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August 20, 2025

Youth Look to Transform Communities Through Civic Technologies

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Through a $1.25 million NSF Grant, Georgia Tech, Northeastern University, and MIT are empowering youth from underserved Atlanta and Boston communities to lead community transformation and bolster civice engagement.

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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.

Georgia Tech intern Morgan Hale and Lifecyle Building Center Executive Director Shannon Goodman stand in a warehouse.

August 15, 2025

Georgia Tech Summer Interns Building Community Capacity

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Georgia Tech interns fuel high-impact sustainability ventures throughout Atlanta, from insect farms to salvaged building materials.

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 15, 2025

Inaugural Cohort of Georgia Tech’s Research Leadership Academy Announced

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Inaugural Cohort of Georgia Tech’s Research Leadership Academy Announced

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

August 15, 2025

Strategic Energy Institute and EPIcenter Announce Graduate Student Fellowships

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The Strategic Energy Institute and the Energy Policy and Innovation Center at Georgia Tech are pleased to announce that applications are now open for two graduate student fellowships this fall.

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.

August 13, 2025

Juba Ziani Secures NSF Grant to Improve AI With Smarter Data Incentives

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The researcher aims to transform how data is valued and shared, paving the way for stronger, more equitable AI technologies.

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August 11, 2025

Georgia Tech Makes History, Wins DARPA Challenge

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A group of Georgia Tech students, faculty, and alumni, achieved international fame on Friday when they won DARPA’s AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC) and its $4 million grand prize.

Inside the new Marcus Nanotechnology Building cleanroom space

August 11, 2025

Institute for Matter and Systems Expands Cleanroom Facilities

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New 2,000-square-foot ISO 6 cleanroom advances semiconductor packaging innovation

Graphic of person using an assistive device thinking about how a robot could hep learn riding a unicycle

August 8, 2025

Research Combining Humans, Robots, and Unicycles Receives NSF Award

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Novel research to improve tailored assistive and rehabilitative devices wins NSF Grant

Nazanin Bassiri-Gharb, Harris Saunders, Jr. Chair and Professor in the Woodruff School and MSE, and Yao Xie, Coca-Cola Foundation Chair and Professor in ISyE.

August 7, 2025

Finding Clarity in the Noise: A New Way to Recover Hidden Signals at the Nanoscale

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Georgia Tech researchers develop a method to extract reliable information from noisy data in nanoscale imaging, advancing the study of ferroelectric materials.

August 6, 2025

From TikTok to Photoshop: Generative AI Could Bring Millions of Apps Into 3D Reality

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A new Google-funded research project at Georgia Tech is using generative AI to convert millions of existing mobile and web apps into 3D experiences for augmented and virtual reality.

A man with tan skin and dark hair, wearing a mint-green shirt, is seated at a table and looking at the CardioTag device.

August 6, 2025

Georgia Tech Advances 500+ Technologies Toward Market for Real-World Impact

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Record-breaking numbers from the Office of Commercialization drive meaningful inventions, IP, and industry partnerships.

August 1, 2025

College of Sciences Announces Launch of AI4Science Center

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The new center will promote research and collaboration focused on using state-of-the-art artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques to address complex scientific challenges.

August 1, 2025

Will People Conserve Energy During Emergency Heat Waves?

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Dylan Brewer, EPIcenter's Faculty Affiliate discusses if voluntary conservation requests work to save energy and prevent blackouts.

July 31, 2025

Mapping Georgia’s Urban Forest: Georgia Tech Tools Help Planners Prioritize Tree Canopy

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Georgia Tech researchers developed new statewide canopy assessment tools to help urban planners, policymakers, and communities make data-informed decisions for climate resilience.

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July 31, 2025

Rogue Waves Aren’t Freaks of Nature — They’re Just a ‘Bad Day’ at Sea

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New Georgia Tech-led research shows that rogue waves — once thought to defy ocean physics — can be explained by ordinary wave patterns aligning in extraordinary ways.

Energy and national security cohort meeting participants including the seed grant teams and the SEI and GTRI team

July 22, 2025

Seed Grant Program Advances Energy Innovation Through a National Security Lens

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In June, the Strategic Energy Institute (SEI) hosted the Energy and National Security Summer Cohort Meeting that convened seed grant awardees from the Energy and National Security Initiative.

NASA's Lunar Trailblazer in Orbit Around the Moon (Artist's Concept)

July 18, 2025

Georgia Tech Study Hopes to Prevent Cislunar Collisions as Moon Missions Increase

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A Georgia Tech study warns that rising lunar traffic could lead to costly collision avoidance maneuvers, urging better coordination to manage growing risks in cislunar space.