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

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

Sarah Roney oversees nursery troughs in the UGA Shellfish Research Lab filled with young oysters growing on shells recycled from restaurants all over Georgia.

April 25, 2025

Restoring and Protecting Georgia’s Coast — With Oysters

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How a Georgia Tech grad student is building living shorelines that resist erosion and predators.

Group of individuals involved in the My Green Lab certification program April 2025.

April 17, 2025

My Green Lab Initiative Drives Sustainable Practices in Campus Labs

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Three Georgia Tech labs are leading the charge in resource efficiency.

April 16, 2025

Liquid Cooling Technology Developed at Georgia Tech Awarded U.S. Patent, Company Raising Capital to Scale

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EMCOOL's technology solves overheating in electronics.

April 4, 2025

Joel Kostka Named Director of Georgia Tech for Georgia’s Tomorrow

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The new center, announced by the College in December 2024, will drive research aimed at improving life across the state of Georgia.

April 1, 2025

Earth Month Celebrates Sustainability on Campus

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Many organizations and departments across campus will host events throughout the month.

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.

Sustainability Showcase panel discussion, L to R - Iris Tien, Donn Digamon, Ria Aiken, Tejas Kotak, and Jason Stott (not pictured)

March 20, 2025

Sustainability Showcase Recap

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The two days of panel discussions, keynote speeches, and lightning talks were themed around community, ecosystem, and infrastructure resilience.

March 13, 2025

Organization Spotlight: ElectrifyGT

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

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.

View of a man presenting to a crowd of onlookers in a large meeting room.

February 24, 2025

Georgia Tech's 2025 Sustainability Showcase

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This two-day event, held at the Price Gilbert Library Scholars Event Theater, will focus on innovation, collaboration, and inspiration around building a resilient future for our communities, ecosystems, and infrastructure.

L to R, Top to Bottom: Ebenezer Fanijo, Katherine Graham, Anthony Harding, Yiyi He, Pengfei Liu, Johannes Milz, Micah Ziegler

February 19, 2025

Seven Appointed as BBISS Faculty Fellows

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Seven new Faculty Fellows were appointed to the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems (BBISS).

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.

January 22, 2025

Being an Engineer in a Circular Economy

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Christos Athanasiou wants to make life in space as sustainable as possible... and on Earth.

A woman holding a camera stands in front of a relief carving in a concrete wall mimicking its posture, with her arm raised over her head.

December 12, 2024

Sustainable Tourism Through Technology

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Danielle Willkens is using technology to assess historic sites and develop strategies to mitigate damage caused by visitors and development.

A group of Georgia Tech students gather for a group photo including a sign that says, "8th Global Botanic Gardens Congress."

November 7, 2024

Georgia Tech UrbanAg Project Presents to International Conference

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Georgia Tech’s Students Organizing for Sustainability (SOS) recently traveled across the world to Singapore for the 8th Global Botanic Garden Congress.

A reef of partially bleached coral under dark blue water with a variety of darkly colored fish swimming above the coral.

November 7, 2024

Ocean Science and Engineering Students Take on Coral Cooling Challenge

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At the invitation of the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation, a team of Ph.D. students designed an ocean-cooling system to help stop coral bleaching.

Researchers gather to hear each other's lightning talks.

October 24, 2024

BBISS Hosts Lighting Talks for Sustainability Next Grantees

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Sustainability Next seed grant recipients gathered to present, network, and explore how to engage with community stakeholders.

Ant hill cast in molten aluminum to show intricate underground structure of tunnels and chambers, much like the branches of coral.

October 15, 2024

Nature’s Ingenuity Inspires Civil Engineer to Design Efficient and Effective Solutions

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David Frost sees endless innovation in natural systems to solve real-world civil engineering problems.