISMC \u2013 is bringing advanced manufacturing learning experiences, such as creating items using rapid prototyping and 3-D printers \u2013 to Griffin-Spalding County students in the 6th through 9th grades.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECalled \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ceismc.gatech.edu\/ampitup\u0022\u003EAdvanced Manufacturing and Prototyping Integrated to Unlock Potential\u003C\/a\u003E (AMP-IT-UP), the program allows students to learn about manufacturing by exploring their creativity and creating a physical solution to an engineering challenge using the engineering design process and both traditional and advanced manufacturing tools.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWith AMP-IT-UP we hope to inspire all students to connect with STEM fields,\u201d said CEISMC associate director and AMP-IT-UP program director \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ceismc.gatech.edu\/ceismc-staff\/marion-usselman\u0022\u003EMarion Usselman\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cIn particular, we want to catch those students who might be our future creative innovators but who are at risk of falling through the cracks in our current book and test-driven education.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStudent classroom experiences are broadened by extracurricular clubs and competitions provided through the project. Georgia Tech faculty and students are mentoring Griffin-Spalding students in clubs such as the Junior Makers Club and robotic competitions including FIRST LEGO League and FIRST Robotics. Griffin-Spalding students have also been invited to campus for events such as the Nerdy Derby and the InVenture Prize.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s about creating students who are aware, who are capable and who are enthusiastic about engineering, math, science and its role in the future advancement of our country,\u201d said CEISMC Program Director and AMP-IT-UP co-principal investigator \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ceismc.gatech.edu\/about-ceismc\/ceismc-staff\/jeff-rosen\u0022\u003EJeff Rosen\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAdditionally, through AMP-IT-UP, Georgia Tech faculty will investigate how the program affects academic engagement, content understanding and student persistence in the field. Georgia Tech and the school system have been awarded $2.9 million for the first two years of the grant, with another $4.3 million to follow in 2014.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECoding for All\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt Lanier High School, Candela Rojas has created a 30-second, computerized remix of beats and samples despite knowing nothing about computer programming six weeks prior. On a recent morning, the girl who has loved music for years and fell in love with coding in days was sharing headphones with one of the biggest names in hip hop. Gimel \u201cYoung Guru\u201d Keaton, the computer engineering wizard behind 10 albums for superstar Shawn \u201cJay-Z\u201d Carter, offers advice and encouragement.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYoung Guru approached Georgia Tech in 2012 with a goal of selling students on the impact of music, computers and technology. Within months, he was contributing original beats and loops to \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/earsketch.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EEarSketch\u003C\/a\u003E, an NSF-funded initiative that was developed by researchers \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.music.gatech.edu\/people\/jason-freeman\u0022\u003EJason Freeman\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/lmc.gatech.edu\/~bmagerko6\/\u0022\u003EBrian Magerko\u003C\/a\u003E. The duo built EarSketch with the intent of using musical remixes to introduce high school students \u2013 especially minorities and young women \u2013 to the world of computer programming. The software utilizes the Python programming language and Reaper, a digital audio workstation program similar to those used in recording studios.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe think that we can get students more motivated to enter computer science careers by placing introductory computing education into a really interesting, fun context,\u201d said Freeman, an associate professor in the Georgia Tech \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.music.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Music\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cInstead of writing programs that sort lists or crunch numbers, students learn all of these skills while making music.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELanier High became the first high school to try it when 75 freshmen in its Center for Design and Technology gave EarSketch an eight-week test run this winter. Thirty five percent of the class is female.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMike Reilly, a former computer programmer who became a teacher several years ago, worked with Georgia Tech to implement the course. A year ago, three of his freshmen chose to continue coding classes as sophomores. He thinks 25 of this year\u2019s freshmen will sign up.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur students now see computer programming as a skill set, rather than something that is hard to understand,\u201d Reilly says. \u201cAt a minimum, this project is teaching them to respect and recognize the power of coding.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDiscussions are underway to expand EarSketch to other metro Atlanta schools. The curriculum and software are available for download on the project\u2019s website and available to teachers across the nation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBy leveraging the collaborative nature of remix composition and musically oriented computer programming, EarSketch may provide a successful alternative to the cultural issues that computer games have in the engagement of minorities,\u201d said Magerko, an assistant professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/lmc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Literature, Media and Communication\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt has already had an impact on Brie Edwards. Like most students, the African-American girl was lost on the first day of class.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI wasn\u2019t sure I could do it,\u201d Brie admitted. \u201cBut the more I practiced, the easier it became and the more I enjoyed it. Now I don\u2019t want to leave the computer. I know that I\u2019ll study programming in college.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThis article originally appeared in the Spring-Summer 2013 issue of Research Horizons, Georgia Tech\u2019s research magazine.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EProjects described in this article were supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under award numbers DUE-1238089 and CNS-1138649. 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For students at all levels \u2014 undergraduate, graduate or postdoctoral \u2014 summer is when they should contact the Fellowships Office for advisement on applying to many prestigious award programs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cStudents can prepare for applications effectively if they contact the Fellowships Office well in advance of the due date,\u201d said Karen Adams, associate director of the Fellowships Office. \u201cWriting a strong application involves several essay revisions, and some awards require correspondence with the host institution.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAll Students\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.newscenter.philips.com\/us_en\/standard\/about\/nbt\/index.html\u0022\u003EPhilips Innovation Fellowship\u003C\/a\u003E:\u003C\/strong\u003E Top prize is $60,000, and four other finalists receive $10,000. Open to U.S. citizens. The theme is Living Well, Being Healthy, and Enjoying Life. \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.newscenter.philips.com\/us_en\/standard\/about\/nbt\/program-rules.html%20\u0022\u003EFull rules available online\u003C\/a\u003E. Deadline is Aug. 15.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESophomores and Juniors\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.act.org\/goldwater\u0022\u003EGoldwater Scholarship\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E: For sophomores and juniors studying science, technology, engineering or math with a 3.9 GPA (recommended) and research experience. Tech nominates four students each year for this national competition. Applicants will work through essays and submissions with \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:kathryn.meehan@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EKathryn Meehan\u003C\/a\u003E or \u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:karen.adams@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EKaren Adams\u003C\/a\u003E during summer and late fall. Deadline: January 10, 2014.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.truman.gov\/\u0022\u003ETruman Scholarship\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E: For juniors with public service experience, a 3.9 GPA (recommended) and plans for a career in public service. Students will work with \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:paul.hurst@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EPaul Hurst\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:kathryn.meehan@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EMeehan\u003C\/a\u003E during the summer and fall. 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Preliminary applications campus deadline is Aug. 1; campus deadline for complete application is Aug. 29.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nsfgrfp.org\/\u0022\u003ENational Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E: Open to seniors, first-year graduate students and first-semester second-year graduate students in science, technology, engineering and math who are U.S. citizens. This three-year award is for those planning a research Ph.D. at a U.S. university. Deadline is in November.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPostdocs and Postgraduate Opportunities\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor all opportunities, contact either \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:karen.adams@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EAdams\u003C\/a\u003E or \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:kathryn.meehan@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EMeehan\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/catalog.cies.org\/viewAward.aspx?n=4397dc=IS%20\u0022\u003EFulbright Postdoctoral Research Fellowships\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E: Preference is for candidates who have received doctorates within three years of the application deadline or who will receive doctorates before the grant term begins. Eight awards are available for studies at seven research institutions in Israel. Deadline: August 1.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/sites.nationalacademies.org\/pga\/policyfellows\u0022\u003ENational Academies Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellowships\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E: Participants\u0026nbsp;spend 12 weeks at the National Academies in Washington, D.C., learning about science and technology policy and the role that scientists and engineers play in advising the nation.\u0026nbsp;Deadline is Sept. 5.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/fellowships.aaas.org\u0022\u003EAAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowships\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E: For recently graduated postdocs, mid-career professionals, faculty on sabbatical, or retired faculty. Must have a completed Ph.D. or master\u2019s degree with three years of professional experience and U.S. citizenship. Deadline: Nov. 1.