October 9, 2025
Fixing Flooding for the Southeast’s Future
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Coastal communities throughout the Southeast are now facing constant challenges from flooding and sea level rise and they are looking to nature-based solutions to prevent flooding and erosion related to storms.
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October 9, 2025
Storms Are Changing — Should the Hurricane Scale Change Too?
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Georgia Tech expert Zachary Handlos joins a growing conversation about whether the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale adequately reflects the full range of hurricane hazards in a changing climate.
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October 7, 2025
BBISS Announces 2025 Sustainability Next Seed Grant Recipients
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The seed grant program reaches many faculty members from a diverse array of disciplines due to the generous support provided by broad-based partnerships in addition to the Sustainability Next funds.
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October 6, 2025
Initiative Lead Q&A: Akanksha Menon on Designing the Future of Buildings
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Menon discusses her interdisciplinary approach to improving building sustainability and efficiency through advanced materials and systems.
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September 26, 2025
Decades in the Making: Seeing the Full Impact From Air Pollution Reductions
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Georgia Tech researchers analyze seasonal differences of SO₂ and sulfate concentrations in the atmosphere over decades to determine the long-term impact of sustained air quality control efforts.
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September 17, 2025
Why Do Big Oil Companies Invest in Green Energy?
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Despite the relatively modest scale of investment in clean energy by oil and gas companies so far, there are several business reasons oil companies would increase their investments in clean energy over time.
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September 16, 2025
Third Cohort of the Energy Faculty Fellow Program Attracts Multidisciplinary Researchers
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The Strategic Energy Institute (SEI) at Georgia Tech concluded its third cohort of Energy Faculty Fellows in August, welcoming a diverse group of researchers for a 10-week summer fellowship.
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August 28, 2025
Srinivas Peeta Named Co-Editor-in-Chief of Transportation Research Part B: Methodological
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The appointment recognizes Professor Peeta’s longstanding contributions to transportation research and his leadership in advancing methodological innovation within the field.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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