February 18, 2026
2026 BBISS Sustainability Showcase Recap: Resilience Is About Systems
Across disciplines and scales, a unifying theme emerged: resilience is not a single solution. It is a systems-level challenge requiring integration across science and technology, policy, communities, and human experience.
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February 13, 2026
Christos Athanasiou to Receive 2025 Eshelby Mechanics Award for Young Faculty
The award recognizes early-career researchers who’ve made impactful contributions to the field of mechanics.
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January 22, 2026
AI Tool Turns Disaster Zones Into Living Classrooms
An AI-powered tool is changing how researchers study disasters and how students learn from them.
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January 14, 2026
Meet the Expert: Daniel Matisoff
Meet Daniel Matisoff: Professor of Public Policy and EPIcenter affiliate
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January 13, 2026
Georgia Tech Energy Policy and Innovation Center Launches Interactive Dashboard
Georgia Tech’s Energy Policy and Innovation Center has collaborated with Dan Matisoff, EPIcenter’s faculty affiliate, to develop a new Sustainable Aviation Fuel Data Dashboard to provide clear, accessible insights into the rapidly evolving SAF market.
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January 12, 2026
Coastal Resilience Project Secures Nearly $1 Million to Restore Wetlands
The award will support the design of nature-based solutions including living shorelines and marsh restoration in flood-prone areas of Camden County, Georgia.
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November 13, 2025
AI Increases Productivity, And That Comes With Energy Costs
Artificial intelligence doesn’t just consume energy via data centers and hardware. It also increases productivity, which comes with its own energy and emissions costs.
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November 12, 2025
A 30-Year “Snapshot” of Pacific Northwestern Birds Shows Their Surprising Resilience
After discovering a historic bird survey in the Pacific Northwest, Georgia Tech’s Ben Freeman located the original sites, repeating the surveys three decades later.
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November 6, 2025
Georgia Tech Attendees Reflect on the Georgia Resiliency Conference 2025
Faculty, administration, research fellows, students, collaborators, and Georgia Tech President Emeritus and keynote speaker G. Wayne Clough brought diverse perspectives to discussions ranging from coastal vulnerability to data-driven decision-making.
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October 28, 2025
Community Spotlight - Ali Sarhadi
Ali Sarhadi and his research team at GT's Climate Risk and Extreme Dynamics Lab are focused on a phenomenon called hurricane-induced compound flooding — hurricanes fueled by a warming climate.
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October 23, 2025
Peatlands’ ‘Huge Reservoir’ of Carbon at Risk of Release
Researchers analyzed data from 10, yurt-like test chambers in a natural boreal spruce bog in northern Minnesota.
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October 17, 2025
EAS Faculty Named to Endowed Positions
Congratulations to Isaiah Bolden, Jennifer Glass, Alex Robel, and Yuanzhi Tang on their new endowed faculty professorships.
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October 15, 2025
Mapping Evolution: James Stroud Named 2025 Packard Fellow
The award will support Stroud as he creates evolution’s first high-definition map — with the help of 1,000 backpack-wearing lizards.
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October 10, 2025
New Method Uses Collisions to Break Down Plastic for Sustainable Recycling
Researchers have developed a method to break down PET, one of the world’s most widely used plastics, for sustainable recycling using mechanical forces instead of heat or harsh chemicals.
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October 9, 2025
Fixing Flooding for the Southeast’s Future
Georgia Tech researchers are developing solutions to monitor and forecast flooding, as well as restore ecosystems to prevent future flooding. These efforts support communities’ resilience in the face of climate change and keep the U.S. secure.
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October 9, 2025
Storms Are Changing — Should the Hurricane Scale Change Too?
Georgia Tech expert Zachary Handlos joins a growing conversation about whether the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale adequately reflects the full range of hurricane hazards in a changing climate.
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October 7, 2025
BBISS Announces 2025 Sustainability Next Seed Grant Recipients
The seed grant program reaches many faculty members from a diverse array of disciplines due to the generous support provided by broad-based partnerships in addition to the Sustainability Next funds.
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October 3, 2025
Georgia Tech’s Growing Climate Innovation Footprint: Reflections from Climate Week NYC
Across five New York Climate Exchange partner events, the Georgia Tech community demonstrated something essential: Georgia Tech bridges research and real-world impact where it matters most – in people’s lives.
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October 8, 2025
Winnie Chu Awarded NSF CAREER Grant to Create First-Ever Map of Antarctic Ice Sheet Base Temperatures
The grant will support Chu as she uses radar data and generative AI to map temperatures beneath the Antarctica ice sheet, aiming to improve climate predictions, support coastal planning, and train future scientists through open-access tools and education.
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September 4, 2025
Rampi Ramprasad Awarded $2 Million Grant to Pioneer AI-Driven Recyclable Packaging Materials Design
The project addresses one of the world’s most pressing challenges in sustainability: eliminating plastic waste.
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