Georgia Tech encourages undergraduates to participate in research alongside graduate students and faculty the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program awards scholarships each semester to undergraduates who pursue research activities These scholarships called the President's Undergraduate Research Awards take the form of student salaries or help cover travel expenses when students present their work at professional meetings Additionally undergraduates may participate in research and write a thesis to earn a "Research Option" credit on their transcripts An undergraduate research journal the Tower was established in 2007 to provide undergraduates with a venue for disseminating their research and a chance to become familiar with the academic publishing process. Long freight train crossing the Stoney Creek viaduct on the Canadian Pacific Railway in southern British Columbia, 39/4 Contents Tokyo Japan Commercial railways. 5.1 Arts and theatre Disputes over water are becoming increasingly common with both Alabama and Florida filing lawsuits and threatening injunctions to prevent Georgia from taking too much water mostly for metro Atlanta.[citation needed] South Carolina also threatened when a pipeline east to the Savannah River was mentioned even informally.[citation needed] the state has now been ordered by a judge to reduce withdrawals from the Chattahoochee south of Lanier to 1970s levels within three years (2012) something that would create an immediate emergency water shortage if it were actually enforced.[citation needed]. Voters in the area defined as the proposed city of South Fulton overwhelmingly rejected cityhood in September 2007 it was the only remaining unincorporated section of the county until the residents voted in November 2016 to incorporate as the city of South Fulton Georgia Prior to that vote North Fulton which is overwhelmingly Republican and members of the state legislature had discussed forcing South Fulton residents to incorporate as a city in order to force Fulton County out of the municipal services business.
The 1996 Summer Olympics relied heavily on commercial sponsorship the Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Company was the exclusive provider of soft drinks at Olympics venues and built an attraction known as Coca-Cola Olympic City for the Games, A cotton field in southern Georgia, Principal city 61/16 90/32. 7.2 Club sports 5 Savannah Chatham 145,862 East Campus houses all of the fraternities and sororities as well as most of the undergraduate freshman dormitories East Campus abuts the Downtown Connector granting residences quick access to Midtown and its businesses (for example the Varsity) via a number of bridges over the highway Georgia Tech football's home Bobby Dodd Stadium is located on East Campus as well as Georgia Tech basketball's home McCamish Pavilion (formerly Alexander Memorial Coliseum), J The U.S Census Bureau has defined a metropolitan area for Atlanta which includes but is not limited to Roswell Georgia and Sandy Springs Georgia According to the 2016 American Community Survey about 78% of working metropolitan residents commuted by driving alone 9% carpooled 3% used public transportation and 1% walked Less than 1% of working residents commuted by bicycle while about 2% of commuters travelled by all other means About 7% of residents worked at home! . . Asian 1.2% 2.1% 3.3% 9 Economy 3 Demographics By far the most notorious introduced species is kudzu a highly invasive species from Japan which climbs and smothers trees and shrubs New effective herbicides as well as increased development of formerly rural areas has greatly reduced kudzu in the metro area (although still quite common elsewhere in Georgia) Wisteria planted decades ago by farmers in then-rural areas has become wild and is common in undeveloped forests Some vines exceed 50 years of age and cover dozens of acres of forest creating a dense purple explosion each spring, The Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta with the distinctive gold dome.
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