{"79741":{"#nid":"79741","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Rural Roads in Southeast Prove Deadly to Drivers","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERural two-lane highways are the largest single class of roads in the United States -- and they are the deadliest, especially in the Southeast.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFrom 1996 to 2000, almost one-third of the nation\u0027s traffic fatalities occurred in just eight southeastern states, and of those, 64 percent occurred on rural roads, according to a recent Georgia Institute of Technology study. Take Florida - a less rural state - out of the analysis, and 71 percent of traffic fatalities in the region occurred on these highways as compared to 59 percent nationally.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The most frequent crashes in the Southeast occurred on rural roads in wooded areas where people ran off the road and hit a tree,\u0022 said Georgia Tech Associate Professor of Civil Engineering Karen Dixon, who headed the regional study funded by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) via the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT). \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWith reports from southeastern transportation officials and researchers, the study quantified the top highway safety concerns - including rural roads - in Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, Kentucky and Florida. Tennessee chose not to contribute a report. The study also recommended countermeasures, such as lane and shoulder widening.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOn rural roads, the most common contributing factor to traffic fatalities was late-night driving by tired or apparently intoxicated motorists, especially on weekends, Dixon noted. Many of these victims were males between ages 16 and 25. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe study also found that 48.6 percent of the region\u0027s fatal crashes involved drivers who did not wear seatbelts, she added. In a related finding in Georgia\u0027s report, Dixon discovered a disproportionate number of pickup trucks involved in fatal crashes. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This is partly because pickup trucks are more often driven on rural roads and because, in Georgia\u0085. pickup drivers cannot be stopped by police solely because they\u0027re not wearing their seatbelt,\u0022 Dixon said. \u0022I think this study shows we need to take a second look as this law and reconsider it.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAnother of the study\u0027s findings lays potential blame for fatal crashes on the 2.5- to 5-inch pavement drop-offs often found on rural highway edges. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Almost half of the non-state maintained roadway crashes we looked at had an edge drop-off issue,\u0022 she noted. \u0022We don\u0027t know if this caused all of these crashes, but nonetheless, the potential exists for it to be a serious problem.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDrop-offs develop as roads are repaved and\/or soil erodes along the shoulder. And roadside ruts are caused by rural mail carriers who drive with one side of their vehicles on the road and the other on the unpaved shoulder, she added.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo address the drop-off concern, some state and federal transportation agencies are considering changes in roadside edge treatments (e.g., planting grass) and trimming of tree branches along the roads. And a GDOT pilot study is under way to test the durability of a new tapered paved-edge treatment. GDOT plans to specify the new tapered paved-edge treatment on a project-specific, rather than general, basis beginning in January 2005. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOther fatal crash contributing factors cited in the study are: collisions with commercial trucks (one of every eight traffic fatalities), speeding, inexperienced drivers, weather and driver reaction to an unexpected occurrence in the car or on the roadway (e.g., a deer in the road).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECountermeasures recommended in the study include: widening of lanes and shoulders, road alignment improvements, and the addition of advisory speed signs or other speed controls.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA proposed follow-up study would use the southeastern state traffic fatality databases to do cross-sectional comparisons of contributing factors.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn other transportation safety-related studies headed by Dixon:\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0095 The GDOT funded development of a new computer tool for evaluating the state\u0027s rural transportation improvements - including those prompted by safety concerns. Called the Multimodal Transportation Planning Tool (MTPT), the program addresses aviation, commuter rail, intercity bus systems, transit for disabled citizens, highways and bicycling. It also contains an environmental justice module to address the impact of transportation improvements upon minority populations. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The program looks at the various potential modes of transportation and the infrastructure associated with them and then evaluates them for suitability for and compatibility with the area,\u0022 Dixon explained. \u0022For example, if the tool shows that an area is not suitable for bicycles, it would show what improvements would be needed now or 10 or 20 years in the future and the cost of these.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe tool allows users to select an evaluation region based on GDOT district, Regional Development Center (RDC), county, highlighted selection from a map or by road corridor. Results are displayed in a text report and in a geographic information system (GIS) map for the highway, bicycle and environmental justice modules. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDixon is particularly excited about the MTPT rural environmental justice module. It addresses how transportation plans may affect air quality and noise pollution, for example, for a minority population in any RDC area. \u0022If transportation improvements are planned, the tool will determine whether the plans are sensitive to the minority population so officials can avoid poor decisions,\u0022 she added.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDixon expects that both GDOT and the Georgia Department of Community Affairs, which oversees some municipal transportation projects, will use MTPT. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0095 Also for GDOT, Georgia Tech researchers are evaluating several technologies designed to protect drivers and road workers from incidents in work zones. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We have a serious problem in the United States with speeding in work zones,\u0022 Dixon said. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 2,705 people were killed nationwide in highway work zones in 2001. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe systems designed to prevent such accidents collect information on driver speed with microwave sensors or radar technology. And they use changeable message signs to alert drivers of a forthcoming work zone, caution them to slow down and post an estimated travel speed or delay time. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EUser surveys revealed that the driving public appreciates the advance messages, but only half believe the time estimates are accurate, she noted. Nonetheless, the changeable message sign with radar technology has proven effective in reducing work zone speed, Dixon added. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDixon and her colleagues are testing three technologies on interstate highways in Georgia, and the other one - a smaller, simpler system - is being studied on a rural highway with a lot of commercial truck traffic. The latter system posts a caution message to individual drivers who are speeding. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022It\u0027s important to know which technologies are good for which scenarios,\u0022 Dixon explained. \u0022Some are better for short-term road work only, and some are better for long-term work\u0085. We also want to know the optimal placement for these systems.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDixon expects to report the final study results to GDOT by the end of this month. \u0022The Federal Highway Administration is watching for the results of this study, as are some other states,\u0022 she added. \u0022These technologies are expensive, so they want to make sure the investment is worth it.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0095 Another study recently begun by Dixon and Georgia Tech Professor of Civil Engineering Michael Meyer focuses on the effects of context-sensitive roadside treatments (e.g., trees, signs, sculptures) on highway safety for drivers, pedestrians and bicyclists. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022For example, some people think trees should be removed along urban roads to prevent people from crashing into them, but others say the trees create a pleasing environment that makes drivers slow down to enjoy it,\u0022 Dixon said. \u0022We don\u0027t know the answer yet, but we want to see if context-sensitive roadside treatments have an effect on the transportation system. Then officials can make a better decision on when to make the tradeoffs that may be needed.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOne question researchers are asking is what size trees are safe along the roadside, she noted. An old study using wooden poles in a concrete base suggests trees of less than four inches in diameter are OK because they will bend, rather than break, if hit by a vehicle. But this study may not provide an appropriate comparison to four-inch diameter trees with established root systems, Dixon explained. Another question relates to the impact of curvy versus straight roads on speed.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers expect to complete this study by December 2005. The study is being funded by the National Research Council.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\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\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMEDIA RELATIONS CONTACTS: Georgia Tech: Jane Sanders (404-894-2214); E-mail: \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jane.sanders@edi.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejane.sanders@edi.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E); Fax (404-894-4545) or John Toon (404-894-6986); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:john.toon@edi.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejohn.toon@edi.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or Georgia Department of Transportation: Karlene Barron (404-463-6460); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:karlene.barron@dot.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ekarlene.barron@dot.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E)\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETECHNICAL CONTACTS: Karen Dixon, Georgia Tech, (404-894-5830); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:karen.dixon@ce.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ekaren.dixon@ce.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E); or David Jared, Georgia DOT, (404-363-7569); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:david.jared@dot.state.ga.us\u0022\u003Edavid.jared@dot.state.ga.us\u003C\/a\u003E).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWRITER: Jane Sanders\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Study Documents Hazards \u0026 Solutions"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Rural two-lane highways are the largest single class of roads in the United States -- and they are the deadliest, especially in the Southeast.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Rural two-lane highways are especially dangerous."}],"uid":"27303","created_gmt":"2004-12-17 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:38","author":"John Toon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-12-17T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2004-12-17T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"79751":{"id":"79751","type":"image","title":"Rural two-lane road","body":null,"created":"1449178071","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:51","changed":"1475894693","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:53"}},"media_ids":["79751"],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"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\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=\u0022\u003EContact  \u003C\/a\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"81051":{"#nid":"81051","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Start-up Company Based on Georgia Tech Optical Instrumentation Innovation Wins $600,000 Round of Financing","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe investment is expected to fund the company\u0027s operation until it can produce its first product for market testing. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EStheno Corporation received the financing from Boston\u0027s New England Partners, Healthcare Capital Partners in Atlanta, and Acorn LLC of Cabin John, MD. The investment is the first in Atlanta for New England Partners and Healthcare Capital Partners.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe company\u0027s non-contact optical chemical detection technology can quickly distinguish between different geometries of the same molecule. Being able to rapidly determine the proportion of each molecular geometry in a liquid sample is important to the pharmaceutical industry because different versions of the same compound can have different effects.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOne well-known example is Seldane, which was a prescription medication for allergies. Unfortunately, Seldane exists in two different molecular geometries - one that holds the therapeutic properties and one that in some patients causes ventricular arrhythmia, a potentially fatal heart condition. Presence of the undesired molecular geometry caused the withdrawal of Seldane from the market in 1998.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBecause of these differences - known technically as chirality - the U.S. Food \u0026amp; Drug Administration (FDA) requires pharmaceutical companies to fully characterize new drug candidates, including their optical chirality. But existing techniques for determining chirality are time-consuming and limited in both sensitivity and accuracy. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Because these molecules are the same except for the different geometries, it\u0027s very difficult to tell them apart,\u0022 explained William Edens, CEO and co-founder of Stheno. \u0022We have licensed from Georgia Tech a technology that allows us to very sensitively distinguish between the two geometries in real-time. Our technology will save time for pharmaceutical companies, reduce costs and help them meet FDA requirements.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBeyond the pharmaceutical industry, the technology may also have application to the fine chemical, process chemical, fragrance and food industries. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EKnown as Magneto-Optical Enantiomeric Detection (MOPED), the system will be integrated with high-pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) equipment, which is widely used - with an estimated 300,000 units in operation worldwide. Stheno is working with a major pharmaceutical company on an \u0022early access\u0022 program expected to make the new system available for testing by late 2004 or early 2005. \n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"An Atlanta company that is commercializing technology developed at Georgia Tech for improving pharmaceutical development and manufacturing has received a $600,000 round of financing.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27303","created_gmt":"2004-07-01 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:38","author":"John Toon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-07-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-07-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.venturelab.gatech.edu\/july12004.htm","title":"Saving time"}],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"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\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":""}},"80921":{"#nid":"80921","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Homeland Security: High-tech Tool Improves Incident Planning and Response for Emergency Management Officials","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn its most significant deployment to date, the Geographic Tool for Visualization and Collaboration (GTVC) developed by the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) proved its usefulness during the G-8 Summit of world leaders at Sea Island, Ga., in June 2004. The Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA), which is funding GTVC development and deployment, made the tool available to state and federal law enforcement agencies during the event to coordinate their combined resources and responses in real time.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile extensive state planning and tight security prevented any significant law enforcement problems during the G-8, GTVC\u0027s developers and users were pleased with the enhanced system, which was originally developed for military use, said Kirk Pennywitt, a GTRI senior research engineer. After nine months of work by Pennywitt\u0027s 10-member research team, GTVC provided many new features for its G-8 use -- including maps with six-inch resolution for G-8 areas of interest. Researchers also boosted GTVC\u0027s reliability and robustness, and added secure encryption for communications.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022GTVC proved to be an extremely useful tool,\u0022 said Ralph Reichert, director of GEMA\u0027s Terrorism Emergency Preparedness and Response Division. \u0022Using GTVC, law enforcement teams were able to monitor and track activities in a manner that kept them one step ahead of protestors.  Consequence-management staff also used the system to make sure key resources were available at the right place at the right time. Furthermore, and probably most importantly, command staff could immediately get a snapshot of what was going on without relying solely on traditional voice communications.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBesides GEMA, other agencies using GTVC during the G-8 were the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Georgia State Patrol, Federal Bureau of Investigation, the National Guard and the U.S. Secret Service. Users were able to share information simultaneously, keeping officials informed and coordinated, Pennywitt noted.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGTRI researchers provided technical support during the event, training users and configuring laptop computers for field agents. Researchers also demonstrated the system\u0027s features, including high-resolution imagery available at 1-meter resolution for the entire state, and even higher resolution for certain areas. The maps scale with each view and maintain all the markings made on them electronically. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The G-8 Summit was a good test, and it confirmed the system\u0027s geographic-planning and information-sharing capabilities,\u0022 Pennywitt said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHe and his colleagues also derived numerous lessons learned from the G-8 experience, he added. They are prioritizing work on 130 potential new features and requirements for the next version of GTVC software. For example:  They want to make network connectivity easier; create better information reporting capabilities that include both icons and text or other details; display real-time GPS-based tracking of vehicles and personnel; and add more powerful geographic search capabilities, such as showing all the hospitals within a 50-mile radius.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAlso in development are other enhancements and applications of GTVC. For one, the system may lend its mapping capabilities to the Joint Regional Information Exchange System (JRIES) if it joins this partnership of law enforcement agencies. Through JRIES, officials can request information on suspects and\/or events. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGTRI is also working with the Georgia Forestry Commission to adapt GTVC to track smoke during planned burns of forested land. Other potential applications for GTVC include tracking of chemical plumes and planning evacuation routes, as well as tracking of human and animal diseases, Pennywitt said. GEMA also uses GTVC for hurricane and flooding evacuation planning and for public event activity planning.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPennywitt and his colleagues expect to deploy a new version of the GTVC software within the next year to support a statewide infrastructure for wider use. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This system is very useful,\u0022 Pennywitt said. \u0022You get out of it what you put into it. The more experienced users get a lot from it. We believe the new version of the GTVC software will provide an easier interface for users who only want to observe situations, rather than enter information into the system. We know GTVC works, and we hope it will be more widely distributed in the future.\u0022  \n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"An enhanced high-tech, collaborative mapping tool is helping law enforcement and emergency management officials better coordinate event and incident planning and real-time response.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2004-07-16 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:38","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-07-16T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-07-16T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=\u0022\u003EContact  \u003C\/a\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"80891":{"#nid":"80891","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Four VentureLab Firms Based on Georgia Tech Innovations Raise Venture Capital","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe seed funding is from a broad range of investors in Atlanta, Silicon Valley, New York and Washington, D.C.  The innovations on which the companies are based were developed in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the School of Physics, the Microsystems Packaging Research Center and the Wallace Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering operated by Georgia Tech and Emory University.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETwo of the new companies have already been accepted into the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC), Georgia Tech\u0027s technology incubator.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn July, GTronix announced a commitment from Silicon Valley-based Menlo Ventures.  A spin-off from Georgia Tech\u0027s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, GTronix produces a novel, fully-programmable analog chip that can be used wherever analog signals are converted for use with traditional digital signal processors. The amount of the investment was not disclosed.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAlso in July, Jacket Micro Devices closed its first round of financing, an undisclosed sum from Noro-Moseley Partners, Sevin Rosen Funds, Imlay Investments, the ATDC Seed Capital Fund and Atlanta Technology Angels. The company is commercializing integration technology for radio-frequency (RF) passive components.  The work was done in Georgia Tech\u0027s Microsystems Packaging Research Center. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn June, Stheno Corporation - which is commercializing technology developed at Georgia Tech for improving pharmaceutical development and manufacturing - closed a $600,000 round of financing. The investment is from New England Partners of Boston, Healthcare Capital Partners of Atlanta, and Acorn LLC of Cabin John, MD. The technology was developed in the School of Physics and Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn April, Orthonics, Inc., a start-up developing biomaterials for spinal disc repair and regeneration, received an undisclosed amount of initial funding from Viscogliosi Brothers, LLC, a New York-based closely held venture capital\/private equity and merchant banking firm focused on the musculoskeletal\/orthopedics industry. The funding provides the private match for a grant from the Georgia Research Alliance VentureLab Seed Grant program. The research was done in the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This impressive round of funding announcements shows that VentureLab is moving Georgia Tech innovations into the marketplace and attracting early-stage investment for them,\u0022 said Wayne Hodges, Georgia Tech\u0027s vice provost for Economic Development and Technology Ventures. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EJacket Micro Devices and Stheno have both been admitted to the ATDC.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Four start-up companies formed in Georgia Tech\u0027s VentureLab and based on Georgia Tech innovations have announced venture capital funding since April.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2004-07-19 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:38","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-07-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-07-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.venturelab.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech VentureLab"}],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"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\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=\u0022\u003EContact  \u003C\/a\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"80881":{"#nid":"80881","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Not for Pilots Only: Flight-mapping Software Attracts Broad Audience with Its Diverse Capabilities","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EYet researchers never envisioned how pervasive FalconView would be - both in terms of its users and uses.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe multimedia software displays aeronautical charts, satellite images and elevation maps along with overlay tools that, for example, mark no-fly zones and ground obstructions. Originally designed for the U.S. Air Force\u0027s F-16 (known as the Fighting Falcon), FalconView has been adopted by a wide variety of aircraft and spread throughout other branches of the U.S. military. Most recently, it was enhanced for the Army\u0027s use. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAn integral part of the military\u0027s Portable Flight Planning Software, FalconView counts more than 20,000 users today. The software has won several awards, and Microsoft chairman Bill Gates even devotes a chapter to it in his book, \u0022Business @ the Speed of Thought.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Convenience and time savings have been two key reasons for FalconView\u0027s success,\u0022 said Terry Hilderbrand, a division chief at Georgia Tech Research Institute\u0027s (GTRI) Information Technology and Telecommunications Lab. In fact, one FalconView user estimated that the software sliced his mission planning from 4.5 hours to 20 minutes. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEase of use is another big benefit. Case in point: Hilderbrand loaded FalconView on his son\u0027s laptop computer two days before his son, a member of the Third Infantry Division at Fort Benning, was deployed to Iraq.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022There was no time to give him training on the software,\u0022 Hilderbrand says. \u0022Yet he was able to figure out the program on his own and generate maps for leaders in his platoon and battalion in Iraq, which was important to rapid movement in the desert.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFalconView\u0027s open architecture and interoperability also have contributed to its popularity, and several European nations use a special version of the software for their air forces.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFalconView is now used for a wide range of mapping activities, including many non-combat objectives: \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0095 Firefighting:  The U.S. Forest Service has used FalconView to help drop fire retardant and communicate with ground workers about where and how fast forest fires are spreading.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0095 Whale sightings:  FalconView has helped the U.S. Navy track whales for an environmental study. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0095 Drug traffic:  U.S. Customs agents use FalconView to track drug-runners who fly small aircraft into the country. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0095 Forensics tool:  Members of the military\u0027s history department have used the mapping software to help in missing-in-action cases by recreating geographic conditions on the days that aircraft have crashed.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"When Georgia Tech Research Institute engineers developed FalconView\u0099 in the early 1990s, their goal was to make flight planning easier for pilots by moving mapping software off big Unix systems and onto desktop and laptop computers.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2004-07-20 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:38","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-07-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-07-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/gtresearchnews.gatech.edu\/newsrelease\/falconview.htm","title":"Expanding uses"}],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=\u0022\u003EContact  \u003C\/a\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"80131":{"#nid":"80131","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Physicists Take Key Step Toward Quantum Networks","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA team of physicists at the Georgia Institute of Technology has taken a significant step toward the development of quantum communications systems by successfully transferring quantum information from two different groups of atoms onto a single photon. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe work, reported in the October 22 issue of the journal \u003Cem\u003EScience\u003C\/em\u003E, represents a building block that could lead to development of large-scale quantum networks. Sponsored by the Research Corporation and NASA, the work is believed to be the first to demonstrate transfer of quantum information from matter to light.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers, Assistant Professor Alex Kuzmich and graduate student Dzmitry Matsukevich - both from Georgia Tech\u0027s School of Physics - report transferring atomic state information from two different clouds of rubidium atoms to a single photon. In the photon, information about the spatial states of the atom clouds was represented as vertical or horizontal optical polarization. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022A really big issue in quantum information systems today is distributed quantum networks, and for that, you must be able to convert quantum bits of information based on matter into photons,\u0022 Kuzmich said. \u0022This is the first step, one building block. What we have done is create a quantum network node, and now the next step is to create a second quantum network node and connect them.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EQubits, or quantum bits, are very different from the bits in conventional computing. Unlike conventional bits that exist in either a 0 or 1 state, qubits can simultaneously exist in both states. Qubits can also interact with other qubits, their properties \u0022entangled\u0022 in ways unique to quantum systems. These odd properties mean quantum computers could provide dramatic advantages over conventional systems in certain types of computation that are difficult for conventional computers.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe approach taken by Kuzmich and Matsukevich begins with two clouds of rubidium atoms, each cloud with a different state, forming a matter qubit. By passing a split beam of light separately through each cloud (also known as an ensemble) and then recombining it, they were able to create a qubit that was entangled with a single photon. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOther research teams have been working to map states from a single atom onto a photon. Kuzmich says using the atomic cloud of very cold atoms as a matter qubit offers a simplicity advantage in creating the entanglement.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The state of the qubit is the collective state of the atomic ensemble,\u0022 he explained. \u0022Conversion from matter to light becomes efficient in one direction because emission from all the atoms add together to create a preferred forward direction, similar to how radio frequency antennas are able to emit directionally.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EUsing optically thick atomic ensembles for the interface between matter and light in long-distance quantum communication was proposed in 2001 by a team of researchers (Duan, Lukin, Cirac and Zoller) from the University of Innsbruck in Austria. The Georgia Tech researchers built on that work, which has become known as the DLCZ protocol.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETransferring a coherent quantum state from a matter-based qubit to a photonic qubit involves three main steps:\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E* An entangled state between a single photon (signal) and a single collective excitation distributed over many atoms in two distinct optically thick atomic samples is generated;\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E* Measurement of the signal photon maps the atomic ensembles into a desired state, conditioned on the choice of the basis and the outcome of the measurement. This atomic state is nearly a maximally entangled state between two distinct atomic ensembles; \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E* This atomic state is then converted into a single photon (idler) emitted into a well-defined mode.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EConversion of quantum states from atomic-based systems to photonic systems is necessary for long-distance communication. While the matter-based systems can provide long-term storage of information, efficient transfer of information requires that it be converted into a photonic state for transmission across optical fiber networks.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOnce converted into a photonic qubit, the information can be processed and may not need to be converted back to a matter-based qubit.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022If you want to realize a quantum repeater, you must have two such quantum nodes,\u0022 Kuzmich explained. \u0022But in this quantum communications approach, you don\u0027t ever need to convert the photon back to atomic format.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor their research, the Georgia Tech physicists used light at a wavelength of 780 nanometers. For transmission in conventional optical fiber networks, however, they will have to switch to the 1550 nanometer wavelength that has become standard in the telecommunications industry.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Cem\u003EScience\u003C\/em\u003E paper reported on atom clouds containing approximately a billion rubidium atoms. Kuzmich says having 10 billion atoms compressed into the same space would boost efficiency. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We should be able to increase our efficiency by a factor of ten at least,\u0022 he said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPractical applications are still at least 7-10 years away, Kuzmich estimates.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDetailed Explanation of Experiment\u003C\/strong\u003E: A magneto-optical trap is used to provide an optically thick atomic cloud of a billion rubidium atoms for the experiment. The classical coherent laser pulses used in the generation and verification procedures define the two distinct pencil-shape components of the atomic ensemble that form the memory qubit, L and R. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAn infrared write pulse (780 nm wavelength) is split into two beams by a polarizing beam splitter (PBS1) focused into two regions of the atomic cloud about 1 mm apart and passed through it. The light induces spontaneous Raman scattering of a signal photon with slightly shorter wavelength. The classical light is dumped away by the PBS2, while the quantum signal photon is transmitted by the dichroic mirror DM, passed through an arbitrary polarization state transformer R and a polarizer PBS5, and is directed onto a single-photon detector D1. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDetection of the signal photon by D1 prepares the atomic ensemble in any desired state and thereby concludes the preparation of the quantum memory qubit. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFollowing memory state preparation, the read-out stage is performed. After a user-programmable delay, a classical coherent read pulse of 795 nm wavelength illuminates the two atomic ensembles. This results in a single (i.e., quantum) idler photon being emitted in the forward direction. This accomplishes a transfer of the memory state onto the idler. The idler is reflected off the dichroic mirror DM. After passing through the state transformer R and PBS6, the two polarization components are directed onto single-photon detectors (D2, D3) thus accomplishing measurement of the idler photon, and hence the memory qubit, in a controllable arbitrary basis. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\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\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWeb: gtresearchnews.gatech.edu\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMedia Relations Contacts: John Toon (404-894-6986); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:john.toon@edi.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejohn.toon@edi.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E); Fax: (404-894-4545) or Jane Sanders (404-894-2214); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jane.sanders@edi.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejane.sanders@edi.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETechnical Contact: Alex Kuzmich (404-385-4507); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:alex.kuzmich@physics.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ealex.kuzmich@physics.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E)\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGraphics Available: Photographs of researchers posed with laboratory equipment; schematic showing details of the experiment.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWriter: John Toon\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"A team of physicists at the Georgia Institute of Technology has taken a significant step toward the development of quantum communications systems by successfully transferring quantum information from two different groups of atoms onto a single photon.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Quantum information converted from atoms to photons"}],"uid":"27303","created_gmt":"2004-10-27 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:38","author":"John Toon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-10-27T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-10-27T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"80141":{"id":"80141","type":"image","title":"Researchers in optics lab","body":null,"created":"1449178071","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:51","changed":"1475894693","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:53"}},"media_ids":["80141"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.physics.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/akuzmich.html","title":"Alex Kuzmich"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.physics.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech School of Physics"}],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"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\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":""}},"80851":{"#nid":"80851","#data":{"type":"news","title":"CD4: New Center for Drug Design, Development and Delivery Focuses Interdisciplinary Efforts on New Pharmaceuticals","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe goals of the new center are to better integrate the multi-step process involved in creating new pharmaceuticals and to focus Georgia Tech\u0027s interdisciplinary efforts on helping industry bring new products to market.  The effort involves more than 20 faculty members from six different academic areas at Georgia Tech.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022One of our goals in this center is to pull together these activities in a synergistic way so the process of bringing a drug to market will be more integrated,\u0022 says Mark Prausnitz, director of the center.  \u0022By bringing together people from a variety of backgrounds in science and engineering, we can provide a broader perspective and understanding of the pharmaceutical development process.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech has long-standing strengths in drug development and design, as well as in the complex and demanding chemical engineering necessary for specialty chemicals.  In recent years, it has built a research program in drug delivery techniques - and working with Emory University, has grown a large research and education activity in broad areas of biology and biomedical engineering, including genetics, bioinformatics and proteomics.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe new center will emphasize industrial collaboration to ensure that its activities have real-world implications and that its students learn skills that will equip them to make contributions to the pharmaceutical industry.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We want to work with industry on the most important problems that are going to meet critical needs,\u0022 Prausnitz said.  \u0022To do that, we need to have strong interactions with industry to guide our research and education agendas.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWith a background in technologies for delivering drugs through the skin, Prausnitz sees a need to focus on delivery concerns early in the drug design process.  The growing complexity of drug compounds and rising importance of gene therapies will make drug delivery an increasingly important concern, he said. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EResearchers in the center are focusing on new chemical, biological and physical means for delivering drugs into the body.  The chemical technologies include encapsulation, which uses microscopic polymer particles to protect drugs or genes from degradation by the body\u0027s enzymes - and allow their release over time.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBiological approaches include the modification of viruses, or using small pieces of viruses, to deliver genes that may be able to treat cancer without prompting immune reactions or other problems.  Finally, researchers are using physical means, including electric fields to deliver proteins and genes, and arrays of microscopic needles able to painlessly deliver drugs through the skin.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The mode of delivery is becoming increasingly important for drugs today,\u0022 Prausnitz noted.  \u0022Those considerations must be taken into account at the design stage.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EResearchers associated with the center also bring unique expertise in drug development, including the use of supercritical fluids for chemical purification without using organic solvents.  They are also manipulating enzymes found in nature and produced through genetic engineering to mimic the natural processes that create molecules in the body.  And they are producing novel biocatalysts using an approach known as \u0022directed evolution.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have launched a new research and education initiative known as the Center for Drug Design, Development and Delivery (CD4).","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27303","created_gmt":"2004-07-26 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:38","author":"John Toon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-07-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-07-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/gtresearchnews.gatech.edu\/newsrelease\/cd4.htm","title":"Building on foundations"}],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"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":""}},"80151":{"#nid":"80151","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Physicists Take Key Step for Quantum Networks","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA team of physicists at the Georgia Institute of Technology has taken a significant step toward the development of quantum communications systems by successfully transferring quantum information from two different groups of atoms onto a single photon.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe work, reported in the October 22 issue of the journal \u003Cem\u003EScience\u003C\/em\u003E, represents a building block that could lead to development of large-scale quantum networks. Sponsored by the Research Corporation and NASA, the work is believed to be the first to demonstrate transfer of quantum information from matter to light.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers, Assistant Professor Alex Kuzmich and graduate student Dzmitry Matsukevich - both from Georgia Tech\u0027s School of Physics - report transferring atomic state information from two different clouds of rubidium atoms to a single photon. In the photon, information about the spatial states of the atom clouds was represented as vertical or horizontal optical polarization.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022A really big issue in quantum information systems today is distributed quantum networks, and for that, you must be able to convert quantum bits of information based on matter into photons,\u0022 Kuzmich said. \u0022This is the first step, one building block. What we have done is create a quantum network node, and now the next step is to create a second quantum network node and connect them.