{"84581":{"#nid":"84581","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Nanoclusters of Niobium Display Non-metallic Properties at Ultra-cold Temperatures","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhen the clusters are cooled to below 20 degrees Kelvin, electrical charges in them suddenly shift, creating structures known as dipoles.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This is very strange, because no metal is supposed to be able to do this,\u0022 said Walter de Heer, a professor in the School of Physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology and co-author of the paper published on the topic in Science. \u0022These clusters become spontaneously polarized, with electrons moving to one side of the cluster for no apparent reason. One side of each cluster becomes negatively-charged, and the other side becomes positively-charged. The clusters lock into that behavior and stay that way.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis ferroelectric phenomenon has so far been observed in clusters of niobium, vanadium and tantalum - three transition metals that in bulk form become superconducting at about the same temperature that the researchers observe formation of dipoles in the tiny clusters. De Heer believes this discovery will open up a new field of research - and provide clues to the mystery of superconductivity.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn bulk metals -- and even in niobium clusters at room temperature -- electrical charge is normally distributed equally throughout the sample unless an electric field is applied. But in the clusters of up to 200 niobium atoms created by de Heer and collaborators Ramiro Moro, Xiaoshan Xu and Shuangye Yin, that changes when the particles are cooled to less than 20 degrees Kelvin.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech researchers discovered this \u0022spontaneous symmetry breaking\u0022 while searching for signs of superconductivity in the nanometer-scale clusters. It was completely unexpected - and de Heer admits he has no explanation for it.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022When this happens, these particles that are made out of metal atoms no longer behave as if they were metallic,\u0022 he said. \u0022Something changes the particles from a metal into something else.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the smallest clusters, the strength of the dipole effect varies dramatically according to size. Clusters composed of 14 atoms display strong effects, while those made up of 15 atoms show little effect. Above 30 atoms, clusters with even numbers of atoms display stronger dipole effects than clusters with odd numbers of atoms.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Structure matters greatly to this process,\u0022 de Heer said. \u0022A small change can affect the position of the phase transition rather profoundly, and the exact arrangement of atoms really does matter to these systems.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHe attributes the size sensitivity to the quantum size regime, which is related to restrictions on how electrons can move in very small clusters.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDe Heer sees strong \u0022circumstantial evidence,\u0022 but no solid proof, that the phenomenon is connected to superconductivity in these metals.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"When is a metal not a metal?  The May 23 issue of the journal \u003Cem\u003EScience\u003C\/em\u003E answers that question with an account of the surprising behavior exhibited by nanometer-scale clusters of the metal niobium.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-05-22 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:45","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-05-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-05-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/gtresearchnews.gatech.edu\/newsrelease\/niobium.htm","title":"Superconductivity applications?"}],"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":""}},"85681":{"#nid":"85681","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Software Firm Assisted by Georgia Tech Helps Spark Warner Robins Downtown Revitalization","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EUntil last spring, Star Software was a member company of the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC), Georgia Tech\u0027s business incubator for technology firms.  Yet Star\u0027s rapid growth -- in just two years, it had doubled revenue and quadrupled staff -- indicated it was ready to graduate from the incubator.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nTom Eaves, Star\u0027s founder and CEO, negotiated with Warner Robins city officials to buy an old downtown bank building that the city owned.  The $425,000 acquisition gave Star a lot more elbow room -- more than triple its former space -- and gave downtown Warner Robins a needed shot in the arm.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn recent years, Warner Robins\u0027 commercial development has moved west toward Interstate 75, leaving the city\u0027s downtown core.  \u0022Star\u0027s presence not only brings new life to the bank building, but also to the downtown neighborhood,\u0022 observes Jim Elliott, city attorney for Warner Robins.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn addition to spending $200,000 to renovate the 7,000-square-foot bank building, Star plans to build a $1 million addition, with construction slated to begin soon.  Originally planned to be a 9,000-square-foot structure, the addition has been expanded to 12,000 square feet.  \u0022Space is already getting tight,\u0022 Eaves explains, referring to his burgeoning staff.  Right now, Star has about 40 employees, but Eaves expects that headcount to total somewhere between 85 and 110 by the end of 2003.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nStar\u0027s rapid-fire growth underscores ATDC\u0027s efforts to boost economic development in middle Georgia, a stategy that began more than a decade ago with the location of an incubator program in the Middle Georgia Technology Development Center. During the last 10 years, ATDC\u0027s Warner Robins branch has assisted more than 30 companies.  Five of them have expanded and located permanent facilities near the Development Center, while two others -- including Star -- have moved to downtown.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"A software company assisted by Georgia Tech\u0027s middle Georgia business incubator is now helping spark economic revitalization in downtown Warner Robins.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27303","created_gmt":"2003-01-23 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:45","author":"John Toon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-01-04T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2003-01-04T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.atdc.org\/news\/january32003.html","title":"A catalyst for growth"}],"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":""}},"85641":{"#nid":"85641","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Computer Scientists Develop Web-based Game to Teach Conservation","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The Mating Game\u0022 teaches players how zoos use science to select which individual gorillas to breed for the captive management of these animals.  The concept, created by Zoo personnel, is based on 1970s game shows and is hosted by \u0022Bob Zoobanks.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBrian Jones and Tiffany O\u0027Quinn in Georgia Tech\u0027s Interactive Media Technology Center (IMTC) implemented the Zoo\u0027s idea with their computer programming and graphics expertise.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0022Educators agree that interactive learning like this is very valuable to students,\u0022 says Jones, the lead researcher.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nRichard Hezlep, the video production manager in Zoo Atlanta\u0027s Department of Conservation Technology, says: \u0022By approaching the subject in a light and fun way, the game is successful at reaching not only kids with its interactive animation, but also adults by means of the nostalgic game show theme.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nZoo staff members, as well as middle school students, have reviewed the game and given it a \u0022thumbs up,\u0022 Hezlep adds.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"An interactive Web-based game designed for Zoo Atlanta by Georgia Tech computer scientists is teaching Zoo visitors and Web surfers about the conservation of gorillas.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-01-13 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:45","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-01-13T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2003-01-13T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/gtresearchnews.gatech.edu\/newsrelease\/zoogame.htm","title":"Playing the game"}],"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":""}},"85631":{"#nid":"85631","#data":{"type":"news","title":"A New Environment for Entrepreneurship: Construction of ATDC Building Passes Milestone","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThis summer, ATDC will move its headquarters to the Centergy One development, located at Georgia Tech\u0027s new Technology Square campus on Fifth Street.  ATDC will occupy four floors of the 12-story, 487,000-square-foot building, which is part of nearly $400 million in new construction in the Fifth Street corridor of Midtown Atlanta.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn addition to ATDC\u0027s traditional start-up companies, the facility will also host \u0022landing parties\u0022 -- new product development groups or Georgia start-up operations from established technology companies.  Joining them will be service providers, investors, more established technology companies and the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0022This new facility will allow ATDC to offer an unprecedented level of services in what will be one of Atlanta\u0027s most prestigious addresses for technology companies,\u0022 said Wayne Hodges, associate vice president for Economic Development and Technology Ventures and director of the ATDC.  \u0022On Fifth Street, ATDC companies will be part of a dynamic, world-class technology community combining the best aspects of the business and university worlds.  This facility will allow us to grow to a new level.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe proximity of Georgia Tech\u0027s DuPree College of Management, Global Learning Center, Economic Development Institute, and Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center will create an environment combining the energy and excitement of entrepreneurial companies with the culture and innovation of a leading research university, he noted.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"The Advanced Technology Development Center\u0027s (ATDC) new headquarters building at Technology Square moved a step closer to reality January 10 with a ceremony celebrating completion of the building\u0027s concrete structure.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-01-16 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:45","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-01-16T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2003-01-16T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/atdc.org\/news\/january162003.htm","title":"A dynamic community"}],"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":""}},"85591":{"#nid":"85591","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Manufacturing Survey Points to Profit and Wage Benefits for Innovation","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearchers from Georgia Tech\u0027s Economic Development Institute (EDI) and School of Public Policy found that on average, annual wages were $10,000 higher at innovative manufacturing firms and returns on sales were almost a full percentage point higher.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nHowever, a majority of Georgia manufacturers are competing based on cost rather than innovation.  According to EDI researcher Jan Youtie, that\u0027s a bad sign because companies competing on low cost are vulnerable to competition from international producers with even lower costs.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe study also showed that more than half of Georgia\u0027s manufacturers underwent major changes in strategy or structure in the last two years, and that company concerns have shifted from information technology to marketing and new product development -- with nearly two-thirds of manufacturers now improving or developing new products.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0022What was disturbing in this survey is that even more of our manufacturers competed on low price than had taken this approach in the last survey, when we were in a growth economy,\u0022 said Youtie.  \u0022So when faced with a stressful economic situation, rather than innovating their way out, they are trying to get out of it by dropping their prices.  That\u0027s not a good long-term strategy for global competition.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nResearchers defined innovative companies as those that were developing new products or processes, improving products or processes, or changing organizationally.  Researcher Philip Shapira, a professor in the Georgia Tech School of Public Policy, notes that innovation isn\u0027t restricted to companies considered to be \u0022high technology.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0022There can be innovative companies in traditional sectors such as textiles, food and apparel,\u0022 he said.  \u0022It may be that they use these process and organizational methods to give themselves leverage in the marketplace in order to distinguish themselves from other companies.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Georgia manufacturers that compete based on innovation in products and processes -- rather than on low cost -- earn higher profits and benefit from higher wages, a new Georgia Institute of Technology survey has found.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-01-22 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:45","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-01-22T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2003-01-22T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.edtv.gatech.edu\/articles\/articlesans.cfm?ID=117","title":"Other key findings"}],"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":""}},"84531":{"#nid":"84531","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Seaweed Surprise: Marine Plant Uses Chemical Warfare to Fight Microbes","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe finding helps explain why some seaweeds, sponges and corals appear to avoid most infections by fungi and bacteria, according to a study published May 19 in the \u003Cem\u003EProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences\u003C\/em\u003E. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Seaweeds live in constant contact with potentially dangerous microbes, and they have apparently evolved a chemical defense to help resist disease,\u0022 said lead author Julia Kubanek, an assistant professor of biology and chemistry at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. \u0022These plants have a really effective way of defending themselves.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFew studies have addressed disease resistance in seaweeds, and seaweed diseases are little understood, except for species that are commercially important - for example, the seaweed used for sushi. This study\u0027s report of isolating a potent antifungal compound contained in the common seaweed species \u003Cem\u003ELobophora variegata \u003C\/em\u003Ereveals an unusual chemical structure not seen before in plants.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd the study lends insight into the ecological interactions between this seaweed species and other marine organisms, Kubanek said. Also, it presents the possibility of biomedical applications for the newly discovered antifungal compound, she added. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe research - funded in part by the National Science Foundation - was conducted in collaboration with colleagues Paul Jensen and William Fenical at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, Calif., Paul Keifer of Varian Inc. in Palo Alto, Calif., and researchers M. Cameron Sullards and Dwight Collins of Georgia Tech.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Scientists have discovered that seaweeds defend themselves from specific pathogens with naturally occurring antibiotics.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-05-29 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:41","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-05-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-05-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/gtresearchnews.gatech.edu\/newsrelease\/seaweed.htm","title":"Effects on microbes"}],"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":""}},"85121":{"#nid":"85121","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Chemical Force Microscopy Chooses Right Materials for New Nanocomposites","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELight, conductive and nearly as strong as steel, carbon nanotubes are being combined with lightweight polymers to produce composite materials with properties attractive for use on future space vehicles.  But choosing the right polymer for optimal mechanical performance at the nanometer scale requires a lengthy trial-and-error process.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBy adapting tiny cantilever and position measurement systems used in atomic force microscopy (AFM), researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are helping their NASA colleagues shorten that process.  Using chemical force microscopy, they are producing detailed information about adhesion between single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) and molecules of candidate polymers with different functional groups.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0022Our hypothesis is that the stronger the adhesive interaction between molecules and nanotubes, the more likely it is that the polymer will fully wet the nanotubes, break up aggregations of nanotubes and form a mechanically-sound composite,\u0022 said Larry Bottomley, a professor in the Georgia Tech School of Chemistry and Biochemistry.  \u0022The intent is to come up with two or three chemical groups that will give us the strongest interaction, and then incorporate these onto polymers for further studies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDetails of the research were presented March 23 at the 225th American Chemical Society National Meeting in New Orleans, LA.  The Advanced Materials and Processing Branch of NASA\u0027s Langley Research Center has supported the work under grant NGT-1-02002.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"A microscopy technique originally developed to image the molecular-scale topography of surfaces is now helping engineers choose the right materials for a new generation of lightweight high-strength composites based on carbon nanotubes.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-03-24 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:41","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-03-24T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2003-03-24T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/gtresearchnews.gatech.edu\/newsrelease\/nanocomposites.htm","title":"Chemical forces mapped"}],"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":""}},"85091":{"#nid":"85091","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Improved Molecular Beacons Show Promise for Cancer Detection, Rapid Viral Diagnosis","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBelieved to be the first technique for imaging RNA in living cells, a new class of beacons under development at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University also has potential applications in the rapid diagnosis of viral infections, as well as drug discovery and pharmacogenomics.  Their ability to rapidly detect viruses makes the beacons potentially valuable in the battle against bio-terrorism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia Tech and Emory researchers are developing improved signaling, targeting and delivery systems for the beacons, which consist of a fluorescent dye molecule and a quencher molecule at opposite ends of an oligonucleotide engineered to match specific genetic sequences associated with disease.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nInitially, the dye and quencher molecules are held close together in a hairpin shape, the quencher preventing fluorescent emission from the dye.  When delivered into cells, the beacons seek out matching sequences in genetic material known as messenger RNA (mRNA).  If the beacons encounter and bind with their specific mRNA targets, Watson-Crick base-pairs holding the dye and quencher together break, allowing emission of a specific fluorescent signal when excited by light.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDetails of the research, sponsored by the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation and the National Science Foundation, were presented March 26 at the 225th American Chemical Society National Meeting in New Orleans, LA.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nResearchers led by Gang Bao, associate professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering operated jointly by Georgia Tech and Emory, are improving earlier beacon systems to overcome problems specific to their use in living cells.  They have also made progress developing magnetic beacons suitable for use in body tissues too deep for optical imaging to work.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Diagnosing cancer may one day involve introducing \u0022molecular beacons\u0022 into the body and then watching for specific optical or magnetic signals as the nanometer-scale structures latch onto the unique genetic sequences that are markers for the disease.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-03-26 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:41","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-03-26T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2003-03-26T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/gtresearchnews.gatech.edu\/newsrelease\/beacons.htm","title":"Bio-terrorism applications"}],"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":""}},"84981":{"#nid":"84981","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Polymer Processing Technique May Lower the Cost of Future Display Devices","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EUntil now, the aluminum tris (8-hydroxyquinoline) (Alq3) material - which is used as the emission and electron transport layer in organic light-emitting diodes - had to be deposited under high vacuum conditions, which requires costly equipment. Attaching it to a polymer backbone allows the material to be applied using solution processes - simple spin-coating methods already widely used for applying thin films of materials.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBeyond the implications for less costly and more flexible flat panel displays and similar devices, the new technique demonstrates that small molecules with interesting properties can be self-assembled onto standard polymer backbones. Using this \u0022Lego-like\u0022 approach could have applications to other materials that are easier to process in polymeric form.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0022This could have a significant impact for industry because it would make the manufacture of organic light-emitting diodes much easier,\u0022 said Marcus Weck, an assistant professor in Georgia Tech\u0027s School of Chemistry and Biochemistry. \u0022You can do this on a lab bench without million-dollar equipment. Being able to spin coat these organic systems could allow production of large surfaces suitable for displays.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDetails of the work were presented March 27th at the 225th American Chemical Society National Meeting in New Orleans, LA. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research, the research has also been published in the journal Macromolecules.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBecause they are based on polymers, organic light-emitting diodes produced with the new technique could offer another significant advantage - physical flexibility. That would allow production of displays that are less prone to damage and that can operate in shapes and forms not possible with current technology.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"By chemically linking a difficult-to-process fluorescent material to a universal polymer backbone, Georgia Tech researchers have built the foundation for a future generation of less-expensive display devices based on organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs).","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-04-01 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:41","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-04-01T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2003-04-01T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/gtresearchnews.gatech.edu\/newsrelease\/alq3.htm","title":"A \u0027Lego-like\u0027 system"}],"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":""}},"84991":{"#nid":"84991","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Helps Pratt \u0026 Whitney Adopt Lean Enterprise Techniques","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Columbus Engine Center serves as a commercial airline engine overhaul and repair shop for Pratt \u0026amp; Whitney\u0027s JT8D and V2500 engines. When Tirey learned about EDI\u0027s services, the plant was preparing to introduce the new V2500 engine line and wanted to integrate the business in a seamless fashion.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0022I wanted a view of the business in terms of how we linked the operation together. We had many parts that were set up functionally,\u0022 Tirey says. \u0022Our goal was making a business that was more integrated.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nTirey approached Jennifer Trapp-Lingenfelter, the Georgia Tech Economic Development Institute\u0027s west Georgia region manager, about EDI\u0027s lean enterprise services. In January 2002, Trapp-Lingenfelter, along with lean specialists John Stephens and Paul Todd, led a three-day kaizen event focusing on developing a new plant layout. (A kaizen blitz is a fast and focused process for improving any business component - a product line, a machine or a process. It utilizes a cross-functional team of employees for a quick problem-solving exercise, where the focus is on designing solutions to meet some well-defined goals.) EDI\u0027s specialists helped develop a macro-layout that would incorporate the new V2500 engine line.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0022With 15 to 20 people, Pratt and Whitney obliterated the old plant layout and laid it out again from scratch,\u0022 says Trapp-Lingenfelter. \u0022In most companies, it would take probably a year and a half just to get a layout designed and implemented. Pratt \u0026amp; Whitney was able to complete a macro-layout within a few days and implement it within six months.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAccording to Gary Griesheim, Pratt \u0026amp; Whitney\u0027s V2500 project manager, the next step was to develop a detail for the macro-layout. The project involved four cross-functional teams working together to develop detailed layouts for different areas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0022We set up a detailed definition of each of the cells - setting up the flow, how many people were in each cell and defining the subassembly for the machine. Then we literally had it taped out on the floor,\u0022 he notes. \u0022That was a very big kaizen, and with Georgia Tech\u0027s help, we made sure it addressed and executed the details.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Lloyd Tirey, director of Pratt \u0026amp; Whitney\u0027s Columbus Engine Center, first heard about Georgia Tech\u0027s lean enterprise services while attending a presentation at the Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-04-01 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:41","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-04-01T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2003-04-01T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.edi.gatech.edu\/articles\/articlesans.cfm?ID=122","title":"A new plant design"}],"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":""}},"84381":{"#nid":"84381","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Powering Fuel Cells: Oxide Materials May Facilitate Small-scale Hydrogen Production","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EScientists have long known that oxides of the rare earth elements cerium (Ce), terbium (Tb), and praseodymium (Pr) can produce hydrogen from water vapor and methane in continuous \u0022inhale and exhale\u0022 cycles.  By doping iron atoms into the oxides, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have lowered the temperatures at which these \u0022oxygen pump\u0022 materials produce hydrogen, potentially allowing the process to be powered by solar energy.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis promising early-stage research was reported in the journal \u003Cem\u003EAdvanced Materials \u003C\/em\u003E15 (2003) pp 521-526.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This is a new approach for producing hydrogen that has several advantages compared to conventional production technology,\u0022 said Zhong L. Wang, a professor in Georgia Tech\u0027s School of Materials Science and Engineering and director of the Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.  \u0022For some applications, particularly those in the home, this could provide an alternative way to supply hydrogen for small-scale fuel cells.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETraditional reforming processes use metallic catalysts and temperatures in excess of 800 degrees Celsius to produce hydrogen from hydrocarbons such as methane.  While efficient in industrial-scale production, the traditional reforming process may not be ideal for the small-scale hydrogen production needed to power fuel cells in homes or vehicles.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBy operating at lower temperatures, the oxide system being developed at Georgia Tech could provide a lower-cost alternative that uses less energy and less water to operate. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe system would take advantage of the oxides\u0027 unique crystalline structure, which allows as much as 20 percent of the oxygen atoms to leave the lattice without structural damage.  That would permit cycling oxygen atoms out of and back into the structure through a sequence of oxidation and reduction processes that both produce hydrogen, first from methane and then from water vapor.  By providing an oxygen supply, the oxide system could reduce the amount of water required for hydrogen production.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFirst, temperatures of 700 degree Celsius drive oxygen out of the material, where it oxidizes carbon in the methane to form carbon oxides and free hydrogen.  Temperatures as low as 375 degrees Celsius are then used to reduce water vapor, pulling oxygen from water to replenish the crystalline structure -- producing more hydrogen.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022By cycling the temperature back and forth in the presence of methane or water, you can continuously produce hydrogen,\u0022 Wang said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"A unique group of oxide materials that readily gives up and accepts oxygen atoms with changes in temperature could be the basis for a small-scale hydrogen production system able to power fuel cells in homes-and potentially in automotive applications.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-06-09 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:41","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-06-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-06-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/gtresearchnews.gatech.edu\/newsrelease\/oxygenpump.htm","title":"Operates at lower temperatures"}],"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":""}},"84391":{"#nid":"84391","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Showcases Commercialization Opportunities for West Coast Investors","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The goals of the event were to create an outreach to the West Coast investment community, give investors an awareness of the VentureLab program and create tighter ties between the investment community and early-stage ventures coming out of Georgia Tech,\u0022 said Wayne Hodges, Georgia Tech\u0027s associate vice president for Economic Development and Technology Ventures. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn a half-day session on May 21 dubbed \u0022Technology Day West,\u0022 Georgia Tech VentureLab staff made presentations to 60 representatives of California venture capital firms, including some of the nation\u0027s top investors in early-stage technology ventures. In all, venture capital companies included in the event manage more than $12 billion in capital, noted Steve Derezinski, director of VentureLab.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHeld at the Quadrus Conference Center on Sand Hill Road in Palo Alto, the meeting provided an overview of VentureLab - and highlighted six Georgia Tech technologies: one member company of the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC), two early-stage VentureLab companies, and three technologies in earlier stages of company development. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIt also provided investors a look at Georgia Tech\u0027s microelectronics program, which has produced several new companies. Professor Mark Allen, co-founder of ATDC member company CardioMEMS and a researcher in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, described commercial potential of the applied research being done in the Microelectronics Research Center (MiRC).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECalifornia area Georgia Tech alumni hosted the event, their efforts headed by Brook Byers (BSEE 68), a partner at venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers - and an early supporter of technology commercialization at Georgia Tech through ATDC. Many of them investors themselves, the alumni encouraged colleagues to attend and helped VentureLab tailor presentations to the interests of West Coast investors, Hodges noted. \n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Georgia Tech\u0027s faculty commercialization program - VentureLab - and several of its most promising technology innovations went on the road recently to let key West Coast investors know about opportunities for new company formation in Atlanta.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-06-09 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:41","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-06-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-06-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.venturelab.gatech.edu\/june92003.htm","title":"Alumni host event"}],"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":""}},"85541":{"#nid":"85541","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Silver Lining: Productivity Improvements Help Attract Purchaser for Plant Being Closed","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe story began in the spring of 2002, when top management at Black and Decker announced that its Waynesboro Kwikset facility was being evaluated for possible closure.  Local managers began a battle to turn the plant around, and with help from Georgia Tech, made significant improvements in safety, quality, cost, service and productivity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDespite these improvements, however, Black and Decker decided to close the plant due to excess capacity at its lockset-manufacturing facilities.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBut the story has a silver lining.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAs a result of improvements made through the plant\u0027s partnership with Georgia Tech\u0027s Economic Development Institute, the Georgia Department of Industry, Trade and Tourism, QuickStart and the Development Authority of Burke County -- among others -- the facility proved attractive to a muffler manufacturer that has announced plans to purchase the plant and retain part of Kwikset\u0027s work force.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nFleetguard, a subsidiary of Cummings, Inc., produces mufflers and other small parts such as tubing, frames for motorcycles and parts used in small engines, RVs, ATVs and personal watercraft.  The company expects to employ about 100 workers initially and up to 400 within a five-year period.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDavid Gill, Fleetguard\u0027s director of global manufacturing projects, said the training Kwikset\u0027s employees received from Georgia Tech influenced the company\u0027s decision to locate in Waynesboro.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0022When we were looking at facilities around the Southeast, we were looking for more than just the land and a building.  We needed a location near our customer base and we needed a culture that viewed work force skill development and training as important,\u0022 Gill noted.  \u0022The level of training provided by Georgia Tech to help develop the work force at Kwikset was influential in the decision to locate in Waynesboro.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Georgia Tech assistance to improve productivity at a Waynesboro manufacturing facility was crucial to attracting a new purchaser when economic factors forced the plant\u0027s original owner to close it.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-01-28 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:41","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-01-28T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2003-01-28T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.edi.gatech.edu\/articles\/articlesans.cfm?ID=118","title":"Georgia Tech is key"}],"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":""}},"84351":{"#nid":"84351","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Stop the Noise: Active Control System Could Halt Squealing Brakes in Cars, Trucks and Buses","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENow, acoustics researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a solution that could stop the problem of noisy brakes once and for all.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn disc brakes, squeal can occur when the brake pads contact the rotor while the vehicle is moving at low speeds, setting up a vibration that manifests itself as an annoying high-pitched squeal.  The noise doesn\u0027t affect brake operation, but the problem - which occurs in cars, trucks and buses - leads to needless replacement of brake pads and the addition of shims, damping materials and other parts designed to stop the noise.   \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022A squealing brake still works, and from an engineering perspective, there is no safety problem when the brakes are squealing,\u0022 said Kenneth Cunefare, an acoustics researcher in Georgia Tech\u0027s School of Mechanical Engineering.  \u0022But it\u0027s a perceived problem with the quality of the vehicle.  If you\u0027ve bought a new luxury car, you don\u0027t want the brakes to squeal.  So manufacturers must spend money on warranty repairs that shouldn\u0027t be necessary.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAutomotive engineers have learned many tricks for designing quiet braking systems, but despite their best efforts, squeal still appears unpredictably.  Designers have proposed feedback control systems that would detect the noise and then generate out-of-phase vibrations to counter the specific frequency of the squeal.  Because of the complexity and cost, such systems haven\u0027t been implemented.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBy contrast, the Georgia Tech system would use a simple piezoceramic actuator mounted inside the brake piston to apply bursts of a \u0022dithering\u0022 frequency to the backing plate of the inside brake pad, suppressing the vibrations that cause squeal.  This active control would work despite temperature and humidity changes - and normal brake system wear - all of which can change the squeal frequency.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe system would be connected to vehicle brake light switches, turned on whenever the brakes were applied.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Compared to feedback control, our dither system would be much simpler,\u0022 Cunefare said.  \u0022It would be an open loop control system in which we won\u0027t need to detect the presence of squeal.  All we would need to know is that the brakes have been applied.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWithout the need for detectors or logic systems to determine the proper control frequency, the Georgia Tech system could be much simpler, with fewer components.  The piezoceramic stacks that Cunefare is now testing cost $130 each today, but he estimates high-volume production should reduce that to around $30 each - and perhaps even to a few dollars each.  A single frequency generator and power electronics system could serve a vehicle\u0027s entire braking system, though an actuator would be required for each brake piston.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn extensive laboratory testing using a dynamometer and acoustic measuring equipment, the system has been able to control brake squeal under a variety of different conditions.  Next, Cunefare and his collaborators would like to field-test the system under real vehicle operating conditions.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022In terms of understanding the design constraints, we are pretty far along with this,\u0022 he said.  \u0022We know the temperature changes we\u0027ll have to survive, and we know the forces that we\u0027ll have to generate.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Squealing brakes cost auto manufacturers several hundred million dollars a year in warranty repairs and are among consumers\u0027 top 20 vehicle complaints - even in luxury cars.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-06-16 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:41","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-06-16T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-06-16T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/gtresearchnews.gatech.edu\/newsrelease\/brakesqueal.htm","title":"A simpler system"}],"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":""}},"84901":{"#nid":"84901","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Information as Art: Interface Uses Pictures to Represent Information","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EComputing researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology experienced this problem and have created a prototype software program to move such information from the center of your awareness to the periphery.  Called InfoCanvas, the program creates an abstract pictorial representation of information people want to monitor.  The canvas is displayed on a separate monitor and looks much like a painting hung on a wall or a picture frame set on a desk.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0022We wanted people to be able to keep up with the stuff that\u0027s important to them, but not have it get in the way,\u0022 said John Stasko, an associate professor of computing at Georgia Tech.  \u0022And the art angle is designed to enhance their environment or make it more aesthetically pleasing.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nStasko and Ph.D. student Todd Miller presented the InfoCanvas concept at an April 7 workshop during the Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) 2003 meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.  Other students working on the InfoCanvas project are Shannon Bauman, Julie Isaacs, Jehan Moghazy, Chris Plaue and Zack Pousman.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0022This project gets at the idea that a picture is worth a thousand words,\u0022 Stasko explained.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nUltimately, a proof-of-concept version of InfoCanvas -- funded by a National Science Foundation grant to Stasko -- will allow users to design the entire scene from the background to every graphical image representing different data elements.  Right now, researchers manually code those elements into the software prototype after trial users select their graphics from paper cutouts.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"If your computer screen is covered with Web browser windows to let you monitor the news headlines, weather, traffic and stock market while you work, you might be suffering from information overload.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-04-07 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:41","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-04-07T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-04-07T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/gtresearchnews.gatech.edu\/newsrelease\/infocanvas.htm","title":"Picture worth 1,000 words"}],"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":""}},"84911":{"#nid":"84911","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Grocery Shopping with a Wireless PDA Makes Locating Items \u0026 Specials Easier","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn a field test of a prototype PDA system developed by Georgia Institute of Technology researchers, shoppers reported that the device made shopping easier and more efficient.  Shoppers tended to avoid impulse buys and also found items in the store more quickly.  On the downside, shoppers did not like holding the PDA while shopping, and some suggested a docking station on the shopping cart -- an idea explored, but not tested in this study.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0022It\u0027s still an unanswered question as to whether the PDA is the right device for use in grocery stores,\u0022 said Georgia Tech Associate Professor of Computing John Stasko, who supervised the project.  \u0022Our study clearly showed some potential.  But the devil is in the details.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nStasko\u0027s former students Erica Newcomb and Toni Pashley, who graduated with master\u0027s degrees last year, will present the details in a presentation titled \u0022Mobile Computing in the Retail Arena\u0022 on April 9 at the Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) 2003 meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe study, funded in part by NCR, involved extensive background research -- including observation and interviews with shoppers and a shopping survey -- before designing and testing a prototype in a Kroger store in Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Someday soon grocery shoppers using wireless personal digital assistants (PDAs) may be able to interact with a store\u0027s computer system to locate items and learn about special promotions.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-04-07 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:41","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-04-07T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-04-07T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/gtresearchnews.gatech.edu\/newsrelease\/grocerypda.htm","title":"Quicker shopping experience"}],"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":""}},"85491":{"#nid":"85491","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Former EarthLink Executive Becomes ATDC Entrepreneur-in-Residence","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPersonal computers have become ubiquitous, using the Web is as common as driving on an Interstate highway, and new generations of wireless phones have capabilities scarcely imagined ten years ago.