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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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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June 13, 2023
New Georgia Tech Environmental Science Degree Launches
The interdisciplinary Environmental Science (ENVS) degree program, developed by faculty in the Schools of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and Biological Sciences, is now enrolling students interested in a wide variety of environment-related careers.
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June 7, 2023
GTRI Works to Enhance EV Battery Reuse and Recycling in Georgia
The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is working to optimize Georgia’s EV battery supply chain by developing cost-and energy-efficient methods that pose fewer environmental risks.
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May 30, 2023
Mitigating Climate Change Through Restoration of Coastal Ecosystems
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Yale University are proposing a novel pathway through which coastal ecosystem restoration can permanently capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
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May 26, 2023
Spring Workshop Explores Innovations in the Packaging Industry and the Circular Economy
More than 90 attendees from academia, national labs, and industry convened and discussed the cutting-edge research and industry developments happening across the world and got an opportunity to network with leading researchers and peers.
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May 8, 2023
College of Sciences Courses Spotlight UN Sustainable Development Goals
Six proposals from the College of Sciences will evolve existing courses, create new ones to include the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals — a key part of Georgia Tech’s Sustainability Next initiative.
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May 4, 2023
Undergraduate Sustainability Education Innovation Grants Will Transform Courses in All Six Colleges
21 projects representing all six colleges and 15 schools were presented at the Undergraduate Sustainability Education Jamboree.
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