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October 9, 2025

Storms Are Changing — Should the Hurricane Scale Change Too?

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Georgia Tech expert Zachary Handlos joins a growing conversation about whether the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale adequately reflects the full range of hurricane hazards in a changing climate.

Vijay Balasubramaniyan (PhD CS 2011), CEO and co-founder of Pindrop Security

October 8, 2025

When a Video Isn’t Real: Georgia Tech Alum Innovates Deepfake Detection for a New Era of Fraud

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Generative AI is accelerating the evolution of cybercrime, prompting companies to develop new tools for protecting their businesses.

October 8, 2025

Winnie Chu Awarded NSF CAREER Grant to Create First-Ever Map of Antarctic Ice Sheet Base Temperatures

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The grant will support Chu as she uses radar data and generative AI to map temperatures beneath the Antarctica ice sheet, aiming to improve climate predictions, support coastal planning, and train future scientists through open-access tools and education.

October 8, 2025

Winnie Chu Awarded NSF CAREER Grant to Create First-Ever Map of Antarctic Ice Sheet Base Temperatures

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cover of the 2023-2030 Sustainability Next Plan

October 7, 2025

BBISS Announces 2025 Sustainability Next Seed Grant Recipients

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The seed grant program reaches many faculty members from a diverse array of disciplines due to the generous support provided by broad-based partnerships in addition to the Sustainability Next funds.

October 7, 2025

ChBE Professor Leads Team Awarded $9.2M NSF Grant to Build “Plug-and-Play” Biotechnology

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Researchers received a $9.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to accelerate the adoption of cell-free systems in biomanufacturing.

October 6, 2025

Revered Faculty Uses Teaching to Nurture Students and Research Community

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Assistant Professor Raphaël Pestourie has earned back-to-back selections to the Institute’s Course Instructor Opinion Survey (CIOS) honor roll, placing him among the top-ranked teachers for Fall 2024 and Spring 2025.

October 6, 2025

Revered Faculty Uses Teaching to Nurture Students and Research Community

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October 6, 2025

Initiative Lead Q&A: Akanksha Menon on Designing the Future of Buildings

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Menon discusses her interdisciplinary approach to improving building sustainability and efficiency through advanced materials and systems.

AI-generated image of Socrates, sculpted in marble, looking contemplatively at a laptop.

October 6, 2025

From Socrates to ChatGPT: The Ancient Lesson AI-powered Language Models Have Yet to Learn

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A Georgia Tech CS professor is a co-author of a new OpenAI study that examines why large language models struggle to say, 'I don't know.'

October 6, 2025

From Socrates to ChatGPT: The Ancient Lesson AI-powered Language Models Have Yet to Learn

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A Georgia Tech CS professor is a co-author of a new OpenAI study that examines why large language models struggle to say, 'I don't know.'

October 6, 2025

Lack of Charging Station Data Deters Widespread Adoption of Electric Vehicles

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Researchers suggest that states should regulate data transparency to improve the reliability of electric vehicles.

Collage of four images taken at the New York Climate Exchange 2025 events with Georgia Tech participants.

October 3, 2025

Georgia Tech’s Growing Climate Innovation Footprint: Reflections from Climate Week NYC

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Across five New York Climate Exchange partner events, the Georgia Tech community demonstrated something essential: Georgia Tech bridges research and real-world impact where it matters most – in people’s lives.

October 2, 2025

Georgia Tech’s Nakia Melecio Named Fulbright Scholar

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Melecio awarded Fulbright Scholar recognition for his global leadership in research commercialization and innovation ecosystem building

Photo of the U.S. Capital Building in the fall.

October 1, 2025

Navigating the Federal Government Shutdown

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As of Oct. 1, the U.S. government has failed to reach a spending agreement in time to avoid a shutdown of the federal government.

Executive Director Jud Ready presenting inside a room at the Marcus Nanotechnology Building for SRI's inaugural meeting.

October 1, 2025

Georgia Tech’s Space Research Institute Holds Inaugural Meeting

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Georgia Tech’s Space Research Institute (SRI) hosted its inaugural meeting on September 5, drawing more than 130 researchers from across campus to outline its vision, foster collaboration, and highlight the breadth of space research underway.

October 1, 2025

Once-in-a-Decade Conference Spotlights Interactive Computing Researchers

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Three researchers from Georgia Tech's School of Interactive Computing (IC)—Cindy Lin, Lynn Dombrowski, and Shaowen Bardzell—were selected to present their paper at the highly selective Aarhus Conference in Denmark.

A view of Greenland's ice sheet from the NASA/USGS Landsat 8 satellite showing meltwater lakes on a glacier. (Credit: NASA)

October 1, 2025

The Future of Antarctic Ice: New Study Reveals the Mathematics of Meltwater Lakes

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Simple equations are revealing how topography controls supraglacial lake size in Antarctica — and why it matters for climate predictions.

September 30, 2025

Nathan Wallace Takes Steps to Advance Prosthetics

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Born with a congenital limb disorder, Wallace wants to use his own experience to develop new prosthetics.

School of Physics Professor Sven Simon greeted some of the new astrophysics majors.

September 29, 2025

Astrophysics Major and Minor Launched at Georgia Tech

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The undergraduate astrophysics program introduces students to the fundamental physical processes and laws that govern the cosmos. This foundational curriculum is complemented by training in computational and data analysis techniques.