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.pmf.gov\/opportunity\/index.aspx\u0022\u003EPresidential Management Fellowship Program\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E:\u0026nbsp;Open to master\u2019s degree and doctoral students who complete degree during coming year. International students are eligible to apply. 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That is a jump of $900 million to a new high of $14.1 billion of direct and indirect spending in the regions served by the System\u2019s 31 colleges and universities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELooking at the impact of individual institutions, Georgia Tech was the largest in terms of economic impact ($2.6 billion) and second in jobs (20,869).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo calculate the economic impact for FY12, the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.terry.uga.edu\/about\/centers-institutes\/selig\u0022\u003ESelig Center for Economic Growth\u003C\/a\u003E in the University of Georgia\u2019s Terry College of Business analyzed data collected between July 1, 2011, and June 30, 2012. The annual study is conducted by Dr. Jeffrey M. Humphreys on behalf of the Board of Regents.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe have been analyzing the University System\u2019s economic impact for a number of years and what is clear is the importance of these colleges and universities on local and state economies from just about every variable: direct spending, income, production of goods and services and jobs,\u201d said Humphreys.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe full study with data for all 31 USG institutions is available at:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.usg.edu\/economic_development\/documents\/usg_Impact_fy2012.pdf\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.usg.edu\/economic_development\/documents\/usg_Impact_fy2012.pdf\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECurrent and past economic impact studies can be found at: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.usg.edu\/economic_development\/publications\/studies\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.usg.edu\/economic_development\/publications\/studies\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELooking at the impact of individual institutions, Georgia Tech was the largest in terms of economic impact ($2.6 billion) and second in jobs (20,869).\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Among member institutions, Georgia Tech\u0027s impact is the largest: $2.6 billion"}],"uid":"27299","created_gmt":"2013-07-08 15:01:25","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:14:30","author":"Michael Hagearty","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-07-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-07-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.usg.edu\/","title":"University System of Georgia"}],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1033","name":"Economic Impact"},{"id":"726","name":"University System of Georgia"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"222991":{"#nid":"222991","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech\u2019s VentureLab Ranks Second Among University-based Incubators Worldwide","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.venturelab.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EVentureLab\u003C\/a\u003E program ranks second in the world in a new benchmarking study of 150 university-based business incubators in 22 different countries. The study was conducted by UBI Index, a Stockholm-based company that provides assistance to incubators.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EVentureLab helps create startup companies based on Georgia Tech research. Since its formation in 2001, VentureLab has launched more than 150 technology companies that have attracted more than $700 million in outside funding.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBeyond the overall #2 ranking, UBI Index also placed VentureLab first among early-phase university incubators and first among university incubators supporting a broad range of technologies. Among specific attributes, it ranked among the top ten incubators in the world for economic enhancement, job creation, performance of graduates and post-incubation value.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis survey shows what Georgia Tech researchers and Atlanta entrepreneurs already know \u2013 that VentureLab is part of an innovation ecosystem that is spinning off startup companies to create exciting new ventures, jobs and economic value for the state of Georgia,\u201d said Stephen Fleming, vice president at Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.innovate.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EEnterprise Innovation Institute\u003C\/a\u003E, which houses VentureLab and other units that support startup technology companies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe goal of VentureLab is to move inventions developed in Georgia Tech\u2019s research program out into the marketplace, said Keith McGreggor, the program\u2019s director. \u201cVentureLab has been a consistent effort for nearly 12 years to get Georgia Tech inventions out into the world,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAmong the top VentureLab graduates are Suniva, a producer of photovoltaic panels; CardioMEMS, which makes implantable medical devices; Innovolt, a leader in technology to protect electronic equipment, and Pindrop Security, which is developing technology to fight phone fraud.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EVentureLab is part of an innovation ecosystem that facilitates the growth and development of new ventures in Georgia. Companies formed in VentureLab often become part of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.atdc.org\/\u0022\u003EAdvanced Technology Development Center\u003C\/a\u003E (ATDC), Georgia Tech\u2019s technology accelerator.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe UBI study measured participating university incubators on a unique assessment framework with more than 50 performance indicators designed to show the value that the programs create for their ecosystems and clients. The firm judged The Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship, based at Rice University, as the world\u2019s overall top university business incubator for 2013.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAccording to the firm, incubators \u201cincrease the chances for startups to succeed and achieve growth, shorten the time and reduce the cost of establishing and developing its business.\u201d It said incubators normally offer the following services:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAccess to physical resources\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAccess to financial resources\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAccess to startup support\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAccess to networks\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAccess to entrepreneurial training\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe majority of the university incubators surveyed by UBI Index were in Europe or the Americas. Other top university incubators in the United States listed in the survey were UB Technology Incubator at the University of Buffalo, Tech 20\/20 at the University of Tennessee, Youngstown Business Incubator affiliated with Youngstown State University, the Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies at the University of Vermont, Jon Brumley Texas Venture Labs at the University of Texas at Austin, InNOLEvation Accelerator at Florida State University, TEC Edmonton at the University of Alberta in Canada, and ASU Venture Catalyst at Arizona State University.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E177 North Avenue\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAtlanta, Georgia\u0026nbsp; 30332-0181\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Contact\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon (404-894-6986)(\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s VentureLab program ranks second in the world in a new benchmarking study of 150 university-based business incubators in 22 different countries. 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Stephanie Greear, a fifth-year international affairs and Spanish major from Woodstock, is spending her summer at Centennial Place as its first pre-teaching intern from Tech. Greear has been at it since May and will continue through the first few weeks of the school\u2019s upcoming academic year.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cLife in an elementary school is always busy and hectic,\u201d Greear said. \u201cThere is literally always something that needs to be done, and you\u2019re never bored.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGreear\u2019s internship placement was facilitated by the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL) and the Division of Professional Practice (DoPP), which are working together to broaden opportunities for the increasing number of Tech students interested in exploring careers in education. Nearly 300 of last year\u2019s freshman applicant pool expressed an interest in teaching, up from just 20 the year before.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u201cBecause Tech doesn\u2019t have a college of education, students who wanted to become teachers had volunteer opportunities and classes they could take, but no way to truly explore the experience of being a teacher,\u201d said Tech Pre-Teaching Advisor Susan Belmonte, who collaborated with the principal at Centennial Place to create the internship.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEnabled by Centennial Place\u2019s year-round schedule, Greear has been privy to the closeout of one academic year and the summer preparations for the next. She has observed in the classroom, helped conduct reading comprehension testing, and participated in interviewing new teachers, which gave her insight into preparing for her own future job search. She\u2019ll get more classroom time again in August when the internship will culminate with her teaching for a week.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cEveryone is really supportive of each other \u2014 kids, teachers, and staff alike,\u201d Greear said. \u201cI already know that leaving in August is going to be very difficult and sad, and I am already trying to work out my schedule for fall so that I can come volunteer at the school in my free time.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBelmonte hopes to grow the internship next year to place two students at Centennial Place, and eventually establish middle and high school internships as well.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETech has collaborated with Centennial Place, a STEAM-themed (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) school, in numerous ways in recent years. Among other activities, the Into the Streets freshman day of service has helped fill backpacks with supplies for students in need, an annual 5K race raises funds for students and teachers, and College of Architecture students have taught introductory architecture classes. Chris Burke, Georgia Tech\u2019s director of community relations, even serves on Centennial Place\u2019s foundation and school council.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe collaboration between Tech and Centennial Place supports Tech\u2019s larger goal of helping K-12 teachers develop and offer a relevant, 21st-century STEM curriculum to prepare students to compete in a global economy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cHaving students within walking distance who are a little younger than our teaching staff is a wonderful way to have a little mentorship for our students,\u201d said Alison Shelton, Centennial Place\u2019s principal. \u201cSharing what college life is like helps the students see Georgia Tech as their college, and we\u2019ve had several of our students go on to attend Tech.