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Georgia Tech’s VentureLab program is ranked second in the world in
a benchmarking study of 150 university-based business incubators
in 22 different countries. The study was conducted by UBI Index, a
Stockholm-based company that provides assistance to incubators.
Since its formation in 2001, VentureLab has launched more than 150
technology companies that have attracted more than $700 million in
outside funding. J U LY
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U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny
Pritzker visits the Global Center for
Medical Innovation (GCMI) near
Georgia Tech’s campus as part of
her nationwide listening tour during
her first 100 days in office. The tour
includes business leaders, Department
of Commerce employees, and inno-
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such as GCMI — around the country.
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In support of its effort to create a campuswide IT master plan, the Strategic Technology Investment Committee holds a series of three town halls to receive input from students, faculty, and staff.
Georgia Tech partners with the
Museum of Design Atlanta on
an exhibit that highlights the
work of women game designers
and artists. The exhibit was
developed in partnership with
Tech’s Experimental Game Lab
and the Digital Design graduate
program, both in the Ivan Allen
College of Liberal Arts.
Pablo Laguna is named chair of the School of Physics. A native of Mexico, Laguna holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa in Mexico City and a doctorate
from the University of Texas at Austin.
The Georgia Tech Police
Department joins the
ranks of a select group of
59 college and university
police departments in the
country that are accredited
by the Commission on
Accreditation for Law
Enforcement Agencies.
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A U G U S T
Georgia Tech’s Collegiate
Panhellenic Council, the
governing body for Tech’s
nine sorority chapters, is one
of just 14 councils from more
than 600 across the U.S. and
Canada to earn a Collegiate
Panhellenic Excellence
Award from the National
Panhellenic Conference.
Thirteen congressional staffers participate in a day-long campus visit to learn more about the research that makes Georgia Tech one of the top technological universities in the world and an economic engine for the country. The congressional staffers also saw demonstrations and briefings that highlighted expertise in cybersecurity, wearable technologies, and sensor systems for health care applications.
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The National
Institutes of Health
awards Georgia
Tech a $2 million research
grant to unravel the
mechanical forces at play
in lymphedema, a poorly
understood disease with
no cure and little hope for
sufferers. Lymphedema
develops when the body
fails to circulate lymphatic
fluid, which sometimes
causes extreme swelling and
other symptoms.
A Georgia Tech-led
research team is awarded
a $2 million grant from
the National Science
Foundation to develop
a unique approach
to making extremely
compact and highly
efficient antennas and
electronics. The new
technology will use
principles derived from
origami paper-folding
techniques to create
complex structures
that can reconfigure
themselves by unfolding,
moving, and even twisting
in response to incoming
electromagnetic signals.
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In its annual evaluation of undergraduate programs, U.S. News & World Report ranks Tech seventh in the nation while the College of Engineering is ranked fifth.
After a thorough review of the responsibilities of the Division of Professional Practice and Career Services by the Office of Strategic Consulting, President G.P. “Bud” Peterson announces the merger of the two units. The new unit is named the Center for Career Discovery and Development.
The
Georgia Tech
community
celebrates
the 100th
anniversary of Grant Field
at the September 26 football
game against Virginia Tech.
The Georgia Tech Library
Archives recovers a lost
collection of more than 400
drawings by Francis Smith,
a renowned Atlanta architect
and the first director of the
College of Architecture. Valued
at $618,000, the collection of
architecture drawings had
been tucked away in the Smith family’s attic for
more than 50 years until being discovered by
construction workers during renovation.
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Christopher W. Jones, a chemical
engineering professor whose research
focuses on catalyst materials, is named
associate vice president for research.
A faculty member in the School of Chemical
and Biomolecular Engineering, Jones has
conducted research for a variety of indus-
trial and federal sponsors, including Fortune
500 corporations and startup companies.
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Georgia Tech and the International Telecommunication Union
release the findings of a study that is the first attempt to measure,
by country, the world’s “digital natives.” The term is typically used
to categorize young people who were born around the time the
personal computer was introduced and have spent their entire
lives connected with technology. The study found that nearly 96
percent of American millennials are digital natives, behind Japan
(99.5 percent) and several European countries, including Finland,
Denmark, and the Netherlands.
