{"71332":{"#nid":"71332","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Partnering to Create National Robotics Strategy","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECiting the critical importance of the continued growth of robotics to U.S. competitiveness, 11 universities are taking the lead in developing an integrated national strategy for robotics research. The United States is the only nation engaged in advanced robotics research that does not have such a research roadmap.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Computing Community Consortium (CCC), a program of the National Science Foundation, is providing support for developing the roadmap, which will be a unified research agenda for robotics across federal agencies, industry and the universities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe effort began last year and includes representatives from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University and the universities of Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, California- Berkeley, Southern California, Utah and Illinois, as well as Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Stanford University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHenrik I. Christensen, the KUKA Chair of Robotics at Georgia Tech and a principal investigator for the CCC, is leading the group effort to develop the roadmap with the involvement of industry. This spring, a series of workshops are being organized and this fall a National Robotics Senior Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C., will take place. The conference will review the preliminary results from the workshops and take steps toward an integrated national research agenda. The roadmap will then be reported to the year-old Congressional Robotics Caucus, headed by U.S. Rep. Mike Doyle (D-Pa.) and U.S. Rep. Zach Wamp (R-Tenn.).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;It is essential that the United States begins to solidly outline a leadership position in robotics,\u0026quot; said Carnegie Mellon President Jared L. Cohon. \u0026quot;Robotics already is having a transformative impact on the workplace, from the factory floor to hospital operating rooms. In the decades ahead, this impact can be extended to our homes and our highways to increase our ability to live independently and to save lives.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;The planning process now getting under way is a historic opportunity to build upon broad-based collaboration among industry and academic leaders in the field of robotics,\u0026quot; said Georgia Tech President Wayne Clough. \u0026quot;We want to create a plan that will keep this nation competitive in a technology that is rapidly advancing.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe failure of the robotics community to previously speak with one voice has resulted in inconsistent funding and missed opportunities, said Matthew T. Mason, director of Carnegie Mellon\u0026#39;s Robotics Institute. \u0026quot;The technology is finding wider application, but its full potential is not fully appreciated by policy makers,\u0026quot; he explained. \u0026quot;We need to develop a common vision so that we can work effectively with the Congressional Robotics Caucus and with funding agencies.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EChristensen noted that all of the planning events are designed to focus on the research needs that are vital to the development of a growing robotics industry.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;Several key competencies are not available today,\u0026quot; Christensen said. \u0026quot;Through a community effort that includes end-users, industry and academia, the key challenges and opportunities will be identified. The workshops and conferences will allow us to develop a mature plan.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;The key to the workshops will be the collaborative discussions between representatives from both academia and industry,\u0026quot; stated John Reid, Director, Product Technology and Innovation at John Deere\u0026#39;s Moline Technology Innovation Center. \u0026quot;We need to proceed in a market-driven fashion to envision key future robotics-enabled capabilities and then map these capabilities to the required robotics technologies that we need to be researching and developing today.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDoyle and Wamp of the Congressional Robotics Caucus expressed enthusiasm for the effort.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;We applaud the researchers at some of our nation\u0026#39;s top universities for this effort to craft a national agenda for robotics research,\u0026quot; they said in a statement released by the caucus. \u0026quot;We especially want to commend the presidents of Carnegie Mellon and Georgia Tech for their initiative in organizing this conference. The Congressional Robotics Caucus looks forward to reviewing the results of this important work so that we can more fully understand the impact that robotics is likely to have on the future security and prosperity of our nation.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nMore information about the Community Computing Consortium can be found at:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cra.org\/ccc\/\u0022\u003Ewww.cra.org\/ccc\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe roadmapping effort is detailed at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.us-robotics.us\u0022\u003Ewww.us-robotics.us\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout Carnegie Mellon:\u003C\/strong\u003E Carnegie Mellon is a private research university with a distinctive mix of programs in engineering, computer science, robotics, business, public policy, fine arts and the humanities. More than 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students receive an education characterized by its focus on creating and implementing solutions for real problems, interdisciplinary collaboration, and innovation. A small student-to-faculty ratio provides an opportunity for close interaction between students and professors. While technology is pervasive on its 144-acre Pittsburgh campus, Carnegie Mellon is also distinctive among leading research universities for the world-renowned programs in its College of Fine Arts. A global university, Carnegie Mellon has campuses in Silicon Valley, Calif., and Qatar, and programs in Asia, Australia and Europe. For more, see \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cmu.edu\u0022\u003Ewww.cmu.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Academic Leaders in Robotics Research Announce Effort To Create National Strategy for Robotics Growth"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECiting the critical importance of the continued growth of robotics to U.S. competitiveness, 11 universities are taking the lead in developing an integrated national strategy for robotics research. 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Four years later, 17 students graduated with biomedical engineering degrees. Now there are more than 800 undergraduates in the program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022BigFirst\u0022\u003E\u201cBiomedical engineering has captured the imagination of young students,\u201d says Wendy Newstetter, who is director of learning sciences research for the Coulter Department. \u201cThe thought of helping society through science and engineering is very attractive to them.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESince its inception in 1997, the Coulter Department has been dedicated to education \u2013 with part of a $16 million grant from the Whitaker Foundation earmarked for educational innovation. A strong focus of the undergraduate curriculum is problem-based learning, a student-centered instructional strategy in which students work in small collaborative groups to solve open-ended problems with a faculty member serving as facilitator.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESpecial classrooms in the U.A. Whitaker Building were designed for problem-based learning courses. The small rooms, which are set up like conference rooms with whiteboard-covered walls, are critical to the learning process, says Paul Benkeser, associate chair for undergraduate studies in the Coulter Department.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the freshman biomedical engineering class, groups of eight students are given three relevant biomedical engineering problems such as improving cancer screening and\/or detection methods; identifying sources of error in a biomedical device; and developing mathematical models of the heart.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETackling these difficult research problems seems to help students gain confidence in their ability to conduct research, says Newstetter. More than one-third of the students in the undergraduate program participate in research. For the spring 2008 semester, Coulter Department students accounted for 20 of the 70 Georgia Tech students winning President\u2019s Undergraduate Research Awards.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe start teaching the students the sophisticated skills required for them to be successful biomedical engineers in the freshman problem-based learning course,\u201d explains Newstetter. \u201cBut problem-based learning reappears throughout the curriculum \u2013 in the junior-level design course and even the laboratory courses.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EInstead of a typical physiology laboratory where a student may only learn cell biology assays, the Coulter Department incorporates engineering and biology into a cohesive package by bringing the disease to the forefront, says Essy Behravesh, who is director of the instructional laboratories in the Coulter Department.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhen the students take the two-semester senior design project course, they\u2019re ready to undertake a major design project that incorporates engineering standards and realistic constraints.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis is a real-life engineering experience for our students,\u201d says Benkeser. \u201cThey have to learn how to communicate professionally with a client, submit engineering design specifications to the client for approval and keep the client apprised of progress.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPast clients have included physicians affiliated with Emory University, Northside Hospital, Children\u2019s Healthcare of Atlanta and engineers and scientists from local biotechnology companies. By the time the students graduate, they find value in the problem-based learning approach.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe farther away I get from my problem-based learning experiences, the more I realize how much I learned from them,\u201d says Anu Parvatiyar, a senior in the Coulter Department. \u201cI learned a lot of the core skills involved in problem solving and design that make a biomedical engineer successful.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A strong focus of the undergraduate curriculum is problem-based learning, a student-centered instructional strategy in which students work in small collaborative groups to solve open-ended problems with a faculty member serving as facilitator."}],"uid":"28152","created_gmt":"2014-11-11 16:13:03","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:17:30","author":"Claire Labanz","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-03-01T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2008-03-01T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"42941","name":"Art Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"109451","name":"Winter\/Spring 2009 Issue"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News\u2028\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u2028177 North Avenue\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u2028Atlanta, Georgia\u0026nbsp; 30332-0181 \u0026nbsp;USA\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Contacts:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJohn Toon\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u2028404-894-6986\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u2028\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u2028\u2028\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBrett Israel\u2028\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-385-1933\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u2028\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:brett.israel@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Ebrett.israel@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"344011":{"#nid":"344011","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Convergence of Bioscience and Engineering: Biomedical Engineering Department Marks 10th Anniversary","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EWritten by Abby Vogel\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhen Georgia Tech President Wayne Clough broke ground on the first building of the new Biotechnology Complex in May 1998, the shovel heralded more than just new brick and glass.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe four new structures built around the quadrangle became the physical manifestations of one of the most dramatic changes in Georgia Tech\u2019s nearly 125-year history. The 800,000 square feet of new buildings represent the convergence of bioscience and engineering, providing the foundation for a $27 million biomedical engineering research program that is now the second largest among U.S. colleges and universities, according to National Science Foundation statistics for 2006.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe centerpiece academic department is the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECreated in 1997, the joint department has emerged as a vibrant and innovative center for education and research in biomedical engineering in which teams of highly interdisciplinary researchers collaborate and network across a global environment. The department combines the design and problem-solving skills of engineering with the medical and biological sciences to improve patient health care and the quality of life for healthy individuals.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMarking its 10th anniversary this year, the Coulter Department continues to build its interdisciplinary programs to tackle the challenges of the 21st century, including cardiovascular disease, nerve injuries, neurological disorders, bone loss and cancer. This article describes a sampling of the department\u2019s research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECharting Blood Flow in 3-D\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor every 1,000 babies born in the United States, two are born with just one functional heart ventricle. Their early years are filled with surgeries that aim to restructure circulation to pump blood directly to the lungs without the heart\u2019s help.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo allow surgeons to get a detailed look at a child\u2019s heart structure before these surgeries, Ajit Yoganathan, a Regents\u2019 Professor and The Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Faculty Chair in Biomedical Engineering, has developed personalized three-dimensional models of the heart to show a surgeon how well blood would flow through proposed post-surgery configurations. Each model is created using data from a series of magnetic resonance imaging scans of the child\u2019s heart taken at different times in the cardiac cycle.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe work very closely with the cardiologists and cardiac surgeons to help with surgical planning,\u201d says Yoganathan. \u201cWith a better understanding of each child\u2019s unique heart defect, surgeons can improve the surgery outcome and recovery time.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYoganathan collaborates with Emory University, Children\u2019s Healthcare of Atlanta, Children\u2019s Hospital of Philadelphia and Children\u2019s Hospital Boston on this project, which is funded by the National Institutes of Health.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnother team of researchers is using magnetic resonance imaging scans to predict where atherosclerotic plaques will form and rupture in arteries based on fluid flow. Plaques form in artery walls because of cholesterol build-up. When they rupture, they can block blood vessels, leading to heart attack or stroke.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe believe plaques form where blood flow slows down in an artery, maybe due to bends or branches in the artery that cause an eddy to form,\u201d says John Oshinski, an assistant professor in the Coulter Department and Emory\u2019s Division of Radiology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo find these areas of slower flow, Oshinski collects magnetic resonance images to visualize blood flow patterns in arteries. From the images, Jin Suo, a Coulter Department research engineer, and Don Giddens, dean of the Georgia Tech College of Engineering, Lawrence L. Gellerstedt, Jr. Chair in Bioengineering and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar, develop computational fluid mechanics models to show specific flow patterns near the artery walls, locations where plaque is likely to form.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBecause heart disease can take decades to develop, the researchers plan to monitor flow patterns long-term to investigate how early plaques can be detected and what type of blood flow is present where the plaques form.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EW. Robert Taylor, a professor in the Coulter Department and Emory\u2019s Division of Cardiology, and Ray Vito, a professor in the Georgia Tech School of Mechanical Engineering and vice provost of graduate and undergraduate studies, are collaborators on this project funded by the National Institutes of Health.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn related research, Hanjoong Jo, the Ada Lee and Pete Correll Professor in Biomedical Engineering, has shown that several genes are over-expressed when arteries are exposed to abnormal, nonlinear flow patterns. Expression of these genes leads to inflammation and hypertension, which increase the possibility of plaque building up inside the vessels. With funding from the National Institutes of Health, the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation and the American Heart Association, Jo is developing drugs that inhibit these genes to treat inflammation, atherosclerosis and hypertension.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERebuilding the Heart\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe inability of heart muscle to regenerate in the body provides a major obstacle to the clinical treatment of heart attacks \u2013 one that researchers in the Coulter Department are trying to overcome.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETodd McDevitt, a Coulter Department assistant professor, is developing new strategies to turn embryonic stem cells into specialized heart muscle cells called cardiomyocytes, which may repair damaged heart muscles. With funding from the American Heart Association, McDevitt is collaborating on this project with Samuel Dudley, a professor of medicine in the Section of Cardiology at the University of Illinois at Chicago.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo be successful, embryonic stem cells must differentiate into the targeted cell type in an efficient, controlled and repeatable fashion. McDevitt\u2019s group aims to define and control the environmental cues that regulate the fate and function of the cells.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo produce a more homogeneous population of cells, McDevitt developed a method to incorporate polymer microspheres into embryoid bodies, which are aggregates of cells derived from embryonic stem cells. He can encapsulate small molecules, growth factors and proteins inside the microspheres to direct the stem cells to become the targeted cell type. This research is funded by the National Science Foundation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENiren Murthy and Michael Davis, both Coulter Department assistant professors, have taken a different approach to improving the way physicians treat heart attacks. They have shown that injecting drug-containing polyketals during a heart attack can improve treatment. Because these biodegradable polymer nanoparticles do not produce inflammation-causing acid when degraded, the body allows intracellular delivery and sustained release of the drugs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith funding from the National Institutes of Health, the researchers showed improved cardiac regeneration in rats and mice when polyketals were used to deliver drugs during a heart attack. Murthy is also investigating the use of these polyketal particles to facilitate drug treatment of acute lung injury, acute liver failure and lung fibrosis.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EReconnnecting Nerves\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMotor vehicle accidents, electrical burns, gunshot wounds, cutting incidents and surgical procedures can sever or tear peripheral nerves to varying degrees. Sometimes, these peripheral nervous system injuries result in a gap between two peripheral nerve stumps. Coulter Department professor Ravi Bellamkonda has developed a device for nerve repair that is a potential alternative to the clinical standard of transplanting nerve segments from another part of the body.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn collaboration with Satish Kumar, a professor in Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Polymer, Textile and Fiber Engineering, and Art English, a professor in Emory\u2019s Department of Cell Biology, Bellamkonda has demonstrated that thin polymer films made of aligned nanometer-diameter fibers provide topographical cues to stimulate regeneration without any growth-promoting proteins. Funding for this research was provided by the National Institutes of Health and by the National Science Foundation, through the Georgia Tech\/Emory Center for the Engineering of Living Tissues.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUnlike peripheral nervous system injury, injury to the central nervous system is not followed by extensive regeneration because of the hostile growth environment caused in large part by the injury. Central nervous system injuries are commonly the result of motor vehicle accidents, sporting accidents, falls and acts of violence that cause a traumatic brain or spinal cord injury.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETransplanting stem cells in a bioactive scaffold designed to provide structural and adhesive support while providing survival signaling cues is one strategy that shows promise for replacing the function of missing or damaged neural cells. However, optimization prior to clinical implementation requires expensive and time-consuming in-vivo studies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe have developed a three-dimensional culture system of the injured host-transplant interface that can be used to evaluate and optimize tissue-engineered strategies,\u201d says Michelle LaPlaca, a Coulter Department associate professor. \u201cWe mimic the forces and deformations that brain tissue would see during an actual injury and then monitor the ability of donor cells to rescue the injured cells.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith the 3-D neural cell culture, LaPlaca can also evaluate neuroprotective pharmaceuticals targeted to mitigate injury. The 3-D cultures were described in the April 2007 issue of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EJournal of Neural Engineering\u003C\/em\u003E. This research is funded by the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYadong Wang is using a different strategy to encourage the regeneration of damaged central nervous system neurons. A Coulter Department assistant professor, Wang has shown that incorporating neurotransmitters, such as dopamine or acetylcholine, into a biodegradable polymer spurs the growth of neurites, which are projections that form the connections among neurons and between neurons and other cells.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cRegeneration in the central nervous system requires neural activity, not just neuronal growth factors alone, so we thought a neurotransmitter might send the necessary signals,\u201d explains Wang.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe polymer would be implanted at the damaged site to promote nerve regeneration after an injury. It would then degrade as the neural network forms. The research on acetylcholine-based polymers, supported by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, was published in the December 2007 issue of\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EAdvanced Materials\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe types of scaffolds LaPlaca and Wang propose for nerve regeneration are considered combination products because they contain a mixture of drug, device and\/or biologics \u2013 which include DNA, cells and proteins in gene therapy, cell therapy and plasma products, respectively. Combination products are increasingly incorporating novel technologies that hold great promise for treating disease and trauma, and advancing patient care.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETwo types of combination products are common: tissue-engineered constructs that use a polymer component as a scaffold to deliver or direct cells to restore or replace damaged tissue and vaccine delivery systems that use a polymer as a carrier to enhance the delivery of DNA- or protein-based vaccines to the desired cells.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJulia Babensee, a Coulter Department associate professor, investigates how polymer biomaterials influence immune responses toward the biological component of combination devices. To do this, she investigates how biomaterial contact influences the immune stimulatory capacity of dendritic cells, which traditionally recognize foreign pathogens or \u201cdanger signals\u201d and initiate an immune response when they mature.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBiomaterials that induce dendritic cell maturation and support an immune response are optimal for vaccine delivery systems where protective immunity is sought, whereas biomaterials that inhibit an immune response are desired for tissue-engineered constructs where tolerance is a goal,\u201d says Babensee.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe novel idea is that biomaterials themselves can be used to direct immune responses toward associated biological components. This research is funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith funding from the Arthritis Foundation, Babensee is extending her research to determine the best tissue engineering constructs to implant in joints affected by autoimmune rheumatoid arthritis.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Complex Brain\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESteve Potter, a Coulter Department associate professor, is studying how brains learn, or more specifically, how they acquire memories and behaviors. The process of learning is thought to correspond to changes in the relationships between neurons in the brain, but exactly how those changes are expressed at the network level is not well-understood.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESince it\u2019s difficult to study neuronal networks in vivo, Potter has developed imaging tools to study living neurons while they\u2019re growing and forming connections in a petri dish. The dish contains an array of electrodes embedded in the bottom, which creates a two-way connection between the cells and a computer that records all cellular activity and delivers stimuli.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith funding from the National Institutes of Health, Potter is designing the technology to study drug addiction on a cellular level. The neural interface allows neuron cultures to douse themselves with drugs using a robotic \u201cpicospritzer.\u201d Potter studies how the network changes as a response to the chemical self-stimulation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis may help explain why former cocaine addicts relapse, but more importantly, we may be able to find ways to cure drug addiction through better understanding of drug action in neuronal networks,\u201d says Potter.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EXiaoping Hu, a Coulter Department professor and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Imaging, and assistant professor Erica Duncan and professor Clint Kilts, both of Emory\u2019s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, are also studying drug addiction, but on the human brain level.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn a recent study funded by the Office of National Drug Control Policy and the National Institutes of Health, they used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to show that stress may precipitate relapse in cocaine addiction by activating brain areas that mediate reward processing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs director of the Biomedical Imaging Technology Center at Emory University, Hu is also using fMRI to assess long-term effects of prenatal alcohol exposure on brain development. This project is in collaboration with Claire Coles, a professor in Emory\u2019s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, with funding from the National Institutes of Health.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith funding from the Atlanta VA Rehabilitation Research and Development Center of Excellence for Aging Veterans with Vision Loss, Hu is collaborating with Ronald Schuchard, an associate professor at Emory University and director of the center, to study elderly brain health. They are currently using fMRI to study structural and functional connectivity in the brain during the progression and treatment of age-related macular degeneration.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELena Ting, a Coulter Department assistant professor, also conducts research relevant to elderly health by studying the loss of balance that leads to falls, a primary cause of injury and accidental death in older adults.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAfter the brain\u2019s neural pathways are impaired through injury, age or illness, muscles are deprived of the detailed sensory information they need to perform the constant yet delicate balancing act required for normal movement and standing. With funding from the Whitaker Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, Ting has developed a quantitative model that shows how the nervous system reinvents its communication with muscles after sensory loss.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022wp-caption-text\u0022\u003EAssistant professor Lena Ting and graduate student Stacie Chvatal set up a human balance test. (Click image for high-resolution version. Credit: Rob Felt)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cKnowing this information will help in the development of diagnostic and therapeutic tools for balance and movement disorders,\u201d says Ting.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEngineering Solutions for Musculoskeletal Problems\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Barbara Boyan uses basic science knowledge to engineer novel approaches for restoring tissues and function for patients suffering from musculoskeletal problems. This effort includes the development of more effective bone graft materials, improved design of dental and orthopedic implants that interface with bone tissues, and methods for delivering cells to sites of injury without the need for invasive surgical procedures.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBoyan also aims to better understand the mechanisms involved in bone and cartilage growth and loss, and conditions such as osteoporosis and osteoarthritis. Estimates suggest that osteopororis, a condition in which bones lose mass, become weak and can break from a minor fall, affects more than 10 million people. Osteoarthritis is a condition in which cartilage is lost from the ends of the bones, resulting in pain and reduced function. It affects most individuals as they age, but is most severe in women over 50.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith funding from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense and Children\u2019s Healthcare of Atlanta, Boyan discovered biochemical differences between male and female bone and cartilage cells in both animals and humans \u2013 differences that she believes probably affect a person\u2019s risk for these diseases.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe area of research that has intrigued me most is whether females possess special steroid hormone receptors or whether their receptors just operate differently,\u201d says Boyan, the Price Gilbert, Jr. Chair in Tissue Engineering and a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Tissue Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBoyan\u2019s ultimate goal is to understand why some people \u2013 women, in particular \u2013 have a greater propensity for osteoarthritis and osteoporosis.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA person\u2019s gender is not the only risk factor for developing osteoporosis. Some people choose careers that induce osteoporosis. Such is the case for astronauts, who lose 1 to 2 percent of their bone mass for each month that they spend in space.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHanjoong Jo, the Ada Lee and Pete Correll Professor in Biomedical Engineering, is investigating which genes may be responsible for the loss of bone mass in space or in paraplegic individuals. To do this, Jo conducts bone cell experiments in two simulators: a random positioning machine that rotates cells in a manner that tricks them into thinking they are in microgravity conditions, and a rotating wall vessel that models microgravity conditions by maintaining continuous free-fall.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJo is also investigating ways to prevent bone loss or reverse it. He found that putting bone cells on a vibrator for a few minutes per day under microgravity conditions would retain bone mass, and he is currently studying the genes responsible for this turnaround. Jo\u2019s work is supported by the National Institutes of Health.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELooking at the Big Picture\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Eberhard Voit uses mathematics to study the interactions between the components of biological systems and how these interactions give rise to the function and behavior of such systems, a field called computational systems biology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EVoit, who is the David D. Flanagan Chair in the Coulter Department and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Biological Systems, is studying Parkinson\u2019s disease and schizophrenia. Symptoms of the two neurological disorders differ, but the hormone dopamine plays a role in both. Dopamine production is suppressed in individuals with Parkinson\u2019s disease and increased in schizophrenic individuals.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EVoit has teamed with Gary Miller, an associate professor in Emory\u2019s Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, to develop a mathematical model of the dopamine network to better understand how genetic, environmental and pharmacological factors alter how dopamine functions in healthy neurotransmission and neurodegenerative diseases.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers plan to use the model in conjunction with biological and clinical studies conducted at Emory University to screen novel therapeutics aimed at altering dopamine function and decreasing the symptoms of both disorders. This interdisciplinary research is being funded by the Woodruff Health Sciences Center\u2019s Predictive Health Initiative at Emory University.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo expand systems biology research at Georgia Tech, Voit spearheaded the creation of Georgia Tech\u2019s new Integrative BioSystems Institute (IBSI), a collaboration of the Colleges of Science, Engineering and Computing. He also serves as its inaugural director.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAn active IBSI member is Melissa Kemp, a Coulter Department assistant professor and Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Professor. She is using systems biology approaches to understand complex cancer pathways involved in drug-resistant acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a type of cancer of the white blood cells. Children with lymphoblastic leukemia exhibit a diverse response to chemotherapy, with about one-fourth of them relapsing with drug-resistant disease.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn collaboration with Harry Findley, an associate professor in Emory\u2019s Department of Pediatrics, Kemp is studying the role of the protein NF-B in drug resistance of leukemia cells. NF-B activity is responsible for cell death decisions and increases when reactive oxygen species \u2013 such as oxygen ions, free radicals and peroxides \u2013 are present.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMany chemotherapeutic agents produce reactive oxygen species as a side-product, which increases active NF-B levels. Unfortunately, drug-resistant cells appear to be better at eliminating these oxygen species,\u201d explains Kemp.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith funding from Georgia Tech\u2019s Health Systems Institute and the Georgia Cancer Coalition, Kemp is developing individualized computational models to identify key enzymes involved in regulating NF-B. With pediatric patient samples from Findley, she can test an individual\u2019s enzyme levels to predict the likelihood of drug resistance.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBiomedical engineering has witnessed rapid expansion in the last decade. Advances in molecular biology, biophysics and nanotechnology are transforming the understanding of disease, and how it is diagnosed and treated. With all four buildings in the Biotechnology Complex now filled with researchers, Georgia Tech\u2019s commitment to bioscience and engineering is clear, and the Coulter Department is leading the way.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EComments and conclusions expressed in this article are solely the responsibility of the faculty members making them and do not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health or the National Science Foundation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPublic and Private: Creating the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEven before the joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University was created in 1997, the two institutions collaborated on biomedical research. The Emory-Georgia Tech Biomedical Technology Research Center, which established a seed grant program to stimulate research between the medical school at Emory and researchers at Georgia Tech, began cultivating cross-town partnerships in 1987.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut this $400,000-per-year seed grant program wasn\u2019t enough for former Georgia Tech provost Michael Thomas and former executive vice president for health affairs at Emory University Michael Johns. They wanted more collaboration.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhen I joined Emory in 1996, I was surprised that Emory didn\u2019t have a biomedical engineering department,\u201d recalls Johns, who now serves as chancellor of Emory University. \u201cWhen I realized Georgia Tech didn\u2019t have one either, I thought it would be the perfect marriage of the faculty in the engineering school at Georgia Tech and the medical faculty at Emory.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo discuss the possibility of a joint biomedical engineering department, Johns and Emory Dean of Medicine Thomas Lawley met with Thomas and Robert Nerem, a mechanical engineering professor at Georgia Tech and director of the Parker H. 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Leading the committee was Don Giddens, an aerospace engineering professor at Georgia Tech from 1968-1992 who returned from being dean of engineering at Johns Hopkins University to chair the new biomedical engineering department.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGetting Don to return was absolutely key to the success of the department,\u201d says Thomas. \u201cYou can\u2019t have success without quality leadership and Don created an environment of trust, discovery, innovation and enthusiasm with his vision for the department.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn 2000, The Whitaker Foundation awarded the biomedical engineering department a $16 million leadership-development award. Six million dollars of the grant was used to further develop the undergraduate and graduate programs, hire new faculty and support graduate student fellowships. The other $10 million helped construct the four-story, nearly 100,000-square-foot U.A. Whitaker Building at Georgia Tech, where most of the biomedical engineering faculty offices, laboratories and classrooms are located.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn 2001, the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation awarded a $25 million grant to the department. In recognition of this grant, the combined department is now known as the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. Included within this grant were operating funds to purchase laboratory equipment and fund endowed chairs, and an $8 million endowment (which now totals $10 million) to provide ongoing funding for translational research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAfter Giddens became dean of Georgia Tech\u2019s College of Engineering in July 2002, Larry McIntire joined Georgia Tech as the new department chair. Under his leadership, the Coulter Department garnered almost $17 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health in 2007.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe department has grown to include 45 primary faculty members, 175 graduate students and more than 800 undergraduate students. In the \u201cAmerica\u2019s Best Colleges 2008\u201d edition of U.S. News \u0026amp; World Report, the undergraduate program ranked third and the doctoral program ranked second in the biomedical engineering specialty category.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJust one goal is still in the making: to have the biomedical engineering program ranked number one in the country.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWallace H. Coulter: His Legacy is Accelerating Translational Biomedical Engineering Research\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBiomedical engineering professors at Georgia Tech and Emory University are designing systems to detect Alzheimer\u2019s disease earlier, improving the effectiveness of pacemakers and developing cardiovascular implants to increase the durability of heart valve repairs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETranslational research projects like these \u2013 which move science from the laboratory bench to the bedside \u2013 are possible because of a $25 million grant from the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation in 2001. The grant includes a unique $10 million endowment to provide ongoing funding for translational research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis grant was awarded because I believed in the vision and mission of [founding Coulter Department chair] Don Giddens and his strategy to lead the department to be the best in the nation,\u201d says Sue Van, president of the Foundation. \u201cI am delighted that Wallace\u2019s legacy is helping to plant the seeds of the next generation of biomedical engineering applications.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn recognition of the grant, the biomedical engineering department at Georgia Tech and Emory University was named for Coulter \u2013 an engineer, inventor, entrepreneur and visionary whose motto in life was \u201cscience serving humanity.\u201d Coulter, who was a student at Georgia Tech in the early 1930s, invented the Coulter Principle, the reference method for counting and sizing microscopic particles suspended in a fluid.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERemembering laboratory technicians hunched over microscopes manually counting blood cells smeared on glass, he developed the Coulter Counter, an automated device that counts red blood cells. Today, 98 percent of complete blood count tests \u2013 the most commonly ordered diagnostic test worldwide \u2013 are performed on instruments using the Coulter Principle.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe translational research program captures the spirit of Coulter\u2019s own life\u2019s work because the program requires collaboration between a biomedical engineer and a clinician. 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At Georgia Tech and Emory University, nanomedicine focuses on developing nanoprobes, whose unique properties open the possibility of investigating the dynamics of cellular processes over time and detecting disease in its earliest, most easily treatable, pre-symptomatic stage.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University is the only academic department in the United States to host three National Institutes of Health (NIH) centers focused on nanomedicine. They are:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EThe Program of Excellence in Nanotechnology, funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and led by Gang Bao, the Robert A. Milton Chair in Biomedical Engineering and College of Engineering Distinguished Professor;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EThe Nanotechnology Center for Personalized and Predictive Oncology, funded by the National Cancer Institute and led by Shuming Nie, The Wallace H. 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In addition, the study determined that Georgia Tech is responsible for 14,281 full- and part-time jobs in the state. Georgia Tech led the seven USG institutions in the metro Atlanta area, which combined, account for nearly $4.5 billion and 40,700 jobs.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"$1.8 Billion Impact No Small Change"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"The Georgia Institute of Technology\u0027s impact on the state\u0027s economy totals $1.8 billion, according to an updated report released by the University System of Georgia (USG).","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Ga. 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Building on the launch of its highly successful blog, PeachSeedz, this year\u0027s event theme is \u0027Seeds for Success.\u0027  The event is expected to attract 500 entrepreneurs, investors and business leaders from across the Southeast.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Being part of ATDC increases the probability of startup success,\u0022 said Charles Ross, acting general manager of ATDC.  \u0022We are extremely proud of this year\u0027s graduating companies and what they\u0027ve achieved. This group is very representative of the success our member companies have enjoyed and the quality entrepreneurs and teams that our center continues to attract and assist.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESix companies will graduate from ATDC\u0027s incubator program this year.  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Three of them - Pramana, Qualtr and Suniva - have already been accepted as member companies of the ATDC.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E- \u003Cstrong\u003EPramana\u003C\/strong\u003E, which is developing an easy-to-deploy solution to help secure the Internet for meaningful human scale interactions;\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E- \u003Cstrong\u003EQualtr\u003C\/strong\u003E, a developer of the next generation of high-performance, low-cost motion sensing technology, primarily for the consumer electronics market;\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E- \u003Cstrong\u003ESuniva\u003C\/strong\u003E, a company dedicated to the development, manufacture and marketing of high-value, high-efficiency silicon photovoltaic cells for clean, earth-friendly power generation;\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E- \u003Cstrong\u003EVerco Materials\u003C\/strong\u003E, which creates and manufactures dense, complex-shaped boron carbide for armor and wear applications; and\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E- \u003Cstrong\u003EZenda Technologies\u003C\/strong\u003E, a company that delivers a novel, portable, immersive platform for rapid neuropsychological testing, allowing accurate diagnosis of concussion and early Alzheimer\u0027s disease.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The five companies graduating from VentureLab this year demonstrate the breadth of technology being developed at Georgia Tech,\u0022 said Stephen Fleming, Georgia Tech\u0027s chief commercialization officer.  \u0022From photovoltaic cells and body armor to neurological testing, Internet security and motion sensing, we have a lot to offer the technology community in Georgia.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo join a vibrant mix of entrepreneurs, investors, and technology leaders at the Entrepreneurs Showcase, please RVSP at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.atdc.org\/showcase\u0022 title=\u0022www.atdc.org\/showcase\u0022\u003Ewww.atdc.org\/showcase\u003C\/a\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the ATDC\u003C\/strong\u003E: The Advanced Technology Development Center is a nationally-recognized science and technology incubator that helps Georgia entrepreneurs launch and build successful companies. ATDC provides strategic business advice and connects its member companies to the people and resources they need to succeed.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMore than 110 companies have emerged from the ATDC, including publicly-traded firms such as MindSpring Enterprises - now part of EarthLink. Headquartered at Technology Square on the Georgia Tech campus in Atlanta, ATDC has been recognized by both \u003Cem\u003EBusinessWeek\u003C\/em\u003E and \u003Cem\u003EInc.\u003C\/em\u003E magazines as among the nation\u0027s top nonprofit incubators. Since 1999, ATDC companies have attracted more than a billion dollars in venture capital funding. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EATDC was formed in 1980 to stimulate growth in Georgia\u0027s technology business base and now has locations in Atlanta, Savannah and Warner Robins. ATDC is part of Georgia Tech\u0027s Enterprise Innovation Institute. For more information, please visit (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.atdc.org\u0022 title=\u0022www.atdc.org\u0022\u003Ewww.atdc.org\u003C\/a\u003E).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout Georgia Tech VentureLab\u003C\/strong\u003E: Georgia Tech VentureLab provides comprehensive assistance to Georgia Tech faculty members, research staff members and graduate students who want to form startup companies to commercialize the technology innovations they have developed.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAs a one-stop center for technology commercialization, VentureLab provides a clear pathway from laboratory innovation to the commercial market. VentureLab specialists help transform innovations into early-stage companies by assisting in business plan development, connecting the innovators with experienced entrepreneurs, locating sources of early-stage financing, and preparing the new companies for the business world.  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For more information, please visit (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.innovate.gatech.edu\/venturelab\u0022 title=\u0022www.innovate.gatech.edu\/venturelab\u0022\u003Ewww.innovate.gatech.edu\/venturelab\u003C\/a\u003E). \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nEnterprise Innovation Institute\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 100\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAtlanta, Georgia 30308 USA\u003C\/strong\u003E \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Contacts\u003C\/strong\u003E: Nancy Fullbright (404-894-2214); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:nancy.fullbright@innovate.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Enancy.fullbright@innovate.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or John Toon (404-894-6986); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:john.toon@innovate.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejohn.toon@innovate.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E). \n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"VentureLab Will Also Recognize Georgia Tech Startups"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"On May 15, Georgia Tech\u0027s Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) will host one of the premier technology events of the Southeast, its Annual Entrepreneurs Showcase.  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However, the intrusion of moisture into the displays can damage or destroy an OLED\u0027s organic material.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022OLEDs have better color and flexibility and the capability of larger displays, but companies still need an inexpensive encapsulation method that can be used to mass produce organic electronics that don\u0027t allow moisture in,\u0022 said Wusheng Tong, a senior research scientist at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EManufacturers now seal displays in an inert atmosphere or in a vacuum environment. They glue a glass lid on top of the display substrate with a powder inside the display to absorb moisture that diffuses through the glue. These seals are expensive and labor-intensive to assemble.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWith funding from GTRI\u0027s independent research and development program, Tong and his GTRI collaborators - senior research scientist Hisham Menkara and principal research scientist Brent Wagner - have replaced the glass enclosure with a thin-film barrier formed by a less expensive conventional deposition method. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We chose a passivation coating process that could be performed at room temperature so that the organic material remained intact,\u0022 said Tong.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers selected advanced ion assisted deposition, which utilizes reactive ions to deposit a high-density, pinhole-free thin silicon oxynitride (SiON) film on the OLED surface. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Ideally, the film should be as thin as possible, but if it\u0027s too thin, a pinhole or other defect could appear and cause a problem,\u0022 explained Tong. \u0022We found that a film of 50-200 nanometer thickness was perfect.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDuring testing, the SiON-encapsulated OLEDs showed no sign of degradation after seven months in an open-air environment, while the OLEDs without the coating degraded completely in less than two weeks under the same conditions.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen Tong conducted accelerating aging tests in an environmental chamber that maintained a temperature of 50 degrees Celsius and 50 percent relative humidity, the OLEDs encapsulated with SiON films showed little degradation for at least two weeks. The OLEDs without encapsulation, however, decomposed immediately.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We\u0027ve demonstrated that this deposition process improves the lifetime of the OLEDs by blocking the intrusion of moisture, so now we\u0027re hoping to work with industry partners to develop a mass production process for our encapsulation technique,\u0022 added Tong.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 100\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAtlanta, Georgia  30308  USA\n\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMedia Relations Contacts: Abby Vogel (404-385-3364); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:avogel@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eavogel@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or Kirk Englehardt (404-407-7280); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:kirk.englehardt@gtri.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ekirk.englehardt@gtri.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or John Toon (404-894-6986); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter:\u003C\/strong\u003E Abby Vogel\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Researchers have developed an improved organic light emitting diode (OLED) sealing process to reduce moisture intrusion and improve device lifetime. They are using advanced ion assisted deposition to deposit a high-density, pinhole-free thin silicon oxynitride film on the OLED surface. 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The device could also be used to ensure that subjects in clinical drug trials take the study medications as directed by the research team. The details of the proof-of-concept device were published in the December 2007 issue of the \u003Cem\u003EIEEE Sensors Journal\u003C\/em\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe necklace, called MagneTrace, contains an array of magnetic sensors that could be used to detect when specially-designed medication containing a tiny magnet passes through a person\u0027s esophagus. And for persons who may not want to wear a necklace, MagneTrace sensors can be incorporated into a patch attached to the chest.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe date and time the user swallowed the pill can be recorded on a handheld wireless device, such as a smartphone, carried on the user\u0027s body.  The information can then be sent to the patient\u0027s doctor, caregiver or family member over the Internet. The device can notify both the patient and the patient\u0027s doctor if the prescribed dosage is not taken at the proper time.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAccording to a 2005 Wall Street Journal Online\/Harris Interactive Health Care Poll, one in three U.S. adults who had been prescribed drugs to take on a regular basis reported that they did not follow the doctor-recommended course of treatment, with two-thirds reporting that they simply forgot to take their medication.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis technology can also help researchers and pharmaceutical companies conduct more accurate clinical trials of new drugs. Currently, compliance is determined by medication diaries kept by the patients, but patients are prone to fill out diaries just before meetings held to monitor their progress and they may adjust their medication to compensate for missed doses. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EInaccurate data from clinical trials can affect decisions made about new drugs, potentially impacting millions of people.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022If each drug trial volunteer had to wear a MagneTrace necklace, the exact date, time and dose would be recorded, rather than relying on the patient\u0027s memory and honesty,\u0022 said Ghovanloo. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis technology also has the potential to reduce the size of clinical trials and reduce the need to repeat them. This alone can reduce drug company expenditures, in turn reducing the cost of new drugs for consumers. MagneTrace is suitable for small- and large-scale clinical trials, as well as individual patients, according to Ghovanloo. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022A patient cannot cheat the system by passing the pill past the necklace sensors on the outside of the neck because the signal processing algorithm is smart enough to only look for the pill\u0027s magnetic signature while it passes through the esophagus,\u0022 said Ghovanloo, who started working on this project about two years ago at N.C. State University.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers have designed and tested an artificial neck, built from a PVC pipe filled with plastic straws. They place a necklace containing an array of sensitive magneto-inductive sensors around the artificial neck to study detection of a pill passing through it.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe magnetic sensors are distributed in different orientations, allowing the pill to be detected regardless of its orientation when it passes through the patient\u0027s esophagus. The sensors are driven by a control unit on the necklace that consists of a battery, power management circuitry, low-power microcontroller and radiofrequency wireless transceiver. The prototype MagneTrace necklace with six sensors weighs less than one ounce.   \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Preliminary results testing the artificial neck have shown 94.4 percent correct detections when the magnetic tracer passed through the esophagus detection zone and about 6 percent false positives when it passed through areas not in the detection zone,\u0022 said Ghovanloo.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAnother benefit to MagneTrace is that it monitors ingestion, whereas technologies currently on the market for monitoring drug compliance are typically non-ingestion monitors, which can be easily deceived by the users, either deliberately or unintentionally. One such technology takes advantage of radio frequency identification technology by sending a signal when a pill breaks a printed conductive interconnect while being removed from its package.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Other devices just tell the doctor if a pill bottle was opened. These devices are not smart enough to tell how many pills, if any, were removed from the bottle, nor if the pill was actually ingested by the intended patient,\u0022 said Ghovanloo.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOne device that actually monitors ingestion uses an optical sensor to detect a fluorescent dye incorporated in the medication as it enters the bloodstream.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The problem with this technology is that a patient must add an additional chemical to his\/her body and the potential long-term negative side effects of the fluorophores on the human body have not yet been well studied,\u0022 explained Ghovanloo.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMagneTrace, on the other hand, was designed so that it would have no effect on the body. Multiple strong magnets in the gastrointestinal tract can potentially result in a blockage. However, the magnet used in the pill or capsule is very small - three millimeters in diameter and about one millimeter thick - and coated with a thick indigestible, insoluble polymer coating that prevents absorption of the magnet and prevents magnets from aggregating. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile the device has not yet been tested on animals or humans, theoretical and experimental analyses show that the magnetic force of the magnets can be reduced by the coating to less than the force due to the weight of the tracers.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The magnet should simply pass through a patient\u0027s gastrointestinal tract with no interactions and be excreted from the body in about 24 hours without any effects,\u0022 noted Ghovanloo.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis technology provides a convenient, yet low cost method to help individuals adhere with their prescribed medication regimens and help researchers and pharmaceutical companies conduct more accurate clinical trials on new drugs.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; 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Then heat, light or the local chemical environment triggers a transformation into their permanent shape.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022My focus has been to optimize these polymers for many different biomedical applications. My lab studies how altering the chemistry and structure of the polymers affects their chemical, biological and mechanical properties,\u0022 said Ken Gall, a professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and School of Materials Science and Engineering. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe mechanical properties of these polymers make them extremely attractive for many biomedical applications, according to Gall, who described his research in this area during two presentations at the Materials Research Society\u0027s fall meeting in November. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEngineers are always searching for materials that display unconventional properties able to satisfy the severe requirements for implantation in the body. Particular attention must be paid to the biofunctionality, biostability and biocompatibility of these materials, which come into contact with tissue and body fluids. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWith funding from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Gall proposed replacing metallic cardiovascular stents with plastic ones because polymers more closely resemble soft biological tissue. Plus, polymers can be designed to gradually dissolve in the body.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Metal stents are frequently covered in plastic anyway, so we set out to remove the metal leaving just a polymer sheath,\u0022 explained Gall. \u0022Also, polymers are more flexible and do not stress the artery walls like the metals.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGall\u0027s research group has designed a shape-memory polymer stent that can be compressed and fed through a tiny hole in the body into a blocked artery, just like a conventional stent. Then, the warmth of the body triggers the polymer\u0027s expansion into its permanent shape, resulting in natural deployment without auxiliary devices. This work was published in the journal \u003Cem\u003EBiomaterials\u003C\/em\u003E earlier this year. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor another project, Gall and graduate student David Safranski have been investigating how altering a polymer\u0027s chemistry changes its properties, such as stretchiness. This project was funded by MedShape Solutions, an Atlanta company that Gall co-founded to develop medical devices primarily for use in minimally invasive surgery.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022You can tailor the polymer to moderate its strength, stiffness, stretchiness and expansion rate,\u0022 noted Gall.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers found that by changing the chemistry of the polymer backbone to include special side groups, they could increase of the amount of strain the polymer could withstand before failing without sacrificing stiffness. This discovery enabled the creation of polymers that could stretch farther and also push harder during recovery. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGall and graduate student Scott Kasprzak are exploring how these polymers might be used as a deployable neuronal probe, with funding from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke of the NIH.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We\u0027re looking for smart materials that can be synthesized in the size range of 100 microns - similar to the size of a strand of hair - and then be inserted into brain tissue,\u0022 explained Gall. \u0022This type of probe would need to slowly change shape inside the brain as to not disturb any surrounding tissue.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAnother project in Gall\u0027s laboratory is examining the use of these polymers for the spine. Most spinal surgeries are currently not performed arthroscopically, so Gall sees benefits in using these shape-memory materials to enable minimally invasive spinal surgery.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWith funding from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), Gall and graduate student Kathryn Smith are developing shape-memory polymers for the spine that are tough - meaning they stretch far and support a lot of weight like native spinal disks. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This would improve the deliverability and life of artificial disks currently used in the spine. Essentially, we\u0027re just trying to engineer tougher synthetic polymers that can be easily delivered,\u0022 explained Gall, who is collaborating on this project with Barbara Boyan and Johnna Temenoff, both of the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to exploring different biomedical applications for shape-memory polymers, Gall has also turned his attention to manufacturing them. Walter Voit, a graduate student in the Technological Innovation: Generating Economic Results (TI:GER) program, is investigating how to produce shape-memory polymers at a low cost. More specifically, Voit is examining different types of materials and processing methods that can be used to commercially produce quality polymers for lower cost medical applications.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe NIAMS-funded project was supported by Grant R21AR054339. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIAMS or the NIH.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 100\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAtlanta, Georgia  30308  USA\n\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMedia Relations Contacts: Abby Vogel (404-385-3364); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:avogel@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eavogel@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or John Toon (404-894-6986); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter:\u003C\/strong\u003E Abby Vogel\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Applications for circulatory, nervous and skeletal systems"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are developing unique polymers, which change shape upon heating, to open blocked arteries, probe neurons in the brain and engineer a tougher spine.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Unique polymers developed for medical applications"}],"uid":"27206","created_gmt":"2008-01-03 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:24","author":"Abby Vogel Robinson","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-01-03T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2008-01-03T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71475":{"id":"71475","type":"image","title":"Ken Gall thermo-mechanical test frame","body":null,"created":"1449177386","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:26","changed":"1475894637","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:57"},"71476":{"id":"71476","type":"image","title":"Shape-memory polymer deformation","body":null,"created":"1449177386","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:26","changed":"1475894637","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:57"},"71477":{"id":"71477","type":"image","title":"Ken Gall shape-memory polymers","body":null,"created":"1449177386","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:26","changed":"1475894637","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:57"}},"media_ids":["71475","71476","71477"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.biomaterials.2007.01.030","title":"Biomaterials article"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/","title":"George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.mse.gatech.edu\/index.html","title":"School of Materials Science and Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.mse.gatech.edu\/FacultyStaff\/MSE_Faculty_researchbios\/Gall\/gall.html","title":"Ken Gall"}],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"3024","name":"biomaterials"},{"id":"7104","name":"cardiovascular"},{"id":"7521","name":"circulatory"},{"id":"7274","name":"nervous"},{"id":"7276","name":"neuron"},{"id":"4216","name":"polymers"},{"id":"169765","name":"shape-memory"},{"id":"170886","name":"skeletal"},{"id":"170887","name":"spine"},{"id":"170888","name":"stent"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EAbby Robinson\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EResearch News and Publications\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=avogel6\u0022\u003EContact Abby Robinson\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-385-3364\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["abby@innovate.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71383":{"#nid":"71383","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Low-cost Reusable Material Could Facilitate Carbon Dioxide Capture","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearchers have developed a new, low-cost material for capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the smokestacks of coal-fired power plants and other generators of the greenhouse gas.  Produced with a simple one-step chemical process, the new material has a high capacity for absorbing carbon dioxide - and can be reused many times.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECombined with improved heat management techniques, the new material could provide a cost-effective way to capture large quantities of carbon dioxide from coal-burning facilities.  Existing CO2 capture techniques involve the use of solid materials that lack sufficient stability for repeated use - or liquid adsorbents that are expensive and require significant amounts of energy.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This is something that you could imagine scaling up for commercial use,\u0022 said Christopher Jones, a professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.  \u0022Our material has the combination of high capacity, easy synthesis, low cost and a robust ability to be recycled - all the key criteria for an adsorbent that would be used on an industrial scale.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDetails of the new material, known as hyperbranched aminosilica (HAS), are scheduled to appear in the March 19th issue of the \u003Cem\u003EJournal of the American Chemical Society\u003C\/em\u003E.  The research was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy\u0027s National Energy Technology Laboratory.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGrowing concern over increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide has prompted new interest in techniques for removing the gas from the smokestacks of such large-scale sources as coal-fired electric power plants.   But to minimize the economic impact, the cost of adding such controls must be minimized so it doesn\u0027t raise the price of electricity significantly. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOnce removed from the stack gases, the CO2 might be sequestered in the deep ocean, in mined-out coal seams or in depleted petroleum reservoirs.  If the CO2 capture and sequestration process can be made practical, America\u0027s large resources of coal could be used with less impact on global climate change.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWorking with Department of Energy scientists Daniel Fauth and McMahan Gray, Jones and graduate students Jason Hicks and Jeffrey Drese developed a way to add CO2-adsorbing amine polymer groups to a solid silica substrate using covalent bonding.  The strong chemical bonds make the material robust enough to be reused many times.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Given the volumes involved, you must be able to recycle the adsorbent material for the process to be cost-effective,\u0022 said Jones.  \u0022Otherwise, you would be creating large and expensive waste streams of adsorbent.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EProduction of the HAS material is relatively simple, and requires only the mixing of the silica substrate with a precursor of the amine polymer in solution.  The amine polymer is initiated on the silica surface, producing a solid material that can be filtered out and dried.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo test the effectiveness of their new material, the Georgia Tech researchers passed simulated flue gases through tubes containing a mixture of sand and HAS.  The CO2 was adsorbed at temperatures ranging from 50 to 75 degrees Celsius.  Then the HAS was heated to between 100 and 120 degrees Celsius to drive off the gas so the adsorbent could be used again.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers tested the material across 12 cycles of adsorption and desorption, and did not measure a significant loss of capacity.  The HAS material can adsorb up to 5 times as much carbon dioxide as some of the best existing reusable materials.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe HAS material works in the presence of moisture, an unavoidable by-product of the combustion process.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAdsorption of the CO2 generates considerable amounts of heat, which must be managed and thermally recycled.  Removal of the carbon dioxide requires heating the adsorbent.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022How to manage this heat is one of the most critical issues controlling the economics of a potential large scale process,\u0022 Jones added.  \u0022You must control the production of heat by the adsorption step, and you don\u0027t want to put any more energy into the desorption process than necessary.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBecause of their chemical structure, the amine groups provide three different classes of binding sites for carbon dioxide, each with a different binding energy.  Optimizing the production of binding sites is a goal for future research, Jones said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBeyond the material, other components of the separation and sequestration process must also be improved and optimized before it can become a practical technique for removing CO2 from flue gases.  The best way to expose the flue gases to the adsorbent material is also key issue.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022There are many pieces that must fit together to make the overall economics of carbon dioxide capture and sequestration work,\u0022 Jones added.  \u0022The biggest challenge for this whole field of research right now is to do this as inexpensively as possible.  We think that our class of materials - a hyperbranched amine polymer bound to a solid support - is potentially ideal because it is simple to make, reusable and has a high capacity.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 100\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAtlanta, Georgia  30308  USA\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Contacts\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon (404-894-6986); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or Abby Vogel (404-385-3364); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:avogel@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eavogel@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETechnical Contact\u003C\/strong\u003E: Christopher Jones (404-385-1683); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:christopher.jones@chbe.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Echristopher.jones@chbe.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Researchers have developed a new, low-cost material for capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the smokestacks of coal-fired power plants and other generators of the greenhouse gas.  Produced with a simple one-step chemical process, the new material has a high capacity for absorbing carbon dioxide - and can be reused many times.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Research could help reduce power plant greenhouse gas emissions"}],"uid":"27303","created_gmt":"2008-03-06 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:24","author":"John Toon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-03-06T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2008-03-06T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71384":{"id":"71384","type":"image","title":"tubular reactor","body":null,"created":"1449177367","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:07","changed":"1475894634","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:54"},"71385":{"id":"71385","type":"image","title":"Flow system","body":null,"created":"1449177376","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:16","changed":"1475894634","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:54"},"71386":{"id":"71386","type":"image","title":"Tubular reactor","body":null,"created":"1449177376","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:16","changed":"1475894634","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:54"}},"media_ids":["71384","71385","71386"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.chbe.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Chemical \u0026 Biomolecular Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.chbe.gatech.edu\/fac_staff\/faculty\/jones.php","title":"Christopher Jones"}],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"7457","name":"capture"},{"id":"7454","name":"CO2"},{"id":"464","name":"emissions"},{"id":"7455","name":"greenhouse"},{"id":"7456","name":"power-plant"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EJohn Toon\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=jt7\u0022\u003EContact John Toon\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-6986\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jtoon@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71466":{"#nid":"71466","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tool Allows Emergency Personnel to Track Resources","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETracking the location and availability of resources such as hospitals, transportation equipment and water during an emergency situation can be life-saving.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA collaborative mapping tool developed by the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is helping emergency management officials better coordinate event and incident planning - and real-time response.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGTRI has teamed with Atlanta-based company Emergency Visions to provide mapping capabilities for a resource database the firm developed to identify, activate, track and coordinate response assets. The GTRI and Emergency Visions applications were selected by the Florida Division of Emergency Management in June 2007 as part of a solution that combines these comprehensive technology tools with the training and management expertise of a team led by the International City\/County Management Association (ICMA). \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022A lot of mapping systems are pretty complex to operate. Our system was deliberately designed to be easy to use for people who are not mapping experts,\u0022 said Kirk Pennywitt, a senior research engineer in GTRI\u0027s Information Technology and Telecommunications Laboratory (ITTL).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EResearchers began developing the Geographic Tool for Visualization and Collaboration (GTVC) in 2000 for military applications, but it has since been tailored to the needs of the emergency management community and first responders. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGTVC can track chemical or smoke plumes and help management personnel plan evacuation routes for emergencies such as hurricanes, fires or flooding. To do this, the system tracks resources including the locations of hospitals, fire stations, schools, nursing homes, sand bags, dump trucks, water, personnel and supplies in an affected region. The map can also indicate the status of those assets, such as the number of beds available in a specific hospital.