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor the elementary school with the highest homeless population in Atlanta, having Tech students lend their time goes a long way toward helping students and families visualize college in their future. For students interested in pursuing a career in K-12 education, the new Centennial Place internship is a chance to try their hand at a classroom experience before pursuing a master\u2019s or alternate certification program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cStephanie has been phenomenal,\u201d Shelton said. \u201cShe supported us at the end of the year, has worked with with our administrative staff during the summer, and has come up with some great ways to improve our communications, even applying her expertise from leading Humans versus Zombies at Tech.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETech students interested in pursuing teaching can \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:susan.belmonte@cetl.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Econtact Belmonte\u003C\/a\u003E to learn more about the pre-teaching program and available courses and opportunities.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAn undergraduate student is working this summer as 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Contact Davis-Faulkner at \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:sheridf@iac.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Esheridf@iac.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/westsidecommunities.org\u0022\u003EWestside Community Alliance\u003C\/a\u003E (WCA) is creating an archive of materials related to Tech\/Westside programs and is asking members of the campus community to submit related items.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27714","created_gmt":"2013-07-22 06:17:11","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:14:34","author":"Kyle James","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-07-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-07-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"112771":{"id":"112771","type":"image","title":"GT Westside Alliance","body":null,"created":"1449178226","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:30:26","changed":"1475894731","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:31","alt":"GT Westside Alliance","file":{"fid":"194167","name":"englishavenue_usha_workshop.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/englishavenue_usha_workshop_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/englishavenue_usha_workshop_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":59204,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/englishavenue_usha_workshop_0.jpg?itok=gMBv-wG-"}}},"media_ids":["112771"],"groups":[{"id":"1224","name":"School of City \u0026 Regional Planning"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"70071","name":"archive"},{"id":"24771","name":"Westside Alliance"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:sheridf@iac.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESheri Davis-Faulkner\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWestside Community Alliance\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"222531":{"#nid":"222531","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Donate Items, Time to Community Connections Project","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIf you\u2019re looking for a way to give back to the Atlanta community, there\u2019s an opportunity right here at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor the second year, the Office of Leadership and Civic Engagement is inviting the campus community to join incoming students in a service project to serve local women and children in need.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe Community Connections project is a way to bring together faculty, staff, and students to support our neighboring community partner, the Atlanta Day Shelter for Women and Children,\u201d said Sarah Perkins, civic engagement coordinator for the Office of Leadership and Civic Engagement. \u201cIt\u2019s an opportunity to introduce new students to the tradition of service here at Tech and remind current members of our community that there are ways for them to get involved, too.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Tech community is invited to donate items ranging from toiletries to snacks through Aug. 15. During the summer FASET sessions, incoming freshmen and their families are also invited to donate items. So far, a total of 1,498 items have been collected following the first three FASET sessions, making significant progress toward this year\u2019s collection goal of 4,000 items. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EItems can continue to be dropped off in the Office of Leadership and Civic Engagement (Room 2211) in the Student Center Commons and at the FASET Help Desk (on the second floor of the Student Center near the information desk) during FASET sessions.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to donating items, faculty, staff, and students are also invited to donate their time during a packaging event where the items will be assembled into critical need kits. The event will be held on Friday, Aug. 16 from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Student Center Ballroom.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor more information, contact \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:sarah.perkins@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EPerkins\u003C\/a\u003E or visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/c.gatech.edu\/18PqZVi\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/c.gatech.edu\/18PqZVi\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/c.gatech.edu\/18PqZVi\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFor the second year, the Office of Leadership and Civic Engagement is inviting the campus community to join incoming students in a service project to serve local women and children in need.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"For the second year, the Office of Leadership and Civic Engagement is inviting the campus community to join incoming students in a service project to serve local women and children in need."}],"uid":"27445","created_gmt":"2013-07-11 15:47:19","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:14:34","author":"Amelia Pavlik","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-07-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-07-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"223231":{"id":"223231","type":"image","title":"Community Connections Drive","body":null,"created":"1449243535","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:38:55","changed":"1475894894","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:14","alt":"Community Connections Drive","file":{"fid":"197351","name":"communityconnectionsdrive.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/communityconnectionsdrive_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/communityconnectionsdrive_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1309904,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/communityconnectionsdrive_0.jpg?itok=XGeMl2Eg"}}},"media_ids":["223231"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/c.gatech.edu\/18PqZVi","title":"Community Connections 2013"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"69561","name":"Atlanta Day Shelter for Women and Children"},{"id":"69551","name":"Community Connections"},{"id":"8994","name":"donations"},{"id":"1506","name":"faculty"},{"id":"2362","name":"faset"},{"id":"40361","name":"office of leadership and civic engagement"},{"id":"167018","name":"staff"},{"id":"166847","name":"students"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:sarah.perkins@vpss.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESarah Perkins\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E Office of Leadership and Civic Engagement\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"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. 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I was inspired to find a way to a \u2018new way.\u2019 And this inspires me today, as I continue to keep pushing on.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELewis was one of the \u201cBig Six\u201d leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. He is the last surviving keynote speaker from the 1963 March on Washington, of which he was a core architect.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELewis\u2019 impact on civil rights for African-Americans included advocating desegregation laws and voters\u2019 rights. A founding member and president of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Lewis planned and led many of their activities. His personal courage was first evident when he led student sit-ins that resulted in the public accommodation of African-Americans at Nashville restaurants. He was one of the original 13 Freedom Riders who challenged legally sanctioned segregation on interstate buses. Despite repeated attacks on his dignity, physical beatings and arrests, Lewis remained staunchly committed to nonviolent work for social change.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe day\u2019s events, which included panel discussions and congratulatory messages from Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, were hosted by the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cToday\u2019s theme, \u2018Building Communities of Trust,\u2019 highlights crucial components of our mission at Georgia Tech to improve the human condition,\u201d said Jacqueline J. Royster, dean of the Ivan Allen College. \u201cIf we have learned anything from the technological terrors and triumphs of the last century, it is that human-centered and societally centered concerns must be a foundation for our problem solving, innovation and entrepreneurship.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Social Courage is named after Allen, a former mayor of Atlanta and Georgia Tech graduate. In 1963, Mayor Allen testified before Congress in support of what would become the Civil Rights Act of 1964, risking his place in society and political future. Prior winners include \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ivanallenprize.gatech.edu\/recipients\/2011_Recipient_Sam_Nunn.pdf\u0022\u003ESam Nunn\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ivanallenprize.gatech.edu\/recipients\/2012_Recipient_William_Foege.pdf\u0022\u003EWilliam Foege\u003C\/a\u003E. 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The goal of this grand challenge project is to develop new technologies that reveal in real time how brain cells and neural circuits interact to process information. The Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative will be launched with $100 million in the President\u0027s FY 2014 Budget.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETwo researchers from Georgia Tech were invited by the White House to hear the announcement live. Robert E. Guldberg, executive director for the Parker H. 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Francis Collins, director, National Institute of Health, called the potential advancements from this research the next \u201cgreatest scientific frontier.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUnlocking the human brain has the potential to impact dozens of diseases including, Parkinson\u2019s disease, eye diseases, mental health, traumatic brain injury, to name just a few. The NIH committed $40 million from its budget for the project and other government agencies, including the National Science Foundation as well as Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency also made commitments. 