NEWS BRIEFS

IN THIS ISSUERecent Faculty and Staff Achievements | 2

‘Plant the Seeds’ with Living Building Launch Events | 2

Renovating Tech’s Most Iconic Building | 4

September 5, 2017

Georgia Tech’s Faculty/Staff Newspaper • Vol. 42, No. 18 • whistle.gatech.edu

August in PhotosAs classes got underway in August, campus came back to life after enjoying the slower-paced summer months. Enjoy a few photographic highlights from last month at:

c.gatech.edu/augphotos

Faculty Sought for Assistant Provost PositionThe assistant provost for Advocacy and Conflict Resolution serves as a single point of contact for academic and research conflicts or issues, allegations of scientific and scholarly misconduct, and issues related to academic and research faculty. Apply by Sept. 15. Learn more at:

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JESSICA ROSE FACILITIES MANAGEMENT

This summer, construction was underway to support the Institute’s continued efforts to improve the teaching and learning environments on campus.

This fall, look for construction to wrap up on a few long-term projects, for short-term projects to take shape, and for new work to begin.

READY FOR FALL

Lettie Pate Whitehead Evans Administration Building

The interior renovation of this building, more commonly known as Tech Tower, was completed in July. Faculty and staff from the Office of the Registrar, College of Sciences,

and College of Engineering have all returned to the space, parts of which has transformed significantly. (See page 4 for

photos of the project.)

Fall Continues Flurry of Construction

President G.P. “Bud” Peterson shared an update with campus at the annual Institute Address on Thursday, Aug. 31. The full presentation is available online at president.gatech.edu.

Photo by Rob Felt

INSTITUTE ADDRESS NOW ONLINE

MARGARET TATE INSTITUTE COMMUNICATIONS

Robin Holland had a common problem — a small job requiring big muscles. So when she first read about Rent-a-Rower on the social media site Nextdoor, she wasted no time contacting Georgia Tech Crew for her heavy lifting.

“Moving stuff” is Rent-a-Rower’s most requested service, but not the only one, says Jacob Sutton, a second-year mechanical engineering major and fundraising officer for Tech’s rowing club. Past jobs also include painting, heavy-duty yard work, and even babysitting. “It’s basically just any kind of odd job — labor-intensive kinds of things like you might hire the neighborhood kid to do,” he says.

Crew’s Rent-a-Rower service dates back to 2015 when the club — the largest on campus with more than 100 members — was looking for a way to raise money, Sutton says. They had heard of clubs at other schools offering similar services and decided to give it a try as a way for members to offset the cost of dues.

“We have some of the highest dues of any club at Tech,” Sutton points out, citing the high costs of equipment, travel, and coaching for the team. “This is a way for people to avoid having to pay out of their own pocket, and instead go out and earn it.”

Rent-a-Rower’s rate is a flat $12.50 per hour, per person, and there’s

Crew Team Fundraises with ‘Heavy Lifting’Odd Job Need Doing? Consider Hiring a Tech Rower

see ROWERS, page 2

see PROJECTS, page 3

A cyclist uses the new PATH Parkway, which is nearly complete. Striping has been completed from Hampton Street to Means Street and is continuing to the south.

Photo by Kristen Bailey

KRISTEN BAILEY INSTITUTE COMMUNICATIONS

As devastation continues to unfold in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, National Preparedness Month brings a time to focus on being prepared for potential emergencies.

Atlanta has seen its share of emergency events, including flooded and iced-over interstates. While some may associate being prepared with winter weather, emergencies can happen at any time of year.

Georgia Tech’s Office of Emergency Preparedness is dedicated to preventing and managing emergency situations on campus. Follow the office on Facebook (fb.com/GTEmergency) and Twitter (twitter.com/GTPDalerts), or visit emergencypreparedness.gatech.edu, to learn more about their work and be aware of emergency situations on campus. A list of emergency preparedness training options is also available at the Emergency Preparedness site or at trains.gatech.edu.

National Preparedness Month is an initiative of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which also offers resources to help with preparation. This September, focus is on planning, with a theme of “Disasters Don’t Plan Ahead. You Can.” To view a toolkit to start preparations and to follow the month’s activities, visit the DHS website at ready.gov/september.

