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School of Psychology faculty member and academic advisor Meghan Babcock has been selected to receive NACADA: The Global Community for Academic Advising's Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award. Earlier this year, Babcock was awarded Georgia Tech's Outstanding Undergraduate Academic Advisor – Faculty Honor.
The new center will promote research and collaboration focused on using state-of-the-art artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques to address complex scientific challenges.
This June, New York City’s government and utility urged households to conserve electricity during an extreme heat wave with temperatures reaching 100 degrees F. People were asked to set air conditioners to 76 degrees, to avoid using more than one air conditioning unit, and to delay using electricity-hungry appliances during peak cooling hours.
The big concern is that when every air conditioning unit is running at full blast, electricity demand can exceed total generating capacity and force the utility to implement rolling blackouts. These rolling blackouts avoid a total system failure but leave people without access to cooling and other electronics as temperatures reach dangerous levels.
As temperatures peak in the United States during the coming weeks, utilities and city governments may follow suit with similar requests for voluntary conservation. Voluntary requests for conservation in the United States are part of the standard energy emergency playbook and go back at least to President Carter’s request for Americans to reduce heating temperatures during the 1977 energy crisis.
So, do voluntary conservation requests work to save energy and prevent blackouts?
Georgia Tech’s inaugural summer study abroad program in southern Italy offered students a unique opportunity to research the science and culture of stress and well-being — while soaking in the Mediterranean sun.
Researchers in the School of Physics unravel the secrets of the centuries-old practice of knitting in a new study that explores the physics of ‘jamming’ — a phenomenon when soft or stretchy materials become rigid under low stress but soften under higher tension.
Experts say that more accurate depictions of sharks can help protect them and highlight their role in global ecosystems.
