{"73618":{"#nid":"73618","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Luyi Gui Receives Blanchard Award in Honor of Ray Anderson","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELuyi Gui, a PhD student in the H. Milton Stewart School\nof Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE), is the recipient of the 2011\nBlanchard Award Fellowship in honor of the late Ray Anderson, (IE 1956,\nHonorary PhD 2011), noted environmentalist and founder and chairman of\nInterface, Inc. Gui was honored at the meeting of the Rotary Club of Atlanta on\nMonday, December 5, 2011, where she received a check for $25,000 to be used to\nfurther her research in sustainability. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Blanchard Award, which is funded by the Georgia\nLottery, the Georgia Chamber of Commerce, and Georgia Trend, is administered by\nThe Ledlie Group and has been awarded over the last three years \u0022to\nrecognize outstanding stewards of business ethics and corporate\nresponsibility\u0022. This year, the Blanchard Award was given to Ray Anderson\nposthumously. Accompanied by a $25,000 fellowship to a graduate student, the\nBlanchard Award also demonstrates the need for business support of education at\nall levels in Georgia. Anderson\u2019s family requested that the Blanchard Award\nFellowship be given to a graduate student in ISyE who is studying in the area\nof sustainability\/energy.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EJohn Lanier, Anderson\u2019s grandson, attended the meeting to\ncongratulate Gui and represent the Anderson family. As part of the introduction\nof the Blanchard Award, a short video put together by Interface, Inc. was\nshown, highlighting Anderson\u2019s work to secure a greener world for future\ngenerations through his championing of the business case for sustainability.\nFollowing the video, Margaret DeFrancisco, president of the Georgia Lottery\nCorporation and lead sponsor of the Blanchard Award, presented Gui with a check\nfor $25,000. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cLuyi\u2019s work exemplifies Ray Anderson\u0027s vision of the\npotential contributions of industrial engineering in the area of sustainability,\nand demonstrates the importance of graduate education in Georgia,\u201d said Valerie\nThomas, Anderson Interface Associate Professor of Natural Systems in ISyE. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EGui\u2019s research focuses on how to promote effective and\nefficient implementation of environmental policies, in particular, the extended\nproducer responsibility (EPR) legislation that has been widely adopted in the\nU.S. to treat the waste stream of various products including electronic waste,\nmercury lights, carpets, packaging, paint, and pharmaceutics. Her work with\nOzlem Ergun, associate professor in ISyE, Atalay Atasu, assistant professor in\nthe Georgia Tech College of Management, and Beril Toktay, Nancy J. and Lawrence\nP. Huang Professor of Operations Management in the College of Management,\naddresses the coordination problem of different stakeholder perspectives that\narise in the translation of an EPR policy into a working system in practice\nusing mechanism design approaches. She is also studying on the influence of EPR\nlegislation on producers\u0027 incentives to adopt more environmentally friendly\ndesign of their products, which is crucial to long-term environmental and\nbusiness sustainability.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELuyi Gui, a PhD student in ISyE, received the 2011\nBlanchard Award Fellowship on Monday, December 5, in honor of the late Ray Anderson, (IE 1956,\nHonorary PhD 2011).\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27511","created_gmt":"2011-12-08 11:54:28","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:00","author":"Ashley Daniel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-12-12T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2011-12-12T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"73620":{"id":"73620","type":"image","title":"Luyi Gui with John Lanier (R) and Valerie Thomas (L)","body":null,"created":"1449178002","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:26:42","changed":"1475894400","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:00","alt":"Luyi Gui with John Lanier (R) and Valerie Thomas (L)","file":{"fid":"192317","name":"img_6197.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/img_6197_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/img_6197_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":5425216,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/img_6197_0.jpg?itok=oBagIxd-"}},"73619":{"id":"73619","type":"image","title":"Luyi Gui accepts a $25,000 Blanchard Scholarship from Margaret DeFrancisco (center), to be used to further her research in sustainability","body":null,"created":"1449178002","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:26:42","changed":"1475894400","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:00","alt":"Luyi Gui accepts a $25,000 Blanchard Scholarship from Margaret DeFrancisco (center), to be used to further her research in sustainability","file":{"fid":"192318","name":"luyi_with_check.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/luyi_with_check_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/luyi_with_check_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":5295117,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/luyi_with_check_0.jpg?itok=6nXKRfmS"}}},"media_ids":["73620","73619"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"15306","name":"Blanchard Award"},{"id":"1202","name":"H. 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