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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.

March 30, 2023

CREATE-X Alumnus Co-founds Supercopy AI After Trial and Error

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After five attempts and a corporate career stint, Richard Lee finally founded his own startup, an AI writing tool for marketers called Supercopy.

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.

Driving Change: Georgia Tech experts are leading the way in EV innovation

March 21, 2023

Driving Change: Georgia Tech Experts Lead in Electrification of America’s Roads

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Electric vehicles are becoming increasingly popular, and with economic and environmental impacts colliding, Georgia Tech experts are leading the way in the development of next-generation solutions.

Group photo of the Sustainable-X participants and facilitators.

January 3, 2023

Georgia Tech Launches Sustainable-X Entrepreneurship Program

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The new program provides support to those who want to start businesses that solve social and environmental challenges.

September 1, 2022

Letter from the BBISS Interim Director, Beril Toktay

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Beril Toktay's letter of introduction as interim director of the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems.

April 20, 2022

With Recent Funding, Sea Level Sensor Project in Savannah Moves into New Phase

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The rising sea levels along Georgia’s Savannah coast and an uptick in more severe storms during hurricane season are bellwethers to looming ecological challenges stemming from climate change.

January 21, 2022

Looking Ahead 2022 and beyond

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Five trends that will reshape our lives in 2022

December 20, 2021

Microelectronics Momentum Drives the Nation’s Semiconductor Resurgence

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Georgia Tech serves as a vital partner in training the microelectronics workforce, driving future microelectronics advances, and providing unique fabrication and packaging facilities to develop and test new solutions.

Aaron Stebner leads lab class at Advanced Manufacturing Pilot Facility at Georgia Tech

December 16, 2021

Georgia Tech Leads Effort to Strengthen State’s Defense Manufacturing Industry

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Department of Defense grant enables collaboration with Spelman College, Technical College System of Georgia, and the Georgia Department of Economic Development in pilot project

December 14, 2021

Georgia Tech Wins Commerce Department Grant to Develop AI Manufacturing Economic Corridor

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The Georgia Institute of Technology was awarded a grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) as part of its $1 billion Build Back Better Regional Challenge.

December 8, 2021

Five Critical Questions About Supply Chain

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Five Critical Questions About Supply Chain - It’s Causes, Impact, and Resolutions: A Q&A with Scheller College Vinod Singhal, Manpreet Hora, and Ravi Subramanian

November 30, 2021

2021 InVenture Prize Finalists: Where Are They Now? SPOT Harness is Fostering New Tech for Handicapped Pets

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InVenture Prize Finalist SPOT Harness is Fostering New Tech for Handicapped Pets

April 27, 2017

HHL Conference announces Keynote speaker Rick Brennan, Director of Emergency Operations at World Health Organization (WHO)

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The 9th annual Health & Humanitarian Logistics Conference draws practitioners from across various sectors to discuss supply chain, logistics, and systems design for global health and humanitarian response / long-term development.