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEmergency planners can immediately get a snapshot of what is going on without relying solely on traditional voice communications. The symbols displayed on the map are the Department of Homeland Security\u0027s official emergency management icons.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDuring an event, electronic feeds can alert users to new incidents and display the location of the events live on the map. Also, GTVC records every user\u0027s actions so that those in command can review them after the event to improve planning for future events. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPennywitt\u0027s software development team spent two months improving GTVC to provide Florida with new capabilities - including real-time tracking of resources. Researchers also included the ability to:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n    - Track mobile assets with the global positioning system (GPS)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n    - Manage warehouse resources\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n    - Display real-time availability of a resource\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n    - Aggregate multiple resources in the same location with a single icon\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n    - Simultaneously show location coordinates in multiple formats, such as latitude\/longitude and military grid reference system\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n    - Update the status of a resource by clicking on its map icon as an alternative to using the database interface\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We will soon be adding an option to allow users to provide their own custom topographic, photographic or aerial maps,\u0022 explained Pennywitt. Currently, users can view street maps, aerial imagery or a combination of both.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe combined mapping and database system provides Florida with a robust networked emergency management system that it plans to implement in all 67 of the state\u0027s counties.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Emergency Management Agency has been using the system since 2005 to track forest fires and hurricanes. Hillsborough County, Florida and Dakota County, Minnesota have also licensed the emergency management software for their incident preparedness plans.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We\u0027ve also had interest from more than 100 other cities, counties and local agencies,\u0022 added Pennywitt.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 100\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAtlanta, Georgia  30308  USA\n\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMedia Relations Contacts: Abby Vogel (404-385-3364); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:avogel@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eavogel@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or Kirk Englehardt (404-407-7280); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:kirk.englehardt@gtri.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ekirk.englehardt@gtri.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or John Toon (404-894-6986); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETechnical Contact:\u003C\/strong\u003E Kirk Pennywitt (404-407-6248); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:kirk.pennywitt@gtri.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ekirk.pennywitt@gtri.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Visual mapping system shows location and availability of resources during emergencies"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Tracking the location and availability of resources such as hospitals, transportation equipment and water during an emergency situation can be life-saving. A collaborative mapping tool developed by the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is helping emergency management officials better coordinate event and incident planning - and real-time response.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Map coordinates resources for incident response"}],"uid":"27206","created_gmt":"2008-01-15 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:24","author":"Abby Vogel Robinson","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-01-16T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2008-01-16T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71467":{"id":"71467","type":"image","title":"GTVC tracks resources","body":null,"created":"1449177376","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:16","changed":"1475894637","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:57"},"71468":{"id":"71468","type":"image","title":"Mapping tool","body":null,"created":"1449177376","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:16","changed":"1475894637","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:57"}},"media_ids":["71467","71468"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gtri.gatech.edu\/ittl\/index.html","title":"GTRI Information Technology and Telecommunications Laboratory"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gtri.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech Research Institute"}],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"3939","name":"disaster"},{"id":"1234","name":"emergency"},{"id":"7515","name":"EMS"},{"id":"4511","name":"Fire"},{"id":"7514","name":"firefighters"},{"id":"2323","name":"flood"},{"id":"481","name":"florida"},{"id":"4499","name":"hospitals"},{"id":"1860","name":"hurricane"},{"id":"7076","name":"map"},{"id":"1670","name":"personnel"},{"id":"1773","name":"police"},{"id":"7516","name":"responders"},{"id":"170885","name":"supplies"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EAbby Robinson\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EResearch News and Publications\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=avogel6\u0022\u003EContact Abby Robinson\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-385-3364\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["abby@innovate.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71328":{"#nid":"71328","#data":{"type":"news","title":"AFM Shows Liquids Adjust Viscosity When Confined, Shaken","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGetting ketchup out of the bottle isn\u0027t always easy. However, shaking the bottle before trying to pour allows the thick, gooey ketchup to flow more freely because it becomes more fluid when agitated. The opposite is not typically true - a liquid such as water does not become a gel when shaken.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHowever, new research published in the March 14 issue of the journal \u003Cem\u003EPhysical Review Letters \u003C\/em\u003E shows that when fluids like water and silicon oil are confined to a nanometer-sized space, they behave more like ketchup or toothpaste. Then, if these confined liquids are shaken, they become fluidic and exhibit the same structural and mechanical properties as those in thicker layers.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe study - the first to use an atomic force microscope to measure the viscosity of confined fluids - revealed that these liquids can respond and modify their viscosity based on environmental changes. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Knowing this could be very important,\u0022 said Elisa Riedo, an assistant professor in the Georgia Tech School of Physics. \u0022If a lubricant used in a piece of machinery becomes thick and gelatinous when squeezed between two solid surfaces, serious problems could occur. However, if the machine vibrated, the liquid could become fluidized.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWith funding from the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy, Riedo and graduate student Tai-De Li used atomic force microscopy (AFM) to measure the behavior of thin and thick layers of liquids while they were vibrated. A nanometer-size spherical silicon tip was used to approach a mica surface immersed in water or silicon oil, while small lateral oscillations were applied to the cantilever support.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Some researchers have measured the force it takes to squeeze out a fluid, but we took a different approach,\u0022 explained Riedo. \u0022We are the first group to use AFM to study the viscosity of confined fluids from direct high-resolution lateral force measurements.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe normal and lateral forces acting on the tip were measured directly and simultaneously as a function of the liquid film thickness. The ratio of stress to strain under vibratory conditions, called the viscoelastic modulus, was also measured at different frequencies and strains.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERiedo and Li measured the relaxation times of two wetting liquids: water and silicone oil (octamethylcylotetrasiloxane), which is primarily used as a lubricant or hydraulic fluid, and is the main ingredient in Silly Putty.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The relaxation time describes how active the molecules are. A longer relaxation time means it takes longer for the molecules to rearrange themselves back into their original shape after shaking them,\u0022 said Li. \u0022Liquids have very short relaxation times - as soon as one stops shaking a bottle of water, it reverts to its original configuration.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EExperimental results showed that the relaxation time became orders of magnitude longer in water and silicone oil when they were confined, meaning they behaved more like gels or glass. The researchers also showed that the relaxation times depended on the shaking speed when the liquids were confined. However, in thick layers that were not confined, the molecules showed no dependence on the shaking speed and always relaxed very quickly, meaning they behaved like a \u0027normal\u0027 liquid.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELonger relaxation times were observed when the water film was less than one nanometer thick, composed of about three molecules of water stacked on top of each other. Otherwise, its properties were the same as in a bottle of water. For silicone oil, a thickness of four nanometers was required before the properties were like those of a glassy material.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We observed a nonlinear viscoelastic behavior remarkably similar to that widely observed in metastable complex fluids, such as gels or supercooled liquids,\u0022 noted Riedo. \u0022Because we observed these phenomena in both water and silicone oil, we believe they are very general phenomena and may apply to all wetting liquids.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESince the behavior of confined water observed in these experiments is similar to the behavior of supercooled water at -98.15 degrees Celsius, the researchers are currently examining whether confinement defines a lower effective temperature in the confined liquid.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe views and opinions of authors expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of the United States Government or any agency thereof.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; 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Wireless, and the microwave technology that enables it, is the force behind cell phones, advanced sensors, radio-frequency identification (RFID) and the fast-developing mobile Internet.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We\u0027re delighted to have an event of this magnitude and technical importance come to our city,\u0022 said Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin.  \u0022It shows that the South\u0027s largest city has become a magnet for both technology and tourism.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAt Georgia Tech, IMS 2008 is being supported by the Georgia Electronic Design Center (GEDC), the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) in a variety of ways.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe show\u0027s general chair is Professor Joy Laskar, director of GEDC.  Laskar and his ECE team have been working hard on the week-long IMS 2008 for a year.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This is probably the largest technical event to take place in the Southeast, as well as a showcase for some of today\u0027s most pivotal technologies,\u0022 said Laskar, who is the Schlumberger Chair in Microelectronics in ECE. \u0022It will offer scores of panels and presentations on cutting-edge research from around the world, and it will also offer a hands-on experience with the latest developments from the wireless industry.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe International Microwave Symposium is an annual activity of the IEEE, the world\u0027s largest professional engineering society.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIMS 2008 will feature speakers of international renown, including Nobel Laureate Joe Taylor of Princeton University, and Mike Farmwald, founder of such companies as Rambus and Matrix Semiconductor and a leading venture capitalist.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This is one of the key events in the wireless engineering world,\u0022 said Professor Gary S. May, Steve W. Chaddick School Chair of ECE. \u0022It\u0027s exciting for both its important research content and its show floor, and Georgia Tech is pleased to be playing an especially supportive role this year.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIMS 2008 will include scores of researchers and industry experts describing cutting-edge topics in the wireless world.  Among the important subjects featured will be the FCC\u0027s latest wireless auctions, the open-access mobile Internet, multi-gigabit wireless technology and the rapid evolution of fourth generation (4G) wireless platforms.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENumerous faculty members from ECE and GEDC have made important contributions to the IMS 2008 technical program, including Manos Tentzeris, Kyutae Lim, Stephane Pinel and John Papapolymerou.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGTRI researchers are also contributing to IMS 2008. GTRI Principal Research Engineer Mike Harris is vice chair for the event and a member of the steering committee.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This is an important event, with traditionally great attendance from both industry and defense companies,\u0022 Harris said.  \u0022GTRI is pleased to be playing a role in making IMS happen.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESeveral GTRI employees have helped develop the IMS 2008 technical program, including Anya Traille, Jeff Kemp and Brent Wagner. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022In our field, IMS 2008 is certainly the place to learn about the latest research and technical achievements,\u0022 said Kwang Wook Bae, director of the Samsung Design Center, an Atlanta-based group that partners with Georgia Tech on wireless research. \u0022Samsung and many other corporations will be on hand to display their latest products and also to review research developments from around the world.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAmong the hundreds of corporations participating in the conference will be Agilent Technologies, DuPont, ITT, Mitsubishi, Rohde \u0026amp; Schwarz, Samsung, Teledyne and Toshiba. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMore information is available on the IMS 2008 website at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ims2008.org\u0022 title=\u0022www.ims2008.org\u0022\u003Ewww.ims2008.org\u003C\/a\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 100\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAtlanta, GA  30308  USA\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Contacts\u003C\/strong\u003E: Rick Robinson (404-694-2284) or (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:rick.robinson@innovate.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Erick.robinson@innovate.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter\u003C\/strong\u003E: Rick Robinson\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"One of the world\u0027s largest wireless-technology conferences is poised to open in Atlanta, thanks in part to collaboration between three academic and research groups at the Georgia Institute of Technology.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"One of the largest wireless technology events opens in Atlanta J"}],"uid":"27303","created_gmt":"2008-06-05 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:24","author":"John Toon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-06-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-06-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71198":{"id":"71198","type":"image","title":"GEDC exhibit","body":null,"created":"1449177358","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:58","changed":"1475894630","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:50"}},"media_ids":["71198"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ims2008.org\/","title":"International Microwave Symposium"}],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"},{"id":"133","name":"Special Events and Guest Speakers"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4219","name":"ims"},{"id":"167061","name":"symposium"},{"id":"1526","name":"wireless"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EJohn Toon\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=jt7\u0022\u003EContact John Toon\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-6986\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jtoon@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71462":{"#nid":"71462","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Vest May Help Understand Causes of Asthma Attacks","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) have developed a sensor system that continuously monitors the air around persons prone to asthma attacks. Worn in the pockets of a vest, the new system could help researchers understand the causes of asthma attacks.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We are investigating whether we can go back after an asthma attack and see what was going on environmentally when the attack started,\u0022 said Charlene Bayer, a GTRI principal research scientist.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis research was supported by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and initial funding from the GTRI Independent Research and Development (IRAD) program.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAlthough no one fully understands why certain people get asthma, doctors know that once a person has it, his\/her lungs can overreact to environmental stimuli causing chest tightness or breathlessness, known as an asthma attack.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe new sensor system measures airborne exposure to formaldehyde, carbon dioxide, ozone, nitrogen dioxide, temperature, relative humidity and total volatile organic compounds (VOCs). VOCs are emitted as gases from products such as paints, cleaning supplies, pesticide formulations, building materials and furnishings, office equipment and craft materials. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to detecting the seven environmental stimuli mentioned above, a special mesh filter collects particles. A pump pulls air through the filter so that the quantity of particles can be measured at the end of the sampling period. The composition of the collected particulate can also be analyzed in the laboratory.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe battery-powered system fits into the pocket of a vest and contains commercially available sensors that were integrated into a single system by Mark Jones, chief executive officer of Keehi Technologies. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The device weighs less than one pound including batteries and it takes a measurement of air every two minutes, stores the data in on-board memory and then sleeps to conserve battery power,\u0022 said Jones.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBayer and GTRI Research Scientist Robert Hendry calibrated and tested the sensors in a large room-sized chamber that simulates real-world environmental conditions inside buildings. Coupled with sensitive mass spectrometers, the chamber allows the changing indoor air chemistry to be studied in detail.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe sensor system is designed to be comfortably worn in the pockets of a vest throughout the day and kept at the bedside while sleeping at night. Another vest pocket contains an electronic peak flow meter to periodically measure pulmonary function. When experiencing an asthma attack, the vest wearer notes what time it occurred and Bayer can examine the levels of the chemical compounds at that time.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESix adult volunteers have tested the vest for comfort and the effectiveness of the sensor system under actual use conditions. And that has already brought benefits for one volunteer, whose vest detected higher volatile organic exposures in his home than anywhere else. That led researchers to discover a pollutant pathway from the volunteer\u0027s basement garage into the living areas that was allowing automobile exhaust and gasoline fumes to invade the house. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWith future funding, Bayer hopes to develop a smaller and more sensitive sensor system, test the current vest in population studies of asthmatic children and develop software to process the population studies data as it is collected.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022With this system we can determine what children are exposed to at home, at school and outside where they play,\u0022 said Bayer. \u0022Chances are there are some overreaching compounds that seem to trigger asthma attacks in more children.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 100\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAtlanta, Georgia  30308  USA\n\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMedia Relations Contacts: Abby Vogel (404-385-3364); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:avogel@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eavogel@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or Kirk Englehardt (404-407-7280); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:kirk.englehardt@gtri.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ekirk.englehardt@gtri.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or John Toon (404-894-6986); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Device continuously monitors air around persons prone to asthma"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"A vest containing environmental sensors may help researchers better understand the causes of asthma attacks. 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If that happens, it will mark the first time in nearly a century that two nations have competed for leadership as equals.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe study\u0027s indicators predict that China will soon pass the United States in the critical ability to develop basic science and technology, turn those developments into products and services - and then market them to the world.  Though China is often seen as just a low-cost producer of manufactured goods, the new \u0027High Tech Indicators\u0027 study done by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology clearly shows that the Asian powerhouse has much bigger aspirations.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022For the first time in nearly a century, we see leadership in basic research and the economic ability to pursue the benefits of that research - to create and market products based on research - in more than one place on the planet,\u0022 said Nils Newman, co-author of the National Science Foundation-supported study.  \u0022Since World War II, the United States has been the main driver of the global economy.  Now we have a situation in which technology products are going to be appearing in the marketplace that were not developed or commercialized here.  We won\u0027t have had any involvement with them and may not even know they are coming.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech has been gathering the high tech indicators since the mid-1980s, when the concern was which country would be the \u0027next Japan\u0027 as a competitive producer and exporter of technology products.  The current \u0027HTI-2007\u0027 information was gathered for use in the NSF\u0027s biennial report, \u0027Science and Engineering Indicators,\u0027 the most recent of which was released January 15.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0027s \u0027High Tech Indicators\u0027 study ranks 33 nations relative to one another on \u0027technological standing,\u0027 an output factor that indicates each nation\u0027s recent success in exporting high technology products. Four major input factors help build future technological standing: national orientation toward technological competitiveness, socioeconomic infrastructure, technological infrastructure and productive capacity. Each of the indicators is based on a combination of statistical data and expert opinions.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA chart showing change in the technological standing of the 33 nations is dominated by one feature - a long and continuous upward line that shows China moving from \u0027in the weeds\u0027 to world technological leadership over the past 15 years.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe 2007 statistics show China with a technological standing of 82.8, compared to 76.1 for the United States, 66.8 for Germany and 66.0 for Japan.  Just 11 years ago, China\u0027s score was only 22.5.  The United States peaked in 1999 with a score of 95.4.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022China has really changed the world economic landscape in technology,\u0022 said Alan Porter, another study co-author and co-director of the Georgia Tech Technology Policy and Assessment Center, which conducted the research.  \u0022When you take China\u0027s low-cost manufacturing and focus on technology, then combine them with the increasing emphasis on research and development, the result ultimately won\u0027t leave much room for other countries.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe United States and Japan have both fallen in relative technological standing - though not absolute measures - because of the dramatic rise of China and other nations such as the \u0027Asian Tigers:\u0027 South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan.  Japan has faltered a bit over time, and if the increasingly-integrated European Union were considered one entity instead of 27 separate countries, it would surpass the United States.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We are seeing consistent gains for China across all the criteria we measure,\u0022 Newman said.  \u0022As a percentage mover relative to everyone else, we have not seen a stumble for China.  The gains have been dramatic, and there is no real sense that any kind of leveling off is occurring.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMost industrialized countries reach a kind of equilibrium in the study, moving up slightly in one data set, or down slightly in another.  But the study shows no interruptions in China\u0027s advance.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERecent statistics for the value of technology products exported - a key component of technological standing - put China behind the United States by the amount of \u0027a rounding error:\u0027 about $100 million.  If that trend continues, Newman noted, China will shortly pass the United States in that measure of technological leadership. \t\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EChina\u0027s emphasis on training scientists and engineers - who conduct the research needed to maintain technological competitiveness - suggests it will continue to grow its ability to innovate.  In the United States, the training of scientists and engineers has lagged, and post-9\/11 immigration barriers have kept out international scholars who could help fill the gap.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022For scientists and engineers, China now has less than half as many as we do, but they have a lot of growing room,\u0022 noted Newman.  \u0022It would be difficult for the United States to get much better in this area, and it would be very easy for us to get worse.  It would be very easy for the Chinese to get better because they have more room to maneuver.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EChina is becoming a leader in research and development, Porter noted.  For instance, China now leads the world in publications on nanotechnology, though U.S. papers still receive more citations.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOn the input indicators calculated for 2007, China lags behind the United States.  In \u0027national orientation,\u0027 China won a score of 62.6, compared to 78.0 for the United States.  In \u0027socioeconomic infrastructure,\u0027 China rated 61.2, compared to 87.9 for the United States.  In the other two factors, China also was behind the U.S., 60.0 versus 95.5 for \u0027technological infrastructure\u0027 and 85.2 versus 93.4 for \u0027productive capacity.\u0027  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EChina has been dramatically improving its input scores, which portends even stronger technological competitiveness in the future.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022It\u0027s like being 40 years old and playing basketball against a competitor who\u0027s only 12 years old - but is already at your height,\u0022 Newman said.  \u0022You are a little better right now and have more experience, but you\u0027re not going to squeeze much more performance out.  The future clearly doesn\u0027t look good for the United States.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 100\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAtlanta, Georgia  30308  USA\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Contacts\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon (404-894-6986); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or Abby Vogel (404-385-3364); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:avogel@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eavogel@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter:\u003C\/strong\u003E John Toon\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Technology indicators show China ahead of the U.S. in technological standing"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"A new study of worldwide technological competitiveness suggests China may soon rival the United States as the principal driver of the world\u0027s economy - a position the U.S. has held since the end of World War II.   If that happens, it will mark the first time in nearly a century that two nations have competed for leadership as equals.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"China will soon lead the world in technology"}],"uid":"27303","created_gmt":"2008-01-24 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:24","author":"John Toon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-01-24T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2008-01-24T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71461":{"id":"71461","type":"image","title":"Technological standing chart","body":null,"created":"1449177376","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:16","changed":"1475894637","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:57"}},"media_ids":["71461"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.tpac.gatech.edu\/","title":"Technology Policy and Assessment Center"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.tpac.gatech.edu\/hti.php","title":"High Tech Indicators study"}],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"139","name":"Business"},{"id":"131","name":"Economic Development and Policy"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"287","name":"Competitiveness"},{"id":"290","name":"Economy"},{"id":"341","name":"innovation"},{"id":"623","name":"Technology"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EJohn Toon\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=jt7\u0022\u003EContact John Toon\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-6986\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jtoon@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71325":{"#nid":"71325","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Atlanta Entrepreneur Paul Freet Joins VentureLab Team at Georgia Tech","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPaul Freet, who recently joined Georgia Tech\u0027s VentureLab unit in the role of a commercialization catalyst, admits he\u0027s overqualified for his job.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBut that\u0027s a good thing, says Freet, a successful entrepreneur with three startup companies to his credit -- almost a requirement for a job that demands both broad business judgment and sustained entrepreneurial enthusiasm.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I think that in general VentureLab tends to bring in people who are overqualified -- people who have done this before, who have created multiple startup companies,\u0022 he says.  \u0022They\u0027re here because they have some higher mission, a higher vision.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EVentureLab is a unit of the Enterprise Innovation Institute\u0027s Commercialization Services, which evaluates and helps to commercialize Georgia Tech intellectual property. About 10 percent of the 300 or more inventions disclosed by Tech researchers annually are judged to have the right stuff for forming a VentureLab startup. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWorking with other VentureLab commercialization catalysts, Freet is responsible for aiding and advising numerous fledgling technology ventures, most of which are still in a pre-incorporation, proof-of-concept phase.  VentureLab catalysts help these aspiring companies sharpen their product concept, find office\/lab space and also obtain seed funding, which generally comes from the Georgia Research Alliance.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We\u0027re delighted to have recruited an entrepreneur of Paul\u0027s experience and stature,\u0022 says Stephen Fleming, director of Commercialization Services. \u0022His combination of entrepreneurial experience, technical acumen and plain old business enthusiasm are ideal qualities in a commercialization catalyst.\u0022  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFreet graduated from Georgia Tech in 1986 with a bachelor\u0027s degree in electrical engineering and a computer engineering certificate.  He spent his initial career years with semiconductor giant Hitachi in both marketing and application engineering roles.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHis entrepreneurial calling began in 1996, when as chief technology officer he helped found a San Diego startup called TruSOLUTIONS, a maker of Linux servers for Internet use. That company was sold to VA Linux Systems in 2000 for $200 million.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFreet then moved with his family back to Atlanta and founded Racemi, a venture-funded maker of modular blade-server computers.  Racemi evolved into a software company that has pioneered a new approach to data-center recovery and migration tasks. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFreet first became familiar with Georgia Tech\u0027s startup-company programs  in 2002 when Racemi became a member of the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC), a Georgia Tech unit that incubates young companies that have moved beyond the VentureLab stage.  Racemi graduated from ATDC in 2007 and is now an independent company.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBut Freet already knew Stephen Fleming. They met when Fleming was working for a venture-capital fund, and they stayed in touch over the years.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022When Stephen announced he wanted to fill a VentureLab slot and was looking for suggestions, I started thinking about who I would refer him to,\u0022 Freet recalls.  \u0022Then it dawned on me that, my goodness, that would be a perfect role for me.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAs a VentureLab catalyst, Freet is already using his computer, software and electronics experience to shepherd a number of Georgia Tech researchers and their discoveries through a process that could lead to a viable startup company.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe biggest stumbling block for new companies isn\u0027t material, he says;  seed money and office space can usually be found for a promising technology.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EInstead, the greatest challenges are intellectual. Distilling a technological idea into a commercial product is difficult, and often the researchers who made the discovery can\u0027t make that leap because they lack business experience and are too close to the technology.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022If all you\u0027ve got is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail,\u0022 Freet says.   \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo commercialize any technology, he explains, it\u0027s critical to boil the concept down to something simple and come up with an instructive \u0027story\u0027 that can be shared.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022That\u0027s something I try to do very quickly with a young company -- find the real germ of the idea and a way to explain it simply,\u0022 he says. \u0022If you\u0027re trying to raise money, you need to present an investment in a way that a venture capitalist can explain to his or her partners.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFinding that story can also help identify a technology\u0027s first commercial application.  Freet recalls a recent example in which Georgia Tech researchers had devised a powerful technology to track computer and other expensive equipment. Further discussion indicated the technology was best viewed as a way to keep companies from losing things. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFreet believes that much of VentureLab\u0027s capability hinges on its interdisciplinary nature and the broad experience of its staff. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We can really bounce things off one another,\u0022 he says. \u0022And while I might think that a discovery applies to the computer hardware business, we might find out that it\u0027s actually a very good fit as, say, a biomedical application.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFreet says the most attractive part of his VentureLab job consists of two benefits that are of great importance to him - giving back to his alma mater and home state, and improving his already strong connections to the state\u0027s technology community.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022And then,\u0022 he adds, \u0022there\u0027s the fun stuff - learning about all this great technology and getting to know some pretty amazing people here at Tech.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the Enterprise Innovation Institute\u003C\/strong\u003E:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute helps companies, entrepreneurs, economic developers and communities improve their competitiveness through the application of science, technology and innovation. It is one of the largest and most comprehensive university-based programs of business and industry assistance, technology commercialization and economic development in the nation.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 100\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAtlanta, Georgia  30308\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Contacts\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon (404-894-6986); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or Nancy Fullbright (404-894-2214); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:nancy.fullbright@innovate.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Enancy.fullbright@innovate.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter\u003C\/strong\u003E: Rick Robinson\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Atlanta entrepreneur Paul Freet has joined Georgia Tech\u0027s VentureLab program as a commercialization catalyst.  In that role, he will assist in the formation of startup companies based on Georgia Tech discoveries.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech\u0027s VentureLab has a new commercialization catalyst"}],"uid":"27303","created_gmt":"2008-04-30 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:24","author":"John Toon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-04-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-04-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71326":{"id":"71326","type":"image","title":"Centergy Building","body":null,"created":"1449177367","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:07","changed":"1475894632","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:52"},"71327":{"id":"71327","type":"image","title":"Paul Freet","body":null,"created":"1449177367","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:07","changed":"1475894632","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:52"}},"media_ids":["71326","71327"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.innovate.gatech.edu\/","title":"Enterprise Innovation Institute"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.innovate.gatech.edu\/venturelab","title":"Georgia Tech VentureLab"}],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2579","name":"commercialization"},{"id":"166973","name":"startup"},{"id":"4193","name":"venturelab"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EJohn Toon\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=jt7\u0022\u003EContact John Toon\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-6986\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jtoon@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71238":{"#nid":"71238","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Environmental Fate of Nanoparticles Depends on Water Carrying Them","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe fate of carbon-based nanoparticles spilled into groundwater - and the ability of municipal filtration systems to remove the nanoparticles from drinking water - depend on subtle differences in the solution properties of the water carrying the particles, a new study has found.  \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn slightly salty water, for example, clusters of Carbon 60 (C60) would tend to adhere tightly to soil or filtration system particles.  But where natural organic compounds or chemical surfactants serve as stabilizers in water, the C60 fullerene particles would tend to flow as easily as the water carrying them.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022In some cases, the nanoparticles move very little and you would get complete retention in the soil,\u0022 said Kurt Pennell, a professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.  \u0022But in different solution conditions or in the presence of a stabilizing agent, they can travel just like water.  The movement of these nanoparticles is very sensitive to the solution conditions.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EResearch into the transport and retention of C60 nanoparticles was reported April 11 in the online version of the American Chemical Society journal \u003Cem\u003EEnvironmental Science and Technology \u003C\/em\u003Eand will be published later in the print edition.  The research was funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EComparatively little research has been done on what happens to nanoparticles when they are released through accidental spills - or when products containing them are discarded.  Researchers want to know more about the environmental fate of nanoparticles to avoid creating problems like those of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), in which the harmful effects of the compounds were discovered only after their use became widespread.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022It will be difficult to control the waste stream, so these nanoparticles are likely to get everywhere,\u0022 said Pennell.  \u0022We want to figure out now what will happen to them and how toxic they will be in the environment.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo study the flow and retention of the nanoparticles in simulated soil and filtration systems, Pennell\u0027s research team filled glass columns with either glass microbeads or sand, and saturated the columns with water.  They then sent a \u0027pulse\u0027 of water containing C60 nanoparticles through the columns, followed by additional water containing no nanoparticles.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThey measured the quantity of nanoparticles emerging from the columns and analyzed the sand and glass beads to observe the quantity of C60 retained there.  They also extracted the contents of the columns to measure the distribution of retained nanoparticles.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022In sand, we saw a uniform distribution of the nanoparticles throughout the column, which suggests that under the circumstances we examined, there is a limited retention capability due to filtration,\u0022 Pennell explained.  \u0022Once that capacity is reached, the particles will pass through until they are retained by other grains of soil or sand.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETraditional theories regarding the activity of such packed-bed filters suggest that particles would build up near the column entrance, with concentrations falling off thereafter.  The study findings suggest that the predictions of \u0027filter theory\u0027 will have to be modified to explain the transport of nanoparticles in soil, Pennell said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe nanoparticles retained were tightly bound to the sand or beads and could only be removed by changing the pH of the water.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022That would be a good thing if you were trying to filter these particles from a water system and were worried about them moving into the environment,\u0022 Pennell said.  \u0022Once they go onto the soil system, it\u0027s unlikely that they will come off as long as the conditions don\u0027t change.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers observed that up to 77 percent of the nanoparticle mass was retained by the sand, while the glass beads retained between 8 and 49 percent.  Preparation of the solutions containing C60 dramatically affected the retention; when no salt was added, the particles flowed through the columns like water.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We want to make a mechanistic assessment of why the particles are attaching,\u0022 Pennell said.  \u0022When we look at real soils with finer particles, we will expect to see more retention.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor municipal drinking water filtration, the sensitivity to solution characteristics means local conditions may play a key role. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Under most conditions, you should be able to remove nanoparticles from the water,\u0022 Pennell explained. \u0022But you will have to be careful if the nanoparticles are stabilized by a natural surfactant or humic acid.  If those are present in the water, the nanoparticles could go right through.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn a continuation of the work, Pennell and his Georgia Tech collaborators - Joseph Hughes, John Fortner and Younggang Wang - are now studying more complicated transport issues in real soils and with other types of nanoparticles.  In field conditions, the nanoparticles are likely to be found with other types of carbon - and potentially with other nanostructures.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022When we study systems with real soil, we will have background interference with humics and other materials,\u0022 Pennell noted.  \u0022Ramping up the complexity will make this research a real challenge.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EUltimately, Pennell hopes to develop information about a broad range of nanoparticles to predict how they\u0027ll be retained and transported under a variety of conditions.  Facilitating that is mathematical modeling being done by collaborators Linda Abriola and Yusong Li at Tufts University in Medford, Mass.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We want to build up to the point that we can systematically vary properties and parameters,\u0022 Pennell explained.  \u0022Over time, we should be able to classify nanoparticles based on their properties and have a good idea of how they will behave in the environment.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 100\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAtlanta, Gerogia  30308  USA\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Contacts\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon (404-894-6986); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or Abby Vogel (404-385-3364); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:avogel@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eavogel@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETechnical Contact\u003C\/strong\u003E: Kurt Pennell (404-894-9365); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:kpennell@ce.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ekpennell@ce.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"The fate of carbon-based nanoparticles spilled into groundwater - and the ability of municipal filtration systems to remove the nanoparticles from drinking water - depend on subtle differences in the solution properties of the water carrying the particles, a new study has found.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Subtle changes in solution properties can affect transport"}],"uid":"27303","created_gmt":"2008-05-01 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:24","author":"John Toon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-05-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-05-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71239":{"id":"71239","type":"image","title":"Studying media","body":null,"created":"1449177358","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:58","changed":"1475894632","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:52"},"71240":{"id":"71240","type":"image","title":"Glass columns","body":null,"created":"1449177358","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:58","changed":"1475894632","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:52"},"71241":{"id":"71241","type":"image","title":"Equipment used in study","body":null,"created":"1449177358","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:58","changed":"1475894632","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:52"}},"media_ids":["71239","71240","71241"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ce.gatech.edu\/fac_staff\/faculty-listing\/research-interests\/?active_id=kp48","title":"Kurt Pennell"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ce.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Civil and Environmental Engineering"}],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"7417","name":"c60"},{"id":"7418","name":"fullerene"},{"id":"7416","name":"groundwater"},{"id":"2054","name":"nanoparticle"},{"id":"7415","name":"transport"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EJohn Toon\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=jt7\u0022\u003EContact John Toon\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-6986\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jtoon@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71455":{"#nid":"71455","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Decontamination System Kills Anthrax Rapidly","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn October 2001, letters containing anthrax spores were mailed to several news media offices and two U.S. senators, killing five people and infecting 17 others. Clearing the Senate office building of the spores with chlorine dioxide gas cost $27 million, according to the Government Accountability Office. Cleaning the Brentwood postal facility outside Washington cost $130 million and took 26 months. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EResearchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) in collaboration with Austin-based Stellar Micro Devices, Inc. (SMD) have developed prototypes of a rapid, non-disruptive and less expensive method that could be used to decontaminate bioterrorism hazards in the future.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EUsing flat panel modules that produce X-rays and ultraviolet-C (UV-C) light simultaneously, the researchers can kill anthrax spores in two to three hours without any lingering effects. The system also has the ability to kill anthrax spores hidden in places like computer keyboards without causing damage. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This is certainly an improvement over previous techniques,\u0022 said Brent Wagner, GTRI principal research scientist and director of its Phosphor Technology Center of Excellence (PTCOE). \u0022The UV-C attacks spores on surfaces and the X-rays penetrate through materials and kill spores in cracks and crevices.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EX-ray irradiation is used commercially to sterilize medical products and food by disrupting the ability of a microorganism to reproduce. UV-C also prevents replication, but both types of radiation can penetrate the outer structure of an anthrax spore to destroy the bacteria inside.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe current decontamination standard - chlorine dioxide gas - kills microorganisms by disrupting transport of nutrients across the cell wall, but cannot reach hidden spores. Hard surfaces must be cleaned independently with harsh liquid chlorine dioxide. In addition, people cannot re-enter a room fumigated with chlorine dioxide until the gas is neutralized with sodium bisulfite vapor and vented from the building.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe new decontamination system resembles a coat rack with radiation modules arranged on rings at various heights that face outward to broadcast radiation throughout a room. Since the X-rays and UV-C are lethal at the flux densities used, the system operates unattended and is turned on outside the affected space.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EUV-C light in the modules is produced using the optical and electrical phenomenon of cathodoluminescence. Numerous electron beams are generated by arrays of cold cathodes, each acting like the electron gun in a cathode ray tube.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022When an electron beam hits a powder phosphor, it luminesces and emits visible and\/or non-visible light,\u0022 explained Hisham Menkara, a GTRI senior research scientist.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGTRI became involved in SMD\u0027s project, which was funded by the Air Force Research Laboratory\u0027s Small Business Innovation Research program, because the PTCOE housed UV-C phosphors created and patented by Sarnoff Corporation in the mid-1970s.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We knew that Georgia Tech had experts in powder phosphors with regard to flat panel displays and we approached them to develop new phosphors for our decontamination purpose,\u0022 said Mark Eaton, president and CEO of SMD. \u0022We were fortunate that they had UV-C phosphors available from decades earlier.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWith the Sarnoff phosphors in hand, Wagner and Menkara set off to determine the best UV-C emitting phosphor and optimize its properties for use with X-rays in SMD\u0027s small flat panel display.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo find the best phosphor that emitted light in the UV-C region of the spectrum - wavelengths below 280 nanometers - the emission spectra of each phosphor was measured against the DNA absorption curve. This curve shows the optimal wavelengths to destroy an organism\u0027s DNA. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter investigating many different phosphors, the researchers chose lanthanum phosphate:praseodymium (LaPO4:Pr or LAP:Pr) as the most efficient phosphor, with a power efficiency near 10 percent. Since the UV emission didn\u0027t fall completely under the DNA absorption curve, the relative \u0027killing efficiency\u0027 was approximately 50 percent. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the laboratory, Menkara created the phosphor by mixing precursors lanthanum oxide, hydrogen phosphate and praseodymium fluoride (La2O3, H3PO4 and PrF3, respectively) in a glass beaker with methanol (CH3OH) and ammonium chloride (NH4Cl). Air drying the mixture in a fume hood caused the methanol to completely evaporate. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe resultant cake was crushed into a fine powder, heated in a furnace to a temperature as high as 1250 degrees Celsius for two hours and crushed again.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022To determine the best conditions for producing the highest efficiency phosphor, we tried different precursors and completed the firing under different atmospheric conditions and temperatures,\u0022 explained Menkara.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETest results showed that higher temperatures were more efficient and a capped quartz tube was the best container to hold the powder inside the furnace. Wagner and Menkara also found that adding lithium fluoride (LiF) and reducing the praseodymium concentration increased the cathodoluminescent properties of the LAP:Pr phosphor.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWith the improved phosphor, laboratory tests conducted by SMD showed that the combined X-ray and UV-C decontamination system could kill anthrax spores. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGTRI researchers hope to develop new UV-C phosphors that can achieve cathodoluminescent efficiency higher than 10 percent with an emission spectrum that provides increased coverage of the DNA absorption curve.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWith increased efficiency, UV-C panels could be used for sterilizing medical equipment or purification applications.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We may be able to use UV-C panels to clean wastewater, which would be better than the lamps currently used. In the environment where the lamps must operate, they are very difficult to clean, whereas flat panels could be cleaned with a squeegee,\u0022 noted Eaton.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAnother potential application is to kill viruses in buildings used to house chickens. Current methods involve removing the chickens and raising the temperature in the chicken houses for several days to deactivate the virus. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022With the combined UV-C\/X-ray system, you could turn the system on for a few hours, kill the viruses and as soon as you turn it off, the chickens could come right back in,\u0022 said Wagner.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 100\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAtlanta, Georgia  30308  USA\n\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMedia Relations Contacts: Abby Vogel (404-385-3364); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:avogel@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eavogel@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or Kirk Englehardt (404-407-7280); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:kirk.englehardt@gtri.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ekirk.englehardt@gtri.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or John Toon (404-894-6986); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter:\u003C\/strong\u003E Abby Vogel\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Combination X-ray and ultraviolet-c system leaves no lingering effects"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"A rapid, non-disruptive and less expensive method to decontaminate bioterrorism hazards has been developed. Flat panels producing X-rays and ultraviolet-C light kill anthrax spores, even hidden ones, in two to three hours without lingering effects.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Anthrax decontamination system leaves no trace"}],"uid":"27206","created_gmt":"2008-01-29 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:24","author":"Abby Vogel Robinson","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-01-29T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2008-01-29T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71456":{"id":"71456","type":"image","title":"Anthrax Decontamination","body":null,"created":"1449177376","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:16","changed":"1475894637","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:57"},"71457":{"id":"71457","type":"image","title":"Anthrax decontamination2","body":null,"created":"1449177376","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:16","changed":"1475894637","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:57"}},"media_ids":["71456","71457"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/gtri.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech Research Institute"}],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"147","name":"Military Technology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1132","name":"anthrax"},{"id":"1001","name":"bioterrorism"},{"id":"7503","name":"cathodoluminescence"},{"id":"7502","name":"chlorine dioxide"},{"id":"7500","name":"decontamination"},{"id":"7501","name":"phosphor"},{"id":"7505","name":"purify"},{"id":"170884","name":"sterilize"},{"id":"7329","name":"ultraviolet"},{"id":"1448","name":"x-ray"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EAbby Robinson\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EResearch News and Publications\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=avogel6\u0022\u003EContact Abby Robinson\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-385-3364\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["abby@innovate.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71451":{"#nid":"71451","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Study Demonstrates Effectiveness of Microneedles","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn what is believed to be the first peer-reviewed study of its kind involving human subjects, researchers at the University of Kentucky and the Georgia Institute of Technology have demonstrated that patches coated on one side with microscopic needles can facilitate transdermal delivery of clinically-relevant doses of a drug that normally cannot pass through the skin.  \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EReported in the journal \u003Cem\u003EProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences\u003C\/em\u003E, the study could help advance the use of microneedles as a painless method for delivering drugs, proteins, DNA and vaccines into the body.  The research also found other advantages for the microneedles, including an ability to produce therapeutic drug levels with lower doses, and lowered production of metabolites that may cause side-effects.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This proof-of-concept study shows that microneedles work in humans for transdermal drug delivery,\u0022 said Daniel Wermeling, associate professor of pharmacology in the University of Kentucky\u0027s College of Pharmacy.  \u0022Success with microneedles could cause us to rethink the convergence of the drug and delivery system and lead to a more integrated approach merging engineering with pharmaceutical technology.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe research was supported by the National Institutes of Health and the University of Kentucky Research Foundation.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This study represents an important landmark in the development of microneedles into drug delivery devices suitable for use in clinical medicine,\u0022 said Mark Prausnitz, a professor in the Georgia Tech School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. \u0022This method may be useful for a broad range of drugs that cannot normally be delivered without a hypodermic needle.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETransdermal drug delivery has proven successful in a number of applications, including pain management, congestive heart failure and hormone replacement.  Transdermal administration offers advantages over other delivery techniques, but existing systems can only be used for a narrow range of compounds that easily pass through the skin.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBy painlessly punching a series of microscopic holes in the outer layer of skin known as the stratum corneum, microneedles promise to expand the range of drugs and vaccines that can be delivered transdermally.  Until this study, however, the only published research demonstrating drug delivery using microneedles had involved studies in animals and on human cadaver skin.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECollaborating with Prausnitz and his Georgia Tech research team, Wermeling and colleagues Stan Banks, David Hudson and Audra Stinchcomb set out to determine whether microneedle patches could indeed help deliver useful amounts of drug compounds that otherwise couldn\u0027t pass through the skin.  As a test compound, they chose the drug naltrexone, a skin-impermeable compound that is used to treat opiate and alcohol addiction.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWorking with a small group of non-addicted human test subjects, they first prepared a section of skin on each subject\u0027s arm by pressing and removing thumb-sized patches that contained 50 stainless steel microneedles each about 620 microns - about 1\/40th of an inch - in length.  Next, gel containing naltrexone was applied to the prepared area, which was then covered by a protective dressing.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe concentration of the drug in each subjects\u0027 bloodstream was monitored for 72 hours.  The researchers quickly saw levels of the drug reach pharmacologically active concentrations, and those levels remained steady for at least 48 hours in the six test subjects.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EControl subjects were treated in the same way, but without the microneedle preparation prior to application of the naltrexone gel.  None of the control subjects had detectable levels of the drug in their bloodstream.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAs part of the study, electrical resistance testing of the skin was done on separate subjects to determine how long the pores created by the microneedles remained open.  Those tests suggested that drug could pass through treated skin for at least 48 hours before natural healing processes closed up the tiny punctures.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBeyond maintaining a steady level of the naltrexone, microneedle delivery may offer another advantage over oral administration: a reduction in the presence of compounds metabolized from the drug.  The primary metabolite, known as naltrexol, is rapidly produced by the liver and intestines when the drug is administered orally, creating blood levels as much at ten times that of the parent drug - which can cause undesirable side effects.  With microneedle administration, however, the levels of naltrexol stayed well below those of the naltrexone.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022During the first week of treatment using oral naltrexone, 10 to 20 percent of patients drop out of treatment because of side effects,\u0022 Wermeling said.  \u0022If you can change the way the parent drug is presented in a way that affects how the metabolites are formed, you could improve the safety or side effects of the drug.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMicroneedle administration also reduced the amount of drug required to produce therapeutic levels, replacing a 50 milligram tablet with 10-12 milligrams of drug in the gel.  Use of the microneedles also produced steady bloodstream levels of the drug, without the initial peak that occurs with oral delivery.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe study represents a first step in demonstrating the broad range of potential uses for microneedles, said Prausnitz, who has been developing the devices for more than ten years.  In addition to Prausnitz, the Georgia Tech research team also included Harvinder Gill and Jyoti Gupta.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022There are a number of ways in which microneedles can be used,\u0022 Prausnitz noted.  \u0022This study addressed the simplest use of microneedles in which the needles are just inserted and removed from the skin and a drug patch applied.  To understand how broadly microneedles can be used in medicine, we will also need to study delivery of other therapeutics, such as lidocaine, insulin and flu vaccine.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe study has special significance for University of Kentucky researcher and co-author Stan Banks.  The work is the capstone of his thesis, and represents four years of preclinical studies with naltrexone and delivery systems under an NIH grant to Audra Stinchcomb, an associate professor in the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy and also a co-author of the paper. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 100\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAtlanta, Georgia  30308  USA\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Contacts\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon, Georgia Tech (404-894-6986); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or Ann Blackford, University of Kentucky (859-323-6363, ext. 230).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"First peer-reviewed human study shows devices can deliver drugs"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"In what is believed to be the first peer-reviewed human study of its kind, researchers have demonstrated that patches coated on one side with microscopic needles can facilitate transdermal delivery of clinically-relevant doses of a drug that normally cannot pass through the skin.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Microneedles are effective in delivering drugs"}],"uid":"27303","created_gmt":"2008-02-04 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:24","author":"John Toon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-02-04T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2008-02-04T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71452":{"id":"71452","type":"image","title":"Microneedle array","body":null,"created":"1449177376","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:16","changed":"1475894637","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:57"},"71453":{"id":"71453","type":"image","title":"Microneedle array","body":null,"created":"1449177376","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:16","changed":"1475894637","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:57"},"71454":{"id":"71454","type":"image","title":"Microneedle array","body":null,"created":"1449177376","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:16","changed":"1475894637","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:57"}},"media_ids":["71452","71453","71454"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.chbe.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Chemical \u0026 Biomolecular Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.chbe.gatech.edu\/fac_staff\/faculty\/prausnitz.php","title":"Mark Prausnitz"}],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"7497","name":"drug-delivery"},{"id":"7496","name":"microneedles"},{"id":"7499","name":"painless"},{"id":"7031","name":"pharmaceutical"},{"id":"7498","name":"transdermal"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EJohn Toon\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=jt7\u0022\u003EContact John Toon\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-6986\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jtoon@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71361":{"#nid":"71361","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Entrepreneurs Join Georgia Tech as VentureLab Fellows","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEight Georgia entrepreneurs from a variety of technology business backgrounds have signed on as VentureLab Fellows at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Their mission: to serve as expert mentors to startup companies in Georgia Tech\u0027s VentureLab program.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Our new Fellows have more than a hundred years of entrepreneurial experience among them,\u0022 said Stephen Fleming, director of Georgia Tech\u0027s Commercialization Services, VentureLab\u0027s parent organization.  \u0022By matching Tech researchers with proven entrepreneurs, we\u0027re making a direct connection to the marketplace and building teams that can launch successful technology companies.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0027s $400 million-plus annual research budget generates more than 300 invention disclosures each year.  The VentureLab staff selects particular discoveries that show promise as the basis for fast-growth startup companies.  Then they provide those startups with support that includes help in securing seed funding, office\/lab space and business and legal guidance.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe new VentureLab Fellows roster includes:\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E- Michael J. Eckert, formerly CEO of The Weather Channel;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n- David R. Kaufman, technology-development and commercialization professional with Fortune 50 experience;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n- Sanjoy Malik, founder of Air2Web and Synchrologic;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n- Thomas J. O\u0027Brien, medical-device executive with Philips Medical Systems and other companies;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n- Mark A. Samuels, executive\/entrepreneur in technology and biomedical product development and management;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n- Dustin Walsey, sales executive with Akamai Technologies and others. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETwo recent Fellows joined in 2007 and are managing current VentureLab companies:\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E- Lawrence Catchpole, CEO of Zenda Technologies, founder of M1 Global and Webtone;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n- Sanjay Sehgal, CEO and co-founder of Pramana and a founder of several other companies.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The VentureLab Fellow program is a two-way street,\u0022 added Fleming, who is also Georgia Tech\u0027s chief commercialization officer.  \u0022Although the Fellows are volunteers, they may encounter a company that\u0027s a particularly good fit and go on to assume a leadership position.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EVentureLab is a unit of Commercialization Services (CS), which evaluates and commercializes Georgia Tech intellectual property.  Most research discoveries are suitable for licensing to existing corporations. But about 10 percent of discoveries are judged to have the right stuff for forming a VentureLab startup. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECompanies that graduate from VentureLab often are accepted into the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC), Georgia Tech\u0027s science and technology incubator.  ATDC helps Georgia entrepreneurs launch and build successful companies, providing strategic business advice and connecting member companies to the people and resources they need to succeed.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEach VentureLab Fellow will likely work with several pre-incorporation projects, offering guidance and assisting fledgling companies in making business-world connections.  Among other things, Fellows will help identify a given technology\u0027s potential market, as well as offer expertise on management, technology, financing and other key issues.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe following bio sketches offer more information on all eight 2007 and 2008 VentureLab Fellows:\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELawrence Catchpole\u003C\/strong\u003E, president and CEO of Zenda Technologies, has more than 30 years of experience as a leader and entrepreneur in the technology industry. As chief strategy officer and founder of M1 Global, Catchpole was responsible for setting strategic business direction and technology vision, while raising $15 million and using innovative and successful development techniques.  He was also founder and CTO of WebTone, which grew into a multi-channel financial services market company with 230 employees and $38 million in sales before being acquired by Fidelity National in 2003. He has also held senior positions at S1 Technologies and Dun \u0026amp; Bradstreet Software (formerly MSA). He holds a bachelor\u0027s degree in applied biology with a minor in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMichael J. Eckert \u003C\/strong\u003Ewas formerly president and CEO of The Weather Channel and oversaw that business\u0027s growth from startup cable-television network to major distributor of consumer weather information.  In addition, he served as president and CEO of Pathfire, a software\/services business that helped the video and television industries evolve from an analog to a digital base before being sold to DG Fast Channel in 2007. In addition to joining VentureLab, Eckert is also an entrepreneur-in-residence at the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC).  He did his undergraduate work at Northern Illinois University and graduate work at DePaul University.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDavid R. Kaufman \u003C\/strong\u003Ehas a background in technology development and commercialization, with experience ranging from Fortune 50 companies to startups.  For the last two years he helped BellSouth evaluate and deploy technologies and networks for IP Multimedia products and services.  Before that he worked for MI Technologies, where he held product-line responsibility for microwave test and RF simulation systems for European and Asian-Pacific markets.  He was an executive director at Elastic Networks and helped develop Elastic\u0027s EtherLoop DSL technology, taking the start-up to $40M in sales in 18 months.  He has also held engineering positions with Electromagnetic Sciences and Scientific Atlanta. He holds a bachelor\u0027s degree in mechanical engineering and a certificate in finance and accounting from Georgia Tech.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESanjoy Malik \u003C\/strong\u003Efounded and, until recently, was CEO of Air2Web, an ATDC graduate company founded in 1999 that provides mobile messaging and marketing applications for enterprises and carriers.  Before founding Air2Web, he started Synchrologic, a developer of Internet-based mobile computing software. Prior to those companies, he spent seven years at Sales Technologies, a Dun \u0026amp; Bradstreet company, in senior product and engineering positions, and held several engineering positions at Intergraph. He holds master\u0027s degrees in computer sciences and engineering from the University of Florida, as well as a bachelor\u0027s in engineering from IIT Delhi.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThomas J. O\u0027Brien \u003C\/strong\u003Eis a medical device executive who worked most recently with Philips Medical Systems.  He assisted in the sale of Intermagnetics, a public company, to Royal Dutch Philips in November 2006 and in the subsequent integration of the two companies.  Prior to that, he held a number of senior executive positions in public and private companies in the U.S. and overseas.  He holds a bachelor\u0027s degree in industrial engineering from Georgia Tech and an MBA from the University of Chicago. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMark A. Samuels \u003C\/strong\u003Eis an experienced executive and entrepreneur with a background in technology and biomedical product development, strategic marketing, manufacturing, strategic partnerships, intellectual property issues and capitalization.   He has raised more than $100 million and has led research, development and commercialization efforts covering four medical device products, including three now on the market, and a non-invasive replacement for cervical cancer screening currently undergoing Phase III trials. He holds a bachelor\u0027s degree in physics and a master\u0027s of science specializing in electro-optics from Georgia Tech, and he holds more than 19 U.S patents and a number of patent applications.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESanjay Sehgal\u003C\/strong\u003E, CEO and co-founder of Pramana, has 19 years of executive management and entrepreneurial experience in enterprise software, system sales, marketing and operations. At Pramana, he has overseen the company\u0027s overall business plan, formation and growth strategy. Previously, he founded or co-founded three companies -- AMI, which sold to LSI Logic for more than $220 million, iVivity and Scentric. He has extensive experience in several aspects of building successful companies, including venture\/strategic funding, product development and building a sales organization, partner relationships and company acquisition.  Prior to iVivity, Sehgal held senior positions in the storage and networking industry. He received a bachelor\u0027s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Delhi, India.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDustin Walsey \u003C\/strong\u003Eis a sales executive with diverse experience in both startup companies and large enterprises.  He spent seven years as a technology-sales executive with Akamai Technologies, serving such clients as Fed Ex, Cox Enterprises, Delta Air Lines, Coca-Cola, Scripps Networks, InterContinental Hotels Group, Nortel, Citrix Systems and Office Depot.  Previously, he was director of sales for Weema Technologies, a streaming media company; financial manager for Auto Impact, a chain of collision repair centers, and a retail lender with Wachovia Bank. An Atlanta native, Walsey holds a bachelor\u0027s degree in finance and marketing from Indiana University Bloomington.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout VentureLab\u003C\/strong\u003E: Georgia Tech VentureLab provides comprehensive assistance to Georgia Tech faculty, research staff and graduate students who want to form startup companies to commercialize the technology innovations they have developed.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAs a one-stop center for technology commercialization, VentureLab provides a clear pathway from laboratory innovation to the commercial market.  