{"495991":{"#nid":"495991","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Supply Chain \u0026 Logistics Institute Elevated to an Interdisciplinary Research Center","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute (SCL)\u0026nbsp;is pleased to announce that Georgia Tech has elevated it to a new status: Interdisciplinary Research Center (IRC). SCL is one of a handful of successful units that have been given this designation to further enhance interdisciplinary research and educational program development.\u0026nbsp;As an IRC, SCL engages faculty with interests in supply chain and logistics from across all colleges and schools on campus, and will be better positioned to seek large-scale, multi-discipline research contracts. SCL is excited about the ability to better serve organizations by bringing to bear expertise in policy, electronics, computing, business, and analytics under a common umbrella as needed.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/users\/martin-savelsbergh\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EMartin Savelsbergh\u003C\/a\u003E and Dr. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/benoit-montreuil\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EBenoit Montreuil\u003C\/a\u003E serve as SCL\u0026rsquo;s co-directors of research and Savelsbergh will continue to serve as leader of global transportation research and Montreuil will serve as leader of Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s new \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/research\/physical-internet\u0022\u003EPhysical Internet Center\u003C\/a\u003E. Tim Brown will continue to serve as SCL\u0026rsquo;s managing director and lead the direction of educational programming.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESCL will continue to maintain strong ties with the Stewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering, and continue to grow its offerings in public, custom, and online professional education programming. Additionally, SCL will maintain its relationship with its operations in Panama, Costa Rica, Mexico, Singapore, and Savannah. New industry, university, and scientific advisory boards are being established to provide input to the future of SCL as an IRC.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWe are also excited to report that SCL sister organization, the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/hhscenter.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ECenter for Health and Humanitarian Systems\u003C\/a\u003E, has also been designated as an IRC!\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute (SCL)\u0026nbsp;is pleased to announce that Georgia Tech has elevated it to a new status: Interdisciplinary Research Center (IRC). SCL is one of a handful of successful units that have been given this designation to further enhance interdisciplinary research and educational program development.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"SCL is one of a handful of successful units that have been given this designation to further enhance interdisciplinary research and educational program development."}],"uid":"27233","created_gmt":"2016-02-05 11:58:52","changed_gmt":"2016-12-16 17:10:02","author":"Andy Haleblian","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-02-01T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2016-02-01T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"495921":{"id":"495921","type":"image","title":"Georgia Tech SCL Interdisciplinary Research Center","body":null,"created":"1455120000","gmt_created":"2016-02-10 16:00:00","changed":"1475895253","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:13","alt":"Georgia Tech SCL Interdisciplinary Research Center","file":{"fid":"205866","name":"gtscl-solid-2line-539874-irc_0.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/gtscl-solid-2line-539874-irc_0_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/gtscl-solid-2line-539874-irc_0_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":15998,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/gtscl-solid-2line-539874-irc_0_0.png?itok=p9kBgCHc"}}},"media_ids":["495921"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"171590","name":"Interdisciplinary Research Center"},{"id":"78251","name":"IRC"},{"id":"122741","name":"physical internet"}],"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:info@scl.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Einfo@scl.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["info@scl.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}