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• Woo and Kwon Receive Young Scholars Award in South Korea

  

  July 16, 2018

  Seokkyun Woo and Seokbeom Kwon, Ph.D. students in the School of Public Policy received the Young Scholars Award 2018 from the International Schumpeter Society at the society’s biennial conference in Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea from July 2-4.

• LMC's Professor Lisa Yaszek Guest Hosts Award Winning Horror Podcast

  

  July 16, 2018

  LMC professor Lisa Yaszek guest hosts the award-winning horror podcast Pseudopod.

• Georgia Tech College of Computing Researchers Earn Mozilla Grants

  

  July 16, 2018

  Georgia Tech College of Computing Researchers Munmun de Choudhury and David Joyner Earn Mozilla Grants

• Analyzing Spatio-temporal Changes and Trade-offs to Support the Supply of Multiple Ecosystem Services in Beijing, China

  July 16, 2018

  Xiao Sun, Zhongming Lu, Feng Li, John C. Crittenden, 2018, Ecological Indicators, 94, 117–129, DOI:  10.1016/j.ecolind.2018.06.049.

• App Developed by College of Computing Undergrads is a One-Stop Shop to Report Human Trafficking

  

  July 11, 2018

  The app was developed in tandem with Airline Ambassadors International and is available to airline professionals trained in identifying trafficking.

• Georgia Tech Solves 'Texture Fill' Problem with Machine Learning

  

  July 10, 2018

  A new technique allows users to spread textures across sketches of objects to create high resolution images.

• Georgia Tech Internet of Things Center Offers Perspectives on IoT-Facilitated User Engagement

  

  July 9, 2018

  White paper summarizes the collective opinion of practitioners and researchers regarding the Internet of Things (IoT), highlighting in particular the inherent intricacies of its value chain, the possible roadmaps to success, and the critical issues that must be urgently resolved.

• Destruction of Phenicol Antibiotics Using the UV/H2O2 Process: Kinetics, Byproducts, Toxicity Evaluation and Trichloromethane Formation Potential

  July 2, 2018

  Kai Yin, Lin Deng, Jinming Luo, John Crittenden, Chengbin Liu, Yuanfeng Wei, Longlu Wang, 2018, Chemical Engineering Journal, 351,  867–877, DOI:  10.1016/j.cej.2018.06.164.

• Low Concentrations of Al(III) Accelerate the Formation of Biofilm: Multiple Effects of Hormesis and Flocculation

  July 2, 2018

  Xiaochun Cui, Mingxin Huo, Congli Chen, Zhisen Yu, Chen Zhou, Anran Li, Bingqian Qiao,Dandan Zhou, John C. Crittenden, 2018, Science of the Total Environment, 634, 516–524, DOI:  10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.03.376.

• Gerona Presents Research in Évora, Portugal

  

  July 2, 2018

  On May 25, 2018, Carla Gerona, associate professor in the Georgia Tech School of History and Sociology presented a paper “Creating and Mining Data: Late-Eighteenth Century East Texas Census Records” at Centro Interdiciplinar de História, Culturas e Sociedades, University of Évora, Portugal

• Renowned International Poet Named to Bourne Poetry Chair at Georgia Tech

  

  July 1, 2018

  Renowned international poet Ilya Kaminsky will join Georgia Tech August 1, 2018, as the Margaret T. and Henry C. Bourne Jr. Chair in Poetry. Professor Kaminsky will join the faculty of the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, as well as become the new director of the Poetry@Tech Program.

• Remembering Pat Connell: A Force for Historic Preservation and a Master of Hand Drawing

  

  June 29, 2018

  Throughout Atlanta’s history, the city has notoriously struggled to preserve its original architecture, but Arnall T. “Pat” Connell was a successful champion for maintaining the architectural history of Atlanta. Connell passed away Thursday, June 13, 2018, leaving behind an important legacy in both the Georgia Tech School of Architecture and the historic preservation of Atlanta’s architecture.

• Jennifer DuBose Is 1st at College of Design Promoted to Highest Research Rank

  

  June 29, 2018

  Jennifer DuBose, associate director of the SimTigrate Design Lab, has been promoted to principal research associate, the highest rank in the faculty research track at Georgia Tech.

• Georgia Tech’s Marilyn Brown Leads on New Electric Vehicle Report

  

  June 29, 2018

  A new U.S. Department of Energy study led by Marilyn Brown of the Georgia Institute of Technology finds that programs to allow electric vehicles to pump electricity back into the power grid in times of peak demand or crisis could help secure the power system and make owners a little money, too.

• Georgia Tech Ranks in the Top 20 for Most Accepted Papers at ICML 2018

  

  June 28, 2018

  Georgia Tech Presents 11 Papers at ICML 2018

• Ellen Dunham-Jones to Lead Shared Autonomous Vehicle Study

  

  June 27, 2018

  The Georgia Smart Communities Challenge is a first-of-its-kind opportunity. It offers the selected communities $50,000 in grant funding, a partnership with a Georgia Tech research team, networking opportunities, and access to additional resources to help execute their projects as they move their communities toward “smart” futures. Ellen Dunham-Jones, School of Architecture professor and director of the Master of Science in Urban Design program, is the assigned researcher for the Shared Autonomous Vehicle Study.

• Do Not Get Distracted by Georgia’s New Cell Phone Law, Georgia Tech Professor Urges

  

  June 26, 2018

  While undoubtedly a step forward, Georgia’s new handheld driving law could end up actually encouraging drivers to engage in dangerously distracting behavior behind the wheel, according to a Georgia Institute of Technology professor who has studied the issue for more than a decade.

• Acceleration of Saturated Porous Media Clogging and Silicon Dissolution Due to Low Concentrations of Al(III) in the Recharge of Reclaimed Water

  June 25, 2018

  Xiaochun Cui, Congli Chen, Shu Sun, Dandan Zhou, Fabrice Ndayisenga, Mingxin Huo, Suiyi Zhu, Leilei Zhang, John C. Crittenden, 2018, Water Research, 143, 136-145, DOI:  10.1016/j.watres.2018.06.043.

• LuminAI Shows Off its Moves at San Francisco Art+Tech Festival

  

  June 21, 2018

  The Adaptive Digital Media Lab, or ADAM Lab, recently took its LuminAI interactive dance art installation to the Art+Tech Festival in San Francisco, where it was well received.

• Ivan Allen College Dean’s Offices Relocated to Savant Building

  

  June 20, 2018

  The Office of the Dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts has relocated to the newly renovated first floor of the Savant Building at 631 Cherry Street, Atlanta, 30332. The dean’s office previously was located in the Habersham Building at 781 Marietta Street.