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March 7, 2024

McDowell Receives ARPA-E Funding to Develop Ultrahigh-Energy Density Battery Chemistries

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Matthew McDowell, Woodruff Faculty Fellow and associate professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering & initiative lead for energy storage at the Strategic Energy Institute, has received $1.3 million in funding through the PROPEL-1K program

Collage with Chris and his family in 2024, from his days at Coca-Cola, from the SCM Talent podcast, and Supply Chain Now with Scott Luton and Greg White

February 29, 2024

Georgia Tech Welcomes Back Chris Gaffney: A Story of Leadership and Commitment

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Chris Gaffney (BSIE ’85, MSIE ’86) steps into his role as the Managing Director of the Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (SCL) and the Academic Program Director for Georgia Tech’s Professional Education (GTPE).

February 28, 2024

Celebrating the Achievement of PhD Candidate Ignacio Erazo

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Ignacio Erazo recently defended his thesis, earning his PhD in Operations Research with a minor in Machine Learning.

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February 21, 2024

Energy Materials: Driving the Clean Energy Transition

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Energy materials facilitate the conversion or transmission of energy. They also play an essential role in how we store energy, reduce power consumption, and develop cleaner, efficient energy solutions.

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February 20, 2024

Protection From Drowning Through AI-Enabled Camera System

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Collaboration between Georgia Tech and the city of Columbus, Georgia, leads to a first-of-its-kind alert system to prevent drownings

February 12, 2024

Georgia Tech, University of Waterloo Forge Partnership to Advance AI Initiatives

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Georgia Tech and Waterloo collaborate to enhance academic and research partnerships, with a focus on areas such as AI, faculty exchanges, and joint research projects.

February 8, 2024

Athena Receives Prestigious Stanford Energy Postdoctoral Fellowship

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The ECE Ph.D. candidate will research emerging materials and devices for energy-efficient sustainable computing.

February 6, 2024

Mokhtarian, Sholl Elected to National Academy of Engineering

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CEE, ChBE professors are the 47th and 48th members of the Academy from Georgia Tech.

Pictured left to right, top to bottom: Director of Design and Innovation Amit Jariwala, Professor Julie Linsey, Associate Chair for Administration Bert Bras, and Professor Yan Wang.

January 29, 2024

Innovation and Education: The Woodruff School's Unique Approach to Design for Mechanical Engineers

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The intersection of design and innovation drives engineering, shaping the future of products and manufacturing processes. At the forefront of this intersection is the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering.

Overhead view of the Re-Wind crew doing structural testing on a decommissioned wind turbine blade bridge on an industrial lot.

January 26, 2024

Re-Wind USA Wins First Phase of DOE Prize

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A pioneering a new recycling approach led to a big win for Re-Wind USA in the first phase of the Department of Energy's Wind Turbine Materials Recycling Prize.

Aerial shot showing members of the Re-Wind Network stand in front of a pedestrian bridge made using decommissioned wind turbine blades

January 26, 2024

Pioneering Process Leads to Big Win for Tech Research Team

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Pioneering a new recycling approach led to a big win for Re-Wind USA, a Georgia Tech research team led by Russell Gentry. The team has won the first phase of the Department of Energy's Wind Turbine Materials Recycling Prize, receiving $75,000 and an invit

January 19, 2024

Marta Hatzell Wins ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering Lectureship Award

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The award recognizes leading contributions of scientists and engineers active in the general fields of green chemistry, green engineering, and sustainability in the broadest sense of the chemical enterprise.

January 8, 2024

Novel Deep Learning-Driven Communication System Research Honored

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The research proposed by a team featuring Professor Biing-Hwang Juang introduces DeepSC, a deep learning-based semantic communication system designed for text transmission.

3D illustration of diamond-shaped perovskite structure in longs rows stacked in two layers.

December 19, 2023

Researchers Find They Can Stop Degradation of Promising Solar Cell Materials

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Engineers uncover the chemical interactions that make perovskites unstable and can prevent them.

December 11, 2023

Divan Selected as IEEE Medal in Power Engineering Recipient

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The globally recognized researcher in advanced power conversion technologies is the first Georgia Tech faculty member to receive the distinction.

Ph.D. candidate Jingyuan Zhang (left) receiving the award from Damla Turgut (University of Central Florida), a steering committee member of this year’s Conference on Local Computer Networks.

November 17, 2023

Best Paper Award Goes to Faculty-Student Duo for Advancing mmWave Network Research

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Professor Douglas Blough and Ph.D. candidate Jingyuan Zhang's prizewinning paper unveils strategies using intelligent surfaces to revolutionize wireless network coverage.

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November 9, 2023

Utilizing Photoelasticity in the Quest for Dendrite-Resistant Solid Electrolytes

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Professor Christos Athanasiou advances sustainable innovations through creative mechanics.

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October 20, 2023

IDEaS Awards 2023 Seed Grants to Seven Interdisciplinary Research Teams

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The goals of the funded proposals include identifying prominent emerging research directions on the topic of AI, shaping IDEaS future strategy in the initiative area, building an inclusive and active community of Georgia Tech researchers.

October 20, 2023

IDEaS Awards Grants and Cyberinfrastructure Resources for Thematic Programs and Research in AI

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Grants will support AI themed workshops and seminars, and data heavy interdisciplinary research in new directions in Artificial Intelligence.

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.

October 18, 2023

NSF Grant to Develop Carbon ‘Nutrition Labels’ for a Sustainable Internet of Things

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Josiah Hester, along with researchers from Cornell and Harvard Universities, has received a $2 million grant from National Science Foundation.