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May 2, 2024

Georgia Tech and Meta Create Massive Open Dataset to Advance AI Solutions for Carbon Capture

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The project aims to accelerate direct air capture development while significantly reducing costs.

April 30, 2024

Generating Buzz: Climate Change Takes Center Stage

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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.

April 23, 2024

Seed Grants Fund Research Centers for Critical Minerals, Spatial Computation and Navigation

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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.

Omar Asensio is Associate Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology and Climate Fellow, Harvard Business School

April 22, 2024

Georgia Tech Microsoft CloudHub Partnership Explores Electric Vehicle Adoption

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Business and government sectors are embracing electric vehicles, but are U.S. drivers on the same road?

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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.

April 10, 2024

Community Spotlight - Tamsin Leavy

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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

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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.

April 2, 2024

Hirsch Presents to National Academies Workshop

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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

Community Spotlight - Josiah Hester

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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.

Nicole Kennard introduces Georgia Tech Alum Andrew White on the stage at the Atlantic Theater.

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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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.

February 14, 2024

Community Spotlight - Emma Blandford

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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.

Overhead view of the Re-Wind crew doing structural testing on a decommissioned wind turbine blade bridge on an industrial lot.

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?

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Researchers in the Ivan Allen College think big to explore questions of sustainability on Earth, in outer space, and on a cosmic scale.

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.

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.

Montage of portraits of the inaugural class of BBISS Graduate Fellows. L to R, top to bottom, Bettina Arkhurst, Katherine Duchesneau, Marjorie Hall, Meaghan McSorley, Udita Ringania, Ioanna Maria Spyrou, Yilun 'Elon' Zha.

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.

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.

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.