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Georgia Tech's iconic Tech Tower with the Atlanta midtown skyline in the background
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Faced with new regulations, electronics manufacturers and suppliers didn’t just make small…

Aerial view of a commercial building with roof-mounted solar panels. Image credit: Asurnipal, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://lnkd.in/ddzprHi>, via Wikimedia Commons
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Eric Greenlee, a student from Georgia Tech, installs water-level sensors in lakes at Lac du Flambeau to help monitor wild rice beds. (Photo courtesy Naomi Blinick)
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Across the Great Lakes Basin in the U.S. and Canada, there’s a growing interest among many…

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Chuanyi Ji, Georgia Tech Associate Professor of Engineering, and Scott C. Ganz, Georgetown…

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Georgia Tech's Annalisa Bracco and Zachary Handlos describe two climate phenomena with similar…

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Brian Stone, Georgia Tech Professor of Environmental Planning, explores the planning strategies…

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Annalisa Bracco, Georgia Tech Professor of Ocean and Climate Dynamics, describes the current…

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Mark Hay, Georgia Tech Professor of Environmental Biology, describes research that shows that…

Panasonic's Powder-Powered batteries to charge EVs
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Sila, Gleb Yushin's battery materials company, will begin supplying to Panasonic, one of the…

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Side-by-side scientific visualization comparing in-situ photoelasticity and modeled stress field evolution during fracture testing of a transparent material. The left panel shows a rectangular specimen with rainbow-colored stress patterns radiating from a crack tip near the center-right edge, while the right panel shows a corresponding color-coded stress map with blue, green, yellow, and red regions indicating increasing stress concentration around the crack tip. Labels at the top identify the two methods.

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At Georgia Tech’s Daedalus Lab, Christos Athanasiou and postdoctoral researcher Danqi Sun are working to provide greater certainty to designers and…
Portrait of an individual standing on a paved campus walkway, wearing a light-colored button-down shirt. Trees, landscaped green spaces, and campus buildings appear in the softly blurred background, with daylight illuminating the outdoor scene. The image is framed from the waist up, with the individual centered in the foreground.

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Assistant Professor Ali Sarhadi is using AI and digital twins to predict how and where major storms will cause the most damage.
Collage of multiple individual portrait photos arranged in a grid, showing people photographed from the shoulders up in a variety of indoor and outdoor settings. Backgrounds include office spaces, greenery, campus walkways, and neutral studio backdrops, with individuals wearing professional or business‑casual clothing. The images vary in lighting and composition but share a consistent head‑and‑shoulders portrait style.

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This year’s seed grant awards align with the four main thematic areas in which BBISS aims to enhance Georgia Tech’s research to address some of our…
Large group of people standing and seated in a bright industrial-style indoor space, gathered on and around a metal staircase and long tables. The setting includes exposed beams, railings, overhead lighting, and tables with notebooks, cups, and coats visible in the foreground.

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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…
"A group of people stand near large windows in a bright indoor space, with one person holding a microphone and reading from a sheet of paper. Three individuals stand together near a lectern, some holding notes or drinks. In the foreground, a table holds laptops, papers, and a drink cup. The room has light-colored floors and tall window shades that diffuse the natural light."

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Georgia Tech faculty invite the campus sustainability community to find the intersection of what they do best, what they love, and where they can…
Picture of David Sherrill who has been Named Executive Director of the Institute for Data Engineering and Science

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Georgia Tech has appointed David Sherrill as executive director of the Institute for Data Engineering and Science (IDEaS), effective March 1.
Three portraits, side by side, of Ahmed Saeed, Tony Giarusso, and Daniel Molzahn

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Explosive data center growth requires research to inform policies which manage the building of this critical infrastructure.
A view inside the Scholars Event Theater of a session of the Sustainability Showcase. A man speaks to a crowd while presenting slides on a large projection screen.

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Across disciplines and scales, a unifying theme emerged: resilience is not a single solution. It is a systems-level challenge requiring integration…
Group picture of Community Engaged Research workshop participants.

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Georgia Tech has considerable expertise in community engagement. The CER council connects all the initiatives around campus adding impact and reach…
Collage of seven portraits of the 2025 BBISS Faculty Fellows

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As fellows, they serve as strategic advisors, help cultivate a vibrant community of sustainability-focused scholars and students across Georgia Tech…