{"43962":{"#nid":"43962","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Potential for Renewable Energy in Georgia","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. \u003Cstrong\u003EValerie Thomas \u003C\/strong\u003Ewill be speaking on \u0022Potential for Renewable Energy in Georgia\u0022.  She is the first speaker in a series of eight Georgia Tech professors who will be lecturing about various issues related to sustainability.  This lecture series is being organized by Students Organizing for Sustainability (SOS). \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAbout Dr. Valerie Thomas:\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nMost academics specialize in either public policy or engineering. Georgia Tech Associate Professor Valerie Thomas explores the nexus between the two. Thomas, who holds a joint appointment in the School of Public Policy and the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering, sees public policy and sustainable technology as complementary fields.  \u0022Dealing with the future energy problems of the world is difficult and the problems are fundamental engineering problems,\u0022 explains Thomas, who held postdoctoral appointments in nuclear arms control at Carnegie Mellon and Princeton and spent last year working with Congress on key environmental issues as an American Physical Society Congressional Science Fellow. To work on the world\u0027s energy problems, she researches a variety of engineering technologies, from making recycling and waste management more efficient using information technology to reduced fossil fuel use and air transportation.  She also attends weekly Environmentally Conscience Design and Manufacturing Program meetings to discuss research on environmentally benign products. \u0022We\u0027re working together and building links,\u0022 she says of the professors and students who attend the meetings. \u0022There\u0027s a lot of expertise at Georgia Tech that doesn\u0027t exist elsewhere.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Dr. Valerie Thomas will be speaking on \u0022Potential for Renewable\nEnergy in Georgia\u0022 on Tuesday, January 29th from 6-7 p.m. in D.M. Smith room\n105.  She is the first speaker in a series of eight GT professors who will be\nlecturing about various issues re","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Potential for Renewable Energy in Georgia"}],"uid":"27216","created_gmt":"2009-10-12 21:20:55","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:48:02","author":"Ruth Gregory","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2008-01-29T17:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2008-01-29T18:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2008-01-29T18:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2008-01-29 22:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2008-01-29 23:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2008-01-29 23:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/cyberbuzz.gatech.edu\/main\/organizations\/organizations_showPage.php?OrgID=792","title":"Students Organizing for Sustainability"}],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"3163","name":"renewable energy"},{"id":"166904","name":"SOS"},{"id":"166890","name":"sustainability"},{"id":"1871","name":"thomas"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}