Take September to Get Ready for Emergencies

EVENTS

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HEALTH AND WELLNESS

Sept. 7 The Kaiser Permanente Corporate Run/Walk 5K will take place at the Georgia World Congress Center from 7 to 9 p.m. For more information and to register, visit: hwb.gatech.edu/go-tech-events

Sept. 13 The Office of Human Resources hosts a Be Well session on Saving

for the Holidays from noon to 1 p.m. in Room 320, Student Center. ohr.gatech.edu/bewell

SEMINARS AND LECTURES

Sept. 7 Charlie Kuehmann, vice president at SpaceX and Tesla Motors, will discuss Computational Materials

Design: Concept, Implementation,

and Future, from 10 to 11 a.m. in the Student Center Ballroom. RSVP at: c.gatech.edu/kuehmann

Sept. 11 Matt Ventresca, postdoctoral fellow in the School of History and Sociology, will discuss Scanning

Brains and Reading Minds: Sport’s

“Concussion Crisis” and the Curious

Case of CTE from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in Room 104, Old Civil Engineering Building. hsoc.gatech.edu

Sept. 13

School of Psychology Professor Richard Catrambone will discuss The

Life of a Professional Novice: Task

Analysis and Instructional Design at 3 p.m. in Room 250, Coon Building. psychology.gatech.edu

Sept. 13

Guest speaker Yossi Oren, a senior lecturer (assistant professor) at the Department of Software and Information Systems Engineering in Ben Gurion University, will lead a discussion On the Security of

Smartphones with Clumsy Owners from noon to 1 p.m. in Room 3126, Klaus Advanced Computing Building. iisp.gatech.edu

Sept. 13

The IMPACT Speaker Series hosts James Collins, former president of Chick-fil-A, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in the LeCraw Auditorium, Scheller College of Business. impact.gatech.edu

Jason Borenstein, director of Graduate Research Ethics Programs and associate director of the Center for Ethics and Technology, will serve a three-year appointment as editor for Research Ethics for the Online Ethics Center.

Morris B. Cohen, assistant professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his project entitled Exploiting the LF/MF Radio Band for Ionospheric Remote Sensing.

T. Richard Nichols, professor in the School of Biological Sciences, has been named an honorary member of the American Physical Therapy Association. Nichols was recognized for his research on motor skills.

School of Interactive Computing Assistant Professor Devi Parikh was named recipient of the 2017 International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Computers and Thought Award, considered to be the premier award for artificial intelligence researchers under the age of 35.

Beril Toktay, professor of operations management and Brady Family Chair in the Scheller College of Business, was elected a distinguished fellow of the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society.

Zhong Lin (Z.L.) Wang, Hightower Chair in the School of Materials Science and Engineering and Regents Professor, was awarded the 2017 Global Energy Prize at the International Conference on Nanotechnology, Nanomaterials, and Thin Films for Energy Applications. Wang also was recently honored as American Chemical Society Publications’ most prolific author.

Lauren Wilcox, assistant professor in the School of Interactive Computing, was selected to the inaugural class of the Association for Computing Machinery Future of Computing Academy.

Alasdair Young, professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, has been named co-editor for Journal of Common Market Studies, a journal for EU studies.

FACULTY/STAFF ACHIEVEMENTSno charge for travel to and from

jobs, Sutton says, although they prefer not to go too far afield because of their busy schedules of classwork and rowing practice. The more advanced notice and the bigger the window of opportunity customers can give for doing a job, the better, he adds. “We’re never going to outright turn anything down if we can make it work.”

The club gets a lot of repeat business, Sutton says. That was the case with Holland, who manages an apartment complex not far from Tech and has used Rent-a-Rower twice to move items from one furnished unit to another.

“Everything they did, they did quickly,” she says. “It wasn’t like, OK, I’m going to mosey on down with this one pillow – they would load their arms full where they almost couldn’t see over it. I’ve hired other people who would take 30 minutes to drive in one nail if they were charging by the hour!”

Holland, whose father and husband both graduated from Georgia Tech, also tipped the students (although it’s not required), and because she feels an affinity for the Institute, she also donated $200 to the club for their endowment.

“That’s how impressed I was with these guys,” she says. “The parents of all these kids should be proud.”

To learn how you can Rent-a-Rower, Sutton says, just email fundraising@gtcrew.com. With fall semester just starting, now’s a good time.

“We’ve got all these Crew

members — Georgia Tech students — and most of them are moderately intelligent,” he says wryly. “There are not too many jobs that are too physically or mentally difficult for us to do.”

ROWERS, from page 1

Tech rowers compete at the Head of the Charles event in 2016.Photo courtesy of Georgia Tech Crew

‘Planting the Seeds’ for the Living BuildingThe Living Building at Georgia Tech will be a first-of-its-kind facility for the Southeast. With a launch event scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 12, the Office of Campus Sustainability is building excitement for the project with a series of events, titled “Planting the Seeds,” for the campus community.

Events are planned that reflect six of seven “petals,” or Living Building Challenge. For more information and to RSVP to events, visit sustain.gatech.edu/plantingtheseeds or facebook.com/sustainatgatech. Learn more about the Living Building at Georgia Tech at livingbuilding.gatech.edu.

