{"649348":{"#nid":"649348","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Micro-Grants Awarded for Campus Community-Based Research","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe\u0026nbsp;Kendeda Building Advisory Board has awarded five micro research grants ($50 to $500) for sustainability related, small-scale, short term studies to be conducted by members of the Georgia Tech community. The request for proposals encouraged researchers to explore ways in which the Georgia Tech campus can continue to innovate, demonstrate, prove, and promote the adoption of best and next practices in regenerative design and operations.\u0026nbsp;Researchers were also encouraged\u0026nbsp;to use the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals as a framework for research design. All members of the Georgia Tech community were encouraged to apply. The program especially sought proposals from students and staff that had little or no prior research experience. The program has four objectives:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Col\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003Eto expand scientific thinking and the understanding of the research process amongst those not (yet) directly involved in scientific research;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003Eto bolster the use of the campus as a living laboratory;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003Eto give voice to people and communities outside of research that have culturally novel perspectives on problems and their possible solutions, and to create new pathways for partnering with them; and\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003Eto seed novel ideas and nurture nascent investigators.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ol\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;The awardees are:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EAthena Verghis and Rishi Pathak \u0026ndash; CEE Undergrads\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\t\u0026quot;Recognizing and Removing Invasive Plant Species Through Computer Vision and Deep Learning\u0026quot;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EPurna Pratiti Saha - ISyE Undergrad\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\t\u0026quot;Quantifying the Per-capita Single-use Waste Impact from Food and Beverage in GT Campus\u0026quot;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EAkhil Chavan and Lalith Polepeddi - Research Scientists, Global Change Program\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\t\u0026quot;Monitoring Biodiversity in the EcoCommons\u0026quot;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EElliot Hodge - CHEM Undergrad\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\t\u0026quot;Edible Campus: A Model for Georgia Tech\u0026quot;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EBrooke Rothschild-Mancinelli, Rebecca Guth-Metzler, Katherine Nguyen, Aaron Silva Trenkle, and Michelle Wong \u0026ndash; IBB Graduate Students\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\t\u0026quot;BBUGS Pollinator Garden\u0026quot;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAll awardees will present their findings at the first micro-grants research conferenceto be held in the Fall 2021 semester.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe\u0026nbsp;Kendeda Building Advisory Board has awarded five micro research grants ($50 to $500) for sustainability related, small-scale, short term studies to be conducted by members of the Georgia Tech community. The request for proposals encouraged researchers to explore ways in which the Georgia Tech campus can continue to innovate, demonstrate, prove, and promote the adoption of best and next practices in regenerative design and operations.\u0026nbsp;Researchers were also encouraged\u0026nbsp;to use the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals as a framework for research design. All members of the Georgia Tech community were encouraged to apply.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sustainable.gatech.edu\/bigideas\/micro-grants-awarded-campus-community-based-research\u0022\u003ERead More...\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The\u00a0Kendeda Building Advisory Board has awarded five micro research grants ($50 to $500) for sustainability related, small-scale, short term studies."}],"uid":"27338","created_gmt":"2021-08-09 16:38:53","changed_gmt":"2021-08-09 17:22:58","author":"Brent Verrill","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-08-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-08-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"649346":{"id":"649346","type":"image","title":"Micro-Grants Image","body":null,"created":"1628526184","gmt_created":"2021-08-09 16:23:04","changed":"1628526184","gmt_changed":"2021-08-09 16:23:04","alt":"A student takes water samples from a reed bed at the Kendeda Builiding for Innovative Sustainable Design.","file":{"fid":"246537","name":"Microgrants_Image.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Microgrants_Image.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Microgrants_Image.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":140903,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Microgrants_Image.jpg?itok=1VhrQUC1"}}},"media_ids":["649346"],"groups":[{"id":"244191","name":"Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"166871","name":"bbiss_big_ideas"},{"id":"188360","name":"go-bbiss"},{"id":"188446","name":"micro-grants"},{"id":"177012","name":"kendeda building for innovative sustainable design"},{"id":"132161","name":"BBISS"},{"id":"167441","name":"student research"}],"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:brent.verrill@research.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EBrent Verrill\u003C\/a\u003E, Research Communications Program Manager, BBISS\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["brent.verrill@research.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}