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The Institute has committed $49 million in institutional and private funds to leverage the total $64 million request for bonds issued by the state.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESheheane and his colleagues will also advocate for the following initiatives:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003ESecure $1.875 million for the rehabilitation of the Lloyd W. Chapin Building. Originally constructed as Tech\u2019s infirmary, the Chapin Building is more than 100 years old. \u201cThis renovation will significantly improve academic support facilities for our students,\u201d Sheheane said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ESecure $96 million in new formula funds to be shared by all University System of Georgia (USG) institutions in support of critical day-to-day operations. \u201cThese funds are particularly essential to maintaining Tech\u2019s academic quality and faculty-student ratio in light of steady enrollment growth,\u201d Sheheane said.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ESecure $50 million in major repair and rehabilitation funds to be shared by all USG institutions to repair aging facilities.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ESecure renewal of the provision allowing carry-forward of certain USG funds. \u201cUnder this provision, Tech can carry a small amount of funds from one fiscal year to the next,\u201d Sheheane said. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnother important and ongoing annual priority is state support for GTRI and EII. These organizations provide a significant benefit to the state and Tech officials will highlight their work and need for continued support.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s important to remember that our state has continued to funnel about 10 percent of the state\u2019s overall revenues to the USG, while many states have redirected funds to other priorities,\u201d Sheheane added.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDuring the legislative session, the Office of Government and Community Relations also engages external partners in sharing Tech\u2019s story. Members of the Capitol Jackets group, which includes alumni and partners on campus, receive a biweekly newsletter with updates. 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Research programs have proven to positively impact retention, academic performance and graduation rates among students. In fiscal year 2012, federal research funding (about 70 percent of the Institute\u2019s total research expenditures) helped support 2,600 graduate students, nearly 350 postdoctoral researchers and more than 3,000 research and academic faculty members.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, the group will urge lawmakers to maintain the health of student loan programs through low interest rates, and maintain funding for work-study programs and Pell Grants.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech participants in the advocacy trip include:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMichael Kirka, Graduate Student Government President\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EEran Mordel, Undergraduate Student Government President\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAlycia Edwards, Georgia Tech student\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EBill Schafer, Vice President of Student Affairs\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EFatimot Ladipo, Assistant Director of Federal Relations\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAtlantic Coast Conference universities participating include:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EBoston College\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EClemson University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EFlorida State University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ENorth Carolina State University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EUniversity of Maryland\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EUniversity of Miami\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EUniversity of North Carolina\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EUniversity of Notre Dame\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EUniversity of Pittsburgh\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EUniversity of Virginia\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EVirginia Tech\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EWake Forest University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Group amplifies importance of financial aid and federal research funding"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERepresentatives from Georgia Tech and other universities in the ACC will jointly appeal to members of Congress and the federal government on issues of importance to students, including financial aid and federal funding for research.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27213","created_gmt":"2013-03-04 10:27:30","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:13:44","author":"Teri Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-03-04T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2013-03-04T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"151171":{"id":"151171","type":"image","title":"Capitol Building - Washington DC","body":null,"created":"1449178848","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:40:48","changed":"1475894784","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:46:24","alt":"Capitol Building - Washington DC","file":{"fid":"195187","name":"capitol_dc.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/capitol_dc_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/capitol_dc_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":181105,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/capitol_dc_0.jpg?itok=QYkB9UaA"}}},"media_ids":["151171"],"groups":[{"id":"47398","name":"GCR (Office of Government and Community Relations)"}],"categories":[{"id":"131","name":"Economic Development and Policy"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"346","name":"congress"},{"id":"60321","name":"federal aid"},{"id":"60311","name":"federal research"},{"id":"1411","name":"financial aid"},{"id":"10231","name":"Washington D.C."}],"core_research_areas":[],"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, Office of Government and Community Relations\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-385-7656\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"182581":{"#nid":"182581","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Students Convene at Capitol to Usher in Legislative Session","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EThe 2013 Georgia Legislative Session convenes Monday, potentially making decisions over the next several weeks that impact all Georgia Tech students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EOn Wednesday, Jan. 30, the Student Government Association (SGA), in partnership with the Office of Government and Community Relations, will host its annual Georgia Tech Day at the Capitol and is inviting all students to join. At this event, students will learn more about what happens under the gold dome and can thank state leaders for their commitment to higher education.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003EStudents who attend will have the opportunity to:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul class=\u0022ul1\u0022\u003E\u003Cli class=\u0022li1\u0022\u003EInteract with representatives\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli class=\u0022li5\u0022\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli class=\u0022li1\u0022\u003ETake a tour of the Capitol, receiving a special Resolution\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli class=\u0022li1\u0022\u003EShare opinions on legislative topics\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli class=\u0022li1\u0022\u003EBe part of the political process\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli class=\u0022li1\u0022\u003EEnjoy a special SympVibes concert\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThose interested can \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/sga.gatech.edu\/GTDayAtTheCapitol2013\u0022\u003Esign up online\u003C\/a\u003E to attend; space is limited. 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Fite cited several examples from Georgia\u2019s food processing industry of the use of imaging, robotics and sensing technology developed by Georgia Tech scientists and engineers.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStephen Fleming, Georgia Tech vice president and executive director of the Enterprise Innovation Institute, moderated a panel discussion focused on generating companies and commercial opportunities from university research.\u0026nbsp; He suggested that two economic trends are at play as universities work to spin out startups from research.\u0026nbsp; \u201cAccording to a Kauffman Foundation study, all net job creation in the United States comes from young companies,\u201d he said.\u0026nbsp; \u201cIn addition, big companies are no longer spending billions of dollars on research; it is now being done by universities.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFleming asked the panelists what they looked for in starting a company.\u0026nbsp; Anthony Coker, senior director of market and solutions development for Suniva, Inc., said, \u201cWe are a solar cell producer and need to be close to our markets, so our manufacturing is located wherever our customers are.\u0026nbsp; For research and development and for our corporate headquarters, however, we wanted to be close to the scientific talent at Georgia Tech.\u201d\u0026nbsp; Suniva\u2019s products are based on the technology developed in the laboratories of Regents\u2019 Professor Ajeet Rohatgi, founder of Suniva and director of Georgia Tech\u2019s federally-funded Center of Excellence for Photovoltaic Research and Education.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESerial entrepreneur David Dodd, CEO of VaxyGen Holdings Inc., agreed with Coker.\u0026nbsp; \u201cFor a startup, it is critical to be close to your research team,\u201d he said. \u201cYour real value is in the people who innovate and solve problems.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUniversity System of Georgia Chancellor Hank Huckaby told the audience of entrepreneurs, academic leaders, scientists and legislators that economic development is one of the top priorities for the state\u2019s 35 public colleges and universities.\u0026nbsp; \u201cAs was evident today, we are really doing great things in our schools, and we need to do even more to capture our faculties\u2019 innovations,\u201d he said.\u0026nbsp; \u201cThe ideas generated at today\u2019s forum will help us do that.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s role in helping to strengthen the economic base of rural Georgia and in creating new companies and industries in the state was highlighted at the University System of Georgia\u2019s inaugural forum on economic development, held December 3, 2012 in Atlanta.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech\u2019s role in creating new companies and industries in the state was highlighted at a Dec. 3 economic development forum."}],"uid":"27303","created_gmt":"2012-12-04 22:34:36","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:13:18","author":"John Toon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-12-04T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2012-12-04T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"52191","name":"business formation"},{"id":"815","name":"economic development"},{"id":"3671","name":"Enterprise Innovation Institute"},{"id":"52201","name":"Karen Fite"},{"id":"14525","name":"Rural"},{"id":"166994","name":"startups"},{"id":"167668","name":"Stephen Fleming"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJohn Toon\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; 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Selected students work full-time in offices in and around Washington, DC for 10 weeks in the summer or 16 weeks in the spring and fall.