• Beauty Petal Community Mural Painting Friday, Sept. 8 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

• Place Petal Community Service Project Saturday, Sept. 9

• Health and Happiness Petal Campus Bike Ride Saturday, Sept. 16

• Materials Petal DIY Corn Hole Boards Tuesday, Sept. 26

• Water Petal Water Scavenger Hunt Sept. 11–15

• Energy Petal Turn Down the Watt Dates TBD

The Living Building at Georgia Tech will sit at the corner of State Street and Ferst Drive.

EVENTS

For a more comprehensive listing of events, or to add your own, visit calendar.gatech.edu.

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Sept. 19 Three Tech faculty members will discuss Converting Materials

Science Fiction into Materials

Science Fact: Examples and

Challenges from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in Rooms 1116-1118, Marcus Nanotechnology Building. Lunch will be provided. RSVP at: c.gatech.edu/scifimaterials

ARTS AND CULTURE

Sept. 14 The Office of the Arts hosts an opening reception for the Faculty/Staff Arts Exhibit from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Ferst Center for the Arts. The exhibit will run through Oct. 2. arts.gatech.edu

MISCELLANEOUS

Sept. 6

The Georgia Tech Farmers Market returns for fall semester. The market takes place Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Tech Walk. facebook.com/gtfarmersmarket

Sept. 6 The Ninth Annual Diversity Symposium features lectures, panels, and workshops that will explore the impact and implications of race and class on individual success and community engagement in higher education institutions. diversity.gatech.edu

Sept. 9

The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets host Jacksonville State at 12:30 p.m. at Bobby Dodd Stadium. ramblinwreck.com

Sept. 12

The Georgia Tech Police Department hosts its annual Safety Day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Tech Walk. Officers will provide demos of equipment and talk with members of the campus community. police.gatech.edu

Sept. 13

A Graduate Social Hour with refreshments for graduate students, faculty, and staff will take place in the Skiles Courtyard (rain or shine) from 3 to 5 p.m.

Ongoing The Georgia Tech Staff Council hosts office hours on Monday/Wednesday/Friday from noon to 1 p.m., Tuesday from 6 to 7 a.m., and Thursday from 4 to 5 p.m. All sessions take place in Room 204, Campus Recreation Center. staffcouncil.gatech.edu

West Village Dining CommonsWest Village is now open

and supporting residential, academic, and social needs of the West Campus community. The open-concept space includes five micro-restaurants, Panera Bread, Starbucks, music classrooms, and shared meeting rooms. Like the Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons, this building has 24/7 BuzzCard access, with dining available from 7 a.m. to 2 a.m. on most days.

Manufacturing Research Center The Manufacturing Research

Center’s front landscape and hardscape area has been undergoing significant renewal and is now open with a new pathway from West Campus to the center of campus. The pathway is efficient for both pedestrians and cyclists, and contains new lighting for safety. The area has improved accessi-bility and more than 120 new trees, hydrangea, and ferns. Many of the plants that are included are drought-tolerant plants, requiring less irrigation while reducing the heat island effect.

Tech Parkway PATHThe addition of dedicated

non-motor vehicle and pedestrian paths connecting West Midtown, Georgia Tech, and Centennial Olympic Park is near comple-tion. The concept of separating users was originally proposed by a group of Georgia Tech civil engineering students being mentored by the PATH Foundation, which provided funding for the project. Striping of the bicycle and pedestrian portions to better define traffic flow is nearing completion.

IN PROGRESS

Instructional Center RenovationThe renovation of the

Instructional Center Building, one of the most widely used classroom spaces on campus, will include 17 classrooms and the associated public spaces and lobbies. Phase one of the project work is complete and includes the conversion of three classrooms to a problem-based learning format with moveable and flexible furniture configurations in lieu of fixed seating. Work will continue intermittently using all available schedule breaks until August 2018.

Van Leer Interdisciplinary Design Commons

The Van Leer rotunda is being renovated to make way for the new interdisciplinary design commons, which will provide education, collaboration, research, and makerspace to foster student design creativity and innovation. The building improvements also

include enhanced accessibility for ADA compliance, additional green space, and additional bicycle racks. The project is on schedule to be completed in May 2018.

Savant BuildingThe Savant Building (pictured

above) is receiving improve-ments to the first floor interior and overall exterior. The current project involves removing all non-historic structural elements on the first floor and creating a new suite for the office of the Dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts. In addition, windows and entry doors will be replaced to restore the building’s historical appearance. This project is antici-pated to be completed in late February 2018.

