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A researcher works in a cotton field in Jenkins County, Georgia, as part of a project on AI and pesticide use. Dorothy Seybold

September 23, 2025

What Happens When AI Comes to the Cotton Fields

6 min read

A Georgia Tech team is piloting AI-powered sensors to help cotton farmers optimize pesticide use.

Students across Georgia are designing and 3D printing pinewood derby cars as part of a new hands-on advanced manufacturing initiative.

September 23, 2025

Advanced Manufacturing Takes Off in Georgia Classrooms

4 min read

Launched this fall, Georgia Tech’s Advanced Manufacturing Pathways Program works to spark interest in high-tech careers and strengthen Georgia’s talent pipeline.

September 23, 2025

Georgia Tech Opens New Aircraft Prototyping Laboratory

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Georgia Tech celebrates the opening of its new Aircraft Prototyping Laboratory, a facility dedicated to advancing research in electric and autonomous flight in collaboration with academic, government, and industry partners.

James Stroud examines a lizard in the field. (Credit: Day’s Edge Productions)

September 22, 2025

James Stroud Receives Maxwell/Hanrahan Award in Field Biology

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The award recognizes outstanding scientists conducting field research that both explores the natural world and leverages collaboration.

September 20, 2025

Postdoctoral Researcher Jiaqi Wang Earns 2025 TSL Best Paper Award

2 min read

His research tackles a critical real-world problem: how emergency response teams can efficiently assess earthquake damage when resources are limited.

September 19, 2025

The Georgia Tech Library presents AI Week 2025

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Join the Georgia Tech Library in person and virtually Tuesday Oct. 14 through Thursday, Oct. 16 for our inaugural AI Week, a mix of panel discussions and seminars.

September 19, 2025

Mathematics Meets Rocket Science: Jaden Wang Awarded NASA Research Opportunity

3 min read

Wang has been awarded a NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunity to develop mathematically grounded solutions for landing spacecraft.

Biomedical Engineering graduate students work on their custom hydraulic press

September 18, 2025

Adipose Under Pressure: IMS Facilities Highlight

2 min read

Using tools in the MPCF, biomedical students developed a method to refine fat grafts by applying intense pressure to isolate beneficial tissue.

Georgia Tech's Tech Tower with flowers blooming in the foreground

September 18, 2025

The Robotic Breakthrough That Could Help Stroke Survivors Reclaim Their Stride

5 min read

Georgia Tech's AI-fueled exoskeleton adapts to every step, helping patients relearn to walk with less effort and more confidence.

September 18, 2025

A Step Forward: New Smart Shoe Insert Could Improve Mobility for People With Walking Problems

3 min read

The affordable wearable measures foot pressure and could improve stroke and Parkinson’s therapy.

September 17, 2025

Two IC Faculty Receive NSF CAREER for Robotics and AR/VR Initiatives

4 min read

Two Georgia Tech professors, Danfei Xu and Yalong Yang, have received the prestigious NSF CAREER award for their research in robotics, which focuses on teaching robots to self-improve, and in augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR), which aims to create imm

A flare burns natural gas at an oil well on Aug. 26, 2021, in Watford City, N.D.

September 17, 2025

Why Do Big Oil Companies Invest in Green Energy?

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Despite the relatively modest scale of investment in clean energy by oil and gas companies so far, there are several business reasons oil companies would increase their investments in clean energy over time.

ATP synthase is an enzyme that has been using phosphate to generate life’s energy for millions of years.

September 16, 2025

Molecular ‘Fossils’ Offer Microscopic Clues to the Origins of Life – But They Take Care to Interpret

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The questions of how humankind came to be, and whether we are alone in the universe, have captured imaginations for millennia. But to answer these questions, scientists must first understand life itself and how it could have arisen.

An aerial photo of the SPRUCE experiment.

September 16, 2025

Meet the Microbes: What a Warming Wetland Reveals About Earth’s Carbon Future

5 min read

A new study is unearthing how and why peatlands are producing carbon dioxide and methane.

September 16, 2025

Saad Bhamla Named 2025 Schmidt Polymath

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Schmidt Sciences announces next cohort of early-to mid- career scientists to each receive up to $2.5 million to pursue novel research

September 16, 2025

Faculty Awarded $3.2 Million NIH Grant to Advance Research on Aging and Walking

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Three Georgia Tech researchers have received a $3.2 million Research Project Grant (R01) from the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Institute on Aging (NIA).

September 16, 2025

New Links in Air Pollution and Dementia

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Scientists team up to better understand how certain types of air pollution increase the risk of developing dementia.

Lukas Berg (right), who flew several variants of the UH-60 Blackhawk over the course of his career, celebrated his final flight before joining the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute in August.

September 16, 2025

Georgia Tech Taps Military Talent to Boost Manufacturing Workforce

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Georgia Tech’s partnership with the Hiring Our Heroes program grows with a new fellowship placement focused on rural outreach and manufacturing workforce readiness.

2025 SEI External Faculty Fellows with their Georgia Tech Hosts

September 16, 2025

Third Cohort of the Energy Faculty Fellow Program Attracts Multidisciplinary Researchers

6 min read

The Strategic Energy Institute (SEI) at Georgia Tech concluded its third cohort of Energy Faculty Fellows in August, welcoming a diverse group of researchers for a 10-week summer fellowship.