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July 9, 2026

Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience Announces New External Advisory Board Leadership and Members

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IBB is pleased to announce new leadership and membership for its EAB, which provides strategic guidance to help advance the institute's mission of accelerating interdisciplinary research and innovation.

July 9, 2026

Hot Enough For Ya? Georgia Tech Has an App for That, and It’s More Useful Than You Might Think

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School of City and Regional Planning Assistant Professor Rounaq Basu knows it, too. So he and his students (supported by the Center for Urban Resilience and Analytics) created the Cool Routes app

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July 9, 2026

Data Centers Are Booming. Who Benefits?

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Data centers continue to expand across the U.S. Do the communities nearby really benefit?

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July 8, 2026

Creating Synthetic Life in a Lab? SpudCell Falls Short of the Goal, But Raises Even More Useful Questions

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While SpudCell is an important milestone in the field, it stops short of being a fully synthetic living cell.

July 7, 2026

Zhu Receives NSF CAREER Award

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Mathematics Assistant Professor Wei Zhu has been awarded a five-year, $500,000 CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation.

Sam Shelton, Founding Director of the Strategic Energy Institute (Photo Credit: Georgia Tech Institute Communications)

July 7, 2026

In Memoriam: Sam Shelton, Founding Director of the Strategic Energy Institute

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Sam Shelton, founding director of the Strategic Energy Institute (SEI), longtime professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, and designer of the torch for the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, passed away on June 20, 2026.

July 6, 2026

Researchers Use GeoGuessr Champion to Test Geolocation Accuracy in VLMs

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Researchers have developed what they believe is the strongest benchmark dataset on measuring the geolocation accuracy of LLMs.

July 6, 2026

Researchers Develop a Safer, More Reliable Material for Growing Small-Scale Models of the Human Gut

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Researchers have developed a synthetic gel that could open new possibilities for drug testing and disease treatment.

Some of the researchers and coastal community members participating in the study. Front row: Melanie Pearson and Kasey McClary from Emory University, Semona Holmes from Urbana Perry Park Neighborhood Planning Assembly, and Rachael Thompson from Glynn Environmental Coalition. Back row: Anita Collins from Urbana Perry Park Neighborhood Planning Assembly, Katy Smith from University of Georgia Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant, Noah Scovronick from Emory University, community organizer and activist Jazz

July 6, 2026

Georgia’s First Superfund Research Center to Study Hazardous Industrial Pollution, Remediation

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A coalition of scientists from six universities and community partners has received a National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) grant to establish Georgia’s first Superfund Research Center.

July 6, 2026

Georgia Tech Startup Develops Defense Technology to Counter Emerging Drone Threats

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From a student startup idea to a growing defense technology company, Askari demonstrates how Georgia Tech's commercialization ecosystem helps founders transform emerging technologies into solutions addressing real-world challenges.

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July 6, 2026

New Soft Wearable Device Could Support At-Home Sleep Monitoring

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A new Georgia Tech study shows a wireless wearable device could enable home-based monitoring of physiological changes associated with sleep and brain health.

Pictured Left to Right: George Lan, Ashwin Pananjady, Yao Xie, Katya Scheinberg, Johannes Milz, Joel Sokol, and Juba Ziani

July 2, 2026

ISyE launches new undergraduate concentration in Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research in Decision-Making

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Georgia Tech's H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) is launching a new undergraduate concentration in Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research (AI/OR) in Decision-Making this fall, formalizing a comprehensive AI and

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July 1, 2026

EPIcenter Experts in the News: AI, Prices, and the War

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EPIcenter Faculty Affiliates have recently contributed to more than a dozen news broadcasts, public radio interviews, and national media conversations on energy price trends, the war in Iran, and what these mean for everyday Americans.

July 1, 2026

Atlanta Tech Community Invited to Help Shape the Future of AI at Upcoming Summit

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The College of Computing is playing a key organizational role in the upcoming inaugural ACM AI Leadership Summit

A medical worker wearing latex gloves uses a device to test a patient's blood sugar.

July 1, 2026

New Research Seeks to Help Transplanted Cells Thrive in Type 1 Diabetes Treatment

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Alexander Vlahos has been awarded a five-year, research grant to support pioneering work aimed at improving therapies for T1D.

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June 30, 2026

How AI-Powered Flood Forecasts Could Transform Hurricane Resilience

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Assistant Professor Ali Sarhadi is using AI and digital twins to predict how and where major storms will cause the most damage.

June 30, 2026

Meet the Expert: Brian An

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In this EPIcenter Expert series, meet Brian An, EPIcenter Affiliate, studying the intersection of energy resilience and urban policy to improve grid equity during extreme weather.

Digital illustration of a brain surrounded by two distinct visual patterns. One side is composed of structured blue connections resembling an organized network map, while the other features colorful, dispersed light patterns, representing distributed neural activity. The image symbolizes competing brain architectures explored in the study.

June 29, 2026

The Myth of the ‘Lizard Brain’ and the Real Trade-Off Inside Your Mind

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A new study from Georgia Tech examines how different brain systems scale together across species, offering a new perspective on brain organization — and its potential applications in artificial intelligence.