{"643829":{"#nid":"643829","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"The pandemic dealt photographers setbacks\u2014and surprises","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHere are two items that relate to \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hu.gatech.edu\/about\/\u0022\u003EDavid Hu\u0026#39;s\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;previous\u0026nbsp;Georgia Tech\u0026nbsp;research on the ability of fire ants to form rafts made of, well, fire ants\u0026nbsp;in order to stay afloat and alive during floods.\u0026nbsp;Hu, an adjunct professor in the Schools of Biological Sciences and Physics, who is also a professor in the\u0026nbsp;George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, took closeup\u0026nbsp;photographs of the fire ants in his lab experiments with graduate student Nathan J. Mlot. Meanwhile, in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/podcasts\/overheard\/season-3\/episode-8-how-i-learned-to-love-zombie-parasites\/\u0022\u003EOverhead at the National Geographic\u0026nbsp;podcast,\u003C\/a\u003E photographer Anand Varma describes shooting Hu\u0026#39;s fire ants during a separate visit to Georgia Tech. (National Geographic photos require registration.)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2021-02-03 18:39:42","changed_gmt":"2021-02-03 22:11:33","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"college of engineering; Lauren steimle; Meghan Meredith; isye; NSF; NSF grfp; graduate research","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/magazine\/2021\/01\/anand-varma-the-pandemic-dealt-photographers-setbacks-and-surprises\/","dateline":{"date":"2021-02-03T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2021-02-03T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"166937","name":"School of Physics"},{"id":"297","name":"David Hu"},{"id":"14335","name":"Fire Ants"},{"id":"186929","name":"fire ants rafts"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}