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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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About the Georgia Institute of Technology
Celebrating 125 years of academic
excellence, the Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the world's premier
research universities. Ranked seventh among U.S. News & World Report's
top public universities and the second best public U.S. engineering and
information technology university in the world by Times Higher Education World
University Rankings, Georgia Tech enrolls more than 20,000 students within its
Colleges of Architecture, Computing, Engineering, Liberal Arts, Management and
Sciences, and is the nation's number one producer of female engineering and
minority engineering Ph.D. graduates. Receiving approximately $557.8 million in
sponsored awards (FY 10) and holding approximately 786 patents, Georgia Tech
ranks among the nation's top ten in research expenditures among universities
without a medical school. http://www.gatech.edu
About Shepherd Center
Shepherd Center, located in Atlanta, GA, is a private, not-for-profit hospital specializing in medical treatment, research and rehabilitation for people with spinal cord injury or brain injury. Founded in 1975, Shepherd Center is ranked by U.S. News & World Report among the top 10 rehabilitation hospitals in the nation and is a 132-bed facility. Last year Shepherd Center had 913 admissions to its inpatient programs and 535 to its day patient programs. In addition, Shepherd Center sees more than 6,300 people annually on an outpatient basis. For more information, visit Shepherd Center online at shepherd.org.