Atlantic Promenade, Phase IIThis area is under construction

to install landscaping upgrades from the Bunger-Henry Building to Ferst Drive. This work is following underground utility infrastructure work. Planned improvements will enhance the pedestrian experience on Atlantic Drive, create a walkable corridor with better lighting, and will improve ADA accessibility and flows of pedestrian traffic. This phase is expected to be completed in the beginning of 2018.

Library Next The Library renewal project,

known as Library Next, began the first major phase of construction in August. To learn about what Library Next will bring, both in services and new facilities, attend the Library Town Hall Monday, Sept. 11, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Room 125, Clough Commons. The event will cover the project’s design, construction, and planned programs.

The latest construction work is focused on renovation of the library tower and removal of the connecting bridge and walkways between library buildings. This phase is scheduled to be complete at the end of 2018, when the tower will reopen and function as the main Georgia Tech Library. At that point, renovation will begin on the Price Gilbert portion. The entire project is scheduled to be completed and fully open in early 2020.

Pedestrian impacts will include the elimination of the route between Bobby Dodd Way/Cherry Street and Fourth Street that passes between the library buildings, as well as the alleyway between the Hinman Courtyard and Bobby Dodd Way that passes between the Library and the Old Civil Engineering Building. Learn more at librarynext.gatech.edu.

Coda BuildingThe new addition to Tech

Square is being designed, constructed, and managed by Portman Holdings. Georgia Tech will be the primary tenant occupying approximately 300,000 square feet. The building is not

scheduled to be complete until 2019. The building founda-tion and underground parking are currently under construc-tion. Design is underway for Georgia Tech’s tenant space, which will include the new High Performance Computing Center. See renderings of the project at c.gatech.edu/coda.

COMING SOON

Campus Safety Facility Construction on a new

30,000-square-foot building for the Georgia Tech Police Department will begin later this fall. The police department currently has space for personnel and storage in five different buildings across campus. Bringing these units together into a single facility will allow them to more effectively communicate and collaborate on maintaining a safe and secure environment on campus. The project is anticipated to be completed in about a year.

Living Building at Georgia Tech

To prepare for the construc-tion of the Southeast’s first Living Building Challenge 3.1 certified building, the campus will begin to see some changes on the northern edge of campus this fall. With construction expected to begin in November, the W24 parking lot is anticipated to be shut down later this fall. Crews will also begin removing telephone poles and conducting utility infrastructure work on the project’s future site. Information regarding temporary lane closings will be announced closer to the start of construction. The Georgia Tech community will celebrate the Living Building Launch on Sept. 12. Learn more at livingbuilding.gatech.edu.

O’Keefe Building The project includes renovating

the first floor and the third floor of the existing O’Keefe Building to provide office space for the Facilities Management Administration and Design and Construction staff.

The area on the first floor of O’Keefe, occupied by Facilities Management’s Operations and Maintenance staff, will be completely renovated. All existing walls, ceilings, finishes, and systems in the area will be demolished.

The third floor has been completely gutted except for the elevator that now travels to that floor. The intent of the design of the space is to leave the exterior shell and structure exposed, providing an open office environment. The only enclosed spaces will be the new restrooms, wellness room, and some conference spaces. The entire project should be complete by early November.

PROJECTS, from page 1

(Above) New hardscaping provides a welcoming entrance to the Callaway Manufacturing Research Center (out of frame to the left) from Ferst Drive. (Below) The first floor of the Savant Building has been cleared and is undergoing renovation.

Above photo by Kristen Bailey // Below photo courtesy of Facilities Management

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Renovating Tech’s Most Iconic BuildingAfter being closed for renovation for

more than a year, Georgia Tech’s most recognizable landmark reopened this

summer with changes inside and out, from the garden level to the fourth floor.

The Lettie Pate Whitehead Evans Administration Building, better known as Tech Tower, underwent a redesign of some of the office space; a major upgrade of its plumbing, electrical, and heating and cooling systems; and the addition of a second interior fire exit stairwell and a new elevator. Other unforeseen problems were also discovered and repaired or brought up to code.

A before-and-after photo essay highlights photos from 2015, before the renovation, and those taken after the renovation. A small selection of photos is included here. For the full photo essay, visit c.gatech.edu/towerrenovation.

(Top) exterior fire escape stairwells have been removed, and handrails were added to an existing stairwell to bring it up to code. (Middle) The public corridor on the ground floor, with its entrance on Uncle Heinie Way next to Highland Bakery, was made more inviting and brought up to the standard of the public corridors on the other floors. The corridor walls will be used to exhibit rotating art and/or poster sessions. (Above) On the second floor, an archway that had been hidden behind a wall years before was reintroduced into the space, which was Tech’s original library.

Written by Victor Rogers // Photos by Rob Felt