Yuanzhi Tang

April 23, 2024

Seed Grants Fund Research Centers for Critical Minerals, Spatial Computation and Navigation

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Selected from a finalist pool of nine proposals, Associate Professors Yuanzhi Tang and Thackery Brown’s ideas were chosen due to their high potential for novel interdisciplinary research and impact.

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Frontiers in Science Banner Outside at Sunrise

April 22, 2024

2024 Frontiers in Science: Climate Action

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Inaugural College of Sciences research conference and symposium showcases Georgia Tech’s contributions to climate research and solutions.

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Omar Asensio is Associate Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology and Climate Fellow, Harvard Business School

April 22, 2024

Georgia Tech Microsoft CloudHub Partnership Explores Electric Vehicle Adoption

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Business and government sectors are embracing electric vehicles, but are U.S. drivers on the same road?

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Eric Vogel, IMat executive director

April 22, 2024

Vogel to Lead Institute for Matter and Systems

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Effective July 1, Eric Vogel will become the executive director of the Institute for Matter and Systems, Georgia Tech’s newest Interdisciplinary Research Institute.

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Thomas Kurfess, executive director of the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute.

April 19, 2024

USG Honors Thomas Kurfess with Regents' Title

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Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute Executive Director Thomas Kurfess was recently named a Regents' Professor by the University System of Georgia Board of Regents.

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Congressman Carter toured the facility on April 1, seeing live demonstrations and hearing presentations on the Institute's manufacturing research and workforce development projects.

April 19, 2024

Georgia Congressman Tours Georgia Tech’s Advanced Manufacturing Pilot Facility

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Georgia Congressman Earl L. “Buddy” Carter recently visited Georgia Tech's Advanced Manufacturing Pilot Facility to hear the latest in cutting-edge manufacturing research, workforce development, and the incorporation of artificial intelligence.

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Electrostatic capacitors realized with ferroelectric single crystalline BaTiO3 (BTO) sandwiched by 2D materials (including h-BN).

April 19, 2024

New Research out of GT-Europe on 2-D Materials Could Revolutionize Energy Storage Systems

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Researchers at Georgia Tech-CNRS IRL 2958 contribute to optimizing the design and performance of high-energy electrostatic capacitors using ferroelectric materials.

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Chaouki Abdallah speaking at the Georgia Tech Energy Materials Day

April 16, 2024

Advancing Clean Energy: Georgia Tech Hosts Energy Materials Day

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Energy Materials Day was co-hosted by Georgia Tech’s Strategic Energy Institute , the Institute for Materials, and the Georgia Tech Advanced Battery Center.

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Jung-ho (John) Lewe (left) of the Georgia Tech Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory at Georgia Tech and Erica Holloman-Hill (right)

April 11, 2024

Faculty Fellows Program Focuses on Energy Equity, Environmental Justice, and Community Engagement

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The Center for Sustainable Communities Research and Education (SCoRE — formerly SLS), in collaboration with the Strategic Energy Institute (SEI), the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems (BBISS), the Renewable Bioproducts Institute (RBI), and the

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Portrait of Tamsin Leavy.

April 10, 2024

Community Spotlight - Tamsin Leavy

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Tamsin started her career working in anthropology and archaeology before pivoting to teaching social studies but now she’s in Atlanta working as the Georgia Tech community garden coordinator.

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image of cover of the climate action plan

April 5, 2024

Climate Action Plan Provides Road Map to Net-Zero Emissions 

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Georgia Tech’s Climate Action Plan outlines mitigation and adaptation strategies for reaching net-zero emissions on campus by 2050 and contributing to global solutions through education and research.

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City of Atlanta traffic from above.

April 4, 2024

Can Metro Atlanta Handle 1.8 Million More Residents?

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Georgia Tech experts examine how the Atlanta region can prepare for the projected addition of nearly 2 million residents by 2050.

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Portrait of Dr. Jennifer Hirsch

April 2, 2024

Hirsch Presents to National Academies Workshop

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Jennifer Hirsch presented a paper to a recent National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine workshop, Developing and Assessing Ideas for Social and Behavioral Research to Speed Efficient and Equitable Industrial Decarbonization.

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A scientist dressed in protective clothing works in a clean room laboratory at Georgia Tech

April 2, 2024

Empowering Research Faculty: Georgia Tech’s Strategic Plan

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Georgia Tech launched an initiative to recognize and develop its research faculty, who comprise 60% of the nearly 4,400 total faculty currently employed at the Institute.

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Andreas Villegas, Keynote Speaker and President of the Georgia Forestry Association with RBI's Executive Director Carson Meredith, Research Initiative Leads and Faculty.

March 28, 2024

Spring Workshop Engages Diverse Stakeholders in Shaping the Future of Biorefining and the Bioeconomy

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The Renewable Bioproducts Institute (RBI) at Georgia Tech recently hosted a workshop on the Emerging Bioeconomy and the Future of Biorefining.

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Jud Ready

March 21, 2024

Jud Ready Joins National Academy of Inventors’ 2024 Class of Senior Members

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Jud Ready has been selected to join the National Academy of Inventors' 2024 Class of Senior Members.

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A young boy wearing blue latex gloves holds a human brain

March 21, 2024

Cosmic Curiosity: Georgia Tech Hosts Science and Engineering Day to Open Atlanta Science Festival

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More than 4,000 guests visited Georgia Tech's kickoff event for the city's annual science extravaganza.

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Researcher Aaron Young makes adjustments to an experimental exoskeleton worn by then-Ph.D. student Dean Molinaro.

March 20, 2024

Universal Controller Could Push Robotic Prostheses, Exoskeletons Into Real-World Use

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Aaron Young’s team has developed a wear-and-go approach that requires no calibration or training.

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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.

March 19, 2024

Community Spotlight - Josiah Hester

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What Josiah enjoys most about his role as Interim Associate Director for Community-Engaged Research, is seeing researchers who have spent their careers figuring out the science of a subject go into the community and have an impact.

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Nicole Kennard introduces Georgia Tech Alum Andrew White on the stage at the Atlantic Theater.

March 19, 2024

2024 Georgia Tech Sustainability Showcase Recap

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This year’s Georgia Tech Sustainability Showcase was an opportunity for faculty, staff, students, and community partners to demonstrate the depth and breadth of sustainability research happening at Georgia Tech.

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March 19, 2024

Public Policy Research Powers Sierra Club Report on Black Energy Burden in Georgia

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The study examines the causes of energy burden among Black residents in Georgia.

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Researchers in Hong Yeo's lab work on the electronics of wearable biosensors

March 18, 2024

Real-Time Heat Protection Device Being Tested in Florida

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Wearable bio-measurement device could alert people who work outside to dangerous levels of rising body temperature and dehydration that could help avoid heat-related injury.

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Omar Asensio, visiting fellow, Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society

March 18, 2024

Civic Data Analysis Finds New Opportunity for Federal Energy Efficiency Initiatives

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A new study from the School of Public Policy finds that federal housing policies accelerate energy efficiency participation among low and moderate-income households — even when those policies don’t directly address energy efficiency. 

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Carson Meredith, Valerie Thomas, Tim Lieuwen

March 14, 2024

Georgia Tech Receives Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Grants

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In January, Georgia Tech researchers were awarded three grants as a part of the Department of Energy’s Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization multi-topic funding

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photograph of Muhannad Bakir

March 12, 2024

Bakir Named Director of the Packaging Research Center

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Muhannad Bakir has been named director of the Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology’s 3D Systems Packaging Research Center.

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