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBut the principles of customer service, targeted marketing, partnership-building and frugality that fueled MindSpring\u0027s growth remain just as relevant today, says Lance Weatherby, former executive vice president of EarthLink -- whose merger with MindSpring three years ago created the nation\u0027s third-largest Internet service provider.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWeatherby, who joined MindSpring in 1995 as market development manager, is the newest entrepreneur-in-residence at the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC), Georgia Tech\u0027s business incubator.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0022You\u0027ve got to reach busy people and things are getting more fragmented, but good marketing is still good marketing,\u0022 explained Weatherby, who joined MindSpring when it was getting started in the ATDC.  \u0022Like two plus two equals four, the principles don\u0027t change.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn its early days, MindSpring focused on reaching \u0022references\u0022 -- people to whom others would turn for information about technology -- specifically, how to access the World Wide Web that was just gaining broad public attention.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0022We were very conscious of the fact that word-of-mouth marketing with new technology products is key,\u0022 Weatherby noted.  \u0022Who are the people that are your reference group for the product or service you are selling, and how do you influence these people?  That\u0027s why I ended up hanging out with people at local PC users groups all around the country.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAll of MindSpring\u0027s marketing activities were evaluated for their return on investment, which drove subsequent marketing decisions.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0022If you can\u0027t measure it, it\u0027s not marketing,\u0022 Weatherby said.  \u0022Just like having discipline around a quality assurance process, you must have discipline around the marketing process.  You have to know what your return on investment is from marketing the same way that you need to know your return on investment from buying a new server.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"The technology business world has changed dramatically since MindSpring Enterprises began providing easy access to the Internet back in 1994.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-02-05 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:41","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-02-05T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2003-02-05T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.atdc.org\/news\/february62003.html","title":"Marketing principles still key"}],"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":""}},"85431":{"#nid":"85431","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Study Shows Strong Association Between Collaboration and Scientific Productivity","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESupported by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy, the study shows that the number of collaborators is the strongest predictor of a scientist\u0027s productivity, as measured by books and scholarly papers published.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0022For many years, people have been trying to encourage collaboration, but we haven\u0027t had much research that actually demonstrates a beneficial effect on productivity,\u0022 said Barry Bozeman, Regents Professor of Public Policy at Georgia Tech and lead author of the study.  \u0022Since developing and maintaining collaborations requires time, there is always a question about whether the benefits of collaboration outweigh the costs.  The work we\u0027ve done suggests that the benefits of collaboration are great, and that collaboration is one of the best predictors of publishing productivity.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBozeman and doctoral student Sooho Lee based their conclusions on surveys returned by 437 academic scientists and engineers working at major research centers in the United States.  They also used curriculum vitae (CV) provided by the same set of scientists and engineers to help obtain measures of collaboration and productivity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe study relates the number of books and refereed journal articles published by each of the respondents over a five-year period to the number of collaborators, considering not only the total number of books and papers, but also a \u0022fractional count\u0022 in which each publication was assigned a score based on the number of authors.  Bozeman and Lee also looked at other factors releated to publishing productivity, including scientists\u0027 rank, age, gender, collaboration strategies and job satisfaction.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe study, \u0022The Impact of Research Collaboration on Scientific Productivity,\u0022 was presented February 16 at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Denver, CO.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"A new Georgia Institute of Technology study provides strong evidence that academic collaboration -- long encouraged by universities and federal agencies -- really does pay off in improved scientific productivity.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-02-18 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:41","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-02-18T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2003-02-18T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/gtresearchnews.gatech.edu\/newsrelease\/collaborate.htm","title":"Other productivity factors"}],"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":""}},"85441":{"#nid":"85441","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Research Produces 20- to 25-Day Forecasts That May Help Increase Crop Yields in Monsoon Regions","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe new technique produced 20- to 25-day forecasts of rainfall in the 1-million-square-kilometer Ganges Valley of Bangladesh during the summer of 2002.  The forecast closely mirrored actual precipitation for the season, according to U.S. State Department-funded research led by Professor Peter Webster and his students in Georgia Tech\u0027s School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn the future, such forecasts could guide farmers in choosing optimal planting times and making other decisions, such as better water management, that affect crop production, Webster said.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nHe presented his findings February 17 at the 2003 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Denver.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0022Forecasting weather a few days in advance is not particularly useful for agriculture,\u0022 Webster said.  \u0022What is needed is a 20- to 25-day forecast...We are able to do that with our new method.  We could have predicted the month-long break in the monsoon rains that lasted from the end of June to early July, and which caused a $6 billion loss in crops in the Ganges Valley.  If farmers had this forecast last spring, they could have changed agricultural practices, such as delaying planting.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWebster\u0027s forecasting method is applicable to the rainy seasons of any monsoon region and adjusts for precipitation changes related to temporary climatic events such as El Nino and La Nina.  Last year was an El Nino year, and, as expected, it resulted in decreased rainfall on the Indian subcontinent.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"A recently devised method for forecasting monsoon-season weather in Bangladesh could improve agricultural production in south Asia and equatorial Africa, according to a Georgia Tech climate researcher.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-02-18 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:41","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-02-18T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2003-02-18T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/gtresearchnews.gatech.edu\/newsrelease\/forecasts.htm","title":"Applicable to Asia, Africa"}],"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":""}},"84201":{"#nid":"84201","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Sustainable Urban Revitalization Center Helps Breathe New Life into Urban Areas","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The revitalization of urban communities isn\u0027t just about designing buildings,\u0022 says Bob Schmitter, a senior research scientist at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) and director of the new center. \u0022It\u0027s a complicated mix of environmental, economic and social issues. If we can get developers and communities to think about these interrelationships and the cumulative impact of a project, such as how it affects the people who work and live in an area, then chances for that project\u0027s success will increase dramatically.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECSUR concentrates on the revitalization of existing properties, such as brownfields, adaptive reuse and infill development. Housed within GTRI\u0027s Electro-Optics, Environment and Materials Laboratory, the new center will provide a formal mechanism to tap different resources at Georgia Tech, supporting urban redevelopment in three ways:\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEducation\u003C\/strong\u003E. \u0022University research isn\u0027t always disseminated to people who can use it,\u0022 Schmitter says. \u0022We want to help deliver knowledge to a variety of participants -- architects, attorneys, policymakers -- so those people can better understand what\u0027s going on and make decisions that are economically, environmentally and socially friendly. For example, what would be the best use of a property, and how does it factor into job creation?\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch\u003C\/strong\u003E. CSUR will provide assistance to university researchers and also conduct research projects of its own. Two current projects include:\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E- Building disaster-resistant communities. This means not only protecting communities from natural disasters, such as floods and tornados, but also from terrorists. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E- \u0022Green\u0022 building products and sustainability. Are emerging energy-efficient, environmentally conscious products as good as traditional ones? Do they make sense from an economic and safety perspective? For example, if the materials caught fire, would they burn more quickly or be more dangerous in any way? \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETechnical assistance\u003C\/strong\u003E. CSUR will help communities with cleanup of hazardous waste sites and brownfields (properties contaminated by past industrial or commercial activities, such as an old gas station with a leaky oil tank). \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022It doesn\u0027t have to be a Superfund issue,\u0022 Schmitter notes, referring to those seriously contaminated sites that are eligible for federal cleanup funds. \u0022A community may have a garbage dump in its backyard. We can tell people how to get involved in the cleanup process.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECSUR\u0027s first major undertaking is to assist Jacoby Development Inc. (JDI) with Atlantic Station, its 138-acre, mixed-use project in Atlanta\u0027s Midtown neighborhood. A combination of retail, office and residential, Atlantic Station sits on the former site of Atlantic Steel mill. What once was one of Georgia\u0027s largest brownfields is now a model for sustainable redevelopment, using building practices and construction materials that will reduce pollution and energy consumption\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Sustainable urban redevelopment is a complicated endeavor involving much more than engineering and water-supply systems. To help developers and communities better understand it, Georgia Tech has launched the Center for Sustainable Urban Revitalization.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-06-29 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:41","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-06-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-06-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/gtresearchnews.gatech.edu\/newsrelease\/csur.htm","title":"Applications in Atlanta"}],"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":""}},"84741":{"#nid":"84741","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Researchers Create Behavior-Based Robots That can Reason and React","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn a collaboration between the College of Computing and the Georgia Tech Research Institute, scientists including Thomas Collins and Ronald Arkin are integrating capabilities for low-level performance -- such as movement guidance systems -- with higher-level reasoning. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECollins, a senior research engineer in the Georgia Tech Research Institute\u0027s Electronic Systems Laboratory, likens the \u0022minds\u0022 of these machines to those of clever insects that have learned to thrive. \u0022A cockroach is intelligent because it can survive and do the things it needs to do well. By that definition, these robots are smart,\u0022 he says.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the Mobile Robot Laboratory, Collins collaborates with researchers in the College of Computing to create machines that can make complex decisions. They are exploring two new applications in a study funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Researchers are teaching the robots how to search through rooms for biological hazards, and perhaps to find, intercept and destroy a moving enemy tank on the battlefield. The robots perform the tasks on their own. No one uses a joystick to guide them.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESome university robot labs focus on low-level performance, such as movement guidance systems. Others work to achieve higher-level reasoning in machines. But researchers in Georgia Tech\u0027s robot program are pioneering efforts to integrate those separate levels of functioning to design behavior-based robotics for both military and private-sector applications.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Our goal is to create intelligence by combining reflexive behaviors with cognitive functioning,\u0022 explains Ronald Arkin, a Regents\u0027 professor of computer science and director of the lab. \u0022This involves the issue of understanding intelligence itself. Is it complex? Or just an illusion of complexity?\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are creating a new class of behavior-based robots capable of both reasoning and reacting.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-04-29 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:41","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-04-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-04-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/gtresearchnews.gatech.edu\/newsrelease\/airobots.htm","title":"A big task"}],"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":""}},"85371":{"#nid":"85371","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Researchers Develop More Effective, Less Costly Method for Disinfecting Water in Food Processing","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELike current technologies, the new Advanced Disinfection Technology System  relies on ultraviolet (UV) radiation to eliminate molds, viruses and bacteria.  But the new system handles water more efficiently and thus improves the overall effectiveness of the disinfection process, researchers reported.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0022We\u0027re creating a mixing pattern to ensure that every particle of water is equally exposed to the (UV) lamp,\u0022 said John Pierson, a senior research engineer at the Georgia Tech Research Institute and co-principal investigator.  By doing a better job of mixing the water, you get better disinfection.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nFederal regulations require the disinfection of water used in food processing before it can be reused.  In many cases, the lack of cost-effective disinfection means water is used only once and then discarded.  When a disinfection system is used, the process is not always effective.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nMost existing systems pump water through pipes lined with dozens of UV lamps.  The lamps tend to foul quickly, reducing their effectiveness and requiring ongoing cleaning and replacement.  More important, UV light has little penetrating power -- just about an inch -- so used water must be run through long pipes to increase the likelihood that UV light will contact enough of the liquid to affect the microorganisms it carries.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0022Water right up against the lamp gets treated, and water farther away gets treated less -- or maybe not treated at all,\u0022 explained Pierson, who is collaborating on the advanced disinfection system with Larry Forney, project director and an associate professor of chemical engineering at Georgia Tech.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe work is being sponsored by the Georgia Traditional Industries Program, a public-private partnership created to bring University System research to bear on challenges faced by Georgia\u0027s traditional industries.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have developed a better-performing, less costly method of disinfecting water used in food processing.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-02-27 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:41","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-02-27T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2003-02-27T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gtresearchnews.gatech.edu\/newsrelease\/uvdisinfect.htm","title":"Could reduce water use"}],"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":""}},"84691":{"#nid":"84691","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Losing High Tech Jobs at Rate Faster than the Nation, Study Shows","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs recently as 2001, a study by the industry organization American Electronics Association (AEA) had ranked Georgia ahead of all other states in growth of this industry sector.  High-tech jobs are important economically because of their generally high wages.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Georgia did well in adding high-tech jobs in the boom years of the 1990s,\u0022 says researcher Philip Shapira, a professor in Georgia Tech\u0027s School of Public Policy. \u0022But, following a peak at the end of 2000, Georgia\u0027s high-tech jobs total has declined in every subsequent quarter.\u0022  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDespite losing high-tech jobs overall at a rate faster than the nation, several sectors within the technology segment have actually gained employment. Jobs in engineering and architectural services, research and testing services, and drug manufacturing grew in Georgia between 2000 and 2002.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Georgia has special capabilities in these areas,\u0022 notes Jan Youtie, a researcher in Georgia Tech\u0027s Economic Development Institute who co-authored the study with Shapira and Public Policy Doctoral Student Jue Wang. \u0022We have a critical mass of engineering capabilities and research capabilities; it\u0027s the third-largest sector with over 31,000 jobs in 2002.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech study indicates that Georgia\u0027s competitive advantage lies in research- and service-related technology sectors. Three service industries make up more than 70 percent of Georgia\u0027s high-tech sector: telecommunications services, computer and data processing services, and engineering services. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 2002, high-technology firms employed nearly seven percent of Georgia\u0027s workforce, or 222,000 employees. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech study also demonstrates that high-tech services is a larger employment sector in Georgia than high-tech manufacturing, with services accounting for approximately 177,000 jobs and manufacturing accounting for approximately 44,000 jobs. The services sector also accounts for higher wages than high-tech manufacturing.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia\u0027s specialty is in knowledge-intensive high-tech services rather than manufacturing, according to Youtie. \u0022High-tech services in Georgia are often overlooked despite outperforming high-tech manufacturing in employment scale and average wages.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOverall, Georgia\u0027s high-tech industries paid very well compared to the average private sector firm.  Average weekly wages for employees in Georgia high-tech establishments in 2001 were $1,192, compared to $684 for all private-sector employees.  That has magnified the economic impact of the job losses, Shapira notes.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022These are much higher wage jobs, so it\u0027s nice when they go up. But when they go down it takes a disproportionately greater amount of money out of local economies,\u0022 he says.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile national employment levels in high-tech sectors stabilized during the second quarter of 2002, Georgia\u0027s high-tech employment levels continued to drop, according to the study.  Georgia\u0027s decline began one quarter before national employment levels began to drop and continued to fall by 1.6 percent between the first and second quarters of 2002 - even as high-tech employment stabilized nationally.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"The economic downturn has cost Georgia its national lead in high-tech job growth, a new Georgia Tech study shows.  Analysis of employment data shows that Georgia has lost high-tech employment faster than the nation over the past two years.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-05-07 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:41","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-04-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-04-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.edi.gatech.edu\/articles\/articlesans.cfm?ID=124","title":"Some sectors expand"}],"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":""}},"85311":{"#nid":"85311","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Simple Optoelectronic Devices Based on Silver Nanoclusters Perform Logic Operations","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBased on arrays of individual electroluminescent silver nanoclusters, the quantum devices could provide a foundation for new forms of specialized molecular-scale computing.  The research, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, is reported in the March 18 issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0022In effect, we are demonstrating optoelectronic transistor behavior,\u0022 said Robert Dickson, a professor in Georgia Tech\u0027s School of Chemistry and Biochemistry.  \u0022Instead of measuring current output as in standard electronic transistors, we measure electroluminescent output for a given voltage input.  Our devices act in a way that is analogous to a transistor with light as the output instead of electrical current.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBecause the nanoclusters possess different energy levels, they can be addressed individually by varying the voltage injected into the array of clusters with a simple two-terminal system.  Avoiding the need for isolated electrical connections to each nanocluster makes the system far easier to fabricate at the nanometer scale than electronic devices of traditional design.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nKey to the new devices developed by Dickson and collaborator Tae-Hee Lee is the specific voltages at which the clusters - which contain between two and eight silver atoms - emit light when electrically excited.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nTo operate, the devices require at least two separate electrical pulses, which can be varied in amplitude.  Electroluminescence occurs only after the second pulse, which activates nanoclusters within the array depending on the voltage level to which each one responds.  Because each nanocluster only responds to very specific voltages, the combined current delivered by the pulses activates only specific clusters, which are observed optically.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0022By reading the emission output of two correlated molecules, we can add pulses together and perform a very simple but very important basic addition operation,\u0022 Dickson noted.  \u0022The response is relatively narrow.  Only when you have exactly the right voltage do you get a response.  We see really clean on-off behaviors with this system.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Researchers have demonstrated a new type of nanometer-scale optoelectronic device that performs complex logic operations, is simple to fabricate and produces optical output that can be read without electrical contacts.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-03-08 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:41","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-03-08T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2003-03-08T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gtresearchnews.gatech.edu\/newsrelease\/nanocomputing.htm","title":"Basis for molecular computers"}],"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":""}},"85321":{"#nid":"85321","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Electronic Job Aid to Benefit Patients, Hospitals and Healthcare Workers","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETo help the healthcare system address these problems, researchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) have adapted an electronic job aid and reference tool they designed for aircraft maintenance workers.  The tool is intended to improve the performance of nurses and other hospital personnel.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nCalled the medical electronic performance support system (MedEPSS), the technology is based on the award-winning maintainer\u0027s electronic performance support system (MEPSS) developed by Gisele Welch, director of GTRI\u0027s Logistics and Maintenance Applied Research Center (LandMARC) and her colleagues.  MEPSS was designed for military maintenance workers who repair P-3 aircraft for the U.S. Navy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nLike its predecessor, MedEPSS offers a secure and mobile source of reference material, specialized training materials and ready access to vital records.  For time-pressed nurses, ready access to patient history, drug information, medical references and automated diagnostic tools could be a lifesaver - literally, Welch said.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nMedEPSS also could relieve some of the workplace pressures nurses face, such as patient overloads stemming from the national shortage of nurses, healthcare worker errors and increased demands for more specialized care, Welch added.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0022There are lots of tools available for doctors,\u0022 she explained, \u0022but very little focus on nurses.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Facing high-pressure situations and the potential for fatigue and error, nurses and aircraft maintenance personnel have a lot in common.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27303","created_gmt":"2003-03-08 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:41","author":"John Toon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-03-08T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2003-03-08T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gtresearchnews.gatech.edu\/newsrelease\/medepss.htm","title":"Tested at Grady"}],"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":""}},"84661":{"#nid":"84661","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Male Pregnancy in Seahorses: Role Reversal May Affect Formation of New Species","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EStudies have shown that most new species arise from geographically, and therefore genetically, isolated populations. But some seahorses likely diversify in a process called sympatric speciation, in which new species arise from a single population that has no geographic barriers to inhibit gene flow, according to a paper published this week in the \u003Cem\u003EProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences\u003C\/em\u003E (PNAS). \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We think there\u0027s a fairly strong case that sympatric speciation may have occurred in seahorses,\u0022 said Georgia Institute of Technology Assistant Professor of Biology Adam Jones, the lead author on the PNAS paper. \u0022We\u0027re not arguing that all speciation in seahorses is sympatric. The majority of speciation is probably due to some geographic barrier to genetic migration. But in some instances it looks like sympatric speciation occurred.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDriving the sympatric speciation process in seahorses is the fish\u0027s size-similar mating practice imposed by male pregnancy, extended male parental care and monogamy, Jones said. Seahorses choose similar-size mates to have the best chances for successful reproduction. The female inserts ripe eggs into the male\u0027s brood pouch, where the eggs are fertilized, embed and incubate for 10 days to six weeks, depending on the species.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Male reproductive rates, the size of the brood pouch and the number of eggs that a female produces all increase with the size of the seahorse,\u0022 Jones explained. \u0022So if you\u0027re a large seahorse, you want to mate with another large seahorse so you\u0027re not wasting your eggs or your brood pouch space. So this kind of mating is the real mechanism for sympatric speciation. A lot of forms of parental care might not cause that size-specific restraint in mating, but this one does.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to size-specific mating, a process called disruptive selection is also necessary for sympatric speciation to occur, Jones said. Disruptive selection occurs when large-sized and small-sized individuals survive better than mid-sized animals. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo test their hypothesis, Jones and his co-authors developed a computer-based genetic model to determine if the rate of size-similar mating in their field study population was sufficient enough to produce disruptive selection and, in turn, sympatric speciation. The model allows simulated populations to evolve at the rate of size-similar mating that Jones and his colleagues observed in a seahorse species off the coast of Perth, Australia. Under these conditions, the model indicated sympatric speciation does occur with fairly modest levels of disruptive selection.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022So the remaining question is whether disruptive selection occurs at a sufficient strength in natural populations of seahorses,\u0022 Jones noted. \u0022The model shows it\u0027s plausible, but as in most cases of sympatric speciation, we have no definitive proof.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo determine that size-similar mating was occurring in the field study population, researchers conducted genetic analyses of parentage, much like the DNA \u0022fingerprinting\u0022 technique used in humans. Researchers tagged males and females in the field, sampled the DNA of the males\u0027 progeny and then determined the mother of those offspring. Then, researchers compared the sizes of male and female partners to chart a statistical trend that indicated size-similar mating.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA third line of evidence for sympatric speciation came from the phylogeny, or family tree, of seahorses, which are found in coastal and ocean habitats throughout the world, except in extreme latitudes. Researchers gathered documentation of species pairs that are close relatives and live in the same place. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022If there had been sympatric speciation and it was based on assortative mating by size, then when speciation occurs, the result should be a large species and a small species that live in the same place,\u0022 Jones explained. Indeed, researchers noted two examples of species that are close relatives that are sympatric over part or all of their range.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Male pregnancy in seahorses may do more than reverse traditional gender roles. It could also influence the way new species form from single populations of these ancient creatures.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-05-05 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:41","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-05-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-05-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/gtresearchnews.gatech.edu\/newsrelease\/seahorse.htm","title":"Complex testing"}],"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":""}},"84631":{"#nid":"84631","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Researchers Provide First Experimental Evidence of  \u0022Catch Bonds\u0022 Key to Controlling Cell Adhesion","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKnown as \u0022catch bonds,\u0022 the adhesion mechanism displays surprising behavior, prolonging rather than shortening the lifetimes of bonds between specific molecules as increasing force is applied.  Proposed theoretically nearly 15 years ago, catch bonds could help explain how the body regulates the activity of white blood cells, which must flow freely through blood vessels -- yet bond to injury sites despite blood flow forces.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EUnderstanding how catch bonds work could offer drug designers a new target for anti-inflammatory and anti-thrombosis compounds, and potentially provide a new approach to controlling the metastasis process that cancers use to spread.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Before the experimental demonstration of catch bonds, we tended to think that force could regulate biochemical reactions only in one direction,\u0022 said Cheng Zhu, a professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. \u0022This work demonstrates that force can alter the rate in the other direction, depending on the type of interaction.  In this post-genome era, we need to know more about how proteins interact with one another and with DNA.  This work illustrates a new regulatory mechanism for how proteins - which from a mechanical engineer\u0027s perspective are nanomachines - operate.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESupported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the research involves two teams of scientists, one at Georgia Tech and Emory University in Atlanta, and the other at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation and University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City.  A paper describing the work was published in the May 8 issue of the journal Nature.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers studied the activity of selectin molecules, a family of proteins that helps control the adhesion of white blood cells - leukocytes - used by the body to fight infection and repair injuries.  Before they can respond to injury or infection, leukocytes must first tether to and then roll along the wall of a blood vessel.  While tethered, the cells receive signals instructing them to enter underlying tissue to fight pathogens or repair injuries.  The selectins control the first stage of that process, causing the leukocytes to drop out of the bloodstream and begin attaching to blood vessel walls.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn two separate but complementary experiments, the researchers found evidence of catch bonds operating within the complex of P-selectin and its ligand PSGL-1.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"An article published May 8 in the journal \u003Cem\u003ENature \u003C\/em\u003Eprovides the first experimental evidence for an unusual molecular bonding mechanism that could explain how certain cells adhere to surfaces such as blood vessel walls under mechanical stress.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-05-08 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:41","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-05-08T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-05-08T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/gtresearchnews.gatech.edu\/newsrelease\/catchbond.htm","title":"Experimental evidence"}],"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":""}},"85181":{"#nid":"85181","#data":{"type":"news","title":"STEP Program Teaches Kids How to Learn Beyond High School","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEach day, millions of high school students across America look up at the equation-covered chalkboards in their math and science classes and think, \u0022When the heck am I ever going to use this stuff?\u0022   For many, the answer is never.  But thanks to a group of graduate students from Georgia Tech, students in six metro Atlanta highs schools are learning how to use those classroom lessons to develop a career.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Many of these kids have no idea of what they want to do when they get out of high school,\u0022 said Sundiata Jangha, a 27-year-old African-American doctoral student in mechanical engineering at Tech.  Jangha is  a fellow in Georgia Tech\u0027s Student and Teacher Enhancement Partnership (STEP), a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded program now in its second year at the midtown Atlanta university.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAs a STEP fellow, he spends at least 10 hours a week teaching general chemistry along with accelerated physics and chemistry at the predominately African-American Cedar Grove High School in south DeKalb County. He, along with 11 other fellows, has spent the past year working with teachers in one of six metro Atlanta high schools, most of them in the city\u0027s mainly African-American southern portion.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAs graduate students not long out of high school, said Jangha. \u0022We can connect with the students in ways that the school\u0027s teachers can\u0027t.\u0022 Plus they can show the students how we use concepts discussed in class in our research projects.  Seeing firsthand, how these seemingly dense subjects are used in research and the business world, helps students make connections between what they\u0027re studying and the real world, he said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022One of the real strengths of the STEP program is that it helps fill in the gaps of the school\u0027s curricula.  In addition to helping the teachers with the core subjects, the fellows mentor the students.  They show them why those subjects are important and how they can use what they\u0027re learning in class to pursue college, graduate school and a career,\u0022 said Marion Usselman, co-principal investigator of STEP at Tech and research scientist at the Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics and Computing (CEISMC).  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETech\u0027s STEP program is jointly administered by by the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL) and CEISMC.  In 2001, Tech\u0027s first year in the program, 25 graduate students applied for slots as one of the 12 fellows.  This past year, 40 applied and, for 2003-2004, 55 students applied for teaching positions.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETech\u0027s current NSF grant ends at the end of spring semester 2004.  But Donna Llewellyn, principal investigator of STEP at Tech and director of CETL, said they are pursuing a second grant to continue their funding for another five years, which would give Tech time to find ways to make the program, or some aspects of it, a permanent fixture.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGetting students on a college and career path is vital to their success, said Jangha. \u0022I try to get my students to think about what they want to do when they graduate from high school.  So many of them have such a broad range of career ideas: firemen, policemen, astronaut.  That\u0027s great when you\u0027re six, but at this point you need to narrow your choices and find out what it takes to get there,\u0022 he explained. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAt 6\u00274,\u0022 Jangha is an imposing presence.  And though he is well liked by the students, he often asks and expects more of them than they would like to give, said Mike Pastirik, a teacher Jangha partners with at Cedar Grove.  \u0022But he asks good things and, in the long run, the students step up.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Being an outsider, I\u0027m allowed to be harder on the students academically than the teachers,\u0022 said Jangha. \u0022I\u0027m an excuse buster.  I tell the students, \u0027If you\u0027re not performing, excuses don\u0027t matter\u0027.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDoing more than the minimum, Jangha says, is one ethic he\u0027s trying to instill in his students.  \u0022High school kids are minimalists.  They do as little as possible.  If the assignment is to do numbers one, three, five and seven, they do one, three, five and seven.  I try to teach them the benefits of doing the even numbered problems.  It never occurs to them that doing problem number two could help them understand number three,\u0022 he said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESTEP fellow David (pronounced DAH-vid) Woessner is also trying to teach his students to go the extra mile.  A candidate for a master\u0027s degree in mechanical engineering and another in business administration, he teaches applied math, introduction to engineering and the college transition class at Westlake High School in south Fulton County.  Like Jangha, he is African-American, and he helped his students start a  junior chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) at  the predominately black Westlake.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Some of my students are interested in engineering professions, but others are in NSBE because they\u0027re not sure what they want to do and getting involved is a good way to figure that out,\u0022 he said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAs an engineer, Woessner said, he\u0027s especially interested in helping African-American students join the profession.  \u0022Why do we need more black engineers? We have a big problem in the black community with access to technology,\u0022 he said. \u0022Technology can be a great divider of society and engineers can give back to their community by providing access to both the technology and the company.  Even among the wealthy African-Americans, I notice a technology and computer illiteracy.  For instance, out of the 25 or so students in NSBE at Westlake, only five use e-mail.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EClosing this technology gap, said Woessner, is crucial for the black community to continue to grow and penetrate into professional fields.  So is going to college.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELast fall, he drove a group to visit Wabash College in Indiana.  Even if they\u0027re not planning on going to Wabash, visiting colleges is a great way to get them to think about what it takes to get into college and get them to want to go, he said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, Woessner along with Jangha and the other STEP fellows, took their students to Georgia Tech\u0027s FOCUS weekend, a program designed to recruit African-American graduate students to Tech.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EVisiting a graduate school recruiting program may seem like jumping the gun, when the students aren\u0027t even in college yet, said Jangha, but getting them to think about graduate school helps them focus on a career path.  \u0022When I was seven, I was told by my godfather that I was going to get a Ph.D. He taught me to go to grad school so I had a path in mind. So many of the kids who go off to college without a path end up coming right back to the neighborhood, working at a minimum wage job,\u0022 he said.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo help students develop a career path, STEP Fellow Kendra Taylor co-founded the Young Ladies Initiative at Dunwoody High School in north DeKalb County.  The group, made up of 17 students, Taylor and three other professional women, meets on Wednesday mornings and at lunch to discuss goals and strategies for success.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Many of the students don\u0027t understand the linkage between what they study and their career,\u0022 said Taylor.  \u0022In the Young Ladies Initiative we ask them to ask themselves, \u0027What are the characteristics I see in the young lady that I will become in the next five years?\u0027  I remind them of these traits during the weeks that we meet,\u0022 she said.  By the end of the semester, these young ladies will have a list of their goals and strategies to achieve them, which is the first step in the long road to success.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBy the end of the semester, Taylor will have taken two groups of students through the mentoring program.  Thanks to a relatively rigid public school curriculum, the teachers don\u0027t get a lot of time to teach anything except the core subjects, she said. That doesn\u0027t leave a lot of time for futures planning or developing the organizational and leadership skills the students will need when they go to college and beyond.  Taylor hopes her program will help round out her students\u0027 education.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E \u0022In my mentoring, I try to incorporate the math, science and engineering and let the young ladies know this is something they can do,\u0022 said Taylor, who is pursuing a Ph.D. in industrial engineering.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENot surprisingly, Taylor and Jangha said they hope to be college professors someday and that by participating in STEP they will gain a better understanding of their future students, both on a cultural level as well as learning what the high schools are teaching them.  Woessner intends to go into professional sports management but plans to keep mentoring students through the NSBE junior chapter he helped found.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn fact, most former fellows have continued mentoring students in one way or another.  Because as Woessner, put it, \u0022 The STEP program offers a way for me to give back to the community and to provide support, encouragement and expertise to young students. The main reason  I mentor is because I hope to impact some young person\u0027s life in a profound manner just as my life was influenced by a mentor of mine.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Each day, millions of high school students across America look up at the equation-covered chalkboards in their math and science classes and think, \u0022When the heck am I ever going to use this stuff?\u0022   Thanks to a group of graduate students from Georgia Tech, students in six metro Atlanta highs schools are learning how to use those classroom lessons to develop a career.