Some of the most sophisticated and
advanced robots in the world arrive on
campus for the IEEE-RAS International
Conference on Humanoid Robots. The
international event focuses on trends
and technology for humanoids in the
real world. The three-day conference
features demonstrations, lectures, and
tours of Georgia Tech robotics labs.
Parking and Transportation Services is honored with
a PACE Award, winning the Government Champions/
State Employer category for its efforts toward
creating sustainable and alternative transportation
options for campus.
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O C T O B E R Georgia Tech Research Institute’s Steven Thomas earns the Volunteer of the Year award from the Georgia Downtown Association and the Georgia Department of Community Affairs for his efforts in downtown Gainesville, Georgia.
The College of Computing and the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering become the first campus units to surpass their fundraising goals ($40 million and $60 million, respectively) within the $1.5 billion Campaign Georgia Tech.
The Georgia Tech Military Affinity Group hosts
a symposium to discuss ideas for how to better
engage Georgia Tech students who are veterans.
The event is designed to let those with a role
in student engagement share ideas and begin
developing plans for serving both undergraduate
and graduate veteran students.
Georgia Tech becomes the first university
to receive the Phoenix Award from the
Health IT Leadership Summit for support
of innovative health IT-based education,
research, and commercialization at
its Interoperability and Integration
Innovation Lab (I3L). The I3L is the
realization of a five-year vision for
driving health care transformation
through advanced technologies. The lab
provides a vendor-neutral test bed for
exchanging health information among
disparate electronic health records
systems and other platforms.Student speakers take the stage at Tech’s first-ever TEDxStudent, a two-hour event showcasing 10 students who discuss their ideas related to the TED theme of “ideas worth spreading.” TED (short for technology, entertainment, and design) has gained traction internationally through conferences featuring short, engaging presentations by leaders in a variety of fields. The TEDx program is designed to bring the TED experience to more narrowly defined communities and enable them to organize events that emulate the global and national conferences.
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Internationally acclaimed
architect Santiago
Calatrava is awarded
an honorary doctorate
at Georgia Tech’s fall
commencement ceremony.
Among Calatrava’s many
innovative designs is the
World Trade Center railway
station in New York.
The Georgia Tech Research Corporation’s Office of Industry Engagement launches the Contract Continuum. This new mechanism makes it easier for industry and university researchers to engage at any point in the R&D process — from early-stage research to product launch. The Contract Continuum is a collection of four research contracts: Basic Research, Applied Research, Demonstration, and Specialized Testing. These contracts simplify collaboration between Tech and industry at all R&D stages.
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Rwandan Ambassador
Eugene-Richard Gasana
delivers the Institute’s
annual Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr. Lecture.
Gasana is a Rwandan
diplomat and the
current permanent
representative of
Rwanda to the United
Nations.
Georgia Tech is ranked first in the Atlantic Coast Conference for Waste Minimization in the 2013 Game Day Challenge. In this nationwide recycling competition, 88 colleges and universities track collections of recyclable materials during home football game days. At Georgia Tech’s seven home football games in 2013, tailgaters and fans diverted 13.2 tons of bottles and cans from landfills with the help of more than 100 student volunteers.
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The U.S. Department of Energy awards the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) $1.7 million to help detect cyber attacks on the nation’s utility companies. By partnering with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering’s National Electric Energy Testing, Research, and Applications Center and the Strategic Energy Institute, GTRI is working with experts in smart grid technology to develop protocols and tools to detect such attacks.
Ford Motor Company, in collaboration with
Georgia Tech, debuts a new solar car concept at
the 2014 International CES in Las Vegas. Instead
of recharging its battery from an electrical outlet,
the C-MAX Solar Energi Concept harnesses the
power of the sun by parking under a special
concentrator that acts like a magnifying glass,
directing intensified rays from the sun onto solar
panels on the parked vehicle’s roof below.
