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Carson Meredith, Valerie Thomas, Tim Lieuwen

March 14, 2024

Georgia Tech Receives Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Grants

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In January, Georgia Tech researchers were awarded three grants as a part of the Department of Energy’s Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization multi-topic funding

March 7, 2024

McDowell Receives ARPA-E Funding to Develop Ultrahigh-Energy Density Battery Chemistries

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Matthew McDowell, Woodruff Faculty Fellow and associate professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering & initiative lead for energy storage at the Strategic Energy Institute, has received $1.3 million in funding through the PROPEL-1K program

Images of a light bulb, solar panels, and batteries

February 21, 2024

Energy Materials: Driving the Clean Energy Transition

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Energy materials facilitate the conversion or transmission of energy. They also play an essential role in how we store energy, reduce power consumption, and develop cleaner, efficient energy solutions.

Participants of the 2024 Georgia Partnerships for Essential Minerals (GEMs) Workshop held on February 2, 2024

February 15, 2024

Georgia Partnerships for Essential Minerals (GEMs) Workshop: Paving the Way for Critical Mineral Production - Cloned

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To address the importance of critical minerals in the clean energy transition, 45 attendees from academia, government, industry, & national labs gathered at the University of Georgia for the inaugural Georgia partnerships for Essential Minerals Workshop.

February 15, 2024

Georgia Partnerships for Essential Minerals (GEMs) Workshop: Paving the Way for Critical Mineral Production

2 min read

To address the importance of critical minerals in the clean energy transition, 45 attendees from academia, government, industry, & national labs gathered at the University of Georgia for the inaugural Georgia partnerships for Essential Minerals Workshop.

Pictured left to right, top to bottom: Director of Design and Innovation Amit Jariwala, Professor Julie Linsey, Associate Chair for Administration Bert Bras, and Professor Yan Wang.

January 29, 2024

Innovation and Education: The Woodruff School's Unique Approach to Design for Mechanical Engineers

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The intersection of design and innovation drives engineering, shaping the future of products and manufacturing processes. At the forefront of this intersection is the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering.

he map compilation was published by the Georgia Geologic Survey in 1976 as the Geologic Map of Georgia. Source: USGS

January 31, 2024

Georgia’s Universities and the Georgia Mining Association Convene on Essential Minerals for the Energy Sector

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A regional consortium led by the Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Georgia, and Georgia State University, in collaboration with the Georgia Mining Association, will host an inaugural workshop on Georgia partnerships for Essential Minerals

Graphic of Georgia Tech's No. 1 ranking in Energy

February 7, 2024

Georgia Tech Named Top-Ranked Public University in Energy

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U.S. News & World Report has ranked the Georgia Institute of Technology as the top public university and No. 3 nationally in energy and fuels research.

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.

January 29, 2024

The Energy, Policy, and Innovation Center Launches EPICenter Faculty Affiliate Program

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EPICenter has named the first class of faculty affiliates in the EPICenter Faculty Affiliates program.

Aerial shot showing members of the Re-Wind Network stand in front of a pedestrian bridge made using decommissioned wind turbine blades

January 26, 2024

Pioneering Process Leads to Big Win for Tech Research Team

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Pioneering a new recycling approach led to a big win for Re-Wind USA, a Georgia Tech research team led by Russell Gentry. The team has won the first phase of the Department of Energy's Wind Turbine Materials Recycling Prize, receiving $75,000 and an invit

Overhead view of the Re-Wind crew doing structural testing on a decommissioned wind turbine blade bridge on an industrial lot.

January 26, 2024

Re-Wind USA Wins First Phase of DOE Prize

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A pioneering a new recycling approach led to a big win for Re-Wind USA in the first phase of the Department of Energy's Wind Turbine Materials Recycling Prize.

January 19, 2024

Marta Hatzell Wins ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering Lectureship Award

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The award recognizes leading contributions of scientists and engineers active in the general fields of green chemistry, green engineering, and sustainability in the broadest sense of the chemical enterprise.

January 19, 2024

Georgia’s Universities and the Georgia Mining Association Convene on Essential Minerals for the Energy Sector - Cloned

2 min read

A regional consortium led by the Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Georgia, and Georgia State University, in collaboration with the Georgia Mining Association, will host an inaugural workshop on Georgia partnerships for Essential Minerals

January 19, 2024

Georgia’s Universities and the Georgia Mining Association Convene on Essential Minerals for the Energy Sector

2 min read

A regional consortium led by the Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Georgia, and Georgia State University, in collaboration with the Georgia Mining Association, will host an inaugural workshop on Georgia partnerships for Essential Minerals

3D illustration of diamond-shaped perovskite structure in longs rows stacked in two layers.

December 19, 2023

Researchers Find They Can Stop Degradation of Promising Solar Cell Materials

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Engineers uncover the chemical interactions that make perovskites unstable and can prevent them.

Portrait of Sam Litchfield, Research Engineer at GTRI

December 13, 2023

SEI Initiative Lead Profile: Sam Litchfield

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This is a profile on Sam Litchfield, research engineer at the Cybersecurity, Information Protection, and Hardware Evaluation Research (CIPHER) lab of GTRI. Litchfield leads the Cybersecurity of Critical Infrastructure initiative at SEI.

Portrait of Matthew Realff, Professor at Georgia Tech

December 13, 2023

SEI Initiative Lead Profile: Matthew Realff

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This is a profile on Matthew Realff, Professor in the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering. Realff leads the Circular Carbon Economy research initiative for the Strategic Energy Institute & the Renewable Bioproducts Institute at Georgia Tech.