Rampi Ramprasad
September 4, 2025

Rampi Ramprasad Awarded $2 Million Grant to Pioneer AI-Driven Recyclable Packaging Materials Design

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The project addresses one of the world’s most pressing challenges in sustainability: eliminating plastic waste.
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Drawdown dashboard
September 4, 2025

Digital Dashboard Helps Everyone Find Accessible Climate Solutions in Georgia

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The climate solutions tracker features a county-by-county breakdown of which technologies could most benefit the environment.
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stock image of people planting trees in a forest
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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Georgia Tech intern Morgan Hale and Lifecyle Building Center Executive Director Shannon Goodman stand in a warehouse.
August 15, 2025

Georgia Tech Summer Interns Building Community Capacity

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Georgia Tech interns fuel high-impact sustainability ventures throughout Atlanta, from insect farms to salvaged building materials.
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three seashells
August 13, 2025

Seashells Inspire a Better Way to Recycle Plastic

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Researchers from Georgia Tech have created a material inspired by seashells to help improve the process of recycling plastics and make the resulting material more reliable.
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Farhan and Farshid Khan in the lab
August 11, 2025

Brothers United in Mission to Improve Water

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Environmental Engineering graduate students Farhan Khan and Farshid Khan are passionate about providing access to clean water. They have a lot in common—starting with the fact that they are brothers. Farhan Khan came to Georgia Tech from Bangladesh to be
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Trees around Einstein
July 31, 2025

Mapping Georgia’s Urban Forest: Georgia Tech Tools Help Planners Prioritize Tree Canopy

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Georgia Tech researchers developed new statewide canopy assessment tools to help urban planners, policymakers, and communities make data-informed decisions for climate resilience.
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Nicole Kennard holds a young chicken.
July 30, 2025

Community Spotlight - Nicole Kennard

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Kennard supports faculty in building meaningful and co-creative research partnerships with local communities.
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AI
July 25, 2025

Powering the Future — Without Breaking the Grid

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Georgia’s booming data center industry brings economic promise and environmental pressure. Researchers say innovation and local action can tip the balance.
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Georgia Tech student Bruce Minix accepts Award of Excellence from the American Association of State & Local History in September 2023.
July 11, 2025

Georgia Tech Students Help Illuminate Coffee County’s History

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Georgia Tech students received the 2023 Award of Excellence from the American Association of State and Local History for the Coffee County Memory Project
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Ahmed Yunus and Yongsheng Chen working with a wastewater reactor system in the lab.
July 10, 2025

‘Biochar’ Can Naturally Clean the Pollution that Rain Washes Off Georgia’s Roads

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A new study shows how the material made from leaves and branches that collect on forest floors can be mixed with local soil to filter out road grime before it reaches waterways.
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Portrait of Kristina Chatfield
July 8, 2025

Chatfield Hired as New BBISS Director of Business Administration

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Director of Business Administration is a new role within BBISS that will provide administrative leadership and oversight for a growing portfolio of programs and activities.
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A woman stands behind a row of skulls.
July 8, 2025

Jenny McGuire Named Teasley Professor

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Jenny McGuire has been named a Teasley Professor, advancing Georgia Tech’s leadership in biodiversity research and climate resilience.
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Seo-Yul Kim and Ryan Lively
July 7, 2025

Study Demonstrates Low-Cost Method to Remove CO₂ from Air Using Cold Temperatures, Common Materials

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Researchers demonstrated techniques for capturing CO₂ more efficiently and affordably using extremely cold air and widely available porous sorbent materials.
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A diagram showing how the atoms are connected in the praseodymium compound (left); a chart showing the most important electron interactions (right).
June 24, 2025

Georgia Tech Researchers Make an Elemental Discovery

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New Oxidation State for a Rare Earth Element Could Advance Quantum and Electronic Devices
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A satellite image of blooming phytoplankton, visible as green-tinted swirls, in the South Atlantic. Credit: NASA
June 19, 2025

Ocean ‘Greening’ at Poles Could Spell Changes for Fisheries

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Ocean waters are getting greener at the poles and bluer toward the equator, according to an analysis of satellite data published in Science on June 19.
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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.
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Carpenters build a roof on a residential house
June 12, 2025

Can Cool Roofs Help Atlanta Beat the Heat? Georgia Tech Experts Weigh In

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City’s New Rule Could Shape Broader Change to Protect Heat-Vulnerable Cities
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researcher with a white coat looking into a microscope
June 12, 2025

Breathing in a Better Climate

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As the planet warms, changing weather patterns are only one effect. Warming air is often more toxic, leading to asthma and even heart attacks. A better understanding of these air quality changes can help society mitigate their consequences. Georgia Tech r
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Sun Geun Yoon works in a glove box in McDowell’s laboratory at Georgia Tech.
June 5, 2025

A New Metal Design for Solid-State Batteries

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The solid-state battery would be game-changing for electric vehicles.
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