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November 14, 2025

Program Lead Q&A: Advancing Quantum Sensing for Next-Generation Technologies

3 min read

The research program brings together experts in physics and engineering to develop compact, high-performance quantum sensing systems that align with national research priorities.

Artificial Intelligence, City Planning, Transportation, and Urban Growth, Community, Computer Science/Information Technology and Security, Research, Student Research

Artificial Intelligence, City Planning, Transportation, and Urban Growth, Community, Computer Science/Information Technology and Security, Research, Student Research

November 14, 2025

Researchers Find Opportunities for 311 Chatbots to Foster Community Engagement

4 min read

AI-powered 311 chatbots may unitentionally reduce residents' sense of connection within their community.

Researcher adjusting a device on another person’s head in a lab, with a computer displaying brain imaging data and a mounted camera in the background.

November 13, 2025

Georgia Tech Uses Computing and Engineering Methods to Shift Neuroscience Paradigms

1 min read

Faculty at Georgia Tech use their expertise in engineering, math, and computer science to apply common principles of these disciplines to neuroscience research.

This close-up illustration shows what one of the twin ESCAPADE spacecraft will look like conducting its science operations. James Rattray/Rocket Lab USA/Goddard Space Flight Center

November 13, 2025

NASA Goes On an ESCAPADE – Twin Small, Low-Cost Orbiters Will Examine Mars’ Atmosphere

7 min read

Envision a time when hundreds of spacecraft are exploring the solar system and beyond. That’s the future that NASA’s ESCAPADE, or Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, mission will help unleash.

China’s Shenzhou-20 spacecraft – shown here hitching a ride on a Long March-2F carrier rocket – was hit by a piece of space debris. Pedro Pardo/AFP via Getty Images

November 13, 2025

Space Debris Struck a Chinese Spacecraft – How the Incident Could Be a Wake-up Call for International Collaboration

6 min read

China’s Shenzhou-20 spacecraft took a hit from a piece of space debris floating through orbit, causing Chinese officials to delay the spacecraft’s return from its Tiangong space station in early November 2025.

Collage of seven portraits of the 2025 BBISS Faculty Fellows

November 13, 2025

BBISS Welcomes Seven New Faculty Fellows

2 min read

As fellows, they serve as strategic advisors, help cultivate a vibrant community of sustainability-focused scholars and students across Georgia Tech, and champion the Institute’s mission, values, and goals to broader audiences.

Artificial Intelligence, City Planning, Transportation, and Urban Growth, Economic Development and Policy, Energy, Environment, Research

Artificial intelligence doesn’t just consume energy via data centers and hardware. It also increases productivity, which comes with its own energy and emissions costs.

Artificial Intelligence, City Planning, Transportation, and Urban Growth, Economic Development and Policy, Energy, Environment, Research

November 13, 2025

AI Increases Productivity, And That Comes With Energy Costs

1 min read

Artificial intelligence doesn’t just consume energy via data centers and hardware. It also increases productivity, which comes with its own energy and emissions costs.

November 12, 2025

Founders Night Highlights Innovation and Collaboration

3 min read

The event showcased how The Institute for Matter and Systems connects academic expertise with entrepreneurial ambition, accelerating technologies from concept to commercialization.

Environment, Life Sciences and Biology, Research, Student and Faculty

The Canada Jay is one of the birds struggling in the Pacific Northwest. (Credit: Mason Maron)

Environment, Life Sciences and Biology, Research, Student and Faculty

November 12, 2025

A 30-Year “Snapshot” of Pacific Northwestern Birds Shows Their Surprising Resilience

4 min read

After discovering a historic bird survey in the Pacific Northwest, Georgia Tech’s Ben Freeman located the original sites, repeating the surveys three decades later.

Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science/Information Technology and Security

Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science/Information Technology and Security

November 12, 2025

Professor Earns Test-of-Time Award at AI and Computer Gaming Conference

2 min read

Professor Mark Riedl received the first-ever test-of-time award from the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE).

