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August 27, 2026

CSE Leadership Transition Comes as School Continues Rapid Growth

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School of CSE Professor Polo Chau is stepping into the role of associate chair of the School as Professor Edmond Chow departs to teach at Georgia Tech-Europe for the 2026-2027 academic year.

August 26, 2026

Open Source, Big Ideas: Scientific Computing Community Heading to Georgia Tech

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Georgia Tech is hosting the 2026 MFEM (Modular Finite Element Methods) Community Workshop, Sept. 22-25. MFEM supports research in computational physics, earth systems modeling, engineering, energy, and other fields.

August 26, 2026

Speare Earns Highly Competitive NIH MIRA Grant

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The award will support funding aimed at uncovering new insights that could support future coral restoration and disease management efforts.

August 25, 2026

Matthew McDowell Named to National Academies Committee on Future Battery Technologies

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School of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) professor Matthew McDowell has been appointed to a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committee.

Ellen Yi Chen Mazumdar, assistant professor and Woodruff Faculty Fellow in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering

August 25, 2026

Ellen Mazumdar Earns NASA Early Career Faculty Award for Spacecraft Heat Shield Research

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Ellen Yi Chen Mazumdar, assistant professor in the Woodruff School has received a NASA Early Career Faculty (ECF) Award to develop new methods for studying the extreme conditions spacecraft experience during atmospheric entry.

Farzaneh Najafi standing outside smiling with her arms crossed. Green foliage is visible in the background.

August 24, 2026

A Neuroscientist Went Looking for Prediction. She Found Time Instead.

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A Georgia Tech study challenges a decades-old explanation for one of neuroscience's most famous signals, revealing an intrinsic neural code for tracking time.

Sanghyun Jang enjoying the EccoCommons at Georgia Tech.

August 24, 2026

Georgia Tech Through a Visiting Scholar's Lens

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A South Korean visiting scholar is studying how Georgia Tech approaches AI governance, data stewardship, and collaboration, with lessons that may help shape future education policy in his home country.

The VR training platform allows Kia Georgia employees to gain hands-on experience with assembly tasks before working on the factory floor.

August 20, 2026

How Virtual Reality is Preparing Kia Workers for the Factory Floor Before Day One

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The H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) at Georgia Tech has developed a virtual reality training platform that prepares Kia assembly workers for the pace of the production line.

A smiling woman standing in front of a wall. The wall has a unique pattern and wood frames.

August 20, 2026

New Faculty Member Examines How AI Shapes Our Most Personal Relationships

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For Georgia Tech Assistant Professor Veronica Rivera, the growing role of AI in daily life raises important questions about what happens when technology designed to help people puts their privacy and safety at risk.

Associate Professor Yuhang Hu and three male students from her lab gather around and look at a soft adhesive hydrogel they are studying.

August 19, 2026

Georgia Tech Researchers Discover New Mechanism Behind Soft-Material Adhesion

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The discovery challenges a long-held assumption in adhesion mechanics and reveals a new physical mechanism that governs how soft materials attach and detach.

A man standing in front of a wooden wall. He is smiling and tilting his head.

August 19, 2026

New Faculty Shows Where Cryptography Meets the Computer System

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Assistant Professor Alex Ozdemir is bringing an interdisciplinary approach to cryptography at Georgia Tech’s School of Cybersecurity and Privacy. His research combines cryptography, compilers and automated reasoning to make advanced security tools faster

From Top Left (clockwise): Ana Mazmishvili, Ryan Anthony, Samin Alipour, Faeze Fahimi Aghda

August 18, 2026

EPIcenter Summer Research Program Helps Doctoral Students Advance Energy Research

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Four Georgia Tech doctoral students spent the summer working on their dissertation research through the Energy Policy and Innovation Center's (EPIcenter) Summer Research Program.

An AI image generated using Google Gemini depicts white ingested probes release gaseous reporters after sensing the activity of GUS (in purple), an enzyme produced by the gut microbiome (tan) that is responsible for unwanted drug side effects (i.e., gastrointestinal toxicity). After release, the gaseous reporters rapidly traffic to the lungs for exhalation, enabling measurement of intestinal GUS activity via simple breath analysis. Thus, ingestible probes enable use of breath tests to predict and manage pos

August 18, 2026

How a Breath Test Could Help Decode the Gut Microbiome

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Leslie Chan's team developed ingestible probes that measure gut microbiome activity through a simple breath test, enabling earlier disease detection.

August 18, 2026

Melkote Named Interim Associate Vice President of Corporate Engagement at Georgia Tech

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Melkote Named Interim Associate Vice President of Corporate Engagement at Georgia Tech

August 14, 2026

Georgia Tech, VRARA and AAIA Announce Techlanta 2026

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Techlanta is organized in collaboration with Georgia Tech OIT, the new Allen–Davidson–Coleman XR Makerspace, the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE), and the Symbiotic and Augmented Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL).

August 14, 2026

Institute for Neuroscience, Neurotechnology, and Society Names Simon Sponberg Associate Director for Interdisciplinary Research

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The Georgia Tech researcher and longtime neuroscience community leader will help catalyze new collaborations and research opportunities across the Institute for Neuroscience, Neurotechnology, and Society (INNS).

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

August 12, 2026

As Oil Profits Skyrocket, Calls for Windfall Taxes Rise

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As an applied microeconomist, I am often asked how taxes affect economic activity. Economists have long held a more nuanced view of windfall taxes than either side of the current debate suggests.

August 12, 2026

New Model Teaches Workplace AI to Read More Like Humans

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The new AI framework called SlideAgent helps large language models (LLMs) better understand complex visual documents used in the workplace like presentation slide decks, brochures, and reports.

Casey Wichman, Associate Professor in Georgia Tech’s School of Economics.

August 12, 2026

How Does Wildfire Smoke Affect the Economy?

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Georgia Tech economist Casey Wichman explains how increased wildfire smoke from climate change affects spending, productivity, and healthcare costs.

Three-panel figure showing soft-material adhesion experiments: a microscope image of a probe contacting a surface, fluorescence images of the contact area, and a graph showing pull-off force versus retraction speed, with stress relaxation and dynamic bond effects labeled.

August 11, 2026

Georgia Tech Researchers Discover New Mechanism Behind Soft-Material Adhesion

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Georgia Tech researchers have uncovered a new mechanism governing how soft materials adhere, revealing that adhesion can weaken and then strengthen as pulling speed increases — a finding that could enable new approaches to biomedical devices, soft robotic