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EQubits, or quantum bits, are very different from the bits in conventional computing. Unlike conventional bits that exist in either a 0 or 1 state, qubits can simultaneously exist in both states. Qubits can also interact with other qubits, their properties \u0022entangled\u0022 in ways unique to quantum systems. These odd properties mean quantum computers could provide dramatic advantages over conventional systems in certain types of computation that are difficult for conventional computers.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe approach taken by Kuzmich and Matsukevich begins with two clouds of rubidium atoms, each cloud with a different state, forming a matter qubit. By passing a split beam of light separately through each cloud (also known as an ensemble) and then recombining it, they were able to create a qubit that was entangled with a single photon. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOther research teams have been working to map states from a single atom onto a photon. Kuzmich says using the atomic cloud of very cold atoms as a matter qubit offers a simplicity advantage in creating the entanglement.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The state of the qubit is the collective state of the atomic ensemble,\u0022 he explained. \u0022Conversion from matter to light becomes efficient in one direction because emission from all the atoms add together to create a preferred forward direction, similar to how radio frequency antennas are able to emit directionally.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EUsing optically thick atomic ensembles for the interface between matter and light in long-distance quantum communication was proposed in 2001 by a team of researchers (Duan, Lukin, Cirac and Zoller) from the University of Innsbruck in Austria. The Georgia Tech researchers built on that work, which has become known as the DLCZ protocol.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETransferring a coherent quantum state from a matter-based qubit to a photonic qubit involves three main steps:\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E* An entangled state between a single photon (signal) and a single collective excitation distributed over many atoms in two distinct optically thick atomic samples is generated;\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E* Measurement of the signal photon maps the atomic ensembles into a desired state, conditioned on the choice of the basis and the outcome of the measurement. This atomic state is nearly a maximally entangled state between two distinct atomic ensembles; \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E* This atomic state is then converted into a single photon (idler) emitted into a well-defined mode.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EConversion of quantum states from atomic-based systems to photonic systems is necessary for long-distance communication. While the matter-based systems can provide long-term storage of information, efficient transfer of information requires that it be converted into a photonic state for transmission across optical fiber networks.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOnce converted into a photonic qubit, the information can be processed and may not need to be converted back to a matter-based qubit.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022If you want to realize a quantum repeater, you must have two such quantum nodes,\u0022 Kuzmich explained. \u0022But in this quantum communications approach, you don\u0027t ever need to convert the photon back to atomic format.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor their research, the Georgia Tech physicists used light at a wavelength of 780 nanometers. For transmission in conventional optical fiber networks, however, they will have to switch to the 1550 nanometer wavelength that has become standard in the telecommunications industry.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Cem\u003EScience\u003C\/em\u003E paper reported on atom clouds containing approximately a billion rubidium atoms. Kuzmich says having 10 billion atoms compressed into the same space would boost efficiency. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We should be able to increase our efficiency by a factor of ten at least,\u0022 he said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPractical applications are still at least 7-10 years away, Kuzmich estimates.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDetailed Explanation of Experiment\u003C\/strong\u003E: A magneto-optical trap is used to provide an optically thick atomic cloud of a billion rubidium atoms for the experiment. The classical coherent laser pulses used in the generation and verification procedures define the two distinct pencil-shape components of the atomic ensemble that form the memory qubit, L and R. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAn infrared write pulse (780 nm wavelength) is split into two beams by a polarizing beam splitter (PBS1) focused into two regions of the atomic cloud about 1 mm apart and passed through it. The light induces spontaneous Raman scattering of a signal photon with slightly shorter wavelength. The classical light is dumped away by the PBS2, while the quantum signal photon is transmitted by the dichroic mirror DM, passed through an arbitrary polarization state transformer R and a polarizer PBS5, and is directed onto a single-photon detector D1. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDetection of the signal photon by D1 prepares the atomic ensemble in any desired state and thereby concludes the preparation of the quantum memory qubit. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFollowing memory state preparation, the read-out stage is performed. After a user-programmable delay, a classical coherent read pulse of 795 nm wavelength illuminates the two atomic ensembles. This results in a single (i.e., quantum) idler photon being emitted in the forward direction. This accomplishes a transfer of the memory state onto the idler. The idler is reflected off the dichroic mirror DM. After passing through the state transformer R and PBS6, the two polarization components are directed onto single-photon detectors (D2, D3) thus accomplishing measurement of the idler photon, and hence the memory qubit, in a controllable arbitrary basis. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\t\t\t# # # \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\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\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWeb: gtresearchnews.gatech.edu\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMedia Relations Contacts: John Toon (404-894-6986); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:john.toon@edi.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejohn.toon@edi.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E); Fax: (404-894-4545) or Jane Sanders (404-894-2214); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jane.sanders@edi.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejane.sanders@edi.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETechnical Contact: Alex Kuzmich (404-385-4507); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:alex.kuzmich@physics.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ealex.kuzmich@physics.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E)\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGraphics Available: Photographs of researchers posed with laboratory equipment; schematic showing details of the experiment.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWriter: John Toon\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"A team of physicists at the Georgia Institute of Technology has taken a significant step toward the development of quantum communications systems by successfully transferring quantum information from two different groups of atoms onto a single photon.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Transferring information from matter to light"}],"uid":"27303","created_gmt":"2004-11-08 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:38","author":"John Toon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-10-27T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-10-27T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"80161":{"id":"80161","type":"image","title":"Physicists in optics lab","body":null,"created":"1449178071","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:51","changed":"1475894693","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:53"},"80171":{"id":"80171","type":"image","title":"Researchers with equipment","body":null,"created":"1449178071","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:51","changed":"1475894693","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:53"}},"media_ids":["80161","80171"],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"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\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":""}},"79781":{"#nid":"79781","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Council: Innovation Key to Economic Growth","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBusinesses, academia, labor and government must do more to harness innovation-based strategies or risk ceding America\u0027s historic leadership as the world\u0027s economic power, warned the Council on Competitiveness in a new report issued today entitled \u0022Innovate America: Thriving in a World of Challenge and Change.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Council\u0027s National Innovation Initiative (NII) report and recommendations address the need for new forms of collaboration, governance and measurement that enable America\u0027s workers to succeed, not merely survive, in the global economy. Simultaneously, the NII findings - based on the work of more than 400 leaders and scholars from universities and colleges, corporations, professional societies, industry  associations and government agencies over the past 15 months - present a new sense of purpose and mission that restore America\u0027s uniquely positive culture of risk and reward, and that create new mechanisms to drive the pace and quality of the national innovation enterprise. As F. Duane Ackerman, chairman and CEO, BellSouth Corporation and chairman of the Council on Competitiveness noted, \u0022The NII epitomizes the changing nature of innovation itself - a dynamic process of collaboration and competition, of open and proprietary exploration, and a unique fusion of talents and cultures for co-creation.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The importance of innovation lies less in the competitive victory of one country over others than in building a better world for everyone.  America can be an engine of change and a driver of prosperity,\u0022 said Samuel J. Palmisano, chairman and CEO, IBM Corporation and co-chair of the National Innovation Initiative. \u0022The challenge and opportunity to the United States is to respond to the historic shifts of our age by optimizing American society for innovation. At this critical time recommendations from the National Innovation Initiative can be a catalyst for positive change.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAn innovation economy that drives economic growth and job creation will be fueled by new ideas - and those will start from curiosity-based research, and then move to application and finally to commercial exploitation. America must certainly retain and enhance its research at the frontiers, but it must also improve the processes that evolve these ideas into better products, services and ultimately solutions to pressing societal problems. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Innovation has been the hallmark of the American economy long before the Industrial Revolution, but today innovation belongs to no single country.  Today we can take nothing for granted,\u0022 said G. Wayne Clough, president, Georgia Institute of Technology and co-chair of the National Innovation Initiative. \u0022Delivering on the agenda set out in this report will have a substantial and immediate impact today while laying the groundwork for future generations to prosper.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe study proposes actionable recommendations in three key categories: talent, investment and infrastructure. Those sweeping proposals include: \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETalent:\u003C\/strong\u003E Educate the next generation of innovators by pioneering an extensive portable graduate fellowship program to give control of educational choices back to students; align federal and state skills needs more closely with training resources while  fostering stronger ties and partnerships between academic institutions, industry and government to serve regional interests; establish tax-advantaged lifelong learning accounts for employees to promote continuous learning and new skills; improve health and pension portability; offer tax credits for skill-based learning; and reform immigration policies to attract the best and the brightest S\u0026amp;E students and graduates.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EInvestment:\u003C\/strong\u003E Stimulate radical innovation by reallocating three percent of all federal agency R\u0026amp;D budgets toward \u0022Innovation Acceleration\u0022 grants that invest in novel, high-risk and exploratory research; energize the entrepreneurial economy by establishing 10 Innovation Hot Spots at regional locations across the United States over the next five years; reduce the cost of tort litigation from 2 percent to 1 percent of GDP; create safe-harbor provisions to promote voluntary disclosure of intangible assets while aligning private-sector compensations and incentives to reward long-term value creation; and boost seed capital to energize the entrepreneurial economy.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EInfrastructure:\u003C\/strong\u003E Develop new metrics to understand innovation performance and aggregate into a biannual national innovation scorecard; build quality into all phases of the patent process; transform the patent database into a searchable tool to mine the landscape of ideas; strengthen America\u0027s manufacturing capacity by establishing advanced centers for production excellence, including shared facilities and consortia that incorporate \u0027best practices\u0027 standards; and build a 21st century network infrastructure with healthcare as the test bed.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EInnovation generates the productivity that economists estimate has accounted for half of U.S. GDP growth over the past 50 years.  Innovation gives rise to new industries and markets, fuels wealth creation and profits and generates high-value, higher-paying jobs. In a world in which many nations have embraced market economies and can compete on traditional cost and quality terms, it is this ability to create new value that will confer a competitive edge in the 21st century. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Although \u0027Innovate America\u0027 represents a conclusion of sorts for our intensive research and analysis over the past 15 months, it also marks the start of our efforts to reshape the way America thinks about and promotes innovation,\u0022 said Deborah L. Wince-Smith, president, Council on Competitiveness.  \u0022The National Innovation Initiative will now focus on making these recommendations real to spur job creation, improve our standard of living and increase our productivity.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Innovate America\u0022 is available as a free download from \u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/www.compete.org\u0027\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.compete.org\u003C\/a\u003E. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout The Council on Competitiveness\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAn organization of the top business, university and labor leaders in the United States, the Council on Competitiveness is responsible for influencing the course of American competitiveness on regional, national and global scales. The Council stands unique in its ability to anticipate and respond to changing economic conditions through a series of comprehensive programs to maintain competitiveness and security, support innovation, benchmark national competitiveness and shape public policy.  The Council is available on the Web at \u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/www.compete.org\u0027\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.compete.org\u003C\/a\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E###\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EContact\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThomas Ford\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nRacepoint Group\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n781-487-4607\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tford@racepointgroup.com\u0022\u003Etford@racepointgroup.com\u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBill Booher\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nCouncil on Competitiveness\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n202-969-3385\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:bbooher@compete.org\u0022\u003Ebbooher@compete.org\u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Call to Action Part of Comprehensive National Innovation Initiative Weighing Outlook for Nation\u0027s Future"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Businesses, academia, labor and government must do more to harness innovation-based strategies or risk ceding America\u0027s historic leadership as the world\u0027s economic power, warned the Council on Competitiveness in a new report issued today.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Gov\u0027t, education and business leaders must act now"}],"uid":"27301","created_gmt":"2004-12-15 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:30","author":"Elizabeth Campell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-12-15T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2004-12-15T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"79791":{"id":"79791","type":"image","title":"Georgia Tech President Wayne Clough","body":null,"created":"1449178071","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:51","changed":"1475894693","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:53"}},"media_ids":["79791"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.compete.org\/pdf\/NII_Final_Report.pdf","title":"National Innovation Initiative Final Report (650K PDF)"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.compete.org\/","title":"Council on Competitiveness"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/nii","title":"National Innovation Initiative Summit Video Rebroadcast"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"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":""}},"79801":{"#nid":"79801","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Sikorsky Aircraft Funds Aerospace Endowment at Tech","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESikorsky Aircraft Corporation announced today an endowment of $750,000 to establish the Sikorsky Professorship at the Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Sikorsky Aircraft and United Technologies Corporation, our parent company, are committed to the advancement of rotorcraft research and development in the United States,\u0022 said Mark Miller, Sikorsky\u0027s vice president of research and engineering.  \u0022Georgia Tech is one of only three universities in the U.S. designated as having a Rotorcraft Center of Excellence, funded by the National Rotorcraft Technology Center and comprised of students, faculty and staff who focus on rotorcraft-related education and research.  Through this professorship, our goal is to increase the visibility of, and access to, leading-edge U.S. research and development in rotary wing technologies.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022It is an honor, indeed, for us to have the Sikorsky name associated with a Professorship at Georgia Tech,\u0022 said Robert Loewy, the William R. T. Oakes School Chair of the Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering.  \u0022We look forward with confidence to the incumbent being inspired, as we are, to making the greatest contributions possible to rotary wing engineering.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe institute is expected to name the Sikorsky Professor in 2005.  The recipient will hold the rank of Assistant Professor or Associate Professor and will conduct rotorcraft-related research.  Sikorsky will fund the endowment over three years.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESikorsky Aircraft Corporation, based in Stratford, Conn., is a world leader in the design, manufacture and service of advanced helicopters for commercial, industrial and military uses.  Its helicopters occupy a prominent position in the intermediate to heavy weight range.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESikorsky is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation (NYSE: UTX), of Hartford, Conn., which provides a broad range of high-technology products and support services to the aerospace and building systems industries.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Sikorsky Aircraft has announced a $750,000 endowment to establish the Sikorsky Professorship at the Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Sikorsky gives $750,000 for new professorship"}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2004-12-15 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:30","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-12-15T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2004-12-15T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"3274","name":"electroncis"},{"id":"2289","name":"organic"},{"id":"3275","name":"pentacene"},{"id":"2290","name":"photonics"},{"id":"167182","name":"solar"}],"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":""}},"79761":{"#nid":"79761","#data":{"type":"news","title":"DenTeC and DENTSPLY Partner on Dental Innovations","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDENTSPLY International Inc. (NASDAQ-XRAY), the largest manufacturer of professional dental products in the world, has joined with Georgia Tech\u0027s Dental Technology Center (DenTeC) to partner on several innovative research projects.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDenTeC, a non-profit, multidisciplinary research center focused on advancing dental science and technology, is bringing its engineering expertise to dentistry by integrating engineering and dental science to develop new products and technology for dentistry and craniofacial medicine. The center will pursue dentistry-related research in nanotechnology, photonics and optics, imaging, rapid prototyping, material development and testing, tissue-material interface evaluation and software and hardware development.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDenTeC\u0027s partnership with DENTSPLY will help jumpstart work on several real-world innovations needed in dentistry. Through these and other innovations, DenTeC hopes to decrease the cost of patient care, reduce or eliminate patient discomfort, reduce the time required for treatment and help create more aesthetically pleasing treatment options.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGary K. Kunkle, DENTSPLY\u0027s vice-chairman and chief executive officer, commented that, \u0022Technological innovation is an important factor in our efforts to achieve market share gains. As such, we are pleased to affiliate with a world class research facility like Georgia Tech\u0027s DenTeC to accelerate the process of bringing new technologies to dentistry.\u0022  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDon Ranly, director of DenTeC, notes, \u0022Working with a market leader like DENTSPLY is a wonderful opportunity for DenTeC. Our researchers are dedicated to developing technology and techniques that not only help dentists work smarter and patients heal faster, but also are appropriately designed and timed for the market. DENTSPLY brings that deep market understanding that helps us focus on the most promising areas of research, where we can help DENTSPLY bring innovations to market sooner.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAbout DENTSPLY\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDENTSPLY designs, develops, manufactures and markets a broad range of products for the dental market. The company believes that it is the world\u0027s leading manufacturer and distributor of dental prosthetics, precious metal dental alloys, dental ceramics, endodontic instruments and materials, prophylaxis paste, dental sealants, ultrasonic scalers, and crown and bridge materials; the leading U.S. manufacturer and distributor of dental handpieces, dental x-ray film holders, film mounts and bone substitute\/grafting materials; and a leading worldwide manufacturer or distributor of dental injectible anesthetics, impression materials, orthodontic appliances, dental cutting instruments and dental implants. DENTSPLY distributes its dental products in over 120 countries under some of the most well established brand names in the industry. For additional information about Dentsply, please visit Dentsply\u0027s Web site at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.dentsply.com\u0022 title=\u0022www.dentsply.com\u0022\u003Ewww.dentsply.com\u003C\/a\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDENTSPLY is committed to the development of innovative, high quality, cost-effective new products for the dental market. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAbout the Dental Technology Center at Georgia Tech (DenTeC)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\u0027s Dental Technology Center, DenTeC, demonstrates a unique commitment to dentistry by a world-renowned engineering university and research center. By integrating engineering knowledge and dental science, DenTeC is developing new products and technologies for dentistry and craniofacial medicine via multidisciplinary research, testing, innovation and education. DenTeC works with the dental industry, research and educational centers, and healthcare providers to improve dental healthcare worldwide.  DenTeC is a non-profit, multidisciplinary partnership between Georgia Tech\u0027s College of Engineering, College of Computing, College of Sciences, College of Management, Ivan Allen College, College of Architecture, Continuing Education and the Georgia Tech Research Institute.  For additional information about research and professional education at DenTeC, e-mail  \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:Jennifer.mcdonald@gtri.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJennifer.mcdonald@gtri.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Georgia Tech\u0027s Dental Technology Center (DenTeC) has just announced a partnership with DENTSPLY International on several innovative research projects to develop new products and technology for dentistry and craniofacial medicine.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Engineering, dentistry combine for new technologies"}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2004-12-17 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:30","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-12-17T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2004-12-17T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"79771":{"id":"79771","type":"image","title":"DenTeC research","body":null,"created":"1449178071","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:51","changed":"1475894693","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:53"}},"media_ids":["79771"],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"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":""}},"80421":{"#nid":"80421","#data":{"type":"news","title":"RealOpt Helps Health Departments Halt Outbreaks","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EImagine that a terrorist has just released the smallpox virus in Atlanta, and suddenly there\u0027s a race against time to vaccinate and treat every last man, woman and child in metro Atlanta before the deadly virus can spread.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn a bioterror scenario such as this, the speed at which emergency health care facilities treat patients can mean the difference between life and death for thousands (or even millions) of people. And the logistics of such a large-scale emergency plan are dizzyingly complex.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBut Eva Lee, a professor of industrial and systems engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has created a computer program that is up to the task.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBased on a clinical model created by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Lee developed the program, called RealOpt\u00a9, to help U.S. state, city and county healthcare departments organize the most efficient plan for treating infectious illness, whether it\u0027s a natural or man-made outbreak. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile government health departments have emergency plans in place, it is difficult to test a plan\u0027s efficiency against the urgency and sheer number of patients an outbreak would create. And when a severe outbreak of influenza starts to spread through the population, treatment facilities are faced with a number of problems as they attempt to treat or vaccinate many thousands of patients in just a few days.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHow many doctors will be needed? How many nurses? How long will it take frightened or unprepared patients to fill out paperwork? How will infected patients be separated from healthy patients?\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe CDC, recognizing that local public health departments needed guidance on what human resources would be required to treat the affected population, created a model that could assist in this effort. Then Lee, who is also an associate professor at the Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University, and her Georgia Tech team used the CDC model as a guide to build a new, more powerful program. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERealOpt can be used to prepare for a possible outbreak, as well as for emergency re-assignment of health care workers within the clinic and between clinics during an actual outbreak. By determining their preparedness, health departments will have a thorough estimate of what resources and funds they will need to treat their communities before an actual outbreak occurs.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe program takes the numerous variables associated with an emergency health care facility\u0027s treatment of a very large group of people, and through simulation and optimization, pinpoints the most efficient way to move patients through the facility. Using the program, a health care department can determine the most efficient facility layout, the number of health care professionals needed in certain areas, the number of vaccinations needed and the time it will take to treat patients.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to its role in planning, one of RealOpt\u0027s significant advantages is its ability to process data in real time as the emergency treatment occurs. As patient flows fluctuate, the program can reallocate the facility\u0027s resources in a fraction of a second, sending more doctors or nurses to one station or more attendants to the paperwork processing area.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe program will be tested by health agencies in several states and was recently installed in Georgia. Installation is also scheduled for North Carolina. While the program is still in the testing phase, it will soon be available free to any government health department that requests it from Georgia Tech.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe next phase of the project, which is already underway, will expand the scope of the program to include an even more complex problem - how to quickly and efficiently get thousands or millions of patients to treatment facilities. The program will puzzle out the best locations to set up emergency treatment facilities based on roads and population density. These facilities can include anything from a school gymnasium to a football stadium.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis phase of the program is expected to be ready for testing in three to six months, Lee said, and a future phase will include simulations of the spread of infectious disease through the population and within treatment clinics.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Dr. Eva Lee has developed a program, called RealOpt, to help state, city and county health care departments organize the most efficient plan for treating infectious illness, whether it\u0027s a natural or man-made outbreak.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Program helps facilties treat community in a crisis"}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2004-09-20 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:30","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-09-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-09-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"80431":{"id":"80431","type":"image","title":"Eva Lee with RealOpt","body":null,"created":"1449178071","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:51","changed":"1475894696","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:56"}},"media_ids":["80431"],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"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":""}},"80401":{"#nid":"80401","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Community Invited to State of the Institute Address","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EG. Wayne Clough, president of the Georgia Institute of Technology, invites all faculty, staff and students to attend his 2004 State of the Institute Address during Homecoming Week in October.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEach fall, President Clough offers his State of the Institute Address as a way to recap Georgia Tech\u0027s achievements of the past year and to map out a plan for the Institute\u0027s continued success. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe presentation offers the campus community a chance to hear about student accomplishments and faculty successes plus gauge the direction of Institute initiatives for the upcoming year. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThree State of the Institute Addresses are planned for Homecoming Week 2004:\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EStudent Presentation\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n11 a.m. Oct. 12, 2004\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nStudent Center Ballroom\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n351 Ferst Drive NW\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFaculty and Staff Presentation\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n3 p.m. Oct. 14, 2004\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGlobal Learning and Conference Center, Room 236\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n84 5th St.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAlumni Presentation\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n6 p.m. Oct. 14, 2004\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGlobal Learning and Conference Center, Room 236\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n84 5th St.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis month marks Clough\u0027s 10th year as president of the Institute. He is the 10th president in the Institute\u0027s 118-year history and the first alumnus to hold that honor. Clough received his bachelor\u0027s and master\u0027s degrees in civil engineering from Georgia Tech in 1964 and 1965. He earned his doctorate in civil engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1969.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPreviously, Clough was on the faculty at Duke University, Stanford University, Virginia Tech, and the University of Washington. He was head of the Department of Civil Engineering and dean of the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech, and was provost and vice president for academic affairs at the University of Washington.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDuring Clough\u0027s tenure as Georgia Tech\u0027s president, the Institute served as the Olympic Village for the 1996 Centennial Olympics. Research award funding increased from $212 million to more than $340 million; a required computer initiative for all students was implemented; and enrollment has increased from 13,000 to 16,825. More than $1 billion in private gifts have been obtained for Institute goals and initiatives under Clough\u0027s leadership. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EClough has been recognized for his teaching and research, including a total of eight national awards from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). He is the recipient of ASCE\u0027s 2004 OPAL Award for Lifetime Achievement in Education. In 1990, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. He was awarded the 2001 National Engineering Award by the American Association of Engineering Societies and in 2002 was named an Honorary Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"G. 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(Bud) Peterson"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"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":""}},"80371":{"#nid":"80371","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Bill Rouse Named Director of Tennenbaum Institute","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWilliam B. Rouse, the H. Milton and Carolyn J. Stewart Chair of the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech, has been named executive director of the new Tennenbaum Institute, which will focus on enterprise transformation.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe campus-wide Tennenbaum Institute, established with a $5 million gift from distinguished Georgia Tech alumnus Michael Tennenbaum, will help both private and public enterprises to keep up with - and lead - constant changes in technology and in the marketplace. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Tennenbaum Institute\u0027s focus will be on understanding and supporting - via best practices, methods and tools - strategic and operational change to transform existing private and public enterprises to become more cost-effective and competitive. The institute will partner with academic, corporate and government sector organizations and experts to develop business practices and shape organizational cultures for sustained economic growth.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERouse has more than thirty years of experience in research, education, management, marketing, and engineering related to individual and organizational performance, decision support systems and information systems. In these areas, he has consulted with more than 100 large and small enterprises in the private, public and non-profit sectors, where he has worked with several thousand executives and senior managers. He founded and led two software companies prior to his return to Georgia Tech in 2001.  Rouse has served on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and, in visiting positions, on the faculties of Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands and Tufts University. He received his B.S. from the University of Rhode Island, and his S.M. and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe School of Industrial and Systems Engineering will form a search committee to identify a successor for Rouse, who will continue to serve as chair until this successor can assume the chair\u0027s position.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Bill Rouse, the H. Milton and Carolyn J. Stewart Chair of the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech, has been named executive director of the new Tennenbaum Institute, which will focus on enterprise transformation.The campus-wide Tennenbaum Institute, established with a $5 million gift from distinguished Georgia Tech alumnus Michael Tennenbaum, will help both private and public enterprises to keep up with - and lead - constant changes in technology and in the marketplace.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Bill Rouse will take the helm of new institute"}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2004-09-24 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:30","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-09-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-09-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"80381":{"id":"80381","type":"image","title":"Bill Rouse","body":null,"created":"1449178071","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:51","changed":"1475894696","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:56"}},"media_ids":["80381"],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"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":""}},"80351":{"#nid":"80351","#data":{"type":"news","title":"CATEA Web Site Available for Hispanic Community","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Southeast Disability and Business Technical Assistance Center (DBTAC) -- a project of Georgia Tech\u0027s Center for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access (CATEA) -- announces the launch of its new Spanish-language Web site.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe goal of the site is to reach the growing number of Hispanic businesses plus the Spanish-speaking community at large with information about the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe site responds to the needs of a segment of the United States population that, according to the 2000 census, has grown to become the largest ethnic minority in the country, with more than 35 million people.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Reaching the Spanish-speaking community is an important priority for the Southeast DBTAC,\u0022 Project Director Shelley Kaplan said. \u0022Users visiting our new Web site will find information about the ADA and the rights of individuals with disabilities.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe site will initially have information about the DBTAC, its services, and links to ADA publications in Spanish.  The Southeast DBTAC\u0027s Spanish-language Web site is an ongoing project and will continue to add relevant ADA information as it becomes available.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor more information about the ADA, contact the Southeast DBTAC\u0027s toll free number at 1-800-949-4232 (v\/tty).  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Classes in the Fall Series examine the relationship between technology, communication, art, business and culture. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFaculty and staff from Georgia Tech as well as industry professionals will explore these issues in a variety of classes. The instructors, each an expert in their field, will pose questions and show examples through demonstration, lecture, and discussion. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Fall Session is scheduled \u003Cstrong\u003EOctober 12-November 20, 2004\u003C\/strong\u003E. Classes meet Tuesday or Thursday nights for 2 hours (6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.)* for three-week mini sessions or six-week sessions and range in price from $85-150 per class. 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Georgia Tech and the Atlanta Police Department (APD) announced a partnership today to operate the hotline that allows concerned citizens to anonymously report establishments suspected of serving alcohol to minors and intoxicated persons. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Underage drinking costs this nation an estimated $53 billion annually in losses stemming from traffic fatalities, violent crimes and other behaviors that threaten the well-being of our youth and our community,\u0022 said Atlanta Police Chief Richard Pennington at a press conference announcing the hotline. In Georgia alone, underage drinking costs citizens $517 million in medical care and loss of work.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe hotline will be monitored by Georgia Tech\u0027s GT SMART program, a campus-community coalition dedicated to reducing high-risk drinking.  The information left by callers will be forwarded to APD\u0027s Licenses and Permits Division, which controls alcohol licenses.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Alcohol sales to underage or intoxicated persons is a lucrative business and a serious problem in Atlanta, but residents often feel afraid to report businesses they suspect of conducting these sales because of potential reprisals, said Marsha Brinkley, project director of GT SMART.  \u0022Calling 911 is still the best way to report any crime, but the hotline is a good alternative for residents who wish to report their concerns without having their identity revealed.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEstablishing the tipline is just the latest in a series of partnerships GT SMART has formed with the city of Atlanta this year to reduce high risk drinking. In May, the organization and Atlanta City Councilmember H. Lamar Willis announced a free online training program for managers and servers of alcohol in Atlanta to help them reduce underage drinking and sales to intoxicated patrons. More than 182 alcohol servers and sellers have completed the Responsible Alcohol Sales and Server (RASS) training program and another 154 are currently enrolled. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe first of its kind in Georgia, training is available online at any time to alcohol-licensed businesses in the city of Atlanta. Tech hopes to widen the program to businesses in DeKalb, Fulton and Cobb counties later this fall.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The safety of our students and our communities is our primary concern, said Brinkley. The training program helps establishments develop service policies and teach their staff how to handle situations in which minors or intoxicated patrons are trying to buy alcohol, while the hotline provides citizens with a way to report those businesses who continue to break the law.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe hotline and training program are funded by grants from the Children and Youth Coordinating Council. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Our goal is to reduce and someday eliminate the chances of another tragedy through increased awareness, community participation and stricter enforcement of the laws, said Pennington. The GT SMART Tip Hotline is a valuable tool for the Atlanta Police Department, Georgia Tech and the people of Atlanta as we answer the call to partner for a better quality of life for us all.