VentureLab specialists help transform innovations into early-stage companies by assisting in business plan development, connecting the innovators with experienced entrepreneurs, locating sources of early-stage financing, and preparing the new companies for the business world.  Graduates of the VentureLab program may apply for admission to the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC), which is also part of the Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n75 Fifth Street, N.W. 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And as the integrated circuits become more advanced, maximizing their performance requires better connections that operate at higher frequencies with less loss.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EImproving these two types of connections will increase the amount and speed of information that can be sent throughout a computer, according to Paul Kohl, Thomas L. Gossage chair and Regents\u0027 professor in Georgia Tech\u0027s School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Kohl presented his work in these areas at the Materials Research Society fall meeting.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe vertical connections between chips and boards are currently formed by melting tin solder between the two pieces and adding glue to hold everything together. Kohl\u0027s research shows that replacing the solder ball connections with copper pillars creates stronger connections and the ability to create more connections.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Circuitry and computer chips are made with copper lines on them, so we thought we should make the connection between the two with copper also,\u0022 said Kohl.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESolder and copper can both tolerate misalignment between two pieces being connected, according to Kohl, but copper is more conductive and creates a stronger bond.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWith funding from the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), Kohl and graduate student Tyler Osborn have developed a novel fabrication method to create all-copper connections between computer chips and external circuitry.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers first electroplate a bump of copper onto the surface of both pieces, a process that uses electrical current to coat an electrically conductive object with metal. Then, a solid copper connection between the two bumps is formed by electroless plating, which involves several simultaneous reactions that occur in an aqueous solution without the use of external electrical current.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESince the pillar, which is the same thickness as a dollar bill, is fragile at room temperature, the researchers anneal it, or heat it in an oven for an hour to remove defects and generate a strong solid copper piece. Osborn found that strong bonds were formed at an annealing temperature of 180 degrees Celsius. He has also been investigating how misalignments between the two copper bumps affect pillar strength.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I\u0027ve also studied the optimal shape for the connections so that they\u0027re flexible and mechanically reliable, yet still have good electrical properties so that we can transmit these high frequency signals without noise,\u0022 said Osborn.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers have been working with Texas Instruments, Intel and Applied Materials to perfect and test their technology. Jim Meindl, director of Georgia Tech\u0027s Microelectronics Research Center and professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Sue Ann Allen, professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, have also collaborated on the work.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to this new method for making vertical connections between chips and external circuitry, Kohl is also developing an improved signal transmission line with the help of graduate student Todd Spencer. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Several very long communication pathways exist inside a computer that require a very high performance electrical line that can transmit at higher frequencies over long distances,\u0022 explained Spencer.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis is especially important in high-performance servers and routers where inter-chip distances can be large and signal strength may be significantly degraded. Kohl and Spencer have developed a new way to link high-speed signals between chips using an organic substrate, with funding from the Interconnect Focus Center, one of the Semiconductor Research Corporation\/Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Focus Center Research Programs.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFabrication begins with an epoxy fiberglass substrate with copper lines on one side. The substrate is coated with a polymer and the areas without copper lines are exposed to ultraviolet (UV) light, which disintegrates the polymer where it\u0027s not wanted. Then, the researchers coat the substrate with another polymer that hardens when exposed to UV light. Layers of titanium and copper are added on top of each copper line. When the layered substrate is heated at 180 degrees Celsius, the first polymer layer decomposes into carbon dioxide and acetone, which diffuse out leaving an air pocket.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The amount of electrical loss relates to the connection\u0027s sensitivity at higher frequencies,\u0022 explained Spencer. \u0022Just having this air pocket there reduces our signal loss greatly.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers are currently designing a coaxial cable for this chip-to-chip signal link, which should greatly increase the maximum signal frequency the connection can carry.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECompanies that make computer chips and package them into a device are very interested in these technologies, said Kohl. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022If these connections can be produced at a reasonable cost, they could be very important in the future because you\u0027re giving the customer a better product for the same cost,\u0022 said Kohl. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; 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Passive tags include an integrated circuit for storing and processing information, and an antenna that responds to radio waves transmitted from an RFID reader. The tag absorbs some of the radio frequency energy from the reader signal and reflects it back as a return signal delivering information from the tag\u0027s memory, a technique called backscatter.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIf several RFID tags are in the vicinity of a reader, the reader usually communicates with the tag transmitting the most powerful signal first and then puts it to \u0022sleep\u0022 to prevent it from transmitting repeatedly. Then the reader moves to the next most powerful signal, and so on. This process can be very time-consuming.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We designed a really inexpensive, simple anti-collision system that transmits multiple unique signals back to us simultaneously without this complicated back and forth process,\u0022 said Durgin.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe system includes three parts - a transmitter, receiver and emulator. The emulator simulates the activity of an integrated circuit. The transmitter sends a radio signal to the antenna. By attaching the emulator to an antenna, a unique spread spectrum signal is transmitted to the receiver.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEach antenna signal can then be separated from the others, allowing his team to simultaneously measure the signals from multiple tags. Their experiments have shown they can measure the power strength and phase of up to 256 antennas in the field of view, which is an area in front of the reader of approximately 20 feet by 20 feet.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022To test new signaling schemes and frequencies, we just have to change the emulator\u0027s signal - we don\u0027t have to fabricate a new chip that could cost $100,000 in a silicon foundry,\u0022 he added. \u0022We can also evaluate multiple custom antennas in numerous configurations in realistic tag environments for only a fraction of the time and cost of previous methods.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETesting multiple configurations is important because RFID readability and antenna power strength can be affected by the relative position and orientation of the tag antenna and the reader.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers designed the testbed for measurements at 915 megahertz, a common ultra-high frequency for backscatter RFID applications. They are currently expanding the system to test antennas at higher frequencies - up to 5.7 gigahertz.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022At higher frequencies, even though the tag is physically stationary, you are electromagnetically lifting the antenna signal off the object and it starts to work better,\u0022 he said. \u0022Plus, at higher frequencies, smaller antennas can be constructed, which means more antennas can be placed on a tag to produce more energy for communications.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe tags usually require a reader to be within a foot of the chip, but operating at higher frequencies could greatly improve the range and reliability of the RFID tags, according to Durgin.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This testbed is just the beginning of our ability to characterize the performance of different RFID tag antennas in a real channel and push these technologies to higher frequencies, longer read ranges and overall higher reliability,\u0022 he added. 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Wellcome Trust - and ultimately the international law enforcement agency INTERPOL - the global effort provided Chinese officials with enough information to shut down the drug makers.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBeyond the human health cost of failing to effectively treat hundreds of thousands of malaria cases, the fake drugs could be fueling development of malarial strains that may become resistant to the most sophisticated drug now available to treat the disease: artesunate.  That\u0027s because counterfeiters sometimes include small quantities of the real drug in their fakes, possibly as part of an effort to fool simple quality tests.  By not killing the malaria parasites, the small amount could facilitate development of drug resistance.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAs their part of the investigation, Georgia Tech researchers used sensitive mass spectrometry techniques to analyze nearly 400 drug samples provided by public health authorities.  They also developed methods to speed up analysis, including an ionization process that reduced the time required to test a drug sample from half an hour to just a few seconds. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EActivities aimed at addressing the widespread problem of counterfeit anti-malarial drugs were reported February 12th in the journal \u003Cem\u003EPLoS Medicine\u003C\/em\u003E.  Georgia Tech\u0027s efforts to develop faster analytical techniques were sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation, while the sample analysis was supported by a small grant from WPRO\/WHO.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMalaria kills more than a million people each year worldwide, and is a risk for about 40 percent of the world\u0027s population.  Most victims would survive - if they had access to the proper drugs.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022About 50 percent of the samples obtained from the field in Southeast Asia were fakes,\u0022 said Facundo Fernandez, an analytical chemist and assistant professor in Georgia Tech\u0027s School of Chemistry and Biochemistry.  \u0022They look very real, even down to the hologram in the packaging.  It\u0027s very difficult to tell which ones are the fakes and which ones are real.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen Fernandez began analysis of the drug samples, he assumed that they would not include any real active ingredients.  But his graduate students Christina Hampton and Leonard Nyadong soon discovered that the counterfeiters were making their fake anti-malarials with a broad range of mostly expired pharmaceuticals.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We found old and ineffective anti-malarials like chloroquine,\u0022 he said.  \u0027We found antibiotics like erythromycin.  We found all sorts of drugs that basically have no effect on resistant malaria parasites.  Acetaminophen was one of the most common chemicals we found.\u0027\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFernandez speculates that the makers chose certain compounds, like acetaminophen, because they could temporarily make patients feel better by lowering the fever associated with malaria. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMass spectrometry provides a very effective means of identifying samples by determining their accurate molecular weight.  But the conventional analysis can be time-consuming - especially in the preparation of samples.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFernandez and his Georgia Tech group developed a faster method that allows them to analyze hundreds of samples in a single day.  Their goal was to make mass spectrometry analyses responsive within the time constraints that surveys in developing countries and law enforcement agencies involved in anti-counterfeiting tasks require.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022These are methods that let you analyze a solid sample without any significant preparation,\u0022 he explained.  \u0022You can take a tablet, put it in front of the instrument with an ionization source, and you get a quick snapshot of what\u0027s in the sample.  It provides a very high throughput pipeline to identify samples quickly.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EUltimately, Fernandez hopes to help develop high-accuracy instrumental tests that could be used in the field to save the time and expense of shipping suspected fakes to labs.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBeyond the mass spectrometry, the effort also relied on analysis of pollen found in the drugs - a discipline known as forensic palynology - which was done by scientists in New Zealand who were part of Operation Jupiter.  A study of calcium carbonate isotopes in the compounds, together with the pollen and active ingredients in the samples, pointed to two main groups of samples originating in different geographic regions of Asia.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This is absolutely CSI - the techniques they use on the television program really do work in real life,\u0022 Fernandez said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Operation Jupiter team provided enough information that Chinese authorities were able to shut down the manufacturers, which were sophisticated operations able to accurately mimic the packaging and holographic seals of legitimate pharmaceutical companies.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFernandez and his students remain involved in anti-counterfeiting activities and hope to obtain additional funding to continue supporting the efforts.  They are now investigating fake anti-malarials sold in Africa, analyzing assortments of drugs sold in markets there, and studying other faked drugs, such as tamiflu.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFernandez got involved in the project in 2003 because of a chance encounter with Michael Green, a parasitic disease specialist at the CDC.  He soon began working with Green and with Paul Newton, a physician from the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom who is based in Laos.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELarge pharmaceutical companies can afford to pursue counterfeiting themselves, Fernandez noted, but in many cases, drugs sold for use in developing nations come from small companies that cannot afford private investigators and law firms to go after the counterfeiters.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The problem is not over,\u0022 he cautioned.  \u0022There are more fakes and more fake producers.  But at least this is a beginning.  Having an opportunity to do some good in this area is very satisfying.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 100\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAtlanta, Georgia  30308  USA\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Contacts\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon (404-894-6986); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or Abby Vogel (404-894-3364); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:avogel@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eavogel@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETechnical Contact\u003C\/strong\u003E: Facundo Fernandez (404-385-4432); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:facundo.fernandez@chemistry.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Efacundo.fernandez@chemistry.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"New techniques developed to test suspected fake anti-malarials"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Georgia Institute of Technology researchers were part of a three-continent, multi-organizational effort known as \u0027Operation Jupiter\u0027 that successfully identified and shut down manufacturers who were flooding Southeast Asia with counterfeit - and ineffective - anti-malarial drugs.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Researchers were part of int\u0027l. anti-counterfeiting effort"}],"uid":"27303","created_gmt":"2008-02-13 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:24","author":"John Toon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-02-13T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2008-02-13T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71427":{"id":"71427","type":"image","title":"Facundo Fernandez","body":null,"created":"1449177376","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:16","changed":"1475894637","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:57"}},"media_ids":["71427"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.chemistry.gatech.edu\/faculty\/Fernandez\/","title":"Facundo Fernandez"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.chemistry.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"}],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"7489","name":"anti-malarial"},{"id":"7488","name":"counterfeit"},{"id":"1962","name":"drugs"},{"id":"7490","name":"mass-spectrometry"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EJohn Toon\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=jt7\u0022\u003EContact John Toon\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-6986\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jtoon@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71429":{"#nid":"71429","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Fiber-based Nanotechnology Could Power Electronic Devices","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENanotechnology researchers are developing the perfect complement to the power tie: a \u0022power shirt\u0022 able to generate electricity to power small electronic devices for soldiers in the field, hikers and others whose physical motion could be harnessed and converted to electrical energy.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe February 14 issue of the journal \u003Cem\u003ENature\u003C\/em\u003E details how pairs of textile fibers covered with zinc oxide nanowires can generate electrical current using the piezoelectric effect.  Combining current flow from many fiber pairs woven into a shirt or jacket could allow the wearer\u0027s body movement to power a range of portable electronic devices.  The fibers could also be woven into curtains, tents or other structures to capture energy from wind motion, sound vibration or other mechanical energy.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The fiber-based nanogenerator would be a simple and economical way to harvest energy from physical movement,\u0022 said Zhong Lin Wang, a Regents professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.  \u0022If we can combine many of these fibers in double or triple layers in clothing, we could provide a flexible, foldable and wearable power source that, for example, would allow people to generate their own electrical current while walking.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe research was sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy and the Emory-Georgia Tech Nanotechnology Center for Personalized and Predictive Oncology.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe microfiber-nanowire hybrid system builds on the nanowire nanogenerator that Wang\u0027s research team announced in the journal \u003Cem\u003EScience\u003C\/em\u003E in April 2007.  That system generates current from arrays of vertically-aligned zinc oxide (ZnO) nanowires that flex beneath an electrode containing conductive platinum tips.  The nanowire nanogenerator was designed to harness energy from environmental sources such as ultrasonic waves, mechanical vibrations or blood flow.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe nanogenerators developed by Wang\u0027s research group take advantage of the unique coupled piezoelectric and semiconducting properties of zinc oxide nanostructures, which produce small electrical charges when they are flexed.  After a year of development, the original nanogenerators - which are two by three millimeters square - can produce up to 800 nanoamperes and 20 millivolts.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe microfiber generators rely on the same principles, but are made from soft materials and designed to capture energy from low-frequency mechanical energy.  They consist of DuPont Kevlar fibers on which zinc oxide nanowires have been grown radially and embedded in a polymer at their roots, creating what appear to be microscopic baby-bottle brushes with billions of bristles.  One of the fibers in each pair is also coated with gold to serve as the electrode and to deflect the nanowire tips.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The two fibers scrub together just like two bottle brushes with their bristles touching, and the piezoelectric-semiconductor process converts the mechanical motion into electrical energy,\u0022 Wang explained.  \u0022Many of these devices could be put together to produce higher power output.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWang and collaborators Xudong Wang and Yong Qin have made more than 200 of the fiber nanogenerators.  Each is tested on an apparatus that uses a spring and wheel to move one fiber against the other.  The fibers are rubbed together for up to 30 minutes to test their durability and power production.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESo far, the researchers have measured current of about four nanoamperes and output voltage of about four millivolts from a nanogenerator that included two fibers that were each one centimeter long. With a much improved design, Wang estimates that a square meter of fabric made from the special fibers could theoretically generate as much as 80 milliwatts of power.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFabrication of the microfiber nanogenerator begins with coating a 100-nanometer seed layer of zinc oxide onto the Kevlar using magnetron sputtering.  The fibers are then immersed in a reactant solution for approximately 12 hours, which causes nanowires to grow from the seed layer at a temperature of 80 degrees Celsius.  The growth produces uniform coverage of the fibers, with typical lengths of about 3.5 microns and several hundred nanometers between each fiber.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo help maintain the nanowires\u0027 connection to the Kevlar, the researchers apply two layers of tetraethoxysilane (TEOS) to the fiber.  \u0022First we coat the fiber with the polymer, then with a zinc oxide layer,\u0022 Wang explained.  \u0022Then we grow the nanowires and re-infiltrate the fiber with the polymer.  This helps to avoid scrubbing off the nanowires when the fibers rub together.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFinally, the researchers apply a 300 nanometer layer of gold to some of the nanowire-covered Kevlar.  The two different fibers are then paired up and entangled to ensure that a gold-coated fiber contacts a fiber covered only with zinc oxide nanowires.  The gold fibers serve as a Shottky barrier with the zinc oxide, substituting for the platinum-tipped electrode used in the original nanogenerator.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo ensure that the current they measured was produced by the piezoelectric-semiconductor effect and not just static electricity, the researchers conducted several tests.  They tried rubbing gold fibers together, and zinc oxide fibers together, neither of which produced current.  They also reversed the polarity of the connections, which changed the output current and voltage.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBy allowing nanowire growth to take place at temperatures as low as 80 degrees Celsius, the new fabrication technique would allow the nanostructures to be grown on virtually any shape or substrate.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAs a next step, the researchers want to combine multiple fiber pairs to increase the current and voltage levels.  They also plan to improve conductance of their fibers.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHowever, one significant challenge lies head for the power shirt - washing it.  Zinc oxide is sensitive to moisture, so in real shirts or jackets, the nanowires would have to be protected from the effects of the washing machine, Wang noted.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe research is supported by the NSF\u0027s Division of Materials Research through grant 0706436.  \u0022This multi-disciplinary research grant enables materials scientists and engineers from varied backgrounds to work together toward translating basic and applied research into viable technologies,\u0022 noted Harsh Deep Chopra, NSF\u0027s program manager.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 100\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAtlanta, Georgia  30308  USA\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Contacts\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon (404-894-6986); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or Abby Vogel (404-385-3364); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:avogel@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eavogel@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E)\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETechnical Contact\u003C\/strong\u003E: Zhong Lin Wang (404-894-8008); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:zhong.wang@mse.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ezhong.wang@mse.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"\u0022Power shirt\u0022 would harvest energy from physical movement"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Nanotechnology researchers are developing the perfect complement to the power tie: a \u0022power shirt\u0022 able to generate electricity to power small electronic devices for soldiers in the field, hikers and others whose physical motion could be harnessed and converted to electrical energy.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Nanogenerators could power electronics from physical movement"}],"uid":"27303","created_gmt":"2008-02-13 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:24","author":"John Toon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-02-13T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2008-02-13T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71430":{"id":"71430","type":"image","title":"Z.L. 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But the quality of the results is limited by distortions caused by lenses and other optical components that are part of the experimental instrumentation.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo better understand the distortions, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology developed the first device to directly measure complex ultrashort light pulses in space and time at and near the focus. Measuring the pulse at the focus is important because that\u0027s where the beam is most intense and where researchers typically utilize it. Knowing how the light is distorted allows researchers to correct for the aberrations by changing a lens or using a pulse shaper or compressor to manipulate the pulse into the desired form. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Researchers have always measured the pulse immediately as it exited the laser, so they didn\u0027t realize the extent to which the pulse became distorted by the time it reached the focus after traveling through the optics and lenses in the system,\u0022 said Rick Trebino, a professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology\u0027s School of Physics and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Ultrafast Optical Physics.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe device was described in a presentation at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics on May 8. This research was funded by the National Science Foundation and published in the August 2007 issue of the journal \u003Cem\u003EOptics Express\u003C\/em\u003E. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIt is difficult to measure ultrashort pulses because they typically last between a few femtoseconds and a picosecond, which are 10(-15) and 10(-12) of a second, and faster than the response time of the fastest electronics.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The light comes out as a train of extremely short bursts. The laser crams all of the energy of a continuous laser into a few femtoseconds, which creates really intense laser pulses,\u0022 said Pam Bowlan, a graduate student supported by the Technological Innovation: Generating Economic Results (TI:GER) program. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo achieve the highest possible intensity of the laser, the pulse must be as small as possible in space and as short as possible in time. However, focused pulses nearly always have distortions in time that vary significantly from point to point in space due to lens aberrations in focusing optics.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo address those issues, the new device, called SEA TADPOLE (Spatial Encoded Arrangement for Temporal Analysis by Dispersing a Pair of Light E-fields), allows researchers to measure complicated ultrashort pulses simultaneously in space and time as they go through the focus. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022A lot of chemists and biologists use ultrafast lasers, so it was important that our device be easy to use because non-laser scientists don\u0027t want to spend all day measuring their laser pulses,\u0022 noted Bowlan.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe research team - which also included former graduate students Pablo Gabolde and Selcuk Akturk - used the concept of interferometry to measure a pulse in space and time. Two pulses, one reference and one unknown, were sent through optical fibers. The fibers were mounted on a scanning stage so that the pulses could be measured at many locations around the focus. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe pulses were crossed and an interference pattern was recorded for each color of the pulse at each location with a digital camera. The patterns were used to determine the shape of the unknown pulse in space and time and to create movies showing how the intensity and color of the pulse changed in space and time as it focused. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Because the laser pulses enter SEA TADPOLE through optical fibers, which only collect a very small portion of the light, the device naturally measures pulses with high spatial resolution and can measure them at a focus spot size smaller than a micron,\u0022 explained Bowlan. To further improve the spatial resolution of the device, the research team began to use specialized fibers, called near-field scanning optical microscopy fibers, which can resolve features smaller than the wavelength of the light.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers tested the device by measuring ultrashort pulses focused by various lenses, since each lens can cause different complex distortions. To validate the measurements, Bowlan performed simulations of pulses propagating through the experimental lenses. Results showed that a common plano-convex lens displayed chromatic and spherical aberrations, whereas more expensive aspheric and doublet lenses exhibited mostly chromatic aberrations.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESpherical aberrations occur when the light that strikes the edges of the lens gets focused to a different point than the light that strikes the center, creating a larger, inhomogeneous focused spot size. Chromatic aberrations occur because the many colors in the laser travel at different speeds and do not stay together in space and time as the pulse passes through glass components in the experimental setup, such as lenses. As a result, each color arrives at the focus at a different time, creating a rainbow of colors in the electric field images. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAberrations can drastically increase the pulse length, which decreases the laser intensity. A lower intensity forces researchers to increase the power of the laser, increasing the possibility of damaging the sample. Aberrations can also yield odd pulse and beam shapes at the focus, which complicate the interpretation of the experiment or application.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Our system tells researchers what types of aberrations are present in instrumentation, which then allows them to test different lenses in the instrumentation setup or use a pulse shaper to create the desired pulse at the focus that\u0027s free of distortions,\u0022 added Bowlan.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 100\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAtlanta, Georgia  30308  USA\n\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMedia Relations Contacts: Abby Vogel (404-385-3364); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:avogel@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eavogel@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or John Toon (404-894-6986); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter:\u003C\/strong\u003E Abby Vogel\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"SEA TADPOLE allows researchers to create distortion-free pulses"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Researchers have developed a system that measures aberrations caused by ultrashort laser pulses passing through lenses or other instrumentation. Knowing how the light is distorted allows researchers to correct for the aberrations.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"New device measures complex ultrashort pulses in space and time"}],"uid":"27206","created_gmt":"2008-05-08 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:24","author":"Abby Vogel Robinson","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-05-08T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-05-08T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71223":{"id":"71223","type":"image","title":"SEA TADPOLE","body":null,"created":"1449177358","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:58","changed":"1475894632","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:52"}},"media_ids":["71223"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1364\/OE.15.010219","title":"Optics Express article"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.physics.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech School of Physics"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.physics.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/rtrebino.html","title":"Rick Trebino"}],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"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"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"7388","name":"aberration"},{"id":"7393","name":"aspheric"},{"id":"7395","name":"chromatic"},{"id":"7384","name":"distortion"},{"id":"7394","name":"doublet"},{"id":"7397","name":"electric field"},{"id":"7382","name":"femptosecond"},{"id":"6574","name":"fibers"},{"id":"2336","name":"FOCUS"},{"id":"7389","name":"interferometry"},{"id":"4260","name":"laser"},{"id":"2945","name":"lens"},{"id":"7392","name":"microscopy"},{"id":"7390","name":"near-field"},{"id":"1143","name":"optical"},{"id":"7383","name":"picosecond"},{"id":"7386","name":"pulse"},{"id":"170872","name":"scanning"},{"id":"170873","name":"SEA TADPOLE"},{"id":"168013","name":"spatial"},{"id":"169576","name":"spherical"},{"id":"7385","name":"temporal"},{"id":"7381","name":"ultrashort"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EAbby Robinson\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EResearch News and Publications\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=avogel6\u0022\u003EContact Abby Robinson\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-385-3364\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["abby@innovate.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71419":{"#nid":"71419","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Peptide Discovered in Scorpion Venom May Be Key to Secretory Diseases","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearchers have discovered a peptide in scorpion venom that may hold the key to understanding and controlling cystic fibrosis and other secretory diseases.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the December 28 issue of the \u003Cem\u003EJournal of Biological Chemistry\u003C\/em\u003E, an international team of researchers describes how this novel peptide, called GaTx1, can control the movement of ions and water out of cells by interacting with a crucial chloride channel. This research was funded by the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation and Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Peptide toxins from scorpions, snakes, snails and spiders paralyze prey by blocking nerve or muscle ion channels so the prey can\u0027t get away,\u0022 explained Nael A. McCarty, an associate professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology\u0027s School of Biology. \u0022Those toxins have been enormously useful for studying the potassium, calcium, and sodium channels that they interact with, but this is the first toxin discovered that potently binds to and selectively and reversibly inhibits a chloride channel of known molecular identity.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EChloride channels are crucial for secretion in many epithelial tissues, but little has been known about their structures and mechanisms. Researchers do know that chloride channels open to allow millions of chloride ions to travel through them and out of epithelial cells. This movement creates an osmotic gradient that allows water to flow.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the more than 70,000 people worldwide affected by cystic fibrosis, a lack of water flow in airway cells results in abnormally thick, sticky mucus that commonly causes blockages that obstruct airways and glands. The lack of water flow stems from a problem in a chloride channel called the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) protein.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn individuals with cystic fibrosis, the CFTR protein is mutated, often with one or more amino acids deleted, and consequently misfolded. In the most common CFTR mutation leading to cystic fibrosis, the location of the deletion causes the chaperone proteins - which are responsible for quality assurance within cells - to bind to the misfolded proteins and discard them from the cell.  Loss of CFTR proteins stops water from flowing into or out of the cells, thereby altering the conditions in the airway, leading to cystic fibrosis.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn other diseases, CFTR channels are overactive, which also causes problems. These include secretory diarrhea, a worldwide health concern causing thousands of deaths per year; diarrhea-predominant inflammatory bowel disease; and autosomal dominant polycystic kidney diseases, the fourth leading cause of end-stage renal disease in the United States.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWith collaborators at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Emory University and the University of Calgary, the researchers used reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) to extract the novel GaTx1 peptide from the complex venom of the Giant Israeli Scorpion, \u003Cem\u003ELeiurus quinquestriatus hebraeus\u003C\/em\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We chose this technique because each different peptide has slightly different water solubility and hydrophobicity properties, allowing them to be separated,\u0022 explained Julia Kubanek, an associate professor with joint appointments in the Georgia Tech School of Biology and School of Chemistry and Biochemistry.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFormer Emory University graduate student Matthew Fuller and Georgia Tech graduate student Christopher Thompson collected individual peptides separated by the HPLC system and then applied each to chloride channels to see which peptide was responsible for the overall effects of the venom. They discovered a novel peptide that bound to the cytoplasmic side of the CFTR protein and weighed 3.7 kilodaltons - they called it GaTx1.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers plan to use GaTx1 as a molecular probe to learn more about how chloride channels are structured and regulated. They also plan to study how this peptide can be useful in treating secretory diseases. For people with illnesses like secretory diarrhea, GaTx1 could be used to inhibit the channels from opening, in turn decreasing production of the watery diarrhea that often leads to death in patients suffering from cholera and other diarrheal diseases, said McCarty.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo treat patients with cystic fibrosis, GaTx1 could possibly be used to increase water production, by binding to the chaperone binding sites on the chloride channel. By blocking chaperones from binding, CFTR proteins would not be discarded and thus ions and water would flow from the cells to thin the mucus in the airway, according to McCarty.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Even though the channels would be misfolded and probably only function at 50 percent capacity, chloride ions and water would still be transported through the cell,\u0022 said McCarty. \u0022This is better than the alternative of allowing the chaperones to discard all of the CFTR proteins.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMcCarty has been studying CFTR for his entire research career and as he moves to a new position as associate professor in pediatrics and senior cystic fibrosis scientist at Emory University, he will continue this work in collaboration with researchers at Georgia Tech.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022GaTx1 has the potential to be used as a drug to help patients with cystic fibrosis and these other secretory diseases,\u0022 added McCarty. \u0022My new role at Emory will allow me to conduct pre-clinical studies to explore experimental drug treatment options based on this toxin.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 100\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAtlanta, Georgia  30308  USA\n\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMedia Relations Contacts: Abby Vogel (404-385-3364); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:avogel@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eavogel@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or John Toon (404-894-6986); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or Holly Korschun (404-727-3990); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:hkorsch@emory.edu\u0022\u003Ehkorsch@emory.edu\u003C\/a\u003E)\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter:\u003C\/strong\u003E Abby Vogel\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Researchers have discovered a peptide in scorpion venom that may hold the key to understanding and controlling cystic fibrosis and other secretory diseases. The novel peptide, called GaTx1, can control the movement of ions and water out of cells by interacting with a crucial chloride channel that is commonly mutated in patients with cystic fibrosis.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Toxin interacts with chloride channel defective in cystic fibros"}],"uid":"27206","created_gmt":"2008-02-14 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:24","author":"Abby Vogel Robinson","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-02-14T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2008-02-14T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71420":{"id":"71420","type":"image","title":"GaTx1 toxin","body":null,"created":"1449177376","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:16","changed":"1475894637","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:57"},"71421":{"id":"71421","type":"image","title":"Scorpion venom1","body":null,"created":"1449177376","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:16","changed":"1475894637","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:57"},"71422":{"id":"71422","type":"image","title":"Scorpion venom2","body":null,"created":"1449177376","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:16","changed":"1475894637","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:57"}},"media_ids":["71420","71421","71422"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.biology.gatech.edu\/faculty\/julia-kubanek\/","title":"Julia Kubanek"},{"url":"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1074\/jbc.M708079200","title":"Journal of Biological Chemistry article"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.biology.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Biology"}],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"7486","name":"chaperone"},{"id":"7482","name":"chloride channel"},{"id":"7478","name":"cystic fibrosis"},{"id":"7481","name":"genetic disease"},{"id":"7485","name":"HPLC"},{"id":"7484","name":"ion channel"},{"id":"2585","name":"pediatric"},{"id":"1113","name":"peptide"},{"id":"170882","name":"scorpion"},{"id":"170883","name":"secretory"},{"id":"7483","name":"toxin"},{"id":"7479","name":"transmembrane conductance regulator"},{"id":"7476","name":"venom"},{"id":"788","name":"Water"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EAbby Robinson\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EResearch News and Publications\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=avogel6\u0022\u003EContact Abby Robinson\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-385-3364\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["abby@innovate.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71415":{"#nid":"71415","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Research Uncovers the Social Dynamics of Yellow Jackets","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMichael Goodisman could be called the Maury Povich of the yellow jacket world. In his laboratory, Goodisman determines the paternity of yellow jackets to study family dynamics within a colony. Even though only one family lives within a colony, each yellow jacket queen mates with several males, creating a complex family tree.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Social insects such as yellow jackets have been described as one of the greatest achievements of evolution because of the incredible cooperative nature of their societies,\u0022 said Goodisman, an assistant professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology\u0027s School of Biology. \u0022I wanted to know why the females would risk this cooperative nature by having multiple partners.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMating with multiple partners can also lead to disease and wasted time and energy, according to Goodisman. Plus, each new yellow jacket has siblings and half-siblings during the same breeding season, allowing for potential conflict and infighting between the subfamilies.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Weird things can start happening within families, so we looked to see if there was any evidence of this kind of selfish behavior within the colony,\u0022 explained Goodisman, whose projects are funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGoodisman wondered if yellow jacket workers would kill new queens that had a different father or if they were more likely to turn their sister larvae into reproducing queens instead of sterile workers. Turning a worker into a queen is easier than it seems - it simply requires a comb nest with larger holes. The larger holes signal to the workers to feed the developing larvae different food, resulting in queens.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022You can actually take developing workers and if they\u0027re young enough, put them into queen cells and they will develop into queens,\u0022 explained Goodisman. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGoodisman, graduate student Jennifer Kovacs and Eric Hoffman, formerly a postdoctoral researcher at Georgia Tech who is now an assistant professor at the University of Central Florida, tested the paternity of each insect to investigate whether any of the males in a colony fathered more queens than workers.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESimilar to human paternity tests, comparing DNA sequences of two yellow jackets can show if one is related to another. Goodisman determined the genetic makeup of each of the queen\u0027s male mates. He then determined what proportion of workers and new queens each male mate sired.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe results from the DNA fingerprinting showed that males fathered an equal number of queens and workers in a colony, allowing Goodisman to believe there is no conflict within a colony because of multiple mating.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Instead of intense competition, yellow jackets seem to exhibit extreme cooperative and helping behaviors,\u0022 noted Goodisman. Results of this study were published in the journal \u003Cem\u003EMolecular Ecology\u003C\/em\u003E in June 2007.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESince Goodisman found no disadvantage to having mixed families in the colony, he believed there must be a benefit to the colony for each queen having multiple partners. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGoodisman, Hoffman and Kovacs compared the number of times a yellow jacket queen mated to how successful her colony was. Success was judged based on the number of worker and queen cells in the nest. The findings of this study were published in the journal \u003Cem\u003EEvolution\u003C\/em\u003E in September 2007.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENo correlation was found between the number of mates and the number of worker cells. However, queens that effectively mated four or more times produced significantly more queen cells in the comb than queens that effectively mated fewer than four times. Colonies typically survive only one year, so the number of queens produced at the end of the season represents the entire reproductive output of the colony and, by extension, the original queen. Only inseminated queens survive the winter and emerge in the spring. Thus, Goodisman found that the benefit to multiple mating is that the queen\u0027s colony is more successful.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAnother avenue of Goodisman\u0027s research is to investigate how yellow jacket development leads to a caste system with queens, males and workers - each with a different role in the colony. The queens mate with males to produce new queens and workers, but don\u0027t require a male to produce new males. The female workers maintain and expand the colony, while the new queens and males just hang out and eat until it\u0027s time to mate.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The division of labor has made these animals so incredibly successful in cooperative behaviors, but workers and queens are genetically the same,\u0022 explained Goodisman.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGoodisman aimed to determine how these insects start with the same DNA but end up as such different insects. With help from Hoffman and graduate student Brendan Hunt, Goodisman learned that yellow jackets of the same developmental age express many genes in common regardless of their caste or gender. They also found that certain genes are turned on or off to create the different castes.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis study was published in the journal \u003Cem\u003EBMC Biology\u003C\/em\u003E in May 2007 and Goodisman plans to continue this gene expression research in collaboration with Soojin Yi, also an assistant professor in Georgia Tech\u0027s School of Biology.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We\u0027re going to use more sophisticated techniques to look at thousands of genes at once to really make big statements about how different queens are from workers and males,\u0022 said Goodisman.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDecision-making within a colony also intrigues Goodisman. Different events occur in the colony based on the time of year. For example, the queen constructs a nest and rears the first cohort of workers in the spring. Once the workers mature, they take over the task of colony maintenance and expand the nest by constructing a worker nest throughout the spring and summer. At the end of the summer, the colony begins to produce males and new reproductive queens.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We want to know who\u0027s telling the workers to stop making more workers and start making queens, so we\u0027re studying the life cycle of yellow jacket colonies,\u0022 explained Goodisman. \u0022Is it an environmental cue or possibly a cue from the queen?\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEven though some people think that yellow jackets are just a backyard nuisance, there are benefits to having yellow jackets around, contends Goodisman. They kill insects, suppress fly populations and eat roadkill, he says. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd he\u0027s quick to point out, \u0022Yellow jackets are not here for our pleasure. They\u0027re reproducing, surviving and doing a great job at it.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 100\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAtlanta, Georgia  30308  USA\n\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMedia Relations Contacts: Abby Vogel (404-385-3364); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:avogel@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eavogel@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or John Toon (404-894-6986); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter:\u003C\/strong\u003E Abby Vogel\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"New research uncovers the social dynamics of yellow jackets, which includes multiple sex partners, extreme cooperation and a caste system. Results show that multiple mating does not cause conflict within a colony, but instead creates a more successful colony. The researchers also found that certain genes are turned on or off to create the different castes.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Colonies exhibit extreme cooperation and caste system"}],"uid":"27206","created_gmt":"2008-02-18 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:24","author":"Abby Vogel Robinson","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-02-18T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2008-02-18T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71416":{"id":"71416","type":"image","title":"Goodisman yellow jacket","body":null,"created":"1449177376","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:16","changed":"1475894634","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:54"},"71417":{"id":"71417","type":"image","title":"yellow jacket collection","body":null,"created":"1449177376","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:16","changed":"1475894634","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:54"},"71418":{"id":"71418","type":"image","title":"goodisman yellow jackets","body":null,"created":"1449177376","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:16","changed":"1475894637","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:57"}},"media_ids":["71416","71417","71418"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1186\/1741-7007-5-23","title":"BMC Biology article"},{"url":"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1111\/j.1558-5646.2007.00175.x","title":"Evolution article"},{"url":"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1111\/j.1365-294X.2007.03316.x","title":"Molecular Ecology article"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.biology.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Biology"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.biology.gatech.edu\/faculty\/michael-goodisman\/","title":"Michael Goodisman"}],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4275","name":"behavior"},{"id":"7473","name":"caste"},{"id":"7474","name":"colony"},{"id":"7468","name":"cooperation"},{"id":"4167","name":"family"},{"id":"7470","name":"insect"},{"id":"7472","name":"mating"},{"id":"7469","name":"nest"},{"id":"7471","name":"paternity"},{"id":"5602","name":"queen"},{"id":"170881","name":"social dynamics"},{"id":"7475","name":"worker"},{"id":"1909","name":"Yellow Jacket"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EAbby Robinson\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EResearch News and Publications\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=avogel6\u0022\u003EContact Abby Robinson\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-385-3364\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["abby@innovate.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71212":{"#nid":"71212","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tool Creates Personalized Catch-up Immunization Schedules","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA new downloadable software tool will help pediatricians, parents and other health care professionals determine how to adjust complex childhood immunization schedules when one or more vaccine doses aren\u0027t received at the proper time.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EChildren commonly miss recommended times to receive vaccines. A report issued last month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found an alarming 28 percent of toddlers have not been vaccinated according to U.S. guidelines. Another recent survey found that only nine percent of children received all of their vaccinations at the recommended times and that only half received all recommended doses by their second birthday.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOnce a child falls behind in the vaccination schedule, health care professionals are left to figure out when it\u0027s appropriate to give any missed vaccines and any future vaccines. They typically have to construct a unique, personalized catch-up schedule for each child - often while the child sits in the treatment room.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EResearchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are taking the guesswork out of developing individualized catch-up vaccination schedules. A new online tool allows parents and pediatricians to ensure that the missed vaccines and future vaccines are administered without violating guidelines regarding vaccines and doses.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Physicians have been telling us for years that they needed a computerized program to tell them when to give vaccines after a child misses scheduled immunizations,\u0022 said Larry Pickering, executive secretary of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) of the CDC and a collaborator on the project. \u0022Now this tool is available for health care professionals and parents to use and they are excited to use it.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe tool, designed by Pinar Keskinocak, associate professor in Georgia Tech\u0027s H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, and graduate student Faramroze Engineer, is available for download from the CDC Web site (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/vaccines\/scheduler\/catchup.htm\u0022 title=\u0022www.cdc.gov\/vaccines\/scheduler\/catchup.htm\u0022\u003Ewww.cdc.gov\/vaccines\/scheduler\/catchup.htm\u003C\/a\u003E).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe program removes the challenging task of simultaneously considering complex rules, guidelines and discretionary considerations when creating a catch-up schedule. A physician or caregiver simply inputs a child\u0027s date of birth and previous immunization dates, and the program displays a personalized schedule of the recommended dates to administer all future vaccines. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe tool removes the numerical and computational aspects of constructing a catch-up schedule by hand and provides two options: administer the vaccines as soon as possible or administer the vaccines when recommended.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Sometimes a physician sees a child that he or she knows will not return for all follow-up visits. In this case, the tool provides the physician flexibility in administering as many vaccines as possible while the child is in the office rather than waiting,\u0022 said Pickering.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIt is important that children are protected against diseases by getting vaccinated. Since vaccines contain weakened viruses or parts of organisms that cause disease, the body\u0027s immune system reacts to the vaccine the same as it would if it were being invaded by the disease, but without getting sick. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe body makes antibodies and stimulating cells that destroy disease-causing germs. If the immunized person is ever exposed to the real disease, the antibodies are there for protection. Sometimes additional doses of a vaccine have to be administered to boost immunity.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe vaccines included in the scheduler are those required between birth and six years of age: Hepatitis B, Rotavirus, Diphtheria\/Tetanus\/Pertussis, Haemophilus influenzae type b, Pneumococcal, Inactivated Poliovirus, Measles\/Mumps\/Rubella, Varicella, Hepatitis A and Meningococcal. Influenza is contained in the recommended schedule, but is not included in the scheduler. Each infant requires approximately 27 vaccine doses administered before two years of age for protection from 15 vaccine-preventable diseases. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA beta version of the tool was demonstrated at the AAP National Conference and Exhibition last October and presented to the Committee on Infectious Diseases as well as several pediatric clinics in Atlanta, including Children\u0027s Healthcare of Atlanta.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe scheduler follows the guidelines developed and revised each year by ACIP in collaboration with the AAP and the American Academy of Family Physicians. These guidelines include the feasible number, timing and spacing of doses of each vaccine based on the child\u0027s age, the number of doses and the age at which each dose was administered. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, each dose of each vaccine has a minimum, maximum and recommended age for administration, and there are minimum and recommended gaps between doses. These gaps as well as future administrations of a particular vaccine may vary depending on the current age of the child and the age at which previous doses were administered. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIf a child requires more than one live vaccine to be administered, there are two options: administer all live vaccines on the same day or wait 28 days between live vaccine shots. There also may be discretionary considerations such as limiting the number of simultaneous administrations a child receives or the number of visits required to complete the series for all vaccines.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo solve the complicated problem of developing a personalized catch-up vaccination schedule in just seconds, the researchers used a technique called dynamic programming. Dynamic programming means solving an optimization problem by efficiently sorting partial results.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor example, if two partial schedules are created for a child and they both administer the same number of doses, but one schedule administers them earlier than the other, then the partial schedule that administers the vaccines later is eliminated because a better option is already available.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe key to dynamic programming is to prove that one partial schedule is better than another without having to determine the entire schedule and without having to try every possible schedule.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The benefit of dynamic programming is that it eliminates solutions or partial solutions that are not promising - those that won;t lead to the optimal solution,\u0022 said Keskinocak.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn providing such a tool, the researchers hope to improve the effectiveness of childhood vaccination programs by improving timely vaccination rates.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022In an ideal world, every child would receive their vaccines at the recommended times, but since this isn\u0027t a perfect world, this tool developed at Georgia Tech allows children to correctly catch-up once they fall behind,\u0022 added Pickering.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 100\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAtlanta, Georgia  30308  USA\n\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMedia Relations Contacts: Abby Vogel (404-385-3364); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:avogel@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eavogel@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or John Toon (404-894-6986); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETechnical Contact:\u003C\/strong\u003E Pinar Keskinocak (404-894-2325); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:pinar.keskinocak@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Epinar.keskinocak@isye.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter:\u003C\/strong\u003E Abby Vogel\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Program helps doctors and parents plan after missing childhood vaccinations"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"A new downloadable software tool will help pediatricians, parents and other health care professionals determine how to adjust complex childhood immunization schedules when one or more vaccine doses aren\u0027t received at the proper time.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Tool takes guesswork out of developing catch-up vaccine schedule"}],"uid":"27206","created_gmt":"2008-05-20 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:24","author":"Abby Vogel Robinson","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-05-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-05-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71213":{"id":"71213","type":"image","title":"Keskinocak Pickering Engineer vaccination tool","body":null,"created":"1449177358","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:58","changed":"1475894632","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:52"},"71214":{"id":"71214","type":"image","title":"vaccination scheduler","body":null,"created":"1449177358","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:58","changed":"1475894632","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:52"},"71215":{"id":"71215","type":"image","title":"Keskinocak Pickering Engineer vaccine tool","body":null,"created":"1449177358","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:58","changed":"1475894632","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:52"}},"media_ids":["71213","71214","71215"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/","title":"The U.S. Centers for Disease Control"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/profile.php?entry=pk50","title":"Pinar Keskinocak"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/","title":"Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/vaccines\/scheduler\/catchup.htm","title":"Catch-up Vaccination Scheduler"}],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"7367","name":"AAP"},{"id":"7365","name":"catch-up"},{"id":"123","name":"CDC"},{"id":"7362","name":"child"},{"id":"7370","name":"Diphtheria"},{"id":"7363","name":"dose"},{"id":"7373","name":"Haemophilus"},{"id":"7368","name":"Hepatitis"},{"id":"764","name":"immunization"},{"id":"765","name":"influenza"},{"id":"7376","name":"Measles"},{"id":"7380","name":"Meningococcal"},{"id":"7377","name":"Mumps"},{"id":"7361","name":"pediatrician"},{"id":"7372","name":"Pertussis"},{"id":"7374","name":"Pneumococcal"},{"id":"7375","name":"Poliovirus"},{"id":"7366","name":"recommended"},{"id":"7369","name":"Rotavirus"},{"id":"7378","name":"Rubella"},{"id":"167669","name":"schedule"},{"id":"7371","name":"Tetanus"},{"id":"7364","name":"toddler"},{"id":"7360","name":"vaccination"},{"id":"763","name":"vaccine"},{"id":"7379","name":"Varicella"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EAbby Robinson\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EResearch News and Publications\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=avogel6\u0022\u003EContact Abby Robinson\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-385-3364\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["abby@innovate.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71346":{"#nid":"71346","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Molecule Delivery Method Improves Embryonic Stem Cell Differentiation","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEmbryonic stem cell therapies have been proposed for regenerative medicine and tissue replacement after injury or disease. However, the inability of stem cells to efficiently develop into the desired specific cell type - such as muscle, skin, blood vessels, bone or neurons - now limits the potential clinical utility of this therapy.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENew research shows that delivering molecules within aggregates of embryonic stem cells via biodegradable microspheres enhances the efficiency and purity of differentiation, which is the process the cells undergo to become more specialized. Details of the microsphere-mediated delivery method, which is funded by the National Science Foundation, were presented on April 9 at the 235th American Chemical Society national meeting. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Directing embryonic stem cells to efficiently differentiate into a specific cell type has been challenging to this point,\u0022 said Todd McDevitt, an assistant professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. \u0022In my lab, we\u0027re trying to better define and then control the environmental cues that regulate the fate and function of the stem cells.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBecause physical interactions between stem cells is critical during normal embryonic development, most laboratory growth methods allow the cells to aggregate in three-dimensional clumps called \u0027embryoid bodies\u0027 in order to differentiate. After individual cells aggregate together, hollow internal structures begin to develop and the aggregate becomes larger and more complex over time.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Many researchers add soluble factors to the culture dish medium to direct differentiation, but this does not accurately mimic the time and location of signaling events present in normal development, and may contribute to heterogeneous differentiation,\u0022 said McDevitt. \u0022Our method focuses on incorporating the differentiation factors directly into the cell aggregates in order to have a more controlled mechanism of presentation.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe research team - which also includes graduate students Richard Carpenedo and Andres Bratt-Leal and undergraduate students Ross Marklein and Scott Seaman - fabricated biodegradable polymer microspheres that could contain growth factors, proteins or other small molecules.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMcDevitt\u0027s team tested the impact of the poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) microspheres on embryonic stem cell differentiation under different conditions by varying the microsphere-to-cell ratio and speed at which the aggregate cells were mixed with the microspheres. They also included a fluorescent dye in the microspheres so the degree of incorporation of the microspheres within the embryoid bodies could be assessed using fluorescent microscopy and spectroscopy.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe results revealed that the microspheres were incorporated into embryoid bodies under a variety of mixing conditions, but that slower rotary speeds and higher microsphere-to-cell ratios resulted in a greater degree of incorporation.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENext, the researchers compared differentiation of untreated cells, cells mixed with empty microspheres, cells mixed with retinoic acid-loaded microspheres, and cells treated with soluble retinoic acid. Retinoic acid was chosen initially because it is a potent inducer of embryonic stem cell differentiation.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter ten days, approximately 90 percent of the embryoid bodies mixed with retinoic acid-loaded microspheres began to display the hollow structure signifying differentiation, compared to 6 percent of the untreated bodies, 10 percent of the bodies coated with soluble retinoic acid, and 30 percent of the bodies mixed with empty microspheres. In addition, thirty percent of the embryoid bodies mixed with retinoic acid-loaded microspheres were completely hollow in the center, compared to nearly zero percent for the other groups.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022These results suggest that if you can control the signaling by presenting molecules locally on the inside of the embryoid body from biodegradable microspheres, you can effectively change the course and synchrony of differentiation,\u0022 said McDevitt.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo examine the cells in more detail, McDevitt teamed with Georgia Tech School of Biology chair John McDonald and research scientist Nathan Bowen to conduct microarray gene expression studies to determine cell phenotype. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe results revealed enhanced expression of fibroblast growth factor 5 (FGF-5) - a marker for primitive ectoderm - in the embryoid bodies mixed with retinoic acid-loaded microspheres compared to the other treatment groups after 10 days. The researchers also confirmed increased or inhibited expression of many additional markers.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The importance of these findings is that we\u0027ve shown that biomaterial-based approaches to regulate stem cell microenvironments can significantly improve differentiation methods,\u0022 said McDevitt. \u0022Our ultimate goal is to improve the efficiency of this differentiation process into specific cell types for cell replacement therapies.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 100\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAtlanta, Georgia  30308  USA\n\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMedia Relations Contacts: Abby Vogel (404-385-3364); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:avogel@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eavogel@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or John Toon (404-894-6986); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter:\u003C\/strong\u003E Abby Vogel\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Biodegradable microspheres distribute molecules to stem cells"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"New research shows that delivering molecules within aggregates of embryonic stem cells via biodegradable microspheres enhances the efficiency and purity of differentiation.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Delivering molecules to stem cells improves differentiation"}],"uid":"27206","created_gmt":"2008-04-09 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:24","author":"Abby Vogel Robinson","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-04-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-04-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71347":{"id":"71347","type":"image","title":"McDevitt stem cells","body":null,"created":"1449177367","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:07","changed":"1475894634","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:54"},"71348":{"id":"71348","type":"image","title":"Embryoid bodies stained","body":null,"created":"1449177367","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:07","changed":"1475894634","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:54"},"71349":{"id":"71349","type":"image","title":"McDevitt stem cells2","body":null,"created":"1449177367","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:07","changed":"1475894634","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:54"}},"media_ids":["71347","71348","71349"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/facultystaff\/faculty_record.php?id=78","title":"Todd McDevitt"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/","title":"Wallace H. 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Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech. The research team also includes Guclu Onaran and Hamdi Torun, graduate students in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDetails of the novel force sensing integrated readout and active tip (FIRAT) probe and its biological applications were presented at the American Physical Society meeting in March. This research was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn current AFM systems, the sample surface is scanned by a cantilever with a sharp tip just a few nanometers in diameter at the end. An optical beam is bounced off the cantilever tip to measure the deflection of the cantilever as the sharp tip moves over the surface and interacts with the material being analyzed to determine the topography of the surface.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe new probe replaces the cantilever with a drum-like membrane from which a tip extends to scan the material sample. In one scanning mode, as the tip moves above a surface, it lightly taps the material. With each tap, the instrument gathers precise information about both the tip\u0027s position and the forces acting on it, sensing the shape of the material and how stiff and sticky it is.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAn output signal is generated only when there is an interaction force on the probe. In other words, transient interaction forces can be measured during each \u0027tap\u0027 of the tip with high resolution and without any background signal. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the February 27, 2008 issue of the journal \u003Cem\u003ENanotechnology\u003C\/em\u003E, the researchers described using the FIRAT probe to characterize the elasticity, surface energy and adhesion hysteresis of three polymers and a silicon sample. The quantitative results were mapped in addition to topography.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFIRAT probes made of dielectric materials with embedded actuation electrodes have also been designed for operation in liquids. The design of these membrane-based probes also makes them relatively easy to arrange in arrays in which each probe can move independently. One application of such an array is fast parallel measurements of forces between biological molecules.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn collaboration with Cheng Zhu, Regents\u0027 Professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Degertekin is using the probe to measure the force between two interacting biological molecules and unbinding forces between two molecules. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBy testing different molecules and buffer solutions, researchers can determine the probability of molecule adhesion, a process that requires many repetitive measurements. This has implications in drug discovery, where determining how frequently certain soft biological molecules adhere to each other is important. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Rather than moving a single cantilever up and down a thousand times, we have developed a membrane that would allow parallel measurements of molecules to get thousands of measurements at one time,\u0022 said Degertekin. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis new technique was described in the February 2007 issue of the journal \u003Cem\u003ENanotechnology\u003C\/em\u003E.  For different applications, Degertekin can adjust the stiffness of the membranes.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The best mechanical measurements of surfaces or biomolecules are obtained when the probe stiffness matches the sample stiffness,\u0022 explained Degertekin. \u0022If you use a piezoelectric or any other linear actuator, you don\u0027t have that phenomenon - you cannot soften things.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBy electrically changing the spring constant of the FIRAT probe, Degertekin can adjust the stiffness of the membranes, providing the ability to use the same probe to identify the mechanical properties of different samples - some soft and some stiff. This research was published in the December 2007 issue of the journal \u003Cem\u003EApplied Physics Letters\u003C\/em\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We know these probes improve the speed of AFM scans and provide increased information about a sample,\u0022 said Degertekin. \u0022The next step is to batch fabricate them so that all researchers using AFM systems can benefit from these probes.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 100\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAtlanta, Georgia  30308  USA\n\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMedia Relations Contacts: Abby Vogel (404-385-3364); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:avogel@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eavogel@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or John Toon (404-894-6986); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter:\u003C\/strong\u003E Abby Vogel\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Probes simultaneously measure topography, adhesion, stiffness, elasticity and viscosity"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Researchers have developed novel atomic force microscopy (AFM) probes that can quickly and simultaneously measure biomolecule or material properties including adhesion, stiffness, elasticity and viscosity, in addition to the standard AFM topography scan.