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Six people in dark blue boiler suits standing in the control room of a ship

June 11, 2024

Researchers Help Maritime Industry Navigate Toward Sustainability

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GT researchers Valerie Thomas and Patricia Stathatou are working toward a sustainable future for ocean shipping

Small Village in Green Hills at Congo River, Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa

May 20, 2024

Harnessing AI to Reduce Food Insecurity in Africa

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Researchers in the School of Economics hope the tool they're developing can help policymakers and community organizations implement more timely and targeted interventions to alleviate hunger on the continent.

May 17, 2024

CREATE-X Alumnus Launches to Acquisition

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Parth Arora, Georgia Tech computer science senior and founder of Third Dimension Fitness, leveraged his entrepreneurial skills and CREATE-X’s resources to grow his startup, leading to its acquisition by Elbo as he prepares to join Apple’s VisionPro team.

Omar Asensio is Associate Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology and Climate Fellow, Harvard Business School

April 22, 2024

Georgia Tech Microsoft CloudHub Partnership Explores Electric Vehicle Adoption

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Business and government sectors are embracing electric vehicles, but are U.S. drivers on the same road?

April 16, 2024

SCL's Chris Gaffney Speaks at Recent The Home Depot / ATDC Portfolio Showcase

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ATDC's Supply Chain vertical hosts panel discussion and supply chain startup showcase

April 4, 2024

Can Metro Atlanta Handle 1.8 Million More Residents?

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Georgia Tech experts examine how the Atlanta region can prepare for the projected addition of nearly 2 million residents by 2050.

Omar Asensio, visiting fellow, Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society

March 18, 2024

Civic Data Analysis Finds New Opportunity for Federal Energy Efficiency Initiatives

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A new study from the School of Public Policy finds that federal housing policies accelerate energy efficiency participation among low and moderate-income households — even when those policies don’t directly address energy efficiency.

IRIM Director Seth Hutchinson at Hyundai Meta Factory Conference Delivering Keynote

March 4, 2024

IRIM Director Delivers Keynote at Hyundai Meta-Factory Conference

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Seth Hutchinson, executive director of the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines at Georgia Tech, delivered a keynote lecture at the 2024 Hyundai Meta-Factory Conference.

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.

Winners of the EGHI/GT Hackathon stand together at Tech Square ATL Social

December 7, 2023

Team iManhole Wins Fall 2023 EGHI/GT Global Health Hackathon

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Students tackled climate change in the Fall 2023 Emory Global Health Institute (EGHI) /Georgia Institute of Technology (GT) Global Health Hackathon, Nov. 11, at Tech Square ATL Social.

November 8, 2023

EI² Kicks Off Programming in Colombia with CREATE-X

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CREATE-X, in partnership with the Enterprise Innovation Institute’s (EI²) Medellín Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (GTMC), has rolled out its first international program in Medellín, Colombia.

November 8, 2023

EI² Kicks Off Programming in Colombia with CREATE-X

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CREATE-X, in partnership with the Enterprise Innovation Institute’s (EI²) Medellín Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (GTMC), has rolled out its first international program in Medellín, Colombia.

October 12, 2023

EI2 Programs Help Keep Georgia Businesses Lean and Healthy

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SHES and GaMEP are collaborating to help Georgia businesses thrive.

President Cabrera signs MoU with Hyundai.

September 19, 2023

Hyundai, Georgia Tech Celebrate Partnership With Memorandum Signing

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Georgia Tech and Hyundai leaders gathered Tuesday to celebrate the newly forged partnership that will create innovative solutions to advance sustainable mobility, the hydrogen economy, and workforce development.

This image shows Sean Madhavaraman, one of the leaders at GaMEP examining work product at Silon in Peachtree City, Georgia.

September 6, 2023

Georgia Tech’s GaMEP is Driving Innovation Across Georgia

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Georgia Tech faculty members are working with manufacturers in Georgia to solve problems and introduce innovations that help ensure manufacturing stays strong and advances in the state.

May 4, 2023

Undergraduate Sustainability Education Innovation Grants Will Transform Courses in All Six Colleges

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21 projects representing all six colleges and 15 schools were presented at the Undergraduate Sustainability Education Jamboree.

April 20, 2023

Physics to Host Climate Talk with Former U.S. Secretary of Energy, Nobel Laureate

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Physicist Steven Chu was the first person appointed to the U.S. Cabinet after having won a Nobel Prize. On April 26, he will deliver a public lecture at Georgia Tech on climate change and innovative paths towards a more sustainable future.

Students in Thomasville, Ga. explain their invention to a competition judge as a part of Georgia Tech’s expanding K-12 InVenture Prize program.

April 5, 2023

Georgia Tech’s CEISMC at Center of $65 Million Federally Funded Statewide Initiative Combining AI and Manufacturing Innovations

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Georgia AIM will support a total of nine inter-related projects throughout the state and is designed to increase job and wage opportunities in distressed and rural communities and among historically underrepresented and underserved people.

April 4, 2023

Georgia Tech Battery Day Reveals Opportunities in Energy Storage Research

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More than 230 energy research and industry participants convened to discuss and advance energy storage technologies during Georgia Tech Battery Day.

Jenn Voelker and Julia Vorpahl at the Karma Automotive headquarters in Irvine, California

March 23, 2023

Two Tech Women Pave Their Own Way in Automotive Industry

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Georgia Tech graduates Jenn Voelker and Julia Vorpahl are in the driver’s seat working for Karma Automotive in California.