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New Program Empowers Yellow Jacket Fans on Quest for More Fan Gear

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For Georgia Tech fans, finding licensed gear can sometimes be compared to digging for buried treasure.

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CHS and GT Announce Completion of Workforce Health Assessment Model

A first-of-its-kind project, the Workforce Health Assessment Model (WHAM) is currently in use with select CHS clients. WHAM provides the ability to estimate various health risks in the workplace and assists in finding cost-effective strategies to reduce those risks and the burdensome long-term costs.

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Georgia Tech’s Kirk Bowman Named Professor of the Year

Kirk Bowman

Kirk Bowman, associate professor at Georgia Tech, has been named the 2008 Georgia Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.

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Brain Reorganizes to Adjust for Loss of Vision

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A new study from Georgia Tech shows that when patients with macular degeneration focus on using another part of their retina to compensate for their loss of central vision, their brain seems to compensate by reorganizing its neural connections.

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Energy Production and Global Change Expert Joins Georgia Tech

Philippe Van Cappellen

Philippe Van Cappellen, Ph. D., an internationally renowned environmental geochemist, has joined the Georgia Institute of Technology as a Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) Eminent Scholar.

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Georgia Tech Announces Plans for Manycore Computing Research Center

Manycore Computing

The Georgia Institute of Technology, a national leader in high-performance computing research and education, announced plans for the creation of the Georgia Tech Center for Manycore Computing, a research center for innovations in computer architecture. A collaborative effort between the Georgia Tech Colleges of Computing and Engineering, the Center for Manycore Computing (CMC) will address deep, foundational challenges in programming, design and systems development to overcome power and architecture barriers to the progression of computer performance.

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More Georgia Tech Students Studying Abroad

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Georgia Tech students are part of a growing trend within the University System of Georgia as they continue to increase their participation in study abroad programs.

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Urban Sustainability Leader Joins Georgia Tech

Crittenden

John C. Crittenden, Ph.D., an accomplished expert in waste management, pollution prevention and sustainable and environmental engineering, will join the Georgia Institute of Technology as a Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) Eminent Scholar in Sustainable Systems. He is also slated to fill the Hightower Chair in Sustainable Systems pending Board of Regents approval.

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Butera named 2008 Jefferson Science Fellow

ECE Professor Robert Butera

The U.S. Department of State has selected Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Robert Butera as one of seven Jefferson Science Fellows for 2008-2009.

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Building a Leader in Music Technology at Georgia Tech

Frank Clark

Georgia Tech ’s Music Department is still making great music, but the department is also creating a name for itself in the technology world.

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