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Fast AFM probes prove valuable for biological applications"}],"uid":"27206","created_gmt":"2008-04-15 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:24","author":"Abby Vogel Robinson","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-04-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-04-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71342":{"id":"71342","type":"image","title":"Levent Degertekin AFM holder","body":null,"created":"1449177367","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:07","changed":"1475894634","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:54"},"71343":{"id":"71343","type":"image","title":"AFM topography scan","body":null,"created":"1449177367","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:07","changed":"1475894634","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:54"},"71344":{"id":"71344","type":"image","title":"AFM holder","body":null,"created":"1449177367","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:07","changed":"1475894634","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:54"}},"media_ids":["71342","71343","71344"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1088\/0957-4484\/18\/16\/165303","title":"2007 Nanotechnology article"},{"url":"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1063\/1.2827190","title":"Applied Physics Letters article"},{"url":"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1088\/0957-4484\/19\/8\/085704","title":"2008 Nanotechnology article"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/","title":"George W. 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Despite their productivity, the study found that less than a third of the inventors realized commercial success with their patents. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThese findings were among the conclusions of the first-ever comprehensive survey of the state\u0027s independent inventors. Conducted by Georgia Tech\u0027s Enterprise Innovation Institute with support from the U.S. Economic Development Administration, the findings suggest that the work of independent inventors could provide untapped economic potential for the state.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022There is a significant level of creativity and product development by individuals living throughout Georgia, and this activity is increasing,\u0022 said Joy Wilkins, manager of community innovation services at the Enterprise Innovation Institute. \u0022As our survey showed, the needs of the independent inventor community are diverse and largely unmet, although there is a huge appetite for help among the inventors.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDespite the economic potential and identified needs, Georgia currently has no organization or entity that focuses on the needs of independent inventors on a statewide basis, Wilkins noted. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe survey identified the top needs of inventors, which included:\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E- Statewide networking for the independent inventor community,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n- Greater advisement on available financial resources,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n- Assistance in marketing,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n- Better channels for linking with appropriate manufacturers,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n- Greater access to third-party technical product evaluation,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n- Business development assistance,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n- Effective prototyping and design assistance,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n- Help in understanding the invention, patent and commercialization processes, and\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n- Professional development and training. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Beyond developing a greater understanding of the scope and nature of independent invention activity in our state, we wanted to conduct this survey to identify three areas: unmet needs, ingredients for success and effective resources for inventors,\u0022 Wilkins explained. \u0022If we can understand the needs of inventors and how Georgia Tech can better connect these idea artists to helpful resources, there is a real potential to boost commercialization and economic development throughout the state.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe research yielded some interesting demographics about Georgia\u0027s independent inventor community. More than half had at least a four-year college degree; more than half were between the ages of 45 and 64; the majority was male; and approximately one-fourth held management and professional occupations or were self-employed. There also appeared to be a tendency for independent inventors to belong to moderately high to higher income households. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe study also found that Georgia\u0027s independent patenting activity is broad-based, with all but seven of the state\u0027s 159 counties home to at least one patent. Although the Atlanta region accounted for more than half of the inventors participating in the survey, 43 percent hailed from beyond the state\u0027s most urbanized region. Outside of Atlanta, the Gainesville region accounted for the second largest share of participants, followed by the Athens and Augusta regions. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen asked what motivated their activity, the independent inventors cited reasons related to their jobs more than any other - including a need, problem, or potential efficiency recognized because of the inventor\u0027s line of work, with such reasons accounting for 30 percent of all responses given. Factors relating to making their personal life easier were the second most frequently mentioned. Money was mentioned as a motivator only to a slight degree.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOverall, reported experiences by inventors revealed that approximately one-third of inventors achieved some level of commercial success through independent production and sales, licensing, and\/or sale of a patent. Although more than half (60 percent) reported they\u0027d not achieved success at the time of the survey, approximately 32 percent of the inventors said they did experience some commercial success for at least one of their inventions. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIndependent production and sales, or wrapping a company around the patented product, appeared to the most frequented vehicle to success. Licensing patents to another entity appeared to be the second most successful vehicle to commercialization, as 9 percent of all inventors - or more than one-fourth (28 percent) of successful inventors - reported they had realized success through such a path for one or more of their inventions. Another five percent reported they had achieved success through assigning or selling one or more of their patents to another entity.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech researchers suggest that economic developers in Georgia consider independent inventors in strategies for economic development because collectively these inventors account for a larger share of patents than those owned by a single corporation or entity, including major research universities. The numbers bear out the dramatic increase in patents in Georgia: since 1975, independent inventors in Georgia received 9,042 patents - 1,759 from 1975 to 1985; 2,870 from 1986 to 1995; and 4,413 from 1996 to March 2006.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThat economic potential is what motivated support from the EDA, which gave the project its Planning Performance Award.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022EDA\u0027s investment in this research of inventors in Georgia - and the subsequent identification of ways to support invention commercialization - supports job creation and private investment throughout the state,\u0022 said Phil Paradice, EDA\u0027s Atlanta regional director. \u0022The project, which earned EDA\u0027s Planning Performance Award for its collaborative efforts with state, local and federal entities, is consistent with our partners\u0027 comprehensive economic development strategies.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EUtilizing the U.S. Patent \u0026amp; Trademark Office, the researchers determined that there were 6,845 independent inventors with a Georgia residence as of 2006. The survey pool consisted of 2,428 independent inventors, with participation by 331 inventors, a 13.6 percent return rate. Researchers analyzed more than 113,000 data points. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe survey\u0027s results will spur development of a series of recommendations aimed at better meeting the needs of the inventors. \u0022Using the results of the survey, we will make recommendations and identify pilot services, such as training workshops, to be implemented later this year,\u0022 Wilkins added.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor more information on community innovation services offered by Georgia Tech\u0027s Enterprise Innovation Institute, contact Joy Wilkins (404-895-6115); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:joy.wilkins@innovate.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejoy.wilkins@innovate.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E). \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the Enterprise Innovation Institute\u003C\/strong\u003E:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute helps companies, entrepreneurs, economic developers and communities improve their competitiveness through the application of science, technology and innovation. It is one of the most comprehensive university-based programs of business and industry assistance, technology commercialization and economic development in the nation.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nEnterprise Innovation Institute\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 100\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAtlanta, Georgia 30308 USA\u003C\/strong\u003E \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Contacts\u003C\/strong\u003E: Nancy Fullbright (404-894-2214); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:nancy.fullbright@innovate.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Enancy.fullbright@innovate.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or John Toon (404-894-6986); E-mail (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:john.toon@innovate.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejohn.toon@innovate.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E). \n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Independent patenting activity has grown rapidly in Georgia over the past 30 years, with nearly 8,000 patents issued since 1975 to inventors not associated with corporations, universities or similar organizations.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A new study provides detailed information about Georgia inventor"}],"uid":"27303","created_gmt":"2008-06-05 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:19","author":"John Toon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-06-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-06-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71200":{"id":"71200","type":"image","title":"Commercial invention success","body":null,"created":"1449177358","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:58","changed":"1475894630","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:50"}},"media_ids":["71200"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/innovate.gatech.edu\/community","title":"Community Policy and Research Services"},{"url":"http:\/\/innovate.gatech.edu\/","title":"Enterprise Innovation Institute"}],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2018","name":"Commercial"},{"id":"4751","name":"inventor"},{"id":"3155","name":"patent"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EJohn Toon\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=jt7\u0022\u003EContact John Toon\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-6986\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jtoon@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71191":{"#nid":"71191","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Rising Diesel Prices Renew Interest in Fuel Saving Technologies","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDiesel fuel prices approaching $5 a gallon - and the resulting economic impact on products transported by truck - have created renewed interest in fuel-saving technologies developed during the past decade at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EUse of pressurized air \u0027active flow control\u0027 techniques combined with conventional aerodynamic streamlining could improve fuel efficiency by 8 to 12 percent in the heavy trucks used to transport a broad range of products.  If installed throughout the U.S. trucking fleet, these technologies for reducing aerodynamic drag could save between 1.6 and 2.4 billion gallons of fuel per year.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The dramatic increase in diesel prices has led the trucking industry to reconsider aerodynamic fuel efficiency improvements that might not have been cost effective only a few years ago,\u0022 said Robert Englar, a GTRI principal research engineer and principal investigator for the project.  \u0022Though there are technical challenges ahead, we believe our techniques for improving fuel efficiency offer significant potential to reduce the impact of these fuel cost increases.  Beyond the trucking industry, that would help consumers who see the effects of fuel costs in everything they buy.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESince diesel prices began their rapid increase, Englar has seen growing interest in the GTRI low-drag active flow control aerodynamic technologies, which were developed with support from the U.S. Department of Energy starting in the late 1990s. He has received numerous inquiries for information from both large and small trucking companies, and also from railroads - whose higher-speed western track runs could also benefit from aerodynamic drag reduction.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAerodynamic drag is the major component of heavy vehicle resistance at typical highway speeds, and overcoming that resistance requires increased energy use.  Truck designers have reduced drag on the tractor portion of the vehicles by applying such aerodynamic streamlining approaches as roof fairings, but those have done little to address drag on the aft portion of the trailers.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBecause only limited streamlining can be done for trailers due to their length, the GTRI researchers added the active flow control techniques, which use patented pneumatic devices to blow air from slots over small curved aerodynamic surfaces at the rear of the trailers.  These air jets smooth the flow of air over the boxy trailers to eliminate air-flow separation, vorticity and suction on the aft doors, which reduces aerodynamic drag at highway speeds. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers also evaluated aerodynamic improvements that involved rounding aft trailer corners, installing fairings around wheels and making other changes designed to better streamline the trailers.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThese active flow control techniques are based on aerodynamic research done during the 1980s for applications on U.S. military aircraft.  Beyond the fuel savings, they have also been shown to enhance braking and directional control for the heavy trucks without using any moving external parts, potentially improving safety.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Aerodynamically, we have resolved unknowns raised in earlier testing, and the next step is to get this into a fleet of trucks for more extensive testing,\u0022 Englar said.  \u0022At highway speeds, each one percent improvement in fuel economy would result in saving about 200 million gallons of fuel for the U.S. heavy truck fleet.  We believe that is worth pursuing.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe fuel efficiency project began in the late 1990s with tests of simple scale model tractor-trailers in GTRI\u0027s low-speed wind tunnel. The researchers then applied those principles to a full-sized test truck, working with Volvo Trucks of North America and Great Dane Trailers, manufacturers of the basic test tractor and trailer respectively.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA series of Interstate-speed test runs at the Transportation Research Center\u0027s Ohio fuel-economy test track have demonstrated substantial fuel savings.  The tests involved operating a test tractor-trailer for several different 45-mile runs around a 7.5-mile oval track at highway speeds of 65 and 75 miles per hour. A control truck that did not have either the aerodynamic improvements or pneumatic flow control system was operated under the same conditions to provide a comparison. For additional comparisons, the test truck was also run without the experimental blowing equipment.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe tests showed that the techniques could provide drag coefficient reductions of up to 31 percent, which translates to a fuel efficiency increase of 11 to 12 percent.  When the energy required by the air compressor installed on the truck to provide the compressed air for these prototype tests was subtracted from those savings, those tests showed that the low-drag techniques could produce an overall fuel efficiency increase of 8 to 9 percent.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBefore the pneumatic control system can be widely used in trucks, however, researchers will have to choose the best source of compressed air for the blowing system, Englar notes. An air compressor more efficient than the one used in the testing would provide higher overall fuel efficiency.  Options include a small diesel-powered compressor installed on or under the trailer like current refrigeration units; bleeding pressurized air from the truck\u0027s supercharger\/turbocharger, or a simple chain drive from the trailer\u0027s wheels to turn air blowers. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOther practical issues - such as protecting the pneumatic surfaces from damage during docking - still must be resolved.  A simple solution, Englar noted, could be to use stiff rubber surfaces.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBeyond boosting fuel efficiency, the pneumatic system can also provide a form of aerodynamic braking to assist the mechanical brakes. \u0022The pneumatic systems can turn a low-drag configuration into a high-drag configuration very rapidly, providing a lot more braking power,\u0022 Englar said. \u0022By turning the trailer into a non-moving pneumatic rudder, blowing can also restore directional stability should the truck be operating in destabilizing high side winds.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFurther energy savings could come using a pulsed pneumatic system, which preliminary wind-tunnel studies show could produce the same aerodynamic efficiency with 40 to 50 percent less energy consumed by the blowing system. Englar hopes to receive additional funding to study how this might affect the truck aerodynamics - as well as fuel consumption.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The ultimate proof would be to apply this overall aerodynamic system to a small fleet of heavy trucks and run them on their normal cross-country routes for a month or so to measure the operational increases in fuel efficiency and safety,\u0022 Englar said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDetails of this project were presented at the SAE Commercial Vehicle Engineering Congress in November 2005: [Englar, Robert J.  \u0027Improved Pneumatic Aerodynamics for Drag Reduction, Fuel Economy, Safety, and Stability Increase for Heavy Vehicles,\u0027 SAE paper 2005-01-3627.]\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 100\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAtlanta, Georgia  30308  USA\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Contacts\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon (404-894-6986); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E); Kirk Englehardt (404-407-7280); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:kirk.englehardt@gtri.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ekirk.englehardt@gtri.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or Abby Vogel (404-385-3364); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:avogel@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eavogel@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETechnical Contact\u003C\/strong\u003E: Robert Englar (404-407-6222); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:bob.englar@gtri.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ebob.englar@gtri.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Flow control techniques could boost fuel efficiency 8 to 12 percent"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Diesel fuel prices approaching $5 a gallon - and the resulting economic impact on products transported by truck - have created renewed interest in fuel-saving technologies developed during the past decade at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI).","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Aerodynamic techniques could help improve truck fuel efficiency"}],"uid":"27303","created_gmt":"2008-06-11 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:19","author":"John Toon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-06-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-06-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71192":{"id":"71192","type":"image","title":"Flow control equipment","body":null,"created":"1449177358","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:58","changed":"1475894630","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:50"},"71193":{"id":"71193","type":"image","title":"Wind tunnel testing","body":null,"created":"1449177358","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:58","changed":"1475894630","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:50"},"71194":{"id":"71194","type":"image","title":"Flow control equipment.","body":null,"created":"1449177358","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:58","changed":"1475894630","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:50"}},"media_ids":["71192","71193","71194"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gtri.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech Research Institute"}],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"7358","name":"aerodynamic"},{"id":"7359","name":"diesel"},{"id":"1362","name":"efficiency"},{"id":"1521","name":"fuel"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EJohn Toon\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=jt7\u0022\u003EContact John Toon\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-6986\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jtoon@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71187":{"#nid":"71187","#data":{"type":"news","title":"GTRI Receives $4 Million to Redesign Air Traffic Control Radios","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) has received a $4 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to redesign critical modules used in thousands of air traffic control radios.  First fielded in 1968, these ground-based units play a vital role in keeping U.S. military aircraft safe, and the redesign should help keep the radios on the job until newer designs can replace them.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe redesign task - which must be completed in a year - is both challenging and important, said Russell S. McCrory, a GTRI senior research engineer.  Some 7,500 of these ground communications radios - known as AN\/GRT-21 and AN\/GRT-22 transmitters and AN\/GRR-23 and AN\/GRR-24 receivers - are still in service. When they break down, they often require parts that are no longer available.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This system has been in the field almost 40 years now,\u0022 said McCrory, who is project director.  \u0022Many parts now unavailable were originally manufactured by hand, and would be very expensive to reproduce today just because of the manual labor involved.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAmong other things, GTRI engineers must find ways to replace numerous semiconductor components, such as transistors and diodes that are no longer manufactured.  In some cases the original makers are no longer in business; in other cases the products are so old that no replacements are available.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EInstead of trying to reproduce the original technology, GTRI engineers are designing replacement units that use only modern off-the-shelf parts.  The aim is to give the customer a replacement module that is plug-compatible with the original unit and does the same job.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We throw away the original design, and we make a unit with the same size and the same function,\u0022 McCrory said. \u0022If the old unit had a certain meter reading to show a certain condition, the new one should work identically.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe current $4.05 million contract covers redesign of five major assemblies within the GRT\/GRR, a complex system of receivers and transmitters that operates in the VHF and UHF radio-frequency bands.  The five assemblies include a dual-band power amplifier unit, an intermediate-frequency (IF) amplifier, a mixer-multiplier, a power supply unit and a synthesizer.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This work provides both a technical challenge and a demonstration of GTRI\u0027s commitment to deliver on fast-reaction contracts,\u0022 McCrory said. \u0022Within 12 months, GTRI will produce five complete new designs including all data necessary for the government to obtain competitive bids from manufacturers, engineer prototypes, obtain the initial devices from an outside vendor and update user and operator manuals.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHe said that GTRI\u0027s changes to the dual-band power amplifier will retain that assembly\u0027s unusual capacity to broadcast a 10-watt radio signal in either the VHF or UHF bands.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, the new design will re-engineer the mixer multiplier - a unit that converts received frequencies to a range that can be processed by the receiver - and also modify the IF (intermediate frequency) amplifier in the receiver, which amplifies the received radio signals. And a new power supply will increase reliability.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn replacing the current radio\u0027s original analog components, GTRI engineers are crafting a system that is still all-analog but uses new off-the-shelf technology that is widely available. This approach allows the Air Force to ask for competitive bids from numerous manufacturers rather than relying on a sole source.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe savings can be substantial, McCrory said. He cites a competing approach that would have cost the government about $500,000 for drawings of one obsolete transistor in the GRT system, and then another $500,000 for the first transistor reproduced from those drawings.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Our approach will result in major savings for the military versus trying to remanufacture the original components,\u0022 he said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGTRI\u0027s role in maintaining the GRT\/GRR radios has evolved over several years. In 1999 the Warner Robins Air Logistics Center at Georgia\u0027s Robins Air Force Base took over engineering responsibility for the radios, and in 2005 GTRI engineers were asked to produce GRT\/GRR technical documentation.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESubsequently, GTRI created a support roadmap for sustaining the units until they are retired, and the analysis showed that major radio components needed to be replaced to meet this goal. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMcCrory adds that his team has made extensive use of GTRI\u0027s SUSTAIN software in helping to identify modules requiring redesign and to justify funding requests. SUSTAIN is a multi-part management tool that helps guide maintenance\/sustainment decisions on older military systems. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEventually, McCrory explains, all Department of Defense radios are due to be replaced by a reprogrammable, software-based technology known as the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS).  Though the first JTRS systems could begin replacing high-priority radios as early as 2011, ground radios like the GRT\/GRR systems are scheduled for replacement much later - probably not until 2020 to 2025.  That means GRT\/GRR radios could require maintenance for another 18 years.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGTRI expects its redesign to help ease the Air Force\u0027s parts inventory and logistics tasks for these radios. The new dual-band-power amplifier is expected to replace three older models, and the new mixer multiplier will replace two older models.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOne of GTRI\u0027s top goals, McCrory said, is to make it cheaper for the Air Force to simply plug in a new module than to repair an old one.  That would not only save money and time, but also bring broken units back online faster.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0027The Air Force, in conjunction with Tobyhanna Army Depot which does the maintenance, has done just a wonderful job keeping this system in the field,\u0022 McCrory said. \u0022We\u0027re trying to help them continue to do that, while keeping costs under control.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 100\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAtlanta, Georgia  30308  USA\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Contacts\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon (404-894-6986); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E); Kirk Englehardt (404-407-7280); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:kirk.englehardt@gtri.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ekirk.englehardt@gtri.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or Abby Vogel (404-385-3364); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:avogel@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eavogel@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter\u003C\/strong\u003E: Rick Robinson\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Work will allow vintage devices for continue operating"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) has received a $4 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to redesign critical modules used in thousands of military air traffic control radios.  The work will extend the life of these radios, which were first fielded in 1968.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Redesign work will extend the life of military air traffic radio"}],"uid":"27303","created_gmt":"2008-06-16 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:19","author":"John Toon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-06-16T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-06-16T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71188":{"id":"71188","type":"image","title":"Air traffic control radios","body":null,"created":"1449177358","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:58","changed":"1475894630","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:50"},"71189":{"id":"71189","type":"image","title":"Air traffic control radios","body":null,"created":"1449177358","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:58","changed":"1475894630","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:50"},"71190":{"id":"71190","type":"image","title":"Air traffic control radios","body":null,"created":"1449177358","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:58","changed":"1475894630","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:50"}},"media_ids":["71188","71189","71190"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gtri.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech Research Institute"}],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"147","name":"Military Technology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"7356","name":"air-traffic"},{"id":"7357","name":"module"},{"id":"1265","name":"radio"},{"id":"7355","name":"redesign"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EJohn Toon\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=jt7\u0022\u003EContact John Toon\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-6986\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jtoon@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71180":{"#nid":"71180","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Grant Supports \u0022Intelligent Binoculars\u0022 that Mimic the Human Brain","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology has received a contract to help develop \u0027intelligent binoculars\u0027 that mimic the low-level image processing done by the human brain.  Called the Cognitive Technology Threat Warning System (CT2WS), the device is expected to be far more capable than portable visual threat-warning equipment currently used by the U.S. military.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA research team headed by Paul Hasler, an associate professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), will investigate the use of neuromorphic engineering to enable a CT2WS device.  Neuromorphic techniques use innovative hardware and software approaches to emulate human intelligence.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech team will be working with Hughes Research Laboratory and Northrop Grumman Corp., which have won CT2WS contracts from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Realistically, this is probably not something that\u0027s going to be one project and then it\u0027s done,\u0022 said Hasler, who is a research team leader at the Georgia Electronic Design Center (GEDC), a 200-researcher group at Georgia Tech focused on mixed-signal (analog-digital) microelectronics.  \u0022This opens up a whole avenue of thought about neural-inspired approaches to new applications.  There are likely to be a tremendous number of opportunities here going forward.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENeuromorphic engineering is interdisciplinary, using fields that include biology, physics, mathematics and computer science, as well as electrical and other types of engineering.  Its aim is to develop artificial systems -- such as vision devices or auditory processors or even robotic systems -- based to a degree on natural biological systems. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe CT2WS program\u0027s aim is to deliver several prototype units small enough to be carried by solders in the field.  DARPA has stated that these intelligent visual devices are now possible because of recent discoveries in a variety of fields, including wide-angle optics, digital imaging, cognitive visual-processing algorithms, neurally-based target detection processing and ultra low power analog-digital signal processing electronics.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA successful visual-warning device of this type could produce revolutionary capabilities for the combat soldier.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The idea of this project is to build a visual device that is attentive, that can do the kind of low-level visual processing that your eyes do naturally,\u0022 Hasler explained. \u0022You would see a certain picture in your field of view, but the device would actually be looking over a much wider space -- and if it found something interesting it would present you with that picture as well.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHasler specializes in designing analog microelectronic circuits, in particular, novel analog designs that possess some of the configurability of their digital counterparts and yet use far less power. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWorking with Associate Professor David Anderson, also in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Hasler has built mixed-signal analog-digital circuits that can match the performance of all-digital designs while using hundreds of times less power and producing less heat.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHasler has already performed research relevant to the design of intelligent visual devices. With $1.2 million in funding, he and Anderson worked on an earlier DARPA program that focused on new approaches to integrating the sensing and processing of images. And when Hasler won the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, he used that funding to examine frameworks for building neural circuits.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHasler explains that power issues are vital to a project like CT2WS, which must be portable and yet have enough processing power to emulate human cognition.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This is a highly interesting platform problem because you really are trying to build, at least initially, a simple representation of one layer of human brain cortex, maybe multiple layers if you can,\u0022 Hasler said.  \u0022You need a great deal of computational power, robustness and performance, and it becomes possible because a configurable analog-digital system has a power efficiency improvement of up to 10,000 times compared to an all-digital system.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHasler adds that the new DARPA program can also be expected to stimulate speculation about whether this technology has commercial promise. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This kind of problem can serve as a roadmap for future applications,\u0022 Hasler said. \u0022It can get people from the commercial side interested because it demonstrates some very real possibilities.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 100\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAtlanta, Georgia  30308  USA\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Contacts\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon (404-894-6986); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or Jackie Nemeth (404-894-2906); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or Abby Vogel (404-385-3364); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:avogel@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eavogel@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter\u003C\/strong\u003E: Rick Robinson\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Georgia Tech teams with major defense contractors"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"The Georgia Institute of Technology has received a contract to help develop \u0027intelligent binoculars\u0027 that mimic the low-level image processing done by the human brain.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech is part of a team developing \u0022intelligent binocula"}],"uid":"27303","created_gmt":"2008-06-20 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:19","author":"John Toon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-06-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-06-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71181":{"id":"71181","type":"image","title":"Prof. Paul Hasler","body":null,"created":"1449177358","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:58","changed":"1475894630","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:50"},"71182":{"id":"71182","type":"image","title":"Electronic devices","body":null,"created":"1449177358","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:58","changed":"1475894630","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:50"}},"media_ids":["71181","71182"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/fac_profiles\/bio.php?id=45","title":"Paul Hasler"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gedcenter.org\/","title":"Georgia Electronic Design Center"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"147","name":"Military Technology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"7354","name":"binoculuars"},{"id":"6057","name":"image"},{"id":"856","name":"Intelligence"},{"id":"7353","name":"neuromorphic"},{"id":"820","name":"vision"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EJohn Toon\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=jt7\u0022\u003EContact John Toon\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-6986\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jtoon@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71176":{"#nid":"71176","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Automated Microfluidic Device Reduces Time to Screen Small Organisms","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGenetic studies on small organisms such as worms and flies can now be done more quickly using a new microfluidic device developed by engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe new \u0027lab-on-a-chip\u0027 can automatically position, image, determine the phenotype of and sort small animals, such as the worm \u003Cem\u003ECaenorhabditis elegans \u003C\/em\u003Ethat is commonly used for biological studies.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Classical genetic approaches require altering genetic information and monitoring changes in a large number of animals, which can be excruciatingly slow and often requires manual manipulations,\u0022 said Hang Lu, an assistant professor in the Georgia Tech School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. \u0022As researchers move from studying single genes to analyzing interactions and networks, studies that require large sample sizes will be critical and this device allows for consistent and reliable operation to rapidly screen many animals.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the July print issue of the journal \u003Cem\u003ENature Methods\u003C\/em\u003E, available online June 22, Lu and graduate students Kwanghun Chung and Matthew Crane describe their automated microsystem and initial experimental results. The results show that they can sort small organisms without human intervention based on cellular and subcellular features, or traits, with a high degree of accuracy at a rate of several hundred animals per hour. This work was funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EUsing the microfluidic system is simple. Each small animal is automatically loaded into the microchip. The setup automatically arranges each organism in an identical position in the chip to reduce the processing time and increase throughput.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOnce the organism is loaded, it is briefly immobilized by an integrated local temperature control system that cools the animal to approximate four degrees Celsius. Cooling effectively stops the animal\u0027s motion and allows repeated imaging of the same organisms because unlike commonly-used anesthetic drugs, the cooling doesn\u0027t have long-term effects.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter cooling, the system uses a high-resolution microscope to acquire multi-dimensional images of the animal on-chip. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The advantage of using our microchip is that it\u0027s completely compatible with any standard microscope you\u0027d find in a biology laboratory - epifluorescence, stereo, multi-photon or confocal - with no modification required,\u0022 explained Lu.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers have shown that the intensity and patterns of fluorescent markers imaged inside cooled animals versus those in anesthetized animals exhibit no discernible differences. Based on each animal\u0027s phenotype, or how each animal looks under the microscope, the computer identifies whether it is wild-type or mutant and sorts it into the appropriate group. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EInitial tests to assess the system were conducted on \u003Cem\u003EC. elegans\u003C\/em\u003E, one of the tiniest multi-cellular organisms that share many fundamental cellular\/molecular mechanisms with more advanced organisms. However, the automated system can also be adapted to study other small organisms such as fruit flies and fish embryos.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor one experiment, Lu and her team tested the ability of the system to analyze the gene expression pattern - the intensity, location and timing of appearance of a fluorescent protein - in a population of organisms. They were able to sort the free-moving animals into two categories, those fluorescing in a particle neuron and those that are not, at a speed of approximately 900 animals per hour. More than 90 percent of the animals were loaded into the observation chamber within 0.3 seconds after the previous animal exited.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn another experiment, the researchers were successful in separating a small number of mutant animals from a large population of wild-type animals based on the fluorescence in a single pair of neurons. With on-line processing and decision-making without human supervision, the system achieved a sorting speed of approximately 150 animals per hour and a false negative rate of less than 0.2 percent, indicating that almost all the mutants were captured by the system.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA third experiment was aimed at demonstrating the ability of the system to screen organisms based on micro-sized synaptic features of the animals. Results showed that the system was able to sort mixed populations at a rate of approximately 400 animals per hour for this application. In all three experiments, it would have taken researchers much longer to identify the worms manually with high-resolution microscopy a few worms at a time. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This is the first automated device to combine high-resolution imaging with automated sorting of the worms.\u0022 added Lu. \u0022Now that we have the automated system, we are able to perform genetic screens a lot faster than what has traditionally been done and speed up the discovery of new genes, new functions and new pathways.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe contents of this publication are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health or the National Science Foundation.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 100\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAtlanta, Georgia  30308  USA\n\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMedia Relations Contacts: Abby Vogel (404-385-3364); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:avogel@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eavogel@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or John Toon (404-894-6986); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter:\u003C\/strong\u003E Abby Vogel\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"\u0027Lab-on-a-chip\u0027 device can be used to accelerate genetic studies"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Genetic studies on small organisms such as worms and flies can now be done more quickly using a new microfluidic device developed by engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology. 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Chaddick Endowed Chair in Electro-Optics in Georgia Tech\u0027s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENew research shows that ultraviolet avalanche photodiodes offer the high gain, reliability and robustness needed to detect these agents and help authorities rapidly contain an incident like the 2001 anthrax attacks. The fabrication methods and device characteristics were described at the 50th Electronic Materials Conference in Santa Barbara on June 25. Details of the photodiodes were also published in the February 14 issue of the journal \u003Cem\u003EElectronics Letters\u003C\/em\u003E and the November 2007 issue of the journal \u003Cem\u003EIEEE Photonics Technology Letters\u003C\/em\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EECE associate professor Douglas Yoder, assistant professor Shyh-Chiang Shen and senior research engineer Jae-Hyun Ryou collaborated on this research, which is funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Georgia Research Alliance. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team chose to develop avalanche photodiodes for this bioterrorism application because the devices can detect the signature fluorescence of biological molecules in a sample of air. Since most of the molecules of interest emit ultraviolet light, the researchers designed special photodiodes that detect the fluorescence in the ultraviolet region, but have no response to visible light.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We built our photodiodes with gallium nitride, which is a semiconductor that can be used to create photodiodes that require no filters because this material has an inherent response to ultraviolet, but no response to visible light,\u0022 explained Dupuis.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo improve the sensitivity at ultraviolet wavelengths, the researchers designed the gallium nitride photodiodes to operate in a mode that employs avalanche multiplication. The avalanche multiplication phenomenon is used to multiply normally tiny currents by factors of up to one million, thus dramatically increasing the device gain.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAvalanche photodiodes can create much larger currents for each photon compared to normal photodiodes. Once the necessary electric field strength has been achieved inside the device, the avalanche effect starts with just one free electron. Since the illuminated photodiode will contain many free electrons, an avalanche will always occur if the electric field is large enough.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022One electron-hole pair that is produced by a photon absorption event creates a million other electron-hole pairs and the current becomes a pulse of current that you can detect with special electronics,\u0022 added Dupuis. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers fabricated high-performance gallium nitride ultraviolet avalanche photodiodes on bulk gallium nitride substrates that demonstrate optical gains of 100,000 at ultraviolet wavelengths from 280 to 360 nanometers. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe gallium nitride device structures were grown by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition, a technique for depositing thin layers of atoms onto a semiconductor wafer. Many layers can be built up, each of a precisely controlled thickness and composition, to create a material which has specific optical and electrical properties. This is the first time gallium nitride was successfully used in the fabrication of photodiodes having ultraviolet optical gains greater than 10,000.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESince demonstrating the feasibility of the photodiodes to exhibit the avalanche effect, the research team has been developing a more advanced structure capable of operating as a Geiger-mode detector, so that the photodiodes are sensitive enough to detect only one photon at a time. When the Geiger-mode detector is connected to the avalanche circuitry, a single electron-hole pair can trigger a strong avalanche current to flow from just one photon.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EYoder, who works at Georgia Tech\u0027s Savannah, Ga. campus, is developing computer models of the new photodiodes to calculate the detailed electronic and optical transport. Yoder\u0027s goal is to optimize the materials and design of the Geiger-mode avalanche detector to assure optimal, reproducible performance of the avalanche photodiodes.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Doug\u0027s work is pivotal because these applications don\u0027t require one working detector, they might require thousands of uniform detectors in the same chip that all function the same way, so our ability to manufacture identical photodiodes and detectors is important,\u0022 said Dupuis.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWith proper manufacturing, these avalanche photodiodes can be used for more than detecting bioterrorism agents. They can also be used detect fires, gun muzzle flashes, missile propulsion flames and maybe even cancer cells, according to Dupuis.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe DARPA funding was supported by the Deep Ultraviolet Avalanche Photodetectors (DUVAP) program contract FA8718-07-C-0002.\u003C\/em\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 100\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAtlanta, Georgia  30308  USA\n\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMedia Relations Contacts: Abby Vogel (404-385-3364); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:avogel@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eavogel@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or John Toon (404-894-6986); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter:\u003C\/strong\u003E Abby 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Robinson\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EResearch News and Publications\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=avogel6\u0022\u003EContact Abby Robinson\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-385-3364\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["abby@innovate.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71164":{"#nid":"71164","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tongue-controlled System Assists Individuals with Disabilities","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA new assistive technology developed by engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology could help individuals with severe disabilities lead more independent lives.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe novel system allows individuals with disabilities to operate a computer, control a powered wheelchair and interact with their environments simply by moving their tongues.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This device could revolutionize the field of 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Ghovanloo developed the system with graduate student Xueliang Huo.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe tongue-operated assistive technology, called the Tongue Drive system, was described on June 29 at the 2008 Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA) Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. An article about this system is also scheduled to appear in an upcoming issue of the \u003Cem\u003EJournal of Rehabilitation Research and Development\u003C\/em\u003E. This research was funded by the National Science Foundation and the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E- Watch a video of Ghovanloo describing the Tongue Drive system and its applications \u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/gtresearchnews.gatech.edu\/movies\/tongue-drive.mov\u0027\u003Ehere.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n- Watch a video of Huo operating a powered wheelchair with the Tongue Drive system \u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/www.gtresearchnews.gatech.edu\/movies\/wheelchair.mov\u0027\u003Ehere.\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo operate the Tongue Drive system, potential users only need to be able to move their tongues. Attaching a small magnet, the size of a grain of rice, to an individual\u0027s tongue by implantation, piercing or tissue adhesive allows tongue motion to direct the movement of a cursor across a computer screen or a powered wheelchair around a room.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We chose the tongue to operate the system because unlike hands and feet, which are controlled by the brain through the spinal cord, the tongue is directly connected to the brain by a cranial nerve that generally escapes damage in severe spinal cord injuries or neuromuscular diseases,\u0022 said Ghovanloo, who started working on this project about three years ago at North Carolina State University. \u0022Tongue movements are also fast, accurate and do not require much thinking, concentration or effort.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMovement of the magnetic tracer attached to the tongue is detected by an array of magnetic field sensors mounted on a headset outside the mouth or on an orthodontic brace inside the mouth. The sensor output signals are wirelessly transmitted to a portable computer, which can be carried on the user\u0027s clothing or wheelchair.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe sensor output signals are processed to determine the relative motion of the magnet with respect to the array of sensors in real-time. This information is then used to control the movements of a cursor on the computer screen or to substitute for the joystick function in a powered wheelchair.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe system can potentially capture a large number of tongue movements, each of which can represent a different user command. A unique set of specific tongue movements can be tailored for each individual based on the user\u0027s abilities, oral anatomy, personal preferences and lifestyle.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022An individual could potentially train our system to recognize touching each tooth as a different command,\u0022 explained Ghovanloo. \u0022The ability to train our system with as many commands as an individual can comfortably remember is a significant advantage over the common sip-n-puff device that acts as a simple switch controlled by sucking or blowing through a straw.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Tongue Drive system is also non-invasive and does not require brain surgery like some of the brain-computer interface technologies.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGhovanloo\u0027s group recently completed trials in which six able-bodied individuals tested the Tongue Drive system. Each participant defined six tongue commands that would substitute for computer mouse tasks - left, right, up and down pointer movements and single- and double-click. For each trial, the individual began by training the system. During the five-minute training session, the individual repeated each of the six designated tongue movements 10 times.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDuring the testing session, the user moved his or her tongue to one of the predefined command positions and the mouse pointer started moving in the selected direction. To move the cursor faster, users could hold their tongue in the position of the issued command to gradually accelerate the pointer until it reached a maximum velocity.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EResults of the computer access test by novice users with the current Tongue Drive prototype showed a response time of less than one second with almost 100 percent accuracy for the six individual commands. This is equivalent to an information transfer rate of approximately 150 bits per minute, which is much faster than the bandwidth of most brain-computer interfaces, according to Ghovanloo.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers have also tested the ability of twelve able-bodied individuals to operate an electric-powered wheelchair with the Tongue Drive system. The next step is to test and assess the usability and acceptability of the system by people with severe disabilities, said Ghovanloo. He is teaming with the Shepherd Center, an Atlanta-based catastrophic care hospital, and the Georgia Tech Center for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access, to conduct those trials.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe research team has also begun to develop software to connect the Tongue Drive system to a wide variety of readily available communication tools such as text generators, speech synthesizers and readers. In addition, the researchers plan to add control commands, such as switching the system into standby mode to permit the user to eat, sleep or engage in a conversation while extending battery life.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We hope this technology will reduce the need of individuals with severe disabilities to receive continuous assistance from family members or caregivers, thus significantly reducing healthcare and assistance costs,\u0022 noted Ghovanloo. \u0022This system may also make it easier for them to work and communicate with others, such as friends and family.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 100\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAtlanta, Georgia  30308  USA\n\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMedia Relations Contacts: Abby Vogel (404-385-3364); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:avogel@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eavogel@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or John Toon (404-894-6986); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETechnical Contact:\u003C\/strong\u003E Maysam Ghovanloo (404-385-7048); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:mgh@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emgh@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E)\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter:\u003C\/strong\u003E Abby Vogel\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"System allows them to operate powered wheelchairs and computers"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"A new assistive technology allows individuals with disabilities to operate a computer, control a powered wheelchair and interact with their environments simply by moving their tongues. 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Koros, Roberto C. Goizueta Chair and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Membranes in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has been selected to receive one of 12  research grants awarded by the Global Research Partnership of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). The grant is valued at $2 million per year for five years.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EKoros\u0027 proposal, entitled \u0027Advanced Membranes and Sorbents for More Sustainable Hydrocarbon Utilization,\u0027 is designed to develop better methods to purify oil and natural gas hydrocarbons. These improved methods will reduce cost, pollution and energy consumption for all large-scale separation and purification processes, not just oil and gas. Improved biofuel processes are also expected to result from the work.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We are delighted that Bill Koros has received this prestigious award,\u0022 said Georgia Tech Provost Gary Schuster.  \u0022His ability to compete successfully with top engineers from around the world is indicative of the excellence of his work and the global reputation of Georgia Tech.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EUnder the terms of the grant, the research will be conducted on the Georgia Tech campus.  Koros will spend three weeks each year at KAUST, where he will interact with students, faculty and other researchers from around the world.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EKoros\u0027 research will focus on separation processes that use pressure to force materials through a membrane that retains some substances on one side and allows others to pass to the other side. This process is best known under the name \u0027reverse osmosis\u0027 (RO) for its use in desalination (removing salt from sea water to make fresh water), but it can be used for gases as well.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EKoros will be working to develop advanced membranes and sorbents (designed to purify gases and to capture CO2 for sequestration) capable of 10 times finer filtering than conventional membranes. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Relatively speaking, it\u0027s like going from filtering particles the size of bowling balls away from ping pong balls for RO to filtering ping pong balls away from tennis balls for gas purification,\u0022 Koros said.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"William J. Koros, Roberto C. Goizueta Chair and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Membranes at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has been selected to receive one of 12 research grants awarded by the Global Research Partnership of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Research will center on fuel purification, cleaner fuels"}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2008-03-13 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:18","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-03-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-03-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2175","name":"KAUST"},{"id":"2176","name":"Koros"},{"id":"2177","name":"membranes"},{"id":"2178","name":"reverse osmosis"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ELisa Grovenstein\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:lisa.grovenstein@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EContact Lisa Grovenstein\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-8835\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lisa.grovenstein@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71376":{"#nid":"71376","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech and St. Joseph\u0027s Announce Unique Collaboration","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn an innovative collaboration, the Georgia Institute of Technology, Saint Joseph\u0027s Health System  and Saint Joseph\u0027s Translational Research Institute (SJTRI), a division of Saint Joseph\u0027s Health System, have signed agreements designed to move new treatments, therapies and products into clinical use with patients more rapidly.  The agreements call for the $18.5 million relocation and expansion of the SJTRI research facilities to Technology Enterprise Park (TEP), a new bio-business park located adjacent to the Georgia Tech campus, and collaboration between physicians and researchers at Saint Joseph\u0027s Hospital and Georgia Tech faculty and students. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The greatest roadblock to getting new therapies or devices from the research lab to patients has been the silo approach to research,\u0022 says Nicolas Chronos, MD, president of the Saint Joseph\u0027s Translational Research Institute.  \u0022This relationship between Saint Joseph\u0027s and Georgia Tech brings all the forces together - clinicians, patient care, biotechnology, bioengineering, bioscience and entrepreneurial business -- for cross collaboration and innovation that will move the process ahead much faster for the benefit of patient care.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPhase one, the expanded SJTRI facility in Technology Enterprise Park (TEP), is 32,000 square feet and includes catheterization labs, expanded vascular physiology lab, surgical suites, and additional research capabilities.  Georgia Tech researchers will have access to the research facility for clinical trial activities.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Collaboration between the engineer\/scientist and clinicians is key to new discoveries, so we welcome this opportunity to collaborate with Saint Joseph\u0027s to help accelerate the development and application of advances being made across a broad range of medical specialties,\u0022 said Mark Allen, Senior Vice Provost of Research and Innovation at Georgia Tech.  \u0022Working with the physicians and researchers of Saint Joseph\u0027s will give our faculty and students new opportunities to combine what they learn in our classrooms and research laboratories with clinical experience.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPhase one of the new facility is expected to be completed by early 2009.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n          \u0022We\u0027re committing $18.5 million to this expansion to bring our patients potentially life-saving treatments, procedures and products faster,\u0022 says Kirk Wilson, president and CEO of Saint Joseph\u0027s Health System.  \u0022This affiliation with Georgia Tech puts Saint Joseph\u0027s Translational Research Institute and Saint Joseph\u0027s Hospital at the forefront of this very exciting period in health care.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe collaborative agreements include reciprocal faculty and research appointments for Saint Joseph\u0027s clinicians and Georgia Tech academic faculty. Initial areas of scientific collaboration include:\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOrthopaedics:\u003C\/strong\u003E Georgia Tech currently hosts the nation\u0027s first Master\u0027s degree program in prosthetics and orthotics and conducts extensive research in the development of advanced devices to serve a growing population of users. Saint Joseph\u0027s Hospital offers access to the most active joint replacement and spine care program in Atlanta and the most advanced surgical procedures, including minimally-invasive and robotic-assisted partial knee replacements.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBioengineering:  SJTRI is currently conducting pre-clinical work in tissue engineering for replacement cardiac valves and vessels that are constructed from living cells which are durable, regenerative and above all, able to grow with a pediatric patient.  Georgia Tech bioengineers are working to create a prototype valve for preclinical trials and, ultimately, clinical trials.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECardiovascular Surgery\/Cardiology\u003C\/strong\u003E: Working with Saint Joseph\u0027s Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery and Robotics, Georgia Tech and Saint Joseph\u0027s are looking at engineering and computing solutions for surgical techniques and instruments that further reduce trauma to the body and improve patients\u0027 recovery and experience.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGenomics, Systems Biology and Infomatics: Georgia Tech has assembled one the nation\u0027s most sophisticated genomics programs focused on analyzing complex gene expression patterns in disease cell types with the goal of developing new diagnostics, targeted treatments and therapies in the areas such as cancer and cardiovascular care.  Through their extensive clinical work, Saint Joseph\u0027s physicians and scientists will effectively partner with this new technology to address pressing clinical needs for new approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of disease.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAdvanced Diagnostic and Therapeutic Technologies\u003C\/strong\u003E: Georgia Tech\u0027s leadership in microfabrication and nanotechnology, combined with Saint Joseph\u0027s clinical and genomics interest, opens the door for development of nanomedicine applications including development of nanoscale particles\/molecules used in the treatment of disease for unique medical effects; development of self-assembling particles or other types of nanomaterial that improve the mechanical properties and biocompatibility of biomaterials for medical implants; development of particles\/materials that improve electrode surfaces and biocompatibility (active implants), as well as in vivo imaging using contrast agents, particularly for MRI and ultrasound for improved contrast and favorable biodistribution; and in vitro diagnostics using novel sensor concepts based on nanotubes, nanowires and cantilevers.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERobotics and Surgical Education \u003C\/strong\u003E: Surgical training and education will be most cost-effective and accessible via simulation and remote learning.  As a leader in simulation technology, Georgia Tech and Saint Joseph\u0027s are on the forefront of providing this state of the art education experience for physicians from around the world on new technology, including robotics.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFacilities Design and Process Improvement\u003C\/strong\u003E: Close collaboration between Saint Joseph\u0027s Hospital and Georgia Tech\u0027s School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering and the College of Architecture offers students and hospital designers opportunities to develop facilities based upon advanced electronic medical records management, improved processes and user-friendly environments.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout Saint Joseph\u0027s - \u003C\/strong\u003ESaint Joseph\u0027s, the regions premier provider of cardiac and vascular services and recognized as one of the 50 top hospitals in the country, is Atlanta\u0027s oldest hospital.  Founded by the Sisters of Mercy in 1880, today Saint Joseph\u0027s is a 410-bed, acute-care hospital recognized as one of the leading specialty-referral hospitals in the Southeast and is a part of Saint Joseph\u0027s Health System which also includes the Saint Joseph\u0027s Translational Research Institute (SJTRI).  As a leader in cardiac, neurologic, vascular, gastrointestinal, respiratory, orthopaedic and cancer care, among others, Saint Joseph\u0027s offers its patients the latest procedures and treatments by providing its medical staff of more than 750 physicians with research services and the most advanced technology available.  In addition to serving the metro-Atlanta area, patients come from all over Georgia, nearby states and internationally because of Saint Joseph\u0027s specialized services, excellent reputation and unique patient experience.  Sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy, Saint Joseph\u0027s is a member of Catholic Health East. For more information, visit the website at \u003Ca href=\u0027www.saintjosephsatlanta.org\u0027\u003Ewww.saintjosephsatlanta.org\u003C\/a\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Biotech innovation and translational research move novel treatments to patients faster."}],"field_summary":[{"value":"In an innovative collaboration, the Georgia Institute of Technology, Saint Joseph\u0027s Health System  and Saint Joseph\u0027s Translational Research Institute (SJTRI), a division of Saint Joseph\u0027s Health System, have signed agreements designed to move new treatments, therapies and products into clinical use with patients more rapidly.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Unique collaboration to improve patient care"}],"uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2008-03-14 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:18","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-03-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-03-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71377":{"id":"71377","type":"image","title":"Tech Tower","body":null,"created":"1449177367","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:07","changed":"1475894634","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:54"}},"media_ids":["71377"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.saintjosephsatlanta.org\/","title":"Saint Joseph\\\u0027s"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.technologyenterprisepark.com\/","title":"Technology Enterprise Park"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"}],"keywords":[{"id":"292","name":"Biotech"},{"id":"246","name":"Georgia Institute of Technology"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"398","name":"health"},{"id":"1129","name":"healthcare"},{"id":"2174","name":"Patient"},{"id":"365","name":"Research"},{"id":"170801","name":"St. Joe\u0027s"},{"id":"170802","name":"St. Joseph\u0027s"},{"id":"623","name":"Technology"}],"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":["matthew.nagel@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71363":{"#nid":"71363","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Robot Fetches Objects With Just a Point and a Click","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERobots are fluent in their native language of 1 and 0 absolutes but struggle to grasp the nuances and imprecise nature of human language. While scientists are making slow, incremental progress in their quest to create a robot that responds to speech, gestures and body language, a more straightforward method of communication may help robots find their way into homes sooner.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA team of researchers led by Charlie Kemp, director of the Center for Healthcare Robotics in the Health Systems Institute at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, have found a way to instruct a robot to find and deliver an item it may have never seen before using a more direct manner of communication - a laser pointer.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEl-E (pronounced like the name Ellie), a robot designed to help users with limited mobility with everyday tasks, autonomously moves to an item selected with a green laser pointer, picks up the item and then delivers it to the user, another person or a selected location such as a table. El-E, named for her ability to elevate her arm and for the arm\u0027s resemblance to an elephant trunk, can grasp and deliver several types of household items including towels, pill bottles and telephones from floors or tables.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo ensure that El-E will someday be ready to roll out of the lab and into the homes of patients who need assistance, the Georgia Tech and Emory research team includes Prof. Julie Jacko, an expert on human-computer interaction and assistive technologies, and Dr. Jonathan Glass, director of the Emory ALS Center at the Emory University School of Medicine. El-E\u0027s creators are gathering input from ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig\u0027s disease) patients and doctors to prepare El-E to assist patients with severe mobility challenges.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research was presented at the ACM\/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction in Amsterdam on March 14 and an associated workshop on \u0027Robotic Helpers\u0027 on March 12.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe verbal instructions a person gives to help someone find a desired object are very difficult for a robot to use (the cup over near the couch or the brush next to the red toothbrush). These types of commands require the robot to understand everyday human language and the objects it describes at a level well beyond the state of the art in language recognition and object perception.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We humans naturally point at things but we aren\u0027t very accurate, so we use the context of the situation or verbal cues to clarify which object is important,\u0022 said Kemp, an assistant professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory. \u0022Robots have some ability to retrieve specific, predefined objects, such as a soda can, but retrieving generic everyday objects has been a challenge for robots.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe laser pointer interface and methods developed by Kemp\u0027s team overcome this challenge by providing a direct way for people to communicate the location of interest to El-E and complimentary methods that enable El-E to pick up an object found at this location. Through these innovations, El-E can retrieve objects without understanding what the object is or what it\u0027s called.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to the laser pointer interface, El-E uses another approach to simplify its task. Indoors, objects are usually found on smooth, flat surfaces with uniform appearance, such as floors, tables, and shelves. Kemp\u0027s team designed El-E to take advantage of this common structure.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERegardless of the height, El-E uses the same strategies to localize and pick up the object by elevating its arm and sensors to match the height of the object\u0027s location. The robot\u0027s ability to reach objects both from the floor and shelves is particularly important for patients with mobility impairments since these locations can be difficult to reach, Kemp said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEl-E uses a custom-built camera that is omni-directional to see most of the room. After the robot detects that a selection has been made with the laser pointer, the robot moves two cameras to look at the laser spot and triangulate its position in three-dimensional space.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENext, the robot estimates where the item is in relation to its body and travels to the location. If the location is above the floor, the robot finds the edge of the surface on which the object is sitting, such as the edge of a table.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPicking up the unknown object is a significant challenge El-E faces in completing its task. It uses a laser range finder that scans across the surface to initially locate the object. Then, after moving its hand above the object, it uses a camera in its hand to visually distinguish the object from the texture of the floor or table. After refining the hand\u0027s position and orientation, it descends upon the object while using sensors in its hand to decide when to stop moving down and start closing its gripper. Finally, it closes its gripper upon the object until it has a secure grip.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOnce the robot has picked up the item, the laser pointer can be used to guide the robot to another location to deposit the item or direct the robot to take the item to a person. El-E distinguishes between these two situations by looking for a face near the selected location.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIf the robot detects a face, it carefully moves toward the person and presents the item to the user so it can be taken. It uses the location of the face and legs to determine where it will present the object.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIf no face is detected near the location illuminated by the laser pointer, the robot decides whether the location is on a table or the floor. If it is on a table, El-E places the object on the table. If the location is on the floor El-E moves to the selected location on the floor.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAfter delivering the item, the robot returns to the user\u0027s side, ready to handle the next request.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEl-E\u0027s power and computation is all on board (no tethers or hidden computers in the next room) and runs Ubuntu Linux on a Mac mini.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEl-E\u0027s laser pointer interface and methods for autonomous mobile manipulation represent an important step toward robotic assistants in the home.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022If you want a robot to cook a meal or brush your hair, you will probably want the robot to first fetch the items it will need, and for tasks such as cleaning up around the home, it is essential that the robot be able to pick up objects and move them to new locations. We see object fetching as a core capability for future robots in healthcare settings, such as the home,\u0022 Kemp said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech and Emory research team is now working to help El-E expand its capabilities to include switching lights on and off when the user selects a light switch and opening and closing doors when the user selects a door knob.