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Picture of Gary McMurray (GTRI), Rich Simmons (SEI), Christine Conwell (SEI) and John Tien (SEI)

April 9, 2025

GTRI and SEI Announce Recipients of Phase Two Seed Funding From the Energy and National Security Initiative

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Recipients of the second phase of seed funding from the Energy and National Security Initiative have now been announced.

Hedwig Oldendorff vessel at the start of its emission monitoring voyage

April 4, 2025

Study: Burning heavy fuel oil with scrubbers is the best available option for bulk maritime shipping

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Researchers found that burning heavy fuel oil with scrubbers is the best available option for bulk maritime shipping. They analyzed the full lifecycle of several fuel options and found this ble environmental impact, overall, to burning low-sulfur fuels.

April 2, 2025

Two Undergraduate Students Win IEEE Power and Energy Society Scholarship

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The award will provide real-world experience to the undergraduate students in power and energy engineering careers.

Energy Club's 11th Southeastern Energy Conference Panel on The Potential of Renewable Hydrogen featured Eli Acree, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Undergraduate, Georgia Tech (Moderator), Panelists Scott McWhorter, Federal Opportunities and Strategy, Georgia Tech Strategic Energy Institute, and Board Chairman, Southeast Hydrogen Energy Alliance, Comas Haynes, Hydrogen Initiative Lead, Georgia Tech Strategic Energy Institute, Hayley Ryan, Field Engineering Manager, ExxonMobil, Luis Alcoser, GM Future Ene

March 18, 2025

The 2025 Southeastern Energy Conference: A Transformative Experience at Georgia Tech

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Organized by the Energy Club at Georgia Tech, the 2025 Southeastern Energy Conference welcomed over 100 attendees, including industry leaders, policymakers, researchers, and students, fostering dynamic discussions on the future of energy.

March 14, 2025

Machine Learning Encoder Improves Weather Forecasting and Tsunami Prediction

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Ph.D. student Phillip Si and Assistant Professor Peng Chen developed Latent-EnSF, a technique that improves how ML models assimilate data to make predictions.

March 13, 2025

Organization Spotlight: ElectrifyGT

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ElectrifyGT is at the forefront of Georgia Tech’s push for a cleaner future.

March 6, 2025

School Presents Research in Weather Prediction, Carbon Storage, Nuclear Fusion, and More at Computing Conference

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Students and faculty from the School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) are leading the Georgia Tech contingent at the SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE25). The Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) o

March 6, 2025

School Presents Research in Weather Prediction, Carbon Storage, Nuclear Fusion, and More at Computing Conference

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Students and faculty from the School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) are leading the Georgia Tech contingent at the SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE25). The Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) o

March 5, 2025

Celebrating the Remarkable Career of Robert Butera

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Celebrating the Remarkable Career of Robert Butera

Matthew Oliver, Associate Professor, School of Economics, Georgia Tech, EPIcenter Faculty Affiliate

March 3, 2025

Meet the Expert: Matthew Oliver

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Master of the rebound — Economist Matthew Oliver measures the sometimes concealed costs of pivoting to clean energy

Tarek Rakha on the Georgia Tech campus holding a drone in his arms.

February 26, 2025

Georgia Tech Startup Targets Building Energy Inefficiencies With AI and Drones

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Lamarr.AI uses drones, AI, and thermal imaging to identify energy inefficiencies in buildings, offering a faster, safer, and more accurate solution.

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February 24, 2025

Researchers Build Stable Solar Panel Without Silicon

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By adding titanium to perovskite crystals, researchers have made solar cells more durable.

Tim Lieuwen, Executive Vice President for Research

February 20, 2025

Tim Lieuwen Named Georgia Tech’s Executive Vice President for Research

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The Regents’ Professor and current interim EVPR brings strong leadership and deep research expertise to the role.

February 18, 2025

Devesh Ranjan Named Engineering Dean at University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Ranjan has established numerous fundraising, outreach, and community-building initiatives as chair of the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering.

February 16, 2025

Georgia Tech Research Targets ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Drinking Water

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Professor Yongsheng Chen leads a multi-university team using machine learning to discover PFAS-removing membranes.

Student in the lab working with a sample

February 6, 2025

Unearthing Climate Solutions

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Georgia Tech researchers explore how to improve the planet, one rock at a time.

Georgia Tech's Scott Duncan welcome remarks at the Microgrid workshop

February 4, 2025

Tech Square Microgrid Workshop Sparks Ideas For Energy Resiliency Assets

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Georgia Tech Strategic Energy Institute (SEI), Southern Company, and Georgia Power hosted a workshop aimed at imparting new information and sparking innovative ideas around the Tech Square Microgrid (TSMG) and the use of its data in education and research

January 30, 2025

Solar Rebound: The Behavioral Economics Behind Increased Electricity Use

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A recent study by Matthew E. Oliver from the Georgia Institute of Technology and his co-authors, Juan Moreno-Cruz from the University of Waterloo and Kenneth Gillingham from Yale University, delves into the solar rebound effect.

January 28, 2025

From Ideas to Solutions: Georgia Tech's First Energy and Sustainability Hackathon

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EnergyHack @GT, Georgia Tech’s inaugural student-run energy and sustainability hackathon, kicked off Jan. 17-19, 2025.

January 24, 2025

Andrei Fedorov Selected as Part of Major International Research Initiative in Big Data and AI for Energy

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The program, Adopting Sustainable Partnerships for Innovative Research Ecosystem (ASPIRE) for Top Scientists, is funded by the Japan Science and Technology Agency. It will receive approximately $3.2 million in funding over five years.