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGT SMART Tip Hotline:  404-385-6232\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERASS Server Training available at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gtsmart.gatech.edu\u0022 title=\u0022www.gtsmart.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ewww.gtsmart.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Georgia Tech and the Atlanta Police Department announce a new hotline allowing citizens to anonymously report busineses they suspect of serving alcohol to minors and intoxicated persons.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Partnership takes on high-risk drinking"}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2004-10-06 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:30","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-10-06T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-10-06T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"80311":{"id":"80311","type":"image","title":"Marsha Brinkley and Chief Richard Pennington","body":null,"created":"1449178071","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:51","changed":"1475894696","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:56"}},"media_ids":["80311"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gtsmart.gatech.edu\/","title":"GT SMART"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"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":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"80321":{"#nid":"80321","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Emory\/Tech Awarded $10M Cancer Nanotech Grant","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded scientists from Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology two new collaborative research grants, totaling nearly $10 million, to establish a multidisciplinary research program in cancer nanotechnology and to develop a new class of nanoparticles for molecular and cellular imaging.  Working at the sub-atomic level, these scientists are seeking data that will link molecular signatures, (underlying molecular features), to patients\u0027 clinical outcomes, so that cancers can be predicted, detected earlier and treated more effectively. Although the primary focus of the new programs will be prostate cancer, the research will have broad applications to many types of tumors, including breast and colorectal cancer and lymphoma.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Shuming Nie, PhD, principal investigator of the project, is one of the first scientists in the world to utilize nanotechnology in the biomedical field.  Used in manufacturing for many years, nanotechnology enables scientists to build devices and materials one atom or molecule at a time, creating tightly packed structures that take on new properties by virtue of their miniature size. A nanometer is one-billionth of a meter, or about 100,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair. Most animal cells are 10,000- 20,000 nanometers in diameter, so nanoscale devices are tiny enough to enter cells and analyze DNA and proteins, potentially identifying and treating cancerous cells at much earlier stages than currently possible.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe National Cancer Institute has awarded a five-year grant of $7.1 million to establish a multidisciplinary Bioengineering Research Partnership (BRP) in cancer nanotechnology.  This partnership will integrate the bioengineering strengths of Georgia Tech and the cancer biology and clinical oncology expertise of Emory University School of Medicine and the Winship Cancer Institute. The new program is part of the joint Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory, established in 1997, and ranked second in the nation by U.S. News \u0026amp; World Report.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This Bioengineering Research Partnership (BRP) will incorporate expertise in bioengineering, bioinformatics, tumor biology, bioanalytical chemistry, systems biology, as well as hematology, oncology, pathology and urology,\u0022 said Shuming Nie, PhD, principal investigator of the project. \u0022The goal of the program is to develop nanotechnology tools for linking molecular signatures to cancer behavior and clinical outcome.\u0022  Dr. Nie is a Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Scholar, an associate professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University and director of cancer nanotechnology at Emory\u0027s Winship Cancer Institute.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences has awarded Emory and Georgia Tech a four-year, $2.7 million exploratory center grant to develop nanoparticle probes for molecular and cellular imaging of cancer.  This funding is part of the new NIH Roadmap Initiative.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBill Todd, president of the Georgia Cancer Coalition said, \u0022Dr. Nie\u0027s accomplishments are a great source of pride for both the Georgia Cancer Coalition and the state of Georgia.  These two research grants, totaling $10 million, will help move us closer to developing new treatment techniques and possible cures for cancer.  We are very enthusiastic about being part of the process to move this technology from the laboratory to the bedside in the fight against cancer.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The State of Georgia is breaking new ground,\u0022 said Governor Sonny Perdue.  \u0022As we foster greater collaboration among our fine universities and growing biotech sector, we will see tremendous innovation, resulting in greater economic growth for the state and better, more effective prevention, treatment and care for cancer patients everywhere.\u0022  Governor Perdue also said, \u0022The Georgia Cancer Coalition\u0027s continued success in recruiting the nation\u0027s top researchers and clinicians to Georgia has proven an invaluable tool in the fight against cancer.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EProstate cancer is the most common cancer and second leading cause of death in American men.  Approximately 180,000 new cases are diagnosed yearly, and 40,000 men will die from the disease this year.  As they age, most men will develop either benign (non-cancerous) prostate enlargement or prostate cancer.  Currently, the most commonly used diagnostic techniques often do not find tumors until after they are large enough to metastasize to a different location in the body and are much more difficult to treat. Researchers in the new research partnership will develop advanced nanoparticle technologies for extremely sensitive profiling of biomarkers on cancer cells and tissue specimens.  The use of nanotechnology enables researchers to combine traditional pathology and cancer biology with highly sensitive molecular analysis.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to basic knowledge on cancer biology and biomarkers, the Bioengineering Research Partnership is expected to produce a database linking molecular signatures with clinical outcome; a new class of nanoparticles for molecular profiling of cancer; and imaging microscopes and software that are integrated with the new discoveries in nanotechnology.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe exploratory center grant will be used to develop advanced nanoparticle quantum dot probes for molecular and cellular imaging.  A nanoparticle is the basic building block of nanotechnology.  Quantum dots are nanometer-sized luminescent semiconductor crystals that have unique electronic and optical properties due to their size and their highly compact structure.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The goal of this exploratory program is to develop a new class of bioconjugated quantum dots that can both image and target single-molecule processes in single living cells,\u0022 said Dr. Nie.  \u0022Quantum dots have novel properties, including improved brightness, resistance against photobleaching, and multicolor light emission.  The larger size of the quantum dots also provides enough surface area for linking to other diagnostic and therapeutic agents.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Nie and his colleagues recently used bioconjugated quantum dots for the first time to simultaneously target and image prostate tumors in living mice.  Bioconjugated dots are chemically linked to molecules such as antibodies, peptides, proteins or DNA and engineered to detect other molecules, such as those present on the surface of cancer cells.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Nie and his team will collaborate with cell biologists to study a variety of molecules involved in the development and progression of cancer, including those involved in programmed cell death; genes such as the p53 gene, which is implicated in many kinds of cancer; and microtubules and molecular motors, which are involved in transporting the proteins in cells that regulate cell growth. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022These grants serve to highlight the importance of the partnership between Emory University, Georgia Tech and the Georgia Cancer Coalition,\u0022 said Jonathan Simons, MD, director of Emory\u0027s Winship Cancer Institute.  \u0022This partnership, which has been energized by the GCC Scholars program, has produced one of the premier cancer nanotechnology and bioengineering programs in the country.\u0022  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The NIH Roadmap Initiatives are designed to transform the nation\u0027s medical research capabilities,\u0022 said Larry McIntire, PhD, chair of the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering.  \u0022Our well-established Emory\/Georgia Tech partnerships in biomedical engineering will serve as an ideal research environment to transform nanotechnology from the laboratory into promising diagnostics and therapies for cancer patients.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Bioengineering Research Partnership includes faculty from the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory; Emory\u0027s Winship Cancer Institute; and the Departments of Urology, Radiation Oncology, and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in Emory University School of Medicine.  Also included are scientists at the Cambridge Research and Instrumentation Inc. (CRI) in Woburn, Massachusetts.  In addition to Dr. Nie, collaborators include investigators Leland Chung, Fray Marshall, John Petros, Peter Johnstone, Mahul Amin, Gang Bao, May Wang, Haiyen Zhau,  and Richard Levenson, (CRI).  Drs. Nie, Chung, Wang and Johnstone are Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Scholars. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe new exploratory center integrates the biomedical expertise of Emory University, the engineering strength of Georgia Tech, the organic chemistry capabilities of Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California; and the biophysical expertise of Harvard University.   The research team includes Dr. Nie as principal investigator along with Dr. Chung, Dr. Wang, and Dr. Paraskevi Giannakakou from the Winship Cancer Institute.  All are Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Scholars.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"The National Institutes of Health has awarded scientists from Emory University and Georgia Tech two new collaborative research grants, totaling nearly $10 million, to establish a multidisciplinary research program in cancer nanotechnology and to develop a new class of nanoparticles for molecular and cellular imaging.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Nanotech research to indentify\/treat cancer earlier"}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2004-10-06 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:30","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-10-06T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-10-06T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"80331":{"id":"80331","type":"image","title":"Dr. Shuming Nie","body":null,"created":"1449178071","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:51","changed":"1475894696","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:56"},"80341":{"id":"80341","type":"image","title":"Human breast cancer cells","body":null,"created":"1449178071","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:51","changed":"1475894696","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:56"}},"media_ids":["80331","80341"],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"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":""}},"80281":{"#nid":"80281","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Chameau Earns Top Honors from Women Engineers","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA non-profit organization this week honors Jean-Lou Chameau, provost and vice president for academic affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology, for his efforts to advance the engineering careers of women.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EChameau is to receive the 2004 Distinguished Rodney D. Chipp Memorial Award from the Society of Women Engineers (SWE). The award recognizes Georgia Tech\u0027s provost for his \u0022exemplary commitment and sustained leadership in the recruitment, retention and advancement of women engineering students and faculty.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Dr. Chameau\u0027s commitment to promote and advance women in engineering is commendable,\u0022 SWE President Vi Brown said. \u0022Through his dedication and unwavering support, he has made a significant difference for women engineers and women educators at Georgia Tech.\u0022\t\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Chipp Award will be formally presented Oct. 15 at the SWE\u0027s National Conference Achievement Awards Banquet in Milwaukee, Wis. The SWE\u0027s National Conference, \u0022Engineers Leading Change,\u0022 is being held this week at Milwaukee\u0027s Midwest Express Center. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Jean-Lou Chameau\u0027s commitment to advancing women in engineering is demonstrated by his remarkable achievements in the hiring and promotion of women engineering faculty,\u0022 said Don Giddens, dean of Georgia Tech\u0027s College of Engineering. \u0022Dr. Chameau also has worked tirelessly to increase the numbers of women engineering students here and to improve the campus environment in ways that encourage their full participation.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn tapping Chameau for the Chipp Award, the SWE cited his many efforts during the past 13 years to encourage women to pursue careers in engineering, in and out of higher education. The society pointed out that, during Chameau\u0027s tenure, the number of women engineering faculty at Georgia Tech grew from 16 to 41 between 1996 and 2001. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAlso, while Chameau was dean of engineering from 1997 until 2001, seven female faculty received tenure and five were promoted to full professor. Five women also were promoted or hired into chaired positions or professorships.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe SWE also singled out Chameau for his leadership in Georgia Tech\u0027s National Science Foundation ADVANCE program and for his office\u0027s matching of funds for the Childcare Access Means Parents in School grant from the U.S. Department of Education, which provides 10 mini-grants to Tech students who have children and are in need of child-care assistance.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Society of Women Engineers, founded in 1950, is a non-profit educational and service organization that establishes engineering as a highly desirable career aspiration for women. The SWE empowers women to succeed and advance in those aspirations and receive the recognition and credit for their life-changing contributions and achievements as engineers and leaders.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Provost to receive the 2004 Chipp Memorial Award"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"A non-profit organization this week honors Georgia Tech Provost Jean-Lou Chameau for his efforts to advance the engineering careers of women.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Non-profit rewards provost\u0027s efforts to open doors"}],"uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2004-10-11 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:30","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-10-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-10-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"80291":{"id":"80291","type":"image","title":"Provost Jean-Lou Chameau with students","body":null,"created":"1449178071","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:51","changed":"1475894696","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:56"}},"media_ids":["80291"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.advance.gatech.edu\/AnnualReport.pdf","title":"ADVANCE Program 2003 Annual Report"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.advance.gatech.edu\/proceedings04.html","title":"The 3rd Annual Georgia Tech NSF ADVANCE Conference"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/home\/crssprgm\/advance\/","title":"The ADVANCE Program"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.swe.org\/","title":"Society of Women Engineers"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.provost.gatech.edu\/","title":"Office of the Provost"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"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":""}},"80221":{"#nid":"80221","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Parkinson\u0027s: Bilateral Benefits with Brain Stim","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFor many patients with advanced Parkinson\u0027s disease, deep brain stimulation can mean the difference between having difficulty walking and being able to run. Since its approval by the Food and Drug Administration in 1997, the treatment has been used by 20,000 patients with advanced Parkinson\u0027s disease or other movement disorders to help control their symptoms. Now, researchers have discovered that surgically implanting electrical stimulators on just one side of a patient\u0027s brain could help alleviate symptoms on both sides of the body, potentially cutting the surgery risk for some patients. The results are published in the October issue of the journal Motor Control.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThere are currently two sites in each hemisphere of the brain where stimulation is targeted. In the same study, researchers found no significant difference in motor performance between two groups of patients who received stimulation at either site. But given past evidence that patients who receive stimulation at one of the sites may be more prone to depression and other neuropsychological conditions, the study\u0027s authors conclude the current bias toward placing the implants on that site may be unwarranted.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022These data clearly indicate that unilateral deep brain stimulation improves bilateral motor performance of the arms and hands,\u0022 said Jay Alberts, an assistant professor in the School of Applied Physiology at the Georgia Institute of Technology.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAlberts, along with researchers from Emory University and the University of Florida, collaborated on a study in which 10 patients with advanced Parkinson\u0027s disease participated in a series of tests designed to measure upper body motor performance. The tests were designed to mimic everyday activities that Parkinson\u0027s patients often have trouble with, such as opening jars or tying shoelaces. The patients performed the tests while the stimulator was on and then three hours after it was turned off.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDeep brain stimulation works by using electrical impulses to block abnormal nerve signals that cause tremors and other symptoms of Parkinson\u0027s. A surgeon implants an electrical lead in either the subthalamic nucleus (STN) or the globus pallidus interna (GPi), two areas of the brain that contribute to movement. The stimulating electrode is connected to a control unit, implanted near the collarbone, that determines how much and how frequently stimulation should occur.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETypically, leads are implanted on the side of the brain opposite to where the effect is needed. So leads placed on the left side of the brain alleviate symptoms on the right side of the body. This is the first study to show the implants significantly improve a patient\u0027s symptoms on the same side of the body.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022While on stimulation, patients in both groups improved motor performance of the upper extremity, opposite side of stimulation, by approximately 30 percent,\u0022 said Alberts. \u0022But when we looked to see if they had any effect on the same side of the body, we found that our patients had experienced about a 14 to 17 percent improvement.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGetting substantial improvements on both sides of the body from just one implant is important, because this is brain surgery, said Michael Okun, Co-director of the Movement Disorders Center at the University of Florida and co-author of the study.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We may learn from future studies that not everyone requires two devices, and this will cut the risk for some patients in half,\u0022 he said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe study also found no significant differences in motor function or force production between patients who had stimulation at the STN or GPi sites, a finding Alberts believes to be equally important as the bilateral effects of stimulation.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022STN stimulation has been touted as the target of choice, but we found GPi stimulation to be equally effective in improving upper extremity motor function,\u0022 said Alberts. \u0022There is some evidence that there are side effects associated with STN stimulation, such as depression and a decrease in working memory, that haven\u0027t been found with GPi. Given that evidence and our latest study, we think the current bias towards STN stimulation needs to be reexamined.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor patients, the effects of the stimulators are life changing. Study participant Joel Moss was diagnosed with Parkinson\u0027s disease in 1985. He had his first implant, on the left side of this brain, in 1999. He was not told whether he is receiving STN or GPi stimulation so he can continue to participate in clinical studies.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The pain went away instantly. The tremors aren\u0027t even in existence any more and my balance is good enough to allow me to run,\u0022 said Moss. \u0022With the stim on you can be close to normal. With it off, you can be close to vegetative.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Researchers have discovered that implanting electrical stimulators on just one side of a patient\u0027s brain can alleviate symptoms on both sides of the body, boosting patient care and potentially reducing the risk of surgery.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Findings May Cut Surgery Risk in Half"}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2004-10-21 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:30","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-10-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-10-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"80231":{"id":"80231","type":"image","title":"Jay Alberts and Jane Cambius","body":null,"created":"1449178071","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:51","changed":"1475894693","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:53"}},"media_ids":["80231"],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"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":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"80021":{"#nid":"80021","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tech Square Retail Continues Growth","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhen Georgia Tech celebrated the grand opening of Technology Square last October, the 13.3-acre mixed use development was hailed for its promise to transform the once dilapidated corridor on Fifth Street to a dynamic hub for campus energetic business district, and a vibrant new retail district for residents of Midtown. One year later, Tech Square and its partner development Centergy have fulfilled two-thirds of that promise and are poised to deliver the last.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Tech Square was intended to connect Georgia Tech with Midtown and I think we\u0027re doing a good job,\u0022 said Rich Steele, who oversees retail contracts on campus and is director of the Student Center. \u0022We certainly have the connection with campus and the Midtown business community. We still need to develop it with the residential piece. We really want it to be a vibrant, dynamic space all throughout the day, evening and weekend.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWith nine retail stores and restaurants on the south side of the Fifth Street, Tech Square seems suited to fill that niche. The Midtown residential community is growing quickly. In addition to the adjacent Midtown Lofts and Post Biltmore, Plaza Midtown on Spring St. and Spire on Seventh Street and Peachtree will soon add hundreds of residents to the neighborhood.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We are finalizing marketing plans to help people in Midtown, Home Park and the surrounding areas embrace Tech Square as a neighborhood destination,\u0022 said Scott Levitan, executive director of real estate development. The goal, he said, is to get them to feel they have ownership of Tech Square - that it doesn\u0027t just belong to Georgia Tech.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We\u0027d be really happy to have some of the 24-hour activity that goes on in places like Virginia-Highland,\u0022 said Levitan. \u0022That\u0027s really what we aspire to be.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWith that in mind, several of the restaurants have obtained alcohol licenses since opening last fall. Fifth Street Ribs and Blues added live music at night. At Centergy, negotiations are under way for an upscale restaurant with a full bar. And St. Charles Deli recently began holding poker night on Thursdays to add business in the evenings.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDespite needing to spice up the nightlife, Tech Square retail has had a great year, said Steele. The Centergy building is about 92 percent leased, and the restaurants at Tech Square are on pace to generate $3 million in sales.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022What is really nice is that with every new restaurant we add, we don\u0027t see a dip in business for the others. There is continuous growth,\u0022 Steele said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe largest retail presence, Barnes and Noble at Georgia Tech, has also had a great year according to Director Jerry Maloney. Excluding textbooks, book sales have quadrupled since moving from the old bookstore at the Student Center, and licensed merchandise has increased 35 percent.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe store, run by Barnes and Noble College Bookstores, was the first in the company\u0027s new strategy of combining a college bookstore with a neighborhood superstore.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022It definitely has become a neighborhood store, particularly with the presence of the Starbucks,\u0022 said Maloney. \u0022It has become a place for students and the community alike\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHelping to complete the transformation to a community store is the new policy this fall of allowing Starbucks customers to use their Starbucks card to make purchases. Customers can add money to their existing cards, but can\u0027t buy new ones at the store. Similarly, Barnes and Noble customers can use their Reader\u0027s Advantage discount card at the bookstore, but the store can\u0027t issue new ones. The card is not accepted for textbooks, but is usable for items found in the company\u0027s superstores, said Maloney.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center has also had a good year, according to Vicki Walker, director of sales and marketing. \u0022We are pacing 16 percent ahead of where we were last year,\u0022 she said, adding that Tech accounts for the largest segment of business for the hotel.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAdjacent to the hotel, the Global Learning and Conference Center provides conference space, distance learning courses, short courses and English as a second language (ESL) classes.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This year, our rental income will be up considerably from last year,\u0022 said Bill Wepfer, vice provost for distance learning and professional education.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We\u0027re growing,\u0022 he said. \u0022We\u0027re never growing as fast as I would like to grow. I think some of that\u0027s tied to the economy.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOver the year, Wepfer said, the GLCC has seen a slight increase in enrollment of distance learning courses. Enrollment in ESL courses had seen a drop earlier this year, but that is beginning to turn around. The short courses, however, have remained flat, in keeping with national trends.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We have seen a lot of growth in company-sponsored courses. Right now, that\u0027s being driven by defense technology programs,\u0022 said Wepfer.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOverall the coming year looks good for Tech Square, said Levitan and Steele. There is concern about how the two-year construction project to add green space to the Fifth Street Bridge will affect business in the near future.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022It hasn\u0027t been that bad yet,\u0022 said Steele. \u0022The bridge project will be a wonderful asset to Tech Square in the long term.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"One year after the grand opening, Technology Square has become popular with the campus and Midtown business community. 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Offering these programs to businesses in southeast Georgia reflects the strong economy and growth in this area,\u0022 states Dr. Terry Blum, dean of the Georgia Tech College of Management.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe executive education programs offered this fall include Business Strategy, Innovation Management, Leadership, Marketing, Six Sigma, and Technology for the Non-Technical Manager. Six Sigma is one of Georgia Tech\u0027s most popular executive training programs. Program participants can earn either a Green Belt or Black Belt certification. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I\u0027ve taken many courses during my career and the Georgia Tech Six Sigma program is one of the best,\u0022 says Jason Krug, senior project manager at Sun Microsystems.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The introduction of these executive programs represents an important and logical extension of the commitment of Georgia Tech Savannah to technology education in the Coastal Georgia region,\u0022 says David Frost, director of the Georgia Tech Savannah campus. \u0022The College of Management\u0027s training programs will help functional managers, especially engineers and technologists, to move into general management and executive positions where firm-wide perspectives are required.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Georgia Tech Savannah\u0027s executive education programs show a continuing commitment by both Georgia Tech and the University System of Georgia to our area,\u0022 says Howard Morrison, chair of the Georgia Tech Savannah External Advisory Board. \u0022These new Georgia Tech programs represent the natural evolution of enhanced academics in southeast Georgia, which should complement instruction at Armstrong, Georgia Southern, Savannah State, and the Savannah College of Art and Design.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to the fall line-up of executive education programs, the Georgia Tech College of Management offers customized programs for companies seeking a training program tailored to their specific needs. The College currently provides customized training programs for GE Energy, EarthLink, NDC Health, Piedmont Medical Center and the Boys and Girls Club of America.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Savannah campus is located next to the Savannah International Airport and only minutes from historic downtown Savannah. Opened in September 2003, the campus houses world-class instructional and research facilities. Executive education information is available by calling \u003Cstrong\u003E800.815.7662\u003C\/strong\u003E or visiting www.execinfo.org.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"College of Management Offers Courses in Business Strategy, Innovation, Leadership, Marketing, Six Sigma and More","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27301","created_gmt":"2004-08-11 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:30","author":"Elizabeth Campell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-08-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-08-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/news-room\/release.php?id=275","title":"Full news release"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"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":""}},"79901":{"#nid":"79901","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Clough New Council on Competitiveness Co-vice Chair","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPresident Wayne Clough has been named to succeed Charles Vest as the new university co-vice chairman of the Council on Competitiveness.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Council on Competitiveness is a nonpartisan, non-profit organization whose members are corporation chief executives, university professors and labor leaders dedicated to setting an action agenda to drive U.S. economic competitiveness and leadership. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Council is made up of three co-vice chairs, representing industry, universities and labor. Together, they make up the governing body of the Council on Competitiveness. Vest is stepping down from the position after recently retiring as president of MIT.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EClough, who has been involved with the Council for a number of years, recently helped the Council launch the National Innovation Initiative with co-chair Sam Palmisano, chairman and CEO of IBM. This Council Initiative is focused on keeping the United States at the forefront of innovation throughout the world.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EClough became Tech\u0027s tenth President in September of 1994. Previously, he was a member of the faculty at Duke University, Stanford University, Virginia Tech and the University of Washington. He served as head of the department of civil engineering and dean of the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech and as provost and vice president for academic affairs at the University of Washington.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 2001, President George W. Bush appointed Clough to the President\u0027s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, where he currently is a member of the Nanotechnology Task Force and where he previously chaired the Federal Research and Development Panel. Clough received his B.S. and M.S. in civil engineering from Georgia Tech and his Ph.D. in civil engineering from the University of California, Berkley.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"President Wayne Clough is the new university co-vice chairman of the Council on Competitiveness.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Tech President Named to Top Leadership Post"}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2004-11-30 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:30","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-11-30T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2004-11-30T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"79911":{"id":"79911","type":"image","title":"President G. Wayne Clough","body":null,"created":"1449178071","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:51","changed":"1475894693","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:53"}},"media_ids":["79911"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.compete.org\/","title":"Council on Competitiveness"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"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":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"79861":{"#nid":"79861","#data":{"type":"news","title":"President Bush Taps Clough for Science Policy Post","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPresident George W. Bush has appointed G. Wayne Clough, president of the Georgia Institute of Technology and a noted civil engineer, to serve as a member of the National Science Board.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe 24-member board is a highly influential policy body established by Congress in 1950 to oversee the National Science Foundation (NSF) and provide advice to the president and Congress on critical issues related to science and engineering. The independent board usually meets six times a year.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPresident Bush signed the appointment of Dr. Clough November 29. Clough is the second Georgia Tech president to serve on the board. The first was Joseph Pettit, who was on the board from 1976 until 1982. In addition, Clough is one of five engineers on the board and the only civil engineer among the membership. His term will expire May 10, 2010.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENational Science Board members are selected on the basis of their distinguished service in science and engineering research and education. They also are chosen because of their roles as scientific, engineering, and educational leaders throughout the nation.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 2001, President Bush appointed Clough to the President\u0027s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). Clough is the only individual to serve on both PCAST and the National Science Board. He currently chairs PCAST\u0027s Nanotechnology Task Force, and he previously chaired its Federal Research and Development panel. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAmong his other national posts, Clough is the new university co-vice chairman of the U.S. Council on Competitiveness. Heis also a member of the council\u0027s Executive Committee , where he co-chairs the National Innovation Initiative. In addition, he chairs The Engineer of 2020 Project for the National Academy of Engineering.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe chief task of the National Science Board is to oversee the NSF as it carries out its critical statutory responsibility - that is, to maintain the health of the nation\u0027s science and engineering enterprise by funding research in all the basic sciences and engineering. The NSF also supports innovative education programs from kindergarten through graduate school, preparing future generations of scientists and engineers and contributing to a more scientifically literate workforce and society. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe National Science Board establishes NSF policies; identifies issues that are critical to the NSF\u0027s future; approves the NSF\u0027s strategic budget directions; approves annual budget submissions to the U.S. Office of Management and Budget; and approves new programs and major awards. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn advising the president and Congress on science policy, members of the National Science Board also initiate and conduct studies on a broad range of policy topics related to science and engineering research and education. The board then presents its results and makes important recommendations to the president, Congress, and the general public.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EClough is the second Georgia Tech connection among the National Science Board\u0027s current membership. He joins fellow engineer John White Jr., who previously was on the faculty at Tech for 22 years but today is chancellor of the University of Arkansas.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhite joined the faculty of Georgia Tech\u0027s College of Engineering in 1975. While at the Institute, he held the Eugene C. Gwaltney Chair of Manufacturing and was a Regents\u0027 Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering. From 1988 to 1991, White was on assignment in Washington, D.C., as the assistant director for engineering at the NSF. He returned to Georgia Tech in 1991 as dean of engineering and held that position until 1997, when he became chancellor at Arkansas.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EClough and White also share membership in the Council of Presidents for the Southeastern Universities Research Association and are members of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee for the National Collegiate Athletic Association.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EClough\u0027s interests include technology and higher education policy, economic development, diversity in higher education, and technology in a global setting. His civil engineer specialty is in geotechnical and earthquake engineering. Clough has published more than 120 papers and reports plus six book chapters.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"National Science Board members oversee the NSF and advise Congress"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"President Bush has appointed Georgia Tech President G. 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The new degree meets industrial and societal needs for education and research in humanizing computer technology, while attracting the best and brightest from around the world.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe HCC Ph.D. program focus is not on computer technology, but rather how computers affect lives in terms of advanced product development and human capabilities for many areas of research. The degree leverages Georgia Tech\u0027s strongest programs and concentrations, including multimedia and digital media studies, human factors, ergonomics, assistive technologies, industrial design, cognitive science, sociology, and public policy. This interdisciplinary approach to computing that supports human needs allows possibilities for new discoveries in underlying issues of science, engineering, art and design.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EExamples of HCC research include:\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Aware Home\u003C\/strong\u003E - a model home for research and experimentation where Computing associate professor Beth Mynatt, director of the HCC program, and students created the \u0022Digital Family Portrait,\u0022 which enables adult children to be more aware of the health of their elderly parent living far away. (\u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/fce\/ahri\/\u0027\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/fce\/ahri\/\u003C\/a\u003E)\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EComputational Perception\u003C\/strong\u003E - Automatic ASL Interpreter - Computing assistant professor Thad Starner and students are creating an automatic sign language interpreter that helps the hearing impaired communicate, and also allows hearing impaired children to practice their ASL by playing computer games in sign language.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETechnology and Learning\u003C\/strong\u003E - Computing Regents\u0027 professor Janet Kolodner, a member of the HCC faculty committee and the program\u0027s academic advisor, and students created a complete curriculum and software to help kids to learn through design activities with technology (\u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/projects\/lbd\/\u0027\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/projects\/lbd\/\u003C\/a\u003E), such as the Digiquilt project where elementary school students learn about fractions while making colorful quilt blocks (\u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/home.cc.gatech.edu\/kristin\/36\u0027\u003Ehttp:\/\/home.cc.gatech.edu\/kristin\/36\u003C\/a\u003E)\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EVisualization\u003C\/strong\u003E - Computing professor John Stasko and the Information Interfaces Group are helping people actually understand all the information computers display. (\u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/gvu\/ii\/\u0027\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/gvu\/ii\/\u003C\/a\u003E)\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe HCC committee, which included Computing professors Jim Foley and Nancy Nersessian, developed the Ph.D. degree with a strong interdisciplinary orientation, creating synergies between CoC faculty in human-computer interaction (HCI), artificial intelligence (AI), Intelligent Systems, Cognitive Science, Learning Sciences and Technology (LST) and more. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The HCC Ph.D. is yet another step toward broadening the CoC\u0027s intellectual base,\u0022 said Foley. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENersessian agrees. \u0022We see this as a step in fulfilling and further articulating our vision to extend the boundaries of computing,\u0022 she said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe HCC Ph.D provides a multiple-entry approach similar to Georgia Tech\u0027s degrees in bioinformatics, HCI, and algorithms, combinatorics and optimization (ACO). Students with diverse backgrounds work in teams, complete an original and independent research thesis, gain experience in a corporate research lab for at least one summer, and can expect to obtain positions in academia and industry after graduation. For more information about the HCC Ph.D. program including how to apply, visit \u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/hcc\u0027\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/hcc\u003C\/a\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the College of Computing\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe Georgia Tech College of Computing houses one of the largest computer science programs in the country with 68 academic faculty and 39 research faculty. The College strives to provide high quality instruction and to integrate computing knowledge into other academic disciplines as well as aspects of daily life. Over 1,500 students are enrolled in the college, including approximately 1,100 undergraduates and 475 graduate students, some 269 of which are Ph.D. students. The College is ranked 9th overall at the doctoral level and houses several interdisciplinary research centers including the Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC), the Graphics, Visualization and Usability Center (GVU), Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems (CERCS), and the Modeling \u0026amp; Simulation Research and Education Center (MSREC).