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearchers at Georgia Tech and Emory University have created a robot, designed to help users with limited mobility with everyday tasks, that moves autonomously to an item selected with a green laser pointer, picks up the item and then delivers it to the user, another person or a selected location such as a table. The new robotic communication method may help robots find their way into the home sooner.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Robot designed to aid patients with limited movement"}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2008-03-19 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:18","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-03-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-03-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71364":{"id":"71364","type":"image","title":"El-E and Dr. Kemp","body":null,"created":"1449177367","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:07","changed":"1475894634","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:54"},"71365":{"id":"71365","type":"image","title":"El-E","body":null,"created":"1449177367","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:07","changed":"1475894634","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:54"}},"media_ids":["71364","71365"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.hsi.gatech.edu\/cckemp\/","title":"Dr. Charlie Kemp"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.neurology.emory.edu\/als","title":"Emory ALS Center"},{"url":"http:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/","title":"Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.hsi.gatech.edu\/hrl\/","title":"Healthcare Robotics Lab"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2156","name":"ALS"},{"id":"2158","name":"Center for Healthcare Robotics"},{"id":"2157","name":"Charlie Kemp"},{"id":"2154","name":"El-E"},{"id":"2155","name":"healthcare robotics"},{"id":"667","name":"robotics"}],"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\u003ELisa Grovenstein\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=lgrovenste3\u0022\u003EContact Lisa Grovenstein\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-8835\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lisa.grovenstein@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71230":{"#nid":"71230","#data":{"type":"news","title":"EAS Honors Program course reduces CO2","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EStudents in Kim Cobb\u0027s class are finding ways to reduce carbon emissions on both a personal and larger scale.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECobb, an Earth and Atmospheric Sciences assistant professor, instructs the students in her interdisciplinary Honors Program course, Energy, the Environment and Society.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I\u0027ve always wanted to teach an energy course here at Tech,\u0022 she said. \u0022In my line of work, [global warming and climate change] is the \u0027problem.\u0027 It\u0027s refreshing to bring these problems into the class.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the class, the emphasis is placed less on conventional testing, and more on utilizing the knowledge gained in making lifestyle changes through participation and successfully carrying out the course\u0027s Carbon Reduction Challenge. Cobb says the class-mostly freshman students-was offered in the spring this year and last year.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERoughly 60 percent of the class is lectures, from energy and public policy experts, who speak from the scientific and climate perspectives to representatives from Georgia Power Co. \u0022We brought in as many stakeholders as possible,\u0022 Cobb said. \u0022We keep it very discussion-oriented and hands-on. It\u0027s not really about acquiring the knowledge in the hopes they will become involved later on; it\u0027s about becoming an active participant now.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe semester-long reduction challenge, the major aspect of the class, is a series of lifestyle or institutional changes the students can either effect in themselves or others to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases produced. For example, becoming a vegetarian can reduce carbon emissions, as the raising and processing of beef cattle greatly contributes to CO2 production. The final project weighs nearly half of the final grade. Students could start with themselves, then try and recruit others to join in the effort and finally tackle an \u0027institutional level\u0027 challenge. In Cobb\u0027s words, it was all about \u0027scaling up.\u0027 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I instructed the class to think of ways to make small, incremental changes-\u0027get the low-hanging fruit,\u0027\u0022 she said. \u0022Then they had to think of ways to scale up. I think they would say it was very challenging and rewarding.\u0022 \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile no tests or lengthy papers were required of students, several \u0027rules of the game\u0027 applied. Any changes or impact on the reduction of carbon emissions were required to be accompanied by ample documentation. Any change undertaken, whether on the personal or institutional level, must have accompanied evidence or witnesses. Proof must also be submitted that the reduction in carbon usage would not have happened without the student\u0027s intervention. Finally, the change must be quantified using specific sources, such as government agency Web sites, documents and academic literature. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Everything must be rigorously documented,\u0022 Cobb said.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nShe realized early on that students would probably fall into two groups: the \u0027home run hitters\u0027 who would aim for one, large-scale project, and the personal behavior groups, who would attempt incremental changes for themselves and others that would add up. While more challenging to accomplish, if a \u0027home run\u0027 group hit its mark, they could claim an overwhelming win.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhich is exactly what happened. One such group convinced a representative from Facilities to extinguish the lights at Bobby Dodd Stadium for Earth Week. This lone act was calculated to save roughly 35,000 kWh, which translates to preventing 28,500 kg of CO2 and saving roughly $2,000. Overall, Cobb says, reductions from the entire class equaled nearly 100 metric tons of CO2. (The average American is responsible for 20 pounds of CO2 emissions per day.)  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOther projects included an aluminum can recycling program for the Greek organizations, an anti-idling campaign presented to campus shuttle drivers and a commitment from the library to turn off certain computers over the weekend and ensure the rest are set for  sleep mode while not in use. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe winners of the reduction contest travel with Cobb to Washington, D.C., this week to meet with staffers from the offices of U.S. senators Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson, Georgia congressmen David Scott, John Lewis and Hank Johnson, and Sen. Richard Shelby, a ranking member with the Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies. Cobb will also present her paleoclimate research-taken from Borneo and the tropical Pacific atolls-during the D.C. visit. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo jumpstart the course, Cobb took on her own challenges. She convinced Mike Edwards, director of the Campus Recreation Center, to lower the thermostat by two degrees from 11 p.m. to 11 a.m.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECobb, whose research includes examining coral reefs in the tropical Pacific to study climate change during the last 1,000 years, plans to continue the course-along with some additional aspects. \u0022I hope to offer some kind of prize in future courses, as well as build attendance by advertising the course a little more.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAll in all, she said it was a definite learning experience for all involved. \u0022I learned a lot from my students. The challenge helped get something done, and I hope that next year we can beat this semester\u0027s reductions.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"On both a personal and larger scale, students in Energy, the Environment and Society go beyond tests and essays to reduce carbon emissions on campus.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Asst. Professor Kim Cobb challenges students to reduce CO2 use"}],"uid":"27191","created_gmt":"2008-05-06 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:18","author":"Robert Nesmith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-05-06T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-05-06T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71231":{"id":"71231","type":"image","title":"Bobby Dodd Stadium","body":null,"created":"1449177358","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:58","changed":"1475894632","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:52"}},"media_ids":["71231"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/shadow.eas.gatech.edu\/~kcobb\/","title":"Kim Cobb"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.eas.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2108","name":"carbon challenge"},{"id":"845","name":"carbon footprint"},{"id":"2109","name":"reduce"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ERobert Nesmith\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=wnesmith3\u0022\u003EContact Robert Nesmith\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-385-4142\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["robert.nesmith@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71355":{"#nid":"71355","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Clough Volunteers Buzz for Smithsonian Exhibit","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPresident Wayne Clough, soon to be the head of the Smithsonian Institution, has volunteered beloved Georgia Tech mascot Buzz for the Smithsonian\u0027s planned \u0022Giant Insects\u0022 exhibit. Buzz will be flown to Washington, D.C., where he will be put on permanent display in the National Museum of Natural History. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022As the largest yellow jacket in the world, I think Buzz is perfectly suited to represent wasps in the exhibit,\u0022 Clough said. \u0022I\u0027m sure he\u0027ll be thrilled to accept this honor.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBuzz could not be reached for comment on his new role in the \u0022Giant Insects\u0022 exhibit by press time but several friends noted that he\u0027d been in seclusion for several days to ponder his new assignment.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Buzz is usually very upbeat, buzzing around to shake practically every hand in the stadium,\u0022 said long-time friend George P. Burdell. \u0022But since the announcement, he\u0027s been unusually quiet and pretty much keeps to himself.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Maybe he\u0027s practicing for his new role,\u0022 added Burdell.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EClough has announced plans for a new Georgia Tech mascot - Dusty the Dust Mite - to replace Buzz\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Dusty is nano-sized and full of determination,\u0022 Clough said. \u0022He\u0027s the living embodiment of Georgia Tech\u0027s fierce nano-spirit.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile admittedly micro-sized, Dusty was considered to be the best candidate for a tiny mascot to represent Georgia Tech\u0027s nano prestige.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech fans will be able to enjoy Dusty\u0027s tiny antics at all major sporting events via a specialized instrument that will broadcast his image to a giant display nearby.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Buzz Goes to Washington"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"President Wayne Clough, soon to be the head of the Smithsonian Institution, has volunteered beloved Georgia Tech mascot Buzz for the Smithsonian\u0027s planned \u0022Giant Insects\u0022 exhibit.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"President Wayne Clough has volunteered mascot Buzz for planned e"}],"uid":"27198","created_gmt":"2008-03-31 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:18","author":"Bryan Jordin","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-04-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-04-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71356":{"id":"71356","type":"image","title":"Dusty the Dust Mite will replace Buzz as Georgia T","body":null,"created":"1449177367","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:07","changed":"1475894634","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:54"}},"media_ids":["71356"],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"133","name":"Special Events and Guest Speakers"}],"keywords":[{"id":"595","name":"Buzz"},{"id":"1970","name":"Clough"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorge P. Burdell\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlumni Association\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:george.burdell@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EContact George P. Burdell\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-385-1000\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["george.burdell@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71357":{"#nid":"71357","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech and Top Italian Universities Launch Dual Master\u0027s Program","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology is partnering with two leading Italian universities, the Politecnico di Torino and the University of Trento, to offer dual master\u0027s degrees in electrical and computer engineering and computer science. The new degrees, which will begin in the fall of 2008, represent the first dual graduate programs in these disciplines between American and Italian universities.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0027s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering is partnering with the School of Information Technologies at the Politecnico di Torino located in Torino, Italy. The electrical and computer engineering program requires four semesters of course work - two semesters at Georgia Tech and two at the Politecnico di Tornio. While all courses at Georgia Tech will be taught in English, lectures and laboratories at the Politecnico di Torino will be available in both English and Italian. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E \u0022Georgia Tech has long worked with key industry partners in Italy,\u0022 said Gary S. May, professor and Steve W. Chaddick School Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering. \u0022This new affiliation will afford students the opportunity to experience competitive and complementary approaches to engineering solutions in a cross-cultural environment.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E \u0022The dual master\u0027s degree program brings together the resources of top-ranked research universities,\u0022 said Franceso Profumo, rector of the Politecnico di Torino. \u0022What better way for students to prepare to make important contributions in the world marketplace than to take advantage of the stellar engineering and computing programs that both of these institutions have to offer.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Politecnico di Torino is in the process of developing a new industrial complex, the Cittadella Politecnica, that will eventually house research and development centers for a number of private companies such as General Motors and Microsoft. In addition, the Politecnico di Torino has partnerships with a range of internationally renowned research institutes and technology transfer centers. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOne of the most prestigious institutions in Europe, the Politecnico di Torino is rated one of the top 10 European technical universities by the highly regarded Academic Ranking of World Universities, compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University\u0027s Institute of Higher Education. The Politecnico di Torino is a member of the Consortium Linking Universities of Science and Technology for Education and Research (CLUSTER). Georgia Tech is the only U.S. institution that is an honorary member of CLUSTER.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA dual graduate degree is also available through a partnership with Georgia Tech\u0027s School of Computer Science and the School of Informatics at the University of Trento, located in Trento, Italy. The computer science program requires the same four-semester program divided between Georgia Tech and the University of Trento, and will emphasize the development of computing and networking applications.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The College of Computing has had an ongoing relationship with the University of Trento and the Trentino region of Italy for the last three years,\u0022 said Richard A. DeMillo, distinguished professor and John P. Imlay Jr. Dean of the College of Computing. \u0022We are providing these students the chance to experience firsthand the new opportunities that come with globalizing education.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe University of Trento is considered among the top universities in Italy and ranked first in many scientific areas by CENSIS, a social study and research institute. Trento is an autonomous province of Italy and invests heavily in research and education as evidenced by the Microsoft Research lab for Bio-Informatics which is partially funded by the region. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022In collaboration with our colleagues in Electrical and Computer Engineering, we have developed a significant relationship with the University of Trento and the Politecnico di Torino that we anticipate expanding to other top-rated universities in Italy including the Politecnico di Milano,\u0022 said Michael McCracken, program director for the dual degrees in Computer Science and assistant dean of the College of Computing.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Not only will students have the opportunity to complete two graduate degrees in two years, but they will also have the possibility of obtaining an internship with a multi-national firm in Italy as well as scholarship support,\u0022 said Dr. Anthony Yezzi, program director for the new dual degrees. \u0022These programs are appealing because students can obtain two degrees in considerably less time than pursuing them individually, as well as jump start their career in the global market.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EStudents must be admitted to Georgia Tech prior to enrolling in either of the dual degree programs. The deadline for fall applications is May 1, 2008. Additional information on the requirements for the dual degree programs may be found at \u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/academic\/polito\/DualProgramUSA.htm\u0027\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/academic\/polito\/DualProgramUSA.htm\u003C\/a\u003Eand \u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/education\/study-abroad\/trento\u0027\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/education\/study-abroad\/trento\u003C\/a\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAngela Della Costanza Turner, executive advisor to Georgia Tech\u0027s Office of International Education and president of the Italy-Atlanta Foundation, is a major proponent of the new degree programs. \u0022We hope to encourage the Italian business communities in both Italy and the United States to sponsor scholarships,\u0022 she noted. \u0022The program has huge potential and will help educate our next generation of computer scientists and computer engineers.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThere are a limited number of $12,000 scholarships available through the Actions for Transatlantic Links and Academic Networks for Training and Integrated Studies (ATLANTIS) program. As part of this initiative, students will spend an additional summer semester at the Technical University of Munich in Germany or can also opt to obtain their second degree from Munich and spend a summer in Italy. Both Georgia Tech\u0027s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and School of Computer Science are participating in ATLANTIS. More information on this joint grant from the U.S. Department of Education and the European Commission can be found at \u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/education\/programmes\/eu-usa\/index_en.html\u0027\u003Ehttp:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/education\/programmes\/eu-usa\/index_en.html\u003C\/a\u003E. In the future, scholarships may also be available as a result of industry sponsorships.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout Politecnico di Torino\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nLocated in the foothills of the Alps, the Politecnico di Torino is the oldest technical university in Italy. With 27,000 students attending programs in both English and Italian, it is considered to be one of the most prestigious institutions in Europe and is rated as one of the top 10 European technical universities by the highly regarded Academic Ranking of World Universities, compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University\u0027s Institute of Higher Education. More information is available at \u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/www.polito.it\/\u0027\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.polito.it\/\u003C\/a\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the University of Trento\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe University of Trento has become one of the leading universities in Italy. With more than 15,000 students, Trento ranks first in many scientific areas and is considered a premier institution for the study of social sciences, engineering and law. The university is located in Trento, a historic city at the base of the Alps. More information is available at \u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/portale.unitn.it\/ateneo\/homepage.do?utente=Visitatore\u0026amp;rootchannelId=-8318\u0026amp;activeLanguage=en\u0027\u003Ehttp:\/\/portale.unitn.it\/ateneo\/homepage.do?utente=Visitatore\u0026amp;rootchannelId=-8318\u0026amp;activeLanguage=en\u003C\/a\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Engineering and Computer Science Graduate Programs First between U.S. and Italy"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"The Georgia Institute of Technology is partnering with two leading Italian universities, the Politecnico di Torino and the University of Trento, to offer dual master\u0027s degrees in electrical and computer engineering and computer science.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Tech teams with Politecnico di Torino and the University of Tren"}],"uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2008-04-01 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:18","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-04-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-04-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71358":{"id":"71358","type":"image","title":"Tech Tower","body":null,"created":"1449177367","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:07","changed":"1475894634","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:54"}},"media_ids":["71358"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/portale.unitn.it\/ateneo\/homepage.do?activeLanguage=en\u0026rootchannelId=-8318\u0026utente=Visitatore","title":"University of Trento"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.polito.it\/","title":"Politecnico di Torino"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/education\/study-abroad\/trento","title":"Additional information about the computer science dual degree program"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/academic\/polito\/DualProgramUSA.htm","title":"Additional information about  the electrical engineering dual degree program"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1051","name":"Computer Science"},{"id":"2147","name":"Dual Programs"},{"id":"1630","name":"Electrical"},{"id":"516","name":"engineering"},{"id":"246","name":"Georgia Institute of Technology"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"2149","name":"Italian"},{"id":"2146","name":"Italy"},{"id":"4150","name":"master\u0027s"}],"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":["matthew.nagel@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71219":{"#nid":"71219","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Governor Recognizes Tech for State Charitable Campaign","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGov. Sonny Perdue honored Georgia Tech Thursday for its role in the 2007-2008 statewide charitable campaign. During the May 15 awards luncheon, the Institute received the Governor\u0027s Award for the largest increase in contributions and the Governor\u0027s Cup for an organization with 1,001 to 9,000 employees.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Compared to the prior year, our contributions increased 42 percent or more than $88,000-$299,839 in 2007 and $211,089 in 2006. In addition, the number of donors nearly doubled from 766 to 1,528,\u0022 said Student Center Director Rich Steele, coordinator of the Institute\u0027s campaign. \u0022[We] averaged nearly $55 per employee, or $196 per donor.\u0022 Career Services Director Ralph Mobley is campaign co-coordinator. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOverall, the Institute raised nearly $300,000 for 1,000 state-based charities from October 8 to November 2 of last year. \u0022The success this year came primarily from the 90-plus departmental coordinators who worked diligently for almost six weeks to encourage participation in their respective departments,\u0022 Steele said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe luncheon was held in the Sloppy Floyd building on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, near the state Capitol.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"During the May 15 awards luncheon, the Institute received the Governor\u0027s Award for the largest increase in contributions and the Governor\u0027s Cup for an organization with 1,001 to 9,000 employees.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Gov. Sonny Perdue honored Georgia Tech Thursday for its role in"}],"uid":"27191","created_gmt":"2008-05-16 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:18","author":"Robert Nesmith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-05-16T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-05-16T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71220":{"id":"71220","type":"image","title":"Georgia Tech Charitable Campaign organizers receiv","body":null,"created":"1449177358","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:58","changed":"1475894632","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:52"}},"media_ids":["71220"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.studentcenter.gatech.edu\/charitable","title":"Charitable Campaign"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2094","name":"charitable campaign"},{"id":"2095","name":"charity"},{"id":"2096","name":"philanthropy"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ERobert Nesmith\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=wnesmith3\u0022\u003EContact Robert Nesmith\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-385-4142\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["robert.nesmith@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71216":{"#nid":"71216","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Technology Puts Biomedical Imaging in Palm of Hands","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearchers at Georgia Tech have developed a narrowband filter mosaic that will expand the uses and functionality of multispectral imaging-a technology that enables subsurface characterization. The new, single-exposure imaging tool could significantly improve point-of-care medical and forensic imaging by empowering front line clinicians with no specialized training to detect and assess, in real-time, the severity of bruises and erythema, regardless of patient skin pigmentation or available lighting.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to this application, the filter could potentially offer a reliabile, low-cost method to instantaneously classify military targets, sort produce, inspect product quality in manufacturing, detect contamination in foods, perform remote sensing in mining, monitor atmospheric composition in environmental engineering and diagnose early stage cancer and tumors.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe technology was developed in Georgia Tech\u0027s Center for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access (CATEA) as part of a project to design a portable erythema and bruise-detection technology that will enhance early prevention and diagnosis of pressure ulcers, a secondary complication for people with impaired mobility and sensation.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECurrently, clinical assessment of bruises is subjective and unreliable, especially when on persons with darkly pigmented skin. Improved imaging can lead to earlier intervention which is vital in cases of suspected physical abuse. Similarly, early detection of erythema can trigger preventive care that can stop progression into pressure ulcers.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPressure ulcers are a serious secondary complication for people with impaired mobility and sensation. Annual Medicare spending is conservatively approximated at $1.34 billion for the treatment of pressure ulcers. Early detection of erythema can prevent progression into more serious Stage III or Stage IV pressure ulcers. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe filter mosaic can be conveniently laminated with imaging sensors used in digital cameras. With a patent pending, CATEA researchers are currently seeking collaborative or financial support to further develop and design the device.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Although multispectral imaging has matured into a technology with applications in many fields, clinicians and practitioners in these fields have generally stayed away from it due to extremely high costs and lack of portability,\u0022 said Dr. Stephen Sprigle, director of CATEA and professor of industrial design and human physiology. \u0022Now, the possibilities are plentiful.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA unit of the College of Architecture at Georgia Tech, CATEA is an applied research center promoting independence and participation of people with disabilities through assistive technology and environmental access.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"New device could improve care of patients"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a narrowband filter mosaic that will expand the uses and functionality of multispectral imaging-a technology that enables subsurface characterization.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Researchers create new device to better detect bruising."}],"uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2008-05-20 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:18","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-05-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-05-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71217":{"id":"71217","type":"image","title":"Mosiac Filter","body":null,"created":"1449177358","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:58","changed":"1475894632","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:52"},"71218":{"id":"71218","type":"image","title":"narrowband filter mosaic","body":null,"created":"1449177358","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:58","changed":"1475894632","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:52"}},"media_ids":["71217","71218"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.coa.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech College of Architecture"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.catea.gatech.edu\/","title":"CATEA Home Page"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"137","name":"Architecture"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2093","name":"Bruise dector"},{"id":"358","name":"CATEA"},{"id":"1531","name":"center for assistive technology and environmental access"},{"id":"2092","name":"Mosiac"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ETeri Nagel\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECollege of Architecture\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=tw117\u0022\u003EContact Teri Nagel\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-385-2156\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["teri.nagel@coa.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"73719":{"#nid":"73719","#data":{"type":"news","title":"President Wayne Clough on \u0022Georgia Weekly\u0022","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAn interview on the Georgia Public Broadcasting program \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gpb.org\/georgiaweekly\u0022\u003E\u0022Georgia Weekly\u0022\u003C\/a\u003E will cover 14 years of leadership at Georgia Tech, as well as what the future holds for the institution and for him.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBroadcast times are set for Sunday, June 1 at 1 PM and Tuesday, June 3 at 7 PM. Episodes are also archived on the GPB Web site. \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"An interview on the Georgia Public Broadcasting program \u0022Georgia Weekly\u0022 will cover 14 years of leadership at Georgia Tech, as well as what the future holds for the institution and for him.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Television interview on the legacy he leaves at Georgia Tech"}],"uid":"27299","created_gmt":"2008-05-28 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:33","author":"Michael Hagearty","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-05-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-05-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1625","name":"athletics"},{"id":"167014","name":"Sports"},{"id":"1626","name":"tennis"},{"id":"973","name":"women"}],"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":["matthew.nagel@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"73713":{"#nid":"73713","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tech Student Awarded Goldwater Scholarship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAndrea Barrett was awarded the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIt is a premier undergraduate award in the fields of math, science and engineering and the scholarship is given to students who plan on pursuing graduate school.  Winners are selected  on the basis of their academic merit, research experience and faculty recommendations.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBarrett received a two-year scholarship that will cover the cost of tuition, fees, books and room and board.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The recognition for outstanding academic merit and other accomplishments makes the hard work that I have put in at Georgia Tech worth it,\u0022 said Barrett.  \u0022This award will continue to be rewarding as I apply to graduate school and other prestigious scholarships, since the Goldwater Scholarship has gained the attention of prestigious post-graduate fellowship programs and graduate school admissions.\u0022  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBarrett is a sophomore, Biomedical Engineering major.  She spent last summer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology doing research and she will head to Japan for a research internship this summer.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBarrett\u0027s career goals include pursuing a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics and conducting research in biomedical engineering and bioinformatics.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Andrea Barrett wins national scholarship"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Andrea Barrett was awarded the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship awarded to Tech student"}],"uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2008-05-29 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:33","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-05-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-05-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"73714":{"id":"73714","type":"image","title":"Andrea Barrett","body":null,"created":"1449178012","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:26:52","changed":"1475894676","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:36"}},"media_ids":["73714"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.act.org\/goldwater\/yyschrel.html","title":"Goldwater Scholarship"}],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"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":["matthew.nagel@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"73732":{"#nid":"73732","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Ga. Tech Receives NCAA Certification","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) announced that Georgia Tech\u0027s athletics program has been certified. A designation of certified means that an institution operates its athletics program in substantial conformity with operating principles adopted by the Division I membership.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe certification process, which involves a self-study led by an institution\u0027s president or chancellor includes a review of these primary components: governance and commitment to rules compliance; academic integrity; equity; and student-athlete well-being. Georgia Tech was among 35 Division I institutions that were certified.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Designation Reflects Integrity of Athletics Program"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) announced that Georgia Tech\u0027s athletics program has been certified.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech athletics gets NCAA Certification"}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2008-04-20 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:33","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-04-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-04-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"246","name":"Georgia Institute of Technology"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"169445","name":"Scholarship winner"},{"id":"3467","name":"Thomas Christian"},{"id":"3466","name":"Udall Scholarship"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ELisa Grovenstein\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=lgrovenste3\u0022\u003EContact Lisa Grovenstein\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-8835\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lisa.grovenstein@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"73715":{"#nid":"73715","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Fulbright Scholarships Awarded","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech students received national scholarships for their academic prowess.  Daniel Shorr, Halley Espy and Thomas Earnest all received 2008 Fulbright Scholarships.   \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENamed after Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the Fulbright Scholarship was established in 1946 as a vehicle for promoting \u0022mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries of the world\u0022.  Fulbright grants are made to United States citizens and nationals of other countries for a variety of educational activities, primarily university lecturing, advanced research, graduate study and teaching in elementary and secondary schools.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESince the Fulbright Scholarship program was established, the program has had almost 280,000 participants-chosen for their academic merit and leadership potential-with the opportunity to exchange ideas and to contribute to finding solutions to shared issues.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EShorr, a psychology major is preparing a senior thesis about pictorial warning symbols.  He plans to continue this study in a cross-culture context during his Fulbright experience.  He participated in summer intensive language study programs in Japan the past two summers.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Being awarded a Fulbright Fellow grant to Japan is incredibly affirming as to the feasibility of achieving my loftiest goals,\u0022 said Shorr.  \u0022The award is tantamount to telling me that a dream of mine - a life of academic research - is entirely within my reach.  Moreover, I see Fulbright as the perfect link between my undergraduate and graduate schooling; the experience of conducting research in Japan will undoubtedly aid me in the future when I plan to collaborate with Japanese colleagues on empirically investigating other psychological questions.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEspy, an international affairs major, plans on going to Germany to study international energy security policy as part of her Fulbright Scholar experience.  Espy has conducted previous research on economic and security cooperation between France and Germany and she participated in a program at the Freie Universitaet in Berlin during the summer of 2005.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Receiving the Fulbright Scholarship is a tremendous honor for me, and I only hope to live up to the international focus and accomplishments of those who have received the grant before me,\u0022 said Espy.  \u0022I am so excited about the opportunities in the upcoming year and to step outside of my comfort zone to experience another culture.\u0022  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThomas D. Earnest, a 2007 graduate of Georgia Tech, has just received a 2008-2009 Fulbright award for research in Tunisia. Thomas majored in international affairs  and spent the last few months studying Arabic with the American Research Center and the International Language Institute in Egypt. Thomas is currently working on Capitol\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nHill for Congressman Phil Gingrey and is living in Washington, DC. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThomas plans research at the Center for Maghrib Studies in Tunis on the high levels of urban migration in Tunisia and the economic development challenges presented by this population shift.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I am extremely honored and humbled by having been awarded the Fulbright grant,\u0022 said Earnest.  \u0022I consider it a great privilege to be given the opportunity to represent our institution and our great country as a citizen ambassador as I am living and studying abroad. While the true breadth of this honor will not be fully realized until I have completed the grant period, it is an honor to be giving the ability to directly pursue my research interests in international economic development.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Three Tech students awarded national scholarship"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Three Georgia Tech students received national scholarships for their academic prowess. Daniel Shorr, Halley Espy and Thomas Earnest all received 2008 Fulbright Scholarships.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Tech students awarded national scholarships."}],"uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2008-05-29 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:33","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-05-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-05-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"73716":{"id":"73716","type":"image","title":"Daniel Shorr","body":null,"created":"1449178012","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:26:52","changed":"1475894676","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:36"},"73717":{"id":"73717","type":"image","title":"Halley Espy","body":null,"created":"1449178012","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:26:52","changed":"1475894676","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:36"},"73718":{"id":"73718","type":"image","title":"Thomas Earnest","body":null,"created":"1449178012","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:26:52","changed":"1475894678","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:38"}},"media_ids":["73716","73717","73718"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.cies.org\/about_fulb.htm","title":"Fulbright Scholarship"}],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"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":["matthew.nagel@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"73731":{"#nid":"73731","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Alumni Reach New Heights","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech alumni will have the opportunity to make history in Atlanta while also supporting the Georgia Tech Alumni Association by being the first to rappel 400 feet down the side of one of the city\u0027s tallest buildings, Viewpoint, Novare Group\u0027s newest new luxury condominium located in Midtown Atlanta.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe rappelling adventure, dubbed \u0022Rappel for Roll Call,\u0022 is part of the Alumni Association\u0027s Centennial Celebration. Young alumni who raise new funds to support the group\u0027s annual fund earn a chance to participate in the rappelling adventure orchestrated by Over the Edge, a special events company that provides ropes and technical consulting for Non profit organizations throughout North America. The event is scheduled for June 14, 2008. Georgia Tech alumni interested in participating in the event can visit gtalumni.org\/RFRC for more information.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Rappelling Adventure Supports Roll Call"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Georgia Tech alumni will have the opportunity to make history in Atlanta while also supporting the Georgia Tech Alumni Association by being the first to rappel 400 feet down the side of one of the city\u0027s tallest buildings.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Ga. Tech alums have chance to rappel 400 ft. building."}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2008-04-28 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:33","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-04-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-04-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/gtalumni.org\/","title":"Georgia Tech Alumni Association"}],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1625","name":"athletics"},{"id":"3465","name":"certification"},{"id":"1155","name":"NCAA"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ELisa Grovenstein\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=lgrovenste3\u0022\u003EContact Lisa Grovenstein\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-8835\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lisa.grovenstein@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"28150":{"#nid":"28150","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Helps Boost State Economy","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology\u0027s impact on the state\u0027s economy totals $1.8 billion, according to an updated report released by the University System of Georgia (USG). In addition, the study determined that Georgia Tech is responsible for 14,281 full- and part-time jobs in the state. Georgia Tech led the seven USG institutions in the metro Atlanta area, which combined, account for nearly $4.5 billion and 40,700 jobs.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"$1.8 Billion Impact No Small Change"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"The Georgia Institute of Technology\u0027s impact on the state\u0027s economy totals $1.8 billion, according to an updated report released by the University System of Georgia (USG).","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Ga. 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Ride, professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego. The convocation was held at the J.W. Marriott in Washington, D.C..\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Georgia Tech President Wayne Clough participated in a panel on Meeting the Competitive Challenge as part of the National Academies Convocation on Rising above the Gathering Storm Two Years Later: Accelerating Progress toward a Brighter Economic Future.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"National Academies Convocation held in D.C."}],"uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2008-04-29 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:33","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-04-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-04-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/president\/","title":"Georgia Tech President G.P. (Bud) Peterson"},{"url":"http:\/\/www7.nationalacademies.org\/gatheringstorm\/","title":"National Academies"}],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"},{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"506","name":"alumni"},{"id":"3462","name":"rappel"},{"id":"3463","name":"rappelling"},{"id":"3464","name":"roll call"}],"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":["matthew.nagel@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"73711":{"#nid":"73711","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Provost Supports Change in Ga. K-12 Math","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EStatement by Dr. Gary Schuster, Provost of the Georgia Institute of Technology, in support of a change in Georgia\u0027s math curriculum:\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI believe that working to make sure that every child has the opportunity to reach his or her educational potential is our obligation  and a critical investment in Georgia\u0027s future. A stronger mathematics curriculum that strikes a balance between concepts, skills and problem solving is a vital part of preparing our young people for the global economy of the 21st century. Georgia Tech continues to support mathematics education throughout the state with our Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing (CEISMC).  CEISMC (pronounced \u0022seismic\u0022) is committed to helping assure that K-12 students in Georgia receive the best possible preparation in science, mathematics and technology as they seek their place in the modern world.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Strong Math Skills Enhance State Workforce"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Statement by Dr. Gary Schuster, Provost of the Georgia Institute of Technology, in support of a change in Georgia\u0027s math curriculum.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Ga. Tech provost supports strong K-12 math program."}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2008-06-13 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:33","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-06-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-06-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"131","name":"Economic Development and Policy"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1033","name":"Economic Impact"},{"id":"726","name":"University System of Georgia"},{"id":"1966","name":"usg"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ELisa Grovenstein\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=lgrovenste3\u0022\u003EContact Lisa Grovenstein\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-8835\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lisa.grovenstein@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"73728":{"#nid":"73728","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Arden L. Bement Jr. Spoke at the Ph. D. commencement ceremony","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EArden L. Bement Jr. Spoke at the Ph. D. commencement ceremony on Wednesday April 23, 2008.   A total of 135 Ph.D.s candidates received degrees at the ceremony.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBement Jr. became the twelfth director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2004 after serving as acting director the previous nine months. Bement heads the only federal agency that funds research and education in all fields of science and engineering. He directs a budget of more than $6 billion; hundreds of programs that support roughly 200,000 scientists, engineers, educators, and students across the country; and the development of world-class facilities and infrastructure. He oversees a robust international research program in the polar regions and several international partnerships to build sophisticated research and experimental facilities.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESince the White House launch of the American Competitiveness Initiative in 2006, Bement has overseen numerous initiatives that strengthen the U.S. innovation base and economic position and intensify the training of the American workforce to operate in a high-tech, global economy. His top priorities have included increasing the size and duration of NSF funding awards; implementing electronic proposal and grant processing at NSF; developing cyber-infrastructure that advances research and education through expanded capabilities for networking, data processing and storage, modeling, and simulation; and broadening international collaborations to leverage NSF investments. He has expanded NSF\u0027s centers of excellence program to encompass dozens of science and engineering disciplines partnering with industries and educators.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe diverse government advisory roles in which Bement has served include head of the NIST Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology; head of the advisory committee for NIST\u0027s Advanced Technology Program; and chair of the Commission for Engineering and Technical Studies and the National Materials Advisory Board of the National Research Council.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBement holds metallurgical engineering degrees from the Colorado School of Mines (bachelor\u0027s), the University of Idaho (master\u0027s), and the University of Michigan (doctoral). He is a retired Lieutenant Colonel of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and a recipient of the Distinguished Service Medal of the Department of Defense.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"135 Ph.D.s candidates received degrees at the ceremony"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Arden L. Bement Jr. Spoke at the Ph. D. commencement ceremony on Wednesday April 23, 2008.   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Georgia Tech\u0027s entry is a Tongue Drive System, from the GT Bionics Lab, that can be used to access a computer, operate a powered wheelchair or control the user\u0027s environment.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"National Competition Features Teams from 10 Universities"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Students from 10 universities will demonstrate their product design and entrepreneurial skills on April 5 at the National Idea-to-Product Competition for Social Entrepreneurship at the Georgia Institute of Technology.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech hosts the National Idea to Product Competition"}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2008-03-28 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:33","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-03-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-03-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2029","name":"Competition"},{"id":"3472","name":"entrepreneurship"},{"id":"3473","name":"idea to product"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"Lisa Grovenstein\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-8835","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"28181":{"#nid":"28181","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Founder of Engineers without Borders to Speak on Campus","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe founder of Engineers Without Borders, Dr. Bernard Amadei, will present the Annual Distinguished Lecture for the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. The event is scheduled for April 8 at 11 a.m. in the Ferst Center for the Arts.\n\nAmadei, a professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Colorado, will discuss the challenges and opportunities associated with practicing engineering in the developing world and the education of engineers through organizations such as Engineers Without Borders.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering Annual Lecture"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"The founder of Engineers Without Borders, Dr. Bernard Amadei, will present the Annual Distinguished Lecture for the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. 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Tech will be bidding to advance to the NCAA Championship for the 11th consecutive year and for the 22nd time in the last 26 years.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETop-ranked Alabama and No. 5 Oklahoma State are the top two seeds ahead of the Yellow Jackets, who have been moved out of their geographic region for the second time in three years. This Central field includes 15 of the nation\u0027s top 50 teams in the most recent Golfweek\/Sagarin Performance Index.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe announcement comes days after junior Cameron Tringale and sophomore Chesson Hadley were \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ramblinwreck.cstv.com\/sports\/m-golf\/spec-rel\/050508aaa.html\u0022\u003Enamed to the 2008 All-Atlantic Coast Conference golf team\u003C\/a\u003E, selected by a vote of the league\u0027s head coaches and announced Monday by the conference office.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"The Yellow Jackets, ranked 8th in the nation, have are the No. 3 seed in the NCAA Central Regional, which will be played May 15-17 at the Ohio State Scarlet Course in Columbus Ohio.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Yellow Jackets Draw No. 3 seed behind Alabama, Oklahoma State"}],"uid":"27299","created_gmt":"2008-05-13 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:33","author":"Michael Hagearty","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-05-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-05-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"3460","name":"Arden Bement"},{"id":"627","name":"commencement"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"3459","name":"Graduate Degree"},{"id":"913","name":"PhD"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EMike  Stamus\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia Tech Athletic Association\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:mstamus@athletics.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EContact Mike  Stamus\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-5445\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["mstamus@athletics.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"73739":{"#nid":"73739","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Fast Plane to China","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn the day Delta Air Lines offered direct service to Shanghai, Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue and a delegation from Georgia were on a flight to establish an economic development office in Beijing for the State of Georgia. Vice Provost for International Initiatives Steve McLaughlin was part of the team.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Part of that trip is going to be focused on \u0027R and D\u0027 and how Georgia (can develop partnerships).\u0022 Tech currently has or is developing collaborative efforts with both Peking University and Tsinghua University in China\u0027s capital city.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Vice Provost Travels with State Delegation"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"On the day Delta Air Lines offered direct service to Shanghai, Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue and a delegation from Georgia were on a flight to establish an economic development office in Beijing for the State of Georgia. Vice Provost for International Initiatives Steve McLaughlin was part of the team.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Ga. Tech Vice Provost joins state group to open partnerships."}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2008-04-03 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:33","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-04-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-04-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ERobert Nesmith\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EICPA\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:robert.nesmith@icpa.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EContact Robert Nesmith\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-385-4142\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["robert.nesmith@icpa.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"73738":{"#nid":"73738","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Ga. Tech Places Third in National Event","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EStudents from 10 universities demonstrated their product design and entrepreneurial skills on April 5 at the National Idea-to-Product Competition for Social Entrepreneurship at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Georgia Tech\u0027s entry, a tongue drive system that can be used to access a computer, operate a powered wheelchair or control the user\u0027s environment, placed third in the competition.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOther winners included the University of Sheffield with their first place recycle project and the Illinois Institute of Technology with their second place project designed to assist blind and visually impaired athletes.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"National Idea to Product Competion Hosted at Ga. Tech"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Students from 10 universities demonstrated their product design and entrepreneurial skills on April 5 at the National Idea-to-Product Competition for Social Entrepreneurship at the Georgia Institute of Technology.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Students from ten universities showcase ideas."}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2008-04-08 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:33","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-04-08T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-04-08T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"131","name":"Economic Development and Policy"}],"keywords":[{"id":"802","name":"China"},{"id":"1802","name":"international"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ELisa Grovenstein\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=lgrovenste3\u0022\u003EContact Lisa Grovenstein\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-8835\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lisa.grovenstein@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"73723":{"#nid":"73723","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Proposal Presented to Name Hemphill Apartments for Crecine","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn recognition of former Georgia Tech President John Patrick  Crecine\u0027s contributions, the Institute has recommended to the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia naming Hemphill Apartment Building on West Campus the John Patrick Crecine Residence Hall.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile serving as the Institute\u0027s ninth president, Crecine is  credited with leading efforts to secure the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games for Atlanta-which in turn reshaped the campus landscape,  primarily West Campus-as well as for restructuring Georgia Tech on  the academic level. This re-organization led to the creation of the College of Computing, the College of Sciences and the forerunner of  the Ivan Allen College.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe hall faces Hemphill Avenue, houses roughly 322 graduate and undergraduate students and borders Eighth and Ninth streets. Other chief West Campus landmarks include the Undergraduate Living Center, the Aquatic Center (now part of the Campus Recreation Center) and other residence halls.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECrecine was honored by President G. Wayne Clough, former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, architect and Georgia Tech alum, John Portman, and Tech faculty members at a memorial service in the Alumni Association\u0027s ballroom May 20. He passed away April  29 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Board of Regents is scheduled  to meet again in June and August. Agenda items are posted on the Friday prior to the meeting date.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Former Tech President Helped Develop West Campus"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"In recognition of former Georgia Tech President John Patrick  Crecine\u0027s contributions, the Institute has recommended to the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia naming Hemphill Apartment Building on West Campus the John Patrick Crecine Residence Hall.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Proposal made to name Hemphill after Crecine."}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2008-05-22 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:33","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-05-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-05-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"}],"keywords":[{"id":"3452","name":"Centennial Place Elementary"},{"id":"783","name":"conservation"},{"id":"1854","name":"institute partnerships"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ERobert Nesmith\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=wnesmith3\u0022\u003EContact Robert Nesmith\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-385-4142\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["robert.nesmith@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"73736":{"#nid":"73736","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Interim Architecture Dean Recognized by DNR","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Historic Preservation Division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources named Douglas Allen, professor and interim dean of the College of Architecture, a recipient of the Governor\u0027s Award for Historic Preservation Stewardship.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe award, given March 26, recognizes historic preservation stewardship relating to state-owned or administered properties or projects. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAllen has worked to preserve the integrity of the college\u0027s buildings, which include the East Architecture Building, the Heffernan House and the Hinman Research Building.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Douglas Allen Receives Governor\u0027s Award"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"The Historic Preservation Division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources named Douglas Allen, professor and interim dean of the College of Architecture, a recipient of the Governor\u0027s Award for Historic Preservation Stewardship.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Douglas Allen recognized for preservation efforts."}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2008-04-09 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:33","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-04-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-04-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"233","name":"Logistics"},{"id":"363","name":"NSF"},{"id":"3470","name":"polar"},{"id":"167074","name":"Supply Chain"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ELisa Grovenstein\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=lgrovenste3\u0022\u003EContact Lisa Grovenstein\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-8835\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lisa.grovenstein@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"73724":{"#nid":"73724","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Elementary Students Learn How to Conserve Water","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology\u0027s Institute Partnerships department and The Home Depot recently joined forces to help Atlanta Public School students learn how to conserve water around their homes. Centennial Place Elementary School fourth and fifth graders learned that by repairing leaky water sources and taking shorter showers, hundreds of gallons of water could be conserved each year. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0027s Center for Education Integrating Science, Math and Computing (CEISMC) is also working with The Home Depot to adapt the home retailers\u0027 water conservation information into a curriculum for six partnering schools including Centennial Place, Inman Middle, Grady High, Bethune Elementary, Kennedy Middle and Washington High.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Ga. Tech and Home Depot Join Forces to Educate Community"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"The Georgia Institute of Technology\u0027s Institute Partnerships department and The Home Depot recently joined forces to help Atlanta Public School students learn how to conserve water around their homes.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Tech and Home Depot work together for conservation."}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2008-05-22 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:33","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-05-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-05-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"73725":{"id":"73725","type":"image","title":"Home Depot","body":null,"created":"1449178012","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:26:52","changed":"1475894678","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:38"}},"media_ids":["73725"],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ELisa Grovenstein\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=lgrovenste3\u0022\u003EContact Lisa Grovenstein\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-8835\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lisa.grovenstein@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"73737":{"#nid":"73737","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Ga. Tech Professor to Serve on NSF Committee","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe National Science Foundation (NSF) recently invited Dr. Donald Ratliff to serve on the Advisory Committee for the Office of Polar Programs (OPP). The committee directs NSF funding for basic research and operational support in the Arctic and the Antarctic. Ratliff will offer his expertise in the area of supply chain and logistics.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Polar Advisory Committee Taps Donald Ratliff"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently invited Dr. Donald Ratliff to serve on the Advisory Committee for the Office of Polar Programs (OPP).","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"NSF invites Ga. Tech professor to serve on committee."}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2008-04-09 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:33","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-04-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-04-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2029","name":"Competition"},{"id":"3472","name":"entrepreneurship"},{"id":"3473","name":"idea to product"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ELisa Grovenstein\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=lgrovenste3\u0022\u003EContact Lisa Grovenstein\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-8835\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lisa.grovenstein@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"73722":{"#nid":"73722","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Parking \u0026 Transportation Offers Vanpool Program","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech, in partnership with \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.vanpoolusa.com\/Home\/index.asp?OID=5\u0022\u003EVPSI, Inc.\u003C\/a\u003E is pleased to offer a vanpool program! This program will match employees and students who live in the same geographic region and commute into the city along a similar route.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhether you already have a group interested in vanpooling or want to learn \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.parking.gatech.edu\/transportation\/15_Vanpool.php\u0022\u003Ehow to form a vanpool\u003C\/a\u003E, please attend the Vanpool Fair either \u003Cstrong\u003EWednesday, May 28, 10 AM-2 PM\u003C\/strong\u003E, Student Center Commons (Piedmont Room, first floor, near Burdell\u0027s) or \u003Cstrong\u003EThursday, May 29, 10 AM-2 PM\u003C\/strong\u003E, Student Center Commons (Crescent Room, second floor).  If you are unable to attend either date, e-mail Tim Hogan with your name, complete home address, including county of residence, and telephone number for more details. \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Georgia Tech is offering a vanpool program that will match employees and students who live in the same geographic region and commute into the city along a similar route.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Alternative commuting options for the campus community"}],"uid":"27299","created_gmt":"2008-05-23 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:33","author":"Michael Hagearty","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-05-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-05-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.parking.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech Parking \u0026 Transportation"}],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"}],"keywords":[{"id":"3453","name":"Crecine"},{"id":"3454","name":"former president"},{"id":"3455","name":"Hemphill"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ETim Hogan\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EParking \u0026amp; Transportation\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tim.hogan@parking.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EContact Tim Hogan\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-385-1287\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["tim.hogan@parking.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"73735":{"#nid":"73735","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Jim Foley Elected to the National Academy of Engineering","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProfessor James D. Foley of the School of Interactive Computing has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Election to the NAE is among the highest professional distinctions given to an engineer and honors those who have made outstanding contributions to \u0022engineering research, practice, or education,\u0022 according to the organization\u0027s website.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, Foley has been given the 2008 Class of 1934 Distinguished Professor Award, the highest honor Georgia Tech bestows on faculty. Recipients of this award, which comes with a $20,000 prize, are selected by the Faculty Honors Committee for their outstanding commitment to teaching, research and service.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EConsidered an international leader at the forefront of computing science, Foley was one of the computer graphics pioneers who helped establish Human Computer Interaction (HCI) as a discipline. He is the first author of what many consider the definitive text in computer graphics, Fundamentals of Interactive Computer Graphics, which has reached 400,000 copies in ten translations.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFoley arrived at CoC as Professor of Computer Science in 1991 and founded the GVU Center. Four years later U.S. News and World Report ranked the Center number one for graduate computer science work in graphics and user interaction.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EActive in industry, Foley became Director of MERL (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory) in 1996 and then CEO and Chairman of Mitsubishi Electric Information Technology Center America in 1998. He returned to Georgia in late 1999 to head up the state\u0027s Yamacraw economic development initiative in design of broadband systems, devices and chips.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nFor four years (2001-2005), Foley chaired the Computing Research Association (CRA), which represents over 200 research universities, corporate research labs, and professional societies.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Professor James D. Foley of the School of Interactive Computing has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering and has just been named the recipient of Tech\u0027s highest honor for faculty, the Class of 1934 Distinguished Professor Award.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Computing professor also recipient of Tech\u0027s highest honor for f"}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2008-04-10 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:33","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-04-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-04-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"175","name":"Architecture"},{"id":"101","name":"Award"},{"id":"3471","name":"preservation"}],"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":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"73720":{"#nid":"73720","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Amanda McDowell Wins NCAA Singles Championship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech All-American \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ramblinwreck.cstv.com\/sports\/w-tennis\/mtt\/mcdowell_amanda00.html\u0022\u003EAmanda McDowell\u003C\/a\u003E completed her run through the NCAA Singles Championships by capturing a straight-set win over Baylor\u0027s Zuzana Zemenova in the finals to become the first Yellow Jacket tennis player to earn an individual national championship.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMcDowell dropped her first game of the championship match but won the next five to take the first set 6-2. She then finished off the Baylor All-American by dropping just three games in the second set to win, 6-2, 6-3.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Yellow Jacket finished her remarkable sophomore campaign with a 45-8 singles record and has notched 84 singles wins through her first two years on the Flats.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMcDowell became the first Yellow Jacket to ever advance to the semifinals when she did so this season and won her last four matches of the tournament in straight sets. Zemenova won the NCAA Singles title as a freshman in 2005.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"All-American Amanda McDowell completed her run through the NCAA Singles Championships by capturing a straight-set win in the finals to become the first Yellow Jacket tennis player to earn an individual national championship.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Sophomore completes incredible season with 45-8 record"}],"uid":"27299","created_gmt":"2008-05-26 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:33","author":"Michael Hagearty","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-05-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-05-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"73721":{"id":"73721","type":"image","title":"Amanda McDowell","body":null,"created":"1449178012","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:26:52","changed":"1475894678","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:38"}},"media_ids":["73721"],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EDean Buchan\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAthletic Association\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:dbuchan@athletics.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EContact Dean Buchan\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-5445\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["dbuchan@athletics.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"73733":{"#nid":"73733","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Student Thomas Christian Named 2008 Morris Udall Scholar","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech student Thomas Christian has been named 2008 Morris Udall Scholar.  Christian is the first Georgia Tech student to win this honor, which is awarded to students who have demonstrated commitment to careers related to the environment.  \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I feel a great sense of accomplishment,\u0022 said Christian. \u0022This honor is a great achievement and the fact that I am Georgia Tech\u0027s first ever Udall is something that I deeply proud of.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Udall Foundation seeks future leaders across a wide spectrum of environmental fields, including policy, engineering, science, education, urban planning and renewal, business, health, justice and economics.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Morris K. Udall was an amazing public servant, and living up to his legacy is something I will strive for continually for the rest of my life,\u0022 said Christian.  \u0022I am extremely proud of being part of the 80 college students in America who are being recognized for our dedication to improving the world in which we live by commitment to careers related to the environment. I am confident that this honor will strengthen and inspire me for years to come.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Christian is first Georgia Tech student to win award"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Georgia Tech student Thomas Christian has been named 2008 Morris Udall Scholar.  Christian is the first Georgia Tech student to win this honor, which is awarded to students who have demonstrated commitment to careers related to the environment.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Tech student named 2008 Morris Udall Scholar"}],"uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2008-04-14 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:33","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-04-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-04-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"73734":{"id":"73734","type":"image","title":"Thomas Christian","body":null,"created":"1449178012","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:26:52","changed":"1475894678","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:38"}},"media_ids":["73734"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.udall.gov\/udall.asp?link=105","title":"Additional Udall Scholarship Information"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.udall.gov\/udall.asp?Year=2008\u0026link=231","title":"Morris K. Udall Foundation"}],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"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":["matthew.nagel@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71195":{"#nid":"71195","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Catherine Murray-Rust Named Dean of Libraries","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFollowing a national search, Georgia Tech has named Catherine Murray-Rust to the position of dean of Libraries. She will succeed Richard Meyer, who previously announced in December his intention to retire. She is scheduled to start August 15, 2008.