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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.

Participants of the 2024 Georgia Partnerships for Essential Minerals (GEMs) Workshop held on February 2, 2024

February 15, 2024

Georgia Partnerships for Essential Minerals (GEMs) Workshop: Paving the Way for Critical Mineral Production

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To address the importance of critical minerals in the clean energy transition, 45 attendees from academia, government, industry, & national labs gathered at the University of Georgia for the inaugural Georgia partnerships for Essential Minerals Workshop.

From Left: George White, Julia Kubanek, Chaouki T. Abdallah, Scott DeBoer, Steve McLaughlin

February 15, 2024

Georgia Tech and Micron Collaborate to Expand Access to Engineering Education

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The Georgia Institute of Technology announced the signing of a master research agreement with Micron Technology

February 15, 2024

Georgia Partnerships for Essential Minerals (GEMs) Workshop: Paving the Way for Critical Mineral Production - Cloned

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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.

February 12, 2024

Georgia Tech, University of Waterloo Forge Partnership to Advance AI Initiatives

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Georgia Tech and Waterloo collaborate to enhance academic and research partnerships, with a focus on areas such as AI, faculty exchanges, and joint research projects.

February 8, 2024

Athena Receives Prestigious Stanford Energy Postdoctoral Fellowship

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The ECE Ph.D. candidate will research emerging materials and devices for energy-efficient sustainable computing.

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February 7, 2024

Georgia Tech Named Top-Ranked Public University in Energy

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U.S. News & World Report has ranked the Georgia Institute of Technology as the top public university and No. 3 nationally in energy and fuels research.

February 6, 2024

Mokhtarian, Sholl Elected to National Academy of Engineering

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CEE, ChBE professors are the 47th and 48th members of the Academy from Georgia Tech.

Simple schematic documenting the path of air pollution from emissions to outcomes. This review discusses the challenges of measuring how emissions of pollutants (step 1) disperse through the air (step 2) to become eventual exposures (step 3) and health outcomes (step 4).

February 5, 2024

EPICenter Faculty Affiliates Examine How Economists Contribute to Our Understanding of Pollution’s Health Impact

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EPICenter faculty affiliates Dylan Brewer, Daniel Dench, and Interim Director Laura Taylor compare methods used in epidemiology literature with the causal inference framework used in economics in analyzing the effect of air pollution on health outcomes.

Three museum staff stand in front of the museum doors holding a very large sheet of paper and a plaque.

February 2, 2024

Museum Receives Award

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"Big Paper" was the Big Winner!

he map compilation was published by the Georgia Geologic Survey in 1976 as the Geologic Map of Georgia. Source: USGS

January 31, 2024

Georgia’s Universities and the Georgia Mining Association Convene on Essential Minerals for the Energy Sector

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A regional consortium led by the Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Georgia, and Georgia State University, in collaboration with the Georgia Mining Association, will host an inaugural workshop on Georgia partnerships for Essential Minerals

January 29, 2024

The Energy, Policy, and Innovation Center Launches EPICenter Faculty Affiliate Program

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EPICenter has named the first class of faculty affiliates in the EPICenter Faculty Affiliates program.

Pictured left to right, top to bottom: Director of Design and Innovation Amit Jariwala, Professor Julie Linsey, Associate Chair for Administration Bert Bras, and Professor Yan Wang.

January 29, 2024

Innovation and Education: The Woodruff School's Unique Approach to Design for Mechanical Engineers

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The intersection of design and innovation drives engineering, shaping the future of products and manufacturing processes. At the forefront of this intersection is the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering.

Aerial shot showing members of the Re-Wind Network stand in front of a pedestrian bridge made using decommissioned wind turbine blades

January 26, 2024

Pioneering Process Leads to Big Win for Tech Research Team

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Pioneering a new recycling approach led to a big win for Re-Wind USA, a Georgia Tech research team led by Russell Gentry. The team has won the first phase of the Department of Energy's Wind Turbine Materials Recycling Prize, receiving $75,000 and an invit

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.

Astronaut floating in space with Earth behind them

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.

January 23, 2024

IMat Initiative Lead Q&A: Valeria Milam

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Milam leads the Macromolecular Materials at Biotic and Abiotic Interfaces research initiative for the Institute for Materials (IMat) and Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences at Georgia Tech.