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-03-19 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:10","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-03-19T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2003-03-19T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"85191":{"id":"85191","type":"image","title":"Sundiata Jangha, left, talks with Tamira Cousetz a","body":null,"created":"1449178110","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:30","changed":"1475894706","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:06"}},"media_ids":["85191"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ehr.nsf.gov\/dge\/programs\/gk12\/","title":"National Science Foundation, GK-12 Program Information"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.cetl.gatech.edu\/","title":"Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL)"}],"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":""}},"85151":{"#nid":"85151","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Celebrates 50 Years of Women","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhen Elizabeth Herndon and Diane Michel strode onto the Georgia Tech campus in 1952 as the first female students, they had no idea of the events they would set in motion.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022To think I thought I wouldn\u0027t be noticed, that I\u0027d just sneak in,\u0022 Herndon said with a laugh.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENot only were they noticed, but their numbers quickly grew.  In just 50 years, Tech has gone from having just two women students to producing more female engineers than any other university in the country.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Other schools have been admitting females longer than Georgia Tech, but I don\u0027t think they\u0027ve made the concerted effort that Tech has,\u0022 said Mary Frank Fox, professor in Tech\u0027s Ivan Allen College and co-director of the Center for the Study of Women, Science and Technology.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the 2002-03 fall semester, 2,045 women were enrolled as engineering majors at Tech.  That\u0027s compared to 1,773 at the University of Michigan and 1,285 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMIT began admitting female students in 1883, five years before Tech, opened its doors as the Georgia School of Technology.  Despite years of lobbying by Ella Van Leer, her husband, Georgia Tech President Blake Van Leer, and longtime Tech Librarian Dorothy Crosland, the Board of Regents didn\u0027t allow Tech to admit female students until the 1952-53 academic year, and even then, women could only major in those programs not offered at other university system schools. This meant women could enroll in the engineering programs, architecture programs and the master\u0027s degree in applied mathematics.  It wasn\u0027t until 1968 that the Regents voted to allow women to enroll in all programs at Tech.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We didn\u0027t go there to change Georgia Tech. We went there for an education,\u0022 explained Shirley Mewborn, one of two first women students to get a degree from Tech and the first female president of the Alumni Association.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBut whether they meant to or not, these first women students did change Tech and subsequently, engineering.  Their presence set in motion a complete overhaul of science and technology education in Georgia and opened the doors for more women to enter the traditionally male-dominated fields of science and engineering.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe diversity of backgrounds and ideas that women students and faculty brought have been extremely important to the quality of education at Tech, said Sue Rosser, dean of the Ivan Allen College and Tech\u0027s first female academic dean.  \u0022Women faculty and students often have a different perspective on problems.  They often are much more interested in the social applications that a particular technology will have.  Given all the amazing technological problems that need to be solved, we need to have people with as much creativity, with as many different backgrounds, as possible, working on these solutions,\u0022 said Rosser.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, female students at Tech have higher GPA\u0027s and better retention and graduation rates than their male counterparts.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWomen in Engineering\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPart of Tech\u0027s success in recruiting women into engineering can be chalked up to its Women in Engineering program (WIE), currently run by civil and environmental engineering professor Mimi Philobos.  WIE seeks to recruit female engineers and provide them opportunities for professional growth and development.  One program within WIE, the Technology, Engineering and Computing Camp, targets girls as early as middle school.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Some might argue that women don\u0027t pursue careers in math and science because they aren\u0027t interested, but studies indicate that girls are more interested in math and science in elementary school.  Something happens when they go to middle school,\u0022 said Philobos.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAt the camp, the girls get an introduction to computer science.  They also get to design and program a robot and design aerospace projects like rockets and hot air balloons.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We have a technological society, and we have a shortage of women in the tech professions.  If we want to be competitive, we cannot afford to overlook the talents of half of our population,\u0022 said Philobos.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETech\u0027s Center for the Study of Women in Science and Technology is another way the Institute is meeting the needs of women both on and off campus.  The center offers a minor in gender studies as well as programs aimed at female students who are entering fields in science and technology.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EADVANCE-ing Toward the Future\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA university also has to meet the needs of the female faculty.  Through the ADVANCE program, sponsored by a grant from the National Science Foundation, Tech is working to increase the representation of women both in academia and in industry.  Jane Ammons is one of four ADVANCE professors and has been at Tech since she came here as a student in 1976.  As one of Tech\u0027s first female professors of engineering, she\u0027s seen firsthand how the Institute has changed through the years from a place that merely tolerated female faculty to a university that actively seeks to recruit and advance them.  One of her fondest memories, she said, is fighting to get a woman\u0027s restroom put in her academic building in the late 1970\u0027s.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E \u0022I jumped into the fray with an industrial engineering study based on the numbers of males and females in the building.  Making my logical engineering arguments, I approached key administrators at Tech, with no luck,\u0022 she said.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EKnowing a complaint to the U.S. Department of Justice could withhold all federal funding to Tech, she made one last stop at the vice president\u0027s office.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Instead of simply changing the sign on the door, which was my request, he found the money to renovate the building and add a larger women\u0027s restroom.  For the remainder of our time in that building, the women secretaries and students threatened to put up a plaque in the bathroom that said, \u0027When using this room, think of Jane Ammons.\u0027\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAs an ADVANCE professor, Ammons is still working to make the campus more accommodating to female faculty and students.  So far, ADVANCE has been instrumental in convincing the administration to extend the tenure clock for faculty who have a new baby, adopt a child or take leave to care for a sick relative. Ammons and the other ADVANCE professors also mentor younger faculty members and actively seek out ways to promote opportunities for women.   \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022It\u0027s important for students, faculty and staff as well as the administration to see women in leadership positions,\u0022 explained Rosser.  \u0022And given that Georgia Tech students are always leaders when they get out into the workplace, I expect that women who have graduated from Tech will assume leadership positions and make an impact on the world.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Next 50 Years\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAs a result of Tech\u0027s commitment to women, Ammons said, \u0022I don\u0027t think that female students today spend as much time worrying about the culture of Tech affecting women as much as they just have worries that regular students have.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBut Tech still has much to do, said Rosser.  \u0022We\u0027re working to attract more women to enroll.  Overall, we\u0027ve had about 28-29 percent women for about a decade.  We\u0027re looking at subtle changes in the curriculum because research shows that women are attracted to science and engineering when they can see its social usefulness.  A Ph.D. program in the College of Computing on human-computer interaction is one of the changes Tech is looking at,\u0022 she said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhatever changes Tech makes over the next 50 years, Rosser said, they will all meet the same high standards the women of the past 50 years have worked so hard to meet.  \u0022The women of today owe the women of the past 50 years a tremendous debt, not only to the women students but to the women faculty.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We were just students.  We weren\u0027t looking behind or ahead.  We were just looking to get out, if you will,\u0022 explained Mewborn.  Today, I see the accomplishments of so many of our women students and what they have meant to science and technology.  I\u0027m just so happy to see the contributions that women have made.  I guess had we not started this, then it wouldn\u0027t have happened.  So, that makes me very proud.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"In just 50 years, Tech has gone from having just two women students to producing more female engineers than any other university in the country.  This year, the Institute celelbrates the generations of women who have helped make Tech a center for excellence.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-03-21 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:10","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-03-21T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2003-03-21T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"85161":{"id":"85161","type":"image","title":"50 Years of Women at Georgia Tech","body":null,"created":"1449178110","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:30","changed":"1475894706","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:06"},"85171":{"id":"85171","type":"image","title":"Graph of the Number of Enrolled Women at Georgia T","body":null,"created":"1449178110","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:30","changed":"1475894706","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:06"}},"media_ids":["85161","85171"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/50yearsofwomen\/","title":"50 Years of Women at Tech Website"}],"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":""}},"85101":{"#nid":"85101","#data":{"type":"news","title":"NACME President to Speak on Affirmative Action and Diversity in Science and Engineering Education","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJohn Brooks Slaughter, president and CEO of The National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME) will be the keynote speaker for the Woodruff Annual Distinguished Lecture on Thursday, April 10. His talk is titled \u0022The Search for Excellence and Equity in Higher Education: A Perspective from an Engineer.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENACME was founded in 1974 and has become the nation\u0027s largest private source of scholarships for minorities in engineering. The organization champions efforts to bring the talents of African Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans to the nation\u0027s engineering workforce.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESlaughter\u0027s address will focus on the goal of diversity in higher education, particularly in the disciplines of science and engineering. He is expected to touch on topical issues, such as the legal case contesting affirmative action admissions policies at the University of Michigan and the decisions of Princeton University and MIT to open programs originally designed for underrepresented minorities to white and Asian students.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Historically, matters of diversity and pluralism have not been highly visible on the radar screens of science and engineering departments in our nation\u0027s colleges and universities and the relative absence of women and minorities in and in front of the classrooms and laboratories is one indication of this reality,\u0022 Slaughter writes in his keynote synopsis.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESlaughter has a long and illustrious career as a leader in the education, engineering and scientific communities. President Emeritus of Occidental College in Los Angeles, he also served as assistant director and later as director of the National Science Foundation and chancellor at the University of Maryland. Slaughter is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe lecture, which is sponsored by the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, will be held Thursday, April 10, 2003 at 3:30 p.m. in the Van Leer Building on the Georgia Tech campus. The event is free and open to the public.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"John Brooks Slaughter, president and CEO of The National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME) will be the keynote speaker for the Woodruff Annual Distinguished Lecture on Thursday, April 10.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-03-25 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:10","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-03-25T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2003-03-25T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"85111":{"id":"85111","type":"image","title":"John Brooks Slaughter","body":null,"created":"1449178110","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:30","changed":"1475894706","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:06"}},"media_ids":["85111"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/","title":"George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.nacme.org\/","title":"NACME"}],"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":""}},"85651":{"#nid":"85651","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Encourages African Americans to Attend Grad School","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAfrican American scientists and engineers who have earned a bachelor\u0026#8217;s degree are less likely to go on to obtain a graduate-level degree than whites, Hispanics or Asians. According to the National Science Foundation, 55 percent of all scientists and engineers in the U.S. labor force did not seek an advanced degree after obtaining their bachelor\u0026#8217;s. Black engineers and scientists accounted for a larger percentage \u0026#8211; 66 percent \u0026#8211; of those who don\u0026#8217;t seek graduate-level degrees.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo counter this trend, the Georgia Institute of Technology has developed successful minority recruiting campaigns. Georgia Tech now awards more master\u0026#8217;s and doctoral degrees to African American engineers than any other university in the nation, and ranks second in the number of degrees awarded to African American engineers at the bachelor\u0026#8217;s level, according to Black Issues in Higher Education. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo encourage African Americans to pursue graduate degrees, Georgia Tech will host almost 300 of the country\u0026#8217;s best and brightest black college students during FOCUS 2003, Jan. 16 - 19. This is the twelfth anniversary of the program, which is held annually during the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFOCUS is designed to give undergraduate African Americans an opportunity to visit Georgia Tech, receive an overview of the graduate degree programs and participate in the holiday celebration.  Additionally, the participants will hear from prominent African American leaders like Dixie Garr, vice president of Customer Success Engineering for Cisco Systems, Inc., and Calvin Mackie, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Tulane University and co-founder of Channel ZerO, an educational and motivational consulting company.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe FOCUS program will conclude with Georgia Tech\u0026#8217;s twelfth annual King Week Ecumenical Service, with keynote speaker Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children\u0026#8217;s Defense Fund (CDF) and the first black woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar. The Ecumenical Service will be held Sunday, January 19, at 10 a.m. in Georgia Tech\u0026#8217;s Ferst Center for the Arts, 349 Ferst Drive, and is open to the public.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEdelman has been an advocate of disadvantaged Americans for her entire professional career. Under her leadership, CDF has become the nation\u0026#8217;s strongest voice for children and families. The mission of CDF is to \u0026#8220;Leave No Child Behind\u0026#8221; and to ensure every child a healthy start, a head start, a fair start, a safe start, and a moral start in life with the support of caring families and communities.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Marian Wright Edelman, Founder and President of the Children\u0026#8217;s Defense Fund, Will Address Guests at Ecumenical Service Jan. 19"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"To encourage African Americans to pursue graduate degrees, Georgia Tech will host almost 300 of the country\u0026#8217;s best and brightest black college students during FOCUS 2003, Jan. 16 - 19. This is the twelfth anniversary of the program, which is held annually during the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2003-01-17 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:10","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-01-10T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2003-01-10T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"85661":{"id":"85661","type":"image","title":"FOCUS","body":null,"created":"1449178110","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:30","changed":"1475894706","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:06"},"85671":{"id":"85671","type":"image","title":"Marion Wright Edelman","body":null,"created":"1449178110","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:30","changed":"1475894706","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:06"}},"media_ids":["85661","85671"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.childrensdefense.org\/childwatch\/column\/index.php","title":"ChildWatch (Weekly column written by Ms. Edleman)"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.childrensdefense.org\/","title":"Children\u0027s Defense Fund"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.focus.gatech.edu\/","title":"FOCUS program at Georgia Tech"}],"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":""}},"85071":{"#nid":"85071","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tech\/Emory Biomedical Engineer Develops Improved Biosensor For Gene Detection","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAn improved version of a nanoscale gene-detection tool called a \u0022molecular beacon\u0022 could eventually help scientists and physicians locate intracellular molecular markers that signal the development of cancer or other diseases.  Gang Bao, PhD, an associate professor in the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology, has developed \u0022dual-FRET\u0022 molecular beacons that form a more sensitive and more effective probe than other gene detectors such as northern blotting developed in the past. Dr. Bao presented his research at the 225th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in New Orleans on March 26.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA molecular beacon is a new type of biosensor that uses principles of   photonics to seek out and illuminate specific target genes.  The beacon is a short piece of single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) in the shape of a hairpin loop with a fluorescent dye molecule at one end and a \u0022quencher\u0022 molecule at the other end.  The ssDNA is synthesized to match a region on a specific mRNA that is unique to the gene or where a mutation is known to occur.  The fluorescence of the beacon is quenched, or suppressed, until it seeks out and binds to a complementary target mRNA, which causes the hairpin to open up and the beacon to illuminate.  When used for gene detection in living cells, however, the conventional molecular beacon design could cause a lot of false-positive signals.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Bao\u0027s new \u0022dual-FRET\u0022 molecular beacons technology uses a pair of molecular beacons with FRET dyes (fluorescence resonance energy transfer).  The FRET signal does not occur until both donor and acceptor beacons are bound to adjacent sites on the same target mRNA, which results in transfer of energy between the two dye molecules.  The dual-beacon technology could significantly reduce the false-positive signals of living cell gene detection, says Dr. Bao.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the laboratory, Dr. Bao is applying his molecular beacon technology to the detection of pancreatic cancer, which is the fourth-leading cause of cancer deaths in the U.S.  Pancreatic cancer is extremely difficult to detect in its early stages, and many patients diagnosed with the cancer die within six months.  The one-year survival rate is 12 percent.  Pancreatic cancer is most commonly detected using x-rays, CT scans, or biopsies, which are only effective after the tumor becomes large and in a very late stage.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This is a simple and promising tool that we hope can eventually be applied to the detection of many cancer-related genetic markers,\u0022 Dr. Bao said.  He is designing his tiny molecular beacon to detect a specific genetic mutation in the K-ras gene that is present in 80 to100 percent of pancreatic cancers.  Working with Dr. Margaret Offermann at Emory University, his lab has started detecting viral infection in cells using molecular beacons.  He also hopes his technology will eventually be used clinically to target genetic markers of other diseases with high sensitivity, specificity, and efficiency.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"An improved version of a nanoscale gene-detection tool called a \u0022molecular beacon\u0022 could eventually help scientists and physicians locate intracellular molecular markers that signal the development of cancer or other diseases. Gang Bao, PhD, an associate professor in the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology, has developed \u0022dual-FRET\u0022 molecular beacons that form a more sensitive and more effective probe than other gene detectors such as northern blotting developed in the past. He presented his research at the 225th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in New Orleans on March 26.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-03-27 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:10","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-03-27T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2003-03-27T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"85081":{"id":"85081","type":"image","title":"Gang Bao","body":null,"created":"1449178110","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:30","changed":"1475894706","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:06"}},"media_ids":["85081"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/","title":"Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering"}],"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":""}},"85051":{"#nid":"85051","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Fights Cancer with \u0022Relay for Life\u0022","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMore than 1,000 Georgia Tech students, faculty and staff will help raise money for the American Cancer Society by running in a 12-hour, overnight relay race beginning on Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 7 p.m. and ending on Sunday, March 30 at 7 a.m..  The race will take place at the Student Athletic Center fields on Ferst Drive and Sixth St. on the Tech campus.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMore than 90 teams will compete in this year\u0027s relay event, with a fundraising goal of $110,000.  Last year, Tech raised more than $55,000 in its first Relay for Life event.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 1985, Dr. Gordy Klatt walked, jogged and ran around a track in Tacoma, Washington for 24-hours, raising $27,000 to support the American Cancer Society.  The following year, 220 supporters on 19 teams joined Dr. Klatt in this overnight event, and the American Cancer Society Relay for Life was born.  This year, there are 3,803 relays planned across the United States, with 140 events planned on college campuses.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDid you know?\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u00b7\t1,284,900 individuals were diagnosed with cancer in 2002.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u00b7\t555,500 individuals died due to cancer in 2002.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u00b7\tToday nearly 9 million Americans are cancer survivors.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u00b7\tThe American Cancer Society has funded nearly $2.5 billion in research.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor information on the day of the event, contact David Prophitt, 404-483-3283.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"More than 1,000 Georgia Tech students, faculty and staff will help raise money for the American Cancer Society by running in a 12-hour, overnight relay race beginning on Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 7 p.m. and ending on Sunday, March 30 at 7 a.m..","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2003-03-28 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:10","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-03-28T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2003-03-28T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"85061":{"id":"85061","type":"image","title":"Tech Tower","body":null,"created":"1449178102","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:22","changed":"1475894706","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:06"}},"media_ids":["85061"],"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":""}},"85001":{"#nid":"85001","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tech, Decatur Students to Honor GE Family\u0027s Commitment to Education","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOfficials with the Georgia Institute of Technology plan a special reception this evening to honor an on-going partnership with The General Electric Co. and its philanthropic foundation, the GE Fund. The event begins at 6 p.m. in the Gordy Room of the Wardlaw Center, 177 North Avenue.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAmong the guests will be students participating in the Mentoring for Success Program, a collaboration of the City Schools of Decatur and Georgia Tech\u0027s Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing (CEISMC).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe GE Fund recently provided Mentoring for Success a three-year, $255,000 grant to help the program increase female and minority student interest in science and math, especially among students in sixth- through 12th-grades.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0022We\u0027re proud to support a program such as this, because developing brighter minds with a keen interest in math and technology makes sense for GE in so many ways,\u0022 said John Rice, President and CEO of GE Power Systems.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0022In Mentoring for Success, Decatur students are paired with students from Georgia Tech and the Atlanta University Center schools,\u0022 Rice said. \u0022Working side-by-side, college students help their younger counterparts improve their math and science skills while, at the same time, hopefully sharpening some students\u0027 interest in careers that might use those skills and talents on a daily basis. Perhaps, one day, even a few of these young students might join us at GE.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDecatur was chosen for the program because it is a good school system with a mix of students of different races and incomes, CEISMC Director Paul Ohme said. Although the system\u0027s test scores are solid as a whole, African American students tend to score lower in math and science. Also, minority students and girls do not enroll in higher-level science and math courses as frequently, he said.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0022These young people who have not taken these courses and have not challenged their minds may not be in a position to compete in the economy later on,\u0022 Ohme said.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0022This is an exciting opportunity for both our students and our teachers,\u0022 said Jane Carriere, mathematics and science coordinator for the City Schools of Decatur. \u0022We welcome Georgia Tech mentors into our classrooms to work with, challenge, and encourage our students.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBirgit Burton in Georgia Tech\u0027s Office of Development helped secure the original Blank Family Foundation grant of $50,000 for Mentoring for Success in 2002. She said she is pleased the program continues to earn support from prestigious companies such as GE.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0022We need this type of support, particularly for these programs that reach out to the community,\u0022 Burton said, adding that only about 30 percent of Georgia Tech\u0027s revenue this past budget year came from the state. Much of the rest was raised from outside sources, often from private gifts and grants such as those from the GE Fund.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn return, almost 6 percent of Georgia Tech\u0027s expenditures for 2002-just over $35 million-went to public service activities such as those offered through CEISMC and similar programs.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGE (NYSE: GE) is a diversified technology and services company dedicated to creating products that make life better. From aircraft engines and power generation to financial services, medical imaging, television programming and plastics, GE operates in more than 100 countries and employs more than 300,000 people worldwide.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Students participating in the Mentoring for Success Program -- a collaboration of the City Schools of Decatur and Georgia Tech -- will join Institute officials in honoring a new partnership with The General Electric Co.\u0027s philanthropic foundation, the GE Fund, April 1.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-04-01 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:10","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-04-01T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2003-04-01T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"85011":{"id":"85011","type":"image","title":"Spring 2003 at Georgia Tech","body":null,"created":"1449178102","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:22","changed":"1475894706","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:06"}},"media_ids":["85011"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.decatur-city.k12.ga.us\/","title":"City Schools of Decatur"},{"url":"http:\/\/cos-web.admin.gatech.edu\/default.htm","title":"Georgia Tech College of Sciences"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ceismc.gatech.edu\/","title":"Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics and Computing (CEISMC)"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ge.com\/","title":"The General Electric Co."}],"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\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":""}},"85601":{"#nid":"85601","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech School of History, Technology \u0026 Society Re-Names Graduate Degrees","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe School of History, Technology and Society (HTS) at Georgia Tech has changed the name of its graduate program and graduate degrees from \u0022History of Technology\u0022 to \u0022History and Sociology of Technology and Science,\u0022 to more accurately reflect the breadth of the program and its considerable strengths in sociology and the study of science.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia recently approved changing the names of the Master\u0027s and Doctoral degrees to Master of Science in History and Sociology of Technology and Science and Doctor of Philosophy with a major in History and Sociology of Technology and Science.  The first students will graduate with the new degree names this spring.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We are pleased that the name change has been approved,\u0022 said Andrea Tone, professor and director of Graduate Studies, HTS.  \u0022Our graduate program is one of the best in the country, and we feel this change will help us attract even stronger students.  One student has already selected the sociology track, and we expect this number to grow.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022When I became chair of the School in 2001, I realized that the School\u0027s intellectual strength in sociology and science was not readily apparent to potential students and faculty,\u0022 said Willie Pearson, Jr., chair and professor, HTS.  \u0022I felt it was important to change the name in order for the program to grow the way it deserved.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor years the school\u0027s faculty was composed primarily of historians, reflecting the legacy of former school chair and professor Mel Kranzberg, founder of the Society for the History of Technology and widely regarded as the founder of the History of Technology discipline.  In recent years, the school has consciously added more faculty with sociology backgrounds including such notable additions as Mary Frank Fox, gender; Willie Pearson, Jr., science and family; and Sue Rosser, women and science and women\u0027s health.  Carnegie Mellon University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and University of Pennsylvania offer similar hybrid programs in history and sociology.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHTS launched its graduate program in 1992.  The medium-sized graduate program serves approximately 21 full-time graduate students.  A few of the topics that current students are researching includes the role of radio technology in the Cold War, sociology of cancer research, women in architectural space, economic development in biotechnology, and history of the printing industry.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"The School of History, Technology and Society (HTS) at Georgia Tech has changed the name of its graduate program and graduate degrees from \u0022History of Technology\u0022 to \u0022History and Sociology of Technology and Science,\u0022 to more accurately reflect the breadth of the program and its considerable strengths in sociology and the study of science.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-01-22 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:10","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-01-22T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2003-01-22T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.hts.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of History, Technology, and Society"}],"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":""}},"85021":{"#nid":"85021","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Bob Barr and Tech Students Speak at Forum on Civil Liberties and the Nation\u0027s Response to Terrorism","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn April 7, 2003, Georgia Tech students will share the stage with former Congressman Bob Barr for a discussion of the timely topic of civil liberties and the nation\u0027s response to terrorism. In response to the events of September 11, 2001, the U.S. Congress passed the USA Patriot Act, expanding certain powers available to law enforcement agencies. Mr. Barr and the students will present information regarding the civil liberties implications of the USA Patriot Act (and subsequent legislative proposals) and offer their views concerning whether this legislation represents an appropriate balancing of security interests and individual rights.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech students who will be participating are from the School of Public Policy\u0027s class on Constitutional Issues. Atlanta Attorney Georgia Lord will moderate the forum.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe forum will begin at \u003Cstrong\u003E4:30 p.m.\u003C\/strong\u003E on \u003Cstrong\u003EMonday, April 7, 2003.\u003C\/strong\u003E An informal reception follows the discussion. The event is free, but seating is limited and provided on a first-come, first-served basis. The event will be held in Clary Theatre in the Bill Moore Student Success Center on the Georgia Tech campus. Parking will be available at the visitor\u0027s lot near the Tech Student Center on Ferst Drive.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe forum is co-sponsored by the Individual Rights Section of the State Bar of Georgia and the Atlanta Chapter of the Federal Bar Association.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBob Barr formerly represented Georgia\u0027s Seventh District in the U.S. House of Representatives. During his service in the U.S. Congress he held the post of Assistant Majority Whip. Prior to his service in the House, Mr. Barr was the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia. He has also worked in the CIA and has served as President of the Southeastern Legal Foundation. Currently, Mr. Barr occupies chairs at The American Conservative Union and Freedom Alliance; he also is a consultant on privacy matters for the American Civil Liberties Union, and serves as counsel for the Law Office of Edwin Marger in Jasper, Georgia.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"On April 7, 2003, Georgia Tech students will share the stage with former Congressman Bob Barr for a discussion of the timely topic of civil liberties and the nation\u0027s response to terrorism. In response to the events of September 11, 2001, the U.S. Congress passed the USA Patriot Act, expanding certain powers available to law enforcement agencies. Mr. Barr and the students will present information and their views regarding the civil liberties implications of the USA Patriot Act and subsequent legislative proposals.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-04-02 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:10","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-04-01T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2003-04-01T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"85031":{"id":"85031","type":"image","title":"Bob Barr, former U.S. Congressman","body":null,"created":"1449178102","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:22","changed":"1475894706","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:06"}},"media_ids":["85031"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gabar.org\/gabarhome.asp","title":"State Bar of Georgia"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.spp.gatech.edu\/spp-servlets\/jsp\/index.jsp","title":"School of Public Policy"}],"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":""}},"85571":{"#nid":"85571","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Strengthens State, Industry Ties with New Research Facility","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOfficials at the Georgia Institute of Technology broke ground Jan. 23 on a $9.4 million research building where researchers will examine new technologies that make industrial food processing safer and more efficient.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen the first phase of Georgia Tech\u0027s Food Processing Technology Research Facility is complete in spring 2004, it will provide the state a unique, world-class research center for collaborative food-processing technology development, academic research and public interaction. It will be built at 640 Strong Street NW in Atlanta.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Georgia Tech has a long history of working with the state\u0027s traditional industries, helping them implement new technologies that help them compete in the marketplace,\u0022 Georgia Tech President Wayne Clough said. \u0022We see this as a neighborhood improvement project as well as an important project for our state and industries.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMore than 40 engineers and scientists associated with the facility will work together to develop exciting breakthroughs in computer vision, robotics, plant ergonomics, biosensors and wearable-computer technology. The research facility also will serve as headquarters for the Food Processing Technology Division, a research unit within the Georgia Tech Research Institute that examines new technological developments for processing food more efficiently. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe state of Georgia and a mix of corporate and industrial donors provide funding for the facility. About 75 people representing agri-business leaders, Georgia Tech researchers plus state and local officials attended a ceremonial groundbreaking for the facility Thursday.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022What is occurring here today is just one of the many key ways that the University System of Georgia and Georgia Tech are involved in economic development in the state,\u0022 said Daniel S. Papp, senior vice chancellor for academic and fiscal affairs within the University System of Georgia.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This facility will be an important tool in helping the state of Georgia become a leader in the food processing industry,\u0022 Papp said. \u0022We must stay focused over the course of the next few months and over the course of the next few years on economic revival.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERep. Richard Royal, chairman of the Georgia House Ways and Means Committee, praised the new facility as one that will help industries tap into emerging technologies and serve as a catalyst for new technology firms and more food-processing industry to the state.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This is a great example of a public\/private partnership that will be important to the state of Georgia,\u0022 Royal said. \u0022This construction reflects the growing connection between the state of Georgia and the food processing industry.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen complete, the building will be one of several included in Georgia Tech\u0027s new North Avenue Research Area. Its first phase will house 35,000-square feet of laboratory and office space for research and development in the areas of automation technology, information technology and environmental systems. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA 50-seat auditorium and meeting facilities will be included, plus a lower lobby outfitted with interactive computer kiosk systems to entertain and inform school and visitor groups about the growing role of technology in the poultry and food-processing industries. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPhase II, to be built at a later date, will house 10,000-square feet of additional laboratory and office space for human factors, food safety and bioprocessing research.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0027s Food Processing Technology Division also houses the Agricultural Technology Research Program, which recently ranked tenth among the top 10 university programs serving the meat and poultry industry, according to an industry survey conducted by Meat and Poultry magazine.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Officials at the Georgia Institute of Technology broke ground Jan. 23 on a $9.4 million research building where researchers will examine new technologies that make industrial food processing safer and more efficient.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-02-06 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:10","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-01-23T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2003-01-23T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"85581":{"id":"85581","type":"image","title":"Crider, Wyvill \u0026 Reedy at Ceremony","body":null,"created":"1449178110","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:30","changed":"1475894706","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:06"}},"media_ids":["85581"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.atrp.gatech.edu\/ATRP_2002_AR.pdf","title":"ATRP Annual Report - 2002"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.foodpac.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Food Processing Advisory Council"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.atrp.gatech.edu\/","title":"Agricultural Technology Research Program"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gtri.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech Research 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":["matthew.nagel@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"84961":{"#nid":"84961","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech and Emory University Name New Biomedical Engineering Chair","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University have selected Larry V. McIntire, a prominent biotechnology expert based in Houston, to chair their joint department of biomedical engineering. He will begin as chair of the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University in July, pending approval from the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMcIntire, who has built a distinguished career in the health and engineering fields, is currently the chair of Rice University\u0027s Department of Bioengineering, as well as Rice\u0027s Institute for Biosciences and Bioengineering. He holds the E.D. Butcher Professorship of Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering at Rice. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I have worked in this field for many years now and Larry McIntire is a noted expert in this area,\u0022 said Georgia Tech College of Engineering Dean Don Giddens, who chaired the department from 1997 until last year when he assumed his new position. \u0022I have a personal interest in this position and believe I\u0027m passing the torch to an outstanding leader.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMcIntire\u0027s appointment concludes a national search begun last year to fill the position, which is responsible for overseeing the department\u0027s academic and research programs in areas such as biomedical imaging, tissue engineering, cancer technologies, neuroscience, computer-assisted surgery and drug delivery. The department has 23 faculty members and 15 staff members, and offers academic degree programs at all levels.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022It is with a great sense of excitement that I look forward to joining the Georgia Tech\/Emory Biomedical Engineering Department and continuing its development into the best in the nation in biomedical engineering research and education,\u0022 said McIntire, 59. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMcIntire joined Rice University in 1970 as an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering after earning a Ph.D. in chemical engineering at Princeton University. After becoming a full professor in 1978, he went on to chair the department from 1981 to 1989 and serve as director of the Cox Laboratory for Biomedical Engineering - one of three major labs that make up the Institute for Biosciences and Bioengineering at Rice. In 1991, McIntire was appointed chair of the Institute, which promotes cross-disciplinary research and education among scientists and engineers at Rice and their colleagues at the nearby Texas Medical Center, the Johnson Space Center, private industry, and other institutions. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 1997, McIntire assumed the chair of the department of bioengineering at Rice and currently holds appointments at the University of Texas Medical School - Houston, Baylor College of Medicine and the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. He is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMcIntire\u0027s research is focused on understanding the interplay between fluid mechanics, convective mass transport, cell biology, and molecular biology in the cardiovascular system.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech and Emory created the joint department of biomedical engineering in the fall of 1997. The collaborative relationship blends the expertise of medical researchers at the Emory University School of Medicine with that of the engineering faculty at Georgia Tech, and is the first of its kind between a public and private institution. The collaboration has resulted in a biomedical engineering program ranked sixth in the nation by \u003Cem\u003EU.S. News \u0026amp; World Report.\u003C\/em\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Dr. McIntire is an outstanding and proven leader in biomedical engineering, with the skills and creative vision necessary to shape and guide the very promising future of our collaborative relationship,\u0022 said Thomas J. Lawley, M.D., dean of Emory University School of Medicine.  \u0022I look forward to working with him as he accepts the challenges and opportunities provided by the merging of engineering and medicine.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe two partner universities maintain a commercial research and development center called EmTech Bio that is primarily responsible for facilitating the transfer of biotech discoveries into marketable products and promoting the development of local biotech companies. Located between the schools on Briarcliff Road in Atlanta, EmTech Bio includes an incubator run by Tech\u0027s Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC). \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, Georgia Tech and Emory established the Georgia Tech\/Emory Center for the Engineering of Living Tissues (GTEC) in 1998 through a grant from the National Science Foundation. Scientists within GTEC combine their expertise in engineering and medicine to develop substitute tissues to replace native tissues damaged by disease or injury.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"The Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University have selected Larry V. McIntire, a prominent biotechnology expert based in Houston, to chair their joint department of biomedical engineering. He will begin as chair of the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University in July, pending approval from the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-04-03 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:10","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-04-03T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2003-04-03T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"84971":{"id":"84971","type":"image","title":"Larry McIntire","body":null,"created":"1449178102","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:22","changed":"1475894706","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:06"}},"media_ids":["84971"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/","title":"Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering"}],"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":""}},"85551":{"#nid":"85551","#data":{"type":"news","title":"MacArthur Foundation Selects Georgia Tech for Prestigious Three-Year Grant","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELimiting the spread weapons of mass destruction, safeguarding dangerous materials, controlling advanced delivery systems, protecting information systems, combating terrorism, and sustaining critical natural resources are among the subjects to be covered over the next three years at Georgia Tech under a new fellowship program funded by a $1.3 million grant from the MacArthur Foundation to help bring a new generation of scientific and engineering expertise to bear on these critical security issues.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe grant enables the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech to create a structured fellowship for young and mid-career scientists, computer scientists and engineers to study the challenging field of international security policy in the 21st century.  Social scientists with expertise in the formulation, execution and teaching of security policy and recognized national security scientists will act as faculty to the fellows.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Georgia Tech is already one of the nation\u0027s leading universities in research related to Homeland Security,\u0022 said G. Wayne Clough, president, Georgia Institute of Technology. \u0022This significant grant from the prestigious MacArthur Foundation will allow us to capitalize on our expertise and extend the reach of our research and instruction.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We are very excited about the opportunities this grant gives us to serve as a bridge between international policy and technology studies and research,\u0022 said William Long, chair, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs.  \u0022We are in excellent company in this program and will be working hard to recruit the best and the brightest scientists, computer scientists and engineers to join our program.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESelected fellows will receive useful exposure to national security subjects through weekly seminars, professional field trips, research projects and a two-week summer workshop.  Participants will also have the opportunity to showcase their research under the MacArthur program fellowship in Washington and at a forum held at Georgia Tech in 2004.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EParticipants will be recruited nationally at the mid-career, post-doctoral and pre-doctoral levels from computer science, sciences and engineering.  Georgia Tech is committed to sustain this program beyond the three-year grant and will add a faculty member to the Sam Nunn School for a jointly appointed associate professor with either the College of Computing, Science or Engineering to direct and coordinate the program to meet this critical national need. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECo-principal investigators are John Endicott, professor of international affairs and director, Center of International Strategy, Technology and Policy, and Seymour Goodman, professor, jointly appointed to the Sam Nunn School and the College of Computing.  Endicott is a leader in developing a Nuclear Free Zone in northeast Asia, and former Director of the Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, Associate Dean of the National War College and Director of American Defense Policy at the U.S. Air Force Academy.  Goodman co-directs the Georgia Tech Information Security Center and former director of the program for research on information security and policy at Stanford University.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOther lead faculty include: William Hoehn, visiting professor of international affairs, and former senior staff member, Senate Armed Services Committee and Pentagon Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense; Robert Kennedy, professor of international affairs, and former director of the Marshall Center in Germany and faculty member, Army War College; Senator Sam Nunn, distinguished professor of international affairs, and others.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The faculty leading the program bring incredible depth of knowledge and real-world experience to the issues related to national and international security,\u0022 said Endicott.  \u0022We feel the participants will benefit greatly from their fellowship experiences.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The fellows will benefit from a complete mentoring environment and have opportunities for extensive peer interaction and long-term professional bonding,\u0022 said Goodman.  \u0022This experience will give mid-career and young scientists and technical experts a strong understanding of the issues and help them better understand how to best apply their specialized technological knowledge.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe nine other schools receiving grants under the Foundation\u0027s Peace and Security Program are Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Harvard, Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Maryland, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton, Stanford, and King\u0027s College London.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPotential applicants may contact the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs for more information at 404-894-3195 or email \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:william.long@inta.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ewilliam.long@inta.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E or \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:john.endicott@inta.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejohn.endicott@inta.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"MacArthur Fellowship to Strengthen Scientific and Technical Advice on International Peace and Security Policy"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Limiting the spread of weapons of mass destruction, safeguarding dangerous materials, controlling advanced delivery systems, protecting information systems, combating terrorism, and sustaining critical natural resources are among the subjects to be covered over the next three years at Georgia Tech under a new fellowship program funded by a $1.3 million grant from the MacArthur Foundation to help bring a new generation of scientific and engineering expertise to bear on these critical security issues.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-01-28 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:10","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-01-27T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2003-01-27T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"85561":{"id":"85561","type":"image","title":"International Affairs professors","body":null,"created":"1449178110","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:30","changed":"1475894706","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:06"}},"media_ids":["85561"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.macarthur.org\/","title":"MacArthur Foundation"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.inta.gatech.edu\/","title":"Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"}],"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":""}},"84921":{"#nid":"84921","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Student Wins Prestigious Goldwater Scholarship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech junior Monique Gupta, 20, doesn\u0027t want much out of life, only to get a Ph.D., an M.D. and improve the efficiency of gene transfer techniques and the health care system.  Scheduled to receive her bachelor\u0027s degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) from Tech next year, she has a bit of work to do before she reaches those goals. But winning the prestigious Goldwater scholarship has put her one step closer.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022She\u0027s really the best I\u0027ve seen in several years,\u0022 said Paul Griffin, undergraduate coordinator for ISyE.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGupta came to Tech from Macon, GA three years ago. At the time, she said, she didn\u0027t really know what she wanted to do, only that she wanted to study engineering. After being at Tech for a while, it all came together when she decided to major in ISyE.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022ISyE gives me an engineering background, which helps with research analysis and technical writing,\u0022 Gupta said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHealthcare system efficiency is also one of the major areas of concentration in ISyE, said Griffin.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGupta has been working on gene therapy techniques with Joseph LeDoux, professor in biomedical engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGene therapy is a novel approach to treating diseases, and most of it is still in the experimental phase, said Gupta. But the idea is that scientists would first identify a gene in a patient that is causing a certain disease.  \u0022A new gene would be created in a lab, and doctors would use it to replace the gene that is causing the problem. One way to deliver the new gene to the patient is by using a retrovirus to carry the gene into the affected area of the patient,\u0022 explained Gupta.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Diseases that can be helped by gene transfer include rheumatic arthritis and juvenile arthritis,\u0022 she said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBefore winning the Goldwater, Gupta won Tech\u0027s four-year President\u0027s Scholarship, which is given to incoming freshmen who demonstrate leadership in their community and academic excellence. By paying up to $7,500 toward next year\u0027s tuition, fees and room and board, the scholarship should help her save money for graduate and medical school. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis year the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation awarded 300 scholarships out of a field of 1,093 applicants from the U.S. and Puerto Rico. The Foundation is a federally endowed agency established in 1986. The Scholarship Program, honoring former Arizona Senator Barry M. Goldwater, was designed to foster and encourage outstanding students to pursue careers in the fields of mathematics, the natural sciences, and engineering.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Georgia Tech junior Monique Gupta, 20, doesn\u0027t want much out of life, only to get a Ph.D., an M.D. and improve the efficiency of gene transfer techniques and the health care system.  Scheduled to receive her bachelor\u0027s degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) from Tech next year, she has a bit of work to do before she reaches those goals. But winning the prestigious Goldwater scholarship has put her one step closer.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-04-04 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:10","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-04-04T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2003-04-04T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"84931":{"id":"84931","type":"image","title":"Monique Gupta","body":null,"created":"1449178102","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:22","changed":"1475894706","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:06"}},"media_ids":["84931"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.act.org\/goldwater\/","title":"Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships"}],"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":""}},"84941":{"#nid":"84941","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tech Continues National Prominence in \u003Cem\u003EU.S. News\u003C\/em\u003E Rankings","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0027s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.coe.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECollege of Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E maintained its powerful national stature in the most popular college rankings released today, once again ranked among the top five engineering programs in the nation by \u003Cem\u003EU.S. News \u0026amp; World Report\u003C\/em\u003E.  Tech\u0027s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E program was ranked number one for the 13th year in a row.  In all, seven of the 11 programs within Engineering ranked in the top 10 of their respective disciplines.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAmong the highly competitive schools of business, Tech\u0027s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.dupree.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EDuPree College of Management\u003C\/a\u003E ranked 51st overall and the College\u0027s Production\/Operations Management program ranked 10th.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0022Overall trends are far more important than a specific ranking in a specific year,\u0022 said President Wayne Clough.  \u0022Our consistently high rankings in Engineering indicate that we have been able to sustain a very high level of quality for a long time.  That\u0027s a very satisfying trend,\u0022 said Clough.  \u0022I\u0027m also confident in the fundamentals of our management program and look forward to improved rankings in the future.  The economy has hit the technology sector extremely hard, so it\u0027s only natural that a college that excels in entrepreneurship and the management of technology would feel the impact of that.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nTech\u0027s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.coe.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECollege of Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E remained a member of the elite top five, behind only MIT, Stanford, Cal-Berkeley, and Illinois.  The seven Engineering programs ranked in the top 10 are:  Aerospace (4th), Biomedical (6th), Civil (5th), Electrical (6th), Environmental (9th), Industrial and Systems (1st) and Mechanical (6th).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0022I\u0027m very proud of the work done by our faculty, graduate students, and staff to achieve these rankings,\u0022 said Clough.  We\u0027re consistently competing well against some of the finest universities in the world.  Rankings are not why we are here, but the trends contained therein are notable.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThis year, \u003Cem\u003EU.S. News \u0026amp; World Report\u003C\/em\u003E ranked graduate programs in Business, Engineering, Fine Arts, Health Sciences, Law and Medicine.  Additional information may be found at the \u003Cem\u003EU.S. News\u003C\/em\u003E Web site.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Systems Engineering  #1; Overall Engineering in Top Five"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Georgia Tech\u0027s College of Engineering maintained its powerful national stature in the most popular college rankings released today, once again ranked among the top five engineering programs in the nation by \u003Cem\u003EU.S. News \u0026amp; World Report\u003C\/em\u003E.  Tech\u0027s Industrial and Systems Engineering program was ranked number one for the 13th year in a row.  In all, seven of the 11 programs within Engineering ranked in the top 10 of their respective disciplines.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-04-07 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:10","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-04-04T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2003-04-04T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"84951":{"id":"84951","type":"image","title":"2004 Graduate School Badge","body":null,"created":"1449178102","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:22","changed":"1475894706","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:06"}},"media_ids":["84951"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/usnews\/edu\/grad\/rankings\/rankindex_brief.php","title":"\u003Cem\u003EU.S. News \u0026 World Report\u003C\/em\u003E Graduate School Rankings for 2004"}],"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":""}},"85501":{"#nid":"85501","#data":{"type":"news","title":"TI:GER Trains Graduate Students to Work Together to Transfer  More Technology to Marketplace","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENew discoveries and technologies are discovered in labs all the time, but most never develop real world application.  To combat this trend, a new graduate program at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University brings Ph.D. students in Science and Engineering together with Georgia Tech M.B.A. students and Emory law students to participate in a curriculum on the technical, legal, and business issues involved with moving fundamental research to the marketplace. Central to the program, named \u0022Technological Innovation: Generating Economic Results (TI:GER),\u0022 are team projects in which students consider potential market applications of the Ph.D. students\u0027 research. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022TI:GER is an innovative program designed to pair technologically savvy engineers and scientists with bright business and law students so that all three groups will be better equipped to deal with the challenges of commercializing technology,\u0022 said G. Wayne Clough, president, Georgia Institute of Technology.  \u0022The technology transfer process is complex and takes the knowledge and skill sets of technologists, and business and legal experts to be successful.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022TI:GER is the only program that brings together law, economics, management, and science and engineering graduate students in a research environment to consider social and economic consequences of research,\u0022 says the program\u0027s creator Dr. Marie Thursby, professor of strategic management and Hal and John Smith Chair in Entrepreneurship in the DuPree College of Management at Georgia Tech. \u0022Another unique feature of the program is that economic, regulatory, and legal mechanisms are considered before the research is conducted, so that students are able to take the potental impact on society into account in determining the direction of their research.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETI:GER is funded by a prestigious $2.9 million National Science Foundation\u0027s Integrative Graduate Education in Research Training (NSF-IGERT) grant, designed to provide all of the students with the skills and multidisciplinary perspective needed to succeed in innovation-related careers, as well as promote engineering thesis research with both technical merit and market relevance.  TI:GER is one of 21 IGERT awards that NSF is making in 2003.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThursby has designed and directed three major multidisciplinary programs for research and curriculumn development while at Purdue University including the Technology Tranfer Initiative, Innovation Realization Lab, and Purdue\u0027s Center for International Business Education and Research.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETI:GER involves the collaboration of faculty from the Georgia Tech DuPree College of Management, the joint Georgia Tech\/Emory Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech\/Emory Center for Engineering of Living Tissues, Manufacturing Research Center, Microelectronics Research Center, Microelectromechanical Systems, and Packaging Research Center, the Emory Law School, and Emory Economics Department.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022In order for patent examiners and patent lawyers to make good decisions, it has become increasingly more important for them to understand the technical and business issues,\u0022 said George Shepherd, professor, Emory Law School and co-principal investigator.  \u0022TI:GER exposes the Emory Law students to a high-tech lab environment for resolving typical start-up legal issues and an opportunity to see what an R\u0026amp;D environment is like.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECurrently, 24 graduate students working in four teams are enrolled in TI:GER.  All the students take a series of core courses together including Innovation Fundamentals, and also complete other complementary courses depending on their degree program.  The current Georgia Tech doctoral students come from mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, electrical and computer engineering, industrial engineering and chemistry. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers with the multidisciplinary backgrounds and the technical, professional, and personal skills needed for the career demands of the future. The program is intended to catalyze a cultural change in graduate education by establishing innovative new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries. In the fifth year of the program, awards are being made to twenty-one institutions for programs that collectively span the areas of science and engineering supported by NSF.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Unique Cross-Campus Collaboration Funded by $2.9 Million NSF IGERT Grant"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"New discoveries and technologies are discovered in labs all the time, but most never develop real world application.  To combat this trend, a new graduate program at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University brings Ph.D. students in Science and Engineering together with Georgia Tech M.B.A. students and Emory law students to participate in a curriculum on the technical, legal, and business issues involved with moving fundamental research to the marketplace. Central to the program, named \u0022Technological Innovation: Generating Economic Results (TI:GER),\u0022 are team projects in which students consider potential market applications of the Ph.D. students\u0027 research.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27301","created_gmt":"2003-02-04 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:10","author":"Elizabeth Campell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-02-04T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2003-02-04T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"85511":{"id":"85511","type":"image","title":"Dr. Marie Thursby, DuPree College of Management, c","body":null,"created":"1449178110","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:30","changed":"1475894706","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:06"}},"media_ids":["85511"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/","title":"National Science Foundation"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.dupree.gatech.edu\/entrectr\/tiger.shtml","title":"TI:GER 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":""}},"84851":{"#nid":"84851","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Veteran Astronaut Returns to Georgia Tech to Discuss the Future of the Space Program","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPerhaps no other mission was as critical to the future of the space program as the first flight of a new type of space vehicle, the Space Shuttle. Columbia - the first off the production line of a planned fleet of reusable spaceships - was designed from the beginning as a key link in the exploration and development of the space frontier.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOn April 12, 1981, Space Shuttle Columbia, a winged shuttle orbiter the size of a commercial jetliner, lifted off, launching modern space travel as we know it under the command of one of the world\u0027s most experienced space travelers, Astronaut John W. Young, AE \u002752.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENow, in the wake of the Feb. 1 Space Shuttle disaster, Columbia is again the link to new discussions on the future of the space program, as well as the international space station and efforts to build new spacecraft to supplement the shuttle.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhat does the future hold for human space exploration? On Thursday, April 17, Capt. Young returns to Georgia Tech to talk about what he thinks the future holds. He is the keynote speaker for the Aerospace Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series, presented by the School of Aerospace Engineering and the William R. T. Oakes Endowment. The lecture begins at 11 a.m. in the Student Success Center.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWith 835 hours logged in six space flights and the remarkable distinction of being one of 12 men to walk on the moon, Young is now Associate Director (Technical) at NASA\u0027s Johnson Space Center (JSC). He is responsible for technical, operational and safety oversight of all agency programs and activities assigned to JSC.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EYoung, 72, is the oldest astronaut currently working for NASA and is a highly sought-after speaker on the nation\u0027s space program. He made his first journey into space on Gemini 3, in 1965. He flew on Gemini 10, Apollo 10 and commanded Apollo 16, where he walked on the moon, and commanded the first Space Shuttle flight, STS-1, and the first Spacelab mission, STS-9. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EYoung earned a Bachelor of Science degree in aeronautical engineering with the highest honors at Georgia Tech in 1952, then went on to enter the U.S. Navy where he excelled as a Navy fighter pilot and test pilot. In September 1962, he was named to the Astronaut Corp as one of the \u0022New Nine\u0022, the second group of men to be selected to train as astronauts. Of that group, he was the first to be assigned to a mission.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHis special assignment after being selected was to monitor the design and development of environmental control systems, survival gear, pressure suits, ejection seats, couches and other personal equipment. In less than three years he began the first of his six missions to come: \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGemini 3, March 23, 1965\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nYoung\u0027s first flight was with Gus Grissom in Gemini 3, the first manned Gemini mission, on March 23, 1965. This was a complete end-to-end test of the Gemini spacecraft, during which Grissom accomplished the first manual change of orbit altitude and plane and the first lifting reentry, and Young operated the first computer on a manned spacecraft.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGemini 10, July 18-21, 1966\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWith Young as Commander and Mike Collins as Pilot, the team completed a dual rendezvous with two separate Agena target vehicles. While Young flew close formation on the second Agena, Collins did an extravehicular transfer to retrieve a micro-meteorite detector from that Agena.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EApollo 10, May 18-26, 1969\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nOn his third flight, Young was Command Module Pilot of Apollo 10. Tom Stafford and Gene Cernan were also on this mission, which orbited the Moon, completed a lunar rendezvous, and tracked proposed lunar landing sites.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EApollo 16, April 16-27, 1972\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nHis fourth space flight was a lunar exploration mission, with Young as Spacecraft Commander, Ken Mattingly and Charlie Duke. Young and Duke set up scientific equipment and explored the lunar highlands at Descartes. They collected 200 pounds of rocks and drove over 16 miles in the lunar rover on three separate geology traverses. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpace Shuttle Columbia STS-1, April 12-14, 1981\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nYoung\u0027s fifth flight was as Spacecraft Commander of STS-1, the first flight of the Space Shuttle, with Bob Crippen as Pilot. The 54-1\/2 hour, 36-orbit mission verified Space Shuttle systems performance during launch, on orbit, and entry. Tests of the Orbiter Columbia included evaluation of mechanical systems including the payload bay doors, the attitude and maneuvering rocket thrusters, guidance and navigation systems, and Orbiter\/crew compatibility. One hundred and thirty three of the mission\u0027s flight test objectives were accomplished. The Orbiter Columbia was the first manned spaceship tested during ascent, on orbit, and entry without benefit of previous unmanned missions. Columbia was also the first winged reentry vehicle to return from space to a runway landing. It weighed about 98 tons as Young landed it on the dry lakebed at Edwards Air Force Base, California. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpacelab STS-9, Nov. 28-Dec. 8, 1983\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nYoung\u0027s sixth flight was as Spacecraft Commander of STS-9, the first Spacelab mission, with Pilot Brewster Shaw, Mission Specialists Bob Parker and Owen Garriott, and Payload Specialists Byron Lichtenberg of the USA and Ulf Merbold of West Germany. For ten days the 6-man crew worked 12-hour shifts around-the-clock, performing more than 70 experiments in the fields of atmospheric physics, Earth observations, space plasma physics, astronomy and solar physics, materials processing and life sciences. The mission returned more scientific and technical data than all the previous Apollo and Skylab missions put together. The Spacelab was brought back for re-use, so that Columbia weighed over 110 tons as Young landed the spaceship at Edwards Air Force Base, California.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Astronaut John Young (AE \u002752), one of the world\u0027s most experienced space travelers, will return to Georgia Tech to discuss what the future holds for human space exploration. Young has logged six space flights, including the first flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia on April 12, 1981.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-04-14 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:10","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-04-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-04-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"84861":{"id":"84861","type":"image","title":"Astronaut John Young","body":null,"created":"1449178102","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:22","changed":"1475894706","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:06"},"84871":{"id":"84871","type":"image","title":"Shuttle Columbia Lands","body":null,"created":"1449178102","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:22","changed":"1475894706","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:06"},"84881":{"id":"84881","type":"image","title":"John Young and Mike Collins on  U.S.S. Guadalcanal","body":null,"created":"1449178102","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:22","changed":"1475894706","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:06"}},"media_ids":["84861","84871","84881"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.jsc.nasa.gov\/Bios\/htmlbios\/young.html","title":"John Young NASA bio"}],"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":""}},"85471":{"#nid":"85471","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Student Wins Coveted Churchill Scholarship to Study at Cambridge","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA love of teaching, research and language helped senior Saniya Ahsan become the first female student at Georgia Tech to win the coveted Churchill Scholarship. The mechanical engineering senior is one of only 11 Americans chosen to study engineering, science or mathematics for a year at Cambridge University in England. Ahsan will pursue a Master of Philosophy in Engineering at Cambridge next fall.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe trip abroad will be Ahsan\u0027s fourth since enrolling at Tech in 1998. After her freshman year, she studied at GT Lorraine, returning to France her junior year to intern at Schlumberger in Clamart. She also spent time in Bangladesh and India on her own. Ahsan said her international experience has given her a fascination with the way people from different cultures communicate and solve problems. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EStudying at Cambridge is an amazing opportunity, said Ahsan. Its reputation as an academic institution is legendary and \u0022it\u0027s a place where I\u0027ll see a meeting of the minds from all over the world. I\u0027ll see people from different cultures and how they approach a problem.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to her work in France, Ahsan worked as a co-op student at Visteon in Pennsylvania, conducted undergraduate research at Tech\u0027s Manufacturing and Research Center and taught fluid mechanics as an intern in the School of Mechanical Engineering, all while maintaining a 3.97 grade point average.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Saniya has put together an incredible record at Tech,\u0022 said Amanda Gable, academic professional in the Office of Graduate Studies and Research. \u0022She\u0027s someone who\u0027s always trying to find something to put her energy into.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETeaching is what she\u0027s most passionate about. In addition to teaching at Tech, Saniya has taught literacy to adults with Project Read and English-as-a-Second Language with Hands on Atlanta.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I\u0027ve always loved to read, and education has been a huge part of my life. Language is so important. It\u0027s how we communicate, which is something we take for granted,\u0022 said Ahsan.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile at Cambridge, Ahsan will perform research projects with auto makers and power companies using tiny machines, known in the industry as Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) to study how fluid flows through turbines. More fuel-efficient cars and power plants are just two of the possible applications of her research.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EShe plans on returning to the states the following year to get a doctoral degree in mechanical engineering. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBorn and raised in Kansas, Ahsan moved to Georgia with her parents where she became valedictorian of North Cobb High School in Kennesaw. She was a President\u0027s Scholar at Tech and also received a Wohlford Cooperative Education Scholarship as well as a Governor\u0027s Scholarship. Ahsan said Tech\u0027s reputation as a tough school challenged her to do better than her best.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022When I first came to Tech, I was so scared because of its reputation of failing people out. It doesn\u0027t matter if you were valedictorian, so I really studied hard and made sure that I knew my stuff,\u0022 she explained.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETech\u0027s first female to win the Churchill, Ahsan is only the second Tech student to receive the honor. The scholarship is given out by the Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States, which was founded in 1959 as an expression of admiration for former British Prime Minister William Churchill. The award pays for one year of study at Cambridge University, plus a living allowance. Only 75 universities are allowed to nominate students for this prestigious honor.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"A love of teaching, research and language helped senior Saniya Ahsan become the first female student at Georgia Tech to win the coveted Churchill Scholarship. The mechanical engineering senior is one of only 11 Americans chosen to study engineering, science or mathematics for a year at Cambridge University in England. Ahsan will pursue a Master of Philosophy in Engineering at Cambridge next fall.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-02-06 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:10","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-02-06T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2003-02-06T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"85481":{"id":"85481","type":"image","title":"Saniya Ahsan","body":null,"created":"1449178110","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:30","changed":"1475894706","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:06"}},"media_ids":["85481"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.cam.ac.uk\/","title":"University of Cambridge"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.thechurchillscholarships.com\/","title":"Churchill Scholarship"}],"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":""}},"85451":{"#nid":"85451","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Financial Aid Director Offers Tips on Getting Money for College","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESo, you\u0027ve run yourself ragged making sure your college-bound teenager got his or her admissions applications in on time and now it\u0027s time to relax, right?  Sorry, but there\u0027s still the issue of how you\u0027re going to pay for it all.  With the economy and tuition jumping in opposite directions, many families who never thought they would need help paying for their kid\u0027s education are finding themselves daunted by the prospect of funding four (or five) years of the college experience.  But college financial aid offices can help.  Marie Mons, director of Student Financial Planning and Services at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, answers some common questions and tells parents and students the seven deadly sins to avoid when playing the college financial aid game.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EQ:  Should I apply for financial aid, even if I think I won\u0027t get it because I make too much money?\u003Cbr \/\u003EA:  Absolutely.  We can\u0027t promise that if you apply for aid, you\u0027ll get it.  But we can promise you won\u0027t get it if you don\u0027t apply. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EQ: Is the admissions application the same as a financial aid application?\u003Cbr \/\u003EA:  In most cases, no.  At most schools you still need to fill out a financial aid application if you want to apply for scholarships and federally financed student loans and grants.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EQ:  What is a FAFSA and do I really need to fill it out?\u003Cbr \/\u003EA:  The FAFSA is the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, and as the name implies, there is no application fee.  The U.S. Department of Education requires that you fill one out if you want to receive federally financed grants and loans.  The FAFSA measures the your ability to contribute financially to your child\u0027s education.  The good news is you don\u0027t have to fill out one for each school that your son or daughter has applied to, because the Department of Education sends your form to all the schools you select.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EQ:  Once I fill out the FAFSA, do I still need to fill out a financial aid application?\u003Cbr \/\u003EA:  Every school is different, but in most cases you\u0027ll need to fill out both forms.  When in doubt call your school\u0027s financial aid office, believe it or not, we actually like helping people get money and we want to make sure you get whatever assistance you qualify for.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EQ:  How do you determine what I have to pay?\u003Cbr \/\u003EA:  Well, first your student has to be accepted to the university, naturally.  After that, we rely on the income and necessary expenditure statements that you provide, as well as your tax statements.  And no, that trip to Europe you took last summer and that new BMW you just bought doesn\u0027t count toward your necessary expenditures. We\u0027re looking at true necessities, like if someone in your family requires expensive medical care.  Of course, we do flag some applications to verify the information in them.  The Department of Education also verifies some applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EQ:  You look at my tax statements?  What if I haven\u0027t filed yet, or I need an extension?\u003Cbr \/\u003EA:  Be careful about filing for extensions, because it can delay your award.  If we find we need to \u0022verify\u0022 your statements, then that could add even more time, while other parents and students are snatching up the available money, which could end up affecting your award.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EQ:  How much financial information do I need to put on those aid forms?A:  All household income and most assests, including your own and your spouse\u0027s as well as your student\u0027s income.  Some schools require additional information, like the student\u0027s grandparents\u0027 income and\/or income from divorced parents.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EQ:  What happens if my financial circumstances change after I\u0027ve submitted my forms?  For instance, if someone in the household loses a job?\u003Cbr \/\u003EA:  Unfortunately, that situation is becoming more common in this economy.  If that happens, contact your school\u0027s financial aid office and let them know.  They\u0027ll be able to tell you the procedure they use for documenting changes in financial status.  Of course, if you win the lottery, the financial aid office will want to know that too, but then again, they\u0027ll probably see it on the news.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EQ:  What if my student has special needs?  Is that taken into account when determining the amount of financial aid?\u003Cbr \/\u003EA:  If your student has needs that will make the cost of his or her education more expensive than that of the typical student, such as special materials for the visually impaired, then you might be eligible to receive more aid.  Be sure to let your school\u0027s financial aid office know if your child has any special circumstances.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EQ:  Can\u0027t I just declare my child financially independent and be done with it?\u003Cbr \/\u003EA:  Nice try, but unless your child is older than 24, applying to graduate school, a veteran with an honorable discharge, married, has legal dependants of his or her own, or is an orphan (in which case we wouldn\u0027t be having this conversation), the federal government considers your child to be financially dependent on you.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Seven Deadly Sins People Commit When Trying to Get Financial Aid\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESkip the application.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt\u0027s like the lotto.  You can\u0027t win if you don\u0027t play.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EApply late.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDeadlines are important and most people applying for aid meet them.  So, don\u0027t expect much sympathy if you\u0027re late.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EApply incompletely.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe applications are important, so fill in every line.  This is not the SAT, where you\u0027re supposed to leave a question blank if you don\u0027t know the answer.  If you don\u0027t know the answer, find out, or call the financial aid office for help.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDon\u0027t accept the offer.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf you don\u0027t respond to the offer for aid, the financial aid office assumes you don\u0027t want the money.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ERefuse to provide a social security number or provide an incorrect number.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis is government money.  They already know your social security number.  So, while it\u0027s not a good idea to give your social security number to telemarketers or the guy on the corner selling hot dogs, giving it to the financial aid office is essential if you want the money.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ENeglect to report changes in financial circumstances.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf your financial resources suddenly bottom out, let the financial aid office know.  Many awards are based on financial need, so if you have that need, make it known.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EWait until you receive an admissions acceptance letter before applying for aid.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor many schools the deadline for applying for financial aid is close to or earlier than the day they send out acceptance letters.  So, give yourself enough time and apply early so you don\u0027t commit sin number two.