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMost recently, Murray-Rust has served as dean of libraries at Colorado State University, where she oversaw five facilities with more than 2 million volumes and a staff of 30 library faculty members, 70 support personnel and more than 100 student employees. In response to challenges that she foresees facing academic research libraries-an institution she says is still largely entrenched in its 19th-century roots-a main focus of her tenure at Colorado State was transforming the mission and perception of the library, as well as expanding and utilizing the library\u0027s technological strengths, including the development of digital applications and user-centered services.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDuring her May 5 presentation at Georgia Tech, Murray-Rust outlined these challenges. The main hurdle, she says, is changing how faculty and students view the role and responsibilities of the library. \u0022We need to shift the focus from things-the collection, technology-to the people these things are intended to serve,\u0022 she says. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAcademic research libraries must make the move to partner on \u0027forward-looking projects\u0027 in addition to advocating for library services and collections. Moving toward digital planning, research and production is a must, she adds, as is participation in information policy-making. The successful research library will offer, in Murray-Rust\u0027s estimation, \u0027meta-librarians\u0027 and information \u0027extension agents,\u0027 willing to foresee users\u0027 needs and provide scholarly research for a wider audience. Tech already has made significant strides in this area, Murray-Rust said, adding the challenge will be to continue striving and moving forward, \u0027on a day-by-day strategy.\u0027\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I\u0027m delighted to bring Catherine\u0027s vision and experience to the libraries of Georgia Tech,\u0022 said Provost Gary Schuster. \u0022Thanks to Dean Meyer\u0027s leadership, the library is well-positioned for the next phase of growth and innovation and Catherine is the right person to build upon our progress.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPrior to her Colorado State University tenure, Murray-Rust served as associate university librarian for Public Services and Innovative Technology at Oregon State from 1999 to 2003. After serving as a reference librarian, technology trainer and associate university librarian, she ended her 21-year experience at Cornell as director of campus delivery for the university\u0027s project 2000. From 1973 to 1977, she worked for Reuters News Agency and Oxfam\/VOCAD in London.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMurray-Rust\u0027s diverse educational background includes a charter in Librarianship from the Library Association of Great Britain (1976), a graduate diploma in Library and Information Studies from the University of London (1974) and a bachelor\u0027s degree in political science and history from Mount Holyoke College. She also completed graduate studies in international nutrition from Cornell University (1979), conducted graduate coursework and independent study in African politics and international relations at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania (1971-72) and participated in an internship with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (1969).\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Following a national search, Georgia Tech has named Catherine Murray-Rust to the position of dean of Libraries. She will succeed Richard Meyer, who previously announced in December his intention to retire. She is scheduled to start August 15.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech has named Catherine Murray-Rust dean of libraries."}],"uid":"27191","created_gmt":"2008-06-06 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:15","author":"Robert Nesmith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-06-06T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-06-06T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71196":{"id":"71196","type":"image","title":"media:image:6021e234-4c7d-4eea-87ac-eeb37f9579e5","body":null,"created":"1449177358","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:58","changed":"1475894630","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:50"}},"media_ids":["71196"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.library.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech Library and Information Center"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2077","name":"Catherine Murray-Rust"},{"id":"2078","name":"dean"},{"id":"2079","name":"libraries"},{"id":"1205","name":"Library"},{"id":"2080","name":"Richard Meyer"}],"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":["matthew.nagel@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71185":{"#nid":"71185","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Computer Predicts Anti-Cancer Molecules","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA new computer-based method of analyzing cellular activity has correctly predicted the anti-tumour activity of several molecules. Research published today in BioMed Central\u0027s open access journal, Molecular Cancer, describes \u0027CoMet\u0027 - a tool that studies the integrated machinery of the cell and predicts those components that will have an effect on cancer.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EJeffery Skolnick, professor in the School of Biology and director of the Center for the Study of Systems Biology, in collaboration with John McDonald, chair of the School of Biology, led a team from the Georgia Institute of Technology who have developed this new strategy. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This opens up the possibility of novel therapeutics for cancer and develops our understanding of why such metabolites work. CoMet provides a deeper understanding of the molecular mechanisms of cancer,\u0022 said Skolnick.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe small molecules that are naturally produced in cells are called metabolites. Enzymes, the biological catalysts that produce and consume these metabolites, are created according to a cell\u0027s genetic blueprints. Importantly, however, the metabolites can also affect the expression of genes. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022By comparing the gene expression levels of cancer cells relative to normal cells and converting that information into the enzymes that produce metabolites,\u0022 said Skolnick,  \u0022CoMet predicts metabolites that have lower concentrations in cancer relative to normal cells.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe research proves that when such putatively depleted metabolites are added to cancer cells, they exhibit anticancer properties. In this case, growth of leukemia cells was slowed by all nine of the metabolites suggested by CoMet. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe future for this treatment looks bright, added McDonald. \u0022While we have only performed cell proliferation assays, it is reasonable to speculate that some metabolites may also exhibit many other anticancer properties,\u0022 he said. \u0022These could be important steps on the road to a cure.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"A new computer-based method of analyzing cellular activity has correctly predicted the anti-tumour activity of several molecules. Research published today in BioMed Central\u0027s open access journal, Molecular Cancer, describes \u0027CoMet\u0027 - a tool that studies the integrated machinery of the cell and predicts those components that will have an effect on cancer.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"CoMet predicts which cell components have effect on cancer"}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2008-06-17 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:15","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-06-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-06-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71186":{"id":"71186","type":"image","title":"Tech Tower","body":null,"created":"1449177358","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:58","changed":"1475894630","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:50"}},"media_ids":["71186"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.biology.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Biology"},{"url":"http:\/\/cssb.biology.gatech.edu\/index.html","title":"Center for the Study of Systems Biology"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"140","name":"Cancer Research"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2070","name":"cancer cell"},{"id":"2069","name":"CoMet"},{"id":"281","name":"mcdonald"},{"id":"2071","name":"molecule"},{"id":"169252","name":"skolnick"}],"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":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71183":{"#nid":"71183","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Klaus Building Receives LEED Gold Certification","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0027s ongoing commitment to campus sustainability received validation last month when the Christopher W. Klaus Advanced Computing Building (KACB), home to the College of Computing and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was awarded a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold certification.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDeveloped by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), LEED provides a comprehensive system of standards for environmentally sound practices across all aspects of development and construction. In addition to raising awareness and promoting the benefits of \u0027green building,\u0027 achieving certification grants recognition to the leaders in sustainable practices, from new construction to the renovation of existing buildings. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELEED status is given in four categories-Certified, Silver, Gold and Platinum-which address six major areas: sustainable sites, water efficiency, energy and atmosphere, materials and resources, indoor environmental quality, and innovation and design process. When a building is submitted for certification, points are awarded for compliance in these areas.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESilver certification-which ranges from 33 to 38 points-was the goal in constructing KACB, said project manager Ron LeRoy. Upon its completion in 2006 and the subsequent submittal for certification, KACB ultimately was awarded with 42 points, enough for the Gold certification. LeRoy explained that because sometimes design aspects do not always translate to points with USGBC, architects and engineers aimed for more points than necessary for Silver certification. \u0022We were seeking as many points as we could possibly get,\u0022 said LeRoy. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe 414,000-square-foot structure conforms to the land, echoing the site\u0027s curvature while preserving 50 percent of the landscape as green space. Storm water runoff is managed and recovered in underground cisterns. Extensive use of recyclables in the building\u0027s construction and high-efficiency heating and cooling systems round out the sustainable features, along with features that contribute to reduced water usage, such as native plants in the landscaping and waterless urinals.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This shows that we at Georgia Tech are being proactive,\u0022 LeRoy said. \u0022We strive to be good stewards, and we\u0027re doing the right thing not only for the campus, but for everyone. Not many realize it, but the cisterns assist in campus watering efforts during the drought.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EKlaus is the second Tech building to receive LEED\u003Cbr \/\u003E\ncertification. In 2003, the College of Management building received a Silver designation-only the second LEED-certified building in the state of Georgia at the time. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Georgia Tech was one of the first universities to embrace the LEED guidelines in helping to inform intelligent design decisions during the planning and design process,\u0022 said Howard S. Wertheimer, director of Capital Planning \u0026amp; Space Management. In fact, the Institute\u0027s Architecture and Engineering Design Standards for Building Technology (Georgia Tech\u0027s \u0027Yellow Book\u0027)  -commitment to a comprehensive \u0027green\u0027 building program- means all capital projects will be implemented under LEED requirements for Silver certification.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Georgia Tech will continue to seek opportunities to expand our leadership in campus sustainability initiatives that will enable us to continue to reduce our carbon footprint,\u0022 said Wertheimer, himself a LEED-certified architect. \u0022The Klaus Building is one small step in that process.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Georgia Tech\u0027s ongoing commitment to campus sustainability received validation last month when the Christopher W. Klaus Advanced Computing Building (KACB), home to the College of Computing and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was awarded a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold certification.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The USGBC lauds Tech for its sustainable construction"}],"uid":"27191","created_gmt":"2008-06-19 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:15","author":"Robert Nesmith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-06-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-06-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71184":{"id":"71184","type":"image","title":"Klaus Advanced Computing Building","body":null,"created":"1449177358","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:58","changed":"1475894630","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:50"}},"media_ids":["71184"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/","title":"College of Computing"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.space.gatech.edu\/","title":"Capital Planning and Space Management"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/gallery\/v\/media\/klaus","title":"KACB Photo Gallery"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2064","name":"Christopher W. Klaus Advanced Computing Building"},{"id":"654","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"2068","name":"Gold certification"},{"id":"2066","name":"KACB"},{"id":"2065","name":"Klaus"},{"id":"2067","name":"LEED"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ERobert Nesmith\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=wnesmith3\u0022\u003EContact Robert Nesmith\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-385-4142\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["robert.nesmith@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71174":{"#nid":"71174","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Arms Race Against Junk DNA Shapes Genome Evolution","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EScientists at Georgia Tech have found supporting evidence for a theory they first created in the 1990s, that many of the components that make up our genes are the result of an arms race between the coding and the non-coding parts of the genome. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the latest issue of BMC - Molecular Biology, these researchers show for the first time that a key regulatory protein, called MOF, plays a central role in the silencing of transposable elements, also known as junk DNA. They hypothesize that this role was MOF\u0027s original function  - that this and perhaps other regulatory proteins originally evolved as a defense against transposable elements. It was only later that they were co-opted to play an essential role in cellular function.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Our findings support a growing consensus among molecular evolutionists that transposable elements are not merely \u0027junk DNA\u0027 but have and continue to play an important role in genome evolution\u0022 said John McDonald, chair of the School of Biology at the Georgia Institute of Technology and chief research scientist at the Ovarian Cancer Institute.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn this study, McDonald along with Lilya Matyunina and Nathan Bowen first determined that the repression of transposable elements in the fruit fly Drosophila, is due to the manner in which DNA is packaged into chromosomes. They next used genetic techniques to localize the effect to a gene encoding the MOF protein. It turns out that MOF is already well known as a vitally important protein not only in fruit flies but in humans as well. MOF helps ensure that males and females express genes at a uniform level even though they have different numbers of chromosomes -a cellular process known as dosage compensation.  The authors propose that MOF originally evolved to silence the activity of transposable elements and was only later co-opted for its current critical role in dosage compensation. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESince McDonald first proposed his theory more than a decade ago, the view that transposable elements are little more than genomic parasites has been gradually replaced by the view that this so-called junk DNA is actually a possible source of new regulatory mutations that help drive evolution and are associated with diseases like cancer.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThere are two ways that transposable elements are thought to contribute to evolution. As the elements replicate they end up moving from one location on the genome to another. By inserting themselves in or near existing genes, they can instigate significant changes or mutations in gene expression in the organism and in the traits it exhibits. This can result in new evolutionary changes or in genetic abnormalities that lead to disease.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe second contribution occurs as the host genome tries to repress the mutations by creating proteins that inhibit the ability of transposable elements to replicate. Not about to be outdone, the transposable elements generate new traits that allow them to escape the barriers put forth by the host genome. The result is a genomic conflict of sorts in which new regulatory mechanisms arise because of this struggle. Many of these new mechanisms may end up not having any other function, but others may end up promoting diseases or they might be co-opted by the genome for other cellular functions.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E McDonald views the relationship between transposable elements and the host genomes where they reside as a genomic \u0022arms race.\u0022 Transposable elements are continually trying to invent ways to replicate and move around the genome and host genomes are continually trying to evolve ways to repress this potentially mutagenic activity.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Just as arms races in human societies generate technologies that can sometimes be co-opted for non-military purposes, so can regulatory mechanisms that were originally evolved to repress transposable elements be subsequently co-opted for essential cellular processes\u0022 said McDonald.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMcDonald believes that the genomic level war that is being waged between transposable elements and host genomes has been an essential driving force in the evolution biological complexity.  \u0022Biologists initially dismissed transposable elements as useless pieces of selfish DNA but the fact is that if it weren\u0027t for transposable elements, higher organisms may never have evolved,\u0022 he said. \n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Scientists at Georgia Tech have found supporting evidence for a theory they first created in the 1990s, that many of the components that make up our genes are the result of an arms race between the coding and the non-coding parts of the genome.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Regulatory protein found to silence transposable elements"}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2008-06-20 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:15","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-06-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-06-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71175":{"id":"71175","type":"image","title":"osophila genome with transposable elements","body":null,"created":"1449177358","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:58","changed":"1475894630","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:50"}},"media_ids":["71175"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.biology.gatech.edu\/faculty\/john-mcdonald\/","title":"John McDonald"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2063","name":"arms"},{"id":"1041","name":"dna"},{"id":"1110","name":"gene"},{"id":"1133","name":"genome"}],"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":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71168":{"#nid":"71168","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Joint Masters Degree in Water Resources Management Launched","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Water Resource Management Institute (GWRI) and the University of Pretoria Water Institute (UPWI) have launched of a Master of Science in Water Resources Management degree. The new joint degree program is being offered through the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Pretoria in South Africa.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Sustainable water resources development and management are key to economic development and societal change in Africa,\u0022 said Professor Aris Georgakakos of Georgia Tech\u0027s School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and director of GWRI. \u0022This is because water resources are the basis of agricultural activities which, in Africa, employ more than 80 percent of the labor force and generate more than 50 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP). Moreover, water resources support hydropower development, which powers industrial growth.\u0022   \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EUnderstanding water-related issues and disciplines has a vital impact on environmental and socio-economic change, according to the Georgakakos. \u0022The joint degree program was created with these needs in mind,\u0022 he noted. \u0022This educational and applied research program combines the expertise and strengths of the two water institutes with the goal of creating qualified specialists who will ably serve African governments, industries and academia.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Currently the world is experiencing a water crisis,\u0022 said Professor Eugene Cloete, head of the University of Pretoria\u0027s Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology and leader of the Southern Education and Research Alliance (SERA) Water Task Team. \u0022The collection, dissemination and exchange of water-related information and know-how is therefore a matter of priority to improve the sharing of knowledge and building human capacity concerning water-related issues.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe UPWI currently has 45 students enrolled at the master\u0027s and PhD levels, including students from Kenya, Eritrea, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, Nigeria, Canada, Germany and Mozambique.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGWRI was established in 1964 and is part of a network of water resources institutes operating in each U.S. state. Georgia Tech and GWRI have worldwide research and education involvement including North and South America, Europe, China, Singapore, India and Africa. In particular, GWRI\u0027s involvement in Africa spans more than 20 years and has focused on developing prototype information and decision support systems for water, energy, and environmental resources planning and management in the Nile and Congo River basins. This work is carried out through collaborative relationships with the governments of Burundi, Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Ga. Tech Partners with University of Pretoria"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"The Georgia Water Resource Management Institute (GWRI) and the University of Pretoria Water Institute (UPWI) have launched of a Master of Science in Water Resources Management degree. The new joint degree program is being offered through the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Pretoria in South Africa.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"New joint degree program focuses on water."}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2008-06-27 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:15","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-06-27T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-06-27T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71169":{"id":"71169","type":"image","title":"media:image:4914f9a1-b541-4ff0-af16-a012a682049e","body":null,"created":"1449177348","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:48","changed":"1475894630","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:50"}},"media_ids":["71169"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gwri.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Water Resources Institute"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2061","name":"Georgakakos"},{"id":"2058","name":"GWRI"},{"id":"2059","name":"Pretoria"},{"id":"167435","name":"South Africa"},{"id":"788","name":"Water"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ELisa Grovenstein\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=lgrovenste3\u0022\u003EContact Lisa Grovenstein\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-8835\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lisa.grovenstein@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71340":{"#nid":"71340","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Refers Case to State Attorney General\u0027s Office for Action","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA case involving two professors from the Georgia Institute of Technology has been referred to the Attorney General of Georgia for possible legal action relating to potential fraud and theft.  In addition, Georgia Tech has initiated the tenure revocation process for the two faculty members.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe faculty members are suspected of dual employment and double billing their time to the Institute, falsifying travel reimbursement documents and other potentially illegal actions. To date, the investigation has revealed approximately $100,000 in questionable activity.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This is an isolated case that does not reflect on the character of our outstanding faculty who, through their demonstrated integrity, daily earn the respect of their peers and society,\u0022 said James Fetig, associate vice president, Georgia Tech Communications and Marketing.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA review of expense records by the Georgia Tech Department of Internal Audits revealed the suspicious activity.  While the total amount resulting from the questionable spending has not yet been determined, it is initially believed that the funding sources were private research grants and that no public funds were involved. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech will work closely with the Attorney General\u0027s Office as the investigation continues.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"A case involving two professors from the Georgia Institute of Technology has been referred to the Attorney General of Georgia for possible legal action relating to potential fraud and theft.  In addition, Georgia Tech has initiated the tenure revocation process for the two faculty members.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Tech refers case to Georgia Attorney General"}],"uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2008-04-16 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:10","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-04-16T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-04-16T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"}],"keywords":[{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"}],"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":["matthew.nagel@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71392":{"#nid":"71392","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tech Tests Wireless Emergency Alert System for Visually Impaired","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearchers at Georgia Tech\u0027s Wireless Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center received good news last month during testing of their Wireless Emergency Communications (WEC) project. Results indicate that 94 percent of blind and visually impaired test subjects found WEC to be a significant improvement over their current methods of receiving emergency alerts.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGiven that 18 percent of Americans are thought to have some type of disability, and that an estimated 60 percent of Americans use wireless services, it was not surprising that the Center\u0027s Survey of User Needs (SUN) revealed that people with disabilities are significant users of wireless products and services.  Further, 65 percent of those respondents said that their wireless devices were important because of the role they play in summoning help in an emergency. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The advantage of accessible emergency communications software and devices is that  they can reach the user, no matter what their activity or location, with lifesaving information,\u0022 said Helena Mitchell, executive director of the Center for Advanced Communications Policy and project director for WEC. \u0022In the end, people with disabilities have the right to expect that the technology they use on a regular basis is capable of providing them with emergency communications and timely warnings and alerts.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis first field test involved participants from the Georgia Radio Reading Service in a full-day study to engage the effectiveness and accessibility of this prototype emergency alerting system. Subjects ranged from sight-enhanced individuals to those who are fully blind.  Additionally, the test subjects\u0027 level of familiarity and use of wireless technologies ranged from technically savvy to infrequent users.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMobile phones with WEC custom software featured an audio-oriented interface and text-to-speech reading of emergency alerts for the visually impaired; the capability to recognize an incoming alert of critical importance and override any muted sound or vibration settings to ensure that the critical alarm was delivered; and an alert attention signal that is identical to the national Emergency Alert System (EAS) tone familiar to the hearing population.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWEC sent a series of SMS messages (text messages) to Cingular 3125 Smartphones provided to each test subject.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWEC tested custom software that runs on a Windows Mobile OS, designed to send accessible emergency alerts to short message service (SMS) capable handsets.  The custom software then presented the content of the text alert in an audio format.  WEC engineers simulated the emergency alerts, employing the Common Alerting Protocol, as if they originated from the National Weather Service.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThree separate weather alerts of increasing intensity were issued to participants over a period of time.  Many of the test subjects liked the idea that with each \u0027test message\u0027 the alert signal got louder, indicating the severity of the event.  In all three test groups, affordability was raised as an important issue.  Some noted they liked the \u0027repeat\u0027 option in case they did not hear it clearly the first time, and that it was \u0027superior to just receiving alerts from TV, radio or friends,\u0027 in which cases the alerts might not be targeted or immediate.  Others felt that the specialized software would not only benefit them, but also their family and friends who might be on public transportation, biking, hiking or anyone away from home carrying a mobile device.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAdditional field tests are slated for upcoming months in 2008, including at Public Broadcasting Atlanta and the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) in Rochester, New York in June. In the NTID field test the WEC software will have the additional feature of vibration alarms that will notify the deaf and hard-of-hearing population of incoming alerts.  A full report on the field tests is expected to be completed in the Fall of 2008, when all the test results and user feedback is complete. Primary funding was made possible by the U.S. Department of Education\u0027s National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research. \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Researchers at Georgia Tech\u0027s Wireless Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center received good news last month during testing of their Wireless Emergency Communications (WEC) project. Results indicate that 94 percent of blind and visually impaired test subjects found WEC to be a significant improvement over their current methods of receiving emergency alerts.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"First of three tests show positive results"}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2008-03-04 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:10","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-03-04T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2008-03-04T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71393":{"id":"71393","type":"image","title":"Buzz","body":null,"created":"1449177376","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:16","changed":"1475894634","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:54"}},"media_ids":["71393"],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2183","name":"communications"},{"id":"1754","name":"deaf"},{"id":"2184","name":"hearing-impaired"},{"id":"1526","name":"wireless"}],"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":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71203":{"#nid":"71203","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech to Compete in EcoCAR Challenge","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology has been selected as one of 17 teams chosen by the U.S. Department of Energy, General Motors and Natural Resources Canada to participate in EcoCAR: The NeXt Challenge, a collegiate vehicle engineering competition set to begin in the Fall of 2008.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEcoCAR will challenge university engineering students across North America to reengineer a 2009 Saturn VUE to achieve improved fuel economy and reduced green house gas emissions, while retaining the vehicle\u0027s performance and consumer appeal.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EStudents will design and build advanced propulsion solutions that are based on the vehicle categories from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) zero emissions vehicle (ZEV) regulations. They will be encouraged to explore a variety of cutting-edge clean vehicle solutions, including full-function electric, range-extended electric, hybrid, plug-in hybrid and fuel cell technologies. In addition, they will incorporate lightweight materials into the vehicles, improve aerodynamics and utilize alternative fuels such as ethanol, biodiesel and hydrogen.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDuring the three-year program, General Motors will provide production vehicles, vehicle components, seed money, technical mentoring and operational support. The U.S. Department of Energy and its research and development facility, Argonne National Laboratory, will provide competition management, team evaluation, and technical and logistical support. Through sponsoring such advanced vehicle technology competitions, GM and the U.S. Department of Energy are developing the next generation of scientists and engineers.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I couldn\u0027t be more excited about the project. It\u0027s a great opportunity for Georgia Tech\u0027s students to show their creativity and technical excellence in addressing one of society\u0027s greatest needs,\u0022 said Dr. Tom Fuller, director of the Center for Innovative Fuel Cell and Battery Technologies in the Georgia Tech Research Institute, a professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Tech and a lead faculty advisor for the project. \u0022Working together with Georgia Tech\u0027s world-class research community and coordinating with industry, EcoCAR will serve as a significant demonstration project for the College of Engineering and the Institute. The interdisciplinary and multifaceted nature of this project will foster collaboration among students in Mechanical, Electrical and Computer, Civil and Environmental, and Chemical Engineering as well as students in the Colleges of Management, Sciences, and Liberal Arts.  Furthermore, this project fits well within the scope and heart of Georgia Tech\u0027s Strategic Energy Institute, whose charge is to actively engage in and facilitate energy technology development.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the first year, teams will develop their vehicle designs through the use of GM\u0027s Global Vehicle Development Process - the modeling and simulation process currently used to develop all of GM\u0027s vehicles. Sophisticated hardware in the loop (HIL) and software in the loop (SIL) systems will be utilized, and teams will be challenged to model and simulate the integration of their subsystems into the overall vehicle design. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022EcoCAR is the latest in a series of Department-sponsored student competitions that will foster the training of the next generation of engineers who will develop the clean vehicle technology solutions to enhance our energy security and reduce greenhouse gas emissions,\u0022 said Ed Wall, DOE\u0027s Vehicle Technologies Program manager. \u0022It will be exciting to watch as the students work over the next three years to design, build, test and showcase their vehicles.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe emphasis is on optimizing a practical, realizable solution that will meet the goals of the competition. During the second and third years of the competition, students will build the vehicle and continue to refine, test, and improve vehicle operation. At the end of years two and three, the re-engineered student vehicle prototypes will compete in a week-long competition of engineering tests. These tests will be similar to the tests GM conducts to determine a prototype\u0027s readiness for production. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Greenhouse gas, Regulated Emissions, and Energy in Transportation (GREET) model, developed at Argonne National Laboratory, will be used to assess a well-to-wheel analysis of the net greenhouse gas impacts, energy consumption and pollutant emissions of each technology approach the teams select.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to sponsorship from GM and DOE, Platinum sponsor Government of Canada is providing extensive operational support. The other Platinum sponsors - dSPACE, National Instruments, The MathWorks and Freescale Semiconductor - are providing critical software and hardware components. Gold sponsors are The National Science Foundation and MotoTron Corporation. Silver sponsors are SnapOn Tools and Renewable Fuels Association. Bronze sponsors are: Delphi Corporation, EcoMotors, CarSim and Bosch.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"The Georgia Institute of Technology has been selected as one of 17 teams chosen by the U.S. Department of Energy, General Motors and Natural Resources Canada to participate in EcoCAR: The NeXt Challenge, a collegiate vehicle engineering competition set to begin in the Fall of 2008.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Tech to compete to create clean vehicle"}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2008-06-03 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:10","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-06-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-06-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71204":{"id":"71204","type":"image","title":"Tech Tower","body":null,"created":"1449177358","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:58","changed":"1475894630","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:50"}},"media_ids":["71204"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ecocarchallenge.org\/","title":"EcoCAR Web site"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1850","name":"alternative energy"},{"id":"2086","name":"clean vehicle"},{"id":"2084","name":"EcoCAR"},{"id":"2085","name":"NeXt Challenge"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ELisa Grovenstein\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=lgrovenste3\u0022\u003EContact Lisa Grovenstein\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-8835\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lisa.grovenstein@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71201":{"#nid":"71201","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Public Funding Impacts Progress of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBolstered by supportive policies and public research dollars, the United Kingdom, Israel, China, Singapore and Australia are producing unusually large shares of human embryonic stem cell research, according to a report from the Georgia Institute of Technology in the June 2008 issue Cell Stem Cell. Aaron Levine, assistant professor of public policy and author of the book Cloning: A Beginner\u0027s Guide, studied how countries output of research papers related to human embryonic stem cell research compared to their output in less contentious fields. He found that even though the United States still puts out far more research in this field than any other single country, when one compares the amount of research in human embryonic stem cells to other forms of research in molecular biology and genetics, the U.S. lags behind.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The U.S. is still the largest producer of research in this field, but compared to other similar fields, our share is smaller,\u0022 said Levine, assistant professor in Georgia Tech\u0027s Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts. \u0022You have to ask yourself, are we happy producing this relatively small share?\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn comparison, the study showed that the U.K. and Israel were producing substantially more research in this area than in other fields. According to the study, the U.K. produced 5.3 percent more research related to human embryonic stem cells than research performed in other areas of molecular biology and genetics, while Israel produced 4.6 percent more research. Levine attributed that to the long-held public and political support of human embryonic stem cell research in those countries.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Both the U.K. and Israel have long-standing policies that support research in this field,\u0022 said Levine, \u0022And this support seems likely to have bolstered scientists\u0027 efforts to set up labs and acquire funding for their research.\u0022  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBut the biggest surprise was China and Singapore, with China producing 3.2 percent more human embryonic stem cell research than other areas of molecular biology and genetics, and Singapore producing 2.6 percent more research. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022China and Singapore both showed impressive performance in human embryonic stem cell research,\u0022 said Levine.  \u0022Although these countries are very different, both have been striving to grow their biomedical research communities and it seems likely they focused on human embryonic stem cell research, in part, because they saw that traditional scientific powerhouses like the United States were moving so tentatively in this area.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAustralia had a more mixed policy and a more mixed result. While Australia does allow new stem cell lines to be created from fertility treatments, it explicitly banned the use of stem cells derived from somatic cell nuclear transfer from 2002 to 2006. Beginning in 2006 scientists were allowed to use stem cells from somatic cell nuclear transfer, but under strict regulatory guidelines. That may explain why Levine\u0027s study found that Australia showed a more modest result of producing only 1.6 percent more human embryonic stem cell research than other areas of molecular biology and genetics. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe United States, however, is significantly under-performing in this area. Although Levine\u0027s study found that the U.S. produced 36 percent of the research performed on human embryonic stem cells, far more than any other country, when he compared those studies to other areas of research in molecular biology and genetics, he found that the U.S. had a deficit of 10 percent. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAlthough the U.S. government is the funding source for 63 percent of academic research and development, federal funds can only be used for studies on a small number of stem cell lines produced before August 9, 2001. As a result, much research in this area in the U.S. is done either with state money or private money. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGiven that scientists have less incentive in the private sector to publish research papers, it\u0027s possible that Levine\u0027s metric undercounts the amount of research done in this area in the U.S. But even so, the contribution from the U.S. is still reduced since research that isn\u0027t published does little to increase public knowledge. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBut that may change. Venturing where the federal government fears to tread, states like California, New York, Connecticut and Maryland are becoming places researchers can turn to for human embryonic stem cell funding. But Levine thinks that development may complicate matters. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022There are a variety of funding sources out there now, but it makes the field more complicated for scientists to follow the various rules set forth by the states and foundations,\u0022 said Levine. \u0022I think scientists would prefer clear oversight from a federal government that\u0027s supportive of their research.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELevine plans to follow up this current work with a look at how collaboration is affected by these different state policies. \n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Bolstered by supportive policies and public research dollars, the United Kingdom, Israel, China, Singapore and Australia are producing unusually large shares of human embryonic stem cell research. While states like California and New York are picking up more research funding in the U.S.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"U.K., Israel, China and Singapore do well, U.S. not where it sho"}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2008-06-04 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:10","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-06-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-06-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71202":{"id":"71202","type":"image","title":"Tech Tower","body":null,"created":"1449177358","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:58","changed":"1475894630","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:50"}},"media_ids":["71202"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.cloningbg.com\/","title":"Cloning: A Beginner\\\u0027s Guide"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.spp.gatech.edu\/faculty\/faculty\/alevine.php","title":"Aaron Levine"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2083","name":"cloning"},{"id":"167413","name":"Stem Cell"}],"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":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71472":{"#nid":"71472","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Ga. Tech Ranks 12th Among Kiplinger\u0027s Best Values","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech ranks 12th among best values for public universities, according to Kiplinger\u0027s 100 Best Values in Public Colleges.  \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETech moved up one spot nationally for in-state students from 13th in 2007 to 12th in 2008.  Kiplinger also ranked Georgia Tech (58) among the 100 best values for students paying out-of-state tuition rates.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESelected from a pool of more than 500 public four-year colleges and universities, schools in the Kiplinger 100 were ranked according to academic quality, cost and financial aid.  Schools that made the list keep costs down through creative financing, such as using funding from lottery ticket sales, university-branded apparel and private fundraisers.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill tops the list, with the University of Florida and the University of Virginia taking second and third, respectively.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Tech ranks among best values nationally"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Georgia Tech ranks 12th among best values for public universities, according to Kiplinger\u0027s 100 Best Values in Public Colleges.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Tech moves up one spot on Kiplinger\u0027s best values."}],"uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2008-01-08 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:10","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-01-08T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2008-01-08T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71473":{"id":"71473","type":"image","title":"Tech Tower","body":null,"created":"1449177386","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:26","changed":"1475894637","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:57"}},"media_ids":["71473"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.kiplinger.com\/","title":"Kiplinger"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"}],"keywords":[{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"2221","name":"Kiplinger"},{"id":"834","name":"Rankings"}],"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":["matthew.nagel@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71379":{"#nid":"71379","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Student Named 2007 Co-Op Student of the Year","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERichard \u0027Reeve\u0027 Ingle, a Georgia Tech Division of Professional Practice (DoPP) co-op student, was recently named 2007 Student of the Year by the Cooperative Education Division of the American Society of Engineering Education (CED - ASEE). Ingle is a senior electrical engineering major with a minor in Spanish, and has a 4.0 cumulative GPA. He has completed four co-op work terms with the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston and an internship with the U.S. Department of Defense in Ft. Meade, Maryland.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAs a co-op student at NASA, Ingle worked on a variety of projects, including the design of a dashboard display unit, developing an RF spectrum map for the SCOUT Project (NASA\u0027s \u0027moon-buggy\u0027 robot rover), developing electrical systems drawings for the International Space Station Japanese Experiment Module, and investigating methods of cleaning clothing in space.  He also trained to be a back-room flight controller in Mission Control Center, wrote a technical report on space exploration research (which he presented at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Banquet in Spring 2005), and was the only co-op student selected to support NASA robotics field testing at Meteor Crater, Arizona, in Fall 2006.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIngle has been a strong and consistent supporter of both Georgia Tech and NASA\u0027s cooperative education programs. He has spoken at on-campus NASA information sessions and designed a Web-based co-op housing guide that is still used on NASA\u0027s co-op Website. As a Co-op Ambassador for the Georgia Tech Division of Professional Practice, Ingle spoke about his co-op experience and the benefits of cooperative education at the Academics Beyond the Classroom Expo at the President\u0027s Scholarship Reception and the Electrical and Computer Engineering Co-op Information Session.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022He possesses a unique combination of communications, people, and technical skills as exemplified by the diversity of his engineering studies, community service and leadership activities in which he participates,\u0022 said Tom Akins, executive director of the Division of Professional Practice at Georgia Tech. \u0022It is this breadth of interests, activities and skills that makes him such a strong and well-rounded student and co-op.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIngle studied in Mexico City and Madrid and worked as a teaching assistant in Mexico City.  He has done undergraduate research in the Georgia Tech Optics Lab and also worked as a mathematics teaching assistant. Ingle has been actively involved with Eta Kappa Nu Electrical Engineering Honor Society, Tau Beta Pi Honor Society,Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Christian Campus Fellowship and intramural sports. Additionally, he has volunteered as a host for Connect with Tech, a weekend for prospective students. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to participating in several on-campus activities, Ingle is also actively involved in the community. He was a mentor for the NASA Explorer Schools Reduced Gravity Program and a Texas Aerospace Scholars Volunteer Leader for a rover design program for college students. He has served as a committee chair for Tech Beautification Day and the TEAM Buzz Volunteer Service Organization, and has tutored students with disabilities through the Georgia Tech ADAPTS program. He received the 2003 Outstanding Service in Historical Preservation Award from the Carroll County Historical Society for design of the Carrollton Main Street Association Web site: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/historic.carrolltongeorgia.com\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/historic.carrolltongeorgia.com\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/historic.carrolltongeorgia.com\u003C\/a\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAmong the awards Ingle has received are the NASA-JSC Outstanding Co-op Award; Georgia Tech Outstanding ECE Sophomore; Georgia Governor\u0027s Honors Program; and valedictorian of his high school class. He earned the Eagle Scout rank and received a state Boy Scout award for rescuing a person with a broken leg in the Smoky Mountains.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAs one of Ingle\u0027s supervisors at NASA noted, \u0022I cannot overemphasize how exemplary Ingle was in every facet of his tour with us. We give him our unqualified strongest recommendation as a result of his work here. Ingle truly was one of the most outstanding co-ops I have ever worked with, and I am glad to have had that opportunity.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIngle will start a PhD program in electrical engineering in Fall, 2008, but has not yet decided upon a school. He plans to work at the NASA Johnson Space Center Electronic Systems Test Lab during Summer 2008.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Division of Professional Practice, originally established in 1912 as the Georgia Institute of Technology Co-op Division, places co-op students and interns with employers throughout the world. The Division includes the Co-op, Undergraduate Professional Internship (UPI), Graduate Co-op, and Work Abroad Programs. More information is available at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.profpractice.gatech.edu\u0022 title=\u0022www.profpractice.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ewww.profpractice.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.  \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Reeve Ingle honored by the Cooperative Education Division of the American Society of Engineering Education"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Georgia Tech co-op student Reeve Ingle was named 2007 Student of the Year by the American Society of Engineering Education\u0027s Cooperative Education Division. He has co-oped with NASA Johnson Space Center and interned with the U.S. Department of Defense.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Electrical Engineering student Reeve Ingle recognized"}],"uid":"27301","created_gmt":"2008-03-11 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:10","author":"Elizabeth Campell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-03-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-03-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71380":{"id":"71380","type":"image","title":"media:image:7ea045f0-8a35-440f-a6c4-1e72960b421c","body":null,"created":"1449177367","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:07","changed":"1475894634","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:54"}},"media_ids":["71380"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.modlangs.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Modern Languages"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.profpractice.gatech.edu\/","title":"Division of Professional Practice"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2180","name":"co-op"},{"id":"2182","name":"dopp"},{"id":"408","name":"NASA"},{"id":"2181","name":"professional practice"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EEd Hamilton\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDivision of Professional Practice\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:ed.hamilton@dopp.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EContact Ed Hamilton\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-3320\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["ed.hamilton@dopp.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71381":{"#nid":"71381","#data":{"type":"news","title":"DLPE Accepting Educational Outreach Proposals","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDistance Learning and Professional Education is accepting proposals for funding the development of educational outreach programs for the 2009 fiscal year. Proposals must be submitted by Friday, March 14. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEligible educational outreach programs include creating distance-delivered credit programs at the graduate level or transforming existing degree programs into distance-delivered or blended programs, said Terrye Schaetzel, director of program development for DLPE. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENoncredit programs with a distance-delivery, face-to-face, or blended approach also are eligible. Examples include creating a certificate program to fill a need, enhancing existing courses or transforming an existing program into a distance-delivered format, Schaetzel said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe development funds are possible through the Educational Broadband Services lease with Clearwire Spectrum Holdings II LLC for commercial development, said Nelson Baker, interim vice provost for DLPE. The FCC allows schools and universities to lease up to 95 percent of their licensed bandwidth. The remaining 5 percent must be used for educational services for faculty and students.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Our hope is that some of the additional funds will invigorate the campus for more outreach and partnerships with our corporate and government partners,\u0022 Baker said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDLPE awarded more than $400,000 for eight programs in 2008, including:\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E-A four-semester sequence of Interactive, Multimedia Online Chinese (Modern Languages);\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E-Converting Advanced Thermal Power Systems into a distance offering (Mechanical Engineering); and\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E-Creating certificate courses in Assistive Technology and Universal Design (College of Architecture\/CATEA).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA faculty committee will evaluate submitted proposals by April 15 to select the most promising ideas for market research, Schaetzel said. Once the market research is completed by June 15, the provost and vice provost for DLPE determine which programs receive funding. The funding becomes available on July 1.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EProposals must include a program description, how it fits with Georgia Tech\u0027s strategic plan, program content, target audience, structure, delivery mode, faculty, budget, funding request, timeline, and an endorsement by the program\u0027s unit.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Distance Learning and Professional Education is accepting proposals for funding the development of educational outreach programs for the 2009 fiscal year. Eligible programs include new distance-delivered credit programs at the graduate level or transforming existing degree programs into distance-delivered or blended programs.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Proposals for educational outreach programs are due March 14"}],"uid":"27191","created_gmt":"2008-03-11 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:10","author":"Robert Nesmith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-03-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-03-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71382":{"id":"71382","type":"image","title":"Tech Tower","body":null,"created":"1449177367","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:07","changed":"1475894634","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:54"}},"media_ids":["71382"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/dlpeinfo@dlpe.gatech.edu\/","title":"Distance Learning and Professional Education"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"410","name":"DLPE"},{"id":"2179","name":"outreach"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ETerrye  Schaetzel\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDistance Learning \u0026amp; Professional Education\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:terrye.schaetzel@dlpe.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EContact Terrye  Schaetzel\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-385-3533\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["terrye.schaetzel@dlpe.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71469":{"#nid":"71469","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Portable Device Quickly Detects Early Alzheimer\u0027s","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe latest medications can delay the onset of Alzheimer\u0027s disease, but none are able to reverse its devastating effects. This limitation often makes early detection the key to Alzheimer\u0027s patients maintaining a good quality of life for as long as possible.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENow, a new device developed by the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University may allow patients to take a brief, inexpensive test that could be administered as part of a routine yearly checkup at a doctor\u0027s office to detect mild cognitive impairment (MCI) - often the earliest stage of Alzheimer\u0027s. The device is expected to be commercialized later this year.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECurrent assessment tests capable of detecting early Alzheimer\u0027s typically are taken with a pen and paper or at a computer terminal and last about an hour and a half. They must be given by a trained technician in a quiet environment, because any distractions can influence the patient\u0027s score and reduce the test\u0027s effectiveness. Because of their length and expense, the tests are not used as regular screening tools and typically are given only after there is obvious cognitive impairment such as forgetfulness or unsafe behavior.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Families usually wait until their mom or dad does something somewhat dangerous, like forgetting to take their medications or getting lost, before bringing them in for testing. At that point, the patient has already lost a significant portion of their cognitive function,\u0022 said David Wright, MD, who helped develop the device. Wright is assistant professor of emergency medicine at Emory University School of Medicine and co-director of the Emory Emergency Medicine Research Center. \u0022With this device, we might be able to pick up impairment well before those serious symptoms occur and start patients on medications that could delay those symptoms.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech and Emory device, called DETECT, gives individuals a roughly ten-minute test designed to gauge reaction time and memory - functions that, when impaired, are associated with the earliest stages of Alzheimer\u0027s disease. The test is a specially modified, shortened version of the traditional pen and paper test and could be given repeatedly by doctors to evaluate any changes in cognitive functions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We really envision this to be part of the normal preventative care a patient receives from a general practitioner,\u0022 said Michelle LaPlaca, Ph.D., one of the creators of the device and an associate professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. \u0022It would be part of a regular preventative medicine exam much like a PSA test or EKG (electrocardiogram), serving as a cognitive impairment vital sign of sorts.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe portable test runs patients through a battery of visual and auditory stimuli such as pictures and words that assess cognitive abilities relative to age, gauging reaction time and memory capabilities. Its software can track cognitive capabilities - and decline - year to year during annual appointments. And because the device blocks outside sound and light from the patient\u0027s environment, it can be administered in virtually any setting, providing more consistent results.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPreliminary analysis of the first 100 patients of a 400-person clinical study being conducted at Emory\u0027s Wesley Woods Center has shown that the 10-minute DETECT test has similar accuracy to the 90-minute \u0027Gold Standard\u0027 pen and paper test.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith millions of baby boomers easing into late adulthood, the number of patients with Alzheimer\u0027s is expected to skyrocket over the next few decades. More than 24 million people worldwide are currently thought to have Alzheimer\u0027s disease and by 2040, an estimated 81 million people worldwide are expected to develop the disease.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo give these millions of potential Alzheimer\u0027s sufferers a chance to slow the disease\u0027s advance before serious symptoms set in, doctors need an inexpensive and easy-to- administer test to detect and track the cognitive decline associated with the early stages of the disease.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe DETECT device is designed to be administered while a patient is still healthy, tracking any abnormal decreases in the patient\u0027s cognitive performance over time. If a patient\u0027s performance declines outside the normal range, the patient would then undergo additional testing and care from a neurologist, neuropsychologist or other specialist.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe DETECT system includes an LCD display in a visor with an onboard dedicated computer, noise reduction headphones and an input device (controller). The display projects the visual aspect of the test, the headphones provide the verbal instructions and the controller records the wearer\u0027s response.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDETECT\u0027s creators have formed a company, called Zenda Technologies, to commercialize the device for MCI, as well as other conditions. Georgia Tech and Emory researchers are exploring other types of cognitive impairment such as Attention Deficit\/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) that could be picked up by DETECT. A version of the system designed to detect mild concussions on the sidelines of a football game, during other high-impact sports or on a battlefield is still being tested.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research was funded with a grant from the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation and support from the Georgia Research Alliance through Georgia Tech\u0027s VentureLab.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDr. Wright and Dr. LaPlaca have an equity interest in Zenda Technologies. In addition, Dr. Wright and Dr. LaPlaca are inventors on a patent application covering the DETECT technology, and may receive royalties or fees through the license agreement. Emory, Georgia Tech, Dr. Wright, and Dr. LaPlaca may benefit financially if Zenda Technologies is successful in marketing the DETECT device. Dr. Wright\u0027s relationship with Zenda Technologies has been reviewed and approved by Emory in accordance with its policies on conflicts of interest.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E MEDIA CONTACTS: Megan McRainey, Georgia Institute of Technology, 404-894-6016 \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:megan.mcrainey@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emegan.mcrainey@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E and Jennifer Johnson, Emory University, 404-727-5696, \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jrjohn9@emory.edu\u0022\u003Ejrjohn9@emory.edu\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech and Emory University researchers have developed a device that may allow patients to take a brief, inexpensive test that could be administered as part of a routine yearly checkup at a doctor\u0027s office to detect mild cognitive impairment - often the earliest stage of Alzheimer\u0027s.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Brief test could be administered at routine checkup"}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2008-01-16 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:10","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-01-16T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2008-01-16T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71470":{"id":"71470","type":"image","title":"DETECT","body":null,"created":"1449177376","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:16","changed":"1475894637","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:57"}},"media_ids":["71470"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/","title":"Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.zendatech.com\/","title":"Zenda Technologies"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"14757","name":"Alzheimer\u0027s"},{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"},{"id":"2216","name":"DETECT"},{"id":"247","name":"Emory"},{"id":"2218","name":"LaPlaca"},{"id":"2217","name":"MCI"},{"id":"2219","name":"Wright"}],"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\u003ELisa Grovenstein\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=lgrovenste3\u0022\u003EContact Lisa Grovenstein\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-8835\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lisa.grovenstein@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71245":{"#nid":"71245","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Scientists Discover New Ocean Current","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EScientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have discovered a new climate pattern called the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation. This new pattern explains, for the first time, changes in the water that are important in helping commercial fishermen understand fluctuations in the fish stock. They\u0027re also finding that as the temperature of the Earth is warming, large fluctuations in these factors could help climatologists predict how the oceans will respond in a warmer world. The research appears in the April 30 edition of the journal Geophysical Research Letters.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We\u0027ve been able to explain, for the first time, the changes in salinity, nutrients and chlorophyll that we see in the Northeast Pacific,\u0022 said Emanuele Di Lorenzo, assistant professor in Georgia Tech\u0027s School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESince 1945, fishermen in the California current of the Pacific Ocean have been tracking temperature, salinity and nutrients, among other things, in the ocean to help them predict changes in fish populations like sardines and anchovies that are important for the industry. Studying this data, along with satellite images, Di Lorenzo discovered a pattern of current that he named the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERecent satellite data suggest that this current is undergoing intensification as the temperature of the Earth has risen over the past few decades.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Although the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation is part of a natural cycle of the climate system, we find evidence suggesting that its amplitude may increase as global warming progresses,\u0022 said Di Lorenzo. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIf this is true, this newly found climate pattern may help scientists predict how the ecosystem of the Pacific Ocean is likely to change if the world continues to warm, as predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have discovered a new climate pattern called the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation. This new pattern explains, for the first time, changes in the water that are important in helping commercial fishermen understand fluctuations in the fish stock. They\u0027re also finding that as the temperature of the Earth is warming, large fluctuations in these factors could help climatologists predict how the oceans will respond in a warmer world. The research appears in the April 30 edition of the journal Geophysical Research Letters.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Ga Tech scientists discover the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation"}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2008-04-30 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:10","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-04-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-04-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71246":{"id":"71246","type":"image","title":"North Pacific Gyre Oscillation","body":null,"created":"1449177358","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:58","changed":"1475894632","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:52"}},"media_ids":["71246"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/eros.eas.gatech.edu\/manu\/","title":"Emanuele Di Lorenzo"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2123","name":"current"},{"id":"2124","name":"di lorenzo"},{"id":"2121","name":"gyre"},{"id":"2119","name":"north"},{"id":"2122","name":"oscillation"},{"id":"2120","name":"pacific"}],"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":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71373":{"#nid":"71373","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Wayne Clough Leaves Georgia Tech","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EG. Wayne Clough, the first alumnus to serve as president of the Georgia Institute of Technology, will step down from that post on July 1, 2008, to head up the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAs Georgia Tech\u0027s tenth president, Clough has led the university through more than a decade of unprecedented growth and expansion.  Since his inauguration in September 1994, Clough has led the Institute to national and international prominence. During his tenure, the academic reach of Georgia Tech has stretched across the state and around the world with campuses in Savannah, France, Ireland, Singapore, and China. Research expenditures have increased from $212 million to more than $473 million, enrollment has increased from 13,000 to 18,000, and the Institute has consistently ranked among the top ten public universities.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I leave Georgia Tech with a debt of gratitude to everyone who helped the Institute become the premier institution of higher learning that it is today,\u0022 said G. Wayne Clough, president, Georgia Institute of Technology.  \u0022I am proud of all that we accomplished with the help of our faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile improving Georgia Tech\u0027s reputation for science and engineering, Clough has emphasized the importance of humanities education. He established two endowed chairs in poetry out of 20 in the nation, and strengthened the university\u0027s commitment to public policy and public service. In all, 23 of the 25 new majors are in non-engineering disciplines or are interdisciplinary, including degrees in music and modern languages\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Wayne Clough has been one of the greatest presidents in Georgia Tech\u0027s history,\u0022 said Gary Schuster, provost of Georgia Tech.  \u0022His leadership and vision have been responsible for the unprecedented and revolutionary advance in Georgia Tech\u0027s programs and stature during his tenure. Although we are very sorry to see him depart, we wish him the best in his new endeavor.  In the meantime, we will focus on finding a new president who can continue Georgia Tech\u0027s remarkable trajectory as we take our place among the truly best universities in the world.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAs an alumnus, Clough enjoyed a special relationship with the students who matriculated through Georgia Tech during his tenure. His personal commitment to assist qualified students from families who earn less than $30,000 led to the development of Tech Promise, a financial aid program that helps students earn their college degree debt-free. He also launched a number of programs designed to increase the gender and ethnic diversity of the Georgia Tech community.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to enhanced prestige and international reputation, Clough leaves a legacy of fundraising unmatched in the history of the Institute. He led two capital campaigns that have raised more than $1.6 billion in private gifts to the university. These funds have been used to position the Institute as a technological leader in higher education and research, exemplified by a $1 billion investment in new academic facilities. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDemonstrating a personal commitment to public service, Clough was named to the President\u0027s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) in 2001, and to the National Science Board in 2004. He has served as the vice chair of the US Council on Competitiveness, chair of the National Academy of Engineering\u0027s Engineer 2020 Project, and chair of the National Academies Committee on New Orleans Regional Hurricane Protection Projects.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EClough has been widely recognized for his teaching and research. He has received nine national awards from the American Society of Civil Engineers, most recently the OPAL lifetime award for contributions to education. Clough is one of a handful of engineers to have been twice-awarded civil engineering\u0027s oldest recognition - the Normal Medal - in 1992 and 1996. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Civil Engineering from Georgia Tech in 1964 and 1965, and a Ph.D. in 1969 in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAs Secretary of the Smithsonian, Clough will direct the efforts of the nation\u0027s premier educational, historical, and cultural archive. The Smithsonian is comprised of 19 museums, 156 affiliated museums and nine research centers. It receives nearly 25 million visitors each year and operates with a budget of more than $700 million.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EUniversity System of Georgia Chancellor Erroll B. Davis Jr. will initiate a national search process to identify candidates to fill the post being vacated by Clough. Details of that process will be announced.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"G. Wayne Clough, the first alumnus to serve as president of the Georgia Institute of Technology, will step down from that post on July 1, 2008, to head up the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Clough will head Smithsonian Institution"}],"uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2008-03-15 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:10","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-03-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-03-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71374":{"id":"71374","type":"image","title":"G. 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(Bud) Peterson"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.si.edu\/","title":"Smithsonian Institution"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.si.edu\/about\/newsecretarysearch\/secretary-announcement_3-15-08.htm","title":"Smithsonian Institution Webcast Announcement"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"}],"keywords":[{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"288","name":"Leadership"},{"id":"1271","name":"President"},{"id":"168873","name":"Smithsonian"},{"id":"169718","name":"Smithsonian Institution"},{"id":"2169","name":"Wayne Clough"}],"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":["matthew.nagel@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71458":{"#nid":"71458","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Videogame Makers Should Market to Women","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis opinion piece first appeared on AOL\u0027s GameDaily Web site on December 12, 2007.\u003C\/em\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDuring the recent holiday season, consumers spent millions of dollars on videogames.  While their commercial success is unquestionable, it\u0027s amazing to think that videogames have become so successful while almost willfully excluding a sizable chunk of the population - women.