{"603827":{"#nid":"603827","#data":{"type":"news","title":" Valerie Thomas Honored with Class of 1934 Outstanding Interdisciplinary Activities Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EValerie Thomas, the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering\u0026#39;s\u0026nbsp;Anderson Interface Professor of Natural Systems, has been awarded the Class of 1934 Outstanding Interdisciplinary Activities Award by Georgia Tech\u0026#39;s Faculty Honors Committee.\u0026nbsp;The award was established to recognize Georgia Tech faculty who have made significant interdisciplinary contributions to teaching and research.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThomas has been active in a wide variety of research areas including nuclear arms control, energy policy, high-energy physics, environmental sustainability, and technology assessment. Her collaborations are equally varied, including colleagues from academia, and the public and private sectors.\u0026nbsp;The nature of her collaborations and diverse subject expertise has resulted in research that engages the public and has had meaningful impacts in policy making.\u0026nbsp;The award will be presented at the annual Georgia Tech Faculty and Staff Honors Luncheon to be held on Wednesday, April 11, 2018.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThomas holds a joint appointment in the Stewart School and in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech. Her research interests include energy systems, sustainability, industrial ecology, technology assessment, international security, and science and technology policy. Her current research projects include the environmental impacts of biofuels and electricity system policy and planning.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThomas is a member of the USDA\/DOE Biomass Research and Development Technical Advisory Committee. In 2004-2005, she was the American Physical Society Congressional Science Fellow. Thomas is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and of the American Physical Society, and has been a Member of the U.S. EPA Science Advisory Board. She is currently a member of the board of the Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance and a member of the Federation of American Scientists Board of Experts.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShe has previously worked at the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, and at Princeton University\u0026rsquo;s Environmental Institute. Thomas received a B.A. in physics from Swarthmore College and a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Cornell University.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAnderson Interface Professor of Natural Systems, Valerie Thomas has been awarded the Class of 1934 Outstanding Interdisciplinary Activities Award by the Faculty Honors Committee.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Faculty Honors Committee.will be present the award at the annual Georgia Tech Faculty and Staff Honors Luncheon to be held on Wednesday, April 11, 2018."}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2018-03-15 14:51:07","changed_gmt":"2018-05-25 19:38:13","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-03-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-03-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"604216":{"id":"604216","type":"image","title":"Valerie Thomas","body":null,"created":"1522076193","gmt_created":"2018-03-26 14:56:33","changed":"1522076193","gmt_changed":"2018-03-26 14:56:33","alt":"Valerie Thomas","file":{"fid":"230317","name":"valeriethomas.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/valeriethomas_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/valeriethomas_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":48938,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/valeriethomas_0.jpg?itok=N4wJ1GEQ"}}},"media_ids":["604216"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.specialevents.gatech.edu\/events\/faculty-staff-honors","title":"2018 Faculty \u0026 Staff Honors Luncheon"}],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"},{"id":"1243","name":"The Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (SCL)"},{"id":"1250","name":"Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems (CHHS)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"166871","name":"bbiss_big_ideas"},{"id":"126251","name":"Valerie Thomas; ISYE; environment; energy"},{"id":"9624","name":"Class of 1934"},{"id":"177355","name":"outstanding interdisciplinary activity award"},{"id":"276","name":"Awards"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"},{"id":"39461","name":"Manufacturing, Trade, and Logistics"},{"id":"39511","name":"Public Service, Leadership, and Policy"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:brent.verrill@sustainable.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EBrent Verrill\u003C\/a\u003E, Communications Manager, BBISS\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["brent.verrill@sustainable.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}