Category Environment | Research News Center

Astronaut floating in space with Earth behind them

January 23, 2024

What Can Space Teach Us About Sustainability?

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Researchers in the Ivan Allen College think big to explore questions of sustainability on Earth, in outer space, and on a cosmic scale.

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.

Winners of the EGHI/GT Hackathon stand together at Tech Square ATL Social

December 7, 2023

Team iManhole Wins Fall 2023 EGHI/GT Global Health Hackathon

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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.

Georgia Tech's Janelle Dunlap conducts a hive inspection at the The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design.

October 30, 2023

Janelle Dunlap Turns Beekeeping Into Art

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The Urban Honey Bee Project’s new beekeeper in residence is creating art and educating the public with her practice.

A group of attendees to the RCE Americas meeting in Atlanta pose for a group photo outside a red brick Georgia Tech building.

October 20, 2023

Georgia Tech Hosts 2023 RCE Americas Meeting

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The Georgia Tech campus recently served as host from September 26 – 29 for students, academics, and working professionals from around the Americas.

October 19, 2023

Three Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Researchers Awarded DOE Earthshot Funding for Carbon Removal Strategies

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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.

October 18, 2023

Professor David Sholl Leading New Energy Earthshot Research Center to Stem Climate Change

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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.

Josiah Hester sits at a desk in an electronics lab at Georgia Tech with an array of prototype projects and test equipment in front of him.

October 18, 2023

NSF Grant to Develop Carbon ‘Nutrition Labels’ for a Sustainable Internet of Things

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Josiah Hester, along with researchers from Cornell and Harvard Universities, has received a $2 million grant from National Science Foundation.

cover of the 2023-2030 Sustainability Next Plan

September 20, 2023

The Sustainability Next Plan Transforms Vision Into Reality

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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.

August 31, 2023

Hidden Gems: Hunting Rare Earth Elements in Georgia Kaolins

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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.

July 28, 2023

NSF RAPID Response to Earthquakes in Turkey

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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.

The sparkling shoreline along Deception Pass State Park in Oak Harbor, Washington

July 18, 2023

Turning the Tide on Climate Change

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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.

July 7, 2023

Valerie Thomas Selected to Speak as part of Sustainability Research + Innovation (SRI) Congress 2023

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SRI is the world's largest gathering for the global sustainability community.

June 13, 2023

New Georgia Tech Environmental Science Degree Launches

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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.

June 7, 2023

GTRI Works to Enhance EV Battery Reuse and Recycling in Georgia

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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.

May 30, 2023

Mitigating Climate Change Through Restoration of Coastal Ecosystems

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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.

Keynote at the Spring2023 RBI Workshop on Packaging Innovation and the Circular Economy

May 26, 2023

Spring Workshop Explores Innovations in the Packaging Industry and the Circular Economy

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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.

Georgia Tech researchers give presentations on their Undergraduate Sustainability Education Innovation Grants during a recent "Jamboree" in the Kendeda Building. (Photo Jess Hunt-Ralston)

May 8, 2023

College of Sciences Courses Spotlight UN Sustainable Development Goals

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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.

May 4, 2023

Undergraduate Sustainability Education Innovation Grants Will Transform Courses in All Six Colleges

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21 projects representing all six colleges and 15 schools were presented at the Undergraduate Sustainability Education Jamboree.

April 25, 2023

Micro-Grants Community-Based Research Teams Present their Work

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The 2022-23 Micro-Grants Community-Based Research awardees presented their findings at the second annual symposium, held on April 18, 2023, in the auditorium of the Kendeda Building.