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe DC Internship Program empowers our students to engage in the federal policy process in ways that would not be possible on campus, while laying the groundwork for a future career,\u201d said Rafael L. Bras, provost and executive vice president of academic affairs for Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs part of the program, students receive a stipend and mentorship from Georgia Tech government relations and professional practice staff. Once selected, students are required to secure a federal government position (with members of Congress, Congressional Committees or executive branch offices) that is aligned with their own interests and professional aspirations. Previous positions have been held in the Office of Congressman Phil Gingrey (R-GA); the U.S. Department of Justice-Law and Policy Section; and the Office of the Chief Medical Officer-Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, to name just a few.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWelles is continuing her studies at Georgia Tech after earning an undergraduate degree from the University of Texas-Austin in Russian, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies, and hopes to land an internship that will bring her one step closer to aspirations of becoming a government analyst.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMcDonough, Ga.-born Katherine Mitchell sees the DC Internship Program as a path toward influencing the nation\u2019s science and technology policy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cA lot of students only get involved [in policy discussions] when it\u2019s election season,\u201d Mitchell noted. \u201cI think it\u2019s important for us to stay involved in current events because, whatever you\u2019re interested in, there will be a policy issue around it.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech students are increasingly attracted to government career paths, in response to rising demand for \u201cproblem solvers,\u201d and for the variety of opportunities available. As one former Tech DC intern stated, \u201cYou can use your biology degree to conduct cutting-edge medical research, or use your engineering degree to improve national security.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMany problems do not have a simple or correct answer,\u201d stated chemical and biomedical engineering major Robert Gordon. \u201cThe government faces some of the most complex challenges as it attempts to serve its people, due to the mere fact that they are attempting to serve exactly that, \u003Cem\u003Epeople\u003C\/em\u003E.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech DC Internship program is open to both undergraduate and graduate students of all majors, and is eligible for course credit. Applications for summer 2013 and fall 2013 positions are being accepted until November 16, 2012. For more information, visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gov.gatech.edu\/federal\/DCinternship.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ewww.gov.gatech.edu\/federal\/DCinternship.html\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProgram mobilizes Institute\u2019s commitment to making public service a distinct characteristic of Tech alums.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27213","created_gmt":"2012-10-29 10:38:05","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:13:02","author":"Teri Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-10-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-10-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"165871":{"id":"165871","type":"image","title":"Katherine Mitchell","body":null,"created":"1449178936","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:42:16","changed":"1475894804","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:46:44","alt":"Katherine Mitchell","file":{"fid":"195556","name":"katherine_mitchell.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/katherine_mitchell_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/katherine_mitchell_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":3192251,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/katherine_mitchell_0.jpg?itok=b0eAj81y"}},"151171":{"id":"151171","type":"image","title":"Capitol Building - Washington DC","body":null,"created":"1449178848","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:40:48","changed":"1475894784","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:46:24","alt":"Capitol Building - Washington DC","file":{"fid":"195187","name":"capitol_dc.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/capitol_dc_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/capitol_dc_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":181105,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/capitol_dc_0.jpg?itok=QYkB9UaA"}}},"media_ids":["165871","151171"],"groups":[{"id":"47398","name":"GCR (Office of Government and Community Relations)"}],"categories":[{"id":"131","name":"Economic Development and Policy"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"48091","name":"dc internship program"},{"id":"8300","name":"Georgia Tech Office of Government and Community Relations"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:fatimot@gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EFatimot Ladipo, Assistant Director of Federal Relations\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"158411":{"#nid":"158411","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Offers \u2018Best Academic Deal in America\u2019","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech has been recognized as offering \u201cthe best academic deal in America\u201d by \u003Cem\u003ESmartMoney. \u003C\/em\u003EThe magazine ranked Georgia Tech as number one on the publication\u2019s list of the best 50 colleges based on return of tuition investment.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe magazine collected median pay figures from two pools of alumni: recent graduates and those 15 years out from obtaining their degrees. This was compared with the actual cost of tuition. From this information, \u003Cem\u003ESmartMoney\u003C\/em\u003E created a \u0022Payback Score,\u0022 reflecting an actual return on tuition investment.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAccording to the magazine\u2019s analysis, Georgia Tech graduates from the class of 2009 have a median starting salary of $59,000, representing 67 percent of what they paid in tuition. Graduates in their 30s average $102,000 a year, more than three times their tuition cost.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor a complete list of schools, visit the\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/i.mktw.net\/_newsimages\/pdf\/college-rankings-20120925.pdf\u0022\u003E \u003Cem\u003ESmartMoney\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E website.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022center\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"SmartMoney ranks Georgia Tech number one for return on investment"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech has been recognized as offering \u201cthe best academic deal in America\u201d by \u003Cem\u003ESmartMoney. \u003C\/em\u003EThe magazine ranked Georgia Tech as number one on the publication\u2019s list of the best 50 colleges based on return of tuition investment.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech has been recognized as offering \u201cthe best academic deal in America\u201d by SmartMoney."}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2012-10-02 08:49:25","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:54","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-10-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-10-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"158421":{"id":"158421","type":"image","title":"Buzz - Tech Tower","body":null,"created":"1449178883","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:41:23","changed":"1475894794","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:46:34","alt":"Buzz - Tech Tower","file":{"fid":"195352","name":"0524103-p27-24.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/0524103-p27-24_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/0524103-p27-24_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1211986,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/0524103-p27-24_0.jpg?itok=8le4w_f4"}}},"media_ids":["158421"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/i.mktw.net\/_newsimages\/pdf\/college-rankings-20120925.pdf","title":"SmartMoney College Rankings"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/Story\/Story\/?guid={307AA0B4-072E-11E2-95D5-002128049AD6}","title":"Which Colleges Help Grads Snare Top Salaries?"}],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"45221","name":"academic deal"},{"id":"13983","name":"Return on investment"},{"id":"170785","name":"Smart Money"},{"id":"168923","name":"SmartMoney"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"161771":{"#nid":"161771","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Annual Safety Statistics Published","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFrom 2009 to 2011, the number of burglaries reported at Georgia Tech has decreased significantly, from 70 in 2009 to 25 in 2011, according to the Georgia Tech Police Department\u2019s (GTPD) 2012 Campus Safety Report.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis is just one of the pieces of information highlighted in the brochure, which features crime statistics from the past three years, as well as information regarding what GTPD is doing to keep the campus community safe.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis brochure is a great resource, in that it highlights the ways that we \u2014 and our partners on and off campus \u2014 are addressing safety at Georgia Tech,\u201d said Deputy Chief of Police Rob Connolly. \u201cMaintaining a safe campus is a team effort, and this publication helps us keep the lines of communication open with the campus community.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe brochure was prepared with help from local law enforcement agencies, the Office of Student Integrity, the Women\u2019s Resource Center, Housing and Residence Life. Each group provides updated information regarding their educational efforts and programs.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnnual information from 2009 to 2011 about the number of crimes such as sex offenses, burglaries, motor vehicle theft and robberies is included in the statistics. The numbers are broken down to show the number of crimes that were committed off campus, on campus, in on-campus residential areas or on\u0026nbsp;public property.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne thing to note is that although the figures in the brochure indicate that robberies (taking or attempting to take anything of value from a person by putting the victim in fear) have increased from 10 in 2009 to 13 in 2011, that number has been decreasing in 2012.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cTwo robberies were reported between January and September of this year, compared to seven reported over the same period in 2011,\u201d said Randy Ory, crime analyst for GTPD.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor more information about the statistics featured in the brochure or the Institute\u2019s most recent crime numbers, visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.police.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ewww.police.