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Aerial view of Tybee Island marina in Chatham County, Georgia.

April 13, 2023

Tool Helps Coastal Areas Find Ideal Spots for Water Level Sensors

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Iris Tien’s method reduces the possible locations for sensors by nearly 99% and accounts for flood risk, population vulnerability, and more.

April 4, 2023

Georgia Tech Battery Day Reveals Opportunities in Energy Storage Research

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More than 230 energy research and industry participants convened to discuss and advance energy storage technologies during Georgia Tech Battery Day.

Georgia Tech community celebrates Earth Day 2018

March 31, 2023

Georgia Tech Earth Month Events to Mark on Your Calendar

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Earth Day is April 22, but Georgia Tech is celebrating Earth Month with events throughout April highlighting sustainability efforts across campus.

L to R: Ángel Cabrera, Marilyn Brown, Tim Lieuwen, Andre Calmon & Brian Stone

March 29, 2023

Conversations With Cabrera: Climate Action

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President Cabrera led a panel of Georgia Tech faculty to discuss policies, technologies, and planning that can promote the best quality of life while also maintaining our global climate.

Jenn Voelker and Julia Vorpahl at the Karma Automotive headquarters in Irvine, California

March 23, 2023

Two Tech Women Pave Their Own Way in Automotive Industry

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Georgia Tech graduates Jenn Voelker and Julia Vorpahl are in the driver’s seat working for Karma Automotive in California.

March 23, 2023

Woodruff School Partners with Siemens to Launch New Course

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Over 9% of global passenger vehicle sales last year were electric vehicles (EVs) according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.

Driving Change: Georgia Tech experts are leading the way in EV innovation

March 21, 2023

Driving Change: Georgia Tech Experts Lead in Electrification of America’s Roads

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Electric vehicles are becoming increasingly popular, and with economic and environmental impacts colliding, Georgia Tech experts are leading the way in the development of next-generation solutions.

March 15, 2023

Georgia Tech Announces 2023 EVPR Institute Research Award Winners

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At Georgia Tech, the research enterprise covers activities from basic research to commercialization and societal use. Each year, the Executive Vice President for Research (EVPR) presents awards to recognize the achievements of faculty and staff.

February 23, 2023

IMat Initiative Lead Q&A: Marta Hatzell

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Hatzell leads the Materials and Interfaces for Catalysis and Separations research initiative for the Institute for Materials at Georgia Tech.

Past and present power grid experts. Top: Power systems experts from around the world gathering in St. Louis in 1904 to discuss anything and everything electrical, including the operation of the then new networks of synchronous generators. Bottom: The January 2023 meeting of the Universal Interoperability for Grid-forming Inverters (UNIFI) Consortium on Georgia Tech’s campus in Atlanta. UNIFI is a U. S. Department of Energy funded effort to advance grid-forming (GFM) inverter technology.

February 23, 2023

Looking Back to Prepare for the Future of the Power Grid

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A new study will examine the relatively invisible role of the algorithms 20th-century engineers developed to optimize the electric power grid.

Montage of portraits of the 2023 BBISS Initiative Leads. From L to R: Hailong Chen, Yi Deng, Shatakshee Dhongde, Michael Helms, Josiah Hester, Xiaoming Huo, Neha Kumar, Junshan Liu, Jian Luo, Alex Oettl, Dori Pap, Brigitte Stepanov, Yuanzhi Tang, Anjali Thomas, and Danielle Willkens.

February 9, 2023

BBISS Initiative Leads Projects Selected

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Ten projects have been chosen involving 15 faculty members hailing from all 6 colleges at Georgia Tech and the campus in Shenzhen, China.

February 7, 2023

Akanksha Menon Awarded NSF CAREER Award for Sustainable Energy Research

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Akanksha Menon, assistant professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, awarded a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Award from the NSF Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems

January 23, 2023

School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences to Offer Three New Undergraduate Degrees — Including Interdisciplinary Environmental Science Major

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The expanded undergraduate degree offerings are designed to continue Georgia Tech’s reputation for academic rigor — and also reflect trends in student interests, as well as current and forecasted needs in the job marketplace.

A photo of The Kendeda Buliding at Georgia Tech

January 19, 2023

Ecolabels, Innovation, and Green Market Transformation: Learning to LEED

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Daniel Matisoff's book traces the curve of ecolabel adoption in the building market, revealing how it has transformed the economy and construction industry to achieve green market transformation.

Postdoctoral fellow Poorandokht Kashkouli, seated at laptop, discusses test data from their direct air capture rig. Ryan Lively, left, and Chris Jones, pointing at laptop, stand next to the rig, which is a series of tubes and valves in a metal frame. (Photo: Candler Hobbs)

January 19, 2023

Cutting Emissions Isn’t Enough. We Need to Scrub Carbon Directly from the Air

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New Direct Air Capture Center will leverage Georgia Tech’s leadership in a burgeoning field.

Cover of Climate Change and the Design of the Built Environment eBook

January 9, 2023

New ebook "Climate Change and the Design of the Built Environment" by Michael Gamble Now Available!

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A new eBook "Climate Change and the Design of the Built Environment" written by Michael Gamble, Academic and Research Council Chair at the Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design is now available.

January 6, 2023

Savannah River National Laboratory, Georgia Tech Select Martha Grover for Joint Appointment

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Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) and Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) recently selected Martha Grover, Ph.D., for a joint appointment.

Group photo of the Sustainable-X participants and facilitators.

January 3, 2023

Georgia Tech Launches Sustainable-X Entrepreneurship Program

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The new program provides support to those who want to start businesses that solve social and environmental challenges.

3 by 3 grid of the portraits of the 2022 BBISS Faculty Fellows.

December 13, 2022

BBISS Appoints Nine New Faculty Fellows

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Nine new Faculty Fellows were appointed to the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems (BBISS).

October 17, 2022

Bio-Inspired Maker Space Opens in Kendeda Building

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A new maker space is soon to open in the Kendeda Building that only uses ecologically preferable materials and tools.