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Stamps Health Services begins providing comprehensive sports medical care, including treatment for musculoskeletal injuries, to all Georgia Tech students. Access to this type of care previously was provided only to Tech’s Division I student-athletes.
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) initiates a $2.9 million cooperative agreement with Georgia Tech to develop information that military resource planners can use to optimize energy consumption depending on mission needs and local conditions. By developing, evaluating, and integrating dynamic modeling and simulation tools for this task, the researchers will help the DoD meet energy needs while reducing liquid fuel consumption and logistics support.
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Hanchao Lu, professor in the School of History, Technology, and Society, is selected to be a fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
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Margaret Wagner Dahl, a veteran of research commercialization and technology-based economic development, is named associate vice president for Health IT. In this position, Dahl leads the development and expansion of Georgia Tech’s efforts within the health information technology industry. She also oversees educational, consulting, and other services to fuel economic development and improve health services delivery in Georgia.
Department of
Homeland Security
Secretary Jeh Johnson
meets with Georgia
Tech students and other
members of the campus
community to discuss the
Institute’s contributions
to the field.
U.S. News & World Report ranks all 11 of Georgia Tech’s graduate engineering programs in the nation’s top 10. The overall graduate engineering program is ranked No. 6.
David A. Bader, a renowned leader in high-performance
computing, is named chair of the School of Computational
Science and Engineering in the College of Computing, effective July 1.
Georgia Tech launches MyResearchPortal, a new solution to ease the burden of paperwork, reports, and financials for the Tech research community.
The Board of Regents
approves a policy requiring
all properties owned,
leased, rented, in the
possession of, or in any
way used by the University
System of Georgia or
its affiliates to become
tobacco and smoke free as
of October 1.
A team of four Georgia Tech students developing
a new electrical power grid technology with an
Internet-like control architecture win the third
annual ACC Clean Energy Challenge and the U.S.
Department of Energy’s $100,000 grand prize.
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The Georgia Tech
Manufacturing Institute
(GTMI) is awarded
a National Science
Foundation grant aimed
at training undergraduate
students, particularly
veterans, in the
fundamental principles of
advanced manufacturing
science and technology
and entrepreneurship. The
three-year grant is worth
approximately $360,000.
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Professor Eva Lee, director of the Center for Operations Research in Medicine and Health Care at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, discusses her emergency response software at the 2014 AAAS annual meeting. Lee designed software that combines biological data on the pandemic with demographic data of the at-risk population so that health officials can develop a game plan to limit the pandemic’s spread.
The Georgia ImmunoEngineering Consortium
(GIEC) — a new research partnership between
Emory University and Georgia Tech — is launched
to apply the principles of engineering to study the
immune system and develop new therapies that
can improve the immune response to diseases.
GIEC brings together engineers, physicians,
chemists, physicists, computational scientists,
immunologists, and clinical investigators.
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Zhong Lin (Z.L.) Wang,
Regents Professor of
Materials Science and
Engineering, receives the
Class of 1934 Distin-
guished Professor Award
at the annual Faculty and
Staff Honors Luncheon.
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• Brian Gunter (Aerospace Engi-
neering): Utilizing nano-satellite
technology for improved monitoring
of Earth’s time-variable gravity.
• David Spencer (Aerospace Engi-
neering): Developing Mars tech-
nology demonstration missions in
lower Earth orbit and deep
space micro-spacecraft.
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Engineering): Autonomous
energy-projecting systems for
robotic exploration of extreme
environments.
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spheric Sciences): Icy satellite
surface compositions from
infrared spectroscopy.
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Greg Huey is named chair
of the School of Earth and
Atmospheric Sciences in the
College of Sciences, effective
July 1. Huey, who joined the
Tech faculty in 1999, focuses
on the field of atmospheric
and analytical chemistry.
Klemis Kitchen, a new student-led initiative, wins the Student Alumni Association’s 2014 Gift to Tech. The gift of more than $31,000 helps provide meals to Tech students in need. The gift honors the legacy of Tommy Klemis, owner of Junior’s Grill, a Georgia Tech dining staple for six decades that closed in 2011.