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo read the full Safety Report, click \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.police.gatech.edu\/documents\/brochure.pdf\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFrom 2009 to 2011, the number of burglaries reported at Georgia Tech has decreased significantly, from 70 in 2009 to 25 in 2011, according to the Georgia Tech Police Department\u2019s (GTPD) 2012 Campus Safety Report.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026nbsp;","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"From 2009 to 2011, the number of burglaries reported at Georgia Tech has decreased significantly, from 70 in 2009 to 25 in 2011, according to the Georgia Tech Police Department\u2019s (GTPD) 2012 Campus Safety Report."}],"uid":"27445","created_gmt":"2012-10-15 08:09:46","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:58","author":"Amelia Pavlik","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-10-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-10-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"161681":{"id":"161681","type":"image","title":"2012 Campus Safety Report","body":null,"created":"1449178908","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:41:48","changed":"1475894796","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:46:36","alt":"2012 Campus Safety Report","file":{"fid":"195436","name":"brochure_cover.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/brochure_cover_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/brochure_cover_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2833258,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/brochure_cover_0.jpg?itok=e0mCjVj6"}}},"media_ids":["161681"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.police.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech Police Department"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.police.gatech.edu\/documents\/brochure.pdf","title":"2012 Campus Safety Report"}],"groups":[{"id":"1259","name":"Whistle"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"46291","name":"2012 Campus Safety Report"},{"id":"2408","name":"campus safety"},{"id":"46301","name":"Deputy Chief of Police Rob Connolly"},{"id":"3390","name":"Georgia Tech Police Department"},{"id":"2543","name":"GTPD"},{"id":"167060","name":"safety"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"155931":{"#nid":"155931","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Students Encouraged to \u2018Wreck the Vote\u2019","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn the \u201890s, it was Rock the Vote. Today at Georgia Tech, it\u2019s Wreck the Vote.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn anticipation of the November presidential election, members of the Student Government Association (SGA) and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. are spearheading a campaign encouraging students to engage in political discourse, register to vote and hit the polls Nov. 6.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStudents will be able to register to vote via mobile registration sites hosted by their peers this week on Tech Walk.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAs students, just because we are busy with classes, work or extracurricular involvement, our views and ideas will not be represented in the American democratic system if we never speak out at the polls,\u201d said Graham Goldberg, student lobby board chair for the undergraduate SGA. \u201cRegistering to vote is definitely a step in the right direction, but you ultimately have to cast a ballot to make a difference,\u201d said Goldberg.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETuesday night, the undergraduate SGA will host an open forum at 7:30 p.m. in Room 117 of the Student Services (Flag) Building prior to its regular meeting. All are invited to attend to hear from state politicians from state representatives \u2013 not about party platforms but about the importance of college students voting.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia deadline to register to vote in the November election is Tuesday, Oct. 9. Those unsure of where they\u2019re registered, but know it\u2019s in the state of Georgia, can visit the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/mvp.sos.state.ga.us\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Secretary of State\u2019s My Voter Page\u003C\/a\u003E to find their precinct. Alternatively, students may file absentee ballots if they don\u2019t want to register in the Atlanta area or have reason to want to vote at home, such as if their home precinct has what they believe will be a more contested race.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EViewing events for the upcoming presidential debates will provide a common place for students to watch and prepare to cast an educated ballot. Debates are scheduled for Oct. 3, 11, 16 and 22; all events will be held in the Student Center Theater, with the exception of the Oct. 3 viewing, which will take place outdoors at the Campanile.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Wreck the Vote campaign kicked off Saturday with a tailgate and mobile voter registration drive prior to the football game against Miami. College Republicans, College Democrats, the Student Center Programs Council, Jackets for Obama and the African American Student Organization are also collaborating with SGA and Alpha Phi Alpha on this campaign.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EStudent groups hold voter registration drive, other events to register peers and get them to vote.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Student groups hold voter registration drive, other events to register peers and get them to vote."}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2012-09-20 14:46:12","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:50","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-09-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-09-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"155941":{"id":"155941","type":"image","title":"Wreck the Vote","body":null,"created":"1449178872","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:41:12","changed":"1475894789","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:46:29","alt":"Wreck the Vote","file":{"fid":"195292","name":"voter4.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/voter4_0.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/voter4_0.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":129805,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/voter4_0.jpeg?itok=PHAb-bXi"}}},"media_ids":["155941"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WreckTheVote","title":"Wreck the Vote on Facebook"},{"url":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/gtvotes","title":"Wreck the Vote on Twitter"},{"url":"http:\/\/mvp.sos.state.ga.us\/","title":"Georgia Secretary of State\u0027s My Voter Page"},{"url":"http:\/\/sos.georgia.gov\/elections\/voting_information.htm","title":"Georgia Voting Information"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"44231","name":"alpha phi alpha fraternity"},{"id":"9077","name":"college democrats"},{"id":"6271","name":"College Republicans"},{"id":"44241","name":"jackets for obama"},{"id":"3177","name":"politics"},{"id":"6927","name":"presidential election"},{"id":"166922","name":"sga"},{"id":"167058","name":"Student"},{"id":"167389","name":"Student Center Programs Council"},{"id":"166923","name":"student government association"},{"id":"3717","name":"voting"},{"id":"44221","name":"wreck the vote"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:gtvotes@gmail.com\u0022\u003EGraham Goldberg\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EStudent Government Association\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"160091":{"#nid":"160091","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Students Teach Transportation Planning to High Schoolers","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJust as Brain Quest can be highly engaging for students learning science, and Scrabble can be a fun way to sharpen teenagers\u2019 vocabulary skills, Terminus \u2014 a game created by three Tech graduate students \u2014 can teach high schoolers all about transportation planning.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs part of their summer work with the Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC), Amy Ingles and Denise Smith, civil engineering students, and Johann Weber, a public policy student, were asked to teach high school students participating in Clark Atlanta University\u2019s Summer Transportation Institute how transportation planning works in metro Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith Terminus, players are paired off and given a fictitious district within a larger metro area, economic and demographic background on the district, a budget and a stack of cards representing options for transportation infrastructure projects for their district. Options include projects such as road repairs, highway interchanges, light rail lines, buses or multiuse paths.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cPersonalities make a big difference, and the kids brought their perceptions of infrastructure with them when they played,\u201d said Weber. He said that one student was dismayed to learn that projects he favored would not be the ones most beneficial for his community. The cost of a project varies depending on the region, as well as how many points it would earn the district in each of three categories: economic, environment and equity.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cPeople approach it in different ways, but it was really fun and well-received,\u201d Weber said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe ARC has participated in the Clark Atlanta University program for a number of years, but, this year, wanted to revamp how it presented the topic of transportation planning to students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cLast year, our senior folks felt they wanted something a little more fun and interactive than in the past,\u201d said Byron Rushing, an ARC bicycle and pedestrian planner who worked with the Tech interns on the project. The idea of Terminus was largely based on the format of the regional roundtable for the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.t-splost.com\/\u0022\u003ETSPLOST\u003C\/a\u003E vote that took place in July. The referendum may have died at the polls this summer, but its lessons live on in Terminus.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe liked the idea because it was already kind of a competitive game in real life to come up with the funding list, so we tried to boil that down to be super simple for high schoolers,\u201d Rushing said. Though students didn\u2019t necessarily have to understand all the nuances of every project to play, the game creators did want a realistic outcome. \u201cWe tried to put it in enough of a framework that it was logical how the projects worked out. Having [Johann] certainly helped with that, since he could conceive all the different ways projects could work for each district.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDebriefing with the students after the game, both Rushing and his colleague Nathan Soldat, an ARC senior transit planner, were pleasantly surprised.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSome of the questions got more technical and were based off the cards from the game; they were not afraid to ask if they didn\u2019t know what a term was,\u201d Soldat said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe ARC plans to continue using Terminus with high school students through its Mock Atlanta Regional Commission (MARC) program, which is similar to a Model United Nations. \u201cThe kids who come are already interested in that field of study, so that group may be even more engaged and informed,\u201d Soldat said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETerminus is now copyrighted to the ARC, and Weber also submitted it for presentation at the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/trb.org\u0022\u003ETransportation Research Board\u003C\/a\u003E\u2019s annual meeting in Washington, D.C. He has also presented the idea to Georgia Tech faculty who may be able to incorporate it into their curriculum.