February 21, 2024
Energy Materials: Driving the Clean Energy Transition
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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
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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
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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
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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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November 28, 2023
Georgia Tech to Help Develop State’s First Climate Action Plan
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The emissions tracker created by a Georgia Tech-led team will play an important role in the work, researchers say.
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November 17, 2023
New Interdisciplinary Research Institute to Launch This Summer
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The Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology and the Institute for Materials have announced they will combine to form a new Interdisciplinary Research Institute set to begin operations on July 1, 2024.
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November 9, 2023
Georgia Tech Leads Department of Energy’s Earthshots Funding with Seven Projects
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Georgia Tech faculty and researchers are involved in five university-led projects and two new Energy Earthshot Research Centers that are part of a $264 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The funding includes establishing 11 new Energy
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October 31, 2023
Eleven Appointed as BBISS Faculty Fellows
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Eleven new Faculty Fellows were appointed to the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems (BBISS).
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October 30, 2023
Janelle Dunlap Turns Beekeeping Into Art
4 min read
The Urban Honey Bee Project’s new beekeeper in residence is creating art and educating the public with her practice.
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October 20, 2023
Georgia Tech Hosts 2023 RCE Americas Meeting
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The Georgia Tech campus recently served as host from September 26 – 29 for students, academics, and working professionals from around the Americas.
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October 18, 2023
NSF Grant to Develop Carbon ‘Nutrition Labels’ for a Sustainable Internet of Things
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Josiah Hester, along with researchers from Cornell and Harvard Universities, has received a $2 million grant from National Science Foundation.
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September 28, 2023
October Events Celebrate Campus Sustainability Month
7 min read
Events throughout the month of October offer a glimpse into the wide-ranging commitment to sustainability at Georgia Tech.
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September 20, 2023
The Sustainability Next Plan Transforms Vision Into Reality
3 min read
On the one-year anniversary of the launch of Sustainability Next, a publicly available version of the plan is being released and several plan initiatives are coming to life.
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September 11, 2023
New Water Treatment Approach Helps to Avoid Harmful Chemicals
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Georgia Institute of Technology researchers developed the minus approach to handle these harmful byproducts.
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September 6, 2023
Echoes of Extinctions: Novel Method Unearths Disruptions in Mammal Trait-Environment Relationships
7 min read
Their novel approach showed how mammal traits evolved with changing environments over time and revealed factors that contributed to biodiversity loss.
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August 28, 2023
CEE Researchers Awarded $2.1 Million Grant to Ensure Cleaner, Safer Drinking Water
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The EPA is funding the research on the occurrence and concentration of pathogens and disinfection by-products and the environmental conditions favorable to their growth in drinking water distribution systems.
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July 19, 2023
Aluminum Materials Show Promising Performance for Safer, Cheaper, More Powerful Batteries
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The team’s new battery system could enable electric vehicles to run longer on a single charge and would be cheaper to manufacture — all while having a positive impact on the environment.
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