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Dr. Rosa Arriaga

A Text Message A Day Keeps the Asthma Attack Away

April 30, 2013 — Simply sending children with asthma a text message each day asking about their symptoms and providing knowledge about their condition can lead to improved health outcomes.

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Tim Lieuwen

IRI Intros: 5 Questions with Tim Lieuwen

April 29, 2013 — You’ve probably heard that Georgia Tech has a number of Interdisciplinary Research Institutes (IRIs) – but do you know much about them? This article is the second in a series of Q&As to introduce the Tech community to the eight IRIs and their faculty leaders. In this installment, Executive Director Tim Lieuwen answers questions about the Georgia Tech Strategic Energy Institute.

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Healthcare Providers and Robots

How Would You Like Your Assistant - Human or Robotic?

April 29, 2013 — Based on a Georgia Institute of Technology study, it appears that the healthcare providers will welcome robots into the workplace. y may be welcomed with open arms depending on the tasks at hand.

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VIDEO - Robots Reach through a Cluttered World

Robots Able to Reach through Clutter with Whole-Arm Tactile Sensing

April 29, 2013 — Robots are now able to intelligently maneuver within clutter, gently making contact with objects while accomplishing a task, thanks to technology developed by Dr. Charlie Kemp and the Healthcare Robotics Lab.  

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Pathway Competition Affects Early Differentiation of Higher Brain Structures

April 26, 2013 — A new study in fish shows how the strength and timing of competing molecular signals during brain development has generated natural and presumably adaptive differences in a brain region known as the telencephalon -- much earlier than scientists had previously believed.

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Simulating sensors on a hostile UAV

Project Will Help Protect U.S. Forces by Simulating Hostile UAVs

April 10, 2013 — The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is developing integrated hardware devices that simulate sensors potentially present on enemy UAVs. The technology is expected to be used to gauge the effectiveness of U.S. countermeasures against enemy drones.

Surface diffusion in nanocatalysts

Surface Diffusion Plays a Key Role in Defining the Shapes of Catalytic Nanoparticles

April 9, 2013 — Controlling the shapes of nanometer-sized catalytic and electrocatalytic particles made from noble metals such as platinum and palladium may be more complicated than previously thought.

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Adhesive Differences Enable Separation of Stem Cells to Advance Potential Therapies

April 7, 2013 — A new separation process that depends on an easily-distinguished physical difference in adhesive forces among cells could help expand production of stem cells generated through cell reprogramming. By facilitating new research, the separation process could also lead to improvements in the reprogramming technique itself and help scientists model certain disease processes.

3D Cooling

Project Will Improve Heat Dissipation in 3-D Microelectronic Systems

April 2, 2013 — Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have won a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract to develop three-dimensional chip cooling technology able to handle heat loads as much as ten times greater than systems commonly used today.

Obama BRAIN Announcement

Georgia Tech Researchers Attend White House Event Announcing New BRAIN Initiative

April 2, 2013 — President Barack Obama today announced a major new commitment to fund research to map the activity of the human brain. The goal of this grand challenge project is to develop new technologies that reveal in real time how brain cells and neural circuits interact to process information. The Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative will be launched with $100 million in the President's FY 2014 Budget.

Amy LaViers

Engineering Style of Dance for Robots and People

April 1, 2013 — Instead of programming a robot to copy an existing dance such as those in the online videos, Amy LaViers, a Ph.D. candidate in electrical and computer engineering, is defining the various styles of human movement and creating algorithms to reproduce them on a humanoid robot. 

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Acoustic Time Delay Device Could Reduce the Size and Cost of Phased Array Systems

March 29, 2013 — A research team has developed an ultra-compact passive true time delay device that could help reduce the size, complexity, power requirements and cost of phased array designs. The patent-pending device takes advantage of the difference in speed between light and sound to create nanosecond signal delays needed for beam steering.

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Georgia Tech Honored by Boeing for Performance Excellence

March 28, 2013 — Georgia Tech received a 2012 Boeing Performance Excellence Award. The Boeing Company issues the awards annually to recognize suppliers who have achieved superior performance.

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New Nanotechnology Research Study Turns Brain Tumors Blue

March 27, 2013 — Georgia Techn and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta announce new technique that increases precision in brain tumor removal.

Sherry Farrugia

Farrugia to Manage Georgia Tech/Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Research Partnership

March 27, 2013 — The Georgia Institute of Technology and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta are advancing their commitment to collaborative research through enhanced management of their vast joint research portfolio.

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