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EVideogame developers could take some tips from Parker Brothers 100 years ago. Parker Brothers understood the most successful board games would bring the whole family together to play: male and female, parents, children and grandparents.  This belief impacted how they developed and marketed their games.  Recent research I conducted with the women\u0027s game collective Ludica revealed some interesting nuances: board game covers featured intergenerational groups playing together; girls and women were as actively involved as males. Also, designers like George Parker often employed women to manufacture their products; as a result, they were often recruited to playtest his new games. This approach led to games that young and old, male and female could enjoy playing together, as well as tremendous success for Parker Brothers.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn contrast, much of the videogame industry stubbornly insists on targeting its products to the narrow audience of \u0027hardcore gamers\u0027 comprised of predominantly high school and college-aged males.  The games are largely designed by and for men. A recent study revealed that 88.5 percent of game developers are male, tested by young men and marketed to young men.  And they continue to do this in the face of overwhelming evidence that shows they are missing out on a huge opportunity to move from developing niche products to developing true blockbusters.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFirst of all, look at the numbers:  Women make up 52 percent of the U.S. population, but only 38 percent of the videogame players. Recent studies that include web-based and downloadable games have found that women over 40 spend more time on average playing games than any other group.  Despite this large and interested market, female gamers are often maligned as players of exclusively casual games (short-term play, downloadable games, such as Diner Dash), a claim that is wholly unsubstantiated by any empirical research. The mainstream game industry often marginalizes these games in favor of the 40-hour or more playtime, marquee, adrenaline-infused games like Halo 3 and Grand Theft Auto produced for consoles. Imagine the opportunity if companies actually marketed to instead of against the female gamer!\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESecond, time and time again, titles with a strong female appeal - Pac-Man and Myst, among others - have proven to be among the most commercially successful games. Pac-Man was secretly designed as a game that would appeal to women, a fact its creator, Toru Iwatani, hid from his employers. The enduring success of Pac-Man over the past 20+ years indicates that the designer was on to something. Some recent offerings, such as Dance Dance Revolution, Guitar Hero and the recently released Rock Band, follow up on this more inclusive tradition.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThird, we need look no further than the tremendous success of Nintendo\u0027s Wii gaming console and its handheld DS. When they started developing their next generation gaming systems, Sony and Microsoft placed their bets on higher-end graphics, pushing umpteen million polygons per second, while managing not to push the boundaries of game design all that much.  Nintendo decided it didn\u0027t stand a chance in this race and its best bet was to play another game entirely.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWith both the Wii and DS (as their \u0027GameBoy\u0027 was conspicuously renamed), Nintendo has boldly gone where no game company dared to go: to new audiences. Nintendo has unabashedly made known its strategy: its competitors can have the \u0027hardcore gamers,\u0027 they\u0027ll take everyone else (along with some hardcore gamers too)! They are the first game company in history to have a booth at the AARP annual convention. (Baby Boomers, anyone?)\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWith the fastest selling handheld ever in the DS and the Wii console outselling the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 combined, Nintendo\u0027s bet has paid off. Despite its lower price point, the Wii is also more profitable per unit than either of its competitors.  The gaming industry has taken notice. Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo are now distributing downloadable games, popular with female gamers. Recently, Microsoft announced a new marketing and advertising campaign designed to reach casual gamers, predominantly women.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBut will marketing a product designed by and for young men to a broader audience help compete for this new market into which Nintendo has tapped?  Time will tell, but in the meantime, Nintendo could well position itself as the Parker Brothers of the 21st Century, finding its way into the hearts and homes of \u0027well\u0027 everyone. \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Girls Just Wanna Have Fun: Videogame Makers Should Take a Lesson from Nintendo and Market to Women.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Game makers should take a lesson from Nintendo"}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2008-01-25 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:10","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-01-25T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2008-01-25T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/egl.gatech.edu\/","title":"Experimental Game Lab"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gamedaily.com\/articles\/features\/girls-just-wanna-have-fun-video-game-makers-should-take-a-lesson-from-nintendo-and-market-to-women\/71272\/?biz","title":"GameDaily"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"143","name":"Digital Media and Entertainment"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2214","name":"Celia"},{"id":"2213","name":"Games"},{"id":"1538","name":"pearce"},{"id":"197","name":"video"},{"id":"973","name":"women"}],"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":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71369":{"#nid":"71369","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Architecture Dean Finalists Named","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Office of the Provost has named four finalists in the search for dean of the College of Architecture. Interim Dean and Professor Doug Allen was named to the post after Dean Tom Galloway died in March 2007.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECandidates for the position are Alan Balfour from Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Yehuda E. Kalay from the University of California, Berkeley, Brenda Case Scheer from the University of Utah and Bruce Stiftel of Florida State University. All four will visit the campus during the first half of April, according to the provost\u0027s office.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Through the diversity of programs, strength of the faculty and students, and active alumni and community base, Dean Tom Galloway has left a powerful legacy in the College of Architecture,\u0022 said Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Gary Schuster. \u0022I\u0027m pleased with the diligent work and thoughtful efforts of the search committee to find such a highly qualified pool of finalists to build upon and further his work.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBalfour, who was a Tech faculty member from 1978 to 1988, is both a professor and dean of RPI\u0027s School of Architecture. Previously, he served as chairman of the Architectural Association in London and was Smith Professor and Dean of the School of Architecture at Rice University. While at Tech, he was a professor and director of Studies in Architecture.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThroughout his varied positions, he has worked to create strong professional programs and develop innovative graduate degrees.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBalfour received the Topaz Medal in 2000, the highest award for an architecture educator in North America. He was educated at Edinburgh and Princeton and is a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHis most recent book-written with David McCrone is \u0027Creating a Scottish Parliament.\u0027 He has also written a series of books on the architecture and urbanism of global cities, including \u0027Shanghai,\u0027 \u0027New York\u0027 and \u0027Berlin.\u0027 The American Institute of Architects awarded Balfour the AIA International Book Award for several of his works.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EKalay, a professor of architecture, is a founding member of the UC Berkeley Center for New Media, which strives to \u0027understand what is new about each new media from cross-disciplinary and global perspectives that emphasize humanities and the public interest.\u0027 He served as the center\u0027s director from 2004 to 2007. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWith a focus on the applications and implications of advances in computing and telecommunications on architectural design methods, processes and products, his current research explores game-based multi-user virtual environments and multi-disciplinary collaborative design.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EKalay also is a founding member of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA), of which he is also a past president, and he served as the architecture editor-in-chief of international journal Automation in Construction. He was twice named to the Lady Davis Professorship at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHe has either authored or edited-or both-more than seven books, and has published more than 100 articles. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESince 2002, Scheer has been dean of the College of Architecture + Planning. An authority on urban design and city development, she won the Chicago Institute of Architecture and Urbanism Prize for her writing. She also was a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EUnder her leadership, the college has taken a more active role in the community, becoming involved in \u0027smart growth\u0027 for the region, area redevelopment and design and public transportation issues. As dean, Scheer established new degrees that emphasized social responsibility, environmentalism and urbanism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn professional practice as an architect and urban designer with the award-winning Scheer \u0026amp; Scheer Inc., she is an appointed member of the Salt Lake City Redevelopment Advisory Committee, the Salt Lake County Center for the Arts Board and the U.S. GSA National Register of Peer Professionals. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EStiftel is associate dean of Graduate Studies, professor of Urban and Regional Planning and a faculty associate of the Florida Conflict Resolution Consortium at FSU. He also is chair of the Committee on the Academy and the Profession in the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EResearch interests include planning theory, planning school performance, and natural resources and environmental planning. He teaches courses in planning theory, environmental planning and environmental dispute resolution, and organizes Preparing Future Faculty events.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EStiftel co-authored, edited or co-edited five books, including \u0027Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning,\u0027 volumes 1 and 2, and more than 15 book chapters. More than 25 journal publications have been written or co-written by him.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHe was chair of FSU\u0027s Department of Urban and Regional Planning, president of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning and founding chair of the Global Planning Education Association Network. Formerly co-editor of the Journal of Planning Education and Research, Stiftel is now reviews editor of Planning Theory and a member of the editorial boards of International Planning Studies, Journal of the American Planning Association, Journal for Education in the Built Environment and Town Planning Review.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe search committee, chaired by former Mechanical Engineering Chair Ward Winer, was aided in the search by J. Robert Scott Executive Search firm in Boston.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u00e7\u00b9\u008f\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"The Office of the Provost has named four finalists in the search for dean of the College of Architecture. Candidates for the position are Alan Balfour from Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Yehuda E. Kalay from the University of California, Berkeley, Brenda Case Scheer from the University of Utah and Bruce Stiftel of Florida State University. All four will visit the campus during the first half of April, according to the provost\u0027s office.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Office of the Provost has named four finalists in the search"}],"uid":"27191","created_gmt":"2008-03-18 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:10","author":"Robert Nesmith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-03-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-03-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71370":{"id":"71370","type":"image","title":"Four finalists are named in search for College of","body":null,"created":"1449177367","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:07","changed":"1475894634","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:54"}},"media_ids":["71370"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.coa.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech College of Architecture"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2168","name":"COA"},{"id":"926","name":"College of Architecture"},{"id":"2078","name":"dean"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ERobert Nesmith\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=wnesmith3\u0022\u003EContact Robert Nesmith\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-385-4142\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["robert.nesmith@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71242":{"#nid":"71242","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Dean Kamen to Address Bachelor\u0027s and Master\u0027s Ceremony","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDean Kamen, founder and president of DEKA Research and Development Corp., will deliver the address to the bachelor\u0027s and master\u0027s degree recipients at the Georgia Institute of Technology\u0027s 230th commencement ceremony at 9a.m. on Saturday, May 3, at the Georgia Dome.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe two ceremonies will feature more than 2,300 graduates. Approximately 1,500 bachelor\u0027s degrees and more than 750 master\u0027s degrees will be conferred at the May 3, ceremony.  Two honorary degrees will be presented to Kamen and former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn. A total of 135 Ph.D. candidates received degrees at an April 23 ceremony.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EKamen is an inventor, an entrepreneur and a tireless advocate for science and technology.   Among Kamen\u0027s proudest accomplishments is founding FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), an organization dedicated to motivating the next generation to understand, use and enjoy science and technology.  Among Kamen\u0027s most famous invention is the Segway.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EKamen received the National Medal of Technology in 2000 for inventions that have advanced medical care worldwide and for innovative and imaginative leadership in awakening America to the excitement of science and technology. He was also awarded the Lemelson-MIT Prize in 2002, and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2005.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESince his retirement from elected office in 1996, former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn has focused his energies on his role as co-chairman and chief executive officer of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a charitable organization working to reduce the global threats from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo acknowledge Nunn\u0027s exemplary service to the nation and the state, Georgia Tech\u0027s School of International Affairs was named in his honor upon its founding in 1990. Following his retirement after 24 years of service in the Senate, Nunn was named a distinguished professor of international affairs at Georgia Tech. He is also retired from the law firm of King \u0026amp; Spalding.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERaised in the small town of Perry, Georgia, Nunn attended Georgia Tech, Emory University and Emory Law School, where he graduated with honors in 1962. After active duty service in the U.S. Coast Guard, he served six years in the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve. He first entered politics as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives in 1968.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Former U.S.  Senator Sam Nunn to receive honorary degree"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Dean Kamen, founder and president of DEKA Research and Development Corp., will deliver the address to the bachelor\u0027s and master\u0027s degree recipients at the Georgia Institute of Technology\u0027s 230th commencement ceremony at 9a.m. on Saturday, May 3, at the Georgia Dome.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech to celebrate 230th commencement."}],"uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2008-05-01 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:10","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-05-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-05-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71243":{"id":"71243","type":"image","title":"Dean Kamen","body":null,"created":"1449177358","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:58","changed":"1475894632","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:52"},"71244":{"id":"71244","type":"image","title":"For U.S. Sentor Sam Nunn","body":null,"created":"1449177358","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:58","changed":"1475894632","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:52"}},"media_ids":["71243","71244"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/commencement\/","title":"Commencement Information"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"627","name":"commencement"},{"id":"2117","name":"Dean Kamen"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"167043","name":"Sam Nunn"},{"id":"2118","name":"U.S. Senator"}],"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":["matthew.nagel@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71371":{"#nid":"71371","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Four Awarded Early Career Fellowships","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFour faculty members were recognized by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for their contributions in their selected fields of study.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECollege of Computing Assistant Professors Adam Kalai and Nick Feamster, along with School of Biology Associate Professor King Jordan, were named 2008 Sloan Research Fellows. Sam Nunn School of International Affairs Assistant Professor Dan Breznitz-currently in China-was awarded one of five 2008 Sloan Industry Studies Fellowships.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFeamster\u0027s research centers on network operations and communications. He is currently working with students on network operations and protocols and platforms for improving network connectivity. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Ultimately, my goal is to improve the reliability and operation of communication networks using a first-principles approach. It is a great honor to have received this prestigious award, and I am pleased to see the recognition of my research area,\u0022 Feamster said. \u0022This recognition is also a reflection of the great work of many of my students and collaborators.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESome of his contributions include work on a routing configuration compiler that analyzes a network\u0027s complex router configurations to predict their behavior and a technique for recognizing the behavior of and detecting spam on a network level. He is a member of the Georgia Tech Information Security Center and is part of the Networking Group in the School of Computer Science.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESince he says much of network operations \u0027still remains a black art,\u0027 Feamster will use the grant for support of his existing research. \u0022I am trying to develop principled methods to make communications networks like the Internet easier for all of us to use and rely on.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EKalai, whose work centers on online algorithms and machine learning theory, will use the grant as an opportunity to expand his research. His algorithims have contributed to an online linear optimization issue, learning parity functions in the presence of random noise and a new proof of a stock market strategy, the Universal Portfolio. He is a member of the Algorithims \u0026amp; Randomness Center Thinktank.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I intend to use it to branch out into game theory, a relatively new area for me, and to continue my existing work on machine learning-specifically noise-tolerant learning algorithims,\u0022 Kalai said. \u0022The grant is both an honor and a useful funding source. Among other things, it will allow me to travel, and bring in visitors and postdocs that I could not [otherwise] do.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EJordan\u0027s lab, the Evolutionary Systems Biology Group, is conducting research in the areas of transposition, regulation and computational genomics on eukaryotes, or cells organized into complex structures by internal membranes. Two major projects are under way, including a collaborative effort with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in sequencing the bacterium Neisseria meningitides, the main cause of bacterial meningitis. \u0022It\u0027s a big honor, and I\u0027m really excited about it,\u0022 Jordan said. \u0022The CDC is sequencing the bacterium\u0027s genome, enabling us to look at infectious disease from a genomic level.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHis lab\u0027s other main focus is in using computational genomics to research gene expression, which Jordan describes as a genome-an organism\u0027s entire hereditary information-having certain sequences either active or inactive. \u0022We\u0027ll understand more about what factors affect gene expression, both in terms of evolution and disease.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAnnounced annually, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation recognizes and rewards the work and research of early career faculty conducting ground-breaking research. Sloan Research Fellowships, initially awarded in 1955, result in a two-year, $50,000 grant for each fellow. Nominees are chosen by senior faculty members in September and recognize a professor\u0027s research in physics, chemistry, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, computer science, economics, mathematics and neuroscience.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBreznitz is in the middle of a multi-location field study on the different economic growth impacts of innovation in varied locales, including the United States, China, India, Israel and France. He said he will use the grant to augment the research and hopes to devote himself more to such research in the field.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Professionally, the award is very important for someone like me who is conducting a lot of multidisciplinary research, which involves close contact with the real nitty-gritty world of industrial innovation and [a] close connection with engineering,\u0022 he said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFrom a broader standpoint, Breznitz appreciated the timing of the award, as the first doctoral candidates in Science Technology and International Affairs are being admitted to the Sam Nunn School. \u0022We hope to create [graduate doctoral students] with solid backgrounds in science and engineering, whose degree is in social science focusing on the international aspects of science and technology. This award should signal there is both a need for and recognition of such research.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Industry Studies Fellowship-also the result of nomination by a senior faculty member-started in 2005. Fellows receive a two-year, $45,000 grant, recognizing their efforts to increase awareness of influences shaping today\u0027s industries. Junior faculty members recognized are from varied disciplines, including economics, management, engineering and political science.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Four faculty members:Assistant Professors Adam Kalai and Nick Feamster, Associate Professor King Jordan and Assistant Professor Dan Breznitz; were recognized by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for their contributions in their selected fields of study.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Faculty members were recognized by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundatio"}],"uid":"27191","created_gmt":"2008-03-18 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:10","author":"Robert Nesmith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-03-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-03-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71372":{"id":"71372","type":"image","title":"Four professors honored by the Sloan Foundation.","body":null,"created":"1449177367","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:07","changed":"1475894634","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:54"}},"media_ids":["71372"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.sloan.org\/","title":"Alfred P. Sloan Foundation"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.inta.gatech.edu\/","title":"Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.biology.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Biology"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/","title":"College of Computing"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"277","name":"Biology"},{"id":"1988","name":"Breznitz"},{"id":"208","name":"computing"},{"id":"1634","name":"Feamster"},{"id":"2166","name":"Jordan"},{"id":"2165","name":"Kalai"},{"id":"167256","name":"Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"},{"id":"169413","name":"Sloan"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ERobert Nesmith\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=wnesmith3\u0022\u003EContact Robert Nesmith\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-385-4142\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["robert.nesmith@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71247":{"#nid":"71247","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Issues Statement on Recent Court Ruling","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAssociate Vice President for Communications \u0026amp; Marketing James Fetig issues statement on Sklar v. Clough:\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech will not be required to take any action as the result of today\u0027s court ruling.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWe are pleased that the plaintiffs were awarded no damages, and that the judge ruled in favor of the Georgia Tech free speech zone policy and use of student activity fees.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAs a result of today\u0027s ruling and the settlement of an earlier housing policy contention, Georgia Tech practices are exactly the same as before the suit was filed.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Institute disagrees with the ruling ordering a student organization to remove material from its Web site.  However, the matter is moot because that material was removed a year ago and has not been used by the student organization since.  Therefore, no action is required on the part of the Institute.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe state of Georgia does not intend to appeal the ruling.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Associate Vice President for Communications \u0026amp; Marketing James Fetig issues statement on Sklar v. Clough.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Tech issues statement on recent court ruling"}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2008-05-01 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:10","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-05-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-05-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71248":{"id":"71248","type":"image","title":"Tech Tower","body":null,"created":"1449177358","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:58","changed":"1475894632","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:52"}},"media_ids":["71248"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/newsroom\/assets\/pdf\/Sklar_Final_Order.pdf","title":"Sklar v. Clough Final Order"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1970","name":"Clough"},{"id":"2116","name":"court"},{"id":"170763","name":"sklar"}],"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":["matthew.nagel@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71449":{"#nid":"71449","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Ga Tech Creates Integrative BioSystems Institute","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs new technologies and instruments allow for the collection of enormous amounts of data on biological systems, scientists are left to ponder how to interpret this newfound information and apply it to living systems. The Georgia Institute of Technology has created the Integrative BioSystems Institute (IBSI) to explore new technologies and methods to collect and analyze these millions of pieces of biological information in order to form a more complete picture of how life works and how the environment affects living things.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022In biology, we can now measure the expression of 50,000 genes at a time. Needless to say, no one can analyze these massive amounts of data by hand,\u0022 said Eberhard Voit, founding director of the Integrative BioSystems Institute, David D. Flanagan Chair and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. \u0022So, computer methods and mathematical models are needed to help us put all these pieces of information together in order to solve some of the grand challenges in biology.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe new institute is expected to provide a research focus for as many as 20 - 30 new faculty members as well as existing faculty members and students and will be housed in a new facility in the near future, Voit said. IBSI could represent a major investment of up to or more than $100 million by Georgia Tech over the next several years.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIntegrative systems biology is an interdisciplinary science that studies how complex biological systems react individually, together and with the environment. While biologists may understand a good bit about a certain cell in the body, they know much less about how that cell may affect other cells or processes elsewhere in the body or how the cell responds to a combination of environmental factors or drugs. They may understand that a certain gene contributes to breast cancer, but they have little idea of which other hundreds or thousands of genes may be directly or indirectly involved and how each of those genes is affected by lifestyle, drugs or environmental factors.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIBSI at Georgia Tech will work to create new devices and techniques for elucidating biological systems; analyzing experimental results with methods of engineering, mathematics, physics, and computer science; and using insights from these multi-disciplinary investigations to attack biomedical tasks that were previously too complex to address.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The ultimate goal, which we can only see in the distant future, is to develop simulations of entire cell systems capable of predicting how a body (or even a specific patient) will respond to a multitude of stimuli, medications, and environmental exposures and lead to chronic diseases like diabetes and cancer,\u0022 Voit said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIBSI will focus the majority of its research efforts toward three areas: understanding the development of normal cells into cancer cells, the interaction between humans and microbes in the environment and the development of enabling techniques for analyzing biological systems.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Integrative BioSystems Institute at Georgia Tech is a collaboration between the Colleges of Science, Engineering and Computing. The institute will provide a physical and intellectual focus for integrative, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research in the quantitative life sciences. IBSI promotes synergism among researchers with complementary skills and addresses complex multi-level problems in biology that cannot be solved by any researcher or scientific discipline alone.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Georgia Tech has created the Integrative BioSystems Institute to explore new technologies and methods to collect and analyze millions of pieces of biological information in order to form a more complete picture of how life works and how the environment affects living things.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Putting all the biological pieces together"}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2008-02-06 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:10","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-02-07T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2008-02-07T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71450":{"id":"71450","type":"image","title":"IBSI logo","body":null,"created":"1449177376","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:16","changed":"1475894637","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:57"}},"media_ids":["71450"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/","title":"College of Computing"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.cos.gatech.edu\/","title":"College of Sciences"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.coe.gatech.edu\/","title":"College of Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ibsi.gatech.edu\/","title":"Integrative BioSystems Institute"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"277","name":"Biology"},{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"},{"id":"2209","name":"integrative biosystems"},{"id":"2208","name":"Integrative BioSystems Institute"},{"id":"2210","name":"Voit"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ELisa Grovenstein\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=lgrovenste3\u0022\u003EContact Lisa Grovenstein\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-8835\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lisa.grovenstein@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71367":{"#nid":"71367","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Ted Turner Honored by Tech\u0027s Ivan Allen College","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETed Turner, media entrepreneur and philanthropist, is the recipient of the 2008 Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Progress and Service - presented by the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at Georgia Tech. In 1997 Turner bestowed a historic $1 billion to establish the United Nations Foundation. In 2003, he gave $45 million to the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a program he co-chairs with former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn. The prize will be awarded at the College\u0027s annual Founder\u0027s Day luncheon on March 31.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts is proud to award Ted Turner the 2008 Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Progress and Service in recognition of his leadership, vision and generous gifts to the United Nations and the Nuclear Threat Initiative,\u0022 said Sue V. Rosser, dean of the Ivan Allen College. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPrevious recipients of the Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Progress and Service include local media entrepreneur Charles Smithgall and his wife Lessie (2007); Jesse Hill Jr., Atlanta businessman and civil rights leader (2006); Will Wright, co-founder of Maxis and original designer of SimCity and The Sims computer games (2005); former Senator Sam Nunn, co-chairman and chief executive officer of the Nuclear Threat Initiative (2004); Molly Ivins, nationally syndicated columnist (2003); Jimmy Carter, former U.S. President and Georgia Governor (2002); and Zell Miller, former U.S. Senator and Georgia Governor (2001). \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETurner began his career as an account executive with Turner Advertising Company and entered the television business in 1970 when he acquired Atlanta independent UHF station channel 17. In 1976, Turner purchased Major League Baseball\u0027s Atlanta Braves and launched TBS Superstation, originating the \u0022Superstation\u0022 concept. The following year, Turner Broadcasting System acquired the National Basketball Association\u0027s Atlanta Hawks, and in 1980 Turner launched CNN, the world\u0027s first live, 24-hour global news network.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOver the next two decades, the company built a portfolio of unrivaled cable television news and entertainment brands and businesses, including CNN Headline News, CNN International, TNT, Cartoon Network and Turner Classic Movies. In the mid-\u002790s, Castle Rock Entertainment and New Line Cinema became Turner Broadcasting properties. In October 1996, the company merged with Time Warner Inc., and in 2001, Time Warner merged with AOL to create AOL Time Warner. The company later changed its name back to Time Warner Inc.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to his media enterprise, Turner is one of the most influential philanthropists in the United States.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHe is the chairman of the Turner Foundation founded in 1990, to support efforts for improving air and water quality, developing a sustainable energy future to protect our climate, safeguarding environmental health, maintaining wildlife habitat protection, and developing practices and policies to curb population growth rates.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Turner Endangered Species Fund is a core grantee of the Turner Foundation, which works to conserve biodiversity by emphasizing restoration efforts of endangered or imperiled species on Turner properties.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn September 1997, Turner announced his historic pledge of up to $1 billion to the United Nations Foundation. The organization supports the goals and objectives of the United Nations to promote a more peaceful, prosperous and just world. The Foundation has identified four core priorities: women and population, children\u0027s health, the environment, and peace and security.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn early 2001, Turner launched the Nuclear Threat Initiative, which he co-chairs with former Senator Sam Nunn. NTI is working to close the growing and increasingly dangerous gap between the threat from nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and the global response.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETurner later created two independent film production companies, Ted Turner Pictures and Ted Turner Documentaries, which produced the major motion picture Gods and Generals and the critically acclaimed PBS documentary Avoiding Armageddon, respectively.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn January 2002, Turner opened the first Ted\u0027s Montana Grill in Columbus, Ohio, with his partner, George W. McKerrow Jr., founder of the Longhorn Steakhouse chain. Ted\u0027s Montana Grill offers classic American comfort food, including bison or beef burgers, in an authentic Montana bar and grill atmosphere. To date, Ted\u0027s Montana Grill operates more than 50 restaurants nationwide.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETurner is also chairman of Turner Enterprises, a private company, which manages his business interests, land holdings and investments, including the oversight of 2 million acres in 12 states and in Argentina, and more than 45,000 bison head. Through Turner Enterprises, Turner manages the largest commercial bison herd in North America on 15 ranches in Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma and South Dakota.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHe is the recipient of numerous honorary degrees, industry awards and civic honors, including being named Time magazine\u0027s 1991 Man of the Year and Broadcasting and Cable\u0027s Man of the Century in 1999.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Ted Turner, media entrepreneur and philanthropist, is the recipient of the 2008 Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Progress and Service - presented by the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at Georgia Tech. In 1997 Turner bestowed a historic $1 billion to establish the United Nations Foundation. In 2003, he gave $45 million to the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a program he co-chairs with former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn. The prize will be awarded at the College\u0027s annual Founder\u0027s Day luncheon on March 31.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Media chief and philanthropist to receive Ivan Allen prize"}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2008-03-19 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:10","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-03-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-03-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71368":{"id":"71368","type":"image","title":"Ted Turner","body":null,"created":"1449177367","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:07","changed":"1475894634","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:54"}},"media_ids":["71368"],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"},{"id":"133","name":"Special Events and Guest Speakers"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2159","name":"allen"},{"id":"14746","name":"founder\u0027s"},{"id":"2161","name":"founders"},{"id":"1916","name":"Ivan"},{"id":"2163","name":"nunn"},{"id":"2162","name":"turner"}],"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":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71445":{"#nid":"71445","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tech Offers First Interdisciplinary Robotics Ph.D.","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Colleges of Computing and Engineering at Georgia Tech today announced the nation\u0027s first interdisciplinary doctoral degree in robotics to be offered at Georgia Tech. The program, which starts fall semester of 2008, was developed through Georgia Tech\u0027s Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (RIM@Georgia Tech), a collaborative research center that combines the educational strength and expertise of both units. Reaching across disciplines and drawing from curricula in computer science, electrical and computer engineering, aerospace, biomedical engineering and mechanical engineering, the doctoral degree is designed to educate a new breed of multidisciplinary researchers who will enter the market best prepared to chart a new course for robotics in the United States. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We are pleased to offer the first truly interdisciplinary robotics Ph.D. program in the country,\u0022 said Dr. Henrik Christensen, KUKA Chair of Robotics for the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. \u0022Exposing our students to course work from multiple disciplines early on prepares them to think about robotics from a holistic approach once they enter the workforce. True to our mission in robotics at Georgia Tech, our program will recruit and educate outstanding students who will provide leadership in a world that is increasingly dependent on technology.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAccording to robotics industry associations in North America and Japan, the global robotics market is expected to significantly expand over the next five years, including gains in both the service and personal robotics fields. With a focus on personal and everyday robotics, as well as the future of automation, faculty involved with RIM@Georgia Tech developed the doctoral degree program to best enable students to understand and drive the future role of robotics in society and industry. Approximately 15 candidates per year are expected to be admitted, gradually building the program to 60 enrolled students. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Over the next five to ten years, robotics technologies will become more integrated throughout various industries that directly impact human activity and culture, such as healthcare, food processing, logistics and others,\u0022 said Dr. Christensen. \u0022At Georgia Tech, our doctorate students will be guided through their research by at least two faculty members from distinct participating schools, providing more insight and expertise into a specific industry sector or focus area.\u0022  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EStudents in the Robotics Ph.D. program must first be admitted to one of the participating academic units, subsequently designated as the student\u0027s home unit. Students will then progress through the course requirements consisting of 36 semester hours of core research and elective courses, the passing a comprehensive qualifying exam with written and oral components, and the successful completion, documentation and defense of a piece of original research culminating in a doctoral thesis. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOver 30 faculty members from the schools of Interactive Computing, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering are affiliated with this new Ph.D. program. Faculty involved in the development of the new doctoral program include Henrik Christensen (College of Computing), Frank Dellaert (College of Computing), Eric Johnson (School of Aerospace Engineering), Ayanna Howard (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering), Steve DeWeerth (Department of Biomedical Engineering), and Harvey Lipkin (School of Mechanical Engineering).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the Robotics \u0026amp; Intelligent Machines at Georgia Tech (RIM@GT)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (RIM@Georgia Tech) leverages the strengths and resources of Georgia Tech in robotics education, research, and leadership by reaching across traditional boundaries to embrace a multidisciplinary approach. The College of Computing, College of Engineering and the Georgia Tech Research Institute play key, complementary roles through Tech\u0027s traditional expertise in interactive and intelligent computing, control, and mechanical engineering. Emphasizing personal and everyday robotics as well as the future of automation, faculty involved with RIM@Georgia Tech help students understand and define the future role of robotics in society. \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.robotics.gatech.edu\u0022 title=\u0022www.robotics.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ewww.robotics.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the College of Engineering at Georgia Tech\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe College of Engineering at Georgia Tech is the largest engineering program in the U.S. and ranked 4th among the country\u0027s best graduate programs by U.S. News and World Report. A respected leader in interdisciplinary research and education, the College of Engineering grants the highest number of engineering degrees in the nation across nine fields of study. For more information about the programs in the College of Engineering, please visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.coe.gatech.edu\u0022 title=\u0022www.coe.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ewww.coe.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the College of Computing at Georgia Tech\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe College of Computing at Georgia Tech is a national leader in the creation of real-world computing breakthroughs that drive social and scientific progress. With its graduate program ranked 11th nationally by U.S. News and World Report, the College\u0027s unconventional approach to education is defining the new face of computing by expanding the horizons of traditional computer science students through interdisciplinary collaboration and a focus on human centered solutions. For more information about the College of Computing at Georgia Tech, its academic divisions and research centers, please visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\u0022 title=\u0022www.cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ewww.cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"The Colleges of Computing and Engineering at Georgia Tech announced the nation\u0027s first interdisciplinary doctoral degree in robotics to be offered at Georgia Tech. The program starts fall semester of 2008 and was developed through Georgia Tech\u0027s Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (RIM@Georgia Tech).","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Program to start in Fall 2008"}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2008-01-30 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:10","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-02-08T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2008-02-08T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71446":{"id":"71446","type":"image","title":"Rescue Robot","body":null,"created":"1449177376","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:16","changed":"1475894637","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:57"}},"media_ids":["71446"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/humanslab.ece.gatech.edu\/","title":"Human-Automation Systems Lab (HumAnS)"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.imdl.gatech.edu\/","title":"Intelligent Machine Dynamics"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/robot-ethics-proposal-funded-by-dod","title":"Robot Ethics"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.roboteducation.org\/","title":"Institute for Personal Robots in Education"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.robotics.gatech.edu\/","title":"Robotics at Georgia Tech"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"208","name":"computing"},{"id":"2212","name":"Doctoral"},{"id":"1096","name":"Ph.D."},{"id":"1356","name":"robot"},{"id":"667","name":"robotics"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ERebecca Biggs\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGCI Group\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:press@robocup-us.org\u0022\u003EContact Rebecca Biggs\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-260-3510\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["press@robocup-us.org"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71236":{"#nid":"71236","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Diatoms Discovered to Remove Phosphorus from Oceans","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EScientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have discovered a new way that phosphorus is naturally removed from the oceans - it\u0027s stored in diatoms. The discovery opens up a new realm of research into an element that\u0027s used for reproduction, energy storage and structural materials in every organism. Its understanding is vital to the continued quest to understand the growth of the oceans. The research appears in the May 2, 2008 edition of the journal Science. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEllery Ingall, associate professor in Georgia Tech\u0027s School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, along with Ph.D. student Julia Diaz, collected organisms and sediments along an inlet near Vancouver Island in British Columbia. During their investigation on the boat, Diaz used a traditional optical microscope to discover that diatoms, microscopic organisms that live in oceans and damp surfaces, were storing blobs of very dense concentrations of phosphorus called polyphosphates. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022These polyphosphates have been missed in classic studies because they haven\u0027t been recovered by the typical measurement techniques,\u0022 said Ingall. \u0022No one measured or treated the samples because no one knew they were there - they didn\u0027t even think to look for it.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor a long time, scientists have been unable to account for the difference in the amount of phosphorus that\u0027s in the oceans and the amount that\u0027s washed in from rivers.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We\u0027re getting the initial clues as to how this phosphorus gets to the bottom of the oceans,\u0022 said Diaz. \u0022These diatoms are sinking from the top to the bottom of the ocean, and as they\u0027re sinking, they\u0027re transporting the phosphorus in the form of intracellular polyphosphate.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter making their initial discovery, the team made another. They went to Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago to delve deeper and found that some of the blobs were polyphosphate, some were a mineral known as apatite, and some were a transitional material between the two.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENow that they\u0027ve proved a link between polyphosphate and apatite, they\u0027re next step is to try and capture the chemical transition between the two by running controlled experiments in the lab.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have discovered a new way that phosphorus is naturally removed from the oceans - it\u0027s stored in diatoms. The discovery opens up a new realm of research into an element that\u0027s used for reproduction, energy storage and structural materials in every organism.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Team also discovers link between polyphosphate and apatite"}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2008-05-02 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:10","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-05-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-05-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71237":{"id":"71237","type":"image","title":"Diatom","body":null,"created":"1449177358","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:58","changed":"1475894632","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:52"}},"media_ids":["71237"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/shadow.eas.gatech.edu\/~ingall\/","title":"Ellery Ingall"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2112","name":"apatite"},{"id":"2110","name":"diatom"},{"id":"2114","name":"DIaz"},{"id":"2113","name":"Ingall"},{"id":"2111","name":"phosphorus"}],"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":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"39986":{"#nid":"39986","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Dean, vice provost searches under way","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Office of the Provost has announced that committees have been named and are initiating searches for the vice provost for Distance Learning and Professional Education (DLPE) and for the dean and director of Libraries. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWilliam Wepfer, who previously held the position of DLPE vice provost, accepted the position of chair of the School of Mechanical Engineering, replacing Ward Winer. Library Dean Richard Meyer has announced his intention to retire in the summer. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA national and international search, the search committee for the dean and director of Libraries is presently accepting applications and nominations. The search committee is chaired by Associate Dean Kent Barefield of the College of Sciences. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe DLPE vice provost is an internal search, open to current University System of Georgia employees. Applications and nominations are currently being accepted and will be reviewed later this month. Associate Dean Jane Ammons of the College of Engineering is chairing this search.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"The Office of the Provost has announced that committees have been named and are initiating searches for the vice provost for Distance Learning and Professional Education (DLPE) and for the dean and director of Libraries.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Committees formed to find Library dean, DLPE vice provost"}],"uid":"27191","created_gmt":"2008-03-25 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:10","author":"Robert Nesmith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-03-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-03-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"39987":{"id":"39987","type":"image","title":"Tech Tower","body":null,"created":"1449174136","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:22:16","changed":"1475894236","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:37:16","alt":"Tech Tower","file":{"fid":"189600","name":"tgv63219.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tgv63219_1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tgv63219_1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":8893,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tgv63219_1.jpg?itok=1GRza12t"}}},"media_ids":["39987"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.provost.gatech.edu\/","title":"Office of the Provost"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.biology.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Biology"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/","title":"Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2153","name":"Distance Learning and Professional Education"},{"id":"1205","name":"Library"},{"id":"937","name":"provost"},{"id":"2080","name":"Richard Meyer"},{"id":"2152","name":"William Wepfer"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EJennifer Herazy\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EProvost\/VP Academic\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=jh290\u0022\u003EContact Jennifer Herazy\u003C\/a\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jennifer.herazy@carnegie.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71443":{"#nid":"71443","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Carbon Capture Strategy Could Lead to Emission-Free Cars","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a strategy to capture, store and eventually recycle carbon from vehicles to prevent the pollutant from finding its way from a car tailpipe into the atmosphere. Georgia Tech researchers envision a zero emission car, and a transportation system completely free of fossil fuels.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETechnologies to capture carbon dioxide emissions from large-scale sources such as power plants have recently gained some impressive scientific ground, but nearly two-thirds of global carbon emissions are created by much smaller polluters - automobiles, transportation vehicles and distributed industrial power generation applications (e.g., diesel power generators).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech team\u0027s goal is to create a sustainable transportation system that uses a liquid fuel and traps the carbon emission in the vehicle for later processing at a fueling station. The carbon would then be shuttled back to a processing plant where it could be transformed into liquid fuel. Currently, Georgia Tech researchers are developing a fuel processing device to separate the carbon and store it in the vehicle in liquid form.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe research was published in \u003Cem\u003E Energy Conversion and Management \u003C\/em\u003E. The research was funded by NASA, the U.S. Department of Defense NDSEG Fellowship Program and Georgia Tech\u0027s CEO (Creating Energy Options) Program.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Presently, we have an unsustainable carbon-based economy with several severe limitations, including a limited supply of fossil fuels, high cost and carbon dioxide pollution,\u0022 said Andrei Fedorov, associate professor in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech and a lead researcher on the project. \u0022We wanted to create a practical and sustainable energy strategy for automobiles that could solve each of those limitations, eventually using renewable energy sources and in an environmentally conscious way.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELittle research has been done to explore carbon capture from vehicles, but the Georgia Tech team outlines an economically feasible strategy for processing fossil or synthetic, carbon-containing liquid fuels that allows for the capture and recycling of carbon at the point of emission. In the long term, this strategy would enable the development of a sustainable transportation system with no carbon emission. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0027s near-future strategy involves capturing carbon emissions from conventional (fossil) liquid hydrocarbon-fueled vehicles with an onboard fuel processor designed to separate the hydrogen in the fuel from the carbon. Hydrogen is then used to power the vehicle, while the carbon is stored on board the vehicle in a liquid form until it is disposed at a refueling station. It is then transported to a centralized site to be sequestered in a permanent location currently under investigation by scientists, such as geological formations, under the oceans or in solid carbonate form. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the long-term strategy, the carbon dioxide will be recycled forming a closed-loop system, involving synthesis of high energy density liquid fuel suitable for the transportation sector.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech settled on a hydrogen-fueled vehicle for its carbon capture plan because pure hydrogen produces no carbon emissions when it is used as a fuel to power the vehicle. The fuel processor produces the hydrogen on-board the vehicle from the hydrocarbon fuel without introducing air into the process, resulting in an enriched carbon byproduct that can be captured with minimal energetic penalty. Traditional combustion systems, including current gasoline-powered automobiles, have a combustion process that combines fuel and air - leaving the carbon dioxide emissions highly diluted and very difficult to capture. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We had to look for a system that never dilutes fuel with air because once the CO2 is diluted, it is not practical to capture it on vehicles or other small systems,\u0022 said David Damm, PhD candidate in the School of Mechanical Engineering, the lead author on the paper and Fedorov\u0027s collaborator on the project.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech team compared the proposed system with other systems that are currently being considered, focusing on the logistic and economic challenges of adopting them on a global scale. In particular, electric vehicles could be part of a long-term solution to carbon emissions, but the team raised concerns about the limits of battery technology, including capacity and charging time. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe hydrogen economy presents yet another possible solution to carbon emissions but also yet another roadblock - infrastructure. While liquid-based hydrogen carriers could be conveniently transported and stored using existing fuel infrastructure, the distribution of gaseous hydrogen would require the creation of a new and costly infrastructure of pipelines, tanks and filling stations.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech team has already created a fuel processor, called CO2\/H2 Active Membrane Piston (CHAMP) reactor, capable of efficiently producing hydrogen and separating and liquefying CO2 from a liquid hydrocarbon or synthetic fuel used by an internal combustion engine or fuel cell. After the carbon dioxide is separated from the hydrogen, it can then be stored in liquefied state on-board the vehicle. The liquid state provides a much more stable and dense form of carbon, which is easy to store and transport.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech paper also details the subsequent long-term strategy to create a truly sustainable system, including moving past carbon sequestration and into a method to recycle the captured carbon back into fuel. Once captured on-board the vehicle, the liquid carbon dioxide is deposited back at the fueling station and piped back to a facility where it is converted into a synthetic liquid fuel to complete the cycle.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENow that the Georgia Tech team has come up with a proposed system and device to produce hydrogen and, at the same time, capture carbon emissions, the greatest remaining challenge to a truly carbon-free transportation system will be developing a method for making a synthetic liquid fuel from just CO2 and water using renewable energy sources, Fedorov said. The team is exploring a few ideas in this area, he added.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a strategy to capture, store and eventually recycle carbon from vehicles. Georgia Tech researchers envision a zero emission car, and a transportation system completely free of fossil fuels.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Paper outlines plan for emission-free car"}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2008-02-11 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:10","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-02-11T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2008-02-11T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71444":{"id":"71444","type":"image","title":"Sustain illustration","body":null,"created":"1449177376","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:16","changed":"1475894637","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:57"}},"media_ids":["71444"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/","title":"George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.energy.gatech.edu\/","title":"Strategic Energy Institute"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/faculty\/fedorov.shtml","title":"Andrei Fedorov"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1702","name":"carbon capture"},{"id":"464","name":"emissions"},{"id":"213","name":"energy"},{"id":"2206","name":"Fedorov"},{"id":"2207","name":"hydrogen fuel"},{"id":"541","name":"Mechanical Engineering"},{"id":"170761","name":"strategic energy"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ELisa Grovenstein\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=lgrovenste3\u0022\u003EContact Lisa Grovenstein\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-8835\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lisa.grovenstein@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71226":{"#nid":"71226","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tech Researchers Win 2008 Sloan Industry Studies Best Paper Prize","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers recently won the 2008 Sloan Industry Studies Best Paper Award for their holistic examination of strategies employed by pharmaceutical firms for innovating in the realm of biotechnology.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETitled \u0027Building Dynamic Capabilities: Innovation Driven by Individual-, Firm-, and Network-Level Effects,\u0027 the study was co-authored by Frank Rothaermel, associate professor of strategic management at Georgia Tech; and Drew Hess, who recently completed his doctorate in strategic management at Georgia Tech and accepted a faculty position at the University of Virginia.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThey published their paper in the journal Organization Science in 2007. The Best Paper Prize they won is awarded annually to articles in leading academic journals that demonstrate excellence in industry studies research.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe industry studies community is multidisciplinary, composed of researchers who gain an in-depth understanding of industries through a wide range of quantitative and qualitative research methods (including direct observation and primary data collection). They usually conduct their research across multiple firms within a particular industry.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the Best Paper Prize, Rothaermel and Hess were up against researchers from a variety of other fields, including economics, sociology, psychology, political science, and engineering. Rothaermel and Hess reportedly impressed their peers with their comprehensive research approach, involving close field contact with industry people and multiple-level analysis of tremendous amounts of data from a 22-year period. One of the evaluators wrote that the \u0027study is possibly the most comprehensive\u0027 if its kind.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe authors say their most surprising finding concerned the role that very high-performing scientists (termed \u0027star scientists\u0027) have on innovation within a pharmaceutical firm. Several previous studies have emphasized the importance of star scientists, but Rothaermel and Hess found that average performers (the rank-and-file or \u0027nonstar scientists\u0027) were primarily responsible for drug development. The stars are more important as visionaries, guiding the firm in promising new research directions.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This research demonstrates that individuals matter, but it\u0027s important to understand that not all human capital is created equal,\u0022 says Rothaermel, who considers the study\u0027s findings relevant to innovation in other industries. \u0022Once firms understand that, they can organize their structure accordingly to enhance their innovative performance.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn addition to the individual-level contributions of scientists, the researchers also studied other strategies employed by pharmaceutical firms to build innovative capability, including the acquisition of biotechnology firms and the formation of alliances with other firms or universities.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMany firms employ multiple strategies to innovation at once, but that grab-bag approach may actually lead to decreases in innovative output, found Rothaermel and Hess. \u0022In other words, when investigating the number of innovation mechanisms a firm should employ, more is not always better,\u0022 they write. \u0022Instead, the managers who take a discerning and discriminating approach towards selecting innovation mechanisms will be most successful in building the dynamic capabilities necessary to continuously innovate.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETheir Best Paper Prize was presented May 1 at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation\u0027s 2008 Industries Studies Conference in Boston.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESince 1990, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation\u0027s Industry Studies program has operated on the belief that industries are sufficiently different from one another that they individually merit rigorous academic study. Rothaermel won a two-year Sloan Industry Studies Fellowship in 2006. He holds the College of Management\u0027s Angel and Stephen M. 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U.S. News \u0026amp; World Report ranked Tech\u0027s College of Engineering among the elite, retaining them in the top 5, and the Computer Science Program has moved into the top 10.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Georgia Tech continues to maintain its excellence in graduate education,\u0022 said Georgia Tech President Wayne Clough.  \u0022Although the graduate rankings are not our sole measure of success, it is great to see so many of our graduate programs recognized on a national level for their consistent quality and continued success.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOverall the College of Engineering maintained its ranking of 4th, with 10 of the 11 programs ranking in the top 10.  The programs ranked in the nation\u0027s top ten are Industrial (No.1), Biomedical (No. 2), Aerospace  (No. 4), Civil (No. 6), Electrical (No. 6), Environmental (No. 6), Computer (No. 7), Mechanical (No. 7), Materials (No. 8), and Nuclear (No. 9).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EComputer Science ranked 9th in the nation overall, with Artificial Intelligence (No. 7), Theory (No. 9) and Systems (No. 10) all ranking in the top 10.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the second consecutive year, Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics was ranked 7th in the nation.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor business schools, Tech\u0027s College of Management ranked 29th with Production\/Operations (No.13) and Supply Chain\/Logistics (No.16) both moving up in the rankings. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Information and Technology Management program, ranked 4th for public affairs graduate programs, moved up from 8th.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Tech\u0027s Computer Science Graduate Programs Move into Top 10"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Georgia Tech\u0027s graduate programs rank among the finest in the nation in the most widely read college rankings for graduate programs.  U.S. News \u0026amp; World Report ranked Tech\u0027s College of Engineering among the elite, retaining them in the top 5, and the Computer Science Program has moved into the top 10.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Tech\u0027s graduate programs continue excellence in national ranking"}],"uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2008-03-28 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:10","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-03-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-03-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71360":{"id":"71360","type":"image","title":"Tech Tower","body":null,"created":"1449177367","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:07","changed":"1475894634","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:54"}},"media_ids":["71360"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.grad.gatech.edu\/","title":"Graduate Studies and Research"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1878","name":"College"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"2151","name":"National Rankings"},{"id":"834","name":"Rankings"},{"id":"2150","name":"U.S News and World Report Rankings"},{"id":"1879","name":"University"}],"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":["matthew.nagel@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71228":{"#nid":"71228","#data":{"type":"news","title":"College Honors Distinguished Alumni at Fifth Annual Celebration Awards","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech College of Management recognized the vision, achievement, and leadership of its alumni April 25 at the business school\u0027s Fifth Annual Awards Celebration, inducting five leaders into the Hall of Fame, Academy of Distinguished Alumni, and Council of Outstanding Young Alumni.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMore than 200 alumni and friends attended the event, which was held in the atrium and auditorium of the Management building. \u0022This evening, we\u0027re honoring the best of the best,\u0022 said College of Management Dean Steve Salbu.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENew members of the Hall of Fame include:\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJohn A. Williams\u003C\/strong\u003E (IM 1964), who has directed and coordinated the development, construction, and management of real estate projects since 1966. Founder of Post Properties, Williams currently serves as chief executive officer of Williams Realty Advisors and holds interests in various other entities involved in real properties and enterprises.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EStephen P. Zelnak Jr.\u003C\/strong\u003E (IM 1969), who has served as CEO and president of Martin Marietta Materials Inc. since 1993 and company chairman since 1997. Based in North Carolina, Martin Marietta Materials is the second largest producer of crushed stone, sand, and gravel in the United States.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENew members of the Academy of Distinguished Alumni include:\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EC. Whitney Knoll\u003C\/strong\u003E (IM 1970), who is senior managing director of Staubach Capital Markets. Prior to joining Staubach in early 2007, Knoll acted as principal and executive vice president of Trammell Crow\u0027s Retail Capital Markets Group.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEdwin A. Wahlen Jr.\u003C\/strong\u003E (IM 1970), who is managing partner of Cravey, Green \u0026amp; Wahlen. This private equity investment firm supports management teams in acquisitions and recapitalizations of middle-market companies (typically valued between $25 million-$200 million).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe newest member of the Council of Outstanding Young Alumni is:\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EW. Derek Porter\u003C\/strong\u003E (BSM 1995), who is co-founder and chief technology officer for Firethorn. 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Combined with a Master\u0027s degree program in CSE, Georgia Tech now offers a comprehensive post-graduate study program that explores the full scope of this expanding field. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Computation has become widely accepted as the third mode of discovery, along with theory and experimentation, in the advancement of scientific knowledge,\u0022 said Richard Fujimoto, Regents\u0027 Professor and Chair of the Computational Science and Engineering division in the College of Computing. \u0022Computation, through modeling, simulation, analysis and its other forms, is essential in creating new applications with great impact on the sustainable growth of cities, the design of power-efficient buildings, the creation of new biomedical devices, the eradication of life-threatening diseases and other issues of great social importance. Through the study of phenomena as large as the universe, or the engineering of systems as small as nanomaterials, breakthroughs in the CSE field will be the catalyst for future innovations that affect society and culture on a global scale.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech is an established leader in the fields of engineering and sciences, and is quickly becoming recognized for defining the direction of the computing discipline. Interdisciplinary in nature, this new degree program will capitalize on the talented faculty and wealth of resources that exist in these three areas and enable students to take best advantage of the growing number of career opportunities in this field. Approximately 10 candidates per year are expected to be admitted, gradually building the program to 50 enrolled students. Georgia Tech currently has over 80 faculty actively engaged in CSE research.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe new CSE doctoral program begins with core computational science and engineering research requirements, along with dedicated components to solidify each student\u0027s competency within a variety of computing specializations. Students must take at least four courses from the following five areas of study: numerical and scientific computing, computational science and engineering algorithms, modeling and simulation, computational data analysis and visualization, and high performance computing. As the student\u0027s research progresses, he\/she will then select a primary computational area of focus, a course of study in some application domain, as well as a qualifier examination and, finally, the completion of a dissertation. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAbout the College of Sciences at Georgia Tech\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe College of Sciences at Georgia Tech includes seven schools: Applied Physiology, Biology, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Mathematics, Physics, and Psychology plus the Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing (CEISMC), which works with K-12 schools and teachers to improve Georgia science and mathematics education. For more information about the College, please visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cos.gatech.edu\u0022 title=\u0022www.cos.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ewww.cos.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAbout the College of Engineering at Georgia Tech \u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe College of Engineering at Georgia Tech is the largest engineering program in the U.S. and ranked 4th among the country\u0027s best graduate programs by U.S. News and World Report. A respected leader in interdisciplinary research and education, the College of Engineering grants the highest number of engineering degrees in the nation across nine fields of study. For more information about the programs in the College of Engineering, please visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.coe.gatech.edu\u0022 title=\u0022www.coe.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ewww.coe.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAbout the College of Computing at Georgia Tech\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe College of Computing at Georgia Tech is a national leader in the creation of real-world computing breakthroughs that drive social and scientific progress. With its graduate program ranked 11th nationally by U.S. News and World Report, the College\u0027s unconventional approach to education is defining the new face of computing by expanding the horizons of traditional computer science students through interdisciplinary collaboration and a focus on human centered solutions. For more information about the College of Computing at Georgia Tech, its academic divisions and research centers, please visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\u0022 title=\u0022www.cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ewww.cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"The Colleges of Computing, Engineering, and Sciences at Georgia Tech today announced the creation of a new doctoral degree in Computational Science and Engineering.