Georgia Tech Renewable Bioproducts Institute

Come for a night of family fun at the Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking. This event is organized in collaboration with the Paper Girls Show. This drop-in style event will feature a papermaking station, winter themed origami activities, and a stop-motion paper animation station.?Paper Girls Show?videos and stop motion animations will be shown throughout the event. Additionally, the Paper Museum’s special exhibition?Build It: create with cardboard!?will be open for interactive fun. Visitors can try their hand at arranging a marble run, using a cardboard decoder to discover hidden information in the gallery, take selfies using cardboard props, build hand-cranked movable cardboard automatons, as well as making personal cardboard creations of their own design.?All minors are?required to be accompanied by an adult during the program. Register now! https://lnkd.in/e73fwVaP #familyfun #papermaking #origami #papermuseum #holidayfun

RBI's Carson Meredith is the 2024 recipient of the Andrew Chase Award from the AIChE - American Institute of Chemical Engineers Forest and Plant Bioproducts Division. Carson?will receive the award at the Annual AIChE Meeting in San Diego California,?later this month. The award recognizes Carson's research in nanocellulose chemical modification, composites, and cellulose-based renewable barrier coatings, which has resulted in seven patent applications, one commercial license, and ongoing research projects with six companies, reflecting the impact these advancements are making. His group recently reported the first successful recycling and reuse of nanocellulose gas barrier films and achieved one of the lowest water vapor barrier coatings derived from cellulose to date.?#renewablebarriercoatings #nanocelluloseresearch https://shorturl.at/U8i3H

Ulrika Egertsdotter, a principal research scientist at Georgia Institute of Technology’s?Renewable Bioproducts Institute, plays a key role in supporting the Georgia forestry industry. Through her work, she helps Georgia tree growers propagate new plants that provide higher-quality wood products and offer greater resilience to climate change.? https://shorturl.at/6qdR1 #georgiaforestryindustry #climatechangeresilience #naturalfeedstock

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RBI's Patricia Stathatou, along with Christos E. Athanasiou have developed a sustainable, cost effective method to clean water.

I'd like to thank TAPPI Nano 2024 for the opportunity to speak at the conference last week in Atlanta.

I'm excited to see just how many of the newly tenured faculty are part of the Georgia Institute of Technology #sustainability community, conducting fundamental and translational research with applications in a rich set of #SDG impact areas, advancing sustainability education, and helping our campus operations lead by example. Congratulations, Saad B., Lindsey Bullinger, Andre Calmon, Lily Cheung, Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena, Claudio Di Leo, Ph.D., Alberto Fuentes, Neha Garg, Roberto Gonzalez, Josiah Hester, Nian Liu, Jorge Macedo Escudero, Jesse McDaniel, Ameet Pinto, Seumalu Elora Lee Raymond, Alexander Robel, Eunhwa Yang, for your accomplishments! ? I'm grateful that many of these faculty engaged with new programs and opportunities created by our uniquely ambitious Sustainability Next Plan (https://lnkd.in/emeAYbKw) and even stepped into early leadership roles in partner IRIs and Centers: - Ameet, Josiah, and Yuanzhi serve as Georgia Tech Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems Interim Associate Faculty Directors as part of BBISS’ transformation; - Andre co-leads Sustain-X (https://lnkd.in/eunS9uiX), a Sustainability Next initiative empowering founders to launch the next generation of environmental and social impact startups, in partnership with Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business and Georgia Tech CREATE-X; - Juan and Yuanzhi are Georgia Tech Strategic Energy Institute Initiative Leads; - Alex, Lily, and Elora are Energy and Environmental Justice Fellows with Center for Sustainable Communities Research and Education (previously The Center for Serve Learn Sustain); - Alex, Eunhwa, Jorge, Saad, Roberto, and Josiah are Sustainability Next Research and/or Educational Innovation grant recipients; - Eunhwa contributed to the GT Climate Action Plan led by Georgia Tech Office of Sustainability. On behalf of the Sustainability Next extended leadership team and executive sponsors (ángel Cabrera, Chaouki Abdallah, Steve McLaughlin, Shantay B.), I would like to thank these colleagues for their incredibly important work helping create a sustainable future for all. ? Sustainability Next is the Institute’s 2023-2030 sustainability plan, advancing key Georgia Tech Institute Strategic Plan (https://lnkd.in/dxhkrqnC) goals. It works by forging closer collaborations between units (schools & colleges, IRIs, Centers, initiatives, administrative departments) in research, teaching, operations, fundraising, and communications; strategically investing ISP resources in new positions and programs, and mobilizing and connecting faculty in new ways so they can take their work to the next level of impact.? Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business College of Computing at Georgia Tech Georgia Tech College of Design Georgia Tech College of Engineering Georgia Tech College of Sciences Center for Teaching and Learning, Georgia Institute of Technology

The 2024 Spring Conference on the emeging #bioeconomy and the future of #biorefining is underway on the Georgia Institute of Technology campus with highly informative presentations by external experts Frank Gupton, Andres Villegas and Blake Simmons, engaging faculty panels on hot topics in life cycle assessment and students discussing their perspectives on the challenges in multi-domain research projects and presenting their research during an engaged poster session. #sustainableaviationfuels #renewablebioproducts

Have you registered yet? Hurry and reserve your spot at the 2024 RBI Spring Workshop on "The Emerging Bioeconomy and the Future of Biorefining." Plan a visit to the Georgia Institute of Technology campus to engage and network with experts from academia, government, and industry on this up and coming topic. Registration is free. https://lnkd.in/e33S7Wm8 #bioeconomy #renewables #biorefining