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Athena landed on its side with MSOLO glowing.

June 16, 2025

Georgia Tech Alumni Develop Device to Understand Moon’s Water Content

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The mass spectrometer and ice drill will be crucial to future NASA missions.

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

May 25, 2025

RBI’s Annual Workshop Fosters Collaboration, Innovation for Pulp and Paper Manufacturing

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Researchers and Industry Partner for Efficiency

May 20, 2025

John Xu Appointed Director of New Multiphase Forming Lab

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New Multiphase Forming Lab Conserves Energy, Water

May 15, 2025

Cyrus K. Aidun: A Pioneering Force in Engineering Innovation at Georgia Tech

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New Multiphase Forming Facility Opens, Demonstrating Water and Heat Reduction Opportunities in Papermaking

May 13, 2025

Georgia Tech’s Renewable Bioproducts Institute Opens New Multiphase Forming Lab

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New Multiphase Forming Lab Conserves Energy, Water

Piles of rare earth oxides praseodymium, cerium, lanthanum, neodymium, samarium and gadolinium. Peggy Greb/USDA-ARS

May 6, 2025

How the US Can Mine Its Own Critical Minerals — Without Digging New Holes

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Every time you use your phone, open your computer or listen to your favorite music on AirPods, you are relying on critical minerals.

April 18, 2025

Georgia Tech’s RBI Explores Biomass Integration with Traditional Refineries

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A discussion around the challenges and solutions for biomass integration with traditional refineries

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 1, 2025

Beril Toktay to Lead Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems

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The interdisciplinary research institute is poised for growth and innovation with Beril Toktay as executive director.

Four researchers standing in a lab with a large roll of fiberglass insulation and a wooden rack holding small bags of hemp fiber-based insulation materials. (Photo: Candler Hobbs)

February 27, 2025

Using Hemp in Building Insulation Could Make Structures Greener, Create Jobs, and Be a Profitable Industry

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CEE researchers’ analysis outlines path to a U.S. construction market for hemp-based fibers, which are already used for clothing and biodegradable plastics.

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.

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 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.

A female student operating a knitting machine in a research lab at Georgia Tech.

January 22, 2025

The Year in Photos

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See our photographers’ best shots and discover unseen gems in this collection.

January 16, 2025

Biden Administration Names Interactive Computing Researcher as PECASE Recipient

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Interactive Computing Associate Professor Josiah Hester is one of 400 people to be awarded the Presidential Early Career Award For Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the nation's highest honor for early career researchers.

Glycine, one of the critical amino acids that the system coverts carbon dioxide into. (Image Credit: NASA)

November 21, 2024

A New Carbon-Negative Method to Produce Essential Amino Acids

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In a landmark study led by Georgia Tech, researchers demonstrate a first-of-its kind way to synthesize amino acids that uses more carbon than it emits.

Portrait of Julene Tong, Associate Professor and RBI Initiative Lead

November 13, 2024

RBI Initiative Lead Profile: Zhaohui (Julene) Tong

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Zhaohui (Julene) Tong is an associate professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Tech and leads the waste valorization in food-energy-water initiative at the Renewable Bioproducts Institute.

J. Carson Meredith, Executive Director of Renewable Bioproducts Institute and Professor in Georgia Tech's School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

October 23, 2024

Meredith Receives AIChE’s Andrew Chase Award

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J. Carson Meredith, a professor in Georgia Tech’s School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, is the 2024 recipient of the Andrew Chase Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Forest and Plant Bioproducts Division.

Saman Zonouz is a Georgia Tech associate professor and lead researcher for the DerGuard project.

October 18, 2024

Georgia Tech Cybersecurity Goes Green with $4.6 Million DOE Grant

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Georgia Tech researchers received a $4.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to enhance cybersecurity for renewable energy technologies.