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• Resource Recovery and Reuse for Hydraulic Fracturing Wastewater in Unconventional Shale Gas and Oil Extraction

  December 5, 2019

  Haiqing Chang, Baicang Liu, John C. Crittenden, Radisav D. Vidic, 2019, Environmental Science and Technology, 53, 23, 13547-13548, DOI:  10.1021/acs.est.9b06240.

• Development of a Three-Dimensional Electrochemical System Using a Blue TiO2/SnO2–Sb2O3 Anode for Treating Low-Ionic-Strength Wastewater

  December 5, 2019

  Xiaoyang Meng, Zefang Chen, Can Wang, Weiqiu Zhang, Kaihang Zhang, Shiqing Zhou, Jinming Luo, Nian Liu, Dandan Zhou, Duo Li, John C. Crittenden, 2019, Environmental Science and Technology, 53, 23, 13784-13793, DOI:  10.1021/acs.est.9b05488.

• Mark Cottle serves as 2019 Artist in Residence at Neutra VDL Research House in Los Angeles

  December 2, 2019

  

  This fall, Mark Cottle served as the 2019 Artist in Residence at the Neutra VDL Research House in Silver Lake, Los Angeles. The iconic modernist house, designed by Richard Neutra in the 1930s to accommodate his office and family, and rebuilt in the 1960s, is now a museum with a program that invites one artist per year to make installations in the house.

• Thermolytic Osmotic Heat Engine for Low-grade Heat Harvesting: Thermodynamic Investigation and Potential Application Exploration

  December 2, 2019

  Xin Tong, Su Liu, Junchen Yan, Osvaldo A.Broesicke, Yongsheng Chen, John C. Crittenden, 2019, Applied Energy, 114192, DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.114192.

• Helena Mitchell attending Council of State Governments National Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico

  December 2, 2019

  Helena Mitchell will be attending the Council of State Governments National Conference

• Cybersecurity Policy Graduate Student Published in 'Journal of Science Policy & Governance'

  November 26, 2019

  

  Ming "Sherry" Chen, a graduate student pursuing a Master's in Cybersecurity Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Public Policy, had her paper entitled "China’s Data Collection on US Citizens: Implications, Risks, and Solutions" published in the Journal of Science Policy & Governance.

• Aaron Levine Elected to Board of American Society of Bioethics and Humanities

  November 26, 2019

  

  Aaron Levine, associate professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Public Policy was recently elected to the board of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH). During a three-year term, Levine is serving as a director at-large.

• ML@GT Displays Diverse Research Interests at NeurIPS

  November 25, 2019

  
  Georgia Tech will present 30 papers at one of the hottest conferences in artificial intelligence.

• Gloria Calhoun Publishes in Technology and Culture

  November 25, 2019

  
  HSOC graduate student Gloria Calhoun recently published her article, "Infrastructre's Industrial Context:  How the Telegraph Shaped the Wire Industry (1845-1910) in the flagship journal Technology and Culture.

• Social Justice Is Foregrounded in School of History and Sociology Spring Speakers Series Encompassing Power, Inequity, and Change

  November 25, 2019

  

  For over two decades, the Georgia Institute of Technology School of History and Sociology's (HSOC) Speaker Series has brought world-renowned academics to campus, introducing students to critical perspectives on a range of issues while broadening HSOC's scope by connecting with organizations across Georgia Tech. 

• New Publication Explores the Global Implications of Meat Production and Consumption

  November 24, 2019

  
  Drawing on concrete examples, the contributors to Global Meat explore the implications of the rise of a global meat industry for a range of social and environmental issues, including climate change, clean water supplies, hunger, workers’ rights, and the t

• Natural Disasters Contribute to Holiday Travel Delays

  November 22, 2019

  

  Holiday travel is stressful enough—we know we’re supposed to arrive at the airport early, give extra time to drive places, and expect delays. But what about checking the weather on the other side of the country, routing your drive based on smoke from wildfires, or coordinating preparing your Thanksgiving meal around planned rolling blackouts?

• Technology for Connected and Independent Living

  November 21, 2019

  
  Georgia Tech researchers examine how smart home and augmented reality technologies can help people with mobility disabilities to age in place.

• Helping Aging Adults Take Their Power Back

  November 21, 2019

  
  Georgia Tech is working to help older adults take their power back through an array of research initiatives, centers, and partnerships.

• John Crittenden Recipient of China Friendship Award

  November 21, 2019

  

  Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems director John Crittenden has been awarded the China Friendship award at a ceremony in the Hall of the People in Beijing on China Day.  The award is given to recognize outstanding contributions made by foreign experts in China’s drive to modernize.  It is the highest government award that can be given to non-citizens of China. One hundred experts from 31 different countries were given the award this year to commemorate the 70th year since the founding of the People’s Republic of China.  Normally, 50 Friendship Awards are given each year on China Day. A total of 1,699 experts have received the award since it was established in 1991.

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• Cognitive Empowerment Program Announces Inaugural Seed Grant Recipients

  November 21, 2019

  
  The grants from Georgia Tech and Emory University support research into mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

• Degradation Kinetics of Target Compounds and Correlations with Spectral Indices During UV/H2O2 Post-treatment of Biologically Treated Acrylonitrile Wastewater

  November 21, 2019

  Xiang Tu, Xiaoyang Meng, Yang Pan, John C. Crittenden, Yaye Wang, 2020, Chemosphere, 243, 125384, DOI:  10.1016/j.chemosphere.2019.125384.

• Georgia Tech’s EarSketch Partners with Amazon, Ciara, to Teach Students Coding Through Music

  November 21, 2019

  

  Amazon is teaming up with EarSketch, co-led by Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Professor Brian Magerko, and singer/songwriter Ciara for the latest phase of the Amazon Future Engineer program.

• SPP Faculty and IEEE TechEthics Event

  November 20, 2019

  
  IEEE hosted an event titled “Navigating the (Mis)Perceptions of Autonomous Vehicles” on November 14, 2019 at The Cooper Union in New York City.

• llya Kaminsky is One of the World's Top Poets, and He Teaches at Georgia Tech

  November 20, 2019

  

  Ilya Kaminsky, the Margaret T. and Henry C. Bourne, Jr. Chair in Poetry, has been on the faculty of the Georgia Institute of Technology for a little over a year now. In that time, he’s published a highly-acclaimed volume of poems, received the prestigious Academy of American Poets Fellowship, and now is a finalist for a National Book Award, one of the top literary prizes in the United States.