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March 6, 2026

Personal Resilience as a Path to Meaningful Sustainability Work

6 min read

Georgia Tech faculty invite the campus sustainability community to find the intersection of what they do best, what they love, and where they can make the biggest climate impact.

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March 6, 2026

Target the Tumor. Spare the Body.

1 min read

Housley and his team are developing self‑assembling nanohydrogels that deliver cancer drugs only when they reach tumor‑specific conditions, aiming to reduce side effects and make treatment more precise across multiple cancer types.

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March 6, 2026

Georgia Tech Energy Day: Meeting AI’s Growing Energy Demands

5 min read

Join us on March 19 as we explore one of the most urgent questions facing the nation: How do we power an AI‑driven future?

Michelle Gu, Aditi Ashok, Caitlin Woodward, Elizabeth Thompson, and Vedita Sawhney pose with Stretch and their award certificates. They won $1000 and the opportunity to develop their concept in the Aware Home.

March 5, 2026

Georgia Tech Students Stretch the Future of Assistive Robotics

2 min read

Now in its fourth year, the Stretch Robot Pitch Competition continues to evolve into one of Georgia Tech’s most imaginative and human‑centered design challenges.

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March 5, 2026

Engineers Week Brings Georgia Tech Research to Classrooms Across the State

3 min read

More than 6,200 high school students across Georgia tuned in for Engineers Week 2026, joining a series of online talks hosted by Georgia Tech that offered a glimpse into the technologies shaping the future.

March 4, 2026

Building Space, Tools, and Trust

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Gary Spinner went from an unexpected start in engineering to a 30‑year career at Georgia Tech, where he helped expand the cleanroom, mentored generations of students, and led the creation of SUMS — a tool that transformed access to core research facilitie

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March 4, 2026

Mentor Spotlight: Alison Sizer — From Apple and Nike to Supporting Founders

5 min read

Alison Sizer, a former Apple and Nike strategist turned founder of Growth Impact, now mentors CREATE‑X startups by helping them deepen customer understanding, refine value propositions, and build pathways to growth through her global innovation network.

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March 4, 2026

Georgia Tech Receives Up to $21.8M Award in ‘Unprecedented’ Push to Treat Lymphatic Disease

3 min read

The project aims to move lymphatic disease out of the medical margins and toward patients who have had few meaningful treatment options.

Gov. Brian Kemp signs the amended FY26 budget on March 3.

March 3, 2026

State to Invest $88M in New Georgia Tech Aerospace Building

2 min read

An $88 million state investment will propel building plans and advance Georgia’s growing aerospace sector.

March 3, 2026

New ‘Touchable Sound’ Museum Display Makes Data More Accessible

4 min read

Georgia Tech researchers have developed a prototype “touchable sound” museum display that uses sonification and tactile maps to make complex scientific data about ocean habitats more accessible to blind and low-vision visitors.

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March 3, 2026

Renewable Bioproducts Institute Names Strategic Initiative Leaders to Advance Microbial Innovation and Business Integration

3 min read

The Renewable Bioproducts Institute (RBI) has appointed two additional Strategic Initiative Leaders (SILs) to help shape the next phase of its research and engagement strategy: Joel Kostka and Titiksha Fernandes.

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February 27, 2026

IPaT Research Scientists Supporting Pediatric Research

5 min read

The Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) is deeply engaged in advancing pediatric research and clinical innovation through a partnership with the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Pediatric Technology Center at Georgia Tech (PTC).

February 27, 2026

New Research Priorities Chart Course Toward Impactful, Energy-Efficient Computing

3 min read

Georgia Tech faculty members contributed to two DOE Advanced Scientific Computing Research program workshops. Recently published reports of their work may yield more energy-efficient computers and better predictions for environmental challenges.

Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL cargo craft approaches the International Space Station

February 26, 2026

New Space Startups Take Off at Georgia Tech

5 min read

These six faculty- and student-led startups will tackle space innovations with terrestrial applications.

Picture of David Sherrill who has been Named Executive Director of the Institute for Data Engineering and Science

February 26, 2026

David Sherrill Named Executive Director of the Institute for Data Engineering and Science

3 min read

Georgia Tech has appointed David Sherrill as executive director of the Institute for Data Engineering and Science (IDEaS), effective March 1.

Five professors named senior members of NAI.

February 26, 2026

Five Georgia Tech Faculty Named to NAI Senior Members Class of 2026

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The professors have been recognized for patenting and commercializing technologies with real-world impact.

Scanning electron microscope image of a tiny, arch-like structure made of looped, rope-textured material. A scale bar indicates the structure is on the order of 100 micrometers wide.

February 26, 2026

Celebrating Science Through Imagery

2 min read

Through its first Users Image Contest, the Institute for Matter and Systems celebrated the creativity and cutting-edge research captured in images produced across its core facilities.

February 25, 2026

Safe Artificial Intelligence Isn’t Enough, According to New Georgia Tech Research

3 min read

Fairness, honesty, and transparency are needed in AI for it to benefit humanity.

A graphic showing an AI model in an outstretched hand.

February 25, 2026

Is This Your AI? Researchers Crack AI Blackbox

3 min read

Researchers have developed a technique to identify the origins of proprietary “black-box” AI models, even when their internal structure and training data are hidden.