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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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The city of Louisville, Kentucky plans to hire Brian Stone Jr., an Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning at the Georgia Institute of Technology to conduct an assessment of the city's severe urban heat island problem. The $135,000 study, funded through grants and private local matching money, will look at strategies to cool the city and the human health benefits associated with those strategies. Stone called the study, "The first of its kind for a major U.S. city."
