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Emory, Georgia Tech receive first human exposome center grant in U.S.

May 22, 2013 — Investigators at Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, along with partners at the Georgia Institute of Technology, have received a $4 million grant over four years to establish the HERCULES Center at Emory University (Health and Exposome Research Center: Understanding Lifetime Exposures). The grant is the first exposome-based center grant awarded in the United States. 

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Soft Matter Offers Ways to Study Arrangement of Ordered Materials in Non-spherical Spaces

May 21, 2013 — A fried breakfast food popular in Spain provided the inspiration for the development of doughnut-shaped droplets that may provide scientists with a new approach for studying fundamental issues in physics, mathematics and materials.

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Study Suggests Drug Side Effects Inevitable; Basic Physics Enabled Early Biochemistry

May 20, 2013 — A new study of both computer-created and natural proteins suggests that the number of unique pockets – sites where small molecule pharmaceutical compounds can bind to proteins – is surprisingly small, meaning drug side effects may be impossible to avoid. The study also found that the fundamental biochemical processes needed for life could have been enabled by the simple physics of protein folding. 

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Principles of Ant Locomotion Could Help Future Robot Teams Work Underground

May 20, 2013 — Future teams of subterranean search and rescue robots may owe their success to the lowly fire ant, a much despised insect whose painful bites and extensive networks of underground tunnels are all-too-familiar to people living in the southern United States.

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Lymphatic on a Chip

Grand Challenges Grant Supports Tissue Engineered Model of Lymphatic System

May 20, 2013 — Georgia Tech has won a Grand Challenges Explorations Grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.  J. Brandon Dixon, assistant professor in Georgia Tech’s George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, will pursue an innovative global health and development research project, titled “Lymphatic on a chip as a model for lymphatic filariasis (LF) parasites.”

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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IRI Intros: 5 Questions with Bob Guldberg

March 27, 2013 — This article is the second in a series of Q&As to introduce the Tech community to the eight IRIs and their directors. In this installment, Executive Director Bob Guldberg answers five questions about the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering & Bioscience.

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NSA Director to Speak at Georgia Tech Cyber Security Symposium

March 27, 2013 — General Keith B. Alexander, director of the National Security Agency, will speak at Georgia Tech on Thursday about the need for a stronger digital defense to combat the growing number of cyber attacks. 

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Georgia Tech Adds Robotics Research Component to Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering Program

March 27, 2013 — Ayanna Howard has been awarded a NSF REU Site: Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering (SURE) continuing grant for her proposal to add a robotics component to Georgia Tech’s SURE program.

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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.

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