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"So, you\u0027ve run yourself ragged making sure your college-bound teenager got his or her admissions applications in on time and now it\u0027s time to relax, right?  Sorry, but there\u0027s still the issue of how you\u0027re going to pay for it all.  With the economy and tuition jumping in opposite directions, many families who never thought they would need help paying for their kid\u0027s education are finding themselves daunted by the prospect of funding four (or five) years of the college experience.  But college financial aid offices can help.  Marie Mons, director of Student Financial Planning and Services at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, answers some common questions and tells parents and students the seven deadly sins to avoid when playing the college financial aid game.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-03-03 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:10","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-02-11T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2003-02-11T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"85461":{"id":"85461","type":"image","title":"Marie Mons, Director of Student Financial Planning","body":null,"created":"1449178110","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:30","changed":"1475894706","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:06"}},"media_ids":["85461"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.finaid.gatech.edu\/","title":"Financial Aid"}],"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":""}},"84831":{"#nid":"84831","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tech Student Wins Elite Harry S. Truman Scholarship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETo Nate Watson, politics isn\u0027t a dirty word, it\u0027s a calling.  A double major in Public Policy and Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Watson is preparing himself for a life in public service. So far, he\u0027s off to a good start.  He\u0027s spent the past two years as the executive vice president of Tech\u0027s Student Government Association and now he\u0027s won both the prestigious Harry S. Truman Scholarship and the presidency of Tech\u0027s Student Government Association.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI believe in getting involved in the leadership of your community, wherever you are,\u0022 said Watson.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile at Tech, the 21-year-old junior has done his best to get as much experience as he can in public life.  In addition to his work on the SGA, Watson has interned for U.S. Congressman John Linder, Georgia State Senator Steve Thompson and the Georgia General Assembly. That\u0027s time well spent, given his career choice: U.S. congressman and environmental policymaker.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I feel a lot of the time that politics has a dirty name,\u0022 said Watson.  \u0022I want to do my best to restore people\u0027s faith in politics.  If we can focus on the issues, I believe we can do that.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAccording to Watson, he\u0027s \u0022definitely not a liberal.\u0022  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I support smaller government, however, I believe individuals need to take leadership of their communities.  There is a lot they can do of their own free will,\u0022 he explained.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFree will, the power of markets and environmental protection are three things Watson said he\u0027s passionate about.  \u0022I first became interested in protecting the environment while I was a Boy Scout.  Then, in 1999 I went to Honduras as part of a mission trip.  I saw the tremendous water problems they had there and then came back to Georgia to see the water problems we\u0027re having here,\u0022 he said.  But, rather than have government issue strict environmental controls on industry that could have dire consequences for the economy, the power of the market can be used to give incentives to industries to control pollution, Watson said. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Protecting our environmental and economic resources go together,\u0022 he said.  \u0022I believe we can use market-based ideas to improve the environment.\u0022  These ideas include emissions trading, in which companies are given credits representing the amount of pollution they are allowed to emit.  Companies, that don\u0027t use all of their credits can sell them to other companies.  This keeps the net amount of pollution the same, but because polluting has a cost associated with it, the idea is that some companies will have incentives to reduce their output.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWatson is full of ideas, which should serve him well during a life in politics.  One of his major goals for the SGA is getting the Board of Regents to approve an academic bill of rights in May.  The bill, which has been several years in the making, would guarantee rights to students such as the right to get a syllabus, the right to see professors during office hours and the right to have class only during scheduled times.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWatson is one of 76 Scholars selected from 635 national candidates nominated for the Truman award. Each scholarship provides $30,000 - $3,000 for the senior year and $27,000 for two or three years of graduate study.   The Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation was established by Congress in 1975 as the federal memorial to the 33rd president of the United States. The foundation awards scholarships for college students to attend graduate school in preparation for careers in government or elsewhere in public service.  Scholars are selected for outstanding leadership potential, communication skills, academic achievement, and a commitment to public service.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe scholarship isn\u0027t the first honor Watson has won at Tech.  As an incoming freshman, he won the President\u0027s Scholarship, the Institute\u0027s most prestigious scholarship, which is given to freshman who demonstrate leadership in their community and academic excellence.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"To Nate Watson, politics isn\u0027t a dirty word, it\u0027s a calling.  A double major in Public Policy and Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Watson is preparing himself for a life in public service. So far, he\u0027s off to a good start.  He\u0027s spent the past two years as the executive vice president of Tech\u0027s Student Government Association and now he\u0027s won both the prestigious Harry S. Truman Scholarship and the presidency of Tech\u0027s Student Government Association.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-04-15 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:10","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-04-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-04-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"84841":{"id":"84841","type":"image","title":"Nate Watson won the prestigius Truman Scholarship","body":null,"created":"1449178102","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:22","changed":"1475894706","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:06"}},"media_ids":["84841"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.truman.gov\/","title":"Truman Scholarship"}],"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":""}},"84781":{"#nid":"84781","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Researchers Use Lab Cultures to Control Robotic Device","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Hybrot, a small robot that moves about using the brain signals of a rat, is the first robotic device whose movements are controlled by a network of cultured neuron cells.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESteve Potter and his research team in the Laboratory for Neuroengineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology are studying the basics of learning, memory, and information processing using neural networks in vitro. Their goal is to create computing systems that perform more like the human brain.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPotter, a professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, presented his most recent findings last month during the Third International Conference on Substrate-Integrated Microelectrodes in Texas.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAs the lead researcher on a $1.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, Potter is connecting laboratory cultures containing living neurons to computers in order to create a simulated animal, which he describes as a neurally-controlled animat.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We call it the \u0027Hybrot\u0027 because it is a hybrid of living and robotic components,\u0022 he said. \u0022We hope to learn how living neural networks may be applied to the artificial computing systems of tomorrow.  We also hope that our findings may help cases in which learning, memory, and information processing go awry in humans.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team uses networks of cultured rodent brain cells as the Hybrot\u0027s brain, and has essentially given the cultured neural networks a body in the form of a mobile robot. Potter\u0027s group hopes the research will lead to advanced computer systems that could some day assist in situations where humans have lost motor control, memory or information processing abilities.  The neural interfacing techniques they are developing could be used with prosthetic limbs directly controlled by the brain.  Advances in neural control and information processing theory could have application, for example, in cars that drive themselves or new types of computing architectures.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EInside Potter\u0027s lab, a droplet containing a few thousand living neurons from rat cortex is placed on a special glass petri dish instrumented with an array of 60 micro-electrodes.  The neurons are kept alive in an incubator for up to two years using a new sealed-dish culture system that Potter developed and patented. The neural activity recorded by the electrodes is transmitted to the robot, the Khepera, made by K-Team S.A, which serves as the body of the cultured networks. It moves under the command of neural activity that is being transmitted to it, and information from the robot\u0027s sensors is sent back to the cultured net in the form of electrical stimuli.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECentral to the experiments is Potter\u0027s belief that over time, the team will be able to establish a living network system that learns like the human brain. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team is able to make detailed observations of the neural signaling patterns, and document changes in the morphology and connectivity of the cells and networks by using high-speed cameras and voltage-sensitive dyes, in conjunction with 2-photon laser-scanning microscopy. The team is looking for evidence that the networks are growing and learning over time.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Learning is often defined as a lasting change in behavior, resulting from experience,\u0022 Potter said. \u0022In order for a cultured network to learn, it must be able to behave. By using multi-electrode arrays as a two-way interface to cultured mammalian cortical networks, we have given these networks an artificial body with which to behave.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"The Hybrot, a small robot that moves about using the brain signals of a rat, is the first robotic device whose movements are controlled by a network of cultured neuron cells. Steve Potter and his research team in the Laboratory for Neuroengineering are studying the basics of learning, memory, and information processing using neural networks in vitro. Their goal is to create computing systems that perform more like the human brain.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-06-06 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:10","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-04-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-04-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"84791":{"id":"84791","type":"image","title":"Dr. Potter and the Hybrot","body":null,"created":"1449178102","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:22","changed":"1475894704","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:04"},"84801":{"id":"84801","type":"image","title":"close-up of Hybrot","body":null,"created":"1449178102","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:22","changed":"1475894704","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:04"}},"media_ids":["84791","84801"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.neuro.gatech.edu\/potter\/","title":"Laboratory for Neuroengineering at Georgia Tech"}],"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":""}},"85411":{"#nid":"85411","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Robot Rivalry: Georgia Tech Students Help Kids Prepare for Largest Robot Battle in the Nation","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EStudents from high schools across Georgia are preparing to compete in the largest robot rivalry in the nation. Called FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), the annual competition encourages students to develop new science and math skills as they engineer robots that compete against each other in sporting matches.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEach year, Georgia Tech students act as mentors to local teams and help secure sponsorship. This year, the students are working with two teams from Wheeler and Roswell High Schools. The teams will compete against 46 other schools in a regional competition March 27-29 at the Gwinnett Center in Duluth. The championship event will be held in Houston on April 10 and is expected to attract 300 high schools from the United States, Canada, Germany and Brazil. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe students met after school and on weekends at Georgia Tech for six weeks as they built their robots from scratch. They tackle a multitude of engineering problems during the planning, design, building and testing phases. The competitions are high-tech sporting events, the result of months of focused brainstorming, teamwork, dedicated mentoring, project timelines and deadlines.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026#8220;It\u0026#8217;s not easy,\u0026#8221; said tenth-grader Tauhira Hoossainy, 16, who is a member of the Wheeler High School team. \u0026#8220;I do drafting engineering, but never anything like this before. Choosing a design was probably the most difficult because we all have different ideas.\u0026#8221;\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn January, FIRST sent entrants a manual that defined the rules for constructing a robot and the games. The robots are built to pick up and move large containers and then stack them one atop the other. The goal of this year\u0026#8217;s challenge, The Stack Attack, is to move the containers into scoring positions on the playing field while stacking as many as possible. The Wheeler team decided to attach a gripping mechanism to its robot, allowing it to grip the ends of each container and raise it into the air. The team with the highest score wins a match. Some of these teams will participate in the Championship in Houston.   \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026#8220;The hardest part is making everything work together,\u0026#8221; said tenth grader Roman Shtylman, 16. \u0026#8220;It\u0026#8217;s a big challenge and takes a lot of teamwork.\u0026#8221;\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETwo engineering students from the RoboJackets Robotics Club at Georgia Tech \u0026#8211; Anne Bergeron and Jeremy Roberts, both seniors majoring in mechanical engineering and computer engineering respectively \u0026#8211; acted as mentors throughout the project. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026#8220;This is one of the greatest hand-on experiences that high school students can get in the area of engineering,\u0026#8221; Bergeron said. \u0026#8220;It gives them an opportunity to apply the math and science they learn in school in a competitive project to design and build a machine that\u0026#8217;s also a competitor.  It\u0026#8217;s gives everyone a great feeling of accomplishment.\u0026#8221;\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETwo years ago, Bergeron and Roberts worked with George Washington Carver High School, whose team named its robot \u0026#8220;The Prowler.\u0026#8221;  It placed in the top half of its division during the national competition and won a Judge\u0026#8217;s Award at a regional competition that recognized the tenacity of the Georgia Tech students \u0026#8211; most of them participated in FIRST competitions when they were high school students.  This past year, the Georgia Tech mentors worked with Roswell High School and received the Rookie All-Star Award at the regional and national competitions. \n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Students from high schools across Georgia are preparing to compete in the largest robot rivalry in the nation. Called FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), the annual competition encourages students to develop new science and math skills as they engineer robots that compete against each other in sporting matches.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-02-25 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:10","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-02-20T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2003-02-20T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"85421":{"id":"85421","type":"image","title":"Tauhira Hoossainy","body":null,"created":"1449178110","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:30","changed":"1475894706","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:06"}},"media_ids":["85421"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.usfirst.org\/","title":"FIRST"},{"url":"http:\/\/cyberbuzz.gatech.edu\/robojackets\/","title":"Georgia Tech RoboJackets"}],"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":""}},"85381":{"#nid":"85381","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Improved Litter Box Is Cat\u0027s Meow at Design Competition","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EInvent a better mousetrap, and the world beats a path to your door - or so the aphorism goes. But what happens if you come up with a better litter box for cats?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn the case of Stephen Griffin, a 28-year-old graduate student in the College of Architecture\u0027s Industrial Design Program, it at least earns you $1,000, kudos at one of the world\u0027s top design shows -- and lots of interested phone calls from cat owners everywhere.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGriffin recently earned third-place honors in the 10th Annual National Student Design Competition, sponsored by the Industrial Designers Society of America and the International Housewares Association [IHA]. His design was one of 15 submitted by Georgia Tech industrial design students at the 2003 International Housewares Show in Chicago in January.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGriffin\u0027s award-winning entry, the Cat Cove, is a litter box designed for cats whose owners live in apartments or small homes. Its nautilus-shell design hides dirty litter from view while preventing cats from tracking litter out of their box. It also blends into the home to look like a piece of furniture and has features that aid owners in cleaning the box.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0022The International Housewares Show has a very competitive student component,\u0022 said Associate Professor Lorraine Justice, director of Georgia Tech\u0027s Industrial Design Program. \u0022Each year, design schools around the world compete, so it is wonderful that Stephen was able to place at the show.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0022His project is an indication of his creative problem-solving skills, thoughtfulness for both the owner and pet, and commercial sales opportunities,\u0022 Justice said. \u0022He is an exceptional designer, and his education to date makes him valuable to any company that wants to improve their products.\u0022 \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe idea for the litter box - err- came from Griffin\u0027s enigmatic cats, Sassy and Sumo.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0022Sassy is an 18-pound female who has the ability to turn invisible when guests arrive. Sumo is a 16-pound male. He has no special abilities other than being very large and very fluffy,\u0022 Griffin said. \u0022Both were my eager assistants while designing Cat Cove.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0022One night in August 2002, before classes began, my wife and I were complaining about the litter box,\u0022 he said. \u0022Over dinner I started sketching out ideas with no intention of completing the project. The actual process for coming up with the Cat Cove took about three months and included research, concept development and embodiment design.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGriffin developed the Cat Cove as a project in the Industrial Design Program\u0027s Intermediate Design Studio. The focus of the class, taught by Assistant Professor Terri Laurenceau, is to learn a systematic design process for creating products. Griffin\u0027s completed class project included a full-size prototype of the Cat Cove made of foam core, which he displayed at the International Housewares Show.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0022My cats currently sleep in it, without the litter of course,\u0022 he said. \u0022I hope to license it to a manufacturer. I\u0027m currently speaking with a couple of interested parties.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWinning an award for the Cat Cove design this year not only earned Griffin an honor among his peers, but it put his work in the spotlight during an event that attracts about 50,000 visitors looking for the next-big-thing in housewares. That\u0027s nothing to turn one\u0027s nose up at, since the housewares industry accounts for $73 billion in retail sales in this country, according to the IHA.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0022I made a lot of great professional contacts [at the trade show],\u0022 Griffin said. \u0022It also brought Cat Cove out of the design studio and into the real world, where I am able to continue learning about the product development process. And, the award validated all of the hard work I put into the project. I\u0027ve received a lot of great feedback from cat owners.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nVictoria Matranga, design programs coordinator for the IHA, said the National Student Design Competition gives dozens of the nation\u0027s top industrial design students an opportunity to show and explain prototypes of their highly practical and sometimes whimsical products -- items such as cordless ironing stations, bathroom mirror de-foggers or litter boxes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nPrevious winners have received full-time or part-time jobs in the housewares industry, she said.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0022The students receive several valuable benefits by entering the competition,\u0022 Matranga said. \u0022They get to focus and apply what they\u0027ve learned in class to situations in the real world, and they have to work on a deadline. We\u0027re quite specific and detailed in what we require, so they learn to be well prepared.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0022The students often say that more than the cash, the real-world experience of being at the show is what really matters,\u0022 Matranga said. \u0022It\u0027s the exposure they get and coming face to face with retailers and manufacturers. These students realize that in their professional lives as designers, they\u0027ll have to know how to make a pitch to convince their clients.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nCurrently, Griffin pursues a master\u0027s degree in industrial design at Georgia Tech. He previously earned an undergraduate degree from Furman University and a master\u0027s degree in fine arts from Parsons School of Design. Before coming to Georgia Tech, he worked in New York City as an Interaction Designer.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Invent a better mousetrap, and the world beats a path to your door - or so the aphorism goes. But what happens if you come up with a better litter box for cats? Stephen Griffin, a 28-year-old graduate student in the College of Architecture\u0027s Industrial Design Program, is beginning to find out.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-03-05 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:10","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-02-25T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2003-02-25T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"85391":{"id":"85391","type":"image","title":"Griffin, Sumo and the Cat Cove","body":null,"created":"1449178110","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:30","changed":"1475894706","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:06"},"85401":{"id":"85401","type":"image","title":"The Cat Cove","body":null,"created":"1449178110","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:30","changed":"1475894706","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:06"}},"media_ids":["85391","85401"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.housewares.org\/","title":"International Housewares Association"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.coa.gatech.edu\/id\/","title":"Industrial Design"},{"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":""}},"85351":{"#nid":"85351","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tech Becomes Georgia\u0027s First State University to Stop Using Social Security Number on Student IDs","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResponding to a rapid increase in identity theft nationwide, Georgia\u0027s public universities will soon stop using social security numbers as the primary way to track students.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nOn March 1, Georgia Tech will become the first state university to stop using the social security numbers of students, faculty and staff on ID cards and as the primary means of identifying them in campus databases. Tech\u0027s administration believes that having these numbers available in fewer places will help its people keep their identities more secure from potential theft.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nLast August, the Board of Regents issued a statement encouraging all University System of Georgia schools to use an alternate numbering system to identify students by 2005. Georgia Tech, which already had been working on a solution for two years, is taking the board\u0027s request one step further by including faculty and staff.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe threat of identity theft is real and increasing at a rapid rate. Identity theft tops the Federal Trade Commission\u0027s (FTC) list of consumer complaints for 2002, making up 43 percent of all complaints made to the FTC. In 2002 the commission recorded 161,819 complaints of identity theft.  That\u0027s compared to 86,198 complaints in 2001 and 31,117 in 2000.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn Georgia, the FTC received 4,709 complaints of identity theft in 2002 and 2,592 complaints in 2001, an 81 percent increase.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBy removing social security numbers from Georgia Tech ID cards and many campus databases, Tech is part of a growing national movement to make these numbers more secure.  In January, democratic Senators Diane Feinstein of California and Patrick Leahy of Vermont, along with Senator Judd Gregg, a New Hampshire Republican, introduced a bill that would prohibit the sale or display of the numbers to the general public.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe bill also calls for the removal of the numbers from government checks and driver\u0027s licenses as well as public documents on the Internet. In California, the legislature is considering two bills aimed at limiting the use of social security numbers. One would require colleges to stop printing the numbers on student ID\u0027s and other publicly available material.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWhen the U.S. government first issued social security numbers in November 1936, the numbers were meant to keep track of people enrolled in the national retirement program, not as a national identification number.  But through the years, as various government agencies, businesses and universities began to use it to identify members and customers, that\u0027s just what it has become.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nNow, identity thieves are using the number as a master key to unlock confidential and sensitive information about a person\u0027s life.  By stealing a Social Security number, a thief can gain access to bank accounts, credit cards, driving records, tax and employment histories and other private information.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDespite the dangers, its common practice for universities to use social security numbers to track students.  In a survey of 1,036 universities last year, the Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers found that 50 percent of respondents still use students\u0027 social security numbers as the primary means of identifying them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0022One of the things that makes using the social security number as an ID so attractive for institutions is that almost every U.S. citizen has one,\u0022 said Lori Sundal, director of the Office of Information Technology\u0027s Enterprise Information Systems and head of the GT ID project.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0022But that advantage turns into a weakness when you have an institution like Georgia Tech that hosts so many international students, who may not have social security numbers,\u0022 Sundal said.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nTo replace social security numbers, Tech has created the gtID#, a unique number that will be used to identify employees and students in most major campus databases.  But that doesn\u0027t mean Tech will stop collecting social security numbers altogether.  Certain services, like payroll and student financial aid, will still require the Institute to collect the numbers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBut limiting their use to these activities will make these numbers more secure and reduce the opportunities for identity thieves to get their hands on them.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Responding to a rapid increase in identity theft nationwide, Georgia\u0027s public universities will soon stop using social security numbers as the primary way to track students.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-03-11 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:10","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-02-28T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2003-02-28T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"85361":{"id":"85361","type":"image","title":"Georgia Tech Students","body":null,"created":"1449178110","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:30","changed":"1475894706","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:06"}},"media_ids":["85361"],"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":""}},"85331":{"#nid":"85331","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Experts Available for Iraq Coverage","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETo assist reporters with on-going coverage of the U.S. campaign to disarm Iraq, the Office of Institute Communications and Public Affairs prepared this list of Georgia Tech experts in a variety of fields.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIt includes scientists and researchers who can discuss defense issues, information security, international affairs, military technologies, terrorism, unmanned aerial vehicles, weapons of mass destruction, and weather in the Persian Gulf, among other topics.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nFeel free to contact any of the experts listed below directly.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAlso, check back periodically for updates as events unfold, or contact one of the media specialists listed at the bottom of this list for additional assistance. 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DeMillo\u003Cbr \/\u003EDean, College of Computing\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003EExpertise: Information security, Department of Defense policy for software testing and evaluation, Patriot Air Defense System, Strategic Defense Initiative\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-8357\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESeymour Goodman \u003Cbr \/\u003EProfessor, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and Joint Appointment with College of Computing \u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003EExpertise: Terrorism; Information Technologies and National Security; International Dimensions of Information Technologies and Related Policy Issues\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-385-1461 \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:goodman@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Egoodman@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E   \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EInternational Affairs\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPeter Brecke\u003Cbr \/\u003EAssociate Professor, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs \u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003EExpertise: conflict management, developing a conflict early warning system, reconciliation in international relations \u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6599\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:peter.brecke@inta.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Epeter.brecke@inta.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EJohn Endicott\u003Cbr \/\u003EProfessor, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs \u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003EExpertise: nuclear non-proliferation, foreign relations, intelligence community, American defense policy, Korea, Japan and East Asia, security affairs\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-9451\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESeymour Goodman \u003Cbr \/\u003EProfessor, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and Joint Appointment with College of Computing \u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003EExpertise: Terrorism; Information Technologies and National Security; International Dimensions of Information Technologies and Related Policy Issues\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-385-1461\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:goodman@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Egoodman@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E   \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBill Hoehn\u003Cbr \/\u003EVisiting Professor, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003EExpertise: Terrorism; Arms Control; Information Security; Weapons of Mass Destruction Preparedness \u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-8823 \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:william.hoehn@inta.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ewilliam.hoehn@inta.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAmbassador John H. 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Arkin\u003Cbr \/\u003EProfessor and Director of the Mobile Robot Laboratory, College of Computing\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology \u003Cbr \/\u003EExpertise: mobile land robots, developing software for robots to be used in urban warfare\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-8209\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:ronald.arkin@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eronald.arkin@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERichard A. 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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":""}},"84701":{"#nid":"84701","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Student Cheats Death Twice to Graduate, Speakers Sen. Elizabeth Dole and CDC Director Julie Gerberding to Address Graduates","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EU.S. Senator Elizabeth Dole, R-NC, and Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Dr. Julie Gerberding will deliver the addresses at the Georgia Institute of Technology\u0027s 215th  commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 3, at Alexander Memorial Coliseum. The ceremonies will feature 2,044 graduates, making it the largest graduating class in Tech history.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDole, who will address the undergraduate ceremony at 9 a.m., has a long history of public service.  She joined the Nixon administration in 1969 as Deputy Assistant for Consumer Affairs.  In 1983, serving in President Reagan\u0027s Cabinet, she became the first female Secretary of Transportation.  President George Bush named her Secretary of Labor in 1989.  Two years later she became the second woman since founder Clara Barton to serve as president of the American Red Cross.  She campaigned for President of the United States in the 2000 Republican Primary and was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2002, where she serves on the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Banking and Aging Committees.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDole is a native of Salisbury, North Carolina.  She married then-U.S. Senator Robert Dole, R-KS, in 1975.  She is a graduate of Duke University and Harvard Law School.  She also holds a master\u0027s degree in education and government from Harvard.  At the ceremony, Georgia Tech will honor Dole with an honorary Doctor of Philosophy.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJulie L. Gerberding, MD, MPH\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGerberding will address the graduate ceremony at 3 p.m.  She was named director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the administrator of the Agency of Toxic Substances and Disease Registry in July 2002.  She\u0027s leading the CDC\u0027s efforts to respond to the world wide outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) for the United States.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBefore being appointed to the director\u0027s post, Gerberding served as the Acting Deputy Director of the National Center for Infectious Diseases, where she  played a major role in leading the CDC\u0027s response to the anthrax bioterrorism evens of 2002.  She joined the CDC in 1998, developing the agency\u0027s patient safety initiatives and other programs to prevent infections, antimicrobial resistance and medical errors.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGerberding earned her bachelor\u0027s in chemistry and biology as well as her M.D. at Case Western Reserve University.  She earned her master\u0027s of public health at the University of California, Berkeley.  Before joining the CDC, she worked at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), where she was director of the Prevention Epicenter.  She is still active in higher education, holding associate professorships at both Emory University and UCSF.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EStudent Cheats Death Twice to Graduate \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAs hundreds of proud parents cheer on their graduates Saturday, perhaps no one will have more pride than the family of industrial engineering graduate William Palmer. Palmer enrolled at Tech in fall quarter 1994.  A fifth-year co-op student in the spring of 1999, he was just finishing up his degree when he was involved in an auto accident that left him with severe brain injuries and in a coma.  After he had been in the coma one month, doctors told his parents he had only a 5 percent chance of surviving.  Then, after the fifth week, Palmer woke up.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERecovery wasn\u0027t easy for Palmer; he had to learn to walk again after spending so much time in the coma and had lost much of his short-term memory.  But by the fall, he had re-enrolled at Tech and was on his way to finishing his degree.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022It was rough going back to school,\u0022 he said.  \u0022But I was determined to make it.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EJust a few short weeks after he returned to Tech, Palmer developed a severe headache. Having had a serious brain injury, Palmer knew the headache could be a sign of something serious so he began driving to Piedmont Hospital.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I remember driving there and then everything cut out, like nothing,\u0022 said Palmer. \u0022 I hit a pole and a building.  I remember walking out of the car and sitting on the curb.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPalmer had suffered a brain hemorrhage and was taken to Grady Hospital.  While at Grady a drainage tube ripped a hole in his stomach, which was discovered only after he was transferred to a hospital in Dayton, Ohio. He developed Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a bacterial infection that\u0027s resistant to antibiotics.  He spent the day with his heart rate above 170 beats per minute and a fever of 105.9 degrees Fahrenheit.  He was about one hour away from death when the doctors found and treated the infection.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAs a result of his two brain injuries, Palmer\u0027s left side is slightly paralyzed and he has to use a motorized wheelchair to get around. His physical therapist doesn\u0027t think he will ever walk again, which means Medicare will not pay for his therapy, but Palmer isn\u0027t giving up.  He\u0027s doing his own brand of physical therapy in the gym. He points out after both accidents his doctors didn\u0027t think he would live.  Once he survived, they told him he would never graduate after suffering two severe brain injuries.  Now that he\u0027s proven them wrong three times, Palmer said, he aims to prove them wrong again.  He may seem stubborn, but that\u0027s alright with him.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022My ex-girlfriend told me \u0027I know you\u0027ll walk again because you\u0027re so stubborn.\u0027  I said, \u0027You mean determined.\u0027 And she said, \u0027No, I mean you\u0027re stubborn.\u0027 But that\u0027s okay. Not only am I going to walk again, I\u0027m going to run again.,\u0022 said Palmer.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Senator Elizabeth Dole and CDC Director Dr. Julie Gerberding will deliver the addresses at the Georgia Institute of Technology\u0027s 215th commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 3, at Alexander Memorial Coliseum. The ceremonies will feature 2,044 graduates, making it the largest graduating class in Tech history.\n\u003Cstrong\u003EAmong the Graduates\u003C\/strong\u003E-Despite a coma, two severe brain injures and a near fatal staph infection, industrial engineering major William Palmer will get his degree on Saturday.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-05-02 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:10","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-04-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-04-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"84711":{"id":"84711","type":"image","title":"Senator Elizabeth Dole, R-NC","body":null,"created":"1449178102","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:22","changed":"1475894704","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:04"},"84721":{"id":"84721","type":"image","title":"CDC Director Julie L. 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Souter.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nProfessor Maple, the Elizabeth Smithgall-Watts Chair in Behavioral and Animal Conservation for Georgia Tech\u0027s School of Psychology, joins the museum board after being nominated by President George W. Bush and confirmed by the U.S. Senate. He continues to raise funds and direct Georgia Tech\u0027s new Center for Conservation and Behavior, dedicated to studying animal behavior and how zoos might help endangered species.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn all, there are 15 members of the National Museum Service Board, which advises the director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services [IMLS] and makes recommendations for the National Award for Museum Service, the nation\u0027s highest honor for extraordinary public service provided by America\u0027s museums.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0022The National Museum Services Board takes an active part in championing the role museums play in our society,\u0022 IMLS Director Robert Martin said. \u0022Together, the board and the institute have the responsibility to place a national spotlight on the outstanding work that America\u0027s museums do, and on the enormous contributions they make serving our communities and sustaining our cultural heritage.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe IMLS is an independent federal agency and a primary source of federal grants for the nation\u0027s 15,000 museums and 122,000 libraries. Its grants and leadership help museums care for collections, expand public-education programs, partner with community organizations and use new technology. Congress established the National Museum Services Board in 1976. Its members are citizens recognized for their broad knowledge, expertise, or experience in museums or commitment to museums.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EUntil this past January Maple was president of Zoo Atlanta, a post he had held since his appointment by the mayor of Atlanta in 1984. At that time, prior neglect, mismanagement and lack of funds at the zoo led to the deaths of several animals, the loss of Zoo Atlanta\u0027s accreditation from the American Society of Zoological Parks and Aquariums, and the notoriety of being named one of the 10 worst zoos in the country by the Humane Society of the United States.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBut, during his tenure, Maple helped turn Zoo Atlanta into one of the nation\u0027s finest, attracting national awards and an increase in annual visitors. The year after giant pandas arrived in 1999 the zoo hit an attendance record of 1 million visitors. It also became one of metro Atlanta\u0027s top attractions.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nMaple remained on Georgia Tech\u0027s faculty during his tenure at the zoo, as a psychology professor specializing in animal behavior. He continues his work in that area while he builds the new Center for Conservation and Behavior, said Gary Schuster, dean of Georgia Tech\u0027s College of Sciences. Maple will need about $200,000 a year to start the center, Schuster said.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nMaple is the founding editor of the professional journal Zoo Biology and is the author and editor of more than 150 scientific publications. He is an elected Fellow of the American Psychological Association and a former president of the American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nHe received a bachelor\u0027s degree in psychology from the University of the Pacific, and he received a master\u0027s degree and a Ph.D. in psychobiology from the University of California at Davis.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Terry Maple, director of Georgia Tech\u0027s new Center for Conservation and Behavior, is one of 10 new members of the National Museum Service Board sworn in recently by U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. 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All symposium sessions are open and free to the Georgia Tech community and cancer researchers at any of the Georgia academic institutions, but pre-registration is recommended.