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe really just want to expose more people to transportation planning,\u201d Weber said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECreated By:\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Ca title=\u0022My Account\u0022 href=\u0022\/users\/kshaw3\u0022\u003EKristen Shaw\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThree graduate students created a transportation planning game while working for the Atlanta Regional Commission.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Three graduate students created a transportation planning game while working for the Atlanta Regional Commission."}],"uid":"27714","created_gmt":"2012-10-06 16:57:53","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:54","author":"Kyle James","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-10-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-10-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"158611":{"id":"158611","type":"image","title":"Students Play Terminus","body":null,"created":"1449178883","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:41:23","changed":"1475894794","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:46:34","alt":"Students Play Terminus","file":{"fid":"195363","name":"terminus2_copy.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/terminus2_copy_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/terminus2_copy_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":619253,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/terminus2_copy_0.png?itok=cixnw8eM"}}},"media_ids":["158611"],"groups":[{"id":"1224","name":"School of City \u0026 Regional Planning"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"965","name":"Atlanta Regional Commission"},{"id":"1564","name":"community"},{"id":"1808","name":"graduate students"},{"id":"479","name":"Green Buzz"},{"id":"45691","name":"news room"},{"id":"45271","name":"transportation planning"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:johannw@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJohann Weber\u003C\/a\u003E, Terminus game\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:kristen.bailey@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EKristen Bailey\u003C\/a\u003E, Institute Communications\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"159721":{"#nid":"159721","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Ranked as One of the World\u2019s Top 25 Universities","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology ranked 25th among the top 100 universities recognized in \u003Cem\u003ETimes Higher Education\u2019s\u003C\/em\u003E 2012-2013 World University Rankings.\u0026nbsp;The Institute was the top-ranked public university from the southern United States and ranked No. 5 in the world among its U.S. public institution counterparts.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, Georgia Tech ranked ninth on the list of the world\u2019s top engineering and technology universities and third on the list of public U.S. engineering and technology universities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Cem\u003ETimes Higher Education\u003C\/em\u003E World University Rankings use 13 separate performance indicators to examine a university\u2019s strengths against all of its core missions \u2013 teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. 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This marks the first time that both awards have gone to the same department. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe Coulter Department is an excellent example of an academic unit designing its curriculum and instructional approach to truly focus on student learning and achievement,\u201d said Rafael L. Bras, provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs. \u201cIt\u2019s no surprise that the department and one of its own, Steve Potter, would be selected to receive these awards.\u201d \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe University System of Georgia (USG) Teaching Excellence Awards recognize both individual faculty and staff, and departments and programs for a strong commitment to teaching and student success. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Coulter Department was recognized for its design and implementation of a problem-focused curriculum. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cProblem-driven learning aims to develop empowered, self-directed inquirers who fearlessly seek and tackle local and global problems,\u201d said Wendy Newstetter, who helped develop the award-winning BME curriculum and is now director of educational research and innovation for the College of Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA team of BME faculty, including Newstetter, BME Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies Joe Le Doux and Director of Learning Sciences Innovation and Research Barbara Fasse, are scheduled to share their curriculum design approach in March 2013 during a workshop for faculty from across the state.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPotter, director of the Laboratory for NeuroEngineering, was recognized for his self-defined \u201creal world\u201d approach to teaching neuroscience courses. For example, students interview experts in the field and use what they learn from experts and readings to create new neuroscience articles for Wikipedia.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cNothing is more rewarding for me than to get an email from one of my former students telling me about where they are now and how much they still appreciate and use what they learned in a class of mine,\u201d Potter said. \u201cTo get recognition from the USG for leaving a lasting influence on my students is icing on the cake.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) and Steve Potter, associate professor in the Coulter Department, are recipients of the 2013 Regents\u2019 Teaching Excellence Awards.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) and Steve Potter, associate professor in the Coulter Department, are recipients of the 2013 Regents\u2019 Teaching Excellence Awards."}],"uid":"27445","created_gmt":"2012-09-17 09:43:30","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:50","author":"Amelia Pavlik","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-09-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-09-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"154301":{"id":"154301","type":"image","title":"Steve Potter","body":null,"created":"1449178859","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:40:59","changed":"1475894787","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:46:27","alt":"Steve Potter","file":{"fid":"195249","name":"steve_potter.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/steve_potter_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/steve_potter_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1603996,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/steve_potter_0.jpg?itok=AhJTEuPx"}}},"media_ids":["154301"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/","title":"Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering"}],"groups":[{"id":"1259","name":"Whistle"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1612","name":"BME"},{"id":"728","name":"Board of Regents"},{"id":"14219","name":"Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering"},{"id":"43551","name":"Regents\u0027 Teaching Excellence Awards"},{"id":"168365","name":"Steve Potter"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:adrianne.proeller@bme.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EAdrianne Proeller\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECoulter Department of Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"152721":{"#nid":"152721","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Formulates Plan for Complete College Initiative","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhen Gov. Nathan Deal announced the Complete College Georgia initiative in August 2011, he challenged each of the state\u2019s public higher education institutions to develop plans for increasing the number of postsecondary graduates. One year later, the Institute is aligning with the governor\u2019s vision, producing a document that starts with data analysis as a foundation for improving undergraduate student success at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the state of Georgia, 42 percent of the population holds some form of a college degree; the governor is hoping to raise that number to 60 percent by 2020. To reach that goal, the state\u2019s public and private colleges will need to produce an additional 250,000 graduates.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe overall goal of Georgia Tech\u2019s Complete College Georgia plan is to reach and consistently maintain an 80 percent six-year graduation rate before gradually increasing this rate to 84 percent, the average of Tech\u2019s national peers. The team that developed the plan was established by President Bud Peterson and Provost Rafael Bras and included faculty and administrators from Undergraduate Education, Learning Excellence, Student Affairs, the Office of Minority Education Development (OMED), Enrollment Services, Government and Community Relations, Professional Education, the Office of the President, and the Office of Institutional Research and Planning (IRP).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe committee used a demographic analysis of Tech\u2019s undergraduate student population to examine common characteristics among enrolled students who want to graduate from Georgia Tech but are ultimately unsuccessful. The analysis helped the committee begin to identify factors that may be impeding success.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAt Georgia Tech, our retention and graduation rates are among the highest in the state ,\u201d said Steven Girardot, assistant vice provost for undergraduate education and a member of the committee. \u201cbut having the detailed statistical analyses that IRP provides has allowed us to set goals and strategies for how we can make improvements.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhen Gov. Nathan Deal announced the Complete College Georgia initiative in August 2011, he challenged each of the state\u2019s public higher education institutions to develop plans for increasing the number of postsecondary graduates. One year later, the Institute is aligning with the governor\u2019s vision, producing a document that starts with data analysis as a foundation for improving undergraduate student success at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Supporting governor\u0027s goal of increasing college completion to 60 percent statewide"}],"uid":"27299","created_gmt":"2012-09-10 09:39:05","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:47","author":"Michael Hagearty","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-09-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-09-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.usg.edu\/news\/release\/public_colleges_finalize_plans_to_help_more_georgians_earn_degrees","title":"University System of Georgia news release"}],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"43051","name":"complete college georgia"},{"id":"629","name":"graduation"},{"id":"14061","name":"Nathan Deal"},{"id":"1556","name":"undergraduate"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:steven.girardot@gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESteven Girardot\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECenter for Academic Success\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-1951\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"151941":{"#nid":"151941","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech-Affiliated Projects Among Innovation Fund Winners","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech is affiliated with four of this year\u2019s nine Innovation Fund partnership grants, which were announced by Governor Nathan Deal earlier this week. The $19.4 million competitive grant program was created through Georgia\u2019s Race to the Top (RT3) plan.