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April 10, 2024

Community Spotlight - Tamsin Leavy

4 min read

Tamsin started her career working in anthropology and archaeology before pivoting to teaching social studies but now she’s in Atlanta working as the Georgia Tech community garden coordinator.

image of cover of the climate action plan

April 5, 2024

Climate Action Plan Provides Road Map to Net-Zero Emissions

4 min read

Georgia Tech’s Climate Action Plan outlines mitigation and adaptation strategies for reaching net-zero emissions on campus by 2050 and contributing to global solutions through education and research.

April 4, 2024

Can Metro Atlanta Handle 1.8 Million More Residents?

6 min read

Georgia Tech experts examine how the Atlanta region can prepare for the projected addition of nearly 2 million residents by 2050.

Michael Best with professor Andri Andriyana, director, International Relations Centre at the Universiti Malaya.

April 4, 2024

Convergence Innovation Competition Expanding to Asia

3 min read

The Convergence Innovation Competition (CIC), one of Georgia Tech’s oldest and most storied innovation competitions, is expanding to five Asian countries.

April 3, 2024

Georgia Tech Launches Quadrant-i, a New Unit to Enhance Research Commercialization

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Georgia Tech's Office of Commercialization is proud to announce the launch of Quadrant-i, our latest initiative dedicated to enhancing the translation of research into successful startups. This new unit joins CREATE-X, VentureLab, and the Office of Techno

Georgia Tech students witness the 2017 total solar eclipse on campus.

April 2, 2024

Total Solar Eclipse Brings History Within Sight

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While outside of the path of totality, the Georgia Tech community can still take part in the historic April total solar eclipse.

April 2, 2024

Hirsch Presents to National Academies Workshop

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Jennifer Hirsch presented a paper to a recent National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine workshop, Developing and Assessing Ideas for Social and Behavioral Research to Speed Efficient and Equitable Industrial Decarbonization.

A scientist dressed in protective clothing works in a clean room laboratory at Georgia Tech

April 2, 2024

Empowering Research Faculty: Georgia Tech’s Strategic Plan

5 min read

Georgia Tech launched an initiative to recognize and develop its research faculty, who comprise 60% of the nearly 4,400 total faculty currently employed at the Institute.

Georgia high school computer science teachers participating in the Georgia Tech Rural Computer Science Initiative

March 29, 2024

IPaT Hosts High School Computer Science Teachers

1 min read

On March 25-26, the Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) hosted the spring gathering of rural Georgia high school computer science teachers participating in a state funded program to help high schoolers learn computer programming.

March 29, 2024

Chunhui Du Awarded DOE Grant for Quantum Sensing Research

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Du's project has the potential to make important contributions to the field of quantum materials, and in developing next-generation, transformative information technologies.

Andreas Villegas, Keynote Speaker and President of the Georgia Forestry Association with RBI's Executive Director Carson Meredith, Research Initiative Leads and Faculty.

March 28, 2024

Spring Workshop Engages Diverse Stakeholders in Shaping the Future of Biorefining and the Bioeconomy

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The Renewable Bioproducts Institute (RBI) at Georgia Tech recently hosted a workshop on the Emerging Bioeconomy and the Future of Biorefining.

March 25, 2024

Dahlman, Kwong Named to AIMBE College of Fellows

3 min read

Coulter BME faculty members James Dahlman and Gabe Kwong have been elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows.

A young boy wearing blue latex gloves holds a human brain

March 21, 2024

Cosmic Curiosity: Georgia Tech Hosts Science and Engineering Day to Open Atlanta Science Festival

3 min read

More than 4,000 guests visited Georgia Tech's kickoff event for the city's annual science extravaganza.

March 21, 2024

Jud Ready Joins National Academy of Inventors’ 2024 Class of Senior Members

1 min read

Jud Ready has been selected to join the National Academy of Inventors' 2024 Class of Senior Members.

Researcher Aaron Young makes adjustments to an experimental exoskeleton worn by then-Ph.D. student Dean Molinaro.

March 20, 2024

Universal Controller Could Push Robotic Prostheses, Exoskeletons Into Real-World Use

2 min read

Aaron Young’s team has developed a wear-and-go approach that requires no calibration or training.

Josiah Hester sits at a desk in an electronics lab at Georgia Tech with an array of prototype projects and test equipment in front of him.

March 19, 2024

Community Spotlight - Josiah Hester

3 min read

What Josiah enjoys most about his role as Interim Associate Director for Community-Engaged Research, is seeing researchers who have spent their careers figuring out the science of a subject go into the community and have an impact.

Nicole Kennard introduces Georgia Tech Alum Andrew White on the stage at the Atlantic Theater.

March 19, 2024

2024 Georgia Tech Sustainability Showcase Recap

2 min read

This year’s Georgia Tech Sustainability Showcase was an opportunity for faculty, staff, students, and community partners to demonstrate the depth and breadth of sustainability research happening at Georgia Tech.

March 19, 2024

Public Policy Research Powers Sierra Club Report on Black Energy Burden in Georgia

2 min read

The study examines the causes of energy burden among Black residents in Georgia.

March 19, 2024

Researchers Reveal Roadmap for AI Innovation in Brain and Language Learning

7 min read

A new study co-led by Anna (Anya) Ivanova highlights how human neuroscience is paving the way for AI innovation — and what AI can teach us about ourselves.

Researchers in Hong Yeo's lab work on the electronics of wearable biosensors

March 18, 2024

Real-Time Heat Protection Device Being Tested in Florida

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Wearable bio-measurement device could alert people who work outside to dangerous levels of rising body temperature and dehydration that could help avoid heat-related injury.