\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Students design and build new computing applications that help people live better lives"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"College of Computing announces a new, cutting-edge Ph.D. program in Human-Centered Computing to meet industrial and societal needs for education and research in humanizing computer technology, while attracting the best and brightest from around the world.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"New Human-Centered Computing Ph.D. on cutting edge"}],"uid":"27301","created_gmt":"2004-12-08 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:30","author":"Elizabeth Campell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-12-08T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2004-12-08T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"79891":{"id":"79891","type":"image","title":"Graduate students demonstrate cutting-edge compute","body":null,"created":"1449178071","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:51","changed":"1475894693","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:53"}},"media_ids":["79891"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/","title":"College of Computing"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/hcc","title":"Human-Centered Computing Ph.D. Program"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"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":""}},"79811":{"#nid":"79811","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tech Developing Efficient Organic Solar Cell","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs the price of energy continues to rise, businesses are looking to renewable energy for cheaper sources of power. Making electricity from the most plentiful of these sources - the sun -can be expensive due to the high price of producing traditional silicon-based solar cells. Enter organic solar cells. Made from cheaper materials, their flexibility and feather-weight construction promise to open up new markets for solar energy, potentially powering everything from Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) tags to iPods and laptop computers. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EResearchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new approach to creating lightweight organic solar cells. By using pentacene, researchers have been able to convert sunlight to electricity with high efficiency. The research appears in the November 29, 2004 issue of the journal Applied Physics Letters.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We\u0027ve demonstrated that using a crystalline organic film, pentacene, is a promising new approach to developing organic solar cells,\u0022 said Bernard Kippelen, professor in the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech. \u0022In our paper, we show that we\u0027ve been able to convert solar energy into electricity with 2.7 percent efficiency. Since then, we\u0027ve been able to demonstrate power conversion efficiencies of 3.4 percent and believe that we should reach 5 percent in the near future.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhat makes pentacene such a good material for organic solar cells, Kippelen explained, is that, unlike many of the other materials being studied for use in these cells, it\u0027s a crystal. The crystal structure of atoms joined together in a regular pattern makes it easier for electricity to move through it than some other organic materials, which are more amorphous. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe research group, made up of Kippelen and research scientists Seunghyup Yoo and Benoit Domercq, used pentacene and C60, a form of carbon more popularly known as \u0022buckyballs,\u0022 in the cells. Previous attempts by other groups using pentacene in solar cells combined the material with metals, rather than an organic molecule like C60. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The metal-pentacene cells had very low efficiencies,\u0022 said Kippelen. \u0022We decided we would pair out pentacene with an organic molecule because such a combination could generate larger currents.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOnce fully developed, organic solar cells could revolutionize the power industry. Their flexibility and minimal weight will allow them to be placed on almost anything from tents that would provide power to those inside, to clothing that would power personal electronic devices.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe solar cells are still at least five years away from residential applications, said Kippelen. But he estimates that they\u0027ll be ready to use in smaller devices, such as RFID tags, used by some retailers to control inventory, within two years. Kippelen and other professors at the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics started LumoFlex, a spin-off company based at Georgia Tech, to capitalize on the commercial applications of the research. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETech founded the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics in 2003, when Kippelen along with chemistry professors Seth Marder, Joe Perry and Jean-Luc Bredas came to Tech from the University of Arizona. The center teams up with the silicon-based research of the University Center for Excellence in Photovoltaics (UCEP) in Tech\u0027s commitment to producing ground-breaking research and training in both organic and silicon solar cells. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The silicon and organic photovoltaic groups are working together at Georgia Tech to accelerate the development of cost-effective solar cells to solve the energy and environmental problems simultaneously and reduce our dependence on foreign oil,\u0022 said Ajeet Rohatgi, director of UCEP and regent\u0027s professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis year Tech began the Strategic Energy Initiative to carry out scientific and economic research and development on renewable energies like solar and wind power.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Researchers use pentacene to develop next-generation solar power"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new approach to creating lightweight organic solar cells. By using pentacene, researchers have been able to convert sunlight to electricity with high efficiency.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Cells to provide flexible, lightweight power source"}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2004-12-13 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:30","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-12-13T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2004-12-13T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"79821":{"id":"79821","type":"image","title":"Bernard Kippelen, Benoit Domercq and Seunghyup Yoo","body":null,"created":"1449178071","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:51","changed":"1475894693","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:53"},"79831":{"id":"79831","type":"image","title":"Organic Solar Cells","body":null,"created":"1449178071","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:51","changed":"1475894693","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:53"}},"media_ids":["79821","79831"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/personnel\/bio.php?empno=517632","title":"Bernard Kippelen"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"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":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"79841":{"#nid":"79841","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Council on Competitiveness Hosts Innovation Summit","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Council on Competitiveness, a national organization of business, academic and labor leaders, will host the National Innovation Summit on December 15, 2004.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAt the summit, the co-chairs of the Council\u0027s National Innovation Initiative (NII), Samuel J. Palmisano, chairman and CEO of IBM Corporation, and G. Wayne Clough, president of the Georgia Institute of Technology, will present \u0022Innovate America: Thriving in a World of Challenge and Change,\u0022 the result of a 15-month, comprehensive effort to sharpen our understanding of innovation and harness it for economic growth.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOver 20 prominent CEOs, university presidents and civic leaders will then outline a series of strategic recommendations to make America the most fertile and attractive environment for innovation.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhen:\u003C\/strong\u003E December 15, 2004 at 8:00 A.M. Eastern Standard Time (EST)\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhere:\u003C\/strong\u003E Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington DC.  The NII report findings will be presented at 8:15 A.M. EST, prior to the opening of the White House Economic Summit held at the same location. A live webcast of the event will be available at \u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/innovate.gatech.edu\u0027\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/nii\u003C\/a\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWho:\u003C\/strong\u003E Prominent names in American business, labor, education and governance including: \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u00b7 Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u00b7 Virginia Governor Mark Warner\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u00b7 Samuel J. Palmisano, Chairman, President and CEO, IBM Corporation\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u00b7 G. Wayne Clough, President, Georgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u00b7 F. Duane Ackerman, BellSouth Corporation and Chairman of the Council on Competitiveness\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u00b7 Gerard J. Arpey, Chairman, President and CEO, American Airlines\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u00b7 Lee Bollinger, President, Columbia University\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u00b7 Molly Corbett Broad, President, University of North Carolina\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u00b7 Michael J. Burns, Chairman, CEO and President, Dana Corporation\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u00b7 Mary Sue Coleman, President, University of Michigan\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u00b7 Denis A. Cortese, President and CEO, Mayo Clinic\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u00b7 Robert M. Gates, President, Texas A \u0026amp; M University\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u00b7 Sheryl Handler, President and CEO, Ab Initio\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u00b7 John L. Hennessy, President, Stanford University\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u00b7 Shirley Ann Jackson, President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u00b7 Vikram Pandit, President and Chief Operating Officer Institutional Securities and Investment Banking Group, Morgan Stanley\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u00b7 Steven S. Reinemund, Chairman and CEO, PepsiCo, Inc.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u00b7 W.J. Sanders III, Founder and Chairman Emeritus, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u00b7 Ivan G. Seidenberg, Chairman and CEO, Verizon\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u00b7 Kevin W. Sharer, Chairman, President and CEO, Amgen, Inc.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u00b7 Charles M. Vest, President Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u00b7 G. Richard Wagoner, Jr., Chairman and CEO, General Motors Corporation\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u00b7 Deborah L. Wince-Smith, President, Council on Competitiveness\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERSVP:\u003C\/strong\u003E All media interested in attending should RSVP to \u003Ca href=\u0027mailto:NIISummit@compete.org\u0027\u003ENIISummit@compete.org\u003C\/a\u003E.  Press credentials required for admittance.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout The Council on Competitiveness\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAn organization of the top business, university and labor leaders in the United States, the Council on Competitiveness is responsible for influencing the course of American competitiveness on regional, national and global scales.  The Council stands unique in its ability to anticipate and respond to changing economic conditions through a series of comprehensive programs to maintain competitiveness and security, support innovation, benchmark national competitiveness and shape public policy.  The Council is available on the Web at \u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/www.compete.org\u0027\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.compete.org\u003C\/a\u003E.    \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EContact:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThomas Ford\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nRacepoint Group\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n781-487-4607\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tford@racepointgroup.com\u0022\u003Etford@racepointgroup.com\u003C\/a\u003E\t\t\t\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBill Booher\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nCouncil on Competitiveness\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n202-969-3385\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:bbooher@compete.org\u0022\u003Ebbooher@compete.org\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Organization Will Issue Recommendations to Foster American Innovation"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"At the National Innovation Summit on December 15, co-chairs of the National Innovation Initiative, Sam Palmisano, CEO, IBM Corporation, and Tech President G. Wayne Clough will present \u0022Innovate America: Thriving in a World of Challenge and Change.\u0022","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"National Innovation Summit on December 15"}],"uid":"27301","created_gmt":"2004-12-13 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:30","author":"Elizabeth Campell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-12-13T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2004-12-13T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"79851":{"id":"79851","type":"image","title":"Georgia Tech President G. Wayne Clough","body":null,"created":"1449178071","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:51","changed":"1475894693","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:53"}},"media_ids":["79851"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.compete.org\/","title":"Council on Competitiveness"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/nii","title":"National Innovation Initiative Summit Video Rebroadcast"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/nii\/innovate-agenda.pdf","title":"Summit Agenda (165K PDF file)"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"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":""}},"80511":{"#nid":"80511","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Professor Documents Rebirth of Classic Architecture","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAlthough the past century includes incredible watershed moments -- the splitting of the atom, mankind\u0027s first foray into space, new forms of music and art -- it also left \u0022buildings of unequaled boredom\u0022 in American cities from coast-to-coast, according to an architectural historian at the Georgia Institute of Technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn two new books - one released in December 2003, another due out this month -- Associate Professor Elizabeth Dowling in Georgia Tech\u0027s College of Architecture addresses the revival in traditional and classical forms of architecture among young and emerging professionals, both in the United States and abroad.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Everybody has this desire for connection and memory that feels comfortable, and it\u0027s not always found in Modern design,\u0022 Dowling said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHer required course in the College of Architecture introduces students to architectural forms produced from about 2000 B.C. to A.D. 1800 by cultures throughout the world, with an emphasis on sources that influenced the architecture of the Americas. But the same topic is on the mind of more and more people these days, as Modern architecture has failed to capture the hearts of many in today\u0027s world.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I think that Modernism is an aesthetic that is unfamiliar, that doesn\u0027t have any human warmth and comfort to it,\u0022 Dowling said. \u0022[A Modern building] doesn\u0027t typically represent the individual natures of its inhabitants or users, and it doesn\u0027t reflect the usual messiness of people\u0027s lives from day to day.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThat\u0027s why many designers, architectural firms and others have once again turned to the use of Classical forms and motifs in their work, Dowling said. It\u0027s also why many people today choose to spend millions of dollars on a home that is reminiscent of a Classic Roman villa rather than on one that looks like a Modern glass-and-steel box.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDowling explores this latter phenomenon in \u003Cem\u003ETimeless Architecture: Homes of Distinction By Harrison Design Associates\u003C\/em\u003E, released this past year by Schiffer Publishing Ltd. The book re-introduces students, historians, architects, designers and others to the principles of Classic or historic design for the modern home, illustrated with more than 400 color images.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Classical design is both the oldest and the newest trend in Western architecture - so new that few architects are trained in this time-honored tradition,\u0022 Dowling writes. \u0022This book draws from one of the nation\u0027s leading design firms as a means of presenting the traditional concepts that all fine buildings must satisfy - being well-built, easy to use and inspiringly beautiful.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDowling said that the principals of Atlanta\u0027s Harrison Design Associates - Bill Harrison and Greg Palmer - are highly sought-after because they\u0027re among a precious few in the world who design buildings that \u0022fit their context and climate, provide comfortable and familiar imagery, and respond to the time-honored desire for a beautiful environment\u0022 - mostly through their use or emphasis on Classical or traditional designs. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Bill felt that his firm was sufficiently mature that it needed a book to show what it has produced, and I think his firm has done some amazing work,\u0022 Dowling said. \u0022They\u0027re part of a movement in the United States that\u0027s using historic styles to produce not just residences, but entire townscapes. Bill, in particular, is producing residences, and his work satisfies the desire by many people to see something familiar in their home designs.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDowling\u0027s latest book -- \u003Cem\u003EThe New Classicism: The Rebirth of Traditional Architecture\u003C\/em\u003E, published by Rizzoli International Publications - looks at a similar trend among five British and nine American architectural firms. Harrison Design Associates again features prominently in it.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This book looks at more firms because the movement is becoming international, and the strongest nations involved in it are Britain and the United States,\u0022 she said. \u0022[The book] is part of the growing body of literature based on the revived interest in Classical design. There\u0027s now a large number of books on traditional design issues. And a lot of people who were formerly Modern designers are moving over into this area.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDowling graduated from Georgia Tech\u0027s College of Architecture when Modernists reigned in design circles. Many of them sought to exhilarate the public with buildings that had simple forms, spare, clean lines, expanses of glass and flat roofs, she said. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBut this look of utility became so ubiquitous in the United States that \u0022American cities are consequently filled with buildings of unequaled boredom,\u0022 she writes.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022European cities have fared somewhat better with Modernism, mainly because their cities had the texture of 2,000 years of varied architecture,\u0022 she writes in \u003Cem\u003ETimeless Architecture\u003C\/em\u003E. \u0022A few modern buildings inserted into a strong context did not destroy the character of the whole. In America, however, the young cities grew enormously in the 20th century and the new construction was dominated by the image of monotonous uniformity. In a modern city there is little that allows the passersby to learn of the history of a place or to indicate the city is unique and characteristic of its place in the world.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDowling said she felt out of alignment with Modernists upon graduation, and she has since maintained a foothold in the Classics with an eye toward Post-Modernism and New Urbanism.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022There was almost no movement in this direction at all when I began,\u0022 Dowling said. \u0022But I saw this as my outlet, as a way to stay in the mental world of classic architecture.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDowling since has become a go-to expert on Classical and Traditional architecture and, for more than 10 years, she has been a faculty leader for the \u0022History of Art and Architecture in Italy,\u0022 a six-week traveling program that introduces Tech students to Italian architecture, painting and sculpture through instruction on-site at museums, in historic buildings, and on walking tours through Rome and other neighboring Italian cities. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Beauty, for many of us, can be found in many different architectural styles,\u0022 Dowling said. With the return to Classical and Traditional architectural forms, \u0022You\u0027re bringing to life the dreams of your client, and I love that,\u0022 she said. \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Design firms return to the use of traditional motifs"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"In two new books, Associate Professor Elizabeth Dowling in Georgia Tech\u0027s College of Architecture addresses the revival in traditional and classical forms of architecture among young and emerging professionals, both in the United States and abroad.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"New book details the rebirth of traditional design"}],"uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2004-09-09 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:58","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-09-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-09-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"80521":{"id":"80521","type":"image","title":"Bill Harrison \u0026 Betty Dowling","body":null,"created":"1449178071","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:51","changed":"1475894696","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:56"}},"media_ids":["80521"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.harrisondesignassociates.com\/","title":"Harrison Design Associates"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.coa.gatech.edu\/arch\/","title":"Architecture Program"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.coa.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech College of Architecture"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"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":""}},"80471":{"#nid":"80471","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Heat-controlled Drug Implants Offer Hope for Future","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a material that may one day allow patients to forgo daily injections and pills and receive prescriptions instead through micro-thin implantable films that release medication according to changes in temperature. The research, detailing results from testing insulin release in the lab, appears in the September 13 edition of the journal, Biomacromolecules.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We loaded insulin in layers of microgel films in the lab and released bursts of insulin by applying heat to the films. They were extremely stable and could continue to release the drug for more than one month at a time,\u0022 said L. Andrew Lyon, associate professor at Georgia Tech\u0027s School of Chemistry and Biochemistry.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe results add to a decade\u0027s worth of work in controlled and targeted drug delivery. Lyon\u0027s usage of using films assembled from microparticles allows more control over drug release than films previously made in monolithic form. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe insulin tests, said Lyon, serve as proof of a concept that this method of drug delivery is worth further investigation. Currently, the films release their cargo at 31 C, six degrees below human body temperature, but Lyon\u0027s group is working on pushing the release point to a temperature slightly above that of the human body. Once implanted, the pharmaceutical-loaded films could be placed on chips with resistive heaters and scheduled to release drugs according to a time schedule or another trigger. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022One potential use is tying the implant to a blood glucose monitor using radio frequency (RF) technology,\u0022 said Lyon. \u0022When the monitor detects that a diabetic patient has high blood sugar, it could send a signal to the chip to heat the film and release insulin into the bloodstream.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPatients undergoing hormone therapy, chemotherapy or other treatments requiring periodic medication could conceivably get their dosages this way. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Of course using these films to deliver medications in humans would require many more trials, said Lyon. \u0022We believe we\u0027ve taken an important step in new methods of drug delivery.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Chemist develops implantable films that may one day deliver dosages to patients.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Microgel films release insulin on demand"}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2004-09-13 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:58","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-09-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-09-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"80481":{"id":"80481","type":"image","title":"Insulin-loaded film","body":null,"created":"1449178071","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:51","changed":"1475894696","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:56"}},"media_ids":["80481"],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"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":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"80451":{"#nid":"80451","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Award-Winning Architect, Designer Joins Faculty","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAn award-winning architect and principal partner in one of the nation\u0027s leading design firms has joined the Georgia Tech College of Architecture as its newest endowed faculty member.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMonica Ponce de Leon, formerly an associate professor in the Harvard Graduate School of Design, joined the Georgia Tech faculty this fall. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EShe is the first Thomas W. Ventulett III Distinguished Chair in Architectural Design, endowed by and named after the 1957 Tech alumnus whose global architecture firm designed many of Atlanta\u0027s landmark buildings -- including the Proscenium, the Woodruff Arts Center and the Georgia World Congress Center.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe new endowed chair is the first for Georgia Tech\u0027s Architecture Program and is expected to bring great visibility to the College of Architecture as a whole.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Filling the Ventulett Chair enables the College of Architecture to expand its intellectual horizons,\u0022 said Thomas Galloway, dean of the College of Architecture. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022With her distinguished background and successes to date, Professor Ponce de Leon will elevate not only the educational profile of the college, but also help us heighten the critical importance of design in the architecture, engineering and construction industries, nationally and internationally,\u0022 Galloway said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the past eight years, Ponce de Leon taught design studios and courses in visual studies and ecological fabrication at Harvard. Before that, she taught at Northeastern University and the School of Architecture at the University of Miami, where in 1993 she was honored as Professor of the Year. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to her teaching, Ponce de Leon is a principal partner in the Boston design firm of Office \u003Cem\u003Ed\u003C\/em\u003EA. The firm\u0027s broad range of work -- from urban planning to furniture design and plans for residential and cultural buildings -- has won more than two-dozen awards. The firm\u0027s work also has been exhibited at New York\u0027s Museum of Modern Art and at the Venice Biennale. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022In a short period of time, Office \u003Cem\u003Ed\u003C\/em\u003EA has established itself as one of the leading design firms in the country,\u0022 said Ellen Dunham-Jones, director of Georgia Tech\u0027s Architecture Program. \u0022Their work is consistently intelligent at all levels, but their innovative and visually stunning assemblies of materials have especially earned them a reputation for advancing architectural aspirations for work that is both high-tech and high-touch.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDunham-Jones added: \u0022I\u0027m thrilled that Professor Ponce de Leon and our students will be able to make use of Georgia Tech\u0027s Advanced Wood Products Lab and materials-science research to further advance her work on digitally manufactured architectural components.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Ponce de Leon has earned several prestigious honors, including the Architectural League of New York\u0027s Young Architects Award in 1997 followed by its Emerging Voices award for 2003. In 2002, she was one of the youngest recipients ever of the highly prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters\u0027 Award in Architecture. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPonce de Leon was born in Venezuela. She received a bachelor\u0027s degree from the University of Miami in 1989, followed by a Masters of Architecture and Urban Design from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1991. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Thomas W. Ventulett III Distinguished Chair in Architectural Design has been made possible by the generous gifts of Mr. Ventulett and through commitments made by his firm -- Thompson, Ventulett, Stainback and Associates -- his family, friends and business associates.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Tom has a real love and passion for architecture,\u0022 Galloway said. \u0022The Architecture Program\u0027s first endowed chair could not have a better name associated with it, as Tom Ventulett truly represents one of the best in the field.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEndowed chairs are crucial for attracting world-class students and faculty to Georgia Tech. They also attract eminent teachers and scholars who serve as academic hubs for the curriculum and enrich research efforts among the various colleges.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Architecture Program Chooses First Endowed Chair"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Monica Ponce de Leon is the first Thomas W. Ventulett III Distinguished Chair in Architectural Design and a principal partner in one of the nation\u0027s top design firms. She hopes to use the Advanced Wood Products Laboratory in her research and teaching.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Professor to study digital design, manufacturing"}],"uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2004-09-14 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:58","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-09-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-09-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"80461":{"id":"80461","type":"image","title":"The Campanile","body":null,"created":"1449178071","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:51","changed":"1594916167","gmt_changed":"2020-07-16 16:16:07","alt":"","file":{"fid":"242322","name":"tvj22457_1.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tvj22457_1_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tvj22457_1_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":3831,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tvj22457_1_0.jpg?itok=rRp784Fj"}}},"media_ids":["80461"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.tvsa.com\/","title":"Thompson, Ventulett, Stainback and Associates"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.officeda.com\/","title":"Office dA"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.coa.gatech.edu\/awpl\/","title":"Advanced Wood Products Lab"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.coa.gatech.edu\/arch\/","title":"Architecture Program"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.coa.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech College of Architecture"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"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":""}},"81011":{"#nid":"81011","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tech Civil Engineers Advise Angola on Environment","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech student Marcus Millard knew that Angola wouldn\u0027t be anything like a vacation resort. But like many from wealthy nations, he had little idea how few of the comforts he had come to expect are available in a developing country.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor instance, when Millard, two graduate students and School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Chair Joseph Hughes flew into Luanda, Angola\u0027s capital city and home to about 4. 5 million people, they expected to be able to buy a drink or a newspaper.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I was expecting a city that ran a little more like a city - something that looked like Mexico City,\u0022 Millard said. \u0022If we wanted, I thought we could leave the area we were staying in and walk down to the corner and buy something. But there were no stores.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETheir first view of the city was an eye-opener for the students, the first of many they\u0027d experience on their two-week visit to advise the Angolan government on environmental issues. Hughes and the students met with officials from the government\u0027s Ministry of the Environment to discuss the country\u0027s infrastructure and environmental challenges.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAngola has had only a few years to begin its recovery from more than 30 years of war - war that drove nearly half of its population out of dangerous rural areas and into the capital city of Luanda.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022There was a terrible displacement, followed by incredibly rapid growth in the city. Just about any societal problem you can imagine began to manifest itself there,\u0022 Hughes said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMost of the country, including Luanda, is without basic infrastructure such as water distribution and waste and water treatment.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn one instance, the group saw residents bathing and drinking from water thick with trash and waste from one of Luanda\u0027s bays.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022There is all sorts of stuff floating in the bay. It looks like there\u0027s no plant life anywhere and there are even wrecked ships,\u0022 said Millard, who is president of the Georgia Tech chapter of Engineering Students Without Borders, an organization that encourages engineering students to use their knowledge to improve lives in developing international communities.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBut now that the war is over, the country is hoping to speed its development. The country is an exporter of diamonds, minerals, coffee, fish and most importantly, oil. In fact, Angola is one of the top importers of oil to the United States.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBut without clean water, safe dwellings and waste disposal, it will be difficult for the Angolans to address many of the country\u0027s quality of life and education challenges, Hughes said. And that\u0027s where the group\u0027s mission comes in.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOne part of the trip involved working with Angolan engineers on oil field waste treatment and other waste treatment issues in Luanda. For instance, the group toured a refinery in Luanda, and Millard worked with a local company to give advice on how the country could improve its waste treatment methods, especially waste from oil production.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe government was also very interested in the impact oil production might be having on the county\u0027s environment, in particular mangrove trees that line its coast. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMiles of mangrove trees have died in recent years along the coast. The mangrove trees are especially key to local fish that breed among them and the Angolans who rely on the fish for food.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWith financial support from the Georgia Tech Research Institute, Hughes, along with undergraduate students and faculty Kevin Caravati, of the Georgia Tech Research Institute; and Paul Beaty, of the Georgia Tech GIS Center, studied satellite images of the mangrove trees from Tech and later the trees themselves in an attempt to discern what environmental factors might be causing the trees to die. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile there were quite a few documented oil spills off Angola\u0027s coast, Hughes and his students concluded that oil was likely not the reason for the loss of habitat. Because the trees thrive in fairly delicate conditions, the deterioration was more likely caused by a combination of environmental factors, Hughes said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe group\u0027s work also included teaching the Angolans improved methods for treating wastes.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Angolan government has asked Hughes to come back in November to teach some courses to officials that work with environmental and infrastructure issues. He hopes to bring another group of students, possibly undergraduates, in the future if the country\u0027s political situation allows.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe trip provided an important lesson for students about the role they can play as engineers in the world community.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I think all the students had experiences that will influence them both professionally and personally. They see the potential for what they can do as an engineer working in developing countries,\u0022 Hughes said.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"The chair of Tech\u0027s School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Joseph Hughes, and three students spent 2 weeks in Angola earlier this summer working with the country\u0027s Minister of the Environment and other officials and businesses to advise them on several environmental projects, many dealing with waste created by oil production in the country and other water-related environmental problems.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2004-07-09 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:58","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-07-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-07-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"81021":{"id":"81021","type":"image","title":"A street in Angola","body":null,"created":"1449178079","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:59","changed":"1475894696","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:56"},"81031":{"id":"81031","type":"image","title":"Dr. Joseph Hughes collects a water sample","body":null,"created":"1449178079","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:59","changed":"1475894696","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:56"},"81041":{"id":"81041","type":"image","title":"Dead mangrove trees in Angola","body":null,"created":"1449178079","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:59","changed":"1475894696","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:56"}},"media_ids":["81021","81031","81041"],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"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":""}},"80991":{"#nid":"80991","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Is Small Different? Not Necessarily Say Georgia Tech Researchers","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and NASA suggest that materials on the nanoscale may sometimes be subject to the same physical rules as their macro-world counterparts. The findings provide an exception to the conventional scientific notion that objects small enough to be measured in nanometers (one-billionth of a meter) behave according to different rules than larger objects.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA team led by Lawrence Bottomley in Georgia Tech\u0027s School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Jonathon Colton in the School of Mechanical Engineering found that the mechanical response of a multi-walled carbon nanospring was remarkably similar to the rules that govern the mechanical properties of springs on the macro scale. The results are published in the American Chemical Society journal Nano Letters, Volume 4, Number 6.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Small may not necessarily be different when it comes to the mechanical properties of springs,\u0022 said Bottomley. The findings suggest there may be other nano materials that behave in ways similar to their macroscale counterparts.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe results were surprising because they ran counter to the common wisdom in the literature said Colton.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022You\u0027ve got to study each case carefully, don\u0027t just assume it\u0027s different,\u0022 Bottomley added.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team used an atomic force microscope to compress a multi-walled carbon nanospring attached to the cantilever probe tip.  By simultaneously monitoring cantilever deflection, oscillation amplitude and resonance of the cantilever, the group found the nanospring compressed and buckled in the same ways a macroscale spring would. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn this one application we modeled the performance of a nanospring using the equations that are used to describe two macroscale springs in series. The agreement of data with the theory is remarkably good, said Bottomley. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the future, the team plans further tests on multiwalled carbon nanosprings to correlate the number of walls, number of coils, and helical pitch with mechanical performance.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOther members of the research team included Mark Poggi, Jeffrey Boyles and Andrew McFarland from Georgia Tech; Cattien Nguyen from the ELORET Corporation and Ramsey Stevens and Peter Lillehei from NASA.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Tech researchers find an amazing exception to the conventional scientific notion that nano-sized objects behave differently than their macro-sized counterparts.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2004-07-16 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:58","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-07-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-07-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"81001":{"id":"81001","type":"image","title":"Nanospring","body":null,"created":"1449178079","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:59","changed":"1475894696","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:56"}},"media_ids":["81001"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/journals\/nalefd\/","title":"Nano Letters"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"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":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"80931":{"#nid":"80931","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Professor Pedals Across Iowa to Test Benefits on Parkinson\u0027s Disease","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThis year, the world will be watching cyclist Lance Armstrong as he attempts to capture a sixth Tour de France.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis year\u0027s Pedaling for Parkinson\u0027s cycling team will be equally absorbed in the performance of its star team members, two Parkinson\u0027s disease patients from Atlanta, GA and San Jose, CA, as they make a 490-mile journey across Iowa, July 25-31, 2004 as part of the Register\u0027s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa (RAGBRAI).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EUnlike Armstrong\u0027s team, the Pedaling for Parkinson\u0027s team will monitor patients\u0027 performance with force transducers and a digitizer to determine the effects of exercise on the symptoms of the disease.   \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELast year, Parkinson\u0027s patient Cathy Frazier tackled the ride on a tandem bike, riding with her husband,Atlanta cycling coach Ralph Frazier, and Jay Alberts, a Georgia Tech professor of applied physiology specializing in Parkinson\u0027s research. After 464 miles, she and her Pedaling for Parkinson\u0027s team found they had not only spread the word about the disease, but also may have discovered a relationship between pedaling at a higher cadence and priming\/driving the central nervous system of the Parkinson\u0027s patient. At the end of the ride, Frazier could write more clearly for one week.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis year, Alberts will scientifically test the symptoms of Frazier and new member Jim Wetherell to determine if the ride does indeed have a positive effect.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Our goal is to motivate other Parkinson\u0027s patients that it is possible to lead an active lifestyle even with the disease,\u0022 said Alberts.  \u0022Halfway through last year\u0027s ride, Cathy\u0027s symptoms were visibly improved.  This year we plan to quantify motor performance to determine what movement parameters change as a result of this week of exercise.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETypically, a Parkinson\u0027s patient riding a bike maintains a cadence of around 50-60 revoultions-per-minute.  However, a non-Parkinson\u0027s captain on a tandem bike can drive that cadence to over 90 RPMs.  Pedaling at a higher cadence may prime or drive the central nervous system of the Parkinson\u0027s patient.  A driving of the system may result in an increase in the release of dopamine (a neurotransmitter that is lower than normal in Parkinson\u0027s) that in turn could account for the improved motor symptoms.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Cycling is my way of showing Parkinson\u0027s disease it can\u0027t beat me,\u0022 said Frazier who was diagnosed six years ago with the disease at the age of 43.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFrazier and 22 other team members will carry that message across Iowa this month with Pedaling for Parkinson\u0027s, a nonprofit dedicated to revitalizing patients and educating the public about the benefits of staying active after a diagnosis.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I was told to give up cycling because Parkinson\u0027s was taking away my ability to balance,\u0022 said Wetherell.  \u0022But with my love for cycling and a fear of my future, I made the decision to add a wheel rather than selling two, I bought a recumbent trike. That was five years and more than 30,000 miles ago.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The data we gather will allow us to determine if the increase in pedaling rate leads to changes in motor functioning over a week of intense exercise,\u0022 said Alberts, who is looking forward to the week on the bike.  \u0022Plus, we\u0027ll be passing at least 250 pie and ice cream stands.  Who can refuse?\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Professor and patients ride 490 miles to test cycling\u0027s effect on symptoms.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2004-07-21 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:58","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-07-16T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-07-16T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"80941":{"id":"80941","type":"image","title":"Cathy Frazier and Jay Alberts","body":null,"created":"1449178079","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:59","changed":"1475894696","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:56"}},"media_ids":["80941"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ragbrai.com\/","title":"RAGBRAI"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.fraziercycling.com\/","title":"Frazier Cycling"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.apdaparkinson.org\/","title":"American Parksinson\u0027s Disease Association"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"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":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"80951":{"#nid":"80951","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Research Labs Offer High School Students Competitive Advantage in College Admission","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIt\u0027s no secret that college students conduct an immense amount of research, but some students who are still in high school are wanting in on the action. They are turning to university and corporate research labs to boost their resumes and help them decide on their major before they even get to college.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe initiative they show and the experience they get can be a boon for helping them get accepted to the college of their choice, said Danny Easley, assistant director of undergraduate admission at Georgia Tech. \u0022If they have some meaningful research experience, it shows us that the student has a real passion for learning and discovery, which is what we\u0027re looking for when we are accepting students into our freshman class.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOne such student is incoming freshman and metro Atlanta native Amanda Dugan. When Dugan enrolled in the Rockdale County Magnet School for Science and Technology she planned on being an English teacher, but wanted to challenge herself with tough science classes. After her first day in the lab she was hooked and ended up spending two years researching the mechanisms of cholera infections, collaborating with Rockdale Hospital and a researcher at Texas Tech University.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWith college admissions becoming more competitive every year, students have to work hard to set themselves apart from the crowd. \u0022It\u0027s so competitive now that you have to show that you do something that is on your own,\u0022 said Dugan. \u0022Research set me apart from students who didn\u0027t have that background.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECholera is an acute intestinal infection found mostly in countries without advanced water and sanitation systems. Although rarely fatal in industrialized countries, it\u0027s much more of a problem in developing countries, where the bacterial illness can kill within hours if left untreated. The bacterium that causes the disease has its own defense mechanism against antibiotics, a pump that pushes antibiotics out of the cell. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We studied how this pump works, looking for a way to shut it off,\u0022 she said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDugan was listed as first author for an abstract that was published with the American Society of Microbiology and presented it in a poster format at the group\u0027s 2003 General Meeting in Washington D.C. The research team plans to submit the full paper to a scientific journal in a few months. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis summer, when many of her friends are celebrating their escape from high school, Dugan is quietly working in the lab again, this time at Georgia Tech as part of the Aquatic Chemical Ecology program, a National Science Foundation sponsored research program for undergradates. Her instructor, Associate Professor of Biology  Patricia Sobecky, is also hosting three other high school students and a teacher as part of a joint project between Tech\u0027s Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning and the Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics and Computing. Sobecky is one of three Tech professors participating in the project this summer. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEarth and Atmospheric Sciences Professor Martial Taillefert is teaching students to test local bodies of water for metals and other substances, while Jane Ammons, associate dean of the College of Engineering, has her students working on solutions for recycling dead computers and electronics in a way that\u0027s both environmentally and financially sound. Ammons\u0027 students will present their findings to the state\u0027s Computer Equipment and Recycling Council next month.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Having students perform research on a college level while they\u0027re still in high school gives them a chance to test themselves in a real lab environment,\u0022 said Ammons. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe university gets something out of it too, said Easley. \u0022When a student comes to campus, interacts with the professor and gets hands-on working experience, it\u0027s always going to be an advantage to us in the admissions office in terms of getting that student to apply to Georgia Tech,\u0022 said Easley. \u0022It\u0027s really an advantage to the student as well because they get a better feel for GA Tech. I think it works really well on both ends.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETech has no shortage of incoming freshmen who\u0027ve performed research in one way or another before arriving on campus. Liz Saltmarsh, from North Pole, Alaska studied the phenomenon of quicksand with Georgia Tech Civil Engineering Professor Carlos Santamarina as part of the NASA Summer High School Apprenticeship Research Program.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EJames Waring, who\u0027s coming to Tech this fall from Yorktown, Va., filed a patent for infrared imaging headgear while working at NASA Langley Research Center. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAudrey Southard, from Lawrence, Kan., spent time mapping the genome of a cotton rat at Virion Systems, Inc. The company, Southard said, believes the work will help researchers find ways to combat human respiratory diseases since the rat seems to respond to disease in many of the same ways that humans do.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to boosting a college resume, working in a lab helped the students with their own high school work. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Just being in a lab helped me with my science classes,\u0022 said Southard. \u0022When I came back and took my advanced placement chemistry course, it was easier for me. Working in the lab gave me the feeling that I don\u0027t just want to learn the concepts, I also want to understand how things work.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"High school students are turning to university and corporate research labs to boost their resumes and help them decide on their major before they even get to college.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2004-07-30 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:58","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-07-16T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-07-16T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"80961":{"id":"80961","type":"image","title":"High-School Researchers","body":null,"created":"1449178079","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:59","changed":"1475894696","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:56"}},"media_ids":["80961"],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"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":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"80971":{"#nid":"80971","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tech Retention Program Receives National Honors","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0027s Challenge Program is one of four college retention programs to receive the 2004 Lee Noel and Randi Levitz Retention Excellence Award.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The honor is a reaffirmation of what we do and a recognition that we play a critical role in the lives of our students,\u0022 said S. Gordon Moore, director of Georgia Tech\u0027s OMED Educational Services, which runs the Challenge Program.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe award is given by Noel-Levitz, a higher education consulting firm, and is being presented at this year\u0027s National Conference on Student Retention this week in New Orleans. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022These programs exemplify what colleges and universities can do in terms of helping students make the most of their college experience,\u0022 said Teresa Farnum, Noel-Levitz vice president of retention services.  \u0022The four institutions honored this year have created programs that foster student achievement and put men and women on the right path to success.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0027s Challenge Program is an intensive five-week program held each summer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nfor incoming Georgia Tech freshmen.  Students take core courses that simulate a typical student\u0027s freshman year, live in campus residence halls, and make social and academic preparations for the transition to college. The program is open to all students, but is targeted to helping minority students adjust to college life.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe courses students take in Challenge don\u0027t count toward a student\u0027s degree, but that doesn\u0027t mean participants don\u0027t take them seriously, said Moore.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Students who have a 4.0 grade-point average (GPA) at the end of the program receive their entire $500 tuition payment back,\u0022 explained Moore. Those who end up with a 3.5 GPA get $350 back, while those who finish with a 3.0 GPA get $150 back.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMinority students are often only the second generation in their family to go to college, while science and engineering majors are often the first in their family to study those fields, said Moore. \u0022Challenge gives them a preview of what life at Georgia Tech will be like, so they can have a chance to adjust before classes start counting toward their degree,\u0022 he said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOther programs honored by Noel-Levitz this year include Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Academic Advising and Outreach Center; State University of New York at New Paltz, EOP Freshman Year Experience; and University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Strategies for Academic Success.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Georgia Tech\u0027s Challenge Program is one of four college retention programs to receive the 2004 Lee Noel and Randi Levitz Retention Excellence Award.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2004-07-16 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:58","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-07-16T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-07-16T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"80981":{"id":"80981","type":"image","title":"Challenge Program","body":null,"created":"1449178079","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:59","changed":"1475894696","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:56"}},"media_ids":["80981"],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"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":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"80261":{"#nid":"80261","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tech Legend Kim King Dies","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKim King, a legendary figure in Georgia Tech athletics, first as a player and then as the Yellow Jackets\u0027 long-time radio announcer, died Tuesday morning after a battle with leukemia. He was 59.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA public memorial service is scheduled for next  \u003Cstrong\u003E Monday, Oct. 18 \u003C\/strong\u003E at \u003Cstrong\u003E 10 a.m.\u003C\/strong\u003E at \u003Cstrong\u003E Alexander Memorial Coliseum\u003C\/strong\u003E on the Tech campus.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EKing was an icon of Georgia Tech Football for more than 40 years, beginning with a standout playing career for legendary head coach Bobby Dodd and continuing through 30 years of service to the Institute as a supporter and benefactor of athletics and as a beloved radio color analyst. Most recently, he was an inspiration both within and outside the Georgia Tech community for his courageous battle with cancer.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022It has been my pleasure to know Kim King since he served on the search committee that ultimately selected me to be Georgia Tech\u0027s president,\u0022 said G. Wayne Clough, president of the Georgia Institute of Technology. \u0022Over the years, we\u0027ve worked closely on the Georgia Tech Foundation, the Georgia Tech Athletic Board, and through the development of the Centergy complex and Technology Square. Further, as a star player and the color commentator for Tech football games, Kim has distinguished himself as someone with a real affinity for the Institute. I know that I join the entire Georgia Tech community in relaying to Kim\u0027s family our sincere sorrow in his passing and that our thoughts and prayers are with them at their time of loss.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAt the Yellow Jackets\u0027 most recent home football game against Miami on Oct. 2, Georgia Tech honored King by officially dedicating the Kim King Football Locker Room at Bobby Dodd Stadium\/Grant Field. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Kim truly loved Georgia Tech, and especially Tech football,\u0022 said Tech Director of Athletics Dave Braine. \u0022He was a tremendous ambassador for the program, and he was loved by so many people. To say that he will be missed is an understatement.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EKing was originally diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a form of cancer, in 1999. Last May, he was diagnosed with secondary acute myelogenous leukemia. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EKing began his long association with Georgia Tech when he enrolled at the Institute in the fall of 1963. \u0022The Young Lefthander\u0022 was a three-year starter at quarterback from 1965-67, leading the Jackets to berths in the Gator and Orange Bowls. One of the highlights of his career came when he helped the Jackets to a victory over eighth-ranked Tennessee in 1966 and was named National Back of the Week by Sports Illustrated magazine. He finished his career as Tech\u0027s all-time leading passer. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAlso an outstanding student, King earned his bachelor\u0027s degree in Industrial Management from Georgia Tech in 1968, launching his highly successful business career. He founded Kim King Associates, Inc., one of Atlanta\u0027s foremost commercial real estate development firms, in 1972. His firm developed numerous properties all over Atlanta, including the Centergy complex adjacent to the Tech campus at Technology Square. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHe was named Georgia\u0027s \u0022Most Respected CEO\u0022 for 2004 by Georgia Trend magazine, which also tabbed him one of the 100 Most Influential Georgians in 2001. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EKing served as finance chairman for former Georgia Governor Roy E. Barnes and as Chairman of the Board of Georgia Public Broadcasting. He was active in fund-raising activities for cancer research as well as the Bobby Dodd Charities Foundation, Inc. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to his business and civic accomplishments, King was an integral figure in Georgia Tech Athletics who was instrumental in the growth of the program. He chaired the initial feasibility study for what ultimately became the Arthur B. Edge Center, which houses Tech\u0027s athletics offices. At the time of its completion in 1982, the Edge Center was a significant move by the Institute toward a commitment to intercollegiate athletics. In 1988, he was a driving force behind the agreement between the State Board of Regents and the Grant family heirs to add the name of Bobby Dodd to Tech\u0027s home field. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EKing was admired by generations of Yellow Jacket fans for his role as the color analyst on Tech\u0027s radio broadcasts. He joined the radio broadcast team in 1974 as the partner of legendary play-by-play voice Al Ciraldo. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWes Durham, Tech\u0027s current play-by-play voice, began working with King in 1995. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This is such a tremendous loss for Georgia Tech and for me personally,\u0022 said Durham. \u0022Kim King is Georgia Tech, and I\u0027m honored that I had the chance to know him and work with him for the last 10 years.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHead football coach Chan Gailey said, \u0022Kim King is the true Tech Man, from the way he played on the football field to his successful business career, and most importantly, in the way he lived his life.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBorn Oct. 6, 1945 in Atlanta, King was inducted into the Georgia Tech Sports Hall of Fame in 1978 and the State of Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 1996, and in 1998 he was honored by the Athletic Association with the Total Person Alumnus Award. He was also named one of Georgia Tech\u0027s \u002250 Greatest Athletes of the 20th Century\u0022 in 2000. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EKing is survived by his wife, Gail, daughters Angela and Abby, son Beau, and two grandchildren.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Icon of Georgia Tech Athletics for 40 Years"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Kim King, a legendary figure in Georgia Tech athletics, first as a player and then as the Yellow Jackets\u0027 long-time radio announcer, died Tuesday morning after a battle with leukemia. He was 59.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Kim King died after a battle with leukemia."}],"uid":"27301","created_gmt":"2004-10-12 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:58","author":"Elizabeth Campell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-10-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-10-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"80271":{"id":"80271","type":"image","title":"Kim King","body":null,"created":"1449178071","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:51","changed":"1475894696","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:56"}},"media_ids":["80271"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/ramblinwreck.collegesports.com\/genrel\/101204aaa.html","title":"Athletic Association"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"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":""}},"80241":{"#nid":"80241","#data":{"type":"news","title":"LAWN Spreads Roots","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe number of users of the Georgia Tech Local Area Wireless and Walkup Network (LAWN) has consistently doubled every year - illustrating the growing popularity of wireless devices on campus as well as growing satisfaction with LAWN\u0027s performance.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn August the number of unique users who have logged onto LAWN since its inception in 1999 surpassed the 10,000 mark. In the 2003-2004 academic year, over 6,000 unique users logged into LAWN, with daily peaks of 400 users simultaneously using the LAWN. This fall semester, usage has increased to over 600 simultaneous users. Users of LAWN are quite diverse, ranging from freshmen with the newest laptops and PDA\u0027s to graduate students on a budget with homemade laptops from cannibalized parts.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The data that OIT has gathered indicates that students are the primary users of the LAWN. We also have researchers in such areas as robotics and wearable computing using LAWN in some of their projects,\u0022 says Matt Sanders, research scientist in Academic and Research Technologies in the Office of Information Technology (OIT), who oversees LAWN\u0027s operation.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDespite the growth of wireless Sanders says hard-wired ports are here to stay at Georgia Tech.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022LAWN is designed to support mobile computing, not to replace the wired network. Wireless technologies will lag behind the physical networks in terms of performance, and the students, faculty and researchers at Georgia Tech will continue to require these networks for their research,\u0022 says Sanders.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELAWN now has nearly 700 access points in 83 campus buildings. Over the last six months, LAWN was installed in all of the learning centers in student residence halls, the student center commons, and numerous academic buildings. Also, outdoor wireless coverage continues to grow to cover major pedestrian corridors and green spaces including the Tech Trolley route, Technology Square Research Building courtyard, corridors between the Library and the Student Center, Yellow Jacket Park, Cherry Street, and from the Manufacturing Research Center to Student Services. In addition, users may access LAWN using plug-in ports at the Library West Commons, on classroom podiums in Technology Square, the College of Computing Commons, and in conference rooms in the College of Management.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe LAWN team now deploys a faster wireless standard - 802.11g, which is backwards compatible with 802.11b and allows 802.11g users to communicate at faster speeds. All of Tech Square, and numerous other locations on campus have been upgraded to 802.11g. Priorities for the coming year include expanding wireless coverage to more classrooms, conference rooms, and common areas in and around residence halls. Coverage in Junior\u0027s will be completed soon.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAlso, Sanders says OIT would like to expand the availability and usage of FastPass, the commercial WiFi service that gives campus visitors access to the Internet. OIT hopes to eventually expand this service so that Tech users have access to FastPass wherever it becomes available throughout the city of Atlanta, including Hartsfield-Jackson airport.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERecently, the LAWN team at OIT improved and updated the login pages to be simpler to use and less prone to web browser errors. They also introduced a web site dedicated to the LAWN, which contains help for first time users of LAWN and experienced LAWN users alike. The site\u0027s content is continually growing, and includes a current map of wireless coverage and configuration instructions for many platforms. To learn more about tapping into the LAWN, visit \u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/www.lawn.gatech.edu\/\u0027\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.lawn.gatech.edu\/\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Local Area Wireless and Walkup Network (LAWN) Grows in Popularity"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"The number of users of the Georgia Tech Local Area Wireless and Walkup Network (LAWN) has consistently doubled every year -- illustrating the growing popularity of wireless devices on campus as well as growing satisfaction with LAWN\u0027s performance.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Local Area Wireless \u0026 Walkup Network Usage Doubles"}],"uid":"27301","created_gmt":"2004-10-15 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:58","author":"Elizabeth Campell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-10-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-10-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"80251":{"id":"80251","type":"image","title":"Student uses laptop outside","body":null,"created":"1449178071","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:51","changed":"1475894693","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:53"}},"media_ids":["80251"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.oit.gatech.edu\/home\/index.cfm","title":"Office of Information Technology (OIT)"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.lawn.gatech.edu\/","title":"LAWN"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"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":""}},"80901":{"#nid":"80901","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Materials Science and Engineering Professor C.P. Wong to Give Commencement Address","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EC.P. Wong, Regents\u0027 Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Materials Science and Engineering, will address the Georgia Institute of Technology\u0027s 219th commencement ceremony on \u003Cstrong\u003EFriday, July 30\u003C\/strong\u003E, at \u003Cstrong\u003E9 a.m., \u003C\/strong\u003Ein \u003Cstrong\u003EAlexander Memorial Coliseum\u003C\/strong\u003E. Tech expects approximately 1,000 students to participate in the ceremony.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn April, Wong received Georgia Tech\u0027s Distinguished Professor Award. The prize, which includes the honor of delivering the summer commencement address, is the most prestigious award bestowed upon Tech faculty members. The recipient is chosen for his or her outstanding commitment to teaching, research and service and is selected by the Faculty Honors Committee. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA professor in Georgia Tech\u0027s School of Materials Science and Engineering since 1996, Wong holds a bachelor\u0027s degree in chemistry from Purdue University and a Ph.D. in inorganic\/organic chemistry from Pennsylvania State University. After his doctoral study, he was awarded a two-year postdoctoral fellowship with Nobel Laureate Professor Henry Taube at Stanford University, where he conducted studies on the electron transfer and reaction mechanism of metallocomplexes. He was the first person to synthesize the first known lanthanide and actinide porphyrin complexes, which represents a breakthrough in metalloporphyrin chemistry. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 1977, Wong joined AT\u0026amp;T Bell Laboratories and began working on the research and development of polymeric materials for electronic and photonic applications. In 1992, he was elected an AT\u0026amp;T Bell Laboratories Fellow - the most prestigious award bestowed by Bell Labs - for his fundamental contributions to low-cost, high-performance plastic packaging of semiconductors. Upon joining the Tech faculty in 1996, Wong also became research director of the National Science Foundation-funded Packaging Research Center. He was named a Regents\u0027 Professor in 2000.  His research interests lie in the fields of polymeric materials, high Tc ceramics, materials reaction mechanism, and IC encapsulation.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the seven years since he joined Georgia Tech\u0027s faculty, Wong has secured research grants and contracts from a wide variety of government agencies and private corporations. For these distinguished efforts, he received the Georgia Tech Outstanding Research Program Development Award in 1999. In addition, Wong has received more than twenty-five Outstanding and Best Paper Awards from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the International Materials and Packaging Society since 1996. Among these honors are the IEEE Outstanding Sustained Technical Contribution Award, the Award of Excellence from University Press (London), the 2002 IEEE Exceptional Technical Achievement Award, the Harry Toops Award for Fundamental Contributions to Electronic Packaging, and awards from the Georgia Tech chapter of Sigma Xi for Best Faculty, Best Master\u0027s Thesis, and Undergraduate Research. For his sustained and significant contributions in materials and process in electronics, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2000.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThroughout his career, Wong has been teaching and mentoring students. Since coming to Georgia Tech, he has served as thesis adviser to seven Ph.D. students and 14 master\u0027s students, in addition to advising 14 undergraduates and 12 postdoctoral fellows and visiting scholars. Wong has also participated in Georgia Tech\u0027s Summer Program for Undergraduate Research, Summer Undergraduate Research for Underrepresented Students, and the Georgia Summer Intern for High School Teachers programs.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"C.P. Wong, Regents\u0027 Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Materials Science and Engineering, will address the Georgia Institute of Technology\u0027s 219th commencement ceremony on \u003Cstrong\u003EFriday, July 30\u003C\/strong\u003E, at \u003Cstrong\u003E9 a.m.\u003C\/strong\u003E, in \u003Cstrong\u003EAlexander Memorial Coliseum\u003C\/strong\u003E. Tech expects approximately 1,000 students to participate in the ceremony.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2004-07-27 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:58","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-07-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-07-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"80911":{"id":"80911","type":"image","title":"Dr. C.P. Wong","body":null,"created":"1449178079","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:59","changed":"1475894696","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:56"}},"media_ids":["80911"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.mse.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech School of Materials Science and Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/commencement\/","title":"Commencement Information"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/photos\/album2.php?id=18","title":"Commencement Photo Album"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"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":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"80861":{"#nid":"80861","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tech Researchers Get $5 million to Smooth Out Kinks in Electromagnetic Propulsion","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhen electromagnetic propulsion was first demonstrated more than a century ago, it inspired science fiction dreams of rocket-less space launches, magnetic levitation (maglev) vehicles and super guns.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMany years later, electromagnetic propulsion, powered by electricity and magnetism rather than fiery chemical reaction, is a reality though not yet ready for government or commercial production. However, with a $5 million grant from the Department of Defense, scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology and several partnering institutions are helping to bring the technology from research to practical use.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EElectromagnetic propulsion, which can send an aircraft, satellite, shuttle, bullet or train zooming through the air or along a track, produces extreme temperatures and wear that create quite a challenge for researchers working to make devices that can be used consistently without becoming seriously damaged. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn other words, electromagnetic propulsion is so intense that it severely damages the guns and launchers that use it. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe heat and friction caused by electromagnetic propulsion is much different than traditional chemical acceleration (such as the explosion that propels a bullet from a gun) and is not yet fully understood. In fact, electromagnetic propulsion produces certain effects that currently defy scientific explanation.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo help solve this problem, researchers at Georgia Tech, Cornell University, North Carolina State University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will collaborate on a joint research program, based at Georgia Tech, dedicated to studying the effects that very high electromagnetic stress can have on electromagnetic launchers. The diverse research group of 10 faculty members comes from the disciplines of tribology (the study of friction, wear and lubrication in surfaces in motion), physics, materials science, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe program has received a $5 million, five-year grant to begin research to understand what materials, lubricants and designs are needed to reduce the damage caused by electromagnetic propulsion, specifically in a railgun - a gun with the potential to be more powerful than existing guns that use electromagnetic propulsion to fire a projectile. The grant was provided by the Department of Defense\u0027s Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative and will be administered by Dr. Peter Schmidt of the Office of Naval Research.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Steven Danyluk, professor and Morris M. Bryan Jr. chair in Mechanical Engineering for Advanced Manufacturing Systems and director of the Manufacturing Research Center at Georgia Tech, is the principal investigator on the project. Dr. Richard Cowan, engineering manager at the Manufacturing Research Center, is a co-principal investigator and program manager on the project.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe research findings will be used to help the Navy develop powerful, yet reliable railguns that will be able to fire a projectile at six times the speed of sound, or up to 2.5 kilometers per second, for its next generation of electric battleships.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBut the project\u0027s findings can be applied to any electromagnetic device, including launchers and vehicles.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This particular project, though it includes technology that the U.S. Navy and Army would like to have, can be used not only for guns, but also in electromagnetic launchers for satellites or the sliding of maglev vehicles,\u0022 Danyluk said.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Georgia Tech and several partner institutions have received a $5 million, five-year grant to study the effects that very high electromagnetic stress can have on electromagnetic launchers. The research could help bring electromagnetic propulsion from research to practical use.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2004-07-22 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:58","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-07-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-07-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"80871":{"id":"80871","type":"image","title":"Dr. Steven Danyluk and Dr. Richard Cowan","body":null,"created":"1449178079","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:59","changed":"1475894696","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:56"}},"media_ids":["80871"],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"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":""}},"80811":{"#nid":"80811","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Council on Competitiveness Releases Interim Innovation Report","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA spectrum of leaders representing American industry and higher education recently released an important plan of action suggesting ways to make the United States the world\u0027s most fertile and attractive environment for innovation.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe National Innovation Initiative\u0027s interim report, \u0022Innovate America: Thriving in a World of Challenge and Change,\u0022 sets out to show how the very nature of innovation itself is changing and, with it, America\u0027s basis for competitive success and prosperity in the 21st century. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESamuel J. Palmisano, chairman and CEO of IBM Corp., and G. Wayne Clough, president of the Georgia Institute of Technology, co-chair the initiative in partnership with 18 CEOs and university presidents. Additionally, hundreds of leaders and scholars from universities, corporations, professional societies, industrial associations and government agencies are engaged in the effort to affect change through this initiative.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe National Innovation Initiative is a 15-month effort of the Council on Competitiveness, a non-profit, non-partisan association of leaders from the business, university, and labor communities working together to set a national action agenda for American leadership in the global marketplace, technological innovation and education.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe initiative was announced in October 2003 at the council\u0027s annual meeting, and the final National Innovation Initiative report will be released Dec. 15, 2004, during a summit in Washington, D.C.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"The new report sets out to show how the very nature of innovation itself is changing and, with it, America\u0027s basis for competitive success and prosperity.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2004-07-29 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:58","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-07-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-07-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"80821":{"id":"80821","type":"image","title":"The Campanile","body":null,"created":"1449178079","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:59","changed":"1475894696","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:56"}},"media_ids":["80821"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.president.gatech.edu\/","title":"Office of the President"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.compete.org\/pdf\/NII_Interim_Report.pdf","title":"Innovate America: Thriving in a World of Challenge and Change (PDF)"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.compete.org\/","title":"Council on Competitiveness"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"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":""}},"80831":{"#nid":"80831","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Ranked as Top Producer of African-American Engineering Graduates","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech was the No. 1 producer of African-American engineers at the master\u0027s degree level during the 2002-2003 academic year, according to \u003Cem\u003EBlack Issues in Higher Education\u003C\/em\u003E magazine\u0027s annual college rankings report. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech was also the top overall producer of African-American engineers at the bachelor\u0027s and master\u0027s levels, with at total of 172 degrees awarded.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EConsidered by Georgia Tech to be an important tool to measure the success of campus diversity endeavors, the \u003Cem\u003EBlack Issues\u003C\/em\u003E rankings underscore Tech\u0027s efforts to create a diverse campus through strong recruitment and retention practices, rather than relying on quotas to boost minority enrollment. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We are pleased that the Institute has maintained a high level of quality while still achieving consistent success with minority recruitment. But more importantly, we are very proud of the achievement of our minority graduates,\u0022 said Provost Jean Lou Chameau. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETech awarded 31 master\u0027s degrees in engineering to African-Americans, which accounted for four percent of the total number of master\u0027s degrees in engineering awarded at Tech during the 2002-2003 academic year.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBut despite an overall increase in bachelor\u0027s degrees awarded to African-American students, Georgia Tech ranked No. 2 at the bachelor\u0027s degree level, just behind North Carolina A\u0026amp;T State University. Tech awarded 141 degrees during the 2002-2003 school year, up 13 percent from the previous school year and representing 11 percent of engineering degrees awarded. Ironically, Tech was No. 1 for the 2001-2002 school year, when it awarded 125 bachelor\u0027s degrees to African-American students.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOther institutions in the top five of bachelor degree producers include No. 1 North Carolina A\u0026amp;T State University with 143; No. 3 North Carolina State University at Raleigh with 85; No. 4 Tennessee State University with 79; and No. 5 Florida A\u0026amp;M University with 77. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOne of Tech\u0027s most successful recruitment projects is FOCUS, an annual event designed to attract the country\u0027s finest minority undergraduates to its graduate programs. Each year, approximately 300 African-American students from more than 80 colleges and universities across the nation attend the three-day series of lectures, tours, panel discussions and social events. The program, which is held annually during the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, is now in its thirteenth year. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Georgia Tech has worked hard to aggressively recruit minority students as early as elementary school and up through graduate school,\u0022 said Robert Haley, director of special projects in the College of Engineering and creator and coordinator of FOCUS. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E \u0022FOCUS and other programs help foster an environment of inclusion and respect on campus and make it clear that Tech values diversity as an important aspect of campus life,\u0022 Haley said. \u0022Georgia Tech continues to encourage and achieve diversity in the academic setting.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, Georgia Tech has a solid relationship with the historically-black institutions in the Atlanta area that make up the Atlanta University Center \u00ad Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse College, Morris Brown College, Spelman College, Morehouse School of Medicine, and the Interdenominational Theological Center. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EApproximately 100 African-American students are currently enrolled in a joint-degree program in which students obtain an undergraduate degree in liberal arts from the Atlanta University Center then move on to obtain an undergraduate degree in engineering from Georgia Tech. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOther programs at Georgia Tech that have been successful at attracting and supporting African-American students are: \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESURE (The Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering\/Science Program) \u00ad a 10-week summer research program designed to attract qualified minority students into graduate school in the fields of engineering and science. Approximately 30 students of at least junior-level undergraduate standing are recruited on a nationwide basis and paired with a faculty member and a graduate student mentor to undertake research projects in the College of Engineering, College of Sciences and the Packaging Research Center. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFACES (Facilitating Academic Careers in Engineering and Sciences) \u00ad a collaborative effort of Tech\u0027s Colleges of Engineering and Sciences and Morehouse College to increase the number of African-Americans receiving doctoral degrees and encourage them to become faculty members. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers\u0026mdash;an organization that seeks to increase the number of culturally responsible black engineers who excel academically, succeed professionally and positively impact the community. It hosts activities including academic retreats, study sessions, dinners for future business owners and an annual career fair. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EBlack Issues\u003C\/em\u003E, a publication that covers minorities in American higher education, used statistics collected by the U.S. Department of Education to compile the rankings edition. The special report identifies the top 100 minority degree producers among institutions of higher education and is the only national report of U.S. colleges and universities awarding degrees to African-American, Latino, Asian American and Native American students.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe report was released as a two-part series spotlighting undergraduate and graduate statistics. Graduate and professional degree statistics appear in the July 29 edition of Black Issues. Undergraduate statistics were released in the magazine\u0027s June 3 edition. \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Georgia Tech was the No. 1 producer of African-American engineers at the master\u0027s degree level during the 2002-2003 academic year, according to \u003Cem\u003EBlack Issues in Higher Education\u003C\/em\u003E magazine\u0027s annual college rankings report.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2004-07-29 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:58","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-07-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-07-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"80841":{"id":"80841","type":"image","title":"Georgia Tech graduates","body":null,"created":"1449178079","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:59","changed":"1475894696","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:56"}},"media_ids":["80841"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/nia.ecsu.edu\/onr\/03-04\/040115focus\/focus04.htm","title":"FOCUS"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.blackissues.com\/","title":"Black Issues in Higher Education"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"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":""}},"80791":{"#nid":"80791","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Study Suggests Humans Can Speed Evolution","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIt\u0027s no secret that life in the 21st century moves at a rapid pace. Human inventions such as the Internet, mobile phones and fiber optic cable have increased the speed of communication, making it possible for someone to be virtually in two places at once. But can humans speed up the rate of one of nature\u0027s most basic and slowest processes, evolution? A study by J. Todd Streelman, new assistant professor of biology at the Georgia Institute of Technology suggests that humans may have sped up the evolutionary clock for one species of fish. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECichlid fish are well known to biologists for their rapid rate of evolution. While it takes many animals thousands of years to form new species, the cichlids of Africa\u0027s Lake Malawi are estimated to have formed 1,000 new species in only 500,000 years, lightning speed in evolutionary terms. In the 1960s a fish exporter may have unwittingly set the stage for an evolutionary explosion when he introduced individuals of the species Cynotilapia afra to Mitande Point on the lake\u0027s Thumbi West Island. As of 1983, the species hadn\u0027t budged from Mitande Point. But when Streelman, then at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, and colleagues went to the island in 2001, they found the fish had evolved into two genetically distinct varieties in less than 20 years. The study appears in the August 13 edition of Molecular Ecology.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This is a great example of human-induced evolution in action,\u0022 said Streelman. \u0022It adds to a growing list of cases, including introduced salmon, flies and plants, where human disturbance has set the stage for contemporary evolution on scales we\u0027ve not witnessed before.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe fish have evolved into two genetically distinct and differently colored populations, one on the north side of the island, the other on the south, said Streelman. Cichlid color patterns are important in mate selection, so these distinct markings may promote the evolution of new species. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhether or not that happens and how long it will take is a question to which Streelman is eager to find the answer. \u0022It could be that we\u0027ll have new species in another 20 years, although this depends on a number of factors. Either way, we have a wonderful opportunity to follow the evolutionary trajectory of these populations over time. We plan to return to the island next July to do further study,\u0022 he said. \u0022Thumbi West will be a valuable place to work for years to come.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"It\u0027s no secret that life in the 21st century moves at a rapid pace. But can humans speed up the rate of one of nature\u0027s most basic and slowest processes, evolution? A new study suggests that may already have happened to one species of fish.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2004-08-04 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:58","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-08-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-08-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"80801":{"id":"80801","type":"image","title":"Cynotilapia afra","body":null,"created":"1449178079","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:59","changed":"1475894696","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:56"}},"media_ids":["80801"],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"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":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"80771":{"#nid":"80771","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Professor Brings Innovation and Love of Teaching to the Classroom","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Bettina Cothran sees learning a foreign language as more than just memorizing vocabulary and grammar rules. She views studying a language as an exciting way to expose students to other cultures and the truly global nature of today\u0027s world.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Having the language exposure makes students more attuned to differences in different cultures,\u0022 says Cothran. \u0022You need to see the others in order to appreciate them as well as your own culture.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECothran, an associate professor of German in the Georgia Tech School of Modern Languages, brings her enthusiasm and genuine caring for the well being of her students to the classroom, and her students respond to it.  She has won several teaching awards including the 2004 E. Roe Stamps Award for excellence in teaching, Georgia Tech\u0027s Outstanding Teacher of the Year award (1993), and the American Association of Teachers of German (AATG) Georgia Professor of the Year Award twice (1991 and 2002).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I always enjoy how Dr. Cothran keeps the class lively and keeps all students involved-asking questions, mini-projects with presentations to the class, etc. Also, she ties in what we are discussing with current events, bringing the information to life,\u0022 says Keri Foster, a senior in Global Economics and Modern Languages (GEML).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022She takes the time out of her day to help you through whatever class related problems,\u0022 says Charlie Ruhs, senior in Computer Engineering. \u0022In my European Union class, I met with her every Tuesday to go over the material so that I could stay up with the class.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition Cothran is highly innovative and has been a pioneer in developing new ways to teach German, which other language departments across the country have adopted.  She developed the first curriculum for the highly successful applied-learning language program called Languages for Business and Technology (LBAT) for which the School of Modern Languages has a national reputation.  LBAT is an intensive program that prepares students to be able to negotiate in the business world in their foreign language and includes topics such as appropriate behavior such as eye contact and body language. Each summer she leads a group of students in an LBAT study abroad program in Germany.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The practical application of a language is so important, in addition to the literature and philosophy of that country,\u0022 says Cothran. \u0022I think it is important to prepare students with the necessary tools to make this nation successful in a global marketplace.  After World War II, the American economy as the single largest economy constituted the largest percentage of the world market, but that is no longer so.\u0022  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn fact, about 700 German-based firms have operations in the southeast United States.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAnother novel, collaborative teaching approach developed by Cothran is the highly successful Languages Across the Curriculum courses, where courses are co-taught in the foreign language by faculty from Modern Languages and the discipline, such as International Affairs. This format provides students with two perspectives.  Cothran began this program with German courses and subjects, and after receiving a grant from the Department of Education, the School expanded the program to courses in French, German, Japanese, Spanish and Chinese.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The co-taught course about The European Union (EU) was probably the most fantastic teaching\/learning experience that I have ever had,\u0022 says Ashley Wood, senior in International Affairs and Modern Languages (Spanish\/German).  \u0022One teacher focused mainly on our German skills, while the other on our writing and debate skills as well as the content of the course.  I felt like I got double out of that class.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor her co-taught course about the EU, Cothran reaches an even wider audience with an online, interactive teaching unit based on the course, which has been published by the Goethe Institute and is available worldwide on their website. http:\/\/www.goethe.de\/uk\/chi\/wirtscha\/eu\/deindex.htm\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I think a good teacher has to awaken curiosity and wonder.  The joy in that to me is the core of what my profession is all about. Not to just teach an agenda but to open their minds,\u0022 says Cothran.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EModern Languages\u0027 growth supports one of the goals of Tech\u0027s Strategic Plan of offering a student-focused education by increasing the number of students who work or study abroad. Reflecting its overall teaching excellence, the School of Modern Languages in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts received in May the 2004 Regents\u0027 Awards for Excellence in Teaching in a Department from the University System of Georgia. The award recognized Modern Languages\u0027 impressive growth over the last five years of launching two new joint degrees, creating 61 new courses, building a strong advising program for its undergraduates, developing new team-taught courses and an International Internship Program.  \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Developer of New Approaches to Teaching Languages"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Dr. Bettina Cothran sees learning a foreign language as more than just memorizing vocabulary and grammar rules. She views studying a language as an exciting way to expose students to other cultures and the truly global nature of today\u0027s world.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2004-08-09 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:58","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-08-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-08-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"80781":{"id":"80781","type":"image","title":"Dr. Bettina Cothran","body":null,"created":"1449178079","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:59","changed":"1475894696","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:56"}},"media_ids":["80781"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/","title":"Ivan Allen College"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.modlangs.gatech.edu\/index.html","title":"School of Modern Languages"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"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":""}},"80721":{"#nid":"80721","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech MBA\/Engineering Student Uses Engineering and Management Skills to Help Rebuild Iraq","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECapt. Jeff R. Smith, a mechanical engineer, was three weeks into his third semester of the MBA program at Georgia Tech when he got the call from his National Guard Unit that he\u0027d been activated.  He had five days to close out the details of his life in Atlanta and join his unit.  Since the semester had just started, Smith withdrew from his classes and planned to return in a year to complete his dual graduate degrees in mechanical engineering and business administration (MBA).  Smith says he loves engineering but felt an MBA would help him advance his career in industry.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAbout a month later in mid-March, his Engineering Corps unit landed in Kuwait to start rebuilding Iraq as the Marines made their way to Baghdad.  The first few months in Iraq Smith and his unit completed a variety of projects to rebuild cities damaged by war or deteriorated due to neglect. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Our unit focused on rebuilding and renovating cities, such as schools, water lines, roads, and bridges, that were either damaged by the war or deteriorated due to years of neglect under Saddam Hussein\u0027s regime,\u0022 says Smith.  \u0022Rebuilding the schools was very satisfying, and we didn\u0027t experience much of the hostilities that units have experienced more recently.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESmith found his recent studies of economics and international finance came in handy in dealing with the challenges of lack of building supplies, skyrocketing prices, and the constantly changing exchange rates between U.S. dollars and the Iraqi dinar. Through his knowledge of supply and demand, Smith realized the prices of asphalt, concrete and fuel were skyrocketing due to damage and looting at distribution centers. So, he repaired over 20 asphalt, concrete and fuel distribution centers to increase the supply and reduce the prices.  Also, when working with local contractors Smith had to calculate into each project the added expense of the changing exchange rate as the Iraqi dinar grew in strength compared to the dollar. In March 2003, one dollar equaled about 4000 Iraqi dinars, but by December 2003 one dollar equaled about 1000 dinars. Since the bids were submitted in dinars and he was paying in dollars, Smith had to budget the increased cost for each project.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESmith said it was difficult to work in the summer when the heat was intense with highs of 142 degrees and average high of 120. The heat killed their radios.  Even later in July when they had window air conditioning units in their tents, the A\/C only reduced the temperature by 20 degrees, says Smith.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022No work could be done after 10 or 11 o\u0027clock in the morning because it was way too hot,\u0022 says Smith.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESharpening His Management Skills\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDuring much of his time in Iraq, Smith worked extensively with local Iraqi governmental officials in the city of Ramadi in the Fallujah area.  He would ask the engineers with the local departments of water and education for their top 10 projects and for detailed project proposals including cost analyses. Translators translated all the proposals for him, and he selected the projects to be funded. He would pay one-third of the project cost up front, and once one-third or half of the project was completed, he\u0027d fund more of the project until it was completed. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We operated like a grant service,\u0022 says Smith. \u0022Giving the local engineers money for their top priority projects gave them ownership of the projects. Plus, I didn\u0027t know which local contractors to use.  Whenever I conducted surprise inspections, I always found work being done so I think the process worked very well.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMaj. Gen. Swannack, who oversaw this program, initially gave them $2.3 million to fund projects for three months, and he was so pleased with the progress made that he increased the budget to $16.5 million for the next three months (January - March). These reconstruction funds came from captured funds from the Hussein regime.  The new funding meant 600 projects were in progress, so Smith\u0027s unit turned to the local university\u0027s engineering department for help. They hired engineers from the local university as consultants to review project proposals and progress reports. The consultants were able to tell them if the prices were inflated or if the project was feasible or not.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHowever, the local Governor was concerned that locals were not aware of the amount of progress being made, since many were still without electricity, which they had under the Hussein regime. So the Governor asked Smith to take local TV crews out on inspections to get the word out to the local community about improvements.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EReturning to the States\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESmith returned to the States in late March 2004, and says the experience has made him want to spend more time with his family, including two brothers. With an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and four years in the Army, Smith came to Georgia Tech in fall 2001 to take advantage of the dual degree program, which would allow him to complete a master\u0027s degree in mechanical engineering and an MBA at the same time in about two years.  During his first year at Tech, Smith took mostly MBA courses and enjoyed the small classes. He liked how the small classes gave him plenty of opportunities to express his own ideas in class and to talk with his professors after class.  Also, he felt that knowing everyone in the classes strengthened the team project experiences.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHe returns to school full time in mid-August and hopes to graduate in May 2005.  Once he completes school, he plans to pursue a corporate career with an established company in the Midwest to be closer to his family in Iowa.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen asked how long he plans to maintain his military ties, Smith says, \u0022I plan to stay in the National Guard as long as I keep having fun; it\u0027s kind of my hobby. As long as I keep enjoying it, I plan to keep on doing it.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Smith returns to complete his dual MBA and Mechanical Engineering degrees"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Capt. Jeff R. Smith, a mechanical engineer, was three weeks into his third semester of the MBA program at Georgia Tech when he got the call from his National Guard Unit that he\u0027d been activated. He had five days to close out the details of his life in Atlanta and join his unit. Since the semester had just started, Smith withdrew from his classes and planned to return in a year to complete his dual graduate degrees in mechanical engineering and business administration (MBA).","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2004-08-09 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:58","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-08-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-08-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"80731":{"id":"80731","type":"image","title":"Capt. Jeff R. Smith in Iraq","body":null,"created":"1449178079","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:59","changed":"1475894696","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:56"}},"media_ids":["80731"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/","title":"George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/mgt.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech College of Management"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"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":""}},"80741":{"#nid":"80741","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Premieres Executive Programs at Savannah Campus This Fall","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFor the first time, the Georgia Tech College of Management, the business school at Georgia Tech, will offer executive education programs at the Georgia Tech Savannah campus. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The College of Management offers an innovative portfolio of training programs that help executives stimulate new ideas, sharpen leadership skills and develop innovative strategies. Offering these programs to businesses in southeast Georgia reflects the strong economy and growth in this area,\u0022 states Dr. Terry Blum, dean of the Georgia Tech College of Management.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe executive education programs offered this fall include Business Strategy, Innovation Management, Leadership, Marketing, Six Sigma, and Technology for the Non-Technical Manager. Six Sigma is one of Georgia Tech\u0027s most popular executive training programs. Program participants can earn either a Green Belt or Black Belt certification. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I\u0027ve taken many courses during my career and the Georgia Tech Six Sigma program is one of the best,\u0022 says Jason Krug, senior project manager at Sun Microsystems.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The introduction of these executive programs represents an important and logical extension of the commitment of Georgia Tech Savannah to technology education in the Coastal Georgia region,\u0022 says David Frost, director of the Georgia Tech Savannah campus. \u0022The College of Management\u0027s training programs will help functional managers, especially engineers and technologists, to move into general management and executive positions where firm-wide perspectives are required.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Georgia Tech Savannah\u0027s executive education programs show a continuing commitment by both Georgia Tech and the University System of Georgia to our area,\u0022 says Howard Morrison, chair of the Georgia Tech Savannah External Advisory Board. \u0022These new Georgia Tech programs represent the natural evolution of enhanced academics in southeast Georgia, which should complement instruction at Armstrong, Georgia Southern, Savannah State and the Savannah College of Art and Design.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to the fall line-up of executive education programs, the Georgia Tech College of Management offers customized programs for companies seeking a training program tailored to their specific needs. The College currently provides customized training programs for GE Energy, EarthLink, NDC Health, Piedmont Medical Center and the Boys and Girls Club of America.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Savannah campus is located next to the Savannah International Airport and only minutes from historic downtown Savannah. Opened in September 2003, the campus houses world-class instructional and research facilities. Executive education information is available by calling \u003Cstrong\u003E800.815.7662\u003C\/strong\u003E or visiting www.execinfo.org.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"College of Management To Offer Programs in Business Strategy, Innovation, Leadership, Marketing, Six Sigma and Technology for the Non-Technical Manager"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"For the first time, the Georgia Tech College of Management, the business school at Georgia Tech, will offer executive education programs at the Georgia Tech Savannah campus.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2004-08-12 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:58","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-08-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-08-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"80751":{"id":"80751","type":"image","title":"Georgia Tech Savannah campus","body":null,"created":"1449178079","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:59","changed":"1475894696","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:56"}},"media_ids":["80751"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/mgt.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech College of Management"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gtsav.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech Savannah"},{"url":"http:\/\/mgt.gatech.edu\/exec_ed\/prof_dev.html","title":"Executive Education"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"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":""}},"80681":{"#nid":"80681","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tech Puts $45 Million Face Lift on Olympic Legacy","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs the 2004 Summer Olympics begin their first full week of competition in Athens on Monday August 16, Georgia Tech will open a two-year, $45 million renovation of the site of the 1996 Olympic swimming and diving events. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERenamed the Campus Recreation Center, the athletic facility sports: a newly enclosed Olympic swimming pool and diving well; a leisure pool with a 184-foot water slide, current channel, hot tub and sun patio; three-story climbing wall; and a caf\u00e9 that overlooks the leisure pool. After enclosing the Aquatic Center, Tech added two floors above it complete with six basketball courts, exercise studios, roller hockey rink and an elevated jogging track. The renovations increase the center\u0027s indoor recreational space to approximately 300,000 square feet, a three-fold increase over the previous facility.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This facility shows a definite commitment of Georgia Tech to its students,\u0022 said Mike Edwards, director of campus recreation. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe renovations give Tech a state-of-the art fitness facility, an essential tool in attracting prospective students to campus. The National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association estimates that U.S. universities are scheduled to build or renovate 400 indoor recreational facilities at a cost of $4.3 billion over the next five years.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022If we want to remain competitive in attracting students, facilities like this are essential,\u0022 said Edwards. \u0022When students visit colleges they ask \u0027Where can I play?\u0027 Universities that don\u0027t have these facilities are missing an important tool in recruiting students,\u0022 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe renovations also illustrate how owners of former Olympic sites can retool facilities built for the games for other uses while keeping the Olympic legacy alive.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The Olympics provided us with a great swimming and diving facility, but there was one big problem: it wasn\u0027t enclosed. That meant that we could only use the pools four or five months out of the year,\u0022 said Edwards. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe restrictions meant Tech\u0027s swim team had to find someplace else to practice during the fall and much of the spring semester. It also meant that Tech couldn\u0027t host swim meets. Now that renovations are complete, Tech is scheduled to host both the ACC Swimming and Diving Championships next February and the NCAA Men\u0027s Swimming and Diving Championships in March 2006.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBut enclosing the pool was only the beginning, said Edwards. \u0022The Olympics provided us with the anchor to build around. Hastings \u0026amp; Chivetta Architects came up with the idea to use the space between the pool deck and the roof - space that would otherwise be wasted - to put in the basketball courts, studios and jogging track,\u0022 said Edwards. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe leisure pool with waterslide was another departure from traditional university recreation centers. \u0022Not everybody\u0027s a competitive swimmer,\u0022 said Debbie Dorsey, aquatic manager. \u0022The leisure pool gives non-competitive swimmers a way to participate and offers graduate students with families a place to play.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Very few people don\u0027t like water parks. And that\u0027s what we have,\u0022 added Edwards.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe new center also increased the fitness area from 6,000 square feet to 15,000 square feet. That\u0027s approximately one square foot per student, which Edwards said is the gold standard in college recreation centers. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe fitness area features treadmills and elliptical bikes with TV\u0027s imbedded in each one and more than 15,000 pounds of weights, according to Jon Hart, GIT FIT manager for Campus Recreation. Four racquetball courts and one squash court are adjacent to the fitness floor as is the three-story climbing wall.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We\u0027ve had many freshmen wander in here with their parents over the summer who were amazed at our new facility,\u0022 said Edwards. \u0022They say it\u0027s wonderful that they\u0027ll be able to come here to take their mind off the stresses of being a student.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"As the 2004 Summer Olympics begin their first full week of competition in Athens on Monday August 16, Georgia Tech will open a two-year, $45 million renovation of the site of the 1996 Olympic swimming and diving events.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Campus Recreation Center  Re-opens"}],"uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2004-08-12 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:58","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-08-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-08-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"80691":{"id":"80691","type":"image","title":"A swimmer enjoys the water slide.","body":null,"created":"1449178079","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:59","changed":"1475894696","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:56"},"80701":{"id":"80701","type":"image","title":"Indoor Waterslide","body":null,"created":"1449178079","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:59","changed":"1475894696","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:56"}},"media_ids":["80691","80701"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.campusrecreation.gatech.edu\/","title":"Campus Recreation Center"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"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":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"80661":{"#nid":"80661","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Institute Maintains National Profile in \u003Cem\u003EU.S. News\u003C\/em\u003E Rankings for 2005","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFor the sixth consecutive year and the eighth time in the past decade, \u003Cem\u003EU.S. News \u0026amp; World Report\u003C\/em\u003E ranks the Georgia Institute of Technology as one of the top 10 public universities in the nation.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the 2005 release of America\u0027s Best Colleges from \u003Cem\u003EU.S.News \u0026amp; World Report\u003C\/em\u003E, Georgia Tech\u0027s ranking among all universities, public and private, slipped three slots to 41st.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAmong Tech\u0027s highlights are the rankings for the College of Management, which moved up two slots to 34th among business schools and placed three of its programs in the nation\u0027s top 15. In addition, every program in Tech\u0027s College of Engineering was ranked among the top 15, with four of them ranked among the top five in the country. For the second year in a row, Georgia Tech\u0027s Co-Op program was ranked as one of 11 \u0022Academic Programs to Look For\u0022 under internships and co-ops.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This has been a difficult year for higher education in Georgia, and I\u0027m pleased that we were able to maintain high rankings,\u0022 Georgia Tech President Wayne Clough said. \u0022Our reputational measurements continue to rank very well. But when it comes to variables like class size, we\u0027ve lost ground with our competition. When you compete at the highest level nationally, even a percentage point or two can make a difference.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAs with last year, Georgia Tech\u0027s peer assessment\u0026mdash;the school\u0027s perceived quality among other universities\u0026mdash;placed it in the top 25 of all universities in the nation with a score of 4.0, the same as that of Emory University (20th) and Georgetown University (25th).  But variables like faculty resources, class size, and faculty-to-student ratios push Tech into lower rankings.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We\u0027ve done an excellent job maintaining our overall position in a difficult environment,\u0022 Dr. Clough said. \u0022We\u0027re one of the top research universities in the nation with a consistently outstanding engineering program and a business school that is on the move. For the first time ever, we have three business programs ranked in the top 15. That shows considerable progress in a very competitive arena.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022And I am continually impressed by our ability to perform at such a high level across every single program in engineering. That is tough to do year, after year, after year, with industrial and aerospace engineering leading the way,\u0022 he said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOne other top ranking for Tech is the generosity of alumni donations. The percentage of Tech alums contributing to the Institute is the highest among any public university in the top 50.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I think that says a lot about this institution and our graduates,\u0022 said Clough, the first Tech alumnus to become president of the Institute.  \u0022They feel good about what they learned here. They\u0027ve been successful in their professional lives.  And they believe in the vision we have for the future of Georgia Tech. We\u0027ve done some amazing things with their financial, professional and emotional support, and we wouldn\u0027t be where we are without our impressive alumni base.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering Named the Country\u0027s Best"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"The 2005 release of \u003Cem\u003EAmerica\u0027s Best Colleges \u003C\/em\u003Efrom \u003Cem\u003EU.S.News \u0026amp; World Report \u003C\/em\u003Eagain ranks Georgia Tech among the top 10 public universities in the nation, and four schools in the College of Engineering are listed among the country\u0027s top five.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2004-08-20 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:58","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-08-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-08-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"80671":{"id":"80671","type":"image","title":"Tech Tower","body":null,"created":"1449178079","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:59","changed":"1475894696","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:56"}},"media_ids":["80671"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/usnews\/home.htm","title":"U.S. News \u0026 World Report"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/president\/","title":"Georgia Tech President G.P. (Bud) Peterson"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"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\u003EJim Fetig\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAssociate Vice President\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=jfetig3\u0022\u003EContact Jim Fetig\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-0852\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["james.fetig@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"80641":{"#nid":"80641","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Ovarian Cancer Institute Lab Opens at Tech","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEvery year more than 27,000 women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer.  Approximately one third of them will survive more than five years.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThere is no diagnostic test for ovarian cancer and no obvious symptoms until late in its development.  As a result, about 75 percent of ovarian cancers are detected at Stages III and IV when it has spread throughout a woman\u0027s abdomen.  At those late stages, extensive surgery and chemotherapy are required, with no assurance of lasting success.  \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGilda Radner, Madeline Kahn and \u0022Driving Miss Daisy\u0027s\u0022 Jessica Tandy are a few familiar women who fell victim to this stealthy and often deadly disease.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHowever, if ovarian cancer is diagnosed and treated at Stage I when it is confined to the ovaries, the survival rate skyrockets to more than 85 percent.  This startling statistic is one of the factors driving the doctors and researchers of the Ovarian Cancer Institute (OCI) to dramatically raise survival rates by developing a simple diagnostic blood test to detect ovarian cancer in its earliest stages, as well as develop more effective therapies to treat the cancer and diminish its rate of reoccurrence.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo rapidly advance the science about ovarian cancer, OCI has opened a new research laboratory at the Georgia Institute of Technology.  OCI is headed by John McDonald, Ph.D., professor and chair of the School of Biology at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Benedict B. Benigno, M.D., noted Atlanta gynecologic oncologist of the Southeastern Gynecologic Oncology Group.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis partnership between a major research university and a large medical practice provides scientists and researchers with access to a significant number of high quality tissue samples, complete with medical histories. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBenigno commented, \u0022On average our practice performs at least one surgery each day for ovarian cancer.  The result is a continual stream of high-quality and documented tissue samples for our broad research agenda.  We are searching for \u0027markers\u0027 that will lead to an affordable diagnostic test, as well as developing much more refined chemotherapy approaches based on new molecular profiles of ovarian cancer subtypes that may respond differently to treatment.\u0022  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EArmed with these well-documented samples, the OCI Laboratory draws on the combined expertise of preeminent scientists and bioinformaticists from major Georgia universities and colleges.  This multidisciplinary approach means that researchers with different backgrounds and approaches can apply their expertise to the same sample and compare results to rapidly gain new insights and understanding.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOCI researchers are from the Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Georgia, Georgia State University, Emory University, the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta and Clark Atlanta University.  The diverse team includes members from the disciplines of bio- and medical chemistry; molecular biology and medicine, genetics; food and nutrition; statistics, mathematics, bioinformatics, and computer science; and veterinary medicine.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMcDonald notes, \u0022By weaving together a variety of disciplines into a tight network of world-class researchers we have the opportunity to rapidly advance the science associated with ovarian cancer.  Our laboratory-based insights will be further clarified by statistically correlating our experimental results with detailed patient histories to identify the potential impacts of a variety of factors including heredity, age and lifestyle.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAmong related research efforts, OCI scientists are learning more about the origins of various types of ovarian cancer.  This knowledge will lead to a greater understanding of why some tumors become resistant to chemotherapy, new insights into what causes a cancer to spread, and ultimately, to the development of innovative and much more effective therapies.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOCI research is funded by the Georgia Cancer Coalition, various federal grants and private donations.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESeptember is designated as Ovarian Cancer Month. \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Tech joins network of researchers working to develop an early diagnostic test and more effective new therapies for ovarian cancer.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Early detection is the goal."}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2004-08-24 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:58","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-08-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-08-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"80651":{"id":"80651","type":"image","title":"John McDonald","body":null,"created":"1449178079","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:59","changed":"1475894696","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:56"}},"media_ids":["80651"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/ovariancancerinstitute.org\/","title":"Ovarian Cancer Institute"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"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":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"80601":{"#nid":"80601","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Pedestrian-Friendly Education Program Wins Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFor the second consecutive year, efforts led by the Georgia Institute of Technology have earned a coveted Golden Shoe Award from Atlanta\u0027s Pedestrians Educating Drivers on Safety (PEDS).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the past five years, PEDS has presented Golden Shoe Awards to people, projects and agencies that contribute significantly during the year toward making metro Atlanta safer and more accessible to pedestrians. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis year, Georgia Tech\u0027s Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development earned a Golden Shoe for Pedestrian-Friendly Education. The Aug. 14 ceremony was held at the Margaret Mitchell House, near the site where, in 1949, the \u003Cem\u003EGone With the Wind \u003C\/em\u003Eauthor sustained fatal injuries after being hit by a taxi while crossing Peachtree Street.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We\u0027re out to recognize pedestrian-friendly accomplishments that serve as models for the region,\u0022 PEDS President Sally Flocks said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development -- a unit of Georgia Tech\u0027s College of Architecture based at Technology Square -- was praised by PEDS officials for holding a May symposium on context sensitive design (CSD) that helped state transportation engineers better understand the promises and challenges of street designs that meet transportation needs while supporting community goals and surroundings.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The center is honored to have received the Golden Shoe Award,\u0022 Director Catherine Ross said. \u0022We are all pedestrians, and increasing the safety and walkability of our neighborhoods and cities is vitally important to our health and the overall quality of our living environment. We are fortunate to have PEDS working to improve life for pedestrians throughout the metro region.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0027s work in the area of CSD focuses on a collaborative approach to transportation facility design, construction and operation. Using the CSD approach, stakeholders -- including citizens, elected officials, public-works professionals, and natural resource managers -- are included in the planning, design and implementation of transportation systems.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Context sensitive solutions create safe, attractive transportation facilities that respond to the needs and desires of residents and respect the unique environmental, cultural, and historic characteristics of a place,\u0022 said Ross, Georgia Tech\u0027s Harry West Chair in Quality Growth and Regional Development. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022More importantly, it is a primary requirement for mixed-use development, quality-growth initiatives, sustainability, and economic vitality,\u0022 she said. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECollege of Architecture Dean Thomas Galloway, a noted city and regional planner, was an attendee of this year\u0027s CSD symposium.