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech worked with local education authorities, charter schools, other institutions of higher education, businesses and nonprofit organizations to develop or implement high-impact programs aimed at producing positive outcomes for students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe four Georgia Tech-affiliated grant recipients are:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EComputational Thinking: 21st Century STEM Problem-Solving Skills for Georgia Students \u2013 Georgia Tech will work with B.E. Mays High School and Tapjoy Inc. to incorporate computational thinking into high school STEM curricula, teaching students to construct models to simulate, visualize and solve real-world problems.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EDrew Charter School Partnership for Expansion \u2013 Drew Charter School; the Georgia Tech Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics and Computing (GT CEISMC); the Georgia State University School of Music and others will expand Drew\u2019s highly successful pre-K-8 STEM curriculum to grades 9-12, creating a true cradle-to-college pipeline serving inner-city students.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EGreene County STEM TLA Collaborative \u2013 Georgia Tech, Greene County Schools, University of Georgia faculty and Ed Innovation Partners seek to open a charter school in Greene County with the mission of increasing the number of students who choose STEM fields as a career.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003ERockdale 21st Century Academy of Environmental Studies \u2013 Rockdale County Schools, in partnership with GT CEISMC and Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID), will create a STEM-focused middle grades school that provides students with portfolio and project-based learning modules.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EWritten by Institute Communications student assistant Vett Vandiver. Portions were taken from the Office of the Governor\u0027s official \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gov.georgia.gov\/00\/press\/detail\/0,2668,165937316_188290503_188284843,00.html\u0022\u003Epress release\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech is affiliated with four of this year\u2019s nine Innovation Fund partnership grants, which were announced by Governor Nathan Deal earlier this week. 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Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering in collaboration with the Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics and Computing (CEISMC) \u2013 will introduce about 5,100 Griffin-Spalding County students in grades six through nine to advanced manufacturing learning experiences, such as working with robots and creating items using computer design and 3-D printers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECalled Advanced Manufacturing and Prototyping Integrated to Unlock Potential (AMP-IT-UP), the project aims to inspire students to study STEM topics, particularly manufacturing, by exploring their creativity and watching their creations come to life. \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWith AMP-IT-UP we hope to inspire all students to connect with STEM fields,\u201d said CEISMC Associate Director and AMP-IT-UP Program Director Marion Usselman. \u201cIn particular, we want to catch those students who might be our future creative innovators but who are at risk of falling through the cracks in our current book and test-driven education.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStudent classroom experiences will be broadened by extracurricular clubs and competitions provided through the AMP-IT-UP project. Georgia Tech faculty and students will mentor Griffin-Spalding students in clubs such as the Junior Makers Club and robotic competitions including FIRST LEGO League and FIRST Robotics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAdditionally, Georgia Tech faculty will be using the project for research purposes. They will be investigating whether STEM innovation and design courses impact students\u2019 academic engagement, content understanding, knowledge transfer and persistence in STEM. Researchers will also study how professional development of teachers affects the deployment of the advanced manufacturing curriculum, and will explore and describe the barriers to change within educational systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cTo develop and put into practice innovative approaches and strategies in math and science based on educational research is phenomenal,\u201d said Griffin-Spalding County School System Superintendent Curtis Jones.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech and the school system have been awarded $2.9 million for the first two years of the grant, with another $4.3 million to follow in 2014.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis project is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) (\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1238089\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAward Number 1238089\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E). The content is solely the responsibility of the principal investigators and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NSF.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe project will introduce about 5,100 Griffin-Spalding County students in grades six through nine to advanced manufacturing learning experiences, such as working with robots and creating items using computer design and 3-D printers.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The NSF-funded project will introduce about 5,100 Griffin-Spalding County students in grades six through nine to advanced manufacturing learning experiences."}],"uid":"27462","created_gmt":"2012-08-31 09:21:45","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:43","author":"Liz Klipp","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-08-31T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-08-31T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"136831":{"id":"136831","type":"image","title":"Invention Studio - Maker Bot","body":null,"created":"1449178685","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:38:05","changed":"1475894766","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:46:06","alt":"Invention Studio - Maker Bot","file":{"fid":"194834","name":"12e8002-p3-005.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/12e8002-p3-005_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/12e8002-p3-005_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1813992,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/12e8002-p3-005_0.jpg?itok=uGvJ_0i3"}}},"media_ids":["136831"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.ceismc.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech\u0027s Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics and Computing (CEISMC)"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/","title":"George W. 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Representatives from key research centers, public policy experts and other stakeholders also joined the discussion.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EParticipants discussed opportunities and challenges to continue improving U.S. competitiveness in advanced clean energy manufacturing in a wide array of topics \u2013 ranging from solar and wind to energy storage, vehicles, lighting, smart grid, fuel cells and more \u2013\u0026nbsp;through public-private partnerships in R\u0026amp;D, industry cluster development and technology commercialization activities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe roundtable discussions were critical in understanding the capabilities, ideas, and expectations that these top experts in the field of clean energy have and hold; and how we in MaRC can strategically position ourselves to collaborate with them and lead the effort in advanced clean energy manufacturing,\u201d Wang said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESubjects discussed and debated at the roundtable will inform the U.S. Administration\u2019s evolving manufacturing strategy, at the energy department\u0027s Office of Energy Efficiency \u0026amp; 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The report states that the combined economic impact of the University System of Georgia\u2019s 35 institutions on their host communities reached $13.2 billion in Fiscal Year 2011, which is 5 percent higher than the $12.6 billion reported for FY 2010.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s economic impact was the largest among the University System of Georgia (USG) institutions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe FY 2011 study found that Georgia\u2019s public university system generated nearly 132,000 jobs, or more than 3 percent of all the nonfarm jobs that exist in Georgia. The bottom line is that one job out of every 29 in the state of Georgia is due to the University System.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe full study with data for all 35 USG institutions is available at: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.usg.edu\/economic_development\/documents\/PS-USGImpact2011.pdf\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.usg.edu\/economic_development\/documents\/PS-USGImpact2011.pdf\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAccording to a new report, Georgia Tech\u2019s economic impact is approximately $2.3 billion and 18,640 jobs.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"According to a new report, Georgia Tech\u2019s economic impact is approximately $2.3 billion and 18,640 jobs."}],"uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2012-07-11 14:43:32","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:29","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-07-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-07-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.usg.edu\/economic_development\/documents\/PS-USGImpact2011.pdf","title":"The Full Report"}],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"131","name":"Economic Development and Policy"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2935","name":"Economic Impact Study"},{"id":"726","name":"University System of Georgia"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["mattnagel@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"125491":{"#nid":"125491","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Recognized Nationally for Return on Investment","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBloomberg\/Businessweek ranked Georgia Tech number two in the nation, and first in the state of Georgia, in annualized return on investment (ROI) based on the financial return graduates earn from their degree.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAccording to the survey results compiled by Payscale.com, Georgia Tech graduates receive, on average, a 14.9 percent return on their tuition investment over a 30-year period.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech was one of 24 schools whose graduates earned a net ROI in excess of $1 million over 30 years for their tuition investment. Among this group are CalTech, MIT, Stanford, Harvard and Duke. Tech is on the $1 million net ROI list twice, once for in-state tuition and once for out-of-state tuition.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe return on investment was calculated for more than 850 schools. According to the methodology, the PayScale salary data is self-reported by individuals who use its online pay tools. 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