The Academic Faculty, Academic Senate, and General Faculty vote to approve revisions to the Faculty Handbook that streamline definitions of faculty and retire the longtime “general faculty” designation.
Georgia Tech students and engineers team with Emory students and clinicians to launch Forge, a technology incubator with a mission of developing medical entrepreneurs.
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Four Georgia Tech faculty members are selected to spend part of their
summer working alongside researchers at the NASA Jet Propulsion
Laboratory (JPL) in California, collaborating on projects that include
icy moon science and deep-space systems. The Institute’s Center for
Space Technology and Research (C-STAR) selects the participants and
sponsors the program to build collaborative research opportunities
between JPL and Georgia Tech personnel. The participants are:
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For the sixth consecutive year, the Arbor Day Foundation recognizes Georgia Tech as a Tree Campus USA university.
The Georgia Tech men’s intramural basketball team defeats Columbus State to capture the 2014 National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association men’s intramural championship.
Richard Lipton, professor
and Frederick G. Storey
Chair in Computing in
the School of Computer
Science, is elected a fellow
of the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences.
President G.P. “Bud” Peterson names Reginald DesRoches,
professor and John and Karen Huff School Chair of Civil
and Environmental Engineering, as the Institute’s faculty
athletics representative to the Athletics Association.
As the faculty’s representative on athletic matters,
DesRoches serves as the liaison between the Institute
and the Athletics Association on issues regarding rules
compliance activities, new developments at the National
Collegiate Athletic Association, and activities related to
Atlantic Coast Conference membership.
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Beatrice Mtetwa, a prominent human rights
attorney from Zimbabwe, is named recipient
of the 2014 Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Social
Courage. Mtetwa, who has fought against
injustice and defended press freedom for
more than 20 years, has endured harassment
and arrest as she advocates for human rights,
social justice, and women’s equality and
advancement. The first woman to receive the
prize, she will be honored during a ceremony
at the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts in
November 2014.
A team of students from the
School of Architecture, gt.5, wins
the design solution category
and Construction Documents
Jury Award in the inaugural
Department of Energy Chal-
lenge Home Student Design
Competition. With a clear
mandate to show tightly inte-
grated design, simulation, opti-
mization, and building science,
the team produces a highly
modern, performance-based
design of a zero-
energy home.
Parking and Transportation Services
rolls out a new bike rental program
for students called BuzzBike. Under
the new program, students may apply
to rent a bike for a semester at a time.
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Georgia Tech is among 12 U.S. universities cited for their success in creating economic impact through inno vation. The list — known as Innovation U 2.0 — uses case studies to describe innovation- related attributes of each university, including goals and aspirations, leadership, entrepre-neurship, industry and community partnering, and technology transfer.
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School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering faculty member John Crittenden, director of the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems, is one of only six new members from outside China inducted into the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2014.
The Institute of Paper Science and Technology (IPST) is renamed
the Renewable Bioproducts Institute (RBI) to reflect a broader
research mission and additional resources. One of Georgia Tech’s
10 interdisciplinary research institutes, RBI’s mission expands
beyond papermaking to include technologies that produce
chemicals, biofuels, and new material products from forest raw
materials. The new name reflects this broader research scope
designed to better serve the global development of new forest-
based economies. In conjunction with RBI’s new name and
expanded research mission, Georgia Tech receives a $43.6 million
gift from the Institute of Paper Chemistry Foundation (IPCF). The
grant, one of the single largest gifts in Georgia Tech’s history,
affirms the Institute’s position as a leading driver of the future of
the forest bioproducts industry.
A. Madison Cario is named the first director of
the Office of the Arts at Georgia Tech, effective
August 4. Cario comes to Tech from the
Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts at the
University of Pennsylvania, where she served as
director of Student Engagement, Special Artistic
Initiatives, and Operations and Facilities.
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Cover image: Tux, by Isaac
Duncan III, was part of the
2013-14 “Engineered Art”
sculpture exhibition. It is
now part of the Institute’s
permanent art collection.