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022At this year\u0027s session, I stressed our hope that this inaugural conference would be an important beginning of a new wave of design ideas for Georgia communities that marries more effectively our places and our transportation systems,\u0022 Dean Galloway said. \u0022Hopefully, through this award from PEDS, this new wave of ideas will gain even broader public recognition and support.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERoss said those who attended Georgia Tech\u0027s 2004 Context Sensitive Design Symposium are to be commended for embracing a new approach to the design of cities and streets.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022They represent a better informed and trained cross-section of persons who now are better prepared to develop solutions that will find greater receptivity from citizens,\u0022 Ross said. \u0022The Georgia Department of Transportation has also taken an important step forward in convening the symposium. It is through efforts like this one that we began to set a course that will improve the quality of life in the region and state.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis year\u0027s Golden Shoe Award wasn\u0027t the first for the Institute. In August 2003, Georgia Tech\u0027s Technology Square and Kim King Associates\u0027 Centergy projects earned a Golden Shoe for being the most pedestrian-friendly developments in metro Atlanta. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, Georgia Tech alumnus Ryan Gravel garnered a 2003 Golden Shoe for his research on the Belt Line Transit Project, which he began as a Tech graduate student. He has proposed that the city should use existing railroad tracks to provide mass transit throughout 40 central Atlanta neighborhoods. His proposal continues to generate interest and supporters throughout the metropolitan area.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPEDS is a member-based advocacy organization dedicated to making metro Atlanta safe and accessible for all pedestrians. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGolden Shoe 2004 Award Winners  \u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development\u003C\/strong\u003E: Pedestrian-friendly Education; for holding a symposium on Context-Sensitive Design that helped state transportation engineers better understand the promises and challenges of street design that meets transportation needs while supporting the community\u0027s goals and surroundings.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Department of Transportation\u003C\/strong\u003E: Pedestrian-friendly Street Design; for developing a Pedestrian and Streetscape Guide and for adopting new practices on sidewalk width, buffers, and location of street trees that accord with the guidelines.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMetropolis\u003C\/strong\u003E: Pedestrian-friendly Development; for providing a compact, mixed-use development that enlivens Peachtree Street with people and pedestrian-friendly retail.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMidtown Alliance\u003C\/strong\u003E: Pedestrian-friendly Streetscape; for providing new sidewalks, trees and street lights on 10th Street and Piedmont Avenue that are accessible to all users.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETrees Atlanta\u003C\/strong\u003E: Pedestrian-friendly Streetscape Program; for planting thousand of trees that shade walkers, calm traffic, and separate sidewalks from surface parking lots.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMetro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce\u003C\/strong\u003E: Pedestrian-friendly Organizational Activism; for developing a public-private partnership on growth strategies that recommended increased linkage of transportation spending decisions with land use decisions. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESue Olszewski\u003C\/strong\u003E: Pedestrian-friendly Individual Activism; for collaborating with neighbors, developers, city and state officials, and other neighborhoods that will provide federal funds for in-town traffic calming.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMorningside Elementary School\u003C\/strong\u003E: Pedestrian-friendly School; for providing support and enthusiasm that has attracted hundreds of children and parents to walk to school.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECentral Atlanta Progress\u003C\/strong\u003E: Pedestrian-friendly Media; for its \u0022Walk There Challenge\u0022 which distributed maps and pedometers that attracted diverse media attention encouraging and challenging people to walk to destinations in downtown Atlanta.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAtlanta Regional Commission\u003C\/strong\u003E: Pedestrian-friendly Research; for an inventory of sidewalks, curb ramps, and crossings within a half-mile of all MARTA stations.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"For the second consecutive year, efforts led by the Georgia Institute of Technology have earned a coveted Golden Shoe Award from Atlanta\u0027s Pedestrians Educating Drivers on Safety (PEDS).","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Tech earns a Golden Shoe for its efforts."}],"uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2004-08-27 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:58","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-08-27T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-08-27T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"80611":{"id":"80611","type":"image","title":"Pedestrains at Tech Square","body":null,"created":"1449178079","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:59","changed":"1475894696","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:56"}},"media_ids":["80611"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.peds.org\/","title":"Pedestrians Educating Drivers on Safety"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.coa.gatech.edu\/cqgrd\/","title":"Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"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":""}},"80621":{"#nid":"80621","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tech Wins First Round of Biotech Competition","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA team of budding young entrepreneurs from Georgia Institute of Technology has won the first round in the Biotechnology Young Entrepreneurs Scheme (YES), a British Government-sponsored academic business plan competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETwo other U.S. teams and one Canadian team were also among the winners who will compete in the next phase to be held in Oxford, England and Edinburgh, Scotland. This is the first time teams from the U.S. and Canada have been invited to take part in the uniquely British competition. Three teams from Georgia took part, and two of them were placed, with one winning the competition and one other Georgia Tech team selected as runner-up.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe teams each produced a mock idea for a new biotechnology application suitable for commercialization and were selected on the basis of originality, commercial potential and interest in transatlantic collaboration. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech winning team is made up of graduate students from The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, a joint program of Georgia Tech and Emory University. Using the name SpiFi, the team developed an idea that draws on the genetic mechanisms spiders use to control the protein composition of their treads to develop a dry adhesive. Continued development of this material could lead to applications where adhesives are necessary, especially in moisture sensitive conditions. The team\u0027s captain is Brent Nix, and his team members are Allison Dennis, Charles Glaus, and Chris Lessing.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe other winning teams were:\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u00b7\tJohns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. - Innovative Clinical Unlimited, who outlined the use of an automated device to image the retina which would allow primary care physicians to diagnose potentially blinding diseases before patients lose their sight.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u00b7\tUniversity of California, San Francisco, Ca. - The UCSF team, Brain Invaders, devised a plan for an imaginary drug-delivery technology that has the capability to open more avenues for the treatment of central nervous system disorders.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u00b7\tUniversity of Toronto, Toronto, Canada - The Canadian team, Nutriceutix Biotech, fashioned a new venture for developing proprietary biopolymers capable of delivering sustained-release nutrient mixtures directly into human tissue. This technology offers a safe and cost-effective method for biopolymer deliver of therapeutic nutrients.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe successful Georgia Tech team will participate in workshops in Britain in September consisting of presentations from leading figures in the UK biotech industry on intellectual property, international funding and investment, financial planning, commercial and marketing strategies and an evaluation of market potential. There also will be mentoring sessions from industry experts to help the team generate their business plans. The Georgia Tech team will compete against the other three teams for a $1,000 prize and a trip to London for the finals in December. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Biotechnology Young Entrepreneurs Scheme (YES) is an innovative academic business plan competition that raises awareness of the commercialization of ideas from the biosciences for postgraduate students and postdoctoral scientists. David Muller, Vice Consul for Science and Technology at the British Consulate General says, \u0022This is a perfect example of the types of programs that the British Government has in place to strengthen transatlantic bonds between the scientific communities and, in addition, allow students and researchers with no business background to learn about entrepreneurship and commercialization\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor more information, contact Jo LeGood, Vice Consul Press and Public Affairs at (404) 954-7706 or David Muller, Vice Consul Science and Technology at (404) 954-7738.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Georgia Tech\u0027s SpiFi team has won the first round of a British biotech competition and is off to the U.K. to match their biotech invention idea against other finalists.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Tech\u0027s SpiFi team is off to the U.K."}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2004-08-27 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:58","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-08-27T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-08-27T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"80631":{"id":"80631","type":"image","title":"The SpiFi team","body":null,"created":"1449178079","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:59","changed":"1475894696","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:56"}},"media_ids":["80631"],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"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":""}},"80571":{"#nid":"80571","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Governor to Lead Town Hall Meeting at Tech Square","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Gov. Sonny Perdue is a featured speaker for a town hall meeting on homeland security beginning 7 p.m. Sept. 7 at Georgia Tech\u0027s Hotel and Conference Center, 800 Spring St. NW.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe meeting, sponsored by the Georgia Institute of Technology and WGST-AM 640, is free and open to the public. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022NewsRadio 640 WGST and Georgia Tech are hosting this town hall meeting to provide the community with a discussion about terrorism and homeland-security efforts in Georgia,\u0022 said Paul Mann, news director at NewsRadio 640 and the Georgia News Network.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We\u0027ll address critical questions, such as how has Atlanta prepared for an emergency? Is there anything else we can do?  How do the different agencies work together on homeland security?\u0022 Mann said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENewsRadio 640 morning show host Tom Hughes will moderate the meeting, with a panel of experts on hand to share their thoughts with attendees and listeners. Panelists will take questions from the audience about terrorism and Atlanta\u0027s state of emergency preparedness.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOther panelists on the program are Terry N. Hilderbrand, a senior research engineer at the Georgia Tech Research Institute; Georgia Homeland Security Director Bill Hitchens; Atlanta Police Chief Richard Pennington; Georgia State Health Director Kathleen Toomey, M.D. and M.P.H.; and Michael \u0022Leo\u0022 Desrosiers, director of the Georgia Business Force for the metro Atlanta chapter of Business Executives for National Security.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EParking is available in the Technology Square Parking Deck adjacent to the hotel. Vehicles may enter the deck via the Spring Street gate.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Panelists Will Address Atlanta\u0027s Emergency Preparedness"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Gov. Sonny Perdue will be among the panelists addressing emergency preparedness in Atlanta, and the public will be able to ask questions concerning homeland security initiatives in Georgia.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Sept. 7 event will address homeland security."}],"uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2004-09-02 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:58","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-09-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-09-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"80581":{"id":"80581","type":"image","title":"President G. Wayne Clough meets with Gov. 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Sonny Perdue"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.cistp.gatech.edu\/cistp\/Directions_TechHotel_ConferenceCenter.pdf","title":"Directions to Georgia Tech Hotel"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatechhotel.com\/","title":"Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"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":""}},"80531":{"#nid":"80531","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Digital Files Sought for Library\u0027s SMARTech System","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA new system available through Georgia Tech\u0027s Library and Information Center seeks to preserve the vast quantity of digital files and intellectual output produced daily at the Institute.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Scholarly Materials And Research at Georgia Tech (SMARTech) system allows faculty, staff and students to store a wide spectrum of useful data -- including dissertations, theses, research papers, databases, large data sets and digital learning objects - on the library\u0027s servers. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022What we\u0027re seeing is that a lot of this kind of information is being left behind in the wake of the information revolution,\u0022 Digital Initiatives Manager Catherine Jannik said. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022In lots of cases, important files or data sets are being left on computers unattended or, worse yet, they\u0027re sometimes forgotten,\u0022 she said. \u0022Many of these are valuable files, and they are increasingly lost in the electronic paper shuffle.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EJannik, who\u0027s leading the charge to collect faculty and student submissions for SMARTech, said that useful documents such as annual reports, newsletters and classroom presentations are vulnerable to loss if not archived properly. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Materials in the digital format are quickly produced and easy to lose, and we have to take immediate measures to include and save them,\u0022 said Tyler Walters, associate director for digital and technical services at the Georgia Tech Library.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESMARTech seeks to corral important files and reduce the loss of data. It also seeks to aid faculty, staff and students in their collaborative research efforts \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022First of all, SMARTech is an institutional repository for digital files. We\u0027d like to include anything that\u0027s important and something that we\u0027d want to hold on to for the long term,\u0022 Jannik said. \u0022But it\u0027s important to note that SMARTech completely supports the multidisciplinary nature of this campus. It puts all the information in one place so that you can access and search through the Institute\u0027s intellectual capital.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhat\u0027s more, it\u0027s also an invaluable tool for increasing Tech\u0027s visibility.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This is free and open to the world, and it\u0027s a way to create a permanent record for your digital work,\u0022 Jannik said. \u0022It gives non-Georgia Tech researchers access through one portal to our intellectual output in a digital format. This isn\u0027t collected all in one place right now, and it just disappears whenever a server dies or a system is taken out of commission.\u0022  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWalters said that SMARTech also might allow faculty and students to note how many people have read or reviewed their work online.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022For example, we want to track file downloads and where the hits to SMARTech are coming from,\u0022 Walters said. \u0022For authors of research papers and the like, this is an excellent place to help them get their work out there.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESMARTech allows users to create individual profiles for sifting data. This allows them to tailor the system\u0027s interface for their own preferences, and they can set it up to send e-mail alerts when there are updates to the collection. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe system\u0027s search function also allows users to browse SMARTech according to its collections, publication authors, document titles and dates. Users also can establish SMARTech work groups for different institutional repositories, then subscribe to individual collections or record sets for updates or changes.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe addition of SMARTech is part of the library\u0027s on-going effort to place itself at the forefront of information-content delivery and technology, thus enhancing and enriching the Institute\u0027s overall learning, teaching, training and research environment. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe SMARTech system is based on a popular software package designed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology called DSpace. But Tech takes that digital archive concept one step farther than MIT.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I think one of the big differences in our collection-building strategy is that we are collecting retrospective materials and library staff is submitting them,\u0022 she said. \u0022We\u0027ll put in your retrospective collections, then teach you how to submit your new data as you produce it, rather than waiting for folks to submit materials for the system themselves.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBegun in 1997, Tech\u0027s Digital Library Initiative seeks to capture all pertinent \u0022born digital\u0022 content, implement a campus-wide, digital-publishing program, and continue to create and support online collections -- including collections of digital text, photographs, video and audio files - that meet the needs of the Georgia Tech community and scholars around the world.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EJannik said her office\u0027s goal this year is to teach campus clients about SMARTech and make it useful to as wide an audience of users as possible. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAlready in their collection is an archive of newsletters from the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning; back issues of technical reports from the Graphics, Visualization and Usability Center; and annual reports from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). Soon, a storehouse of data from the Institute of Paper Science and Technology will be added to their collection, as will more ECE datasets.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA year ago, Georgia Tech\u0027s graduate students gained the ability to submit theses and dissertations electronically, and those are included in SMARTech, too. Graduate students are now required to use the Electronic Theses and Dissertation (ETD) system, which benefits them by allowing authors to include multimedia objects, hyperlinks, audio, video, and other objects that enhance their work. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAs of June 2004, library officials documented more than 72,000 viewings of ETD files. There also was an average of 7,200 viewings per month and an average of 97 viewings per ETD.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022For the two years prior to the ETD program, the most any Georgia Tech paper thesis or dissertation had circulated was nine times,\u0022 Jannik said. She added that the opportunity for growth in the use of SMARTech\u0027s ETD collection alone is stunning.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The CalTech database has been available since summer 2001 and it contains 1,256 titles,\u0022 she said. \u0022Its total accesses as of May 2004 were 926,862, and they\u0027re averaging more than 26,000 views per month.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Archive Preserves Institute\u0027s Intellectual Output"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"A new digital archive seeks to corral important files and reduce the loss of valuable data at Georgia Tech. It also seeks to aid faculty, staff and students in their collaborative research efforts.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Faculty and students now can save and search data."}],"uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2004-09-02 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:58","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-09-08T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-09-08T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"80541":{"id":"80541","type":"image","title":"Library Digital Initiatives Department","body":null,"created":"1449178071","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:51","changed":"1475894696","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:56"}},"media_ids":["80541"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/smartech.library.gatech.edu\/","title":"SMARTech"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.library.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech Library and Information Center"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"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":""}},"80551":{"#nid":"80551","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Computational Media Blends New Media \u0026 Computing","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn a unique joint effort, the College of Computing and the School of Literature, Communication and Culture in the Ivan Allen College have created a new degree designed to attract undergraduates with an interest in both the computational and creative side of new media, such as film, web, television, and games. The new Bachelor of Science in Computational Media, approved by the Board of Regents in June, is designed to provide solid computing and programming skills with a strong understanding of new media design. The program combines hands-on and theoretical knowledge of computing with an understanding of visual design and the history of media.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Interactive media is to the 21st century as film was to the 20th century. Innovation in technology and design is making the computer into a medium of communication that is reshaping print, television, film, games, and even live performances. The Computational Media degree will prepare students to lead these changes rather than merely following them,\u0022 said Janet Murray, professor and director of graduate programs in digital media in the School of Literature Communication and Culture (LCC).  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022By taking many of the core computer science courses required for the Computer Science degree, Computational Media students will gain a strong foundation in computing principles, software design and manipulation of digital media such as graphics and sound,\u0022 said Blair MacIntyre, assistant professor, College of Computing. \u0022The courses in LCC will provide these students with an understanding of visual and interactive design, digital art and media theory and history.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EStudents majoring in computational media will be jointly enrolled in the College of Computing and LCC. Both schools have added some new courses for this new degree, but the bulk of the required courses for the degree are already on the curriculum. The required courses in each school ensure that students will have competence in computational principles, digital media, software design, visual and interactive design, information design, digital arts, and media theory and history.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESpecialty areas combine courses from both schools and can be designed to meet the student\u0027s needs. Example specialization areas include animation and digital special effects, games and entertainment, interactive systems, and culturally-informed program design.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022When I heard about this new degree program, I loved the way it sounded because it perfectly fit my personality, my interests and everything I\u0027m looking to do in a job,\u0022 said Cooper Welch, a sophomore who recently changed his major from Computer Science to Computational Media. \u0022I enjoy computer programming, but I don\u0027t want programming to be the focus of my career. I am more visually-design oriented -- I like to draw and do things with Photoshop and graphics design.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Creative Students Gain Computing Skills"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"The College of Computing and the School of Literature, Communication and Culture in the Ivan Allen College have created a new degree designed to attract undergraduates with an interest in both the computational and creative side of digital media.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Degree combines computing with new media design."}],"uid":"27301","created_gmt":"2004-09-07 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:58","author":"Elizabeth Campell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-09-08T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-09-08T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"80561":{"id":"80561","type":"image","title":"Student demonstrates interactive TV","body":null,"created":"1449178079","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:59","changed":"1475894696","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:56"}},"media_ids":["80561"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.cm.gatech.edu\/","title":"Computational Media Degree"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"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":""}},"80491":{"#nid":"80491","#data":{"type":"news","title":"The Search for a Kinder, Gentler Chemotherapy","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPainful and damaging chemotherapy may one day be a thing of the past. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Purdue University have developed nano-sized particles that can target and trick cancer cells into absorbing them. Once inside, the particles may soon be able to deliver a pharmaceutical payload, killing the tumor from within and avoiding the destruction of healthy cells responsible for much of the damage caused by traditional chemotherapy. The research is published in the August 25 edition of the Journal of the American Chemical Society.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We\u0027ve developed a class of particles called core\/shell nanogels that we can functionalize with a specific kind of chemistry that allows them to target cancer cells,\u0022 said L. Andrew Lyon, associate professor at Georgia Tech\u0027s School of Chemistry and Biochemistry. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThat specific kind of chemistry is folic acid. Cancer cells have more receptors for folic acid and absorb more of the nutrient than healthy cells. In a process akin to hiding a dog\u0027s heartworm pill in a glob of peanut butter, researchers covered the surface of the nanogels with folic acid, disguising the particles as an essential nutrient. Once the cancer cells took the particles in, researchers increased the temperature of the cells, causing the particles to clump together and shrink, killing the cell. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHeating the cell is a crucial step in triggering the particles to destroy cells, but it\u0027s also a safeguard. Cancer cells have more folic acid receptors than normal cells, but normal cells could still absorb the nanoparticles. By applying a targeted heat source - like ultrasound - only to the tumor, doctors should be able to avoid killing healthy cells that happen to take in the nanoparticles.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The possibility for using these nanoparticles as vehicles to target and kill only cancer cells is particularly exciting,\u0022 said Jean Chmielewski, professor of chemistry at Purdue University. \u0022Decorating the exterior of the vehicle with folic acid is a very direct route to enter cancer cells. This type of an approach will bring cancer chemotherapy to a new level of treatment,\u0022 she said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETraditional chemotherapy, by contrast, can be described as a shotgun approach with the cellular poisons affecting tumors and healthy cells alike. Nausea, vomiting, hair loss, anxiety and a reduction in red blood cells are just some of the side effects that can occur with chemotherapy. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022If there\u0027s a way to specifically target medicine to the site of disease, that makes this potential treatment all the more effective because then presumably you could use smaller doses and avoid the collateral damage that occurs during traditional chemotherapy,\u0022 said Lyon.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENow that they\u0027ve gotten cancer cells to take in the nanoparticles, the next step is to see how they behave with a toxic payload. \u0022In the lab right now we\u0027re loading particles with anticancer agents and understanding the fundamentals of how the particles can encapsulate them, how tightly they can hold onto them and how closely we can regulate the uptake and release,\u0022 said Lyon.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Scientists use nanoparticles clothed in folic acid to selectively target cancer cells in an effort to bypass the harmful side effects of traditional chemotherapy.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Scientists use nanoparticles to target cancer cells"}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2004-09-07 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:58","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-09-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-09-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"80501":{"id":"80501","type":"image","title":"L. Andrew Lyon headshot","body":null,"created":"1449178071","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:51","changed":"1475894696","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:56"}},"media_ids":["80501"],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"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":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"80201":{"#nid":"80201","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Center Founded to Help Businesses Compete","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn business markets driven by constant technological and commercial change, successful companies and industries must ceaselessly reinvent themselves to thrive. But rather than reacting on the fly to change, businesses can anticipate and seize advantage from technology and industry shifts to build effective and innovative business models, shared by companies large and small.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo pioneer the next step in enterprise transformation, Georgia Institute of Technology announces the creation of the Tennenbaum Institute, the first multi-disciplinary center of its kind, uniting academic, government and corporate experts to create industry-shaping business models. This proactive approach demands a holistic view of industries and world markets to help US companies remain competitive nationally and internationally.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEstablished through a $5 million gift from Georgia Tech alumnus Michael Tennenbaum, the Tennenbaum Institute will focus on developing business practices and organizational cultures that will help existing enterprises become more cost-effective and competitive by leveraging technological and market innovations. The Tennenbaum Institute will address both private and public sector enterprises in areas such as aerospace, automotive, banking, computing, defense, education, health care, non-profits, pharmaceuticals, retail, telecommunications and transportation.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAs a long-time veteran of Wall Street, Michael Tennenbaum has helped numerous ailing companies back from the brink of a crisis. Tennenbaum primarily invests in companies that are in desperate need of change, and he saw a need for a different approach to enterprise transformation\u0026mdash;a need that a multidisciplinary initiative like the Tennenbaum Institute could fill.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I think it\u0027s going to be a big success. It\u0027s a strong idea, and it\u0027s housed in a good spot,\u0022 Tennenbaum said. \u0022I think that education has gotten so specialized that there\u0027s a big opportunity to build more knowledge by combining different specialties, rather than just to keep drilling down deeper into one specialty.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Tennenbaum Institute and its members will work together to research the interdisciplinary nature of enterprise transformation, identify and evaluate the best practices for accomplishing transformation and disseminate knowledge and best practices through publications (hardcopy and online), meetings (workshops and forums), education (graduate and executive) and outreach (extension services).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We\u0027re excited and honored that Michael Tennenbaum has helped Georgia Tech move forward with a uniquely multidisciplinary and forward-thinking approach to enterprise transformation,\u0022 said Georgia Tech President Dr. Wayne Clough.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAs a top ten public university, Georgia Tech excels not only in academic fields, including engineering, architecture, computing, liberal arts, management, and sciences, but also boasts some of the top academic economic development centers and incubators such as the Advanced Technology Development Center, the Georgia Tech Research Institute, and VentureLabs. Georgia Tech is a perfect home for the center to bring together a wide cross section of disciplines to help businesses and organizations evolve ahead of the curve.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The Tennenbaum Institute represents an opportunity for Georgia Tech to excel at multidisciplinary research and education in its broadest sense and consequently impact our understanding of major economic and social issues as well as contribute to these issues being addressed,\u0022 said William B. Rouse, executive director of the Tennenbaum Institute and the H. Milton and Carolyn J. Stewart chair of the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWith expertise and research from each of Georgia Tech\u0027s six colleges, as well as the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), the Tennenbaum Institute\u0027s research and education portfolio includes transformation methods and tools, emerging enterprise technologies, organizational simulation, investment valuation, organizational culture and change; and best practice assessments, with an emphasis on helping private and public sector enterprises face challenges likely to emerge in the years ahead. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Our job is not necessarily to solve a business or organization\u0027s problems today. Our job is to anticipate its emerging problems in a five year or so time horizon and to research the best ways of understanding and addressing those problems,\u0022 Rouse said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Institute would, for instance, help member companies determine what types of emerging technologies will be available in five or ten years and how adopting them might change the way these companies would do business or how customers would interact with the companies, Rouse said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDollar General Corp. will be the Institute\u0027s first corporate member and will bring its issues, concerns, knowledge and skills to the Tennenbaum Institute\u0027s exchange and debate.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAbout Michael Tennenbaum\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn addition to being the senior managing partner of Tennenbaum Capital Partners, which manages private funds with assets over $3.5 billion, Michael Tennebaum is also chairman of PEMCO Aviation Group, chairman of Anacomp, vice-chairman of Party City Corp. and former vice chairman of Investment Banking of Bear, Stearns and Co. Inc. where he served in various capacities for 34 years. While at Bear Stearns, he completed transactions in a variety of industries, including manufacturing, healthcare, gaming, energy, media, transportation and retailing. He is a trustee emeritus of the Georgia Tech Foundation and a member of the Board of Associates of the Harvard Business School.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Thanks to a $5 million gift from Tech alumnus Michael Tennenbaum, Tech has formed a new multi-disciplinary center  to bring together academic, government and corporate experts to create advances in enterprise transformation, which involves designing practices and cultures to best leverage the nature of innovations.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Tennenbaum Inst. Focuses Enterprise Transformation"}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2004-10-25 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:05","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-10-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-10-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"80211":{"id":"80211","type":"image","title":"Tennenbaum, Rouse, and Perdue","body":null,"created":"1449178071","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:51","changed":"1475894693","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:53"}},"media_ids":["80211"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ti.gatech.edu\/","title":"Tennenbaum Institute Web site"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"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":""}},"80181":{"#nid":"80181","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Survey Tracks Experiences with Electronic Voting","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a survey to measure the public\u0027s experiences and satisfaction with voting, particularly among those who use electronic voting machines.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe survey\u0026mdash;being conducted online and through other means by investigators in Georgia Tech\u0027s Center for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access (CATEA)\u0026mdash;also measures how accessible voting information is to the public before an election.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We\u0027ve put out a new product for the voting public to use, electronic voting machines,\u0022 said CATEA Associate Director Rob Bingham-Roy. \u0022This year is the year the devices have been out in the field, so we\u0027re interested in what the public is actually experiencing when they encounter these devices, both in the disabled community and among John Q. Public.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERoy stresses that this is not a strictly scientific survey; the actual term for it is a self-selecting sampling technique. Its purpose is to measure user experiences in the field. The responses from the public will be used to shape future research proposals that study electronic voting machines and how they perform. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We hope to take the responses, analyze the data, and then communicate the findings to the manufacturers, to Georgia\u0027s Secretary of State, and to others so that they can get a sense of what users are experiencing in the field,\u0022 Roy said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMimi Kessler, project director for CATEA\u0027s Information Technology Technical Assistance and Training Center (ITTATC), said this survey identifies the barriers voters might encounter with an electronic voting machine and their overall satisfaction with voting and casting a ballot. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We also want to know what barriers have been removed, particularly for people with disabilities,\u0022 Kessler said. \u0022Many of them have been looking forward to electronic voting, which would allow them to vote without assistance and with complete privacy for the first time in history.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We are also interested in the accessibility of voter information available to the public prior to the election, which might help them make informed decisions,\u0022 Kessler said. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EShe said that one impetus for the survey was the amount of public discussion on electronic voting, not only at the political level but also in the information technology community. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022There are real concerns about electronic voting machines and their usability, about the vulnerability of machines to hacking, and whether there is any kind of audit trail for votes cast,\u0022 she said. \u0022These concerns have merit, but we need to ensure that the progress made toward independent voting for people with disabilities does not take a step backward.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Today, the manufacturers have gone to great lengths to test the machines, particularly among individuals with disabilities. Many of us wonder if this might be a brand-new day,\u0022 she added. \u0022So we just want to create an opportunity for everyone to have a place to put their comments, both positive and negative, about their voting experiences.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo participate in the survey, go to \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/votersurvey\u0022 title=\u0022www.gatech.edu\/votersurvey\u0022\u003Ewww.gatech.edu\/votersurvey\u003C\/a\u003E. It takes about 10 minutes to complete and has four categories: voting, barriers to voting, satisfaction with voting experience and information about survey participants.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe survey is designed to measure a participant\u0027s experience since January 2004 and will collect information about all types of elections, including local, runoff, general and primaries. Voters who used electronic voting machines at any of these types of elections are encouraged to submit a user survey. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAdditionally, users may take the survey by phone, or may request a paper copy of the survey, by contacting Research Associate Robert Roy, \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:rob.roy@catea.org\u0022\u003Erob.roy@catea.org\u003C\/a\u003E or 404-894-1412. For TTY service, call the ITTATC project toll-free, 1-866-948-8282.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Tool also measures access to voter information"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a survey to measure the public\u0027s experiences and satisfaction with voting, particularly among those who use electronic voting machines.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Tool also measures access to voter information"}],"uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2004-10-21 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:05","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-10-27T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-10-27T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"80191":{"id":"80191","type":"image","title":"Electronic Voting Machine","body":null,"created":"1449178071","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:51","changed":"1475894693","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:53"}},"media_ids":["80191"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ittatc.org\/","title":"Information Technology Technical Assistance and Training Center"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.catea.org\/","title":"CATEA"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/votersurvey","title":"Georgia Tech Electronic Voter Survey"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"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":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"80111":{"#nid":"80111","#data":{"type":"news","title":"AAAS and Georgia Tech Announce 2004 Fellows","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFive faculty of the Georgia Institute of Technology have been awarded the distinction of \u003Cem\u003EAAAS Fellow \u003C\/em\u003E-- \u003Cstrong\u003ERichard A. DeMillo\u003C\/strong\u003E, the John P. Imlay Dean and Distinguished Professor of Computing; \u003Cstrong\u003ERigoberto Hernandez\u003C\/strong\u003E, associate professor, School of Chemistry \u0026amp; Biochemistry; \u003Cstrong\u003EPeter J. Hesketh\u003C\/strong\u003E, professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering; \u003Cstrong\u003EJohn F. McDonald\u003C\/strong\u003E, professor and Chair, School of Biology; and \u003Cstrong\u003EGary B. Schuster\u003C\/strong\u003E, Dean of the College of Sciences and Professor of Chemistry. Election as a Fellow of AAAS is an honor bestowed upon members by their peers.