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January 15, 2026

Science for Public Good: Introducing the Community Engagement Graduate Fellows

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Four graduate students from the College of Sciences were selected for the new Community Engagement Graduate Fellowship, made possible through a gift from Google, to develop projects that positively impact the metro Atlanta area.

January 14, 2026

Meet the Expert: Daniel Matisoff

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Meet Daniel Matisoff: Professor of Public Policy and EPIcenter affiliate

Fuel Truck carrying Sustainable Aviation Fuel near an airplane

January 13, 2026

Georgia Tech Energy Policy and Innovation Center Launches Interactive Dashboard

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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.

Degraded marsh on Cumberland Island, Georgia.

January 12, 2026

Coastal Resilience Project Secures Nearly $1 Million to Restore Wetlands

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The award will support the design of nature-based solutions including living shorelines and marsh restoration in flood-prone areas of Camden County, Georgia.

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.

November 13, 2025

AI Increases Productivity, And That Comes With Energy Costs

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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.

The Canada Jay is one of the birds struggling in the Pacific Northwest. (Credit: Mason Maron)

November 12, 2025

A 30-Year “Snapshot” of Pacific Northwestern Birds Shows Their Surprising Resilience

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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.

The Georgia Tech contingent gather for a group photo at the 2025 Georgia Resiliency Conference.

November 6, 2025

Georgia Tech Attendees Reflect on the Georgia Resiliency Conference 2025

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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.

October 28, 2025

Community Spotlight - Ali Sarhadi

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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.

Yurt-like test chambers in a natural boreal spruce bog in northern Minnesota (provided).

October 23, 2025

Peatlands’ ‘Huge Reservoir’ of Carbon at Risk of Release

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Researchers analyzed data from 10, yurt-like test chambers in a natural boreal spruce bog in northern Minnesota.

October 17, 2025

EAS Faculty Named to Endowed Positions

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Congratulations to Isaiah Bolden, Jennifer Glass, Alex Robel, and Yuanzhi Tang on their new endowed faculty professorships.

A lizard wearing one of the sensors, which weigh just three-hundredths of a gram each — the same as a two grains of rice. (Credit: Jon Suh)

October 15, 2025

Mapping Evolution: James Stroud Named 2025 Packard Fellow

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The award will support Stroud as he creates evolution’s first high-definition map — with the help of 1,000 backpack-wearing lizards.

The high impact between the metal balls in a ball mill reactor and the polymer surface is sufficient to momentarily liquefy the polymer and facilitate chemical reactions.

October 10, 2025

New Method Uses Collisions to Break Down Plastic for Sustainable Recycling

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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.

Post-hurricane flooding inundates residential areas and transportation infrastructure, with low-lying terrain overwhelmed by storm surge and excessive rainfall.

October 9, 2025

Fixing Flooding for the Southeast’s Future

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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.

October 9, 2025

Storms Are Changing — Should the Hurricane Scale Change Too?

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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.

October 8, 2025

Winnie Chu Awarded NSF CAREER Grant to Create First-Ever Map of Antarctic Ice Sheet Base Temperatures

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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.

cover of the 2023-2030 Sustainability Next Plan

October 7, 2025

BBISS Announces 2025 Sustainability Next Seed Grant Recipients

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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.

Collage of four images taken at the New York Climate Exchange 2025 events with Georgia Tech participants.

October 3, 2025

Georgia Tech’s Growing Climate Innovation Footprint: Reflections from Climate Week NYC

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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.

September 4, 2025

Rampi Ramprasad Awarded $2 Million Grant to Pioneer AI-Driven Recyclable Packaging Materials Design

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The project addresses one of the world’s most pressing challenges in sustainability: eliminating plastic waste.

August 28, 2025

Srinivas Peeta Named Co-Editor-in-Chief of Transportation Research Part B: Methodological

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The appointment recognizes Professor Peeta’s longstanding contributions to transportation research and his leadership in advancing methodological innovation within the field.

Flooding in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina

August 19, 2025

Twenty Years After Katrina: How Levee Failures Changed America

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Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina’s catastrophic landfall, its legacy of destruction, displacement, and deepened inequality continues to shape communities and challenge disaster preparedness across the U.S.