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

April 18, 2025

Georgia Tech’s RBI Explores Biomass Integration with Traditional Refineries

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A discussion around the challenges and solutions for biomass integration with traditional refineries

April 17, 2025

Thesis on Human-Centered AI Earns Honors from International Computing Organization

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Zijie (Jay) Wang (Ph.D. ML-CSE 2024) is a recipient of the 2025 Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI).

April 16, 2025

Liquid Cooling Technology Developed at Georgia Tech Awarded U.S. Patent, Company Raising Capital to Scale

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EMCOOL's technology solves overheating in electronics.

Georgia Tech Beautification Day volunteers on the rooftop of CNES building, with the cleaned solar panels in the background

April 15, 2025

Harnessing Solar Power: Georgia Tech Students Clean PV Panels for Research and Sustainability

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Georgia Tech Beautification Day brought student volunteers to the Carbon Neutral Energy Solutions Building to clean the building's solar PV arrays.

April 15, 2025

Meet the Expert: Daniel Molzahn

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The NSF grant winner and associate professor is working to improve the resilience of power grids while also indulging in his other love: history.

Railroads are key components of the nation’s critical infrastructure. Jeremy Epstein poses with rail cars on a siding. (Credit: Sean McNeil, GTRI)

April 14, 2025

Jeremy Epstein Joins Georgia Tech-PNNL Cybersecurity Institute

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To be based at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), Jeremy Epstein will serve as co-director of ICARIS, collaborating with PNNL co-director Danny Herrera to identify and develop ways to confront threats against the nation’s critical infrastructure.

April 11, 2025

Georgia Tech Researchers Pioneer Eco-Friendly Building Materials for Earth and Mars

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A new study explores reconfigurable, sustainable construction materials that could transform how we build on this planet — and beyond.

Energy and National Security Seed Funding Phase 2 Awardees and their Projects

April 9, 2025

GTRI and SEI Announce Recipients of Phase Two Seed Funding From the Energy and National Security Initiative

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Recipients of the second phase of seed funding from the Energy and National Security Initiative have now been announced.

Hedwig Oldendorff vessel at the start of its emission monitoring voyage

April 4, 2025

Study: Burning heavy fuel oil with scrubbers is the best available option for bulk maritime shipping

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Researchers found that burning heavy fuel oil with scrubbers is the best available option for bulk maritime shipping. They analyzed the full lifecycle of several fuel options and found this ble environmental impact, overall, to burning low-sulfur fuels.

March 6, 2025

School Presents Research in Weather Prediction, Carbon Storage, Nuclear Fusion, and More at Computing Conference

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Students and faculty from the School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) are leading the Georgia Tech contingent at the SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE25). The Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) o

March 5, 2025

Celebrating the Remarkable Career of Robert Butera

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Celebrating the Remarkable Career of Robert Butera

Matthew Oliver, Associate Professor, School of Economics, Georgia Tech, EPIcenter Faculty Affiliate

March 3, 2025

Meet the Expert: Matthew Oliver

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Master of the rebound — Economist Matthew Oliver measures the sometimes concealed costs of pivoting to clean energy

Tarek Rakha on the Georgia Tech campus holding a drone in his arms.

February 26, 2025

Georgia Tech Startup Targets Building Energy Inefficiencies With AI and Drones

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Lamarr.AI uses drones, AI, and thermal imaging to identify energy inefficiencies in buildings, offering a faster, safer, and more accurate solution.

male researcher wearing a black glove holds a solar cell prototype

February 24, 2025

Researchers Build Stable Solar Panel Without Silicon

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By adding titanium to perovskite crystals, researchers have made solar cells more durable.

Tim Lieuwen, Executive Vice President for Research

February 20, 2025

Tim Lieuwen Named Georgia Tech’s Executive Vice President for Research

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The Regents’ Professor and current interim EVPR brings strong leadership and deep research expertise to the role.

February 18, 2025

Devesh Ranjan Named Engineering Dean at University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Ranjan has established numerous fundraising, outreach, and community-building initiatives as chair of the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering.

Student in the lab working with a sample

February 6, 2025

Unearthing Climate Solutions

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Georgia Tech researchers explore how to improve the planet, one rock at a time.

Georgia Tech's Scott Duncan welcome remarks at the Microgrid workshop

February 4, 2025

Tech Square Microgrid Workshop Sparks Ideas For Energy Resiliency Assets

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Georgia Tech Strategic Energy Institute (SEI), Southern Company, and Georgia Power hosted a workshop aimed at imparting new information and sparking innovative ideas around the Tech Square Microgrid (TSMG) and the use of its data in education and research

January 30, 2025

Solar Rebound: The Behavioral Economics Behind Increased Electricity Use

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A recent study by Matthew E. Oliver from the Georgia Institute of Technology and his co-authors, Juan Moreno-Cruz from the University of Waterloo and Kenneth Gillingham from Yale University, delves into the solar rebound effect.

January 24, 2025

Andrei Fedorov Selected as Part of Major International Research Initiative in Big Data and AI for Energy

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The program, Adopting Sustainable Partnerships for Innovative Research Ecosystem (ASPIRE) for Top Scientists, is funded by the Japan Science and Technology Agency. It will receive approximately $3.2 million in funding over five years.