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAwarded to 308 members this year, these individuals have been elevated to this rank because of their efforts to advance science or its applications that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished. New Fellows will be presented with an official certificate and a gold and blue (representing science and engineering, respectively) rosette pin on Saturday, February 19, at the Fellows Forum during the 2005 AAAS Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis year\u0027s AAAS Fellows will be announced in the AAAS News \u0026amp; Notes section of the journal, \u003Cem\u003EScience \u003C\/em\u003Eon October 29, 2004.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAs part of the section on Biological Sciences, \u003Cstrong\u003EJohn F. McDonald\u003C\/strong\u003E, professor and Chair of the School of Biology, was elected as an AAAS Fellow for \u003Cem\u003Epioneering work on the evolution of transposable genetic elements and their contributions to gene and genome structure and function\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAs part of the section on Chemistry, \u003Cstrong\u003ERigoberto Hernandez\u003C\/strong\u003E, associate professor in the School of Chemistry \u0026amp; Biochemistry, was elected as an AAAS Fellow for \u003Cem\u003Einnovative computational methods and theoretical models for understanding structural and dynamic chemical behavior and for commitment to diversity and inclusiveness in science\u003C\/em\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAs part of the section on Chemistry, \u003Cstrong\u003EGary B. Schuster\u003C\/strong\u003E, Dean of the College of Sciences and Professor of Chemistry, was elected as an AAAS Fellow for \u003Cem\u003Epioneering research in organic photochemistry and for leadership of the academic enterprise\u003C\/em\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAs part of the section on Engineering, \u003Cstrong\u003EPeter J. Hesketh\u003C\/strong\u003E, professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, was elected as an AAAS Fellow for \u003Cem\u003Ethe development of MEMS microfluidic and microvalve devices and biosensors and for the application of stereolithography in fabricating prototype chemical sensors\u003C\/em\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAs part of the section on Information, Computing and Communication, \u003Cstrong\u003ERichard A. DeMillo\u003C\/strong\u003E, the John P. Imlay Dean and Distinguished Professor of Computing, was elected as an AAAS Fellow for \u003Cem\u003Edistinguished contributions to the fields of computer security, software engineering, and mathematics, with particular emphasis on information security\u003C\/em\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe tradition of AAAS Fellows began in 1874. Currently, members can be considered for the rank of Fellow if nominated by the Steering Groups of the Association\u0027s 24 sections, or by any three Fellows who are current AAAS members (so long as two of the three sponsors are not affiliated with the nominee\u0027s institution), or by the Chief Executive Officer. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEach Steering Group then reviews the nominations of individuals within its respective section and a final list is forwarded to the AAAS Council, which votes on the aggregate list. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Council is the policymaking body of the Association, chaired by the AAAS President, and consisting of the members of the Board of Directors, the Retiring Section Chairs, delegates from each electorate and each regional division, and two delegates from the National Association of Academies of Science.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is the world\u0027s largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal, \u003Cem\u003EScience\u003C\/em\u003E. AAAS was founded in 1848, and serves some 262 affiliated societies and academies of science, serving 10 million individuals. The non-profit AAAS is open to all and fulfills its mission to \u0022advance science and serve society\u0022 through initiatives in science policy; international programs; science education; and more.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Five Faculty Selected for Prestigious Honor"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Five faculty members have been awarded the distinction of AAAS Fellow. Election as a Fellow of AAAS is an honor bestowed upon members by their peers. This year the title has been awarded to 308 members nationwide.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Five faculty members elected as AAAS Fellows."}],"uid":"27301","created_gmt":"2004-10-18 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:05","author":"Elizabeth Campell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-10-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-10-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"80121":{"id":"80121","type":"image","title":"Tech Tower","body":null,"created":"1449178071","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:51","changed":"1475894693","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:53"}},"media_ids":["80121"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/","title":"Science Magazine"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.aaas.org\/","title":"American Association for the Advancement of Science"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"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":""}},"80091":{"#nid":"80091","#data":{"type":"news","title":"John Kerry Wins Georgia Tech Web Site Poll","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJohn Kerry is the winner of Georgia Tech\u0027s Web site poll on the presidential race. Close to 29,000 votes were cast for one of three presidential candidates, George W. Bush, John Kerry or Ralph Nader, in the informal poll, known as Buzzpoll, on Georgia Tech\u0027s homepage, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\u0022 title=\u0022www.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ewww.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E. Kerry edged out the incumbent Bush at the last minute with 14,522 votes to Bush\u0027s 12,944. Nader garnered 1,481 votes.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The poll is not scientific,\u0022 said Jeff Smith, web developer at Georgia Tech. \u0022It reflects people who have voted more than once.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EStill, Buzzpoll, reflects the closeness of the presidential race, said Smith. That\u0027s because, in general, \u0022for every Kerry voter who voted more than once, we had a Bush voter who voted more than once,\u0022 he said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe presidential Buzzpoll made its debut on Georgia Tech\u0027s homepage on Thursday, October 21 and gathered 28,947 votes before closing on November 1. The week-and-a-half-contest was hotly contested throughout. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I\u0027ve seen the lead change at least seven or eight times,\u0022 said Smith. As the poll headed into its last day, Bush was up by close to 1,500 votes. By the end, Kerry had regained the lead.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDespite its informal tone, the poll was not without controversy. Smith received several emails concerning the absence of Libertarian candidate Michael Badnarik. Badnarik is on the ballot in Georgia, while Nader, who was included in Buzzpoll, is not on the ballot.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We considered candidates who we thought were going to have the strongest showing in the race,\u0022 said Smith. \u0022We included Nader because of his historical position as a spoiler in the presidential race. In hindsight, maybe we should have included the Libertarian candidate.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBuzzpoll is a new feature of Georgia Tech\u0027s newly redesigned homepage, which was launched August 25. The presidential poll was the ninth Buzzpoll and by far the most popular.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022It was a poll that got a dramatic spike in interest and brought in a lot of visitors to Georgia Tech\u0027s Web site just so they could weigh in on a poll,\u0022 said Smith.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe latest poll was launched today and asks voters whether the Electoral College should be replaced by direct voting.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Unlike most things at Tech, poll is unscientific"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Informal presidential poll is the most popular Buzzpoll since August debut.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Buzzpoll garners close to 29,000 responses."}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2004-11-02 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:05","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-11-02T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2004-11-02T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"80101":{"id":"80101","type":"image","title":"Tech Tower","body":null,"created":"1449178071","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:51","changed":"1475894693","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:53"}},"media_ids":["80101"],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"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":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"80051":{"#nid":"80051","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tech Square Wins Urban Land Institute Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Urban Land Institute (ULI) has recognized Technology Square as one of 10 winners of its 2004 Awards for Excellence competition. The award is widely recognized as the land use industry\u0027s most prestigious recognition program.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe competition was established in 1979 and recognizes the full development process of a project, not just architecture or design. The criteria for the awards include leadership, contribution to the community, innovations, public\/private partnership, environmental protection and enhancement, response to societal needs, and financial success.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EULI Chairman Harry Frampton announced the Awards for Excellence winners during a gala celebrating the finalists at ULI\u0027s Fall Meeting in New York City. \u0022The Awards for Excellence program is as much about celebrating the people who make the developments a reality as the developments themselves,\u0022 Frampton said. \u0022Behind every great project is an individual who is passionate about the project and dedicated to seeing it through from start to finish.\u0022   \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EProjects were evaluated on the basis of financial viability, the resourceful use of land, design, relevance to contemporary issues, and sensitivity to the community and environment. Each contributes to a live-work-play environment and is designed to complement and enhance the greater community.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This project allowed Georgia Tech to reconnect to midtown by bridging the divide created by the construction of the I-75\/85 freeway,\u0022 Tech President G. Wayne Clough told the ULI.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Technology Square is important not only because of its symbolic value, but also because its role as an anchor has energized others to participate in the midtown renaissance. It has helped create a visible technology corridor for Atlanta and replaced the vacant lots and derelict buildings that once filled the area with beautiful new facilities. It also has created a new home for Georgia Tech\u0027s business school and economic outreach activities. We are very proud of what has been done and of the fantastic team that made this dream come true,\u0022 he said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOver the years, the Awards for Excellence program has evolved from a recognition of one development in North America to an international competition with multiple winners, including the Heritage Award, which recognizes projects at least 25 years old that set the highest standards for excellence. Throughout the program\u0027s history all types of projects have been recognized for their excellence, including office, residential, recreational, urban\/mixed-use, industrial\/office park, commercial\/retail, new community, rehabilitation and public projects.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOther 2004 Awards for Excellence winners are:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n*Baldwin Park, Orlando, Florida\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n*Fall Creek Place, Indianapolis, Indiana\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n*First Ward Place\/The Garden District, Charlotte, *North Carolina\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n*Fullerton Square Project, Singapore\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n*Playhouse Square Center, Cleveland, Ohio\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n*The Plaza at PPL Center, Allentown, Pennsylvania\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n*University Park at MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n*Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, California\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n*WaterColor, Seagrove Beach, Florida\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDescription of Technology Square by the Urban Land Institute\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn a previously blighted and vacant three-block area of midtown Atlanta where security was a constant concern and pedestrian activity was nonexistent, Georgia Institute of Technology has overcome physical and psychological barriers to reconnect the university with the midtown neighborhood by developing a vibrant, 24\/7 urban campus for students and community members alike. In Technology Square at Georgia Institute of Technology, students, faculty, midtown residents, businesspeople, and visitors meet and interact, attracted by wide, tree-lined sidewalks with benches and bicycle lanes, shops and restaurants, a hotel, on-street and garage parking, and access to public transportation. A free, alternative-fuel trolley takes students to and from the main campus and the Midtown Metropolitan Atlanta Regional Transportation Authority (MARTA) station.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe development relocates and expands Georgia Tech\u0027s 1,500-student College of Management, now housed in a new structure featuring a four-story glass atrium that overlooks a central courtyard, opening up the building to natural light and creating two-way transparency that reinforces the connection between students and faculty within the building and the business and residential community outside. The structure is the second building in Georgia to be certified as a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver building by the U.S.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGreen Building Council, and lessons learned from the LEED initiative were incorporated whenever possible into the development\u0027s other buildings. Technology Square was the first development to implement Blueprint Midtown, a set of guidelines adopted by the Atlanta City Council as a special zoning district, and the project has set the standard by which future development in the area will be judged. It has spurred commercial development at an adjacent Class A office development planned in cooperation with Technology Square, thereby enhancing the synergy between private sector technology businesses and Georgia Tech\u0027s research and academic resources. This dynamic development has met the university\u0027s objectives while benefiting area residents and businesses and promoting the economic growth of the region.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Technology Square honored for reconnecting campus to Midtown, pedestrian-friendly streetscapes and environmentally sound construction.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Project one of ten to receive  Award for Excellence"}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2004-11-09 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:05","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-11-09T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2004-11-09T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"80061":{"id":"80061","type":"image","title":"Tech Square Trolley","body":null,"created":"1449178071","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:51","changed":"1475894693","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:53","alt":"Tech Square Trolley","file":{"fid":"193899","name":"08c1004-p73-001_4.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/08c1004-p73-001_4_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/08c1004-p73-001_4_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":593829,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/08c1004-p73-001_4_0.jpg?itok=iJ6YSuTJ"}},"80071":{"id":"80071","type":"image","title":"Management Building","body":null,"created":"1449178071","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:51","changed":"1475894693","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:53"}},"media_ids":["80061","80071"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/technology-square\/","title":"Technology Square"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.uli.org\/","title":"Urban Land Institute"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"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":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"80081":{"#nid":"80081","#data":{"type":"news","title":"College of Engineering Announces its Alumni Awards","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech announced its annual College of Engineering Alumni Awards at an induction ceremony on Nov. 5.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENew members were inducted into Georgia Tech\u0027s Engineering Hall of Fame, the Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni and the Council of Outstanding Young Engineering Alumni.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Each of these alumni exemplify the essence of Georgia Tech - a strong technological foundation, a competitive spirit and a drive for excellence. Their accomplishments, as well as their dedication to their professions, their communities, and especially to Georgia Tech, have earned them a place in Georgia Tech history,\u0022 said President G. Wayne Clough.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe 14 inductees to the Engineering Hall of Fame received the highest honor that can be bestowed on alumni in the College of Engineering. Hall of Fame membership is reserved for alumni who have made sustained and meritorious engineering and\/or managerial contributions during their careers.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EInductees included:\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026#9679; Harold Samuel Becker, Aerospace Engineering, 1951. President, HalMar Associates\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026#9679; Michael T. Duke, Industrial Engineering, 1971. President\/CEO, Wal-Mart Stores Division\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026#9679; Arnold I. Goldberg, Mechanical Engineering, 1950. President, Flexible Assembly Services and Test Inc.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026#9679; Hollis L. Harris, Aerospace Engineering, 1961. Chairman\/CEO, World Airways Inc.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026#9679; H. Scott Howell, Textiles Engineering, 1951. Retired Executive Vice President, Russell Corp.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026#9679; E. Calvin Johnson, Electrical Engineering, 1947. Vice President, UBC Inc.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026#9679; Thomas J. Malone, Chemical Engineering, 1963. Retired Executive Vice Chairman, Milliken and Co.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026#9679; Duncan A. Mellichamp, Chemical Engineering, 1959. Professor Emeritus Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026#9679; Paul M. O\u0027Neal Jr., Civil Engineering, 1965. Preisident\/CEO, O\u0027Neal Inc.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026#9679; Thomas E. Perrin, Civil Engineering, 1949. Retired President\/CEO, Watkins Engineers and Constructors Inc.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026#9679; M. David Prince, Electrical Engineering, 1946. Retired Senior Staff Specialist, Lockheed Aeronautical Systems Co.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026#9679; Joseph LeConte Smith Jr., Mechanical Engineering, 1953. Samuel C. Collins Senior Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026#9679; Robert W. Tyson Jr., Civil Engineering, 1951. Retired Owner\/Chairman, R.W. Tyson Producing Co. Inc.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026#9679; Roger P. Webb, Electrical Engineering, 1964. Professor and Steve W. Chaddick School Chair, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni recognizes 18 alumni this year who have made significant contributions to their profession, the Institute, or society at large. Individuals receiving this award are widely respected, recognized for their professional and personal success, and actively involved in engineering or management.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe eight alumni inducted into the Council of Outstanding Young Engineering Alumni were alumni under 40 years of age who have already demonstrated outstanding professional achievements.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"The College of Engineering has named this year\u0027s inductees to the Engineering Hall of Fame, the Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni and the Council of Outstanding Young Engineering Alumni.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"CoE Alumni Awards honor outstanding alumni"}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2004-11-09 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:05","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-11-09T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2004-11-09T00:00:00-05:00","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":"3295","name":"Buzzpoll"},{"id":"3296","name":"poll"},{"id":"1271","name":"President"}],"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":""}},"79971":{"#nid":"79971","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Hong Kong Think Tank Calls for Pollution Standards","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn one of the world\u0027s fastest growing industrial regions, a study finding that a class of pollutants exist at levels four times that of U.S. air quality standards has prompted a Hong Kong public policy group to call for government standards on fine particulate matter. The finding was released by Civic Exchange, a non-profit public policy think tank comprised of scientists as well as representatives from the power and oil industries, government and civic organizations. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe study measured levels of fine particulate matter and ozone, a major component of smog, across Hong Kong and its northern neighbor Guangdong Province. Fine particulate matter is made up of chemical particles less than 2.5 microns in diameter. The main sources of these particles are the burning of coal for energy, emissions from gasoline and diesel vehicles and the burning of other organic material such as vegetation and trash.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022By far the highest levels in the region were found in Guangdong where measurement sites showed levels of particulates as high as four times the U.S. National Ambient Air Quality Standard,\u0022 said Michael Bergin, principal investigator for the fine particulate segment of the study and associate professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the class of pollutants has been proven to be harmful to human health and long-term exposure can lead to reduced lung function, chronic bronchitis and premature death.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Sites in Hong Kong were roughly twice the U.S. standards,\u0022 said Bergin. \u0022Overall it appears to us that, with regard to particulate matter, Hong Kong air quality is being seriously impacted by Guangdong province in mainland China just to the north\u0022.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBy comparison, Atlanta, which has some of the highest concentrations of fine particulate matter of any city in the United States, slightly exceeds the EPA standard. China does not have air quality standards for fine particulate matter.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMuch of the pollution can be tied to the Chinese export market, which manufactures goods such as electronics and clothing to the United States, Europe and other markets. \u0022About 20 to 30 percent of the pollution in the region is due to manufacturing goods for export,\u0022 said David Streets, a senior scientist at Argonne National Laboratory who has studied pollution controls in China. \u0022This includes not only manufacturing facilities, but generating the electricity that goes into the factories and the trucks that transport goods to the ports. This contributes significantly to some of the high concentrations of pollutants to the region.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EReducing those pollutants wouldn\u0027t add much to the cost of export goods, said Streets. Upgrading motor vehicle emission standards and placing emission controls on power plants and industrial smokestacks among other measures could lower the amount of fine particles and ozone precursors in the region by about 20 to 30 percent. And it would add only three-tenths of a percent to the cost of each good. A $100 DVD player, for instance, would only cost 30 cents more after emissions standards were put in place.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELead was one chemical particle that researchers found in extremely high concentrations in Guangdong. \u0022The lead levels were much higher in Guangdong than what we find in the U.S.,\u0022 said Bergin. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAccording to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, lead is very damaging to neurological development in children and can lead to behavior problems and learning disabilities. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We\u0027re not sure where the lead is coming from,\u0022 said Bergin. \u0022We suspect that most of it is coming from burning leaded gasoline, but we can\u0027t rule out other sources related to the intense industrial activity going on in the region.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAnother source of fine particulate matter is biomass from a variety of sources including crop residue and trash.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Biomass burning seems to take place nearly anywhere and everywhere in China,\u0022 said Bergin. \u0022We really have to find out the timing and location of biomass burning in the region, in addition to what is being burned.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile the report found that particulate matter in Hong Kong is largely originating in Guangdong, that wasn\u0027t entirely the case with ozone levels. While much of the ozone found in Hong Kong is believed to have originated in mainland China, volatile organic compounds from industrial activities in Hong Kong were found to be contributing to ozone formation. Ground-level ozone is formed when volatile organic compounds react with nitrogen oxides in the presence of sunlight. Repeated exposure to ozone can lead to reduced lung capacity and permanent lung damage according to the EPA. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Many in Hong Kong thought almost all the ozone in the area was coming from mainland China,\u0022 said Bergin. \u0022Our results suggest organic compounds that lead to ozone formation may have sources in and around Hong Kong. Hence solving the ozone problem in Hong Kong indicates a combination of local control strategies as well as collaboration with Guangdong.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to recommending that both the governments of Hong Kong and Guangdong establish standards for fine particulate matter, the report called for more study to pinpoint the exact sources of the pollutants and their chemical precursors. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EContributing to the study, \u0022Hong Kong and Pearl River Delta Pilot Air Monitoring Project\u0022, were scientists from Georgia Institute of Technology, Peking University, the University of Science and Technology and Polytechnic University in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong Environmental Protection Department (EPD) was also integral to the study, contributing resources, data and expertise. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe project was funded by the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, Castle Peak Power, the Hong Kong Environmental Protection Department and Shell Hong Kong.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"In one of the world\u0027s fastest growing industrial regions, a study finding that a class of pollutants exist at levels four times that of U.S. air quality standards has prompted a Hong Kong public policy group to call for government standards on fine particulate matter.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Tech researchers measure pollution levels in China"}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2004-11-16 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:05","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-11-17T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2004-11-17T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"79981":{"id":"79981","type":"image","title":"Hazy Hong Kong Skyline","body":null,"created":"1449178071","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:51","changed":"1475894693","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:53"},"79991":{"id":"79991","type":"image","title":"Clear Hong Kong Skyline","body":null,"created":"1449178071","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:51","changed":"1475894693","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:53"}},"media_ids":["79981","79991"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ce.gatech.edu\/~mhbergin\/hk_prd_public\/index.htm","title":"Pearl River Delta Project"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.civic-exchange.org\/n_home.htm","title":"Civic Exchange"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"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":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"80001":{"#nid":"80001","#data":{"type":"news","title":"College of Management Launches Global Executive MBA","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0027s College of Management is joining forces with business schools in France and Argentina to offer a Global Executive MBA degree. This executive degree is offered through a collaborative effort, known as the \u0022GlobalTeam EMBA,\u0022 between the College of Management at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, the ICN \u00e9cole de management in Nancy, France, and the Instituto Tecnol\u00f3gico de Buenos Aires (ITBA) in Argentina. Applications for fall 2005 are now being accepted.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe majority of international MBA degrees are developed and administered by one university with a strong emphasis on international business in conjunction with an international residency. The collaborative Global Executive MBA degree is offered in a different format, designed to be a truly international learning experience, including four residencies -- two at Georgia Tech and one each in Nancy and Buenos Aires -- during the 17-month program. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAll three partner schools focus on technology and how it affects innovation and change. The goal of the Global Executive MBA program is to fine-tune the skills and knowledge of executives who deal with global business issues or those who want to shift their career toward international business.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The concept of the Global Executive MBA is to give executives who work on a global scale a better understanding about managing innovation and change amid the technical sophistication and complexity of business today,\u0022 says Nate Bennett, senior associate dean, Georgia Tech College of Management. \u0022The program will provide ample opportunity to attend classes, visit companies, and experience cultural events in all three locations. Most importantly, they\u0027ll become part of truly international student teams.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEach school will recruit a class of executives who will meet at Georgia Tech for two weeks to kick-off the program. Afterwards, they will return to their home campuses for a semester taught by local faculty and structured in an every-other-weekend executive format. All of the students will take the same classes, receiving face-to-face instruction while working virtually with their classmates around the globe.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We\u0027re blending the best of distance learning with the richness of face-to-face instruction,\u0022 says Bennett.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe second semester will begin with a two-week residency in Nancy, and the third semester will begin with a two-week residency in Buenos Aires. Participants will then return to Georgia Tech to finish their coursework and graduate the last week of the final semester. Another unique feature of the degree is that students from ICN and ITBA will earn a Georgia Tech degree in addition to one from their home school. Students based at Georgia Tech will earn a master\u0027s from one of the international schools in addition to a Georgia Tech degree, giving them a competitive advantage on their resumes, particularly if they are focused on a global career.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor more information, visit Georgia Tech\u0027s Global Executive MBA Program at \u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/mgt.gatech.edu\/exec_ed\/gemba.html\u0027\u003Ehttp:\/\/mgt.gatech.edu\/exec_ed\/gemba.html\u003C\/a\u003E or call the Huang Executive Education Center at 404.385.2254.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"First Class Begins Fall 2005"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Georgia Tech\u0027s College of Management is joining forces with business schools in France and Argentina to offer a Global Executive MBA degree, through a collaborative effort, called the GlobalTeam EMBA.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Partnership with schools in France and Argentina"}],"uid":"27301","created_gmt":"2004-11-16 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:05","author":"Elizabeth Campell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-11-17T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2004-11-17T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"80011":{"id":"80011","type":"image","title":"College of Management","body":null,"created":"1449178071","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:51","changed":"1475894693","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:53"}},"media_ids":["80011"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/mgt.gatech.edu\/exec_ed\/gemba.html","title":"Global Executive MBA"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"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":""}},"79951":{"#nid":"79951","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Computing Team Wins ACM Programming Competition","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Student Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (GTACM) won 1st place at the 2004-2005 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) held in Melbourne, Fla. Thousands of collegiate programmers participated in this year\u0027s international \u0022Tech Olympics,\u0022 sponsored by IBM. After winning the Southeastern regional competition, the Georgia Tech team has earned a coveted spot at the World Finals in Shanghai, China.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFrom September to mid-December, regional competitions across the globe will draw more than 3,000 teams from over 70 countries on six continents. Of these, 75 teams will compete at the World Finals, April 3-7, 2005, in Shanghai, hosted by Shanghai Jiao Tong University.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe ACM-ICPC aims to develop the next generation of information technology talent, and to ensure that the computer sciences education pipeline remains full. The contest challenges students, working in three-person teams, to rely on their programming skills and creativity during a five-hour battle of logic, strategy, and mental endurance. Students solve complex problems using both traditional and new software development tools.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech sent three, three-person teams to the Southeastern Regionals, and placed 1st, 9th, and 21st out of 64 teams. The top Yellow Jacket team included Charlie Reiss, Topraj Gurung, and Chris Sidi. The other six students representing Tech were: Justin Altman, Garry Boyer, James Robinson, Nick Clift, Will Rorabaugh, and Nirmal Thakker. Starting two months prior to the competition, the Georgia Tech students dedicated their Sundays to seven-hour practices with volunteer coach David Van Brackle. The Yellow Jacket team are grateful for the support of their corporate sponsors: Cisco, Dell, Hewlett-Packard (HP), IBM, King Industrial Realty, ISX, and Vocalocity, as well as their ACM sponsors: Andrew Harp, Dan Colestock, and Harrison Caudill.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This is the world\u0027s premier university competition in the computing sciences and engineering,\u0022 said Dr. Bill Poucher, ICPC Executive Director. \u0022The world\u0027s universities have partnered with IBM and ACM to offer the best and brightest students the opportunity to challenge themselves to achieve far beyond classroom expectations so that they can build the cutting edge technology of tomorrow.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor a complete schedule of regional contests worldwide, visit \u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/icpc.baylor.edu\/icpc\/Regionals\/UpcomingRegionals.html\u0027\u003Ehttp:\/\/icpc.baylor.edu\/icpc\/Regionals\/UpcomingRegionals.html\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the Georgia Tech Chapter of the ACM \u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFounded in 1947, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) promotes and increases knowledge of science, design, development, construction, languages and applications of modern computing. The ACM is the society for computing professionals. The Georgia Tech Student Chapter (GTACM) is the primary student organization for computer science majors. Activities include organized corporate and faculty presentations and other events, which benefit both undergraduate and graduate students. GTACM also provides an avenue for students to develop corporate leadership skills.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout ACM \u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a major force in advancing the skills of information technology professionals and students. ACM serves its global membership of 75,000 by delivering cutting edge technical information and transferring ideas from theory to practice. ACM hosts the computing industry\u0027s leading Portal to Computing Literature. With its journals and magazines, special interest groups, conferences, workshops, electronic forums and Career Resource Centre, ACM is a primary resource to the information technology field. For more information, see \u003Ca href=\u0027www.acm.org\u0027\u003Ewww.acm.org\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Students to Represent Tech at World Finals in China"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"The Student Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery won 1st place at the 2004-2005 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest. After winning the Southeastern regional competition, the Tech team qualifies for the World Finals in Shanghai.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Team wins regional to qualify for World Finals."}],"uid":"27301","created_gmt":"2004-11-19 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:05","author":"Elizabeth Campell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-11-19T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2004-11-19T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"79961":{"id":"79961","type":"image","title":"Tech students celebrate their win at Southeastern","body":null,"created":"1449178071","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:51","changed":"1475894693","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:53"}},"media_ids":["79961"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.acm.org\/","title":"ACM"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.coc.gatech.edu\/","title":"College of Computing"},{"url":"http:\/\/icpc.baylor.edu\/icpc\/Regionals\/UpcomingRegionals.html","title":"ACM Regional Competitions"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"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":""}},"79921":{"#nid":"79921","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Microgenerator Can Power Electronics","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIt may be tiny, but a new microgenerator developed at Georgia Tech can now produce enough power to run a small electronic device, like a cell phone, and may soon be able to power a laptop.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe microgenerator is about 10 millimeters wide, or about the size of a dime. When coupled with a similarly sized gas-fueled microturbine (or jet) engine, the system, called a microengine, has the potential to deliver more energy and last 10 times longer than a conventional battery.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDeveloped by doctoral candidate David Arnold, postdoctoral fellows Dr. Iulica Zana and Dr. Jin-Woo Park, and Professor Mark Allen, in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech, the microgenerator produces useful amounts of electricity by spinning a small magnet above a mesh of coils fabricated on a chip. The microelectromechanical system (MEMS) was developed in close collaboration with Sauparna Das and Dr. Jeffrey Lang in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile work has been underway for several years on various microengine concepts, Georgia Tech\u0027s generator has now demonstrated the ability to produce the wattage necessary to power an electronic device, Arnold said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We can now get macro-scale power from a micro-scale device,\u0022 Arnold added.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis advancement is a key step in microengines someday being incorporated into products and possibly replacing conventional batteries in certain electronics.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This is an important step in the development of MEMS-based micro-power systems,\u0022 Allen said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe device\u0027s magnet spins at 100,000 revolutions per minute (rpm), much faster than the comparatively sluggish 3,000 rpm of an average car engine. Speed like that is capable of producing 1.1 watts of power, or enough juice to run a cell phone.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIf the project reaches its projected goal, it will eventually produce as much as 20 to 50 watts, capable of powering a laptop.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe research is part of a larger project funded by the Army Research Laboratory to create lighter portable power sources to replace the heavy batteries that currently power a soldier\u0027s equipment, such as laptops, radios, and GPS systems. Researchers at the University of Maryland and Clark Atlanta University also collaborate on the project.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOne of the team\u0027s key problems was figuring out how to spin the magnet fast enough to get useful amounts of power, while keeping the magnet from breaking apart. High-performance magnets are brittle and easily broken up by the centrifugal force created by high speeds. To overcome this problem, the researchers have optimized the magnet dimensions and encased it in a titanium alloy to increase its strength.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the lab, the team used an air-powered drill - similar to what a dentist would use - that simulates the spinning of the magnet by the micro gas turbine (still under development at MIT). Now that initial tests have been successful, they hope to increase the speeds to what would be used in an actual microengine to squeeze out more power.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech\/MIT team will present their progress with the project at the International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) in January.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"New microengines could provide 10 times longer life than batteries for cell phones, laptops"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"A new microgenerator developed at Georgia Tech can now produce enough power to run a small electronic device, like a cell phone, and may soon be able to power a laptop. When coupled with a similarly sized gas-fueled microturbine (or jet) engine, the system, called a microengine, has the potential to deliver more energy and last 10 times longer than a conventional battery.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Microengines last 10 times longer than batteries"}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2004-11-23 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:05","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-11-23T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2004-11-23T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"79931":{"id":"79931","type":"image","title":"David Arnold, Dr. Iulica Zana and Dr. Jin-Woo Park","body":null,"created":"1449178071","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:51","changed":"1475894693","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:53"},"79941":{"id":"79941","type":"image","title":"Georgia Tech microgenerator","body":null,"created":"1449178071","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:51","changed":"1475894693","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:53"}},"media_ids":["79931","79941"],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"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":""}}}