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February 17, 2026

Mapping Mountain Birds in a Changing World: Benjamin Freeman Awarded Sloan Fellowship For Mountain Bird Ecology Research

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The fellowship is one of the most competitive and prestigious awards available to early-career scholars.

February 16, 2026

Obstacle or Accelerator? How Imperfections Affect Material Strength

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Research from Georgia Tech is showing how cracks occur and spread through materials — and how best to prevent them.

February 16, 2026

From Concept to Prototype: How Georgia Tech Students Are Shaping a Sustainable Energy Future

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EnergyHack@GT, Georgia Tech’s second annual student-run energy and sustainability hackathon, took place over the weekend of Jan. 23 – 25, 2026.

February 12, 2026

Department of Energy Award to Power Nuclear Research With Machine Learning

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Georgia Tech's Qi Tang has received an Early Career Research Program award from the Department of Energy's Office of Science. The $875,000 grant supports Tang for five years to craft ML tools that analyze data from nuclear experiments and simulations.

Row of electric vehicles parked on a street and charging from charging poles

February 10, 2026

Beyond the Cost of EV Ownership and Adoption

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A recent Georgia Tech study examines U.S. household electric vehicle (EV) ownership and adoption intent beyond upfront costs, focusing on charging access, travel behavior, housing, and demographics.

February 10, 2026

Georgia Tech Partners with RMS Aerospace to Advance Autonomous UAV Technology

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e-Scout, is a first-of-its-kind AI-enabled tactical drone designed to address critical gaps in U.S. military support.

An abstract glass of wine consisting of points, lines, and shapes.

February 9, 2026

Wine, Science, and Spectroscopy: Georgia Tech Outreach Produces Published Research

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New work from Georgia Tech is showing how a simple glass of wine can serve as a powerful gateway for understanding advanced research and technologies.

February 3, 2026

EPIcenter Student Affiliate Wins School of Economics Paper Prize

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Afi Ramadhani, a graduate student in economics and a student affiliate of Georgia Tech’s Energy Policy Innovation Center, has won a prize for the best research paper from the School of Economics.

February 3, 2026

Meet the Expert: Marilyn Brown

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An illustrious career focused on understanding the nuances of energy policy through analytics has shaped the career of Marilyn Brown, the Regents & Brook Byers Professor of Sustainable Systems at the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School of Public Policy.

February 2, 2026

Yuanzhi Tang Named Executive Director of the Strategic Energy Institute

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Georgia Tech has appointed Yuanzhi Tang as executive director of the Strategic Energy Institute (SEI), effective Feb. 1.

Top executives from Atlanta's venture capital community participated in the College of Computing's first VC summit, held on Jan. 21.

February 2, 2026

Georgia Tech Computing Hosts Venture Capital Summit to Push Research Beyond the Lab

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The College of Computing is working to connect student and faculty entrepreneurs with early-development startup support.

February 2, 2026

Yellow Jacket Connection Sparks Glaucoma Research Fund at Tech

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When Postdoctoral Research Fellow Hannah Youngblood’s work on exfoliation glaucoma (XFG) was featured by the BrightFocus Foundation, it caught the attention of Jennifer Rucker, an Alabama resident who was diagnosed with XFG several years ago.

January 29, 2026

From Fusion to Self-Driving Cars, High Performance Computing and AI are Everywhere in 2026

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Georgia Tech researchers say HPC and artificial intelligence (AI) advances this year are poised to improve how people power their homes, design safer buildings, and travel through cities.

January 28, 2026

Small Modular Reactors and Smart Energy Cities

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A new study by Georgia Tech researchers Brian An, Daein Kang, John Kim, and Moe Kyaw Thu analyzes how national governments describe Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) in official energy policy documents.

A car's side view mirror with a alert in the center of the mirror.

January 27, 2026

Researchers Warn AI ‘Blind Spot’ Could Allow Attackers to Hijack Self-Driving Vehicles

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A newly discovered vulnerability could allow cybercriminals to silently hijack the artificial intelligence (AI) systems in self-driving cars, raising concerns about the security of autonomous systems increasingly used on public roads.

Students visited Lachung and Chungthang in Sikkim, India. Upstream in the Teesta Valley, students examined how steep terrain and river confinement amplify flood forces and how failures can cascade across an entire corridor of infrastructure.

January 22, 2026

AI Tool Turns Disaster Zones Into Living Classrooms

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An AI-powered tool is changing how researchers study disasters and how students learn from them.

Researcher tests improved vacuum chamber

January 21, 2026

New Cryogenic Vacuum Chamber Cuts Noise for Quantum Ion Trapping

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Researchers have developed an improved vacuum chamber that reduces noise for quantum ion trapping research.

January 16, 2026

Georgia Tech Names Mike Gazarik Director of Georgia Tech Research Institute

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Georgia Tech Names Mike Gazarik Director of Georgia Tech Research Institute

A real worm in a Petri dish (top left) and a robot worm (bottom right) clean their environments of tiny particles in a very similar manner.

January 16, 2026

Researchers Discover How Worms Clean Their Environment Without a Brain

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When placed in sand-filled Petri dishes, centimeter-long aquatic worms like T. tubifex spontaneously sweep up particles and reorganize their environment — all without a brain.

January 15, 2026

New LLMs Could Provide Strength-based Job Coaching for Autistic People

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Georgia Tech researchers are using an NSF grant to create new large-language models that help autistic job seekers understand their strengths and how to leverage them during the application process.