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November 17, 2025

Now showing on Media Bridge | Synthetic Ecologies: AI-Translated Matter in Architectural Media

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The Georgia Tech Library is proud to show a new piece from Hyojin Kwon and Nix Liu Xin on the Media Bridge, Synthetic Ecologies: AI-Translated Matter in Architectural Media.

Collage of seven portraits of the 2025 BBISS Faculty Fellows

November 13, 2025

BBISS Welcomes Seven New Faculty Fellows

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As fellows, they serve as strategic advisors, help cultivate a vibrant community of sustainability-focused scholars and students across Georgia Tech, and champion the Institute’s mission, values, and goals to broader audiences.

Artificial intelligence doesn’t just consume energy via data centers and hardware. It also increases productivity, which comes with its own energy and emissions costs.

November 13, 2025

AI Increases Productivity, And That Comes With Energy Costs

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Artificial intelligence doesn’t just consume energy via data centers and hardware. It also increases productivity, which comes with its own energy and emissions costs.

China’s Shenzhou-20 spacecraft – shown here hitching a ride on a Long March-2F carrier rocket – was hit by a piece of space debris. Pedro Pardo/AFP via Getty Images

November 13, 2025

Space Debris Struck a Chinese Spacecraft – How the Incident Could Be a Wake-up Call for International Collaboration

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China’s Shenzhou-20 spacecraft took a hit from a piece of space debris floating through orbit, causing Chinese officials to delay the spacecraft’s return from its Tiangong space station in early November 2025.

November 12, 2025

Professor Earns Test-of-Time Award at AI and Computer Gaming Conference

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Professor Mark Riedl received the first-ever test-of-time award from the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE).

November 12, 2025

Founders Night Highlights Innovation and Collaboration

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The event showcased how The Institute for Matter and Systems connects academic expertise with entrepreneurial ambition, accelerating technologies from concept to commercialization.

Georgia Tech's Tech Tower with flowers blooming in the foreground

November 11, 2025

New Energy Management Course Aims to Keep Georgia SMEs Competitive

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The Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business, in partnership with Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business Executive Education and the Georgia Manufacturing Extension Partnership, is launching an Energy Management and Reporting course.

Rebecca Watts Hull and her husband Jonathan pose at a scenic overlook on a hiking trip.

November 11, 2025

Community Spotlight – Rebecca Watts Hull

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Rebecca Watts Hull wants to transform what students learn and how faculty across campus connect, innovate, and inspire action for a sustainable future.

Small Proteins: Big Hope | Felipe Quiroz

November 11, 2025

Biomedical Breakthroughs Shaping Tomorrow: Small Proteins, Big Hope with Felipe Quiroz

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Quiroz reveals how his lab engineers the invisible — proteins, cells, and genes — to understand and treat diseases like Alzheimer’s.

November 11, 2025

Anton Leykin Awarded AI for Math Fund Grant

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Leykin and his international team are developing an AI-powered interface to link proof verification and computational algebra, aiming to transform how mathematicians collaborate and solve complex problems.

Picture upper left: Philipp Gutruf, Alex Adams, Hong Yeo, and Kimberlee McKay. Picture upper right: workshop attendees. Picture lower left: Rudy Gleason, Shelly Spires, Brad Jones, and Ruwanthi Ekanayake. Picture lower right: Hong Yeo, Garan Byun, and Clint Zeagler.

November 10, 2025

Wearable Health Equity Workshop

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The second Wearable Health Equity Workshop was held on October 30, 2025, at the Georgia Tech Marcus Nanotechnology Building. The workshop presented some of the latest wearable health technologies and offered practical solutions for advancing rural healthc

Fan Zhang, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech

November 10, 2025

Fan Zhang Named to American Nuclear Society’s 40 Under 40 List

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Fan Zhang, an assistant professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering’s Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics (NREMP) program, has been named to the American Nuclear Society’s (ANS) 40 Under 40 list.

Pictured (left-to-right): Micheal Best, Mohsin Yousufi, Joon Kum, Rachel Lowy, Niharika Mathur, and James Foley.

November 6, 2025

Foley Scholar 2025 Winners and Finalists

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The Foley Scholar Awards recognize the achievements of top graduate students whose vision and research are shaping the future of how people interact with and value technology.

The Georgia Tech contingent gather for a group photo at the 2025 Georgia Resiliency Conference.

November 6, 2025

Georgia Tech Attendees Reflect on the Georgia Resiliency Conference 2025

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Faculty, administration, research fellows, students, collaborators, and Georgia Tech President Emeritus and keynote speaker G. Wayne Clough brought diverse perspectives to discussions ranging from coastal vulnerability to data-driven decision-making.

November 4, 2025

Researchers Develop Biobased Film that Could Replace Traditional Plastic Packaging

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Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a biologically based film made from natural ingredients found in plants, mushrooms, and food waste that can block moisture and oxygen as effectively as conventional plastics

November 4, 2025

New Accelerator to Propel Startup Innovation at Georgia Tech

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Velocity Startups joins Georgia Tech’s commercialization ecosystem, solidifying the Institute’s role as a national leader and premier hub for startup growth.

Collage of 2025 James G. Campbell and Spark Award Recipients

November 1, 2025

James G. Campbell Fellowship and Spark Award Winners Announced

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The Strategic Energy Institute and the Energy, Policy, and Innovation Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology have announced the recipients of this year’s James G. Campbell Fellowship and Spark Awards.

Dracula's Castle and a piece of the castle we did analysis on

October 31, 2025

Blood, Brick and Legend: The Chemistry of Dracula’s Castle

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Georgia Tech scientists explore the elemental makeup of a 15th-century brick to connect Dracula’s legend with real-world materials science.

Paul Sell of the School of Physics (Photo: Benjamin Zhao/Georgia Tech)

October 29, 2025

New Leadership at the Georgia Tech Observatory

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The College of Sciences has named Paul Sell as the new director of the Georgia Tech Observatory. Sell joined the Institute in Fall 2025 as a senior academic professional in the School of Physics.

October 28, 2025

Community Spotlight - Ali Sarhadi

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Ali Sarhadi and his research team at GT's Climate Risk and Extreme Dynamics Lab are focused on a phenomenon called hurricane-induced compound flooding — hurricanes fueled by a warming climate.