May 15, 2024
From Roots to Resilience: Investigating the Vital Role of Microbes in Coastal Plant Health
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Understanding how salt marsh grass stays healthy is of crucial ecological importance, and studying the ways bacteria interact with these plants is key.
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May 8, 2024
Tropical Revelations: Unearthing the Impacts of Hydrological Sensitivity on Global Rainfall
4 min read
Georgia Tech researcher investigates how rainfall will change as Earth’s atmosphere heats up.
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May 2, 2024
Georgia Tech and Meta Create Massive Open Dataset to Advance AI Solutions for Carbon Capture
6 min read
The project aims to accelerate direct air capture development while significantly reducing costs.
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April 30, 2024
Generating Buzz: Climate Change Takes Center Stage
1 min read
The latest episode of Generating Buzz follows the College of Sciences’ Frontiers in Science event, giving listeners an opportunity to hear from experts.
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April 25, 2024
New Approach Could Make Reusing Captured Carbon Far Cheaper, Less Energy-Intensive
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A team led by Marta Hatzell designed a new electrochemical reactor to seamlessly integrate into direct air capture systems and turn CO2 into useful raw materials.
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April 23, 2024
Seed Grants Fund Research Centers for Critical Minerals, Spatial Computation and Navigation
4 min read
Selected from a finalist pool of nine proposals, Associate Professors Yuanzhi Tang and Thackery Brown’s ideas were chosen due to their high potential for novel interdisciplinary research and impact.
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April 22, 2024
2024 Frontiers in Science: Climate Action
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Inaugural College of Sciences research conference and symposium showcases Georgia Tech’s contributions to climate research and solutions.
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April 22, 2024
Georgia Tech Microsoft CloudHub Partnership Explores Electric Vehicle Adoption
3 min read
Business and government sectors are embracing electric vehicles, but are U.S. drivers on the same road?
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April 10, 2024
Community Spotlight - Tamsin Leavy
4 min read
Tamsin started her career working in anthropology and archaeology before pivoting to teaching social studies but now she’s in Atlanta working as the Georgia Tech community garden coordinator.
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April 5, 2024
Climate Action Plan Provides Road Map to Net-Zero Emissions
4 min read
Georgia Tech’s Climate Action Plan outlines mitigation and adaptation strategies for reaching net-zero emissions on campus by 2050 and contributing to global solutions through education and research.
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April 2, 2024
Hirsch Presents to National Academies Workshop
2 min read
Jennifer Hirsch presented a paper to a recent National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine workshop, Developing and Assessing Ideas for Social and Behavioral Research to Speed Efficient and Equitable Industrial Decarbonization.
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March 19, 2024
2024 Georgia Tech Sustainability Showcase Recap
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This year’s Georgia Tech Sustainability Showcase was an opportunity for faculty, staff, students, and community partners to demonstrate the depth and breadth of sustainability research happening at Georgia Tech.
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March 19, 2024
Community Spotlight - Josiah Hester
3 min read
What Josiah enjoys most about his role as Interim Associate Director for Community-Engaged Research, is seeing researchers who have spent their careers figuring out the science of a subject go into the community and have an impact.
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February 21, 2024
Energy Materials: Driving the Clean Energy Transition
5 min read
Energy materials facilitate the conversion or transmission of energy. They also play an essential role in how we store energy, reduce power consumption, and develop cleaner, efficient energy solutions.
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February 14, 2024
Community Spotlight - Emma Blandford
2 min read
As the portfolio manager for Sustainability Next, Emma serves as a facilitator, connecting like-minded people from across campus so they can collaborate while also helping them access available resources.
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January 26, 2024
Re-Wind USA Wins First Phase of DOE Prize
2 min read
A pioneering a new recycling approach led to a big win for Re-Wind USA in the first phase of the Department of Energy's Wind Turbine Materials Recycling Prize.
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January 23, 2024
What Can Space Teach Us About Sustainability?
6 min read
Researchers in the Ivan Allen College think big to explore questions of sustainability on Earth, in outer space, and on a cosmic scale.
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January 19, 2024
Marta Hatzell Wins ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering Lectureship Award
1 min read
The award recognizes leading contributions of scientists and engineers active in the general fields of green chemistry, green engineering, and sustainability in the broadest sense of the chemical enterprise.
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December 6, 2023
Micro Research Grants Awarded
2 min read
The Kendeda Building Advisory Board has awarded 12 micro research grants ($50 – $500) for sustainability-related, small-scale, short-term studies to be conducted by members of the Georgia Tech community.
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December 4, 2023
BBISS Graduate Fellows Publish Article on Educating for Academic Leadership in Sustainability
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The first cohort of the BBISS Graduate Fellows published an article in the open-access, peer-reviewed journal, Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene.
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