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A group of Georgia Tech students gather for a group photo including a sign that says, "8th Global Botanic Gardens Congress."

November 7, 2024

Georgia Tech UrbanAg Project Presents to International Conference

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Georgia Tech’s Students Organizing for Sustainability (SOS) recently traveled across the world to Singapore for the 8th Global Botanic Garden Congress.

Members of Georgia AIM’s governance team stand for a photo with Cassia Baker, a cybersecurity expert with the Georgia Manufacturing Extension Partnership (left), and David Bridges, executive vice president of Georgia Tech’s Enterprise Innovation Institute (second from right), which oversees the projects.

November 7, 2024

Georgia AIM Wins Tech for Good Award from the Technology Association of Georgia

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The award honors a program or project that uses technology to promote inclusiveness and equity by serving Georgia communities and individuals who are underrepresented in the tech space.

Georgia Tech's Tech Tower with flowers blooming in the foreground

November 5, 2024

Fueling the Future: Georgia Tech and Drawdown Georgia Business Compact Convene Experts to Drive Sustainable Aviation Fuel in the Southeast

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Promise for Southeast to emerge as a hub for sustainable aviation fuel production

From left, Georgia Tech’s Nakia Melecio, Keith McGreggor, and Raghupathy “Siva” Sivakumar, are the NSF I-Corps Southeast Hub director, faculty lead, and principal investigator, respectively.

October 30, 2024

National Science Foundation Awards $15M to Georgia Tech-Led Consortium of Universities for Societal-Oriented Innovation and Commercialization Effort

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Multi-state I-Corps Hubs project designed to strengthen regional innovation ecosystem and address inequities in access to capital and commercialization opportunities

October 30, 2024

Southern Company and Smart Wires Team Up with Georgia Tech to Revolutionize Georgia’s Power Grid

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Southern Company, Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), Smart Wires, and other partners have announced that they are collaborating on a new U.S. Department of Energy-funded project.

Three Georgia Tech researchers headshots

October 30, 2024

National Science Foundation Awards $15M to Georgia Tech-Led Consortium of Universities for Societal-Oriented Innovation and Commercialization Effort

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Multi-state I-Corps Hubs project designed to strengthen regional innovation ecosystem and address inequities in access to capital and commercialization opportunities

October 28, 2024

Graduate Students Chosen for ARCS Scholar Awards

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Highlighting their potential to make significant contributions to science and technology, four College of Sciences Ph.D. candidates have earned the prestigious Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation Scholar Award.

a pair of glasses and a pencil lay on a paper

October 24, 2024

Trio of Georgia Tech-Affiliated Research Projects Recognized at Top Cybersecurity Conference

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Eight Georgia Tech researchers were honored with the ACM Distinguished Paper Award for their contributions to cybersecurity at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS).

October 23, 2024

Deepfakes Surge During Election Cycles

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Deepfakes are increasingly used during election cycles, posing significant challenges for detection and regulation, warns Georgia Tech’s Mark Riedl.

J. Carson Meredith, Executive Director of Renewable Bioproducts Institute and Professor in Georgia Tech's School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

October 23, 2024

Meredith Receives AIChE’s Andrew Chase Award

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J. Carson Meredith, a professor in Georgia Tech’s School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, is the 2024 recipient of the Andrew Chase Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Forest and Plant Bioproducts Division.

Mark Prausnitz poses with arms crossed in his lab with shelves of materials and bottles in the background.

October 22, 2024

Prausnitz Elected to National Academy of Medicine

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The chemical engineer, microneedle pioneer, and entrepreneur is the fourth College of Engineering faculty member to join the Academy since 2020.

A pair of Smarticle robots from the lab of Prof. Dan Goldman. Earlier research from his group observed the arise of order in active matter from the physics of low rattling. (Photo Credit: Christa M. Ernst)

October 21, 2024

Rattling Physics with New Math

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Understanding and predicting self-organization, especially in systems that are out of equilibrium, like living things, is an enduring goal of statistical physics.

Saman Zonouz is a Georgia Tech associate professor and lead researcher for the DerGuard project.

October 18, 2024

Georgia Tech Cybersecurity Goes Green with $4.6 Million DOE Grant

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Georgia Tech researchers received a $4.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to enhance cybersecurity for renewable energy technologies.

October 16, 2024

Heart Doctors Describe New Collaborative Planning Tool as ‘Extremely Beneficial’

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A usability evaluation of ARCollab demonstrated the app’s effectiveness, finding it easy to use and understand, fosters collaboration, and improves heart surgery planning.

Vespula maculifrons queen, gyne, and males.

October 16, 2024

Genome Sequencing Could Unlock Answers to Yellow Jacket Behavior

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A Georgia Tech professor and his team are cracking the code on the Institute's most recognizable social insect.

A rufous-tailed jacamar (Photo by Benjamin Freeman)

October 15, 2024

Research Takes Flight: Benjamin Freeman Named 2024 Packard Fellow

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The Fellowship will support the Freeman lab as it The Freeman lab investigates how mountain biodiversity persists in a warming world.

Ant hill cast in molten aluminum to show intricate underground structure of tunnels and chambers, much like the branches of coral.

October 15, 2024

Nature’s Ingenuity Inspires Civil Engineer to Design Efficient and Effective Solutions

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David Frost sees endless innovation in natural systems to solve real-world civil engineering problems.

Georgia AIM representatives talk with students on Georgia Tech's campus during the launch event for their new mobile labs.

October 14, 2024

Georgia AIM Week: Making Manufacturing Cool

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Georgia AIM Week launched with events and a mobile lab to bring AI and smart technology to Georgia communities.

Winner of the NNCI Most Stunning category

October 10, 2024

NNCI Image Contest Winners Announced

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The winning images from the 2024 NNCI image contest were announced on National Nanotechnology Day

Partners of the facility gathered for an official ribbon cutting ceremony.

October 3, 2024

Innovation at Scale: Georgia Tech Unveils New Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing Pilot Facility

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The facility will serve as a test bed for scaling up manufacturing innovations in areas like clean water, flexible electronics, and solar cell and battery production, bringing discoveries one step closer to market viability.