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

September 2, 2025

Steeped in Success: Georgia Tech Brews New Opportunities for Chai Startup

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Georgia Tech’s expertise helped The Chai Box transform a family ritual into a successful product featured in Costco and on the pages of Forbes magazine. It’s the perfect blend of heritage, research, and real-life results.

August 20, 2025

Demo Day 2025: One Day. 100-Plus Startups.

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On August 28, Demo Day 2025 will showcase of 100+ student and faculty-led startups solving real-world problems — no pitches, just interactive tech.

stock image of people planting trees in a forest

August 19, 2025

Forest Expansion Increases Agricultural Output, New Study Shows

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Agriculture is the largest cause of deforestation. So, it follows that forest expansion efforts would displace agriculture — but new research from Georgia Tech's School of Economics reports that that’s not necessarily the case.

Flooding in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina

August 19, 2025

Twenty Years After Katrina: How Levee Failures Changed America

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Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina’s catastrophic landfall, its legacy of destruction, displacement, and deepened inequality continues to shape communities and challenge disaster preparedness across the U.S.

Adam-MacCallum,Jim Pope Fellow and translational research advocate in Georgia Tech’s Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, sits pensively, looking out.

August 15, 2025

Jim Pope Fellow to Offer New Course on Biotechnology Commercialization this Fall

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Adam McCallum, a Jim Pope Fellow at Georgia Tech, is advancing entrepreneurial education in biomedical engineering by mentoring students, launching a new commercialization course, and supporting innovations that address neurological diseases t

August 14, 2025

Wind intermittency and supply-demand imbalance: Evidence from U.S. regional power markets

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Victoria Godwin and Matthew E. Oliver of the Georgia Institute of Technology and EPIcenter affiliates in their new study examine how short-term variability in wind power affects real-time electricity system imbalances in U.S. regional power markets.

July 17, 2025

Jim Pope Fellow Comes Full Circle as an Educator and Entrepreneur

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Candace Washington, a seasoned construction professional and Georgia Tech alumna, leveraged her experience and the Jim Pope Fellowship to launch a workforce platform, teach entrepreneurship, and mentor future innovators in construction and engineering.

How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain

June 23, 2025

A Summer Read for Supply Chain Learners: 'How the World Ran Out of Everything' by Peter Goodman

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A grounded look at what happens when supply chains break — and what it teaches us about how we build them.

CREATE-X’s 12th cohort of Startup Launch with CREATE-X staff members and Atlanta leadership.

May 30, 2025

CREATE-X Honors Its Founders With Largest-Ever Startup Cohort

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CREATE-X celebrates its biggest Startup Launch yet — 318 founders strong — with a public Demo Day on August 28 that promises the unveiling of 100 new startups with bold ideas on tackling real-world problems.

As part of the partnership, Southern Regional Technical College Instructor Marvin Bannister (center) received hands-on training on advanced machining equipment to prepare for teaching Georgia’s next generation of manufacturers.

May 28, 2025

Georgia Tech Partnerships Bridge the Skills Gap for Georgia Manufacturers

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The programs are working with Southern Regional Technical College to equip students with advanced skills in smart manufacturing and robotics.

Chris Gaffney speaking to GEMS-3 and GRACE Workshop participants in Macon, GA

May 12, 2025

Advancing Critical Mineral Supply: GEMS-3 and GRACE Workshop Spurs Innovation

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Bringing together a diverse group of stakeholders, including industry partners from multiple sectors, non-profit organizations, regional economic development agencies, national labs, universities, and technical colleges.

Trenton Gantt and Hugh (Ka Yui) Chen work together in the lab

May 1, 2025

Propelling Georgia Tech to the Final Frontier

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New space IRI and commercialization activities showcase space as an exciting destination for students and faculty.

April 30, 2025

A Summer Read for Supply Chain Learners: 'Better' by Atul Gawande

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In supply chain management, continuous improvement is achieved through numerous small, thoughtful actions, making "Better" by Atul Gawande a recommended summer read for its insights on this relentless pursuit.

From left to right, Jack Rose, Team Carchive; Angela Duodu, Hadley Williams, Brandon Parker, Oluwatooni Alade , and Jesus Sierra Jr., Team Sensible; and Yasmine Green, Team Onyc.

April 28, 2025

Car History Database Wins Spring 2025 I2P Showcase

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At the Spring 2025 Idea to Prototype (I2P) Showcase, the winning innovations included Carchive, a prototype that helps car enthusiasts find niche vehicles and their histories; a browser extension by Team Sensible that rates product sustainability and sugg

From left to right, Stridelink Founders Cassandra McIltrot , Marzeah “Zea” Khorramabadi, and Neel Narvekar. Khorramabadi is holding one of their sensors, a device like a watch.

April 25, 2025

Female Founders Alumni Talk Patient Care with AI and Wearable Sensors

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Female Founders alumni and Stridelink founders discuss their entrepreneurial pathway to delivering better patient care through a wearable sensor for orthopedic recovery.

Members of the Georgia Center of Innovation – Logistics Advisory Board gathered at the 2025 Georgia Logistics Summit, where each received a personal note of recognition from Governor Brian Kemp for three years of dedicated service. Their collective efforts have advanced freight and logistics across Georgia—strengthening collaboration between industry, government, and academia to drive the state’s economic growth.

April 24, 2025

Georgia Center of Innovation Hosts 2025 Logistics Summit

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Center of Innovation’s 15th Logistics Summit delivers insights on digital transformation, workforce, transportation

April 17, 2025

Thesis on Human-Centered AI Earns Honors from International Computing Organization

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Zijie (Jay) Wang (Ph.D. ML-CSE 2024) is a recipient of the 2025 Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI).

April 16, 2025

Liquid Cooling Technology Developed at Georgia Tech Awarded U.S. Patent, Company Raising Capital to Scale

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EMCOOL's technology solves overheating in electronics.

Georgia Quick Start Deputy Commissioner Scott McMurray (center left) and Georgia Tech Executive Vice President for Research Tim Lieuwen (center right) gathered with members of the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute, Georgia AIM, and more to officially commemorate the partnership on April 8.

April 10, 2025

Georgia Tech and Georgia Quick Start Partner to Improve Manufacturing Training

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In a bid to support job creation and retention, the new partnership will work to develop scalable extended reality training programs for Georgia's manufacturing sector.

Yolanda Payne, Christie Peng, Shinhai Chen, Alex Aridgides, and Varuni Chopra.

April 4, 2025

Four Startup Lab Students Selected for 2025 Immersive Cohort at SXSW

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Four Georgia Tech students—Alex Aridgides, Shinhai Chen, Varuni Chopra, and Christie Peng—have been selected for the 2025 immersive cohort at South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas, where they will refine their innovations and network with industry le