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A woman with blonde hair and a blue sweater stands among solar panels.

August 15, 2024

Renewable Energy Policies Provide Benefits Across State Lines

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New research suggests U.S. states with clean energy policies provide benefits to their neighbors, including states without their own renewable energy policies.

August 14, 2024

Saeedifard Wins Pair of IEEE Awards

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The ECE professor received the two awards over the summer for her research on energy systems.

CREATE-X Demo Day, Aug. 29, 5-7p.m., Exhibition Hall, 460 Fourth Street NW, Atlanta, GA

August 14, 2024

CREATE-X Celebrates 10-Year Milestone With 100 New Startups at Demo Day

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On Aug. 29, CREATE-X will celebrate its 10th anniversary at Demo Day, showcasing over 100 startups and more than 250 founders.

Two faculty who hold joint appointments working in a lab.

August 12, 2024

Researchers Break Boundaries to Spark Energy Innovation

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By encouraging joint appointments, the Institute breaks down traditional academic silos and enables researchers to revolutionize the energy landscape.

Russell Gentry and Valerie Thomas collaborating in a Georgia Tech lab.

August 9, 2024

Researchers Break Boundaries to Spark Energy Innovation

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Interdisciplinary collaboration drives innovation at Georgia Tech. The Institute encourages research faculty to dismantle traditional academic barriers by holding joint appointments. Researchers discuss how blending diverse fields helps them create more sustainable, technologically advanced, and socially viable solutions to some of our planet’s biggest problems.

August 9, 2024

Georgia Tech’s Industrial Assessment Center Named Top in U.S. for 2024

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Industrial Assessment Centers help medium-sized industrial facilities with energy-related support.

Trackoscope is a frugal-science innovation accessible to a wide range of users, from high school laboratories to resource-constrained research environments.

August 8, 2024

Trackoscope Democratizing Microorganism Research with Open, Affordable Tracking Microscopy

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Georgia Tech researchers have developed an inexpensive, easy-to-assemble, modular, autonomous tracking microscope.

August 7, 2024

Study Highlights Challenges in Detecting Violent Speech Aimed at Asian Communities

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A study of language detection software found that algorithms struggle to differentiate anti-Asian violence-provoking speech from general hate speech. Left unchecked, threats of violence online can go unnoticed and turn into real-world attacks.

Christine Conwell, Interim Executive Director of Strategic Energy Institute

August 6, 2024

Christine Conwell Appointed Interim Executive Director of the Strategic Energy Institute

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Christine Conwell has been named interim executive director of the Strategic Energy Institute (SEI), effective Sept. 10.

2024 Summer Research Interns working for the Institute for People and Technology at Georgia Tech

August 6, 2024

Research Interns Present Summer Projects

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Seven Georgia Tech students selected for the 2024 summer research internship program sponsored by the Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) presented their projects on August 2.

August 5, 2024

Community Spotlight - Yuanzhi Tang

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Tang took on the role of associate co-director of interdisciplinary research for BBISS so she could help others access resources that had shaped her growth as a researcher at Georgia Tech.

August 5, 2024

Hernandez-Mejia Appointed Interim Director of NEETRAC

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Hernandez-Mejia, who has worked at ECE’s National Electric Energy Testing, Research, & Applications Center (NEETRAC) since 2017, brings extensive experience to the member-driven electric utility research center.

August 5, 2024

Interactive Computing Faculty Earn Test of Time Awards for Impactful Research

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More than a decade after publication, the research impact of School of Interactive Computing faculty members Judy Hoffman and James Hays still resonates.

Electrosuit Founders Aubrey Hall and Sherya Chakraborty pose for their third place win in the Spring 2024 I2P Showcase

August 2, 2024

Iterating Better Therapy Support: Electrosuit

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Electrosuit, a startup by Aubrey Hall and Sherya Chakraborty, secured third place in the Spring 2024 I2P Showcase, and their product, a garment for at-home electrical stimulation, targets individuals with chronic pain or motor impairments.

August 1, 2024

Handheld, Wireless 3D Scanner Added to Craft Lab

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The Craft Lab, a unique campus makerspace sponsored by the Institute for People and Technology (IPaT), recently added new equipment, including an Artec Leo 3D scanner.

Ross Brockwell exiting the Mars Dune Alpha habitat at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

July 31, 2024

A Yellow Jacket on Mars

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A Georgia Tech alum has emerged after living in a simulated Mars habitat at the Johnson Space Center in Houston for the past year.

Senior Research Scientist Eric Shen (left) and Principal Research Scientist Anna Österholm (right) demonstrate how films of electrochromic polymers can be applied to large surfaces.

July 30, 2024

New Service and Development Fund for Research Faculty

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The Office of the Executive Vice President for Research has announced a new fund to cover up to 5% of research faculty salaries, enabling career development activities and service to the Institute.

A group photo of several researchers at ICAA19.

July 30, 2024

Novelis and Georgia Tech Showcase Technical Leadership at International Aluminum Conference

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Global aluminum leader Novelis and the Georgia Institute of Technology recently co-hosted the 19th International Conference on Aluminum Alloys, highlighting advances in sustainability, future mobility, and next-generation manufacturing.

July 30, 2024

RBI Initiative Lead Profile: Will Gutekunst

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Will Gutekunst, associate professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Georgia Tech, co-leads the interface of polymer science and wood-based materials initiative along with Blair Brettmann at the Renewable Bioproducts Institute (RBI).

July 30, 2024

IBB Announces FY25 Seed Grant Recipients

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IBB is excited to announce the awardees of the FY25 IBB Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grant Program. Designed to stimulate interdisciplinary research, IBB proudly supports seed grant programs that provide funding opportunities for bio-related breakthrou