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Field tour attendees in Soperton, Georgia.

July 28, 2026

Hope Among the Pines: A Field Tour in Southeast Georgia Presents Carbon Exchange as Solution

6 min read

The Georgia Carbon Exchange can provide economic incentives to help landowners keep and manage their forests for carbon sequestration, with benefits to impact the entire state.

A graphic for Vernoica Rivera, CRA Trusterworthy AI Research Fellowship

July 27, 2026

Incoming SCP Faculty Member Selected for CRA Trustworthy AI Research Fellowship

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Veronica Rivera, an incoming assistant professor in Georgia Tech's School of Cybersecurity and Privacy (SCP) has been selected for the second cohort of the Computing Research Association (CRA) Trustworthy AI Research Fellowship for Early Career Scholars.

Staghorn coral samples used in Lauren Speare's research.

July 27, 2026

Tiny Predatory Bacteria Help Protect Endangered Caribbean Corals

4 min read

Georgia Tech researchers found that predatory bacteria can halt the spread of a destructive coral disease by hunting and consuming pathogens responsible for the infection.

July 27, 2026

Georgia Tech Research Challenges Assumptions About Online Education Success

4 min read

Two new papers show that metrics aren’t the only way to evaluate online student performance.

July 27, 2026

Yuanzhi Tang Named Fellow of the American Chemical Society

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Yuanzhi Tang, executive director of the Strategic Energy Institute (SEI) and Georgia Power Professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, has been named an American Chemical Society (ACS) Fellow.

July 24, 2026

iExperience Camp Gives High School Students a Hands-On Introduction to Industrial Engineering

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The camp blended campus life at Georgia Tech with real-world exposure to industrial engineering in practice.

Brian Magerko, professor and director of graduate studies in digital media in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication

July 24, 2026

Brian Magerko Appointed James and Mary Wesley Chair for New Media Studies

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Brian Magerko has been appointed as the James and Mary Wesley Chair for New Media Studies in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication.

Georgia Tech grad student holding a hollow fiber membrane that can be used for low-energy chemical separation.

July 24, 2026

Georgia Tech Helps Advance Genesis Mission, a National Effort to Transform Scientific Discovery Through AI

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Institute researchers will lead two projects and contribute to several others as part of the Department of Energy’s $5 billion initiative.

$Side-by-side scientific visualization comparing in-situ photoelasticity and modeled stress field evolution during fracture testing of a transparent material. The left panel shows a rectangular specimen with rainbow-colored stress patterns radiating from a crack tip near the center-right edge, while the right panel shows a corresponding color-coded stress map with blue, green, yellow, and red regions indicating increasing stress concentration around the crack tip. Labels at the top identify the two methods.$

July 24, 2026

Rapid Testing Offers Path to More Sustainable Material Choices

5 min read

At Georgia Tech’s Daedalus Lab, Christos Athanasiou and postdoctoral researcher Danqi Sun are working to provide greater certainty to designers and engineers by rethinking how materials are tested for their fracture characteristics.

SCI faculty member Pedro Guillermo Feijóo-García

July 24, 2026

SCI Faculty Brings Human-Centered AI Expertise to International Fulbright Summit

4 min read

A School of Computing Instruction (SCI) faculty member recently shared his expertise in computing education with a distinguished to an international audience.

Diagram illustrating a nanoscale 3D printing process using a femtosecond near-infrared laser, mirrors, lenses, and a digital micromirror device to project patterned light into a photoresist on a glass slide.

July 24, 2026

Researchers Advance Nanoscale 3D Printing With Faster, Higher Fidelity Method

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A Georgia Tech research team has developed a nanoscale 3D printing technique that overcomes the traditional tradeoff between speed and accuracy, enabling faster fabrication with higher fidelity.

Open-source AI models allow anyone to read their inner workings like a book. Utamaru Kido/Moment via Getty Images

July 23, 2026

What Is Open‑Source AI? A Software Engineering Researcher Explains

3 min read

The labels refer to whether all of the information about how an AI model works is publicly available and the model can be modified, or whether the model’s developer keeps its inner workings secret and the model itself private property.

Researcher fits and adjusts an EEG brain-monitoring cap with electrode leads on a seated participant in a neuroscience laboratory while holding a tablet.

July 22, 2026

The Neuro Revolution Is Dawning. Are We Ready?

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As neuroscience and neurotechnology accelerate, possibilities once confined to science fiction are moving closer to reality. Georgia Tech researchers are examining what these advances mean for autonomy, privacy, ethics, health, creativity, and human flourishing in a neuro-connected future.

July 21, 2026

Inside RBI’s Labs: How Jonathan Jean-Louis Helps Industry Evaluate Materials

2 min read

A Georgia Tech mechanical engineering graduate, Jean-Louis works in materials testing, helping industry partners and researchers evaluate paper, metals, and other materials.

July 21, 2026

Why Where the Money Comes From Matters

4 min read

Investors treat brokerage cash differently based on its source, leading them to take greater risks with “hot” money from prior trading, often with lower returns.

man sitting at computer doing programming.

July 21, 2026

AI Is Rewriting Cybersecurity's Rules

4 min read

AI is giving cybercriminals new speed and scale, but researchers say the technology could also become one of cybersecurity’s strongest defenses.

Rich Simmons on a car designed by the GT-Motorsports team at the Michigan International Speedway

July 20, 2026

Richard Simmons Named Interim Director of Student Competition Center

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Richard Simmons, principal research engineer in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, has been named interim director of the Student Competition Center (SCC).

July 20, 2026

Alumna Ann Dunkin to Chair Inaugural Emerging Technologies Virtual Forum

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ISyE alumna Ann Dunkin, P.E. (BSIE 1986, MSIE 1988), will lead discussions on emerging technologies as chair of IISE's inaugural forum.

SEI's Director of Research and Studies Rich Simmons teaching at the Energy Unplugged Camp

July 20, 2026

Building the Energy Workforce of Tomorrow Through Energy Unplugged at Georgia Tech

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Energy Unplugged camp, a collaboration between the Strategic Energy Institute (SEI), the Energy Policy and Innovation Center, and CEISMC, attracted students from across the country for an immersive, hands-on experience in real-world energy systems.