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026#8220;This is a unique gathering of investigators who represent essentially the entire spectrum of cancer research, from chemistry to molecular biology, to engineering to the clinic,\u0026#8221; said symposium chair Alfred Merrill, who is the Smithgall Institute Chair in Molecular Cell Biology at Georgia Tech and chair of the Georgia Tech Cancer Research Council. \u0026#8220;Major advances are born at the junctions between fields, and Georgia is fortunate to be able to bring together this wealth of talent from its universities and the broader scientific community.\u0026#8221;\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESpeakers will describe basic mechanisms of cell regulation that are the underpinning of cancer biology, and new technologies for cancer detection, imaging, targeting and control. Topics include cell-signaling pathways in cancer, cancer detection and control, biosensing and bioimaging, and cancer informatics and biocomputing. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECancer is the second leading cause of death in Georgia, one of the highest cancer rates in the country.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nCancer research at Georgia Tech is conducted across the disciplines among scientists in areas from biology to computing and biomedical engineering to electrical engineering. Georgia Tech and Emory University operate a joint department in biomedical engineering where faculty at both institutions regularly collaborate on cancer research. Tech recently formed the Georgia Tech Cancer Research Council as part of its strategic plan to bolster cancer research and cancer-related academic programs on campus. The Council consists of faculty whose work touches on cancer research.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Cancer Coalition is a statewide collaborative effort, funded with $37 million from the tobacco settlement, involving universities, clinics and hospitals in cancer research. The Coalition works to strengthen the collective impact of existing cancer-related programs and create new initiatives that bring early detection, leading-edge treatment, research, prevention and education to Georgians.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe symposium begins Thursday with a 7 p.m. reception in the atrium of the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience on the Georgia Tech campus. The Friday and Saturday sessions will be held at GCATT and both begin at 8:15 a.m. The symposium is also an opportunity for students and research associates to present their research, and for those who are not currently applying their expertise to cancer research to find out how they may fit in.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo register online for the symposium, visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ibb.gatech.edu\u0022 title=\u0022www.ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ewww.ibb.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Many of the state\u0026#8217;s leading cancer researchers will gather at Georgia Tech from March 27-29 to discuss their recent findings in developing new strategies for cancer detection and control.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-03-12 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:10","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-03-12T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2003-03-12T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"85271":{"id":"85271","type":"image","title":"Cancer Research","body":null,"created":"1449178110","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:30","changed":"1475894706","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:06"}},"media_ids":["85271"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.georgiacancer.org\/","title":"Georgia Cancer Coalition"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ibb.gatech.edu\/suddath2003\/index.html","title":"Cancer Research in Georgia Symposium"}],"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":""}},"85221":{"#nid":"85221","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Political Columnist Molly Ivins to Receive The Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Progress and Service","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at Georgia Tech honors Molly Ivins, the widely syndicated political columnist and best-selling author, with the 2003 Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Progress and Service on Thursday, March 27 at 1 p.m.  After the award ceremony, Ivins will give a talk entitled, \u0022Molly Ivins Can\u0027t Say that Can She?\u0022 also the title of her best selling book.  The program takes place in the Student Center Ballroom on the Georgia Tech campus.  Doors will open at 12:50 p.m.  The public is invited to attend.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Since we are celebrating 50 years of women at Georgia Tech, it is especially appropriate to honor Ms. Ivins, who has blazed a trail in the largely male-dominated arena of political journalism,\u0022 said Usha Nair-Reichert, co-chair of the Founder\u0027s Day Committee and associate professor of Economics.  \u0022We want to recognize Ms. Ivins for her years of exceptional political commentary and her ability to use humor to critique both state and national politics and politicians.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nLast year, former President Jimmy Carter received the 2002 Prize, named in honor of former Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen Jr. (Class of 1933) and the College\u0027s namesake.  Senator Zell Miller received the first Prize in 2001.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, Ivan Allen College celebrates its Founder\u0027s Day on March 27 by presenting a panel discussion on \u0022Academic Transitions: Lessons for the Future\u0022 at 9:30 a.m. in the Clary Theater in the Student Success Center.  Panelists include former female faculty at Georgia Tech who will discuss their experiences and challenges as one of a small number of female professors on campus.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPanel participants include: Miriam Drake, dean emerita, Library; Helen Grenga, professor emerita, Materials Science and Engineering; Annibel Jenkins, professor emerita, English Department; and Dorothy Cowser Yancy, president of Johnson C. Smith University and former professor of History, Technology and Society and in the School of Management at Georgia Tech.  Sue Rosser, dean of Ivan Allen College will moderate the panel.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIvins is known for her wit and irreverence for all things political. She has authored two best-selling books, \u0022Molly Ivins Can\u0027t Say That, Can She?\u0022 and \u0022Nothin\u0027 But Good Times Ahead,\u0022 both collections of essays on politics and journalism. She has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize three times and was the winner of the 1992 Headliners Award for best column in Texas.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIvins\u0027 freelance work has appeared in Esquire, Atlantic, The Nation, Harper\u0027s, TV Guide and numerous other publications. She also does occasional commentary for National Public Radio and the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. She served for three years on the board of the National News Council, is active in Amnesty International\u0027s Journalism Network and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. She writes about press issues for the American Civil Liberties Union and several journalism reviews. She has received a number of journalism awards and in 1976 was named Outstanding Alumna by Columbia University\u0027s School of Journalism.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIvins is from Houston, has a B.A. from Smith College, a Master\u0027s in journalism from Columbia University and studied for a year at the Institute of Political Science in Paris.  She speaks both French and Spanish. She began her career in journalism at the Houston Chronicle and has also written for the Minneapolis Tribune, the New York Times, and The Texas Observer. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIvan Allen College, the liberal arts college of Georgia Tech, is named for Atlanta\u0027s legendary mayor, businessman, and Tech alumnus, Ivan Allen Jr. The College was founded in 1990 to provide a strong liberal arts dimension for all Tech students and to permit focused majors in humanities and social sciences, with an international technological and professional emphasis.  Ivan Allen College includes the Schools of Economics; History, Technology and Society; the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs; Literature, Communication and Culture; Modern Languages; and Public Policy as well as Air Force, Army, and Navy Reserve Officers\u0027 Training Corps (ROTC) units.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENote:\u003C\/strong\u003E Media are invited to cover Molly Ivins\u0027 remarks and the presentation of the 2003 Ivan Allen Jr. Prize in the Student Center Ballroom on campus at 1 p.m., Thursday, March 27.  The Prize presentation is scheduled for 1 p.m., with Ivins speaking shortly thereafter.  Please call Elizabeth Campell at 404-894-4233 for assistance or more information about this event.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Celebrating 50 Years of Women at Georgia Tech"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"The Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at Georgia Tech honors Molly Ivins, the widely syndicated political columnist and best-selling author, with the 2003 Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Progress and Service on Thursday, March 27 at 1 p.m.  After the award ceremony, Ivins will give a talk entitled, \u0022Molly Ivins Can\u0027t Say that Can She?\u0022 also the title of her best selling book. The public is invited to attend.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-03-14 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:10","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-03-14T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2003-03-14T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"85231":{"id":"85231","type":"image","title":"Molly Ivins, political columnist","body":null,"created":"1449178110","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:30","changed":"1475894706","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:06"}},"media_ids":["85231"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/50yearsofwomen\/","title":"50 Years of Women at Tech Website"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/index.html","title":"Ivan Allen College"}],"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":""}},"85201":{"#nid":"85201","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Student to Pilot Paper Hang Glider in NC Dunes","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EVicky Hsu could have spent her spring break vacation relaxing. Instead, the chemical engineering senior geared up for a high flying week in the sand dunes of North Carolina, learning how to hang glide from the pros. She\u0027ll need the practice: On April 5, she\u0027ll pilot a homemade hang glider with wings made almost entirely of  paper products. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The higher I flew, the easier it was to sail,\u0022 said Hsu, who along with four other Georgia Tech students, is representing Georgia Tech during the Energy Challenge 2003 competition at Jockey\u0027s Ridge State Park, in Nags Head, NC. The competition pits the Georgia Tech team against teams from nine other colleges across the country. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThey\u0027ll see who can build the best paper hang glider, as well as who can \u0022hang one,\u0027 or fly it the farthest, from atop an 80-foot dune in North Carolina, near the same dunes where the famous Wright brothers toiled to record the first powered flight in history one hundred years ago in 1903. The contest also marks the centennial celebration of flight.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWith a top prize of $15,000 at stake, the team has been intently building their hang glider in a large cargo bay at the Atlanta Technology Center. Much of the sail is being built using materials such as paperboard and linerboard, and various chemicals during the finishing and bonding stages.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We\u0027re testing the strength and elasticity of the paper today,\u0022 said Jabulani Barber, a chemical engineering student and team member, as he placed a strip of paper into a machine that measures how much pressure the paper can take before it snaps in half. The information will be useful as the team selects the best paper to use for the glider. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe next step: They\u0027ll select a strong glue to piece the different types of paper together. Eventually, the paper will be laid out on the ground and cut to the specs of the hang glider\u0027s metal frame in a modified Rogallo wing design. From there, they\u0027ll attach the paper sail to the glider and frame.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EJudges will score the teams primarily on who sails the farthest distance. Each team gets three flights, and the combined distance of those flights weighs heavily in determining the winner. Other factors will be considered, such as which hang glider weighs the least, which team made the best use of recycled products, and which glider looks the best in flight.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Energy Challenge is an annual event sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and the Institute of Paper Science and Technology. This year, Kitty Hawks Kites, Inc. is also a sponsor. The purpose of Energy Challenge is to increase interest in science and engineering and promote awareness of energy efficiency, manufacturing design, recycling, waste minimization, package maximizing and pulp and paper industrial processes. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETeams participating this year, in addition to Tech, are: North Carolina State University; North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University; University of Maine; Miami University; Temple University; Savannah College of Art and Design; Spartan School of Aeronautics; University of Central Florida; and Western Michigan University. The first place school will receive $15,000; second place, $10,000; and third place, $5,000. The team\u0027s faculty advisor is Jeffery Hsieh, a professor of chemical engineering at Tech.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELast year, another Georgia Tech team entered the Energy Challenge and sailed away with the $15,000 prize. The competition required teams to build a paper sailboard and windsurf it at Lake Lanier. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENote: Media may schedule time to visit the team at Georgia Tech as they build the paper hang glider prior to the April 5 competition. Media may also be placed on a calling list for instant competition results at 1:30 p.m. April 5. Still photography and video will be available following the competition.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Tech Team to Build Glider, Compete for Top Prize of $15,000"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Vicky Hsu could have spent her spring break vacation relaxing. Instead, the chemical engineering senior geared up for a high flying week in the sand dunes of North Carolina, learning how to hang glide from the pros. She\u0027ll need the practice: On April 5, she\u0027ll pilot a homemade hang glider with wings made almost entirely of  paper products.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-09-15 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:10","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-03-18T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2003-03-18T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"85211":{"id":"85211","type":"image","title":"Feature Photo","body":null,"created":"1449178110","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:30","changed":"1475894706","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:06"}},"media_ids":["85211"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ipst.edu\/energy_challenge\/frameset.html","title":"Energy Challenge 2003"}],"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":""}},"84591":{"#nid":"84591","#data":{"type":"news","title":"GIFT Advisory Council Taps New Chairman","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology\u0027s Center for Education in Science, Mathematics and Computing and EMS Technologies Inc. today announced Michael Robertson, director of EMS Human Resources, has been named chairman of the 2003 GIFT Advisory Council.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGIFT, or the Georgia Industrial Fellowships for Teachers program, offers teachers throughout Georgia summer fellowships in business, industry, public science institutes and research. Teachers bring those experiences back into their classrooms to give students insight into real-world careers.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERobertson has served on the GIFT Advisory Council for eight years. Since its founding in 1990, GIFT has contributed to the professional development of more than 700 teachers in Georgia.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEMS, the state\u0027s leading space-technology company and a leading supplier of RF hardware for a variety of satellite and wireless markets, has mentored more than 10 teachers in the GIFT program.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Mike is leading the enhancement of GIFT\u0027s Advisory Board, which will include representatives from area school districts and representatives from Georgia Tech in addition to business leaders,\u0022 said CEISMC Director Paul Ohme. \u0022He has the vision and attributes that it will take to help the program grow through better partnerships within the state.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022GIFT is expanding its horizons by broadening the roles to which students are exposed through their teachers\u0027 summer work experiences,\u0022 Robertson said. \u0022It\u0027s gratifying to guide a program that is laying the groundwork for science and math careers for our young people. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We need engineers and other skilled workers,\u0022 Robertson said. \u0022Students that teachers are touching today are our employees tomorrow.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEMS Technologies Inc. (\u003Cstrong\u003ENASDAQ: ELMG\u003C\/strong\u003E) is a leading innovator in the design and manufacture of wireless, satellite and defense solutions, and focuses its unique range of advanced technologies on the needs of broadband and mobile information users. The company is headquartered in Atlanta, employs approximately 1,700 people worldwide, and has manufacturing facilities in Atlanta, Montreal, Ottawa and Brazil.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Georgia Tech\u0027s Center for Education in Science, Mathematics and Computing and EMS Technologies Inc. today announced Michael Robertson, director of EMS Human Resources, has been named chairman of the 2003 GIFT Advisory Council.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-05-21 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:06","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-05-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-05-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"84601":{"id":"84601","type":"image","title":"Michael Robertson","body":null,"created":"1449178102","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:22","changed":"1475894704","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:04"}},"media_ids":["84601"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ems-t.com\/","title":"EMS Technologies Inc."},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ceismc.gatech.edu\/ceismc\/programs\/gift\/homepg.htm","title":"The GIFT Program"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ceismc.gatech.edu\/","title":"Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics and Computing (CEISMC)"},{"url":"http:\/\/cos-web.admin.gatech.edu\/","title":"College of Sciences"}],"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":""}},"84541":{"#nid":"84541","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Emory\/Georgia Tech Scientists Find Genetic Link Between Blood Flow Patterns And Cardiovascular Disease","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA team of scientists at Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology has found a genetic link between mechanical changes in blood flow patterns and the development of atherosclerotic plaques.  The discovery could help explain how increasing blood flow through physical activity helps prevent atherosclerosis.  \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHanjoong Jo, a professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Emory and Georgia Tech, and his colleagues used a combined engineering and molecular approach to demonstrate how changes in blood flow might contribute to the prevention or development of lipid-containing plaques that can rupture and block blood vessels, leading to heart attack and stroke.  The research is published in the on-line edition of the \u003Cem\u003EJournal of Biological Chemistry\u003C\/em\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe research team of biomedical engineers, cardiologists and surgeons included George P. Sorescu, Michelle Sykes, Daiana Weiss, Manu O. Platt, Aniket Saha, Jinah Hwang, Nolan Boyd, Yong C. Boo, J. David Vega and W. Robert Taylor\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBioengineers believe that areas of the vascular system with curves, forks, and less direct flow are more likely to develop atherosclerotic plaques than are vascular areas with straight and unobstructed blood flow.  Jo hypothesized that endothelial cells (the cells that line blood vessels) have a biological response to alterations in their mechanical environment.  He designed a mechanical system using a test fluid to model the patterns made by blood as it flows through the body\u0027s vessels, and then exposed the fluid to mouse aortic endothelial cells.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EUsing microarray (gene chip) technology, he screened 12,000 genes found in the endothelial cells, comparing tissue exposed to a straight and streamlined flow of blood (laminar shear) to tissue exposed to abnormal, non-linear flow patterns (oscillatory shear stress).  In the cells exposed to oscillatory shear stress, he discovered a marked increase in expression of the gene that encodes the protein BMP4 (bone-morphogenetic protein-4).  In the cells exposed to laminar shear, he found almost no evidence of BMP4.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo further support his results, Jo\u0027s team, in collaboration with Emory cardiologist W. Robert Taylor, MD, and Emory vascular surgeon J. David Vega, MD, screened endothelial cells from human coronary arteries of patients with atherosclerotic lesions to test for expression of BMP4.  BMP4 expression was undetectable in arteries with minimal disease, but it was strongly expressed in endothelial patches found overlying an early form of atherosclerotic lesions called \u0022foam cell lesions.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAlthough high blood cholesterol, high blood pressure, smoking, and a diet high in saturated fat are known to increase the likelihood of developing heart disease, the risk of physical inactivity is comparable to other factors, according to the American Heart Association.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The molecular biological response to increases or decreases in blood flow might help us explain why physical inactivity promotes disease,\u0022 Jo said.  \u0022Increasing one\u0027s heart rate through vigorous exercise causes blood to flow faster through the vessels, and some exercise-related benefits may be due to endothelial expression of certain genes and proteins.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EJo hopes to use his findings about BMP4 to develop new diagnostic tests or gene-based therapies to prevent plaque formation.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"A team of scientists at Emory University and Georgia Tech has found a genetic link between mechanical changes in blood flow patterns and the development of atherosclerotic plaques.  The discovery could help explain how increasing blood flow through physical activity helps prevent atherosclerosis.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-05-29 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:06","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-05-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-05-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"84551":{"id":"84551","type":"image","title":"Professor Hanjoong Jo","body":null,"created":"1449178102","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:22","changed":"1475894704","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:04"}},"media_ids":["84551"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.bme.emory.edu\/~hjo\/","title":"Vascular Mechanics Lab"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/","title":"Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering"}],"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":""}},"84561":{"#nid":"84561","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Students Re-Engineer SUV With Improved Fuel Economy\/Emissions Reduction","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMore than ten days of intense competing are ahead for a team of Georgia Tech students as they submit a Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) entry for the 2003 FutureTruck competition finals. FutureTruck challenges teams of students from 15 top North American university engineering departments to re-engineer a mid-size 2002 Ford Explorer to improve fuel economy and lower emissions while maintaining the safety, performance and comfort levels that have made them so popular.  \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech SUV submission faces rigorous testing and evaluation, in areas such as acceleration and off-road performance events to determine which team will win the challenge.  The students participated in the 2002 competition and are confident they\u0027ll exceed the 2003 goal of achieving 25 percent better over-the-road fuel economy in the SUV and significantly reduce overall emissions.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This competition presents students with real-world design and engineering exercises and challenges them to produce real-world results,\u0022 said professor Jerry Meisel, team advisor for the Georgia Tech team. \u0022The students have worked really hard all year, and we are ready to take home first place.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech truck incorporates a split-parallel design in which the motor is not directly coupled to the engine, as in a normal parallel hybrid. Instead, the engine drives the front wheels while the motor supplements that power by driving the rear wheels. Aggressive weight reduction methods are used to further increase the overall efficiency of the vehicle as well. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Training young engineers to solve complex automotive engineering challenges is what this competition is all about,\u0022 said Al Kammerer, Ford\u0027s Executive Director of Sport Utility Vehicles and Body on Frame.  \u0022FutureTruck provides the training ground for hundreds of student engineers to explore advanced vehicle technologies so they are better equipped to lead the automotive industry in the 21st Century.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EVarious judging events will take place at Ford\u0027s Michigan Proving Ground in Romeo and the Allen Park Testing Lab in Allen Park, Mich.  The winning university team will be announced on June 12th as part of Ford\u0027s centennial celebration in Dearborn, Mich.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFord Motor Company and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) are the headline sponsors for the 2003 FutureTruck competition. Argonne National laboratory, a DOE R\u0026amp;D facility, provides competition management, technical and logistical support.  More than 16 other government and industry sponsors also support the program.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECompeting universities for FutureTruck 2003 are: Georgia Tech; California Polytechnic State University, San Louis Obispo; Cornell University; Michigan Technological University; The Ohio State University; Pennsylvania State University; Texas Tech University; University of Alberta; University of California, Davis; University of Idaho; University of Maryland; University of Tennessee; University of Wisconsin-Madison; Virginia Tech; and West Virginia University.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Team Enters National FutureTruck Competition Finals"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"More than ten days of intense competing are ahead for a team of Georgia Tech students as they submit a Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) entry for the 2003 FutureTruck competition finals. FutureTruck challenges teams of students from 15 top North American university engineering departments to re-engineer a mid-size 2002 Ford Explorer to improve fuel economy and lower emissions while maintaining the safety, performance and comfort levels that have made them so popular.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-05-29 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:06","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-05-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-05-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"84571":{"id":"84571","type":"image","title":"Future Truck","body":null,"created":"1449178102","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:22","changed":"1475894704","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:04"}},"media_ids":["84571"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.futuretruck.org\/.","title":"Future Truck 2003"}],"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":""}},"84511":{"#nid":"84511","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Ross to Lead Tech\u0027s Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThomas Galloway, dean of the College of Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology, today announced that nationally recognized transportation expert Catherine Ross will become the college\u0027s first endowed faculty member - the Harry West Chair for Quality Growth and Regional Development.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn her new role at Georgia Tech, Ross will direct the Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development, an educational research arm of the College of Architecture that will examine key issues of land use, community design, transportation and air quality throughout the Atlanta region and beyond. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe center will be housed within Georgia Tech\u0027s new, mixed-use facilities at Technology Square, nearing completion in Midtown Atlanta. Ross begins July 1.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I am most pleased to have Catherine assume the leadership role of the center, and I believe this is an historically important step in expanding Georgia Tech\u0027s position in metropolitan-growth scholarship, research and outreach,\u0022 Dean Galloway said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Catherine and the center hold tremendous opportunities for Georgia Tech\u0027s City and Regional Planning Program, the College of Architecture, other Institute units and sister universities in Atlanta who will be involved with us as we build this new center together,\u0022 he said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBecoming the Harry West Chair for Quality Growth and Regional Development is \u0022a one-to-one fit\u0022 for Ross and the new center, she said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I\u0027m thrilled to accept this position, especially as the first endowed faculty member of the College of Architecture,\u0022 Ross said. \u0022Creation of the center is very timely, too, because issues of sustainable growth, transportation and community involvement are critical -- not only in Atlanta, but throughout the region and the nation.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPreviously, Ross was the first executive director of the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority (GRTA), a state agency created by the Legislature in 1999. Its mission is to help 13 counties out-of-compliance with clean air standards develop new transportation plans and initiatives to help them meet or exceed federal requirements. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022GRTA provided me a wonderful opportunity to learn and address the issues facing our community. It\u0027s a valuable asset to the state and the region,\u0022 Ross said. \u0022I\u0027m extremely proud of the progress we made at GRTA and I have high expectations for its future. Like GRTA, Georgia Tech\u0027s Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development will have no peer in the nation in terms of its mission and great focus.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERoss is no stranger to Georgia Tech. She first came to the Institute in 1976 as an assistant professor in the Graduate City Planning Program. She became an associate professor in 1984, then a full professor in 1990. She has held a variety of important leadership positions here, including vice provost for academic affairs, associate vice president for academic affairs, co-director of the Transportation Research and Education Center and director of the College of Architecture\u0027s Ph.D. program.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAt the national level, Ross previously served as a senior policy adviser to the National Academy of Sciences\u0027 Transportation Research Board. Today she is a member of that board. She also is past president of the National Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning; a member of the Board of Directors for the ENO Transportation Foundation; and is a national advisory board member for the Women\u0027s Transportation Seminar. Locally, she was vice chair of the Atlanta Development Authority in 1998.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Catherine is extremely well-regarded nationally for her work in examining regional transportation issues,\u0022 said Cheryl Contant, the director of Georgia Tech\u0027s City and Regional Planning Program who led the search for the Harry West Chair. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022But, after more than three years heading GRTA, nobody knows the Atlanta region better than Catherine Ross,\u0022 Contant said. \u0022This combination of national prominence and local knowledge makes her uniquely suited for the Harry West Chair and the directorship of the center.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERoss\u0027 chief duties will be to organize the center\u0027s mission and activities, building research and issue teams to address problems and develop solutions. She also is charged with raising funds to sustain the center\u0027s activities into the future, Contant said. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHowever, Ross\u0027 biggest challenge is to get the new center up and running quickly.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022There is significant demand for the center\u0027s efforts in Atlanta and other, similar metropolitan regions in the United States that presently is unmet,\u0022 Contant said. \u0022Because of her unique experience and expertise, Dr. Ross should be able to capitalize on her extensive knowledge and local connections to hit the ground running.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERoss said the center will address more than just issues that affect Atlanta and the Southeast. It will serve as a national and international model for advancing regional concerns -- such as community design, improved air and water quality, education, transportation and overall quality of life.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022These are not only issues that are important to us. People all over the world are struggling with the same problems, and we have a great chance of actually addressing some of them here,\u0022 she said.  \u0022The private sector and the public sector both play prominent roles in solving our growth problems. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This center certainly is a good example of the marriage of the private and public sectors and how they might work together to address the critical issues our communities face today,\u0022 she said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAmong Ross\u0027 teaching and research interests are transportation policy analysis; transportation planning; environmental impact assessments; urban revitalization; spatial analysis; public involvement; and land-use planning.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERoss earned a bachelor\u0027s degree from Kent State University in 1971, followed by a master\u0027s degree in regional planning from Cornell University in 1973. She earned her doctorate in city and regional planning from Cornell in 1979 and did post-doctorate work at the University of California, Berkeley. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to teaching at Georgia Tech and her leadership of GRTA, Ross founded a consulting company that has conducted research for numerous government transportation agencies. She has published extensively in the fields of urban planning, transportation planning and public participation. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Harry West Chair of Quality Growth and Regional Development was created in 1999 with a generous, $1.5 million endowment from John A. Williams, the founder of Post Properties Inc. The chair is the first endowed faculty position within Georgia Tech\u0027s College of Architecture and it is housed in the City and Regional Planning Program.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIt is named in honor of Harry West, who served 26 years as director of the Atlanta Regional Commission. During his tenure there, West became known as a tireless champion of constituency-based planning, the process of bringing together diverse stakeholders in a community to forge a single vision for growth and change.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Nationally recognized transportation expert Catherine Ross will become the College of Architecture\u0027s first endowed faculty member - the Harry West Chair for Quality Growth and Regional Development. In her new role, Ross will direct a center that will examine key issues of land use, community design, transportation and air quality throughout the Atlanta region and beyond.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-06-02 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:06","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-06-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-06-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"84521":{"id":"84521","type":"image","title":"Catherine Ross","body":null,"created":"1449178102","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:22","changed":"1475894704","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:04"}},"media_ids":["84521"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/grta.georgia.gov\/01\/home\/0,2167,1047002,00.html","title":"Georgia Regional Transportation Authority"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.coa.gatech.edu\/cqgrd\/","title":"Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.coa.gatech.edu\/crp\/","title":"Georgia Tech City and Regional Planning 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":""}},"84471":{"#nid":"84471","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Researchers Use Numerical Models to Examine Blood Flow Patterns in Artificial Heart Valves","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENumerical modeling techniques, developed at the Georgia Institute of Technology to simulate the flow of water around hydraulic structures such as bridge foundations, are being used to better understand the complex patterns of blood flow through artificial mechanical heart valves.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe research could yield the most accurate description to date of the turbulent flow environment blood cells and platelets are exposed to as they pass through an implanted mechanical heart valve - information that researchers hope will lead to improvements in current mechanical valve testing and design procedures, and help reduce the potential for thromboembolic complications.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBacked by a four-year, $1.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, the research is being spearheaded by Ajit Yoganathan, Regents\u0027 professor in the Wallace H. Coulter School of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University and an internationally renowned expert on artificial heart valves and cardiovascular fluid mechanics research; and Fotis Sotiropoulos, an associate professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and a leading expert in computational fluid mechanics.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo date, the fluid mechanics of heart valves have been largely studied using experimental approaches. The Georgia Tech research is the first comprehensive attempt to develop advanced Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) techniques and apply them in conjunction with experiments to study blood flow turbulence in heart valves.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E \u0022Our numerical simulations can provide descriptions of the blood flow at a level of detail that far exceeds the insight one can get from experiments alone,\u0022 Sotiropoulos said. \u0022We will be able to go on a virtual journey along with platelets and blood cells through the valve and identify design elements that induce turbulence patterns, which could be harmful to blood elements.  This cannot be done experimentally. Yet, we must rely on experiments to make sure that our virtual blood flow environment closely represents reality.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team is working to adapt advanced CFD modeling techniques developed for simulating turbulent flows past bridge foundations in natural rivers and through hydraulic turbines in hydropower installations to prosthetic heart valves.  In spite of many common elements with hydraulic engineering application, the heart valve problem is so complex that its solution necessitates new advancements and innovation in computational algorithms.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe heart valve consists of two leaflets that are free to open and close as the blood rushes back and forth during the cardiac cycle. To model this fluid\/structure interaction, the team is developing sophisticated techniques to account for the coupling of leaflet motion with the blood flow. Unlike hydraulic engineering applications, where the water flow is fast enough to remain chaotic and turbulent all the time, the beating heart causes the blood flow through the valve to change its speed and direction continuously.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the most part, the flow is ordered and laminar except for a brief period of time near peak systole when the blood flow becomes chaotic and turbulent. It is during this brief interval when engineers suspect that the flow environment could become most hazardous to blood elements. The team will pioneer the development and application of advanced models of turbulence that can accurately model flows continuously transitioning back and forth from a laminar to a turbulent state.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESince 1960, cardiac surgeons have been implanting artificial heart valves in patients who require heart valve replacement. There are two major types available: mechanical valves, which are made from man-made materials; and bioprosthetic valves, which are made from animal tissues.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAll mechanical valves are made up of an orifice ring and occluders, either one or two \u0022leaflets\u0022 through which blood flows through the heart in a forward direction. In the ring is a single movable disc, or two \u0022leaflets,\u0022 which open and close much like a natural heart valve to control the flow of blood. Current mechanical heart valves are made from biocompatible materials such as titanium and pyrolytic carbon. A soft fabric sewing ring, which is attached to the valve orifice is utilized by the cardiac surgeon to suture the valve into the patient\u0027s heart at the correct anatomical location.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEven though artificial heart valves have saved millions of lives over the past four decades, modern designs are less than ideal. To date, more than 50 different designs have been developed, a majority of them have failed in their clinical utility. The flow of blood across modern mechanical heart valves, such as bileaflet and tilting disc designs, is more turbulent than normal blood flow, which can lead to blood clots and stroke. This requires valve recipients to be on lifelong anticoagulant therapy (blood thinners).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022In the 21st century we need to design and evaluate medical devices such as artificial heart valves using state-of-the-art engineering and biological tools\u0022 said Yoganathan, who directs Georgia Tech\u0027s Cardiovascular Fluid Mechanics Laboratory. \u0022The marriage of engineering and biological experimental techniques with computational analysis tools is critical to the effort to produce better medical devices.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA unique aspect of the Georgia Tech approach is that it will rely heavily on a close synergy between modelers and experimentalists to produce experimental data sets for validating and refining the simulation tools. In the past, CFD modeling and experiments were conducted independently of each other. The Georgia Tech team will design experiments tailor-made to provide the precise information needed to validate and improve the CFD models. Such synergy would ensure the development of a reliable modeling tool, which, coupled with rapid advancements in computational power, will pave the way for incorporating CFD into a virtual design environment. Engineers and medical doctors will be able to use these computational tools to interactively modify a given valve design and assess the hemodynamic implications of their modifications in real-time.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Findings Could Lead to Better Valve Design and Testing"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Numerical modeling techniques, developed at Georgia Tech to simulate the flow of water around hydraulic structures such as bridge foundations, are being used to better understand the complex patterns of blood flow through artificial mechanical heart valves. The research could yield the most accurate description to date of the turbulent flow environment blood cells and platelets are exposed to as they pass through an implanted mechanical heart valve.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-06-05 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:06","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-06-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-06-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"84481":{"id":"84481","type":"image","title":"Feature Story","body":null,"created":"1449178102","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:22","changed":"1475894704","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:04"}},"media_ids":["84481"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ce.