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Interdisciplinary effort combines computing, sciences and engine"}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2008-02-13 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:10","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-02-13T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2008-02-13T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71435":{"id":"71435","type":"image","title":"Tech Tower","body":null,"created":"1449177376","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:16","changed":"1475894637","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:57"}},"media_ids":["71435"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/first-book-on-petascale-computing-launced-at-sc07","title":"First Book on Petascale Computing Launched at SC07"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/college-of-computing-designated-first-sti-center-of-competence-focused-on-cell-processor","title":"College of Computing Designated First STI Center of Competence Focused on Cell Processor"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/college-of-computing-at-georgia-tech-oak-ridge-national-laboratory-and-ut-battelle-collaborate-to-advance-u-s-high-performance-computing","title":"College of Computing at Georgia Tech, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and UT-Battelle Collaborate to Advance U.S. High-Performance Computing"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/new-computational-science-and-engineering-division","title":"The College of Computing at Georgia Tech Announces New Computational Science and Engineering Division"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"208","name":"computing"},{"id":"516","name":"engineering"},{"id":"1098","name":"interdisciplinary"},{"id":"2204","name":"ph.d. doctoral"},{"id":"167629","name":"sciences"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ERebecca Biggs\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGCI Group\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:press@robocup-us.org\u0022\u003EContact Rebecca Biggs\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-260-3510\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["press@robocup-us.org"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71224":{"#nid":"71224","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Product Evaluators Needed in GTRI Research","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs the national test lab for the Arthritis Foundation\u0027s Ease of Use Commendation program, the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is seeking participants with arthritis to test consumer products under consideration by the Foundation. In order to receive the commendation, consumer products must undergo independent testing.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESessions consist of a discussion about the product, strength measurements needed to use the product-such opening a bottle cap-and a product use assessment. Each evaluation takes approximately one hour to complete, and participants are paid $30 an hour. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGTRI\u0027s findings are sent to the product\u0027s manufacturer and to the Arthritis Foundation, either for product improvements to be made or to be awarded the commendation.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGTRI attempts to match the products tested with interests and abilities of participants. Signing up does not represent an obligation to participate.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nVolunteers who wish to participate in product testing should contact Liz Weldon at 404-407-8438 or e-mail her at \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:elizabeth.weldon@gtri.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eelizabeth.weldon@gtri.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is seeking participants with arthritis to test consumer products under consideration by the Arthritis Foundation for its Ease of Use commendation.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"GTRI seeks participants with arthritis to test consumer products"}],"uid":"27191","created_gmt":"2008-05-08 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:10","author":"Robert Nesmith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-05-08T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-05-08T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gtri.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech Research Institute"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2097","name":"arthritis"},{"id":"416","name":"GTRI"},{"id":"2098","name":"product testing"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ELiz Weldon\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia Tech Research Institute\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:elizabeth.weldon@gtri.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EContact Liz Weldon\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-407-8438\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["elizabeth.weldon@gtri.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"40019":{"#nid":"40019","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Goodman Addresses Center for Science, Technology and Security Policy","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Seymour Goodman, Professor of International Affairs and Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology and recent chair of the National Research Council\u0027s Committee on Improving Cybersecurity Research in the U.S. addressed the AAAS Center for Science, Technology and Security Policy at the Cannon House Office Building on February 14th.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGoodman\u0027s presentation focused on international and domestic defenses against cyber attacks, particularly in relationship to dependence on the internet and other internet-like networks. He highlighted trends and deficiencies and provided examples of interventions.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Defense Against Cyber Attacks Focus of Remarks"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Dr. Seymour Goodman, Professor of International Affairs and Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology and recent chair of the National Research Council\u0027s Committee on Improving Cybersecurity Research in the U.S. addressed the AAAS Center for Science, Technology and Security Policy at the Cannon House Office Building on February 14, 2008.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"International Affairs and Computing Professor Shares Threat Insi"}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2008-02-15 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:10","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-02-15T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2008-02-15T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"40020":{"id":"40020","type":"image","title":"Dr. Seymour Goodman","body":null,"created":"1449174146","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:22:26","changed":"1475894233","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:37:13","alt":"Dr. Seymour Goodman","file":{"fid":"100454","name":"tft10672.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tft10672_3.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tft10672_3.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":33927,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tft10672_3.jpg?itok=7s7QYQoZ"}}},"media_ids":["40020"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/cstsp.aaas.org\/files\/AAAS\u0026Congress.pdf","title":"Dr. Seymour Goodman\\\u0027s Presentation"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.inta.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/listing.php?uID=21","title":"Goodman Faculty Profile"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"155","name":"Congressional Testimony"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1629","name":"AAAS"},{"id":"2200","name":"Cyber Attack"},{"id":"1404","name":"Cybersecurity"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ELisa Grovenstein\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=lgrovenste3\u0022\u003EContact Lisa Grovenstein\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-8835\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lisa.grovenstein@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71353":{"#nid":"71353","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Recycling Program Wins National Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology today received the 2008 American Forest \u0026amp; Paper Association (AF\u0026amp;PA) College and University Recycling Award.  AF\u0026amp;PA\u0027s awards program recognizes outstanding school, business, and community recycling efforts.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EToday\u0027s awards were presented during the industry\u0027s 131st Annual Paper Week, where it was also announced that a record 56 percent of the paper consumed in the U.S. was recovered for recycling in 2007.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The program that Georgia Tech has created on its campus is an outstanding example of the on-going commitment millions of Americans have made to paper recycling,\u0022 said AF\u0026amp;PA President and CEO Donna Harman.  \u0022It will take innovative and creative programs such as this one to reach the new 60 percent recovery goal set by the industry for 2012.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESince the recycling program began at Georgia Tech in 1996, recycling has been successfully integrated into virtually all components of campus life.  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Tech Architecture Professor Testifies Before House Subcommittee","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Nancey Green Leigh, a professor of City and Regional Planning at the Georgia Institute of Technology\u0027s College of Architecture, testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment, February 14, 2008. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHer remarks focused on the unintended consequences of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), and how brownfields affect prospects for urban revitalization.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Dr. Nancey Green Leigh Shares Insight on EPA"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Dr. Nancey Green Leigh, a professor of City and Regional Planning at the Georgia Institute of Technology\u0027s College of Architecture, testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment, February 14, 2008. 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Tech Professor Provides Testimomy about EPA Program"}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2008-02-15 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:10","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-02-15T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2008-02-15T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"40022":{"id":"40022","type":"image","title":"Dr, Nancey Green Leigh","body":null,"created":"1449174146","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:22:26","changed":"1475894233","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:37:13","alt":"Dr, Nancey Green Leigh","file":{"fid":"100453","name":"tdo08492.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tdo08492_3.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tdo08492_3.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":34587,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tdo08492_3.jpg?itok=gMqKBJlw"}}},"media_ids":["40022"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/transportation.house.gov\/hearings\/Testimony.aspx?TID=3435","title":"Dr. Nancey Green Leigh\\\u0027s Testimony"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.coa.gatech.edu\/crp\/facstaff\/leigh.htm","title":"Dr. Nancey Green Leigh\\\u0027s Web site"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"155","name":"Congressional Testimony"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2201","name":"Congressional"},{"id":"472","name":"epa"},{"id":"2202","name":"House of Representatives"},{"id":"1881","name":"testimony"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ELisa Grovenstein\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=lgrovenste3\u0022\u003EContact Lisa Grovenstein\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-8835\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lisa.grovenstein@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71351":{"#nid":"71351","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Gary Schuster Named  Georgia Tech Interim President","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA 14-year veteran of the Georgia Institute of Technology, Dr. Gary Schuster, who currently serves as Tech\u0027s provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs, has been named the institution\u0027s interim president, effective July 1, 2008.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EUniversity System of Georgia Chancellor Erroll B. Davis Jr. announced the appointment today.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSchuster will serve as interim president until the Chancellor and Board of Regents select a new president. He will take over leadership from current president G. Wayne Clough, who is stepping down June 30 to become the 12th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, D.C.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We entertained a number of names and evaluated a group of highly qualified individuals for this critical interim presidency,\u0022 said Davis. \u0022It became clear to us that Gary Schuster was the outstanding choice. We are delighted that he is willing to serve and to lead. I am confident that under Dr. Schuster\u0027s leadership, Tech will continue to build upon the momentum it enjoys as Dr. Clough departs.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn addition to his current position as provost and executive vice president, Schuster also holds the position of professor and Vasser Woolley Chair of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Previously, he served as dean of the College of Sciences.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESchuster holds a bachelor of science in chemistry from Clarkson College of Technology, Potsdam, NY (now Clarkson University) (1968) and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Rochester, NY (1971). After 20 years in the Chemistry Department at the University of Illinois, at Urbana-Champaign, he became dean of the College of Sciences and Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Georgia Tech in 1994. He was a National Institutes of Health Post Doctoral Fellow at Columbia University, a Fellow of the Sloan Foundation and a Guggenheim Fellow. He was awarded the 2006 Charles Holmes Herty Medal recognizing his work and service contributions since his arrival at Georgia Tech.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESchuster is a nationally known scholar and researcher with an extensive list of published articles on topics ranging from biochemistry through physical chemistry as well as a number of scientific discoveries with commercial applications.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"A 14-year veteran of the Georgia Institute of Technology, Dr. Gary Schuster, who currently serves as Tech\u0027s provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs, has been named the institution\u0027s interim president, effective July 1, 2008.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Schuster begins as Interim President on July 1, 2008"}],"uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2008-04-04 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:10","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-04-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-04-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71352":{"id":"71352","type":"image","title":"Georgia Tech Provost Gary Schuster","body":null,"created":"1449177367","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:07","changed":"1475894424","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:24"}},"media_ids":["71352"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/president\/","title":"Georgia Tech President G.P. (Bud) Peterson"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.provost.gatech.edu\/","title":"Office of the Provost"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1970","name":"Clough"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"2137","name":"Interim President"},{"id":"288","name":"Leadership"},{"id":"1052","name":"Management"},{"id":"1271","name":"President"},{"id":"937","name":"provost"},{"id":"169291","name":"Schuster"}],"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":["matthew.nagel@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71350":{"#nid":"71350","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Computer System Consistently Makes Most Accurate NCAA Picks","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESports professionals and fans get pretty emotional about their picks for the NCAA basketball tournament each year, and that emotion often clouds their judgment.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBut three engineering professors at the Georgia Institute of Technology have created a computer ranking system, called LRMC, that consistently predicts NCAA basketball rankings more accurately than the AP poll of sportswriters and the ESPN\/USA Today poll of coaches, formulas (the Ratings Percentage Index), other computer models (the Massey ratings and the Sagarin ratings), and even the tournament seeds themselves.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter correctly picking all four of this year\u0027s finalists (and Kansas as this year\u0027s champion), the LRMC method has now identified 30 of the last 36 Final Four participants (83 percent accuracy over the past nine years of NCAA tournaments) as one of the top two teams in their region. Over the same nine-year stretch, the seedings and polls have correctly identified only 23, and the RPI indentified 21.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELRMC predicted Kansas as champion, despite UNC, UCLA and Memphis being the top three ranked teams by most systems.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELRMC (Logistic Regression Markov Chain) is a college basketball rankings system designed to use only basic scoreboard data, including which teams played, which team had home court advantage and the margin of victory. It was originally designed by Joel Sokol and Paul Kvam and has been maintained and improved by Sokol and George Nemhauser, all three optimization and statistics professors in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022As fans, we only get to see most tournament teams two or three times at most during the season, so our gut feelings about a team are really colored by how well or poorly they played the few times we\u0027ve been watching,\u0022 said Sokol. \u0022On the other hand, our system objectively measures each team\u0027s performance in every game it plays, and mathematically balances all of those outcomes to determine an overall ranking.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELRMC seems to have a particular knack for predicting good bubble teams and identifying the top teams. In addition to correctly picking the Final Four, LRMC also correctly identified several over-rated and under-rated teams as potential upsets. First-round losers Drake (5-seed, LRMC #30), Vanderbilt (4-seed, LRMC #38), and Connecticut (4-seed, LRMC #26), as well as second-round loser Georgetown (2-seed, LRMC #12), were all picked by LRMC as significantly over-rated teams.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOn the other hand, teams like West Virginia (7-seed, LRMC #17), which defeated second-seeded Duke, and Kansas State (11-seed, LRMC #19), which defeated sixth-seeded USC, were correctly identified by LRMC as under-rated teams that could pull off one or more upsets.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBut LRMC isn\u0027t perfect - it picked Clemson as under-rated (upset in the first round) and Davidson wasn\u0027t identified as under-rated by any major ranking method, including LRMC.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELRMC differs from other computer rankings systems in two important ways. When determining the value of home court advantage, LRMC considers how much playing at home helps a team win rather than how many points playing on a home court is worth. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers have also been able to show that very close games are often \u0027toss-ups,\u0027 meaning the better team barely wins more than half the time. So, they determined that winning a close game shouldn\u0027t be worth as much as winning easily, and losing a close game shouldn\u0027t hurt a team\u0027s ranking as much as losing badly. LRMC\u0027s ranking methodology takes this into account.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESimilar to other rankings systems, LRMC also uses the quality of each team\u0027s results and the strength of each team\u0027s schedule to rank teams.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Three engineering professors at Georgia Tech have created a computer ranking system, called LRMC, that consistently predicts NCAA basketball rankings more accurately than polls, formulas, other computer models and even the tournament seeds themselves.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"System accuracy tops other polls and computer systems"}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2008-04-03 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:10","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-04-08T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-04-08T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/","title":"Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www2.isye.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/Joel_Sokol\/lrmc\/lrmc.sort0.html","title":"LRMC Basketball Rankings"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2142","name":"basketball"},{"id":"2141","name":"brackets"},{"id":"1431","name":"industrial and systems engineering"},{"id":"1158","name":"LRMC"},{"id":"1155","name":"NCAA"},{"id":"2140","name":"Nemhauser"},{"id":"169279","name":"Sokol"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ELisa Grovenstein\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=lgrovenste3\u0022\u003EContact Lisa Grovenstein\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-8835\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lisa.grovenstein@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71405":{"#nid":"71405","#data":{"type":"news","title":"GT SMART Moves Beyond the Institute","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs the GT SMART (Students Managing Alcohol Risk at Tech) program completes its final year, director Marsha Brinkley stays busy, gearing up for several remaining initiatives. Her two main objectives remain starting up the parental outreach program and finding \u0027institutional homes\u0027 for GT SMART\u0027s successful initiatives.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETech is one of 10 campuses selected to participate in the American Medical Association-managed A Matter of Degree (AMOD) project, funded by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). The goal is to develop a customizable, universally applicable model for altering the environment to modify negative behaviors, as well as educating both the campus and surrounding community on the harms caused by these behaviors. This particular program targets underage and high-risk alcohol consumption. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Social norming works through advertising, messages and programs to reach individuals and groups,\u0022 Brinkley said. \u0022The AMOD project researched the development and utilization of environmental changes to modify negative behaviors. Examples would include legislative changes, police enforcement and changes in the advertising messages companies send regarding alcohol products.\u0022 \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOf the 10 campuses chosen, Tech is the only urban-area community. \u0022As such, we had very different challenges,\u0022 Brinkley said. And as one of the last campuses to join the program (in 1999), Tech is one of the last still going. The AMOD plan was originally five years in length, but a four-year extension was granted in 2004. Funding supports the current program until Aug. 31.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022For the first three years, everything was focused on campus activities,\u0022 Brinkley said. To meet the grant\u0027s requirements of engaging the community, GT SMART in 2002 conducted a quality-of-life survey on 600 Atlanta residents. The purpose was to determine what type of interventions would best address the community\u0027s concerns. Another aspect of the intervention development process included the formation of committees and task forces, which included civic and business leaders, as well as Tech faculty, staff and students.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThese committees worked with elected officials to review and revise some of the local ordinances. And as community members learned of some business owners\u0027 practices, changes to and enforcement of laws governing alcohol sales were welcomed.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOther established outreach programs include free online alcohol server training and an anonymous tip line for people to report businesses suspected of operating outside the law, either by selling to minors or those already intoxicated.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0022While 911 is not always perceived as being anonymous, our tip line is,\u0022 she says. \u0022At the beep, callers are instructed to give the name of the business, what illegal activity is suspected and the business location. Callers are reminded that they need not give their names. Information is then sent to the police, and is investigated at the discretion of the police department.\u0022 In the tip line\u0027s first year, Atlanta Police issued a record number of non-compliance tickets. Brinkley credits Atlanta Police Chief Richard Pennington with putting more officers into the alcohol compliance unit. As businesses took the situation seriously, the number of citations have since tapered off.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe free online program-Responsible Alcohol Sales \u0026amp; Server Training (RASS)-was developed for alcohol licensees and their employees. Brinkley says the module is the first online, interactive program in the state. Successful completion of RASS, which takes roughly two hours overall, includes two tests. \u0022If you don\u0027t pass, you can take [them] again-but the questions change,\u0022 Brinkley said. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThrough data gathered in user surveys, Brinkley says the program \u0027has proven to be a valuable tool for learning state laws and empowering people to do their jobs well.\u0027 When successfully completed, the course provides a certificate, which, in turn, makes employees more marketable.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn fall 2007, Athens\/Clarke County mandated alcohol server training, and the chief of police approved the RASS program. Brinkley says RASS is now in 18 counties and 223 establishments, and more than 2,300 people in the alcohol-service industry have completed the program.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nFall semester also kicked off the parent outreach initiative with the start of GT SMART\u0027s lecture series. In the first, the speaker made a presentation on pharmacology and drinking, as parents-and students-may not be aware of medicinal interaction with alcohol.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOn Jan. 31, Texans Standing Tall Executive Director Nicole Holt presents \u0027Alcohol Marketing and Youth\u0027 showing how ads and TV spots are aimed at young people. \u0022We, as adults, miss these messages,\u0022 Brinkley said. GT SMART is working on getting the rights to podcast this presentation to reach parents. \u0022Our students come from so many states, not to mention countries.\u0022 In February, there will be a presentation of a program made possible by The Sam Spady Foundation, which tells the story of Spady, a 19-year-old college student who died of alcohol poisoning. (Because of rights issues, this presentation will not be podcast.) All presentations are open to the public.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe full parental outreach initiative, including an online component, is still under development. Tech is partnering with the University of Minnesota to survey incoming students\u0027 parents on their beliefs about students\u0027 attitudes toward alcohol. In 2006, Tech began using AlcholEdu to collect data from incoming freshmen about their attitudes toward alcohol, which will be paired with the parents\u0027 information.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBrinkley says that parents\u0027 experiences with alcohol in college is very different from today. \u0022[The thought is] they did it, and they turned out all right,\u0022 she said. \u0022But it\u0027s a much more dangerous world than when they were in college,\u0022 she said, referring to date-rape drugs and other hazards confronting college students today.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOne overarching challenge of GT SMART has been in overcoming its perception. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We push responsibility [for those of legal age], not temperance,\u0022 Brinkley said. \u0022We do stress not drinking until it\u0027s legal. We\u0027re not here for a \u0027dry\u0027 campus or taking away fun. We are here to promote safety and responsibility.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0022Nobody seems to teach young people how to safely drink when they\u0027re old enough,\u0027 she said. The outreach and other presentations are designed to teach parents how to approach the subject with their kids. \u0022Every year, we have several students who need medical attention [because of drinking],\u0022 she said. \u0022The past few years, we have received more calls for help, so we feel our message is getting out.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile these new initiatives are important, they are only one priority for Brinkley as the program winds down. \u0022Right now we\u0027re working to institutionalize programs that have been successful,\u0022 Brinkley said, specifically mentioning the RASS, tip-line and student programs. \u0022We\u0027re finding \u0027homes\u0027 for them, either at Tech or off-campus.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESome are garnering international attention from other educational institutions from around the globe. Last August, Brinkley presented \u0027Effective Strategies to Reduce High-Risk Drinking Among College Students and Residents in an Urban Environment\u0027 as a case study during a round table conference at the University of Oxford. This opportunity, she said, came out of an outreach with the president of the University of Dublin. \u0022We\u0027re seeing that what we\u0027ve produced can be initiated in other countries,\u0022 she said. Her case study will be published by the Oxford University Press.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPrior to Brinkley\u0027s arrival at Tech in 2002, she worked for Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell\u0027s office, where-among her other duties-she was named the city\u0027s liaison to the program after its inception. GT SMART is part of the Office of the Dean of Students. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I think the main lessons learned from developing the model were [along with] the components of information and education, the two keys are legislation and enforcement,\u0022 Brinkley said. \u0022If you don\u0027t have both, things won\u0027t change.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"In the final year of funding, GT SMART director Marsha Brinkley works to ensure the program\u0027s successful initiatives continue to aid and educate the community.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Alcohol-education program targets the community"}],"uid":"27191","created_gmt":"2008-01-31 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:10","author":"Robert Nesmith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-02-19T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2008-02-19T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71406":{"id":"71406","type":"image","title":"GT SMART director Marsha Brinkley","body":null,"created":"1449177376","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:16","changed":"1475894634","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:54"}},"media_ids":["71406"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gtsmart.gatech.edu\/","title":"GT SMART"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2211","name":"alcohol education"},{"id":"1454","name":"GT Smart"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ERobert Nesmith\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=wnesmith3\u0022\u003EContact Robert Nesmith\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-385-4142\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["robert.nesmith@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71408":{"#nid":"71408","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Executive V.P. Announces Retirement","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. G. Wayne Clough, president of the Georgia Institute of Technology, today announced that Mr. Robert K. Thompson, executive vice president for Administration and Finance, will retire effective April 1.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Bob has made an extraordinary contribution to the transformation of Georgia Tech into one of our nation\u0027s leading universities,\u0022 Clough said. \u0022During his tenure Bob\u0027s innovative leadership was critical to successfully completing more than $1 billion worth of construction and development projects on campus. He also modernized our administrative systems and processes in ways that made the campus much more efficient and customer-friendly.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022My 13-plus years at Georgia Tech have been the highlight of my 40-year career in higher education,\u0022 Thompson said. \u0022I am forever grateful to Dr. Clough for this opportunity to help move Georgia Tech from good to great under his leadership. I am very proud of the outstanding leadership team I assembled in Administration and Finance, and am confident in their ability to continue helping Georgia Tech move forward. I also want to thank the many students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends of Georgia Tech for their support over these wonderful years.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThompson joined Georgia Tech in 1995 from the University of Washington. He will be succeeded by Steven G. Swant, vice president for Administration and Finance.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E \u0022Steve brings a history of experience at top institutions with previous employment at UCLA and the University of Washington, in addition to his 12 years at Georgia Tech,\u0022 Clough stated. \u0022He understands fully what it takes to be a first rate university, knows how to handle the complex demands of the position and will provide the leadership and continuity the Institute requires as we look to the challenges that lie ahead.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESwant has been responsible for the Institute\u0027s operating and capital budget development and administration, institutional research, and strategic planning since 1996. His duties as Thompson\u0027s chief deputy were added in 2006 when he was appointed to the position of vice president for Administration and Finance. \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Robert Thompson concludes 40-year career in higher education"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Dr. G. Wayne Clough, president of the Georgia Institute of Technology, today announced that Mr. Robert K. Thompson, executive vice president for Administration and Finance, will retire effective April 1.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Thompson\u0027s retirement will take effect April 1"}],"uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2008-02-19 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:10","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-02-19T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2008-02-19T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71409":{"id":"71409","type":"image","title":"Robert Thompson","body":null,"created":"1449177376","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:16","changed":"1475894634","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:54"},"71410":{"id":"71410","type":"image","title":"Steve Swant","body":null,"created":"1449177376","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:16","changed":"1475894634","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:54"}},"media_ids":["71409","71410"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/president\/","title":"Georgia Tech President G.P. (Bud) Peterson"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.admin-fin.gatech.edu\/offices.html","title":"Administration and Finance"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2199","name":"Bob Thompson"},{"id":"1970","name":"Clough"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"2198","name":"Retirement"},{"id":"536","name":"robert"},{"id":"2002","name":"Tech Square"}],"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":["matthew.nagel@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71411":{"#nid":"71411","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Astronomy Technology Brings Nanoparticle Probes into Sharper Focus","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhile pondering the challenges of distinguishing one nano-sized probe image from another in a mass of hundreds or thousands of nanoprobes, researchers at Georgia Tech and Emory University made an interesting observation. The tiny, clustered dots of light looked a lot like a starry sky on a clear night.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe biomedical researchers realized that astronomers had already made great strides in solving a problem very similar to their own - isolating and analyzing one dot (in this case a star) in a crowded field of light. They hypothesized that a computer system designed for stellar photometry, a branch of astronomy focused on measuring the brightness of stars, could hold the solution to their problem.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENow, Georgia Tech and Emory researchers have created a technology based on stellar photometry software that provides more precise images of single molecules tagged with nanoprobes, particles specially designed to bind with a certain type of cell or molecule and illuminate when the target is found. The clearer images allow researchers to collect more detailed information about a single molecule, such as how the molecule is binding in a gene sequence, taking scientists a few steps closer to truly personalized and predictive medicine as well as more complex biomolecular structural mapping.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to biomedical applications, the system could be used to clarify other types of nanoparticle probes, including tagged particles or molecules.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe research is detailed in this week\u0027s online Early Edition of the \u003Cem\u003EProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences\u003C\/em\u003E (PNAS).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022As more powerful imaging technologies are developed, scientists face a real challenge to quantitatively analyze and interpret these new mountains of data,\u0022 said May Dongmei Wang, an assistant professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. \u0022This PNAS paper is only a start, but I expect that innovative computing and data processing will be increasingly used to reveal detailed and quantitative features not currently available to biomedical researchers.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This work is pointing to a new era in light microscopy in which single molecule detection is achieved at nanometer resolution,\u0022 said Dr. Shuming Nie, a professor of biomedical engineering and chemistry and also the director of the Emory-Georgia Tech Cancer Nanotechnology Center. \u0022This is also an example of interdisciplinary research in which advanced computing meets nanotechnology. I envision major applications not only for single-molecule imaging, but also for ultrasensitive medical diagnostics.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBecause scientists frequently use several different colors of nanoprobes to color code genes and proteins, a blended color dot is a common challenge when analyzing images. For every few green or red dots in an image, there could be a few yellow dots as well, indicating that at least two dots are clustering to create the appearance of a new color.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile less than precise nanoprobe images yield valuable information, the Georgia Tech and Emory research team knew that better technology was needed to pinpoint the exact distance in nanometers between probes to reveal important information about the size and binding geometry of targeted molecules. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We had no way of knowing for sure if we were looking at one molecule or two or three molecules very near one another,\u0022 said Wang. \u0022The fuzzy dot images were not precise enough on the nanometer level to truly tell us how these markers reflect DNA, but this system allows us to collect quantitative data and prove - not hypothesize - how genes are behaving.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EInstead of starting from scratch to create a system to isolate the clumped nanoprobe images, the Georgia Tech and Emory researchers pursued their stellar photometry idea by adapting DAOPHOT, a program written by Peter Stetson at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory designed to handle crowded fields of stars.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter adapting DAOPHOT, the research team used color-coded nanoparticles to beat the traditional diffraction limit by nearly two orders of magnitude, allowing routine super-resolution imaging at one nanometer resolution. And by using DNA molecules, two color-coded nanoparticles are designed to recognize two binding sites on a single target. Then the particles are brought together within nanometer distances after target binding.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThese distances are sorted out by highly efficient image processing technology, leading to detection and identification of individual molecules based on the target\u0027s geometric size.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECompared to other single molecule imaging methods, the Georgia Tech and Emory system allows for higher-speed detection involving much larger sample volumes (microliter to milliliters).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECollaborators on the project include Amit Agrawal and Geoffrey Wang from the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Chemistry at Emory and Georgia Tech, and Rajesh Deo from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Georgia State University.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe research was funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Energy Genomes to Life Program and the Georgia Cancer Coalition. Computer support was also provided by Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Georgia Tech and Emory University researchers have created a technology based on astronomy software that provides more precise images of single molecules tagged with nanoprobes. The clearer images allow researchers to collect more detailed information about a single molecule, such as how the molecule is binding in a gene sequence, taking scientists a few steps closer to truly personalized and predictive medicine as well as more complex biomolecular structural mapping.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"New technology quickly, precisely images single molecule"}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2008-02-19 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:10","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-02-19T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2008-02-19T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71412":{"id":"71412","type":"image","title":"Tagged molecules","body":null,"created":"1449177376","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:16","changed":"1475894634","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:54"},"71413":{"id":"71413","type":"image","title":"Nanoprobes clarified","body":null,"created":"1449177376","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:16","changed":"1475894634","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:54"}},"media_ids":["71412","71413"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/","title":"Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.bio-miblab.org\/","title":"May Wang"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.nielab.org\/index.html","title":"Shuming Nie"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2196","name":"biomolecular mapping"},{"id":"987","name":"imaging"},{"id":"2194","name":"nanomedicine"},{"id":"2195","name":"nanoprobes"},{"id":"107","name":"Nanotechnology"},{"id":"170762","name":"single molecule image"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ELisa Grovenstein\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=lgrovenste3\u0022\u003EContact Lisa Grovenstein\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-8835\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lisa.grovenstein@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71414":{"#nid":"71414","#data":{"type":"news","title":"National Engineers Week Observed February 17 - 23","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology celebrates National Engineers Week February 17 - 23. The annual observance, initiated in 1951 by the National Society of Professional Engineers, is designed to recognize the contributions engineers as well as to promote science, technology, engineering and math education.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWith the largest College of Engineering in the nation, Georgia Tech\u0027s programs are consistently ranked by U.S. News \u0026amp; World Report as some of the top in the United States, with both the graduate and undergraduate programs ranking fifth in the nation. Specific rankings for both undergraduate and graduate engineering specialties follow:\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E2008 Undergraduate Program Rankings\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  1st Industrial Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  2nd Aerospace Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  3rd Biomedical Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  5th Civil Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  6th Computer Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  6th Electrical Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  6th Mechanical Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  8th Environmental Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  9th Materials Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n11th Chemical Engineering\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E2008 Graduate Engineering Program Rankings\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  1st Industrial Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  2nd Biomedical Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  4th Civil Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  5th Aerospace Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  6th Computer Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  7th Electrical Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  7th Mechanical Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  9th Materials Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n14th Chemical Engineering\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Georgia Tech Celebrates Excellence in Engineering Disciplines"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"The Georgia Institute of Technology celebrates National Engineers Week February 17 - 23. The annual observance, initiated in 1951 by the National Society of Professional Engineers, is designed to recognize the contributions engineers as well as to promote science, technology, engineering and math education.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech Boasts Largest Engineering School in the U.S."}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2008-02-19 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:10","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-02-19T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2008-02-19T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.eweek.org\/","title":"National Engineers Week"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.engineersweek.com\/","title":"Georgia Engineers Week"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.coe.gatech.edu\/","title":"College of Engineering"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"516","name":"engineering"},{"id":"2193","name":"national engineers week"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ELisa Grovenstein\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=lgrovenste3\u0022\u003EContact Lisa Grovenstein\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-8835\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lisa.grovenstein@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71401":{"#nid":"71401","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Condolence Letter to Northern Illinois University","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\nDr. John G Peters, President\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nNorthern Illinois University\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n1425 West Lincoln Highway\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDekalb, IL  60115\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDear President Peters,\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOn behalf of Georgia Tech, I would like to extend our profound sympathy to you and your campus community on the terrible tragedy you recently experienced. Our hearts and prayers go out especially to the families of those who were killed.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIt is an incomprehensible tragedy when the open, welcoming nature of a university is defiled by violence and when lives are lost while engaged in the quest for knowledge that lies at the heart of a university\u0027s purpose. When that openness and trust are violated, as they were on your campus last week, every university shares the sense of anguish and vulnerability.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWe extend our deepest condolences to you and the students, faculty, and staff of Northern Illinois University as you deal with this painful and difficult chapter of your life and find a way to move forward.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESincerely,\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EG. Wayne Clough\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nPresident, Georgia Institute of Technology\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Georgia Tech extends its deepest condolences to the students, faculty, and staff of Northern Illinois University in dealing with this painful and difficult chapter of its history.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"President Wayne Clough responds to the recent tragedy"}],"uid":"27299","created_gmt":"2008-02-20 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:10","author":"Michael Hagearty","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-02-20T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2008-02-20T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/emergency\/","title":"Georgia Tech Safety Procedures"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1970","name":"Clough"},{"id":"2190","name":"condolences"},{"id":"2191","name":"letter"},{"id":"2192","name":"northern illinois"}],"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":["matthew.nagel@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71397":{"#nid":"71397","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Student Scholars Shine","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech students are among the finest in the nation and many of them are being nationally recognized for their scholarly honors and accolades.  \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAdam Tart was selected from more than 300 applicants to receive the George J. Mitchell Scholarship.  The Mitchell Scholarships are awarded annually to twelve Americans, under the age of 30, to pursue a year of post-graduate study at any university in Ireland.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The finalists were interviewed the weekend of November 16-17 in Washington,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nD.C.,\u0022 said Tart.  \u0022I found out that I had won the award the very next day by phone when Mitchell Scholarship Director Mary Lou Hartman called me. I was impressed and relieved with how quickly they let me know the decision, since I didn\u0027t have to sit and wait and wonder nervously for very long.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHe continued, \u0022I\u0027m really excited about getting to pursue a field that I\u0027m really interested in (computer science) at a great university, in a beautiful country, with the amazing opportunity to travel around Europe and see more of the world, all funded by a prestigious scholarship.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETart is a discrete mathematics major and will pursue a master\u0027s in mobile networking and computing at the University College Cork, located in Cork, Ireland.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Mitchell Scholarship is named for former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, who spearheaded the historic Good Friday Agreement of 1998, which produced peace in Northern Ireland. The Mitchell Scholarship recognizes outstanding young Americans who exhibit the highest standards of academic excellence, leadership and community service.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech biomedical engineering major Inn Inn Chen has been named a Marshall Scholar. The Marshall Scholarships finance young Americans of high ability to study for a degree in the United Kingdom.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nFounded by a 1953 Act of Parliament, Marshall Scholarships are mainly funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and commemorate the humane ideals of the Marshall Plan conceived by General George C. Marshall. They express the continuing gratitude of the British people to their American counterparts.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Marshall Scholarships are designed to enable intellectually distinguished young Americans to act as their country\u0027s ambassadors while studying in and gaining an appreciation of Britain.  These young American scholars are able to contribute to the advancement of knowledge in science, technology, the humanities and social sciences and the creative arts at Britain\u0027s centers of academic excellence.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EInn Inn Chen has high ambitions as she wants to study tissue engineering and regenerative medicine at Oxford. She spent last summer as an intern at the National Institute of Health and has developed a sustainable solar-powered refrigerator for vaccine storage. Chen is also associate editor of the Journal of Young Investigators and leads the Engineering World Health chapter on the Georgia Tech campus to enable repair and shipment of life-saving equipment to areas of the world with critical needs. She is currently studying immune responses to new medical devices.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAndrew Marin, a chemical engineering student, has been named a Gates Cambridge Scholar.  Gates Cambridge scholars are selected on the basis of intellectual abilities, leadership capacity and desire to use their knowledge to contribute to society throughout the world by providing service to their communities and applying their talents and knowledge to improve the lives of others.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThroughout his college career, Marin has been heavily involved with organizations that promote the chemical sciences. As president of the professional chemistry fraternity (Alpha Chi Sigma), he organized corporate seminars to display the most recent advancements in the chemical industry, and as chair of the chemical engineering student advisory board he worked to better student-faculty relationships\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMarin also conducted research on unconventional solvent systems in the Eckert- Liotta Joint Research Group. In 2006, he was awarded the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship for his technical capabilities and leadership in organizations\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThrough course work and research, he has become interested in photovoltaic device materials. At Cambridge Marin will pursue a PhD in materials science and metallurgy and investigate the use of metal oxides to enhance solar energy conversion.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter graduate school, he will continue to research energy technology. Marin aspires to contribute to both technical and nontechnical communities through publications, innovations and outreach. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOther Georgia Tech students who have received this scholarship include Nabil Wilf (2007), Anthony Hylick (2005), and Jay Silver (2002).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe Bill \u0026amp; Melinda Gates Foundation established the Gates Cambridge Trust, which created an international scholarship program to enable outstanding graduate students from outside the United Kingdom to study at the University of Cambridge.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EJessica Heier, an industrial and systems engineering student, was one of 14 young engineers featured in USA Today.  Each year, the National Engineers Week Foundation, a coalition of engineering societies, major corporations and government agencies, asks its members to nominate colleagues 30 years old and younger who have shown outstanding abilities and leadership.  Heier was nominated for her work in humanitarian relief logistics to be part of the New Faces of Engineering.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Tech students earn accolades"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Georgia Tech students are among the finest in the nation and many of them are being nationally recognized for their scholarly honors and accolades.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Students earn national honors."}],"uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2008-02-22 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:10","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-02-22T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2008-02-22T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71398":{"id":"71398","type":"image","title":"Adam Tart","body":null,"created":"1449177376","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:16","changed":"1475894634","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:54"},"71399":{"id":"71399","type":"image","title":"Inn Inn Chen","body":null,"created":"1449177376","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:16","changed":"1475894634","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:54"},"71400":{"id":"71400","type":"image","title":"Andrew Marin","body":null,"created":"1449177376","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:16","changed":"1475894634","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:54"}},"media_ids":["71398","71399","71400"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/news-events\/news\/release.php?id=1732","title":"Additional Information on Jessica Heier"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatesscholar.org\/news\/detail.asp?ItemID=101","title":"Gates Cambridge Scholar"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.marshallscholarship.org\/","title":"Marshall Scholar"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.us-irelandalliance.org\/wmspage.cfm?parm1=731","title":"George J. Mitchell Scholarship"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2187","name":"Accolades"},{"id":"276","name":"Awards"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"2188","name":"Honors"},{"id":"2189","name":"National"},{"id":"168670","name":"Scholars"},{"id":"167132","name":"Scholarships"},{"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\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":["matthew.nagel@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71394":{"#nid":"71394","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Physicists Discover Gold Can Be Magnetic on the Nanoscale","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPhysicists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have made two important findings regarding gold on the nanoscale. They found that applying an electrical field on a surface-supported gold nanocluster changes its structure from a three-dimensional one to a planar flat structure. In another paper, they relate their discovery that gold in this size regime can be made magnetic through oxygenation of gold nanowires. They also found that up to a certain length, oxygenated gold nanowires behave as a conducting metal, but beyond that, they become insulators. This marks the first time on the nanoscale that such a metal-to-insulation transition has been found on the nanoscale. Both findings are important predictions that could some day be implemented as control parameters governing the chemical and physical material properties employed in nanotechnology.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers focused their theoretical investigations on gold nanostructures because of the well known chemical inertness of gold in the bulk form, allowing one to maintain samples with minimal influence on the environment. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022However, we again find that small is different,\u0022 said Uzi Landman, Regents\u0027 and Institute Professor, holder of the F.E. Callaway Chair, and director of the Center for Computational Materials Science, repeating a phrase that he coined and has used often for close to two decades.  \u0022On the nanoscale, even gold becomes a potent catalyst, exhibiting new and surprising, chemical, mechanical, electrical and magnetic behavior, which could not have been extrapolated or predicted on the basis of our knowledge about this substance in the bulk form. Some of these systems may find technological uses in nanocatalysis and as chemical and electrical sensors,\u0022 Landman added. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the first study, which appears in the February 8 edition of Physical Review Letters, Landman and Research Scientist Bokwon Yoon performed first-principles quantum mechanical computer simulations of a 20-atom  gold  nanocluster adsorbed on the surface of a film of magnesium oxide (MgO), an insulator which itself is supported by an underlying metallic silver substrate. The optimal configuration of the adsorbed gold nanocluster depends on the thickness of the underlying MgO film, and for an eight-layer film it was found to be a three-dimensional four-sided pyramid, with one of the sides contacting the magnesium oxide surface.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHowever, the researchers discovered that under the influence of an externally applied electric field, the aforementioned three-dimensional shape of the gold nanocluster is no longer the energetically favored structure. Instead, the optimal structure becomes a flat planar 20-atom gold island spread on the MgO surface. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETurning off the applied field or reversing it\u0027s direction results in reverting the structure back to the pyramidal one. The origin of the nanocluster morphological change was found to relate to accumulation of excess electronic charge at the interface between the cluster and the magnesium oxide film. This excess charge, which stabilizes the planar nanocluster structure, originates from the underlying silver substrate, and it\u0027s ability to penetrate to the cluster interface through the eight-layer thick MgO film depends on the presence of the externally applied driving electric field. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers also discovered that the chemical activity of the adsorbed gold nanocluster varied significantly under the influence of the applied field, enhancing the low-temperature catalytic oxidation of CO to carbon dioxide.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E \u0022We found that we can change in a controllable manner the physical as well as the chemical properties of the adsorbed nanostructure by applying an external voltage across the supported gold nanocluster,\u0022 said Landman. \u0022I believe that this finding  may introduce a potent control parameter into the chemistry of materials. The newly proposed  method for tuning and controlling the structure and reactivity of nanostructures through the application of external electric fields may open novel directions and increase the range and applications of nanocatalytic systems and chemically based  sensors and catalytic switches.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe second finding, which appears in the February 1 edition of the same journal, answers the question of what happens when a nanowire of gold is pulled in the presence of oxygen.  In these studies Landman, Postdoctoral Fellow Chun Zhang and Senior Research Scientist Robert Barnett used first-principles simulations and quantum electrical transport calculations. They found that oxygenated gold nanowires exhibit different properties, depending on whether the oxygen is incorporated in a molecular form or as individual atoms. Indeed, some of these theoretical results offer a new interpretation of recent laboratory experiments on oxygenated gold nanowires.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the case of incorporation of molecular oxygen into the gold nanowire, the simulations revealed that the nanowires can be stretched to a significantly longer extent than pure gold nanowires - in other words, the adsorbed oxygen molecule serves as a reinforcing clamp. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFurthermore, the simulations predict that up to a certain stretching distance (typically up to wires that resemble a stretched necklace of about six gold atoms and an embedded oxygen molecule), such nanowires will conduct electrons similar to a pure gold nanowire. These results have been confirmed experimentally. Moreover, the simulations predict that oxygenated gold nanowires extended beyond a length of about six gold atoms become insulating. The conducting state can be restored by a slight contraction of the wire, thus allowing distance - dependent sensitive metal-to-insulator nano-switching. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen individual oxygen atoms, rather than an oxygen molecule, are incorporated in the gold nanowire, the elongation range was found to be limited and the electrical conductance was predicted to be lower than in the previous case of molecular oxygen incorporation. However, a surprising finding was made for such wires, predicting the emergence of magnetism with the magnetic moments localized on the embedded oxygens and on the neighboring gold nanowire atoms.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E \u0022It\u0027s a very exotic thing,\u0022 said Landman of the phenomenon. \u0022Finding materials that have magnetic properties when their bulk form doesn\u0027t have those properties is very interesting from a fundamental point of view, and may have certain future technological applications.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECaption 1\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThree-dimensional (a) and planar 20-atom gold clusters (b), showing top and side views, with the gold atoms depicted as yellow spheres, adsorbed on an MgO  8-layer film (Mg atoms in green and O atoms in red), which itself is supported by an underlying silver substrate (not shown). The calculations were performed under the influence of an electric field of 1 volt per nanometer. The excess electronic charge distribution is superimposed on the atomic structure as a blue cloud. The planar structure (b) is the favorable one under these conditions, while without the electric field the three-dimensional cluster (a) is the more stable one. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECaption 2\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe atomic structure of a gold nanowire containing 5 gold atoms (depicted by yellow spheres), with an embedded oxygen molecule (depicted by red spheres), stretched between two gold tip electrodes (gold leads that connect to the electrodes are not shown). Excess electronic charge on the incorporated oxygen atoms is depicted by blue clouds.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Physicists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have made two important findings regarding gold on the nanoscale.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"They also find that nano-gold can become an insulator"}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2008-02-28 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:10","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-02-28T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2008-02-28T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71395":{"id":"71395","type":"image","title":"Gold flattens","body":null,"created":"1449177376","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:16","changed":"1475894634","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:54"},"71396":{"id":"71396","type":"image","title":"AuO2","body":null,"created":"1449177376","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:16","changed":"1475894634","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:54"}},"media_ids":["71395","71396"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.physics.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/ulandman.html","title":"Uzi Landman"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2185","name":"gold"},{"id":"1631","name":"landman"},{"id":"431","name":"nanoscale"}],"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":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71207":{"#nid":"71207","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Robots Go Where Scientists Fear to Tread","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EScientists are diligently working to understand how and why the world\u0027s ice shelves are melting. While most of the data they need (temperatures, wind speed, humidity, radiation) can be obtained by satellite, it isn\u0027t as accurate as good old-fashioned, on-site measurement and static ground-based weather stations don\u0027t allow scientists to collect info from as many locations as they\u0027d like.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EUnfortunately, the locations in question are volatile ice sheets, possibly cracking, shifting and filling with water - not exactly a safe environment for scientists.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo help scientists collect the more detailed data they need without risking scientists\u0027 safety, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, working with Pennsylvania State University, have created specially designed robots called SnoMotes to traverse these potentially dangerous ice environments. The SnoMotes work as a team, autonomously collaborating among themselves to cover all the necessary ground to gather assigned scientific measurements. Data gathered by the Snomotes could give scientists a better understanding of the important dynamics that influence the stability of ice sheets.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022In order to say with certainty how climate change affects the world\u0027s ice, scientists need accurate data points to validate their climate models,\u0022 said Ayanna Howard, lead on the project and an associate professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech. \u0022Our goal was to create rovers that could gather more accurate data to help scientists create better climate models. It\u0027s definitely science-driven robotics.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHoward unveiled the SnoMotes at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Pasadena on May 23. The SnoMotes will also be part of an exhibit at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry in June. The research was funded by a grant from NASA\u0027s Advanced Information Systems Technology (AIST) Program.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHoward, who previously worked with rovers at NASA\u0027s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is working with Magnus Egerstedt, an associate professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Derrick Lampkin, an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at Penn State who studies ice sheets and how changes in climate contribute to changes in these large ice masses. Lampkin currently takes ice sheet measurements with satellite data and ground-based weather stations, but would prefer to use the more accurate data possible with the simultaneous ground measurements that efficient rovers can provide.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The changing mass of Greenland and Antarctica represents the largest unknown in predictions of global sea-level rise over the coming decades. Given the substantial impact these structures can have on future sea levels, improved monitoring of the ice sheet mass balance is of vital concern,\u0022 Lampkin said. \u0022We\u0027re developing a scale-adaptable, autonomous, mobile climate monitoring network capable of capturing a range of vital meteorological measurements that will be employed to augment the existing network and capture multi-scale processes under-sampled by current, stationary systems.\u0027 \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe SnoMotes are autonomous robots and are not remote-controlled. They use cameras and sensors to navigate their environment. Though current prototype models don\u0027t include a full range of sensors, the robots will eventually be equipped with all the sensors and instruments needed to take measurements specified by the scientist.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile Howard\u0027s team works on versatile robots with the mobility and Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) skills to complete missions, Lampkin\u0027s team will be creating a sensor package for later versions of Howard\u0027s rovers.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHere\u0027s how the SnoMotes will work when they\u0027re ready for their glacial missions: The scientist will select a location for investigation and decide on a safe \u0027base camp\u0027 from which to release the SnoMotes. The SnoMotes will then be programmed with their assigned coverage area and requested measurements. The researcher will monitor the SnoMotes\u0027 progress and even reassign locations and data collection remotely from the camp as necessary.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen Howard\u0027s research team first set out to build a rover designed to capture environmental data from the field, it took a few tries to come up with an effectively hearty design. The group\u0027s first rover was delicate and ineffective. But after an initial failure, they decided to move on to something designed for consistent abuse - a toy. Instead of building yet another expensive prototype, Howard instead opted to start with a sturdy kit snowmobile, already primed for snow conditions and designed for heavy use by a child.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHoward\u0027s group then installed a camera and all necessary computing and sensor equipment inside the 2-foot-long, 1-foot-wide snowmobile. The result was a sturdy but inexpensive rover.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBy using existing kits and adding a few extras like sensors, circuits, A.I. and a camera, the team was able to create an expendable rover that wouldn\u0027t break a research team\u0027s bank if it were lost during an experiment, Howard said. Similar rovers under development at other universities are much more expensive, and the cost of sending several units to canvas an area would likely be cost-prohibitive for most researchers, she added.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe first phase of the project is focused primarily on testing the mobility and communications capabilities of the SnoMote rovers. Later versions of the rovers will include a more developed sensor package and larger rovers.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team has created three working SnoMote models so far, but as many SnoMotes as necessary can work together on a mission, Howard said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe SnoMote represents two key innovations in rovers: a new method of location and work allocation communication between robots and maneuvering in ice conditions.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOnce placed on site, the robots place themselves at strategic locations to make sure all the assigned ground is covered. Howard and her team are testing two different methods that allow the robots to decide amongst themselves which positions they will take to get all the necessary measurements.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe first is an \u0027auction\u0027 system that lets the robots \u0027bid\u0027 on a desired location, based on their proximity to the location (as they move) and how well their instruments are working or whether they have the necessary instrument (one may have a damaged wind sensor or another may have low battery power).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe second method is more mathematical, fixing the robots to certain positions in a net of sorts that is then stretched to fit the targeted location. Magnus Egerstedt is working with Howard on this work allocation method.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to location assignments, another key innovation of the SnoMote is its ability to find its way in snow conditions. While most rovers can use rocks or other landmarks to guide their movement, snow conditions present an added challenge by restricting topography and color (everything is white) from its guidance systems. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor snow conditions, one of Howard\u0027s students discovered that the lines formed by snow banks could serve as markers to help the SnoMote track distance traveled, speed and direction. The SnoMote could also navigate via GPS if snow bank visuals aren\u0027t available.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile the SnoMotes are expected to pass their first real field test in Alaska next month, a heartier, more cold-resistant version will be needed for the Antarctic and other well below zero climates, Howard said. These new rovers would include a heater to keep circuitry warm enough to function and sturdy plastic exterior that wouldn\u0027t become brittle in extreme cold.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have created specially designed robots called SnoMotes to traverse potentially dangerous ice environments. The SnoMotes work as a team, autonomously collaborating among themselves to gather data that could give scientists a better understanding of the important dynamics that influence the stability of ice sheets.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Rovers traverse dangerous ice environments"}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2008-05-27 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:10","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-05-27T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-05-27T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71208":{"id":"71208","type":"image","title":"Ayanna Howard","body":null,"created":"1449177358","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:58","changed":"1475894630","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:50"},"71209":{"id":"71209","type":"image","title":"Ayanna and the SnoMote","body":null,"created":"1449177358","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:58","changed":"1475894632","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:52"},"71210":{"id":"71210","type":"image","title":"SnoMote","body":null,"created":"1449177358","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:58","changed":"1475894632","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:52"}},"media_ids":["71208","71209","71210"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/fac_profiles\/bio.php?id=135","title":"Profile"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/humanslab.ece.gatech.edu\/","title":"Human-Automation Systems Lab (HumAnS)"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.geog.psu.edu\/people\/lampkin\/","title":"Dr. Derrick Lampkin"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"825","name":"Ayanna Howard"},{"id":"1925","name":"Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"2090","name":"Lampkin"},{"id":"1356","name":"robot"},{"id":"667","name":"robotics"},{"id":"170766","name":"SnoMote"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ELisa Grovenstein\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=lgrovenste3\u0022\u003EContact Lisa Grovenstein\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-8835\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lisa.grovenstein@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71205":{"#nid":"71205","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Students Win Carbon Reduction Challenge","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EStudents in Kim Cobb\u0027s spring semester Honors Program course -- Energy, the Environment and Society -- were challenged to find ways to reduce carbon emissions on both a personal and larger scale. Cobb, an Earth and Atmospheric Sciences assistant professor, instructed students to ultimately tackle an \u0027institutional level\u0027 carbon reduction effort. The winning group convinced a representative from Georgia Tech Facilities to extinguish the lights at Bobby Dodd Stadium for Earth Week. This lone act was calculated to save roughly 35,000 kWh, along with preventing 28,500 kg of CO2.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe winners of the carbon reduction challenge traveled with Cobb to Washington, D.C., earlier this month to meet with staffers from the offices of U.S. senators Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson, Georgia congressmen David Scott, John Lewis and Hank Johnson, and Sen. Richard Shelby, a ranking member with the Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies. Members of winning team traveling to Washington included Christine Amuzie, Jonathan Effgen and Vivian Fan. During the D.C. visit, Cobb also presented her paleoclimate research.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Winning Team Meets with Ga. Delegation Staff"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Students in Kim Cobb\u0027s spring semester Honors Program course -- Energy, the Environment and Society -- were challenged to find ways to reduce carbon emissions on both a personal and larger scale. The winning team traveled to Washington D.C. to meet with staff members from Georgia\u0027s Congressional delegation.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Tech students meet with Ga. 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