Faculty Research in the News
Georgia Tech researchers' work covered in the news media.

NBC Nightly News broadcast a story on toxin detection that included mentions of the Center for Emergency Response Technology, Instruction and Policy (CERTIP) and the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) biosensor. (See this issue's cover story, Responding to Terrorism.)

photo by Gary Meek Researchers test an aircraft aerodynamic control system on a model 18-wheel truck.

Researchers Tom Bevan and Daniel Campbell of GTRI were interviewed. The story aired on Oct. 17, 2001. The cable network TechTV also aired a story on CERTIP's research.

Mechanical Engineering magazine described GTRI research on a circulation control system for tractor-trailer trucks. The project, led by principal research engineer Robert Englar, will cut energy consumption in the big trucks by reducing aerodynamic drag. The technique could also improve control of the vehicles. (See the RESEARCH HORIZONS article at gtresearchnews.gatech.edu/reshor/rh-win01/trucks.html.)

Popular Science magazine published a special issue on future products called "Flash Forward: Life in the Future." Three Georgia Tech projects were included:

(1) the RADAR Flashlight that will help law enforcement officials avoid ambushes by seeing through walls (See the RESEARCH HORIZONS article at gtresearchnews.gatech.edu/reshor/rh-ss01/rnoteS01.html#rnote4);:

(2) microneedles, which will help change the way drugs are delivered through the skin and samples taken for diagnosis (See the RESEARCH HORIZONS article at gtresearchnews.gatech.edu/reshor/rh-sf98/needles.html); and:

(3) the Broadband Institute Residential Laboratory, which is demonstrating technologies that could help older people remain in their homes longer. (See the article at gtresearchnews.gatech.edu/reshor/rh-win00/default.htm.)

Popular Mechanics also did a story on the RADAR Flashlight.

The New York Times published an article about IBM's new "carbon circuit" based on carbon nanotubes. The article included a comment from Uzi Landman, a Georgia Tech physicist who collaborates with the IBM researcher who leads the company's nanoscience research group. (See the Research News story at gtresearchnews.gatech.edu/newsrelease/SiNW.html.)

The Los Angeles Times published an article on the broadening use of virtual reality for applications such as marketing, teaching and treatment of phobias and other conditions. The article quoted Larry Hodges, a professor of computing, who pioneered VR treatments for fear of heights and other phobias with colleague Barbara Rothbaum, a professor of psychiatry at Emory University. (See RESEARCH HORIZONS story at gtresearchnews.gatech.edu/reshor/rh-ss01/vr.html.)

The Economist published an article on Georgia Institute of Technology physicists' demonstration of the first all-optical technique for producing Bose-Einstein condensates – a form of matter in which atoms cooled to a fraction of a degree above absolute zero stop their normal motion – and enter a single quantum state in which all atoms behave identically. The article quoted Professor Michael Chapman. (See the Research News story at gtresearchnews.gatech.edu/newsrelease/BOSE.html.)

PC Magazine mentioned Georgia Tech's research establishing the fundamental limits on the miniaturization of silicon microelectronic circuits. The work, done by Professor Jim Meindl in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was reported in the journal Science. Information Week magazine also covered Meindl's research. (See the news release at gtresearchnews.gatech.edu/newsrelease/FUTURECHIP.html.)

Wired magazine included Georgia Tech research in an article titled "Technogenarians: The Pioneers of Pervasive Computing Aren't Getting Any Younger." Mentioned were the Georgia Tech Broadband Institute Residential Laboratory, the Aware Home Research Initiative based in the College of Computing and the "smart shirt" developed in the School of Textile and Fiber Engineering. (See the RESEARCH HORIZONS article at gtresearchnews.gatech.edu/reshor/rh-win00/default.htm.)

R & D Magazine mentioned work in the School of Physics on understanding how kinesin "motor proteins" move within the body. The work by Professor Ron Fox and his colleagues provides evidence that a unique form of random motion at the nanoscale – powered by thermal energy – plays a key role in moving enzymes and other chemicals inside cells. (See the news release at gtresearchnews.gatech.edu/newsrelease/KINESIN.html.)

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