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Civil and Environmental Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/groups\/cfmg\/cfmg.htm","title":"Cardiovascular Fluid Mechanics Laboratory at Georgia Tech"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/","title":"Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering"}],"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":""}},"84491":{"#nid":"84491","#data":{"type":"news","title":"School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Names New Chair","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech has chosen Joseph B. Hughes, professor and chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rice University in Houston, as the new chair of Georgia Tech\u0027s School of Civil and Environmental Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHughes will begin as chair in August, pending approval from the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. He succeeds Roberto Leon, who has served as interim chair since last summer.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Dr. Hughes is a dynamic educator and leader,\u0022 said Don Giddens, dean of the College of Engineering. \u0022His experience in administration, combined with his outstanding academic achievements, will be a great asset to the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering here at Georgia Tech.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We are delighted he will be a member of the Georgia Tech team,\u0022 Giddens said. \u0022I\u0027d also like to take this opportunity to personally thank Roberto Leon, for his exceptional leadership during this interim period.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHughes\u0027 appointment concludes a national search begun last year to fill the position, which is responsible for overseeing the school\u0027s academic and research programs in areas such as structural survivability following an earthquake to developing new transportation systems. The school has 50 faculty members and offers academic degree programs at all levels to more than 800 students, making it one of the largest programs of its kind in the country.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHughes has been at Rice since 1992, serving as an assistant professor, associate professor and chair of the university\u0027s Department of Environmental Science and Engineering. He then was co-director of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Hazardous Substances Research Center South and Southwest, a professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering and then chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAs chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rice since 2001, Hughes oversaw a program with 13 faculty, 40 undergraduates and 50 graduates. He also supervised more than $6 million in programs and government contracts through the Hazardous Substances Research Center, Department of Defense, EPA, National Science Foundation and other agencies. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I am extremely surprised and excited about the offer to join the faculty of Georgia Tech,\u0022 Hughes said. \u0022The dynamic nature of the campus, the desire to achieve excellence in undergraduate and graduate education, and the strength of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering were all factors in my decision. I truly believe that the school can achieve even greater levels of national and international distinction in the years ahead\u0026mdash;and also we can increase the opportunities for students at all levels. I can\u0027t wait to get started!\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHughes has a number of publications and written works to his credit. His research has centered on the area of environmental biotechnology; in particular understanding how novel biochemical metabolic processes can be harnessed through engineering to improve the quality of our environment.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHughes received both the Charles Duncan Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement and the American Society of Civil Engineers Outstanding Professor Award at Rice University in 2002\u0026mdash;an award he also received in 1997.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Georgia Tech has chosen Joseph B. Hughes, professor and chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rice University in Houston, as the new chair of Georgia Tech\u0027s School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Hughes will begin as chair in August, pending approval from the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. He succeeds Roberto Leon, who has served as interim chair since last summer.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-06-05 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:06","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-06-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-06-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"84501":{"id":"84501","type":"image","title":"Feature","body":null,"created":"1449178102","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:22","changed":"1475894704","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:04"}},"media_ids":["84501"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ce.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Civil and Environmental Engineering"}],"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":""}},"84421":{"#nid":"84421","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Trying to Stop Runaway Spam","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECasino gambling. Weight loss products. Bank of Nigeria has money for you. Sex, sex, sex.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAnyone with an email account recognizes these marketing come-ons from the spam or junk email they\u0027ve received.  Experts say it is not your imagination; the number of spam emails is increasing.  One estimate predicts that fifty percent of all e-mail traffic this year will be spam - unwanted emails selling products, according to Brightmail Inc, an anti-spam firm.  For March 2003, Brightmail says 45 percent of all email traffic was spam, up from 8 percent in September 2001. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe problem has grown to the point where the Federal Trade Commission recently held a three- day conference in early May to focus on the issue.  Legislation is pending in several states to try to outlaw spam or at least curb e-marketers using questionable tactics like false sender names and misleading subject lines to entice users to open the e-mail.  The problem has grown to such an extent that the three largest e-mail providers - AOL, Microsoft, and Yahoo - recently announced an alliance to work together to reduce spam.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022That alliance points out that spam has become a major problem, even for the Internet Service Providers (ISPs),\u0022 says Richard Lipton, professor and Frederick G. Storey chair in Computing in the Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC) housed in Georgia Tech\u0027s College of Computing.  \u0022All of the ISPs tout their anti-spam filters as the best to reduce unwanted email, but obviously they feel they need to pool their efforts to tackle this growing problem.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESpam is a serious problem that is getting worse for ISPs for two main reasons -- uses up valuable computing resources and their customers dislike spam.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EISPs have to store these emails until their customers delete them clogging their storage capabilities, and they have to grow their bandwidth or network pipeline to handle the additional volume of e-mail traffic.  Ferris Research, a market research firm, estimates that U.S. corporations spend $9 billion per year fighting spam and that $4 billion is the amount of productivity lost at Y.S. businesses due to spam. AOL reports that the company blocks 2.3 billion spam e-mails every day, as of April 30 of this year. These are real costs.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAlso, ISP customers are angered at receiving spam, and many want or expect their ISP to prevent junk e-mail from arriving in their in boxes.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELipton says that currently most approaches to reduce spam can be sorted into three categories. First, the most common method filters the \u0022from\u0022 field for unwanted or unknown senders, a tactic which spammers easily defeat. The second most common scheme is content based, and spammers have shown that they change their wording or avoid using suspect words like \u0022free\u0022 to circumvent the content-based filters.  Third, ISPs create a number of dummy email accounts in order to monitor e-mails received by their system, and when the human monitor or filter find large-scale spam, they set up a system-wide filter to prevent that new spam from reaching their customers.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Wenke Lee, assistant professor in GTISC and the College of Computing, explains their novel approach to develop their new anti-spam application that seems to work.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We thought about what does the spammer want the email user to do?\u0022 says Lee.  \u0022Usually, the spammer wants the recipient to click on a link to a web address to find out more about the product or service and buy it online.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn thinking about the problem from the spammer\u0027s point of view, Lee and Lipton realized this means that most spam e-mail contains a URL or web address for a website for potential customers to visit.  So, they have created a filter application based on looking for unwanted URL addresses in emails.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This approach and application is elegant and incredibly computer cheap and fast,\u0022 says Lipton.  \u0022It seems to work better than the existing commercial products, and the end user can customize it easily.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELee developed the working prototype over the past year, and the two have been running the prototype on several computers since December.  So far, the developers are very pleased with the results.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe end user can create \u0022white lists\u0022 (the opposite of black lists) of URLs that are acceptable such as favorite news sites or online retailers such as CNN.com or Amazon.com.  Their application also has a \u0022wild card\u0022 category so the user can specify for the system to allow all emails with university URLs that contain \u0022.edu.\u0022  Conveniently, all emails that do not contain a web address are allowed into the users in box.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe application also includes a \u0022black list\u0022 feature where the user can easily add URLs from unwanted e-marketers and others. These unwanted emails are delivered to a \u0022Spam Can,\u0022 so the user can periodically check the spam to make sure no wanted emails accidentally were trashed.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We\u0027ve had very few false positives,\u0022 says Lipton. \u0022It\u0027s important that the system not accidentally remove legitimate email.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELipton and Lee have a provisional patent on their new spam tool.  This summer they plan to refine the application by adding several more customizable filtering features, finalize the patent, write a paper about their project, and hope to eventually license the application for broad use.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Two professors in the Georgia Tech Information Security Center in the College of Computing have created a new application using a completely different approach to reducing spam or junk e-mail.  Professors Richard Lipton and Wenke Lee have been running a prototype version on several computers since December with great success and have a provisional patent on their application.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-06-06 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:06","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-06-06T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-06-06T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"84431":{"id":"84431","type":"image","title":"Professors Richard Lipton and Wenke Lee","body":null,"created":"1449178102","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:22","changed":"1475894704","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:04"}},"media_ids":["84431"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/","title":"College of Computing"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gtisc.gatech.edu\/index.html","title":"Georgia Tech Information Security 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":"\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":""}},"84441":{"#nid":"84441","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Building on a Culture of Entrepreneurship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELuke Pinkerton came to Georgia Tech for his MBA from University of Michigan with a patent in his suitcase.  In April as team leader of Torex International, Pinkerton and his fellow MBA students with a strong mix of engineering and non-engineering backgrounds, won $250,000 and placed third at the Carrot Capital Competition in New York.  The venture capital firm organizes this competition seeking viable business plans in which to invest.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETorex has licensed the technology that Pinkerton helped to develop while at Michigan, and Pinkerton is named on the patent there.  The technology is a reinforcement fiber for concrete.  Beams constructed with the Torex fiber exhibit up to five times the strength of beams constructed with existing fiber reinforcement materials. The technology has incredible market relevance now with increasing homeland security concerns, and it is environmentally friendly because it is made from scrap material from the tire industry.  These two features were key to the Carrot Capital competition judges deciding to invest in this business.   \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We learned something each time we competed,\u0022 said Pinkerton.  \u0022We ended up revising the plan based on each competition\u0027s judges feedback. Some of the best feedback we got, however, was the negative feedback. This information really helped us refine the plan and hone in on the best strategy.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAt the Georgia Tech Business Plan competition, Torex placed third and received $2,500 in funding.  Also, the judges felt the venture had such strong investment potential, they awarded them a $45,000 package of legal, financial accounting, and graphic design services, which allowed Torex to improve their plan in time for the Carrot Capital competition.  The extra investment definitely paid off.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIncreasing Entrepreneurial Activity\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0027s business school, the DuPree College of Management, is building a culture of entrepreneurship not only for its MBA and undergraduate students but also for the entire Georgia Tech campus and the Atlanta community.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor years the College\u0027s faculty has specialized in entrepreneurship, but about three years ago, students in the Georgia Tech Entrepreneur Club launched the first Georgia Tech Business Plan Competition and invited would-be entrepreneurs from across the campus to participate.  That first year was so successful, that the College was able to make the competition an annual event with the financial sponsorship of alumnus Leland Strange of Intelligent Systems. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo assist these entrepreneurial dreams, the College organizes a series of workshops each year covering the vital aspects of writing a business plan including financing, intellectual property, legal issues, marketing, and more and encourages competitors to use these resources in fine-tuning their business ideas.  This year\u0027s competition had more university-wide teams than in the past, and the competition is proving to be an excellent launching point for strong business plans.  This year for the first time, an all-undergraduate team made it the final round. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEach year the entrants to the Georgia Tech Business Plan Competition have gotten stronger, and more teams are invited to participate in national competitions.  This year two teams -- Advanced Audio and Torex International -- won at major national business plan competitions with substantial cash awards. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMany of the most competitive teams start in the New Venture Creation course taught in the fall by Professor Pat Dickson.  Dickson coaches several teams as well.  In the course composed of half MBA and half-non management graduate students, Dickson encourages the students to form teams with a mix of majors.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I tell my students that cross-disciplinary teams tend to do better,\u0022 said Dickson. \u0022It\u0027s important to have that mix of perspectives and strengths.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETaking a different path, Advanced Audio, a team composed of all MBA students, two of which have Master\u0027s degrees in engineering from Georgia Tech, excelled at the prestigious, national academic-based competition called Venture Challenge hosted annually by San Diego State College.  Advanced Audio won the grand prize of $15,000 and an additional $1,000 for the Golden Phone Award for the best sales pitch over the phone. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Many of the teams at these competitions are driven by a single visionary individual,\u0022 says Trace Hawkins, vice president of marketing, Advanced Audio and Georgia Tech MBA student. \u0022Our team is driven by a single vision, but four distinct and equally competent individuals.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAdvanced Audio\u0027s technology came out of Georgia Tech\u0027s VentureLab, which assists Georgia Tech faculty interested in commercializing their technology. The technology is the first all digital microphone for hearing aids, providing enhanced sensitivity and improved power consumption over today\u0027s microphones. This technology will require a longer gestation period before it is ready to be commercialized compared to Torex, according to Dickson.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to winning Venture Challenge, the Advanced Audio team placed fourth at the New Venture Championship hosted by the University of Oregon and second in the Georgia Tech competition. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENext year, Dickson anticipates expanding the business plan competition by hosting two major competitions at DuPree\u0027s new home in Technology Square. Next year the Georgia Bowl usually held at the University of Georgia will take place at Georgia Tech, and Dickson is finalizing plans to host one of the regional semi-finals of a competition organized by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Future of Competitions Grows\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe DuPree College is now planning a unique international, technology-focused competition for spring 2004. Teams from universities from around the world will be invited to compete in the first Global Technology Commercialization and Business Plan competition slated for April.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022There are over 100 business plan competitions in the U.S., about 50 in Europe, 20 or so in Asia, and a handful in Latin America,\u0022 says Nick Voigt, assistant to the dean for Global Entrepreneurship Programs and former executive with Hewlett-Packard.  \u0022One or two boast an international flavor, but none are focused exclusively on technology.  DuPree\u0027s competition will be unique in being both international and technology-specific.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis niche suits DuPree and Georgia Tech.  Georgia Tech has the expertise, reputation, and credibility in this space, so it\u0027s appropriate to launch a competition focused on commercializing technology and entrepreneurship.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhy launch a new competition in the current economy? \u0022Entrepreneurship is more prevalent in a bad economy than in a good,\u0022 says Voigt.  People who\u0027ve thought of starting their own business often decide to take the plunge when their careers are interrupted.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EVoigt leads the effort to recruit universities to submit teams to the competition and to sign on sponsors.  The ideal schools to participate fit three criteria - have a technology emphasis, a business school, and a campus business plan competition.  Georgia Tech\u0027s international campuses in France and Singapore are excellent resources for recruiting universities overseas.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAll this competitive entrepreneurial activity began three years ago when a group of committed students in the Georgia Tech Entrepreneur Club decided to launch the first campus competition. Today, the College encourages and supports these ventures and works to strengthen Georgia Tech\u0027s culture of entrepreneurship.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Entrepreneurial Activity Increases During Economic Downturns"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Georgia Tech\u0027s business school, the DuPree College of Management, is building a culture of entrepreneurship not only for its MBA and undergraduate students but also for the entire Georgia Tech campus and the Atlanta community.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-06-09 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:06","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-06-06T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-06-06T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"84451":{"id":"84451","type":"image","title":"Torex International during the competition in New","body":null,"created":"1449178102","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:22","changed":"1475894704","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:04"},"84461":{"id":"84461","type":"image","title":"Advanced Audio at the national Venture Challenge c","body":null,"created":"1449178102","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:22","changed":"1475894704","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:04"}},"media_ids":["84451","84461"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.dupree.gatech.edu\/entrectr\/index.shtml","title":"Technology Innovation and Commercialization Program"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.dupree.gatech.edu\/index2.shtml","title":"DuPree 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":""}},"84401":{"#nid":"84401","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Stephen Cross Tapped to Lead Georgia Tech Research Institute","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EStephen Cross has been named a vice president for the Georgia Institute of Technology and the new director of the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) in Atlanta. He will also hold a joint appointment as a professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Cross -- currently the director and chief executive officer of the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute -- succeeds Edward Reedy, who has served as director of GTRI since 1996. Dr. Reedy is retiring from Tech after a 33-year career. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECross begins his new responsibilities Sept. 1, 2003.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022To lead one of the world\u0027s most highly regarded research organizations is an exciting opportunity and challenge,\u0022 Cross said. \u0022I\u0027m honored to be asked to join such an impressive group of professionals. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022GTRI has made -- and continues to make -- significant and lasting contributions to the nation\u0027s security and economic strength,\u0022 he said. \u0022It has a key role to play in Georgia Tech\u0027s vision and strategy for the future.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Research Institute is the applied research arm of the Institute. Some 1,200 GTRI employees perform or support about $115 million in annual research for more than 200 clients in industry and government.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe GTRI mission is to plan and conduct focused programs of innovative research, education, and economic development that advance the global competitiveness and security of Georgia, the region, and the nation. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Steve brings an impressive background to an important post,\u0022 said Georgia Tech Provost Jean-Lou Chameau. \u0022From radar to fuel cells, and homeland defense to technology transfer, GTRI conducts research vital to government and industry and contributes to a strong academic environment at Georgia Tech.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Steve\u0027s hands-on leadership style, coupled with his innovative ideas and outstanding academic credentials, will serve the university well in the years to come,\u0022  Dr. Chameau said. \u0022I\u0027m very pleased to see someone as capable as Steve succeed Ed Reedy, a loyal and successful employee during his distinguished career. Our research institute will be in very good hands.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESince 1996, Dr. Cross has been director and chief executive officer of the Software Engineering Institute, an applied research laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University.  He also holds a joint appointment as a research professor in the Robotics Institute of the School of Computer Science.  He joined the university in 1994 as a member of the research faculty.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Cross is a member of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board and is the past chairman of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Information Science and Technology panel. He has published more than 50 papers on technology transition and the applications of advanced information processing technology. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECross received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, his M.S.E.E. from the Air Force Institute of Technology, and his B.S.E.E. from the University of Cincinnati. In addition, Cross is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School (Flight Test Engineer Program), the Air War College, and the National Defense University. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 2002, Dr. Cross was selected as a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and as a Distinguished Alumnus of the University of Cincinnati\u0027s College of Engineering. \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Dr. Stephen Cross has been named as a vice president for the Georgia Institute of Technology and the new director of the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI). He will also hold a joint appointment as a professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. Dr. Cross is currently the director and chief executive officer of the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute. He will begin his new responsibilities on September 1.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-06-24 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:06","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-06-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-06-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"84411":{"id":"84411","type":"image","title":"Dr. Cross","body":null,"created":"1449178102","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:22","changed":"1475894704","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:04"}},"media_ids":["84411"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gtri.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech Research 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":["matthew.nagel@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"84361":{"#nid":"84361","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tech Student Wins Institute\u0027s Second Fulbright Fellowship This Year","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EStewart Jenkins\u0027 love affair with science began in outer space. From his early dreams of being an astronaut, Jenkins has turned his fascination inward to the realm of quantum mechanics, where light and matter behave in unpredictable ways. As Georgia Tech\u0027s second recipient of the Fulbright Fellowship this year, the doctoral candidate will take his passion for science to Como, Italy, to study light bullets at  Universita dell\u0027Insubria.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I\u0027m looking forward to the experience of traveling and working with an international research group,\u0022 said Jenkins.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Fulbright program was created in 1946 with legislation sponsored by Sen. J. William Fulbright. A fervent believer in cultural exchange, he reasoned that nations would be less likely to go to war against each other if people could study abroad and learn about each other\u0027s cultures.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EExcept for a 30-minute excursion into Mexico, this will be Jenkins\u0027 first international experience. In Como, he\u0027ll study how to produce light bullets, which are intense pulses of laser light that can go through some transparent materials without spreading out like most laser pulses do.  The result is a spherical pulse of light that can travel large distances intact.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022If one could generate and transmit these light bullets over large distances, we could have faster communications because there is no dispersion,\u0022 said Jenkins. \u0022Since there is no diffraction, we could have communications over longer distances.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBut it\u0027s not the applications of his research that get him excited; he\u0027s interested in research for research\u0027s sake.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I have an inherent curiosity as to how and why things work,\u0022 he said, explaining his interest in science. \u0022And I suppose my parents introducing me to Star Trek at an early age had something to do with it.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EJenkins is Tech\u0027s second Fulbright Fellow this year. Computer Science and Mathematics major David Eger won a Fulbright to study math in Budapest, Hungary this fall.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Fulbright Fellowship covers the cost of travel, tuition, books, as well as room and board for a year of study. Sponsored by the U.S. State Department, the domestic component of the international program awards about 1,000 grants for American students to pursue international research. More than 140 countries participated in the program this year.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Stewart Jenkins\u0027 love affair with science began in outer space. From his early dreams of being an astronaut, Jenkins has turned his fascination inward to the realm of quantum mechanics, where light and matter behave in unpredictable ways. As Georgia Tech\u0027s second recipient of the Fulbright Fellowship this year, the doctoral candidate will take his passion for science to Como, Italy, to study light bullets at  Universita dell\u0027Insubria.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2003-06-11 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:06","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-06-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-06-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"84371":{"id":"84371","type":"image","title":"Stewart Jenkins","body":null,"created":"1449178102","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:22","changed":"1475894704","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:04"}},"media_ids":["84371"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.iie.org\/","title":"Fulbright Fellowship 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":"\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":""}},"84291":{"#nid":"84291","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech to Require New Standardized Test Essays for Admissions","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFreshman applicants to Georgia Tech who take the ACT will have to take the standardized test\u0027s optional writing component, beginning with the class entering in fall 2006.  That\u0027s when Tech will scrap its current application essay in favor of those appearing on the new SAT I and ACT standardized tests. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Sometimes we\u0027re not sure how much help a student received in writing the essay.  Using the tests\u0027 writing components will level the playing field for all applicants and help us ensure that each student writes his or her own essay without any help,\u0022 said Deborah Smith, associate vice provost for Enrollment Services.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EStarting March 2005, the College Board will replace the current SAT I with a new version that includes a mandatory writing test, featuring an essay and multiple choice questions. The ACT will offer an optional essay, beginning in the 2004-2005 academic year. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe essay helps Tech determine the quality of prospective students\u0027 writing skills and is used in choosing recipients of the President\u0027s Scholars Program, Tech\u0027s most prestigious merit-based scholarship.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAdmission to Tech is based on a combination of high school grade-point average and standardized test score as well as the essay, leadership abilities and activities.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOther universities that will soon require standardized writing tests include Harvard, Notre Dame, Rice, Penn State, Texas and Ohio State.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Freshman applicants to Georgia Tech who take the ACT will have to take the standardized test\u0027s optional writing component, beginning with the class entering in fall 2006.  That\u0027s when Tech will scrap its current application essay in favor of those appearing on the new SAT I and ACT standardized tests.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2003-06-18 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:06","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-06-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-06-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"84301":{"id":"84301","type":"image","title":"Tech Tower","body":null,"created":"1449178102","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:22","changed":"1475894704","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:04"}},"media_ids":["84301"],"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":""}},"84311":{"#nid":"84311","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tech President Wayne Clough Issues Statement Regarding Academic Reform Steps","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhile the academic accomplishments of student-athletes on average have steadily improved for the last four years, 11 student-athletes were recently declared academically ineligible.  Of those, 10 were members of the football team.  These players are required to sit out a term before returning to school.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis is not something that should happen at Georgia Tech, one of the leading research universities in the nation.  I have always expected, and will continue to expect, that our coaches will work with academic support personnel in a coordinated fashion to ensure that student-athletes have the opportunity to meet the challenges of a Tech education and make steady progress toward graduation.  I also expect our student-athletes to achieve at an academic level comparable to that of the average of the student body, including remaining on track for graduation.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThat is why our academic support services are so important.  They are important to the performance of our athletes and they are important for the ultimate mission of the Institute.  Credible and competent academic support enhances the experience of our student-athletes and upholds the rigorous academic excellence of Georgia Tech.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBecause of that unique dual role, Academic Support Services will continue to report to both the Athletic Director and the Office of the Provost.  Such an arrangement makes sense.  It ensures that those in daily contact with the student athletes are fully engaged in their academic progress.  It also ensures that the academic side of the house has an active role in working with athletics to provide a balanced perspective.  This is all about maximizing the potential of our student-athletes in the classroom and on the playing field.  That is, after all, our primary mission.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWe are also announcing today that Dr. Carole Moore, the Director of Academic Services for the Athletic Association, has elected to return to a full-time academic role at Georgia Tech.  Dr. Moore will become a special assistant to the Vice Provost, where she will teach, further our international education efforts, and help to develop our elite scholar initiatives.  She is currently a teacher in the Georgia Tech Oxford program.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Moore has significantly improved academic advising services in the Athletic Association during her tenure, as was evidenced by improved graduation rates, higher GPA\u0027s, and sustained academic progress for student-athletes.  Georgia Tech owes Carole a large debt of gratitude for her long and dedicated service to the Institute and most recently for working hard on behalf of our student-athletes.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECol. James Stevens, who is retiring from the Air Force, will replace Dr. Moore.  He is a 1975 Industrial Management graduate of Georgia Tech and holds two master\u0027s degrees in Management and Logistics.  He has been the Professor of Aerospace Studies for the past three years, commanding the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps Detachment 165 at Georgia Tech.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECol. Stevens was a former football and baseball standout for Tech in the early 1970s. He played quarterback under Bill Fulcher in 1972 and 1973 and was named the MVP of Georgia Tech\u0027s victory against Iowa State in the 1972 Liberty Bowl. He also played baseball for Coach Jim Luck in 1974.  He is married to the former Dee Hudson and they have four children -- Chad, Dea, Joel and Renee.  Col. Stevens has enjoyed an outstanding career in the Air Force and brings the type of academic and athletic credentials important to succeed in a demanding job like this.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAs part of his duties, David and I have asked Col. Stevens to visit a number of universities well known for the academic success of their student-athletes to see what we might learn from their experience.  There are a number of important academic changes on the horizon for student-athletes, and we want to ensure that we take advantage of best practices.  He is keenly aware of our expectations and is ready to take a fresh approach to meeting them.  I\u0027m confident that the excellent foundation provided by Dr. Moore and the new perspectives brought by Col. Stevens will yield positive results in the future.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Academic Support Services within the Georgia Tech Athletic Association will continue to report to both the Athletic Director and the Office of the Provost, President Wayne Clough announced today. But there will be new leadership in that unit.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-06-18 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:06","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-06-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-06-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"84321":{"id":"84321","type":"image","title":"President Wayne Clough","body":null,"created":"1449178102","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:22","changed":"1475894704","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:04"}},"media_ids":["84321"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ramblingwreck.com\/","title":"Georgia Tech Athletic Association"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/president\/index.html","title":"Office of the President"}],"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":""}},"84331":{"#nid":"84331","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tech Announces Athletic Department Changes","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech President Wayne Clough and Athletic Director David Braine announced steps today to address recent issues related to student-athlete academic performance. The changes were announced at a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Georgia Tech Athletic Association.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile the academic accomplishments of Georgia Tech student-athletes on average have steadily improved for the past four years, following this spring semester 11 student-athletes were declared ineligible, of who 10 were football players. These players are required to sit out a term before returning to school.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Carole Moore, formerly Director of Academic Services for the Georgia Tech Athletic Association, has elected to return to a full-time academic role at the Institute. Moore will become a special assistant to the vice provost, where she will teach, further develop international education efforts, and refine elite scholar initiatives. Moore currently is a teacher in the Georgia Tech Oxford program.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EClough praised Moore for significantly improving academic advising services in the Athletic Association during her tenure, as was evidenced by improved graduation rates, higher grade point averages, and sustained academic progress for student-athletes.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Georgia Tech owes Carole a large debt of gratitude for her long and dedicated service to the Institute and most recently for working hard on behalf of our student-athletes,\u0022 said Clough.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECol. James Stevens, a Tech alumnus who is retiring from the U. S. Air Force after a 27-year career, will replace Moore. Stevens holds master\u0027s degrees in business administration and logistics and has been the professor of Aerospace Studies for the past three years, commanding Georgia Tech\u0027s Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps Detachment 165. He was named MVP of the Liberty Bowl in 1972.   \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn making the announcement, Clough and Braine made it clear that coaches will continue to be expected to work with academic support personnel in a coordinated team effort to ensure that student-athletes have the opportunity to meet the challenges of a Tech education while making steady progress toward graduation.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We also expect better effort and performance from our student-athletes,\u0022 said Clough. \u0022The vast majority of our student-athletes go far above and beyond what an average student must do in pursuit of their education. But all of the support systems in the world won\u0027t work if a student isn\u0027t motivated to obtain an education.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EClough emphasized his expectation that student-athletes should be able to achieve at an academic level comparable to that of the average of the student body, including remaining on track for graduation. He also highlighted the importance of academic advising within athletics.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Credible and competent academic support enhances the experience of our student-athletes and upholds the rigorous academic excellence of Georgia Tech,\u0022 said Clough.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EStevens will spend time this summer visiting some of the nation\u0027s most successful athletic departments to exchange ideas about how to cope with increasingly tough academic progress requirements from the NCAA.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022As part of his duties, we have asked Col. Stevens to visit a number of universities well known for the academic success of their student-athletes to see what we might learn from their experience,\u0022 said Clough, a member of the NCAA Executive Committee. \u0022There are a number of important academic changes on the horizon for student-athletes, and we want to ensure that we take advantage of best practices.\u0022  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Col. Stevens is keenly aware of our expectations and is ready to take a fresh approach to meeting them,\u0022 said Clough. \u0022I\u0027m confident that the excellent foundation provided by Dr. Moore and the new perspectives brought by Col. Stevens will yield positive results in the future.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAs is currently the case, Academic Support Services will report to both the athletic director and the provost.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Such an arrangement makes sense,\u0022 said Clough. \u0022It ensures that those in daily contact with the student-athletes are fully engaged in their academic progress. It also ensures that the academic side of the house has an active role in working with athletics to provide a balanced perspective.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022In the end this is all about the maximizing the potential of our student-athletes in the classroom and on the playing fields,\u0022 said Clough.  \u0022That is, after all, our primary mission.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAbout Col. James Stevens\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECol. Stevens received his Industrial Management degree from Georgia Tech in 1975 and was a football and baseball standout for Tech in the early 1970s. He played football under Bill Fulcher in 1972 and 1973 as quarterback and was named the MVP of the 1972 Liberty Bowl in Georgia Tech\u0027s victory against Iowa State. He also played baseball for Coach Jim Luck in 1974 as an outfielder and designated hitter. He led the Jackets with seven home runs and a .377 batting average. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EStevens received his commission into the U.S. Air Force from Detachment 165 at Georgia Tech in 1975. He went on to fly F-111s as a weapons systems officer. He has been a commander at the flight, detachment, squadron, and group levels. He also was a professor of Strategy and Force Planning at the Naval War College in Newport, RI. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFrom there he was assigned as a group commander in charge of more than 1,500 people and four squadrons providing base security, communications, human resources and moral, recreation, and welfare services to a population of more than 20,000 people at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, NM. His final assignment in the Air Force brought him back to his alma mater and the AFROTC detachment where his service to his country began.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECol. Stevens is married to the former Dee Hudson and they have four children -- Chad, Dea, Joel and Renee.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Georgia Tech President Wayne Clough and Athletic Director David Braine today announced that U.S. Air Force Col. James Stevens [Ret.] will become Director of Academic Services for the Georgia Tech Athletic Association.