{"54671":{"#nid":"54671","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Professor Reginald DesRoches to Present Haiti Damage Assesment in Washington D.C.","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech Professor Reginald DesRoches will present his first-hand account of the damage that resulted from January\u0027s earthquake in Haiti along with recommendations on rebuilding to members of Congress along with the World Bank on Thursday in Washington, D.C.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDesRoches spent several days in Port-au-Prince following at the end of January and beginning of February assessing the infrastructure damage sustained in the country.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBeginning at 9 a.m. Thursday, DesRoches will discuss his initial findings with several Congressional\u0026nbsp;committees, beginning with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, followed by meetings with the House Foreign Relations Committee and the House Science and Technology Committee. The staff of Georgia Rep. John Lewis will join DesRoches during his meeting with the House Foreign Relations Committee.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThese briefings will be followed by a brown bag lunch at the World Bank, where he will present his findings alongside other national and international researchers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDesRoches will be traveling back to Haiti at the beginning of March for further evaluation of the country\u0027s condition.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Georgia Tech Professor Reginald DesRoches will present his first-hand account of the damage that resulted from January\u0027s earthquake in Haiti along with recommendations on rebuilding to members of Congress along with the World Bank on Thursday in Washington, D.C.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"15436","created_gmt":"2010-02-24 16:37:35","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:38","author":"Automator","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-02-24T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2010-02-24T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"39771":{"id":"39771","type":"image","title":"Reginald DesRoches","body":null,"created":"1449174117","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:21:57","changed":"1475894253","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:37:33"}},"media_ids":["39771"],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"155","name":"Congressional Testimony"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"8851","name":"Focus on Haiti; engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDon Fernandez\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:don.fernandez@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Edon.fernandez@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-894-6016\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["don.fernandez@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}