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March 25, 2026

Atlanta Area Students Partner With Community Organizations for Research Projects

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The Atlanta Community-Engaged Research Student Network launched this semester to train graduate students to co-lead community-engaged and locally focused research along with community-based organizations.

March 25, 2026

Georgia Tech Recognizes Excellence with 2026 Institute Research Awards

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Georgia Tech has named the 2026 Institute Research Award recipients, recognizing faculty, staff, and research teams whose work advances innovation, mentorship, collaboration, and societal impact across the Institute’s research enterprise.

2026 Georgia Scientific Computing Symposium

March 25, 2026

Tech Swarms into Athens for Clean, Old-Fashioned Computing

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Researchers from universities across Georgia, including Georgia Tech, set aside rivalry to collaborate at the 2026 Georgia Scientific Computing Symposium, highlighting the state’s growing role as a hub for innovation in scientific computing.

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March 25, 2026

Researchers Find Training Gaps Impacting Maritime Cybersecurity Readiness

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Research from the Georgia Institute of Technology shows that commercial ship crews are often unprepared for cyberattacks due to inadequate, generic training, despite rising threats like GPS spoofing and ransomware.

Rampi Ramprasad and three members of his research team discuss their AI model for generative polymer design in his office.

March 24, 2026

Researchers Create First AI for Generative Polymer Design

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By training a model on the allowed “words” and “grammar” of chemistry, Georgia Tech materials scientists can design polymers based on the properties users need.

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March 24, 2026

The Potential of Data Center Energy

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A recent review by EPIcenter faculty affiliate highlights that data centers, particularly those supporting high-performance computing and AI workloads, are projected to consume nearly 10% of U.S. electricity by the end of the decade.

March 24, 2026

Atlanta Opera NOW Festival Returns June

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Tickets are now on sale for The Atlanta Opera’s NOW Festival, highlighting new works and emerging voices in opera.

March 24, 2026

Researchers Explore New Remote Sensing Uses for Scheimpflug Principle

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An optical principle discovered a century ago may soon find new applications in such areas as atmospheric monitoring and environmental mapping.

March 24, 2026

The Future of Brand in an AI-Driven World: A Supply Chain Perspective

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Practical guidance to drive real progress in 2026.

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March 23, 2026

EVs Can Generate Widespread Economic Benefits, New Study Says

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Widespread Electric vehicle adoption would lower energy prices 6% and strengthen national energy security, according to the new study from researchers in the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School of Public Policy.

March 23, 2026

Four Challenges to the U.S. Energy Transition

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Reliable energy is a matter of national security. There are also vying economic policies to consider, political and financial incentives to navigate, and questions of social and economic inequality to consider.

March 20, 2026

ATDC Startups Secure Rare FDA ‘Breakthrough Device’ Status

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Milestone designation signals strong potential to reshape care for dialysis patients and those with chronic knee pain.

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March 19, 2026

Smarter, Faster, and More Human: A Leap Toward General-Purpose Robots

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New AI system lets robots work faster than their human teachers without sacrificing accuracy.

March 18, 2026

Bracketology Driven by Data

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For two decades, a Georgia Tech professor has used simple data to track the best teams in college basketball and predict who will win the NCAA Tournament.

March 18, 2026

Why Mosquitoes Swarm Your Head: They’re Following Signals, Not Each Other

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Researchers have visualized mosquito flight behavior for the first time — which could improve mosquito-control strategies.

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March 18, 2026

New Mobile App Turns Phones into At-Home Fetal Heart Monitors

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A new app will allow pregnant women to conduct an ultrasound and receive an accurate fetal heart rate from their mobile phones.

A new cohort of computing students has been named Squarepoint Foundation scholars.

March 18, 2026

Cohort of Computing Students Named Squarepoint Foundation Scholars

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The Squarepoint Foundation is providing $100,000 to fund the awards, which offer $10,000 per year for two years to rising third-year students.

Trajectories of mosquitoes flying around a human target. David L. Hu, Georgia Tech

March 18, 2026

Hundreds of Hungry Mosquitoes, a Student Volunteer and a Mesh Suit

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By tracking the flight of many mosquitoes around a student volunteer, we hoped to determine how they made decisions in response to his presence. Understanding how mosquitoes respond to humans is a first step to controlling them.

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March 17, 2026

Researchers Develop Biodegradable, Plant‑Based Packaging From Natural Fibers

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Jie Wu, an engineering graduate student, was studying a type of striking white beetle found in Southeast Asia and attempting to figure out how to mimic its brilliant color when an unexpected discovery upended the experiment.

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March 17, 2026

Beyond Technology in the Future of the Grid

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The Boundaries and Breakthroughs panel explored how engineering constraints, institutional structures and societal values collectively influence the direction of grid research and development.

March 17, 2026

The Conversation: Researchers develop biodegradable, plant‑based packaging from natural fibers – new research

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Jie Wu, an engineering graduate student, was studying a type of striking white beetle found in Southeast Asia and attempting to figure out how to mimic its brilliant color when an unexpected discovery upended the experiment.

A composite graphic of the mind featuring overlay of thank you note from Turing Award winner Donald Knuth following a virtual Q&A at Georgia Tech.

March 17, 2026

Groundbreaking Speaker Series Will Welcome Its 15th Turing Award Winner as Its Last Guest

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What started with cold-call emails turned into a premier platform for students and faculty to connect with computing luminaries.

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March 17, 2026

Turning Carbon Into Chemistry

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Georgia Tech researchers have developed a breakthrough system to manufacture valuable amino acids. It’s the most efficient system of its kind — and removes more carbon from the atmosphere than it emits.

Energy Club members with Alex Fitzsimmons (middle), Under Secretary of Energy (Acting) at U.S. Department of Energy

March 16, 2026

Future Focused: The 2026 Southeastern Energy Conference at Georgia Tech

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The 2026 Southeastern Energy Conference, Georgia Tech’s annual student-led energy and sustainability conference welcomed more than 150 attendees and featured dynamic discussions on the future of energy.

Treatment plants can capture over 95% of methane from food waste, compared to about 50% at landfills. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

March 13, 2026

How Sewage Treatment Plants Could Handle Food Waste, Sparing Landfills and the Climate

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Every day, food scraps disappear into trash bags, are hauled away and forgotten. But that waste could be turned into something productive.