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-06-18 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:06","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-06-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-06-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"84341":{"id":"84341","type":"image","title":"Col. James Stevens","body":null,"created":"1449178102","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:22","changed":"1475894704","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:04"}},"media_ids":["84341"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/ramblinwreck.ocsn.com\/","title":"Georgia Tech Athletics Association"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/president\/index.html","title":"Office of the President"}],"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":""}},"84251":{"#nid":"84251","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Hicks Named Chair of School of Public Policy in Georgia Tech\u0027s Ivan Allen College","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology announces that Diana Hicks has been named the new Chair of the School of Public Policy in Ivan Allen College effective September 1.  Hicks brings significant experience in science and technology policy in both the academic and corporate research arenas. She fills the position currently held by Susan Cozzens, who after a five-year stint as school chair plans to return to an active research agenda.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Diana, in both her current research position and in her previous research, has focused on science policy, an area of strength in our School of Public Policy,\u0022 says Sue Rosser, Dean, Ivan Allen College, the Liberal Arts College of Georgia Tech.  \u0022She enjoys respect from her peers and is widely acknowledged to be a significant science policy scholar with excellent academic credentials as well. I am confident she will raise the school\u0027s already strong profile in science and technology policy.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHicks comes to Georgia Tech from CHI Research, Inc. where she has served as a senior policy analyst since 1998 specializing in science and technology policy.  Before joining CHI Research, from 1988-97 Hicks was on the faculty of the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex, a leading research university in the United Kingdom, where she taught graduate courses in science policy and sociology of science and directed a graduate program.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EShe was a visiting professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley in 1994, where she taught an MBA course on innovation in Japan.  In 1990-91, as a visiting fellow at the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP) in Tokyo, she researched university-industry research links in Japan.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I am excited to be joining a distinguished group of colleagues with international reputations in science and technology policy.  I look forward to undertaking the challenging role of chair of the School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech,\u0022 said Hicks.  \u0022The School has thrived under Susan Cozzens\u0027 leadership, and building on that momentum I hope to continue the School\u0027s leadership in the study of science and technology policy and to enhance the visibility of this nationally ranked program.\u0022   \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHer career has focused on analyzing large databases of patents and papers to address questions of broad interest at the intersection of science and technology.  Most recently she has been working for several Federal agencies analyzing the U.S. patent database to answer agency\u0027s questions about the relationship between their research and U.S. technology.  She has also examined whether there is evidence in patterns of patenting in the U.S. to suggest that new technology is changing the nature of innovation and its relationship to research. Other recent work established that technology is most likely to build on high-quality, often basic, research.  Hicks has published extensively in peer-reviewed publications including such prestigious science and technology journals as \u003Cem\u003ENature\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Cem\u003EResearch Policy\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Cem\u003EScientometrics\u003C\/em\u003E, and \u003Cem\u003EScience, Technology and Human Values\u003C\/em\u003E.  She also authored a chapter in the widely read \u0022\u003Cem\u003EAAAS Science and Technology Policy Yearbook\u003C\/em\u003E.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHicks received her B.A. in Physics from Grinnell College in Iowa.  She then studied at the University of Sussex on a Fulbright Scholarship for her Master\u0027s degree and later completed her Ph.D. degree from the University of Sussex as well.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe nationally ranked School of Public Policy is part of Ivan Allen College, the Liberal Arts College of Georgia Tech. The School offers B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Public Policy as well as undergraduate course work in several social science disciplines whose theories and methods contribute to the systematic study of public policy problems.  The School also offers undergraduate courses in political science, philosophy, and other social sciences. Research and studies at the School of Public Policy focus on policy issues characterized by their scientific and technological content. This distinguishes the School from many other policy programs.  The School offers several certificates and minors, including a Pre-Law minor and certificate.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Brings Strong Research and Academic Experience in Science and Technology Policy"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Diana Hicks has been named the new Chair of the School of Public Policy in Ivan Allen College effective September 1.  Hicks brings significant experience in science and technology policy in both the academic and corporate research arenas. She fills the position currently held by Susan Cozzens, who after a five-year stint as school chair plans to return to an active research agenda.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-06-19 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:06","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-06-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-06-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"84261":{"id":"84261","type":"image","title":"Dr. Diana Hicks, new chair of School of Public Pol","body":null,"created":"1449178102","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:22","changed":"1475894704","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:04"}},"media_ids":["84261"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/","title":"Ivan Allen College"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.spp.gatech.edu\/spp-servlets\/jsp\/index.jsp","title":"School of Public Policy"}],"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":""}},"84271":{"#nid":"84271","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Jim Kranzusch joins DuPree College of Management at Georgia Tech as Executive Director of Corporate Programs","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDean Terry C. Blum today announced the appointment of Jim Kranzusch as Executive Director of Corporate Programs for the DuPree College of Management at Georgia Tech. Kranzusch will focus on expanding partnerships between the College and the corporate community in the areas of MBA recruitment services and executive learning and development.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I am delighted to be representing our graduate and executive programs to the business community,\u0022 says Kranzusch. \u0022The College offers a wealth of educational and career-enhancing opportunities. Programs are small and customized to meet client needs, and our MBA students are top-quality job candidates.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EKranzusch has held a variety of leadership positions in sales, marketing and general management throughout his career. In addition to a 15-year career with IBM, culminating as Director of Retail Operations, his professional experience includes leadership in entrepreneurial ventures and consulting. Kranzusch served as Executive Vice President and General Manager at Inform-Portman Companies, a $140 million technology marketing center. As Senior Vice President and General Manager of Telemate.Net Software, he helped guide the company through a successful IPO and merger. As founder of a consulting practice, ClientView, LLC, Kranzusch advised senior managers on client retention and the use of measurable practices that enhanced financial performance. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the past year, he has been a partner in The Leadership Forum, the Southeast\u0027s leading provider of advanced executive learning programs. This experience enhanced his understanding of the educational needs of executives and their organizations. Involvement in career growth and change in organizations has been a common theme throughout his career. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Jim\u0027s combination of experience and skills is an extraordinary match for our needs,\u0022 says Blum. \u0022He brings insight into the recruiting and executive development needs of our corporate constituents. As we move into our dazzling new building in Midtown Atlanta, Jim will provide the leadership and focus to forge strong ties between the business school at Georgia Tech and the business community.\u0022 \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Brings Corporate Experience to MBA and Executive Education Students"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Dean Terry C. Blum today announced the appointment of Jim Kranzusch as Executive Director of Corporate Programs for the DuPree College of Management at Georgia Tech. Kranzusch will focus on expanding partnerships between the College and the corporate community in the areas of MBA recruitment services and executive learning and development.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-06-26 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:06","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-06-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-06-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"84281":{"id":"84281","type":"image","title":"Jim Kranzusch, Executive Director of Corporate Pro","body":null,"created":"1449178102","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:22","changed":"1475894704","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:04"}},"media_ids":["84281"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.dupree.gatech.edu\/index2.shtml","title":"DuPree 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":""}},"84231":{"#nid":"84231","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Student Serving In Iraq Finds Time to Hit the Books","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEven though Marshall Groves was stationed in Iraq before the war broke out, the 30-year-old Air Force pilot has managed to keep up with his studies, filing coursework via email back to Georgia Tech where he is working on a master\u0027s degree in mechanical engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECapt. Groves, assigned to the 20th Special Operations Squadron from Hurlburt Field in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., has completed all of his coursework online so far, since he has been unable to physically attend classes on campus. From a laptop in his tent, between piloting a Sikorsky MH-53M \u0022Pave Low,\u0022 used for special operations and combat search and rescue, Groves is finishing his fifth online class in Georgia Tech\u0027s distance learning program. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022My deployment schedule has been hectic at times, and quiet during others,\u0022 Groves wrote in an email from Iraq. \u0022At the start of my deployment, I was able to keep up somewhat as well. Once the war started, I didn\u0027t touch it for a couple of weeks.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBefore Groves was deployed to Iraq, he gathered everything he needed so he could work at his own pace in the class, which focuses on designing open engineering systems. He downloaded and printed all of the reading material he\u0027d need for the class. His professor, Farrokh Mistree, in Georgia Tech\u0027s School of Mechanical Engineering gave him a CD-rom of the previous semester\u0027s class. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Everything I need is on my laptop computer,\u0022 he writes. \u0022CD-roms and email made my coursework possible. Mail takes 3-4 weeks or longer to get here. I had to have all of the courseware available before I left, otherwise the task would have been near impossible.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhat\u0027s it like completing a distance learning class from war? Being deployed as a pilot means a lot of down time sitting on alert for contingencies that seldom happen, Groves says. Pilots are also required to have 12 hours of rest prior to flying, which leaves only a couple of hours to study even when things are hectic. When his crew flies heavily, however, there is little time or energy for anything else.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022It was possible to sit in my tent, put in earplugs, and complete my coursework,\u0022 he said. \u0022There is no library, of course, and it is difficult to conduct any kind of research.  Whenever I use e-mail I have to wait in line and I\u0027m usually limited to 15 minutes, so even surfing the Internet is difficult.  Many sites are restricted.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Mistree, Marshall\u0027s instructor at Georgia Tech, has had students take his online course while serving in the military before, but never from a war. When working with students in this type of scenario, he realizes he must be accommodating with deadlines and correspondence.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Our focus is on empowering students to learn how to learn while accommodating the needs of distance learning students,\u0022 Mistree said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn fall 1999, Georgia Tech became the first university in the nation to offer its master\u0027s degree in mechanical engineering entirely via the Internet. Twenty-one courses in CD-ROM format are on web. Internet instruction includes links to other web-based materials and features the power and capability of Georgia Tech\u0027s computer network.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGroves, who obtained his undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, CO in 1995, hopes to complete at least a portion of the remainder of his studies on campus at Georgia Tech. He expects to graduate within three years. In the current course Groves is completing, he has finished all his assignments and is working now on the final project. Groves expects to return to the U.S. in late June and hopefully stay a while.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Even though Marshall Groves was stationed in Iraq before the war broke out, the 30-year-old Air Force pilot has managed to keep up with his studies, filing coursework via email back to Georgia Tech where he is working on a master\u0027s degree in mechanical engineering. From a laptop in his tent, between piloting a Sikorsky MH-53M \u0022Pave Low,\u0022 used for special operations and combat search and rescue, Groves is finishing his fifth online class in Georgia Tech\u0027s distance learning program.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-06-23 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:06","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-06-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-06-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"84241":{"id":"84241","type":"image","title":"Crew","body":null,"created":"1449178102","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:22","changed":"1475894704","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:04"}},"media_ids":["84241"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/","title":"George W. 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Anchored by Barnes and Noble at Georgia Tech and LA Fitness, the retail partners include: T-Mobile, St. Charles Deli, Moe\u0027s Southwest Grill, Tin Drum Asian Caf\u00e9, Marble Slab Creamery, Fifth Street Ribs and Blues, Great Wraps, Posh Day Spa, Parcel Plus\/Copy Club and Modern Care Cleaners and Newstand. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Technology Square is poised to be the center of the high-tech corridor of Atlanta. Having a thriving retail community is essential to supporting the education and business innovation that Technology Square and Centergy will foster,\u0022 said Bob Thompson, senior vice president for administration and finance at Georgia Tech.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarnes and Noble at Georgia Tech\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBarnes and Noble at Georgia Tech, scheduled to open July 12, will be a 55,000 square-foot academic superstore including a 2,500 square-foot Starbucks. Serving both as a Barnes and Noble superstore and as the Georgia Tech bookstore, it will feature 70,000 books, 13,000 DVD and music titles and sheet music along with computer equipment, electronics, digital cameras, college textbooks and merchandise. The store will be Barnes and Noble College Bookstores\u0027 largest on a college campus in the southeast and the leading technology resource center in the state.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPositioned to be a vibrant part of Atlanta and Georgia Tech, Barnes and Noble at Georgia Tech is planning a host of community events including author appearances by such writers as science fiction guru Neal Stephenson. The superstore also is planning open-mike poetry nights on Fridays, story telling for children on Saturday mornings and Saturday Night\u0027s at Starbucks, featuring jazz and acoustic music.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELA Fitness\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELA Fitness is scheduled to open their 20th location in Georgia at Centergy in August. The 29,000 square-foot facility will feature state-of-the-art fitness equipment.  LA Fitness was started in Southern California in 1984 and has since expanded into six states.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESusan Mendheim, president and CEO of Midtown Alliance, said the mix of restaurants, retail stores and services Centergy and Technology Square will provide is exactly what Midtown needs. \u0022They will definitely enhance Midtown\u0027s reputation as a vibrant urban center,\u0022 said Mendheim.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFifth Street Ribs and Blues\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to the two anchors, Technology Square will add six restaurants to the Midtown dining scene. Fifth Street Ribs and Blues will offer high quality barbecue and blues. The blues-themed restaurant, owned by father and son team Ron and Brett Brooks, is scheduled to open in mid-to-late August.  Fifth Street Ribs and Blues will be open for lunch and dinner.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETin Drum Asian Caf\u00e9\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETin Drum Asian Caf\u00e9 is another newcomer debuting at Technology Square.  Offering a mix of Vietnamese, Thai, Korean, Malaysian, Chinese and Japanese cuisine, Tin Drum Asian Cafe is scheduled to open in mid-August. Owner Stephen Chan is no stranger to the Atlanta restaurant market.  Chan owns Thai Diner, a successful Thai restaurant with five locations in the metro area.  This is Chan\u0027s first foray into pan-Asian cuisine. Chan said he is excited about opening his sixth restaurant and that Technology Square was the perfect location for him, considering he\u0027s an architecture graduate from Tech.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022It\u0027s like coming back home.  My restaurant is the first one you come to when you cross the bridge from the main Tech campus from the College of Architecture,\u0022 said Chan.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMoe\u0027s Southwest Grill\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMoe\u0027s Southwest Grill is set to be the leader in the fresh-mex market.  Moe\u0027s opened its first restaurant in 2001 and already has locations in eight states, soon to be 17. Opening in mid-August, Moe\u0027s is famous for its fresh (they don\u0027t even own a freezer) burritos, tacos, quesadillas and salads as well as its eclectic d\u00e9cor and music. Sporting paintings and music of pop-culture icons such as Frank Sinatra and Jimmy Hendrix along with menu items with names like \u0022Joey Bag of Donuts\u0022 and \u0022The Full Monty,\u0022 Moe\u0027s wraps a bit of fun and humor into everything they do.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESt. Charles Deli\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESt. Charles Deli will open its second Atlanta location at Technology Square in September.  Offering freshly made deli sandwiches, desert and espresso, St. Charles Deli will be open for breakfast, lunch and dinner.  The deli will also offer delivery and catering.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022It seemed to be fate that just as we were looking to expand, Georgia Tech had space available at this prime location. It\u0027s such a perfect fit, it feels like the space was created for me,\u0022 said owner Douglas Clearly.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGreat Wraps\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWith more than 50 locations in 12 states, Great Wraps has a reputation for fresh wrap sandwiches, rollers and smoothies. Great Wraps features fast, friendly service and a diverse menu. It\u0027s sure to be a hit with the busy Midtown business and university crowd.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMarble Slab Creamery\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECustomers can cool off at the Marble Slab Creamery. Having opened its doors earlier this month, this is the Houston-based ice cream giant\u0027s ninth store in the Atlanta area.  With 290 stores in the United States, Marble Slab Creamery is known for ice cream and cones made fresh in the store each day. Customers can personalize their ice cream by choosing from a variety of fruits, nuts, candies and cookies mixed on a   frozen marble slab.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPosh Day Spa\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETechnology Square and Centergy also will host four retail stores featuring a variety of services. Posh Day Spa will provide the perfect getaway for Midtown residents, business executives and hotel guests. Opening in mid-July, owner Mia Evans Buckner said the spa will offer nail and skin treatments, body polish, massage, facials and seaweed wraps. Buckner has owned a successful in-home spa business since 2001.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We\u0027ve been looking over a year now for the ideal spot.  We wanted something in an urban area with an opportunity to serve a broad clientele. We love the fact that Tech Square is in an extremely diverse community,\u0022 said Buckner.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ET-Mobile\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe T-Mobile store offers busy Midtown customers and students the latest in wireless phone service and technology. T-Mobile USA is one of the fastest growing nationwide wireless providers, offering all digital voice, messaging and high-speed wireless data services to nearly 10 million customers. Already serving satisfied customers, the T-Mobile store was the first retail location to open its doors at Centergy.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EParcel Plus\/ Copy Club\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EParcel Plus\/Copy Club combines the resources of two national retail chains to provide packaging, shipping, high quality and large format printing, graphics and binding services under one roof. The store opened in mid-April.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EModern Care Cleaners and Newstand\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EModern Care Cleaners and Newstand is owner Thomas Kang\u0027s third location in Atlanta. In business for 21 years, Kang offers top-notch cleaning and pressing to area residents, businesses and guests of the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center. Modern Care opened its doors this month.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAlthough 12 spots are filled, Technology Square has two locations available.  The adjacent bays can be combined or licensed separately and measure 1,613 and 1,453 square feet. They are located on the ground floor of the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout Technology Square:\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDesigned to be the nexus of a thriving high-tech corridor in Atlanta, Technology Square and Centergy connect the intellectual capital of Georgia Tech, one of the nation\u0027s premier technological research universities, to the burgeoning business community in Midtown Atlanta.  Within walking distance from the Midtown and North Avenue MARTA transit stations and with easy access to Interstate 75\/85, Technology Square and Centergy are easy to reach whether traveling by foot, transit, or car.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMajor components of Technology Square include:\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u00b7\tDuPree College of Management, with 189,000 square feet of classrooms, offices, and learning resource space, including Executive Education and Interdisciplinary Centers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u00b7\tThe 252-room Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center, including an Executive Conference Center with 21,000 square feet of meeting space.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u00b7\tGlobal Learning Center, including 113,000 square feet dedicated to classrooms, computing labs, offices, and distance learning.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u00b7\tEconomic Development Institute, devoted to furthering business development and growth throughout the state of Georgia.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u00b7\tCenter for Quality Growth and Regional Development, a research center to study Metro Atlanta as a living laboratory for mixed-use development and related issues.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECentergy Includes:\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u00b7\tCentergy One, a 486,993-square-foot office building featuring Georgia Tech\u0027s Advanced Technology Development Center, dedicated to incubating high-tech business start-ups.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u00b7\tTechnology Square Research Building, a 210,000-square-foot Georgia Tech building dedicated to becoming one of the world\u0027s premier centers for research, design and commercialization of broadband communications technology. \n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Promising a unique blend of business, education, research and retail space, Georgia Tech\u0027s Technology Square and Centergy announce the signing of 12 retail partners to the cooperative mixed-use development between Georgia Tech and Kim King Associates in Midtown Atlanta.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-06-25 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:06","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-06-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-06-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"84221":{"id":"84221","type":"image","title":"Rendering of Retail at Technology Square","body":null,"created":"1449178102","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:22","changed":"1475894704","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:04"}},"media_ids":["84221"],"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":""}},"84181":{"#nid":"84181","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Student Diversity Continues to Rise at Tech: Most International Freshmen Ever; Growth in Georgia Students","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhen Georgia Tech freshmen hit the campus on August 18, there will be more international students among them than ever before and a significant increase in freshmen from Georgia.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDespite tough new federal regulations on foreign students, 104 international students are expected to enroll in Tech\u0027s 2003-2004 freshman class, which is a 57.5 percent increase over last year and the largest in Tech\u0027s history. Georgia Tech already boasts the largest number of international students in the state, with 2,825 enrolled in Tech\u0027s undergraduate and graduate programs for 2002-2003. The increase comes as a pleasant surprise to Sheila Schulte, associate director for international students and scholar services at Tech.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We weren\u0027t sure if the new rules on student visas would deter students from applying. It\u0027s nice to see that the high caliber of our reputation was able to outweigh any difficulties they might have with the visa process,\u0022 said Schulte.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAttracting top-notch international students is vital for a university that wants to increase diversity on campus, said Ingrid Hayes, interim director of the Office of Undergraduate Admission. \u0022Diversity doesn\u0027t just apply to African-American, Hispanic-American and Native American students. Having a truly diverse campus means that you have students from all over the world, with vastly different backgrounds contributing their ideas, culture and ways of viewing the world to your campus. This greatly enhances the education students get at Tech and gives them the skills to prosper in the business world, which is becoming more internationally focused every day.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe majority of international freshmen come from India, with China and South Korea tying for the number two spot, followed by Canada and Pakistan.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECoupled with the increasing number of international students at Tech is a dramatic rise in the number of students taking foreign language courses.  Courses in Arabic, scheduled to debut this fall, are already incredibly popular as are Korean classes, which began last fall. The boom in foreign language courses is occurring despite the fact that Tech has no foreign language requirement.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETech students this year will also see an influx of international television channels.  The Georgia Tech Cable Network (GTCN) is adding 24 international channels to its line-up. The channels will feature 13 different foreign languages including Arabic, Hindi, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Urdu, Punjabi, Gujarati, Tamil, Japanese and French. There will also be eight Spanish language channels.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAn informal survey conducted by GTCN suggests their international line-up is larger than those of the cable systems serving the top 25 universities for international students.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe channels will be available to students living on campus and to anyone in the Institute\u0027s academic buildings. Mark Adelman, manager of GTCN, said it was Tech\u0027s growing population of international students and the rising interest in foreign languages and international affairs that led the network to offer so many international channels. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022These channels won\u0027t only be of interest to international students. We think they\u0027ll be valuable to professors in the classroom and to all students who are interested in learning foreign languages or about other cultures,\u0022 said Adelman.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo meet the growing demand for international diversity, Tech is beginning to raise money for a new 20,000-square-foot International House. The new facility would house the Office of International Education, student groups and activities, and a kitchen. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022What we hope to do is to have the International House serve as a place where we provide a bridge between cultures for international students and students from the United States who become involved. It will be a place to share ideas and learn from one another,\u0022 said Howard Rollins, director of the Office of International Education.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETech\u0027s diversity continues to rise among other groups as well.  The number of Asian freshmen (399) is expected to grow 12 percent, while the 26.4 percent gains Hispanic freshmen made last fall are holding steady.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EStaying Close to Home\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMore students are sticking close to home. Tech expects 1,425 freshmen to enroll from Georgia high schools, an increase of 9.2 percent compared to last fall.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe weak economy may have something to do with students choosing to stay closer to home, said Deborah Smith, vice provost of Enrollment Services. \u0022People aren\u0027t sure whether or not they can afford to pay out-of-state tuition and are uncertain if the economy will get better,\u0022 she said. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMoney being more of an issue, 12.4 percent fewer freshmen from outside of Georgia are expected to enroll this fall compared to last fall.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDespite the changing demographics, there is one thing that hasn\u0027t changed in Tech\u0027s freshman class: the academic quality of the students.  Average SAT scores and grade-point averages of the freshman class are about the same as last year\u0027s averages. Nationally, Tech\u0027s SAT scores are the second-highest among public research universities, according to the latest U.S. News and World Report rankings.  Tech\u0027s SAT scores rank 25th overall.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFall 2003 Freshman Class Quick Facts\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u00b7\tNumber of freshmen expected to enroll - 2,254\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u00b7\tAverage high school GPA - 3.74\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u00b7\tAverage SAT - 1339\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u00b7\tNumber of 1600 SAT scores - 6 freshmen with 1600 test scores; 4 on the  same test date; 2 of these were ACT; 1 has 1600 on the SAT and a perfect score on the ACT.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u00b7\tAverage age - 18 years\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u00b7\tMost popular first name:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n            female - Amanda (17)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n            male - Michael (70)\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u00b7\tMost popular last name:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n            female - Lee (9)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n            male - Smith (14)\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u00b7\tMost popular majors:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n            Undecided Engineering (487)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n            Computer Science (213)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n            Aerospace Engineering (212)\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u00b7\t43 states and Puerto Rico represented.  No freshmen from Hawaii, Kansas, Maine, Nevada, North and South Dakota, and West Virginia.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u00b7\tTop 5 foreign countries:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n             India (42)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n             Pakistan (7)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n             Korea, Republic of (South) (6)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n             Canada (6)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n             Columbia (5)\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u00b7\tThere are 5 sets of twins.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u00b7\tThere are 98 freshmen who have multiple legacies and 481 with at least one legacy.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u00b7\tThere are 900 high schools represented.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u00b7\tFifty-two percent (1,192) of the freshman class submitted a Web application.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u00b7\tThere are 54 National Merit Finalists (UMF) and 20 National Achievement Finalists (UAF).\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"When Georgia Tech freshmen hit the campus on August 18, there will be more international students among them than ever before and a significant increase in freshmen from Georgia.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-07-01 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:06","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-06-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-06-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"84191":{"id":"84191","type":"image","title":"Tech Tower","body":null,"created":"1449178102","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:22","changed":"1475894704","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:04"}},"media_ids":["84191"],"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":""}},"84671":{"#nid":"84671","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Venture Team Wins $250,000 in the 2003 Carrot Capital Business Plan Challenge","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech venture team, Torex International, won $250,000 in funding for placing third at the 2003 Carrot Capital Business Plan Challenge. Torex, one of 20 finalists, was selected out of 740 submitted business plans. The Challenge was held April 26 in New York City and awarded a total of $3 million in funding.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETorex International offers steel fiber designed for the international construction industry. The product enables customers to create safer structures at a lower cost with revolutionary, patented Steel Fiber Reinforced Cement (SFRC) composite technology.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Torex International team includes DuPree College of Management MBA students Alicia Benyard, Mike Bliss, David Devine, Luke Pinkerton, and Andy Warner and Chemical Engineering graduate student Chris Power.  Dr. Pat Dickson, assistant professor, DuPree College of Management serves as faculty adviser to DuPree\u0027s venture teams.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn March, Torex International won third place and received $2,500 in funding at the 2003 Georgia Tech Business Plan Competition. They also received a $45,000 service package for being the most fundable venture team.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Torex International Competes Against 740 Venture Teams"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"The Georgia Tech venture team, Torex International, won $250,000 in funding at the 2003 Carrot Capital Business Plan Challenge held in New York on April 26. Torex, one of 20 finalists, was selected from more than 700 submitted business plans. The Challenge awarded a total of $3 million in funding.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-05-02 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:06","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-05-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-05-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"84681":{"id":"84681","type":"image","title":"The Torex International team enjoys New York.","body":null,"created":"1449178102","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:22","changed":"1475894704","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:04"}},"media_ids":["84681"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.dupree.gatech.edu\/newsinfo\/current_news_events\/bplan\/2003\/carrotcapital_torex.shtml","title":"DuPree College of Management News"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.challenge2003.com\/","title":"Carrot Capital Business Plan Competition"}],"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":""}},"84641":{"#nid":"84641","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tech Student to Travel to Budapest on a Fulbright Fellowship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELast spring, computer science and applied mathematics major David Eger left Budapest, Hungary, after studying math in a semester abroad program.  He\u0027s been trying to find his way back ever since. So he did what any enterprising student would do: he applied for a Fulbright Fellowship.  This spring, Eger found out he\u0027ll be returning to Budapest courtesy of the U.S. State Department, making him the second Tech student in two years to win the fellowship.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022If you go to a country where the food is wonderful and the people are awesome, you just can\u0027t wait to get back.  There is a great candidness to the people and to the country. Their mathematicians are second to none.  It\u0027s just beautiful ,and I want to go back,\u0022 said Eger.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Fulbright program was created in 1946 with legislation sponsored by Sen. J. William Fulbright.   A fervent believer in cultural exchange, he reasoned that nations would be less likely to go to war against each other if people could study abroad and learn about each other\u0027s culture, a philosophy Eger has taken to heart.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022There are a lot of far off places that we may hear about on the news, but we have no concept of what they are really like,\u0022 said Eger.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOn his first trip, Eger rented a room from an 85-year-old Hungarian woman.  Eger didn\u0027t speak much Hungarian and she didn\u0027t speak much English, so they spoke to each other in the only language that was mutual - German.  Living with her was an amazing experience, Eger said. Her husband was in the military, and she had lived through several wars.  She was an eyewitness to history.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFulbright advisor Amy Bass Henry said Eger\u0027s enthusiasm made him the perfect Fulbright candidate.  \u0022I\u0027m so glad he was awarded the Fulbright.  He is very passionate about Hungary and math.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEger will spend a year taking graduate-level math in Budapest and then plans to return to the states to pursue a Ph.D. in computer science.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022There\u0027s a beauty to math.  There\u0027s a bit of finality.  Once you\u0027re done proving something in math, you\u0027re done,\u0022 said Eger.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Fulbright Fellowship will pay for his travel, tuition, books, as well as room and board. Sponsored by the U.S. State Department, the domestic component of the international program awards about 1,000 grants for American students to pursue international research. More than 140 countries participated in the program this year.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Last spring, computer science and applied mathematics major David Eger left Budapest, Hungary, after studying math in a semester abroad program.  He\u0027s been trying to find his way back ever since. So he did what any enterprising student would do: he applied for a Fulbright Fellowship.  This spring, Eger found out he\u0027ll be returning to Budapest courtesy of the U.S. State Department, making him the second Tech student in two years to win the fellowship.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-05-06 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:06","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-05-06T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-05-06T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"84651":{"id":"84651","type":"image","title":"Fulbright Fellow David Eger","body":null,"created":"1449178102","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:22","changed":"1475894704","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:04"}},"media_ids":["84651"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.iie.org\/fulbright\/","title":"Fulbright Fellowship 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":"\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":""}},"84611":{"#nid":"84611","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Dedicates Largest Academic Building, the Ford Environmental Science and Technology Building","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech dedicates the Ford Environmental Science and Technology Building (Ford ES\u0026amp;T) on Friday, May 16, at 2:45 p.m.  Named for its principal donor, the Ford Motor Company, the Ford ES\u0026amp;T building is the largest academic building at Tech, boasting 287,000 square feet.  The building is the second of four  to open in the Institute\u0027s interdisciplinary Life Sciences and Technology Complex. It will contain classrooms and research facilities for the Schools of Chemical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Earth and Atmospheric Sciences as well as the disciplines of environmental biology and chemistry.  It will also hold space for the Advanced Technology \u0026amp; Development Center.  \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Georgia Tech is already a recognized leader in creating sustainable technologies, solving environmental problems and educating students to view their professions through the prism of sustainability,\u0022 said Georgia Tech President G. Wayne Clough. \u0022The Environmental Science and Technology Building will take our efforts to a new level, and we are very pleased to have Ford Motor Company as a partner in this effort.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe $58 million Ford ES\u0026amp;T Building was built with a combination of state and private funding, with $38 million coming from the state of Georgia, $15 million from private donors and $5 million from the Georgia Research Alliance.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETech will celebrate Ford\u0027s $10 million commitment to the building with a ribbon-cutting ceremony to be followed by a reception and public tours.  The program will feature remarks by Clough and appearances by University System of Georgia Chancellor Thomas Meredith and honored guest Edsel Ford II, a member of the Board of Directors of Ford and great-grandson of the company\u0027s founder. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This is a tremendous new building, and it also is a tool,\u0022 said Ford. \u0022But what counts most is the Georgia Tech scientists, engineers and cadre of dedicated graduate assistants. In the hands of these very capable people, this facility will help increase our environmental understanding and shape a better world for all of us.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFord has had operations in Atlanta for nearly a century. The company is responsible for more than 3,000 jobs in the metro region and has donated several million dollars to Atlanta organizations in recent years. Ford has a long history of hiring Tech graduates as well as funding the Institute\u0027s programs. Over the past 40 years the company has been a key corporate partner with Tech, giving more than $4.6 million. Ford celebrates its 100th anniversary on June 16, 2003.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Georgia Tech dedicates the Ford Environmental Science and Technology Building (Ford ES\u0026amp;T) on Friday, May 16, at 2:45 p.m.  Named for its principal donor, the Ford Motor Company, the Ford ES\u0026amp;T building is the largest academic building at Tech, boasting 287,000 square feet.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2003-05-14 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:06","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-05-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-05-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"84621":{"id":"84621","type":"image","title":"Ford Environmental Science and Technology Building","body":null,"created":"1449178102","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:22","changed":"1475894704","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:04"}},"media_ids":["84621"],"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":""}}}