Economic Development and Policy, Education, Energy, Industry

Economic Development and Policy, Education, Energy, Industry

November 11, 2025

New Energy Management Course Aims to Keep Georgia SMEs Competitive

1 min read

The Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business, in partnership with Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business Executive Education and the Georgia Manufacturing Extension Partnership, is launching an Energy Management and Reporting course.

Institute Leadership

Rebecca Watts Hull and her husband Jonathan pose at a scenic overlook on a hiking trip.

Institute Leadership

November 11, 2025

Community Spotlight – Rebecca Watts Hull

4 min read

Rebecca Watts Hull wants to transform what students learn and how faculty across campus connect, innovate, and inspire action for a sustainable future.

Artificial Intelligence, Research

November 11, 2025

Anton Leykin Awarded AI for Math Fund Grant

2 min read

Leykin and his international team are developing an AI-powered interface to link proof verification and computational algebra, aiming to transform how mathematicians collaborate and solve complex problems.

Biotechnology, Health, Bioengineering, Genetics

President Ángel Cabrera of Georgia Tech stands at a podium and delivers a speech.

Biotechnology, Health, Bioengineering, Genetics

November 10, 2025

Georgia Tech Hosts Annual Summit Devoted to Pediatric Health Innovation

3 min read

The Pediatric Healthcare Innovation Summit 2025 convened experts, entrepreneurs, and clinicians to accelerate breakthrough technologies and collaborative solutions aimed at transforming pediatric care.

Energy, National Interests/National Security, Research

Fan Zhang, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech

Energy, National Interests/National Security, Research

November 10, 2025

Fan Zhang Named to American Nuclear Society’s 40 Under 40 List

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Fan Zhang, an assistant professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering’s Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics (NREMP) program, has been named to the American Nuclear Society’s (ANS) 40 Under 40 list.

Picture upper left: Philipp Gutruf, Alex Adams, Hong Yeo, and Kimberlee McKay. Picture upper right: workshop attendees. Picture lower left: Rudy Gleason, Shelly Spires, Brad Jones, and Ruwanthi Ekanayake. Picture lower right: Hong Yeo, Garan Byun, and Clint Zeagler.

November 10, 2025

Wearable Health Equity Workshop

3 min read

The second Wearable Health Equity Workshop was held on October 30, 2025, at the Georgia Tech Marcus Nanotechnology Building. The workshop presented some of the latest wearable health technologies and offered practical solutions for advancing rural healthc

‘Big-box’ supercenters can contribute to overpurchasing by shoppers. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images

November 10, 2025

The ‘Supercenter’ Effect: How Massive, One-Stop Retailers Fuel Overconsumption − and Waste

4 min read

A recent study found that the presence of supercenters – large retailers that sell groceries alongside general merchandise – results in a significant uptick in consumer waste due to overpurchasing.

Passengers walk through the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Nov. 7, 2025. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

November 7, 2025

What to Know as Hundreds of Flights are Grounded Across the US

7 min read

Major airports across the United States were subject to a 4% reduction in flights on Nov. 7, 2025, as the government shutdown began to affect travelers.

November 6, 2025

Undergraduate Neuroscience Research Program Gives Georgia Tech Students an Advantage

4 min read

Each year, more than 100 undergraduates conduct neuroscience research in labs across campus.

Environment, Institute Leadership, Research, State Impact

The Georgia Tech contingent gather for a group photo at the 2025 Georgia Resiliency Conference.

Environment, Institute Leadership, Research, State Impact

November 6, 2025

Georgia Tech Attendees Reflect on the Georgia Resiliency Conference 2025

5 min read

Faculty, administration, research fellows, students, collaborators, and Georgia Tech President Emeritus and keynote speaker G. Wayne Clough brought diverse perspectives to discussions ranging from coastal vulnerability to data-driven decision-making.