{"593511":{"#nid":"593511","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"How fire ants use their bodies to build wriggling Eiffel Tower-like columns","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENew \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org\/content\/4\/7\/170475.article-info\u0022\u003Eresearch\u003C\/a\u003E focusing on the remarkable tower-building abilities of fire ants continues to attract attention from top\u0026nbsp;media outlets, such as this story from the Washington Post. Also, study co-author \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/craig-tovey\u0022\u003ECraig Tovey\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EH. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, takes us behind the scenes of the research in this \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-do-fire-ants-form-amazing-towers-and-rafts-without-a-master-plan-80717\u0022\u003Epost\u003C\/a\u003E for The Conversation. \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/biosci.gatech.edu\/people\/david-hu\u0022\u003EDavid Hu\u003C\/a\u003E also worked on\u0026nbsp;the study. Hu is\u0026nbsp;an associate professor in the School of Biological Sciences and the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EGeorge W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E. He is also an adjunct associate professor in the School of Physics.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2017-07-14 14:34:31","changed_gmt":"2017-07-14 22:18:14","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"graduation 2023","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2017\/07\/13\/how-fire-ants-use-their-bodies-to-build-wriggling-eiffel-tower-like-columns\/?tid=ptv_rellink\u0026utm_term=.bdf0f08fe1d9","dateline":{"date":"2017-07-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-07-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"593512":{"id":"593512","type":"image","title":"Craig Tovey ","body":null,"created":"1500042941","gmt_created":"2017-07-14 14:35:41","changed":"1500042941","gmt_changed":"2017-07-14 14:35:41","alt":"","file":{"fid":"226254","name":"Craig Tovey.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Craig%20Tovey.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Craig%20Tovey.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":11223,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Craig%20Tovey.jpg?itok=IGq0fcBb"}},"382241":{"id":"382241","type":"image","title":"David Hu","body":null,"created":"1449246231","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:23:51","changed":"1493396247","gmt_changed":"2017-04-28 16:17:27","alt":"Daivd Hu","file":{"fid":"75309","name":"hu.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/hu.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/hu.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":24895,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/hu.jpg?itok=JoMWZnaG"}}},"media_ids":["593512","382241"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"14545","name":"George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering"},{"id":"1202","name":"H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering"},{"id":"297","name":"David Hu"},{"id":"2227","name":"Craig Tovey"},{"id":"14335","name":"Fire Ants"},{"id":"174931","name":"tower building"}],"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":""}}}