{"603619":{"#nid":"603619","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Valerie Thomas Honored with Class of 1934 Outstanding Interdisciplinary Activities Award","body":[{"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.\u0026nbsp;The award was established to recognize Georgia Tech faculty who have made significant interdisciplinary contributions to teaching and research.\u0026nbsp;Professor Thomas has been active in a wide variety of research areas including nuclear arms control, energy policy, high-energy physics, environmental sustainability, and technology assessment.\u0026nbsp; 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\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Thomas holds a joint appointment in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering and in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech. Dr. Thomas\u0027s 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. Dr. Thomas 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. Dr. 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;She has previously worked at the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, and at Princeton University\u2019s Environmental Institute. Dr. Thomas received a B.A. in physics from Swarthmore College and a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Cornell University.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","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.\u0026nbsp;The award was established to recognize Georgia Tech faculty who have made significant interdisciplinary contributions to teaching and research.\u0026nbsp;Professor Thomas has been active in a wide variety of research areas including nuclear arms control, energy policy, high-energy physics, environmental sustainability, and technology assessment.\u0026nbsp; 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\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/sustainable.gatech.edu\/bigideas\/valerie-thomas-honored-class-1934-outstanding-interdisciplinary-activities-award\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERead More...\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h2\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":"27338","created_gmt":"2018-03-12 14:16:23","changed_gmt":"2025-06-18 16:18:09","author":"Brent Verrill","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":{"603617":{"id":"603617","type":"image","title":"Valerie Thomas Portrait","body":null,"created":"1520862562","gmt_created":"2018-03-12 13:49:22","changed":"1520862562","gmt_changed":"2018-03-12 13:49:22","alt":"","file":{"fid":"230079","name":"ValerieThomas_2_web.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ValerieThomas_2_web.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ValerieThomas_2_web.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":51177,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/ValerieThomas_2_web.jpg?itok=_YtBFPBw"}}},"media_ids":["603617"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.specialevents.gatech.edu\/events\/faculty-staff-honors","title":"2018 Faculty \u0026 Staff Honors Luncheon"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/valerie-thomas","title":"Valerie Thomas\u0027 ISYE Profile"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/thomas","title":"Valerie Thomas\u0027 School of Public Policy Profile"}],"groups":[{"id":"244191","name":"Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems"}],"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"}],"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"},{"id":"194566","name":"Sustainable Systems"}],"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","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["brent.verrill@sustainable.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}