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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.

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.

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.

January 15, 2026

Science for Public Good: Introducing the Community Engagement Graduate Fellows

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Four graduate students from the College of Sciences were selected for the new Community Engagement Graduate Fellowship, made possible through a gift from Google, to develop projects that positively impact the metro Atlanta area.

January 14, 2026

Meet the Expert: Daniel Matisoff

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Meet Daniel Matisoff: Professor of Public Policy and EPIcenter affiliate

Fuel Truck carrying Sustainable Aviation Fuel near an airplane

January 13, 2026

Georgia Tech Energy Policy and Innovation Center Launches Interactive Dashboard

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Georgia Tech’s Energy Policy and Innovation Center has collaborated with Dan Matisoff, EPIcenter’s faculty affiliate, to develop a new Sustainable Aviation Fuel Data Dashboard to provide clear, accessible insights into the rapidly evolving SAF market.

Georgia Tech student Yash Rajgure using an Apple Vision Pro headset device to demo his team's project.

January 12, 2026

Apple Vision Pro Powers New Wave of Immersive Education

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Spatial computing is transforming engineering education at Georgia Tech and opening new paths for entrepreneurship and technical training.

Degraded marsh on Cumberland Island, Georgia.

January 12, 2026

Coastal Resilience Project Secures Nearly $1 Million to Restore Wetlands

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The award will support the design of nature-based solutions including living shorelines and marsh restoration in flood-prone areas of Camden County, Georgia.

January 6, 2026

Joints in Motion: Armita Manafzadeh Receives Carl Gans Young Investigator Award

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Manafzadeh will join Georgia Tech as an assistant professor in the School of Biological Sciences in August 2026. The new Manafzadeh Lab at Georgia Tech will investigate how joints work and where they come from — both evolutionarily and developmentally.

Two Georgia Tech researchers looking at a biomedical chip.

January 5, 2026

Georgia Tech Climbs to No. 2 University in Federally Sponsored Research Expenditures

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This is the Institute’s best ranking in the National Science Foundation’s annual survey.

Fall 2025 College of Computing Masters Commencement

December 18, 2025

Community and Collaboration Shape the Class of 2025

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The Yellow Jacket community swarmed campus for the final time of the fall semester to celebrate Commencement ceremonies held Dec. 11 to 13. Graduates from the School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) were among the 7,177 new alumni “getting o

Georgia Tech Professor Martha Grover with her research team

December 18, 2025

Nuclear Waste: What It Is — and What It Isn’t

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Nuclear waste can be managed safely with proper safety protocols. Researchers at Georgia Tech and around the world are working on safer reactor designs, advanced monitoring, and innovative recycling methods to turn nuclear waste into new opportunities — f