May 20, 2024
Harnessing AI to Reduce Food Insecurity in Africa
Researchers in the School of Economics hope the tool they're developing can help policymakers and community organizations implement more timely and targeted interventions to alleviate hunger on the continent.
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May 15, 2024
From Brewery to Biofilter: Making Yeast-Based Water Purification Possible
A team of Georgia Tech and MIT researchers found that discarded brewer’s yeast, when encased in hydrogel capsules, becomes a viable and inexpensive method for purifying contaminated water.
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May 8, 2024
Tropical Revelations: Unearthing the Impacts of Hydrological Sensitivity on Global Rainfall
Georgia Tech researcher investigates how rainfall will change as Earth’s atmosphere heats up.
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April 22, 2024
2024 Frontiers in Science: Climate Action
Inaugural College of Sciences research conference and symposium showcases Georgia Tech’s contributions to climate research and solutions.
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April 22, 2024
Georgia Tech Microsoft CloudHub Partnership Explores Electric Vehicle Adoption
Business and government sectors are embracing electric vehicles, but are U.S. drivers on the same road?
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February 21, 2024
Energy Materials: Driving the Clean Energy Transition
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.
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January 26, 2024
Re-Wind USA Wins First Phase of DOE Prize
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.
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January 19, 2024
Marta Hatzell Wins ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering Lectureship Award
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.
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January 23, 2024
What Can Space Teach Us About Sustainability?
Researchers in the Ivan Allen College think big to explore questions of sustainability on Earth, in outer space, and on a cosmic scale.
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December 7, 2023
Team iManhole Wins Fall 2023 EGHI/GT Global Health Hackathon
Students tackled climate change in the Fall 2023 Emory Global Health Institute (EGHI) /Georgia Institute of Technology (GT) Global Health Hackathon, Nov. 11, at Tech Square ATL Social.
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October 30, 2023
Janelle Dunlap Turns Beekeeping Into Art
The Urban Honey Bee Project’s new beekeeper in residence is creating art and educating the public with her practice.
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October 20, 2023
Georgia Tech Hosts 2023 RCE Americas Meeting
The Georgia Tech campus recently served as host from September 26 – 29 for students, academics, and working professionals from around the Americas.
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October 19, 2023
Three Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Researchers Awarded DOE Earthshot Funding for Carbon Removal Strategies
Annalisa Bracco, Taka Ito, and Chris Reinhard from the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences will create computer models to measure how well CO2 removal techniques work on land, rivers, and oceans, as part of $264 million in grants.
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October 18, 2023
NSF Grant to Develop Carbon ‘Nutrition Labels’ for a Sustainable Internet of Things
Josiah Hester, along with researchers from Cornell and Harvard Universities, has received a $2 million grant from National Science Foundation.
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October 18, 2023
Professor David Sholl Leading New Energy Earthshot Research Center to Stem Climate Change
The NEETER Energy Earthshot Center is focused on developing chemical processes that use sustainable methods instead of burning fossil fuels to radically reduce industrial greenhouse gas emissions.
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September 20, 2023
The Sustainability Next Plan Transforms Vision Into Reality
On the one-year anniversary of the launch of Sustainability Next, a publicly available version of the plan is being released and several plan initiatives are coming to life.
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August 31, 2023
Hidden Gems: Hunting Rare Earth Elements in Georgia Kaolins
Rare earth elements are critical to technology, electronics, and rapidly evolving clean energy efforts. Equipped with a new NSF grant, Yuanzhi Tang is helping find and unlock these key minerals in Georgia kaolin deposits.
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July 28, 2023
NSF RAPID Response to Earthquakes in Turkey
Zhigang Peng and graduate students Phuc Mach and Chang Ding are using small seismic sensors to better understand just how, why, and when certain earthquakes are occurring.
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July 7, 2023
Valerie Thomas Selected to Speak as part of Sustainability Research + Innovation (SRI) Congress 2023
SRI is the world's largest gathering for the global sustainability community.
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July 18, 2023
Turning the Tide on Climate Change
Solar and wind power have been used as renewable energy for years, but what about waves, tides, and currents? Georgia Tech researchers are turning to our waterways to build a better planet.
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