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• Today's Automated Cities Raise Ethics and Privacy Issues

  

  January 15, 2019

  While urban automation delivers many benefits, its various forms raise issues of access, privacy, safety, trust, and discrimination. These issues raise ethical questions that should be addressed in its design and deployment.

• Keely Mruk Wins 2019 Southeastern Writing Center Undergraduate Peer Tutor of the Year Award

  

  January 14, 2019

  Congratulations to Keely on winning this competitive award!

• Andrew Zhang Publishes Article in Physics in Perspective Journal

  

  January 14, 2019

  Andrew Zhang, HTS/Physics undergraduate, is the first author on the article "Four Facts Everyone Ought to Know about Science: The Two-Culture Concerns of Philip W. Anderson."

• Renee Shelby Publishes Article in Theoretical Criminology

  

  January 7, 2019

  Renee Shelby, and HSTS PhD student, recently had her article titled, "Whose rape kit? Stabilizing the Vitullo® Kit through positivist criminology and protocol feminism" published in the journal Theoretical Criminology.

• John Krige Edits New Book on Transnational Movement of Knowledge

  

  January 7, 2019

   By concentrating on the conditions that allow for knowledge movement, these essays explore travel and exchange in face-to-face encounters and show how border-crossings mobilize extensive bureaucratic technologies.

• Environmental Engineering for the 21st Century:  Addressing Grand Challenges

  January 7, 2019

  Domenico Grasso, John C. Crittenden (in his role as member of the National Academy of Engineering Committee On Grand Challenges and Opportunities In Environmental Engineering For The Twenty-First Century), and numerous coauthors, National Academies Press, ISBN 978-0-309-47652-2, 2018, 120 pgs., DOI:  10.17226/25121.

• John Crittenden and Wayne Clough Co-Authors on New National Academy Report

  

  January 7, 2019

  BBISS Director, John C. Crittenden, and Georgia Tech President Emeritus, G. Wayne Clough, are among a distinguished group of eighteen authors of a new consensus report issued by the National Academy of Engineering. It is titled, “Environmental Engineering for the 21st Century:  Addressing Grand Challenges.” The report lays out five overarching challenges that are hindering the ability for people and ecosystems to thrive. Within each of these challenges the authors discuss how environmental engineers will need to advance knowledge and technology in order to rise to the mounting constraints and challenges. The five grand challenges, which environmental engineers are uniquely positioned to help manage or solve, are:  sustainably supply food, water, and energy; curb climate change and adapt to its impacts; design a future without pollution and waste; create efficient, healthy, resilient cities; and foster informed decisions and actions.

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• Seth Hutchinson Named New Executive Director of IRIM

  

  January 3, 2019

  Hutchinson is a professor and KUKA Chair for Robotics in Georgia Tech’s College of Computing and has served as associate director of IRIM.

• The Technology Horizon for Photocatalytic Water Treatment: Sunrise or Sunset?

  January 2, 2019

  Stephanie K. Loeb, Pedro J. J. Alvarez, Jonathon A. Brame, Ezra L. Cates, Wonyong Choi, John C. Crittenden, Dionysios D. Dionysiou, Qilin Li, Gianluca Li-Puma, Xie Quan, David L. Sedlak, T. David Waite, Paul Westerhoff, Jae-Hong Kim, 2019, Environmental Science and Technology, XXX, XXX−XXX, DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.8b05041.

• Brad Fain Named Executive Director of Center for Advanced Communications Policy

  

  January 2, 2019

  Brad Fain, principal research scientist at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) and at the Center for Advanced Communications Policy (CACP), has been appointed as executive director of CACP. The appointment was announced on January 2, 2019 by Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Dean Jacqueline Royster.

• Study Finds Dramatic Growth in Numbers of “Supporting Scientists” on Research Teams

  

  January 2, 2019

  As university research has become more complex and interdisciplinary, laboratory teams have grown in size, with increasing numbers of specialists in such areas such as statistical analysis, electron microscopy or mass spectrometry. According to a new study, these supporting scientists often do their work outside the traditional tenure track and may never obtain permanent positions as professors.

• Science Fiction Day Recommendations from Georgia Tech's Science Fiction Faculty

  

  December 31, 2018

  Science fiction faculty in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication offer suggestions for Science Fiction Day, Jan. 2.

• Film by DM Alumna Ayoka Chenzira Selected for National Film Registry

  

  December 19, 2018

  A film by Ayoka “Ayo” Chenzira, an alumna of the Literature, Media, and Communication PhD program in Digital Media (2014) has been placed on the National Film Registry. Chenzira’s Hair Piece: A Film for Nappy-Headed People was selected along with 24 other films for 2018, including Orson Welles The Lady from Shanghai and Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park. The Registry “showcases the range and diversity of American film heritage to increase awareness for its preservation.”

   

• Nimbus Seemingly Defies Gravity in Minneapolis

  

  December 19, 2018

  Tristan Al-Haddad, part-time lecturer for the School of Architecture, is currently constructing a piece of weathering steel titled Nimbus in Minneapolis, MN across the street from the Central Library. Commissioned by the City of Minneapolis as an extension of the redesign of the Nicolett Mall, Nimbus was inspired by halos of light and by art featuring elegant poses signifying levitation and stillness. Despite its steel structure, Nimbus seemingly defies gravity.

• Accenture Security to Invest $500,000 in Georgia Tech's OMS Cybersecurity Program

  

  December 18, 2018

  Accenture becomes the first corporate donor to invest in Georgia Tech's Online Master of Science in Cybersecurity. The investment will support the creation of the program while providing professional experiences through internships, full-time employment opportunities, and client project support.

• DM Alumna Nettrice Gaskins Joins LMC Advisory Board

  

  December 18, 2018

  Alumnus Nettrice Gaskins has joined the Advisory Board for the School of Literature, Media, and Communications (LMC). Gaskins received a PhD in LMC’s Digital Media program in 2014.

• Cu2O Nanocrystals/TiO2 Microspheres Film on a Rotating Disk Containing Long-Afterglow Phosphor for Enhanced Round-the-Clock Photocatalysis

  December 17, 2018

  Ying Lu, Xu Zhang, Yicong Chu, Hongbin Yu, Mingxin Huo, Jiao Qu, John C.Crittenden, Hongliang Huo, Xing Yuan, 2018, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 224, 239-248, DOI:  10.1016/j.apcatb.2017.10.054.

• The Promise and Peril of Driverless Cars

  

  December 17, 2018

  Georgia Tech and Newsweek host seminar on “How Driverless Cars Will Change the World”

• Distribution and Sources of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Phthalic Acid Esters in Water and Surface Sediment from the Three Gorges Reservoir

  December 17, 2018

  Li Lin, Lei Dong, Xiaoyang Meng, Qingyun Li, Zhuo Huang, Chao Li, Rui Li, Wenjun Yang, John C. Crittenden, 2018, Journal of Environmental Sciences, 69, 271-280, DOI:  10.1016/j.jes.2017.11.004.

• NH3-SCR Performance of WO3 Blanketed CeO2 with Different Morphology: Balance of Surface Reducibility and Acidity

  December 17, 2018

  Dong Wang, Yue Peng, Qilei Yang, Fangyun Hu, Junhua Li, John C. Crittenden, 2018, Catalysis Today, XX, XXX-XXX, DOI:  10.1016/j.cattod.2018.07.048.