Research News Listing

October 9, 2025

Storms Are Changing — Should the Hurricane Scale Change Too?

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Georgia Tech expert Zachary Handlos joins a growing conversation about whether the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale adequately reflects the full range of hurricane hazards in a changing climate.

Grace Tang (Left) and Alison Onstine (Right) holding bacteria plates that spell "BIOL 4590" (Credit: Tang and Onstine)

October 13, 2025

Undergraduate Bioinformatics Class Produces Published Research

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“This course truly underscores Georgia Tech’s commitment to pioneering meaningful undergraduate experiences,” says teacher Vinayak (Vinny) Agarwal. “No other peer institution I know of is exposing undergraduates to bioinformatics at this level.”

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October 7, 2025

BBISS Announces 2025 Sustainability Next Seed Grant Recipients

5 min read

The seed grant program reaches many faculty members from a diverse array of disciplines due to the generous support provided by broad-based partnerships in addition to the Sustainability Next funds.

October 7, 2025

ChBE Professor Leads Team Awarded $9.2M NSF Grant to Build “Plug-and-Play” Biotechnology

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Researchers received a $9.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to accelerate the adoption of cell-free systems in biomanufacturing.

October 6, 2025

Initiative Lead Q&A: Akanksha Menon on Designing the Future of Buildings

3 min read

Menon discusses her interdisciplinary approach to improving building sustainability and efficiency through advanced materials and systems.

October 6, 2025

Revered Faculty Uses Teaching to Nurture Students and Research Community

5 min read

Assistant Professor Raphaël Pestourie has earned back-to-back selections to the Institute’s Course Instructor Opinion Survey (CIOS) honor roll, placing him among the top-ranked teachers for Fall 2024 and Spring 2025.

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October 6, 2025

From Socrates to ChatGPT: The Ancient Lesson AI-powered Language Models Have Yet to Learn

4 min read

A Georgia Tech CS professor is a co-author of a new OpenAI study that examines why large language models struggle to say, 'I don't know.'

October 6, 2025

Lack of Charging Station Data Deters Widespread Adoption of Electric Vehicles

3 min read

Researchers suggest that states should regulate data transparency to improve the reliability of electric vehicles.

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October 3, 2025

Georgia Tech’s Growing Climate Innovation Footprint: Reflections from Climate Week NYC

5 min read

Across five New York Climate Exchange partner events, the Georgia Tech community demonstrated something essential: Georgia Tech bridges research and real-world impact where it matters most – in people’s lives.

October 8, 2025

Winnie Chu Awarded NSF CAREER Grant to Create First-Ever Map of Antarctic Ice Sheet Base Temperatures

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The grant will support Chu as she uses radar data and generative AI to map temperatures beneath the Antarctica ice sheet, aiming to improve climate predictions, support coastal planning, and train future scientists through open-access tools and education.

October 2, 2025

Georgia Tech’s Nakia Melecio Named Fulbright Scholar

3 min read

Melecio awarded Fulbright Scholar recognition for his global leadership in research commercialization and innovation ecosystem building

A researcher works in a cotton field in Jenkins County, Georgia, as part of a project on AI and pesticide use. Dorothy Seybold

September 23, 2025

What Happens When AI Comes to the Cotton Fields

6 min read

A Georgia Tech team is piloting AI-powered sensors to help cotton farmers optimize pesticide use.

Executive Director Jud Ready presenting inside a room at the Marcus Nanotechnology Building for SRI's inaugural meeting.

October 1, 2025

Georgia Tech’s Space Research Institute Holds Inaugural Meeting

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Georgia Tech’s Space Research Institute (SRI) hosted its inaugural meeting on September 5, drawing more than 130 researchers from across campus to outline its vision, foster collaboration, and highlight the breadth of space research underway.

October 1, 2025

Once-in-a-Decade Conference Spotlights Interactive Computing Researchers

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Three researchers from Georgia Tech's School of Interactive Computing (IC)—Cindy Lin, Lynn Dombrowski, and Shaowen Bardzell—were selected to present their paper at the highly selective Aarhus Conference in Denmark.

September 24, 2025

School of IC Honors Decorated Professor with Namesake Award

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Georgia Tech's School of Interactive Computing established the John Stasko Award for Teaching Excellence to honor the decorated professor for his 36-year career marked by significant contributions to data visualization and a legacy of kindness.

A view of Greenland's ice sheet from the NASA/USGS Landsat 8 satellite showing meltwater lakes on a glacier. (Credit: NASA)

October 1, 2025

The Future of Antarctic Ice: New Study Reveals the Mathematics of Meltwater Lakes

4 min read

Simple equations are revealing how topography controls supraglacial lake size in Antarctica — and why it matters for climate predictions.

Photo of the U.S. Capital Building in the fall.

October 1, 2025

Navigating the Federal Government Shutdown

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As of Oct. 1, the U.S. government has failed to reach a spending agreement in time to avoid a shutdown of the federal government.

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September 29, 2025

On Pointe: How a Former Ballerina Brings Artificial Intelligence to Dance

1 min read

Milka Trajkova discovered human-computer interaction by accident. Now she’s using it to create technology to improve fellow ballerinas’ skills.

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September 23, 2025

Georgia Tech Startup Sets Sights on Transforming Heart Failure Care

1 min read

Heart failure remains one of the most challenging conditions to monitor outside the clinic.

September 26, 2025

Georgia Tech Students Take Charge with New AI and Engineering Course

3 min read

Two Georgia Tech Ph.D. students created a student-run, faculty-graded, fully-accredited course that links math, engineering and machine learning.

September 26, 2025

Decades in the Making: Seeing the Full Impact From Air Pollution Reductions

4 min read

Georgia Tech researchers analyze seasonal differences of SO₂ and sulfate concentrations in the atmosphere over decades to determine the long-term impact of sustained air quality control efforts.

Fall leaves at the Federal Capital Building

September 25, 2025

Georgia Tech Prepares for Potential Federal Government Shutdown

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As a result of financial planning by a Georgia Tech working group, Institute operations are not expected to be immediately affected by a federal shutdown.