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September 3, 2024
IMS Receives NSF Funding for Education and Outreach Programs

The Institute for Matter and Systems (IMS) has received $700,000 in funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for two education and…

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August 30, 2024
$3 Million NSF Grant Will Support Training in Sustainable Medical Devices

Georgia Tech researcher W. Hong Yeo has been awarded a $3 million grant to help develop a new generation of engineers and scientists in…

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August 30, 2024
Georgia Tech Cloud Hub Advances Generative AI Research with Microsoft Support

The Cloud Hub, a key initiative of the Institute for Data Engineering and Science (IDEaS) at Georgia Tech, recently concluded a successful Call for Proposals focused on advancing the field of…

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August 28, 2024
NSF Awards $2M to Clark Atlanta University in Collaboration With the HBCU CHIPS Network

The National Science Foundation has awarded $2 million to Clark Atlanta University in partnership with the HBCU CHIPS Network, a collaborative effort involving historically black colleges and…

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August 27, 2024
Clearing the Air: Georgia Tech Takes Leading Role in Scrubbing the Atmosphere

From commercialization to community engagement to partnerships with national labs and corporations, Georgia Tech leads in the development and use of direct air capture technologies.

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August 19, 2024
Using AI to Find the Polymers of the Future

Nylon, Teflon, Kevlar. These are just a few familiar polymers — large-molecule chemical compounds — that have changed the world. From Teflon-coated frying pans to 3D printing, polymers are vital…

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August 12, 2024
Researchers Break Boundaries to Spark Energy Innovation

Interdisciplinary collaboration drives innovation at Georgia Tech. Researchers with joint appointments across the Institute's six colleges discuss how blending diverse fields helps them create…

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August 1, 2024
Materials Engineer Meilin Liu Named to European Academy of Sciences

Meilin Liu, Hightower Chair and Regents’ Professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering…

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July 30, 2024
Novelis and Georgia Tech Showcase Technical Leadership at International Aluminum Conference

From airplanes to soda cans, aluminum is a crucial — not to mention, an incredibly sustainable — material in manufacturing. Since 2019, Georgia Tech has partnered with…

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July 23, 2024
Mechanical Engineering Researchers Use Salt for Thermal Energy Storage

From keeping warm in the winter to doing laundry, heat is crucial to daily life. But as the world grapples with climate change, buildings’ increasing energy consumption is a critical problem.…

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July 19, 2024
How the Paris Olympic Track Is Designed to Break Records

Every millisecond will matter when the world's best athletes gather in Paris for the Summer Olympics, and track and field athletes will compete on a surface designed to produce record-…

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July 19, 2024
Mentoring the Future of Nanotechnology

When Blair Brettmann was a sophomore at the University of Texas at Austin, her advisor told her about the National…

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July 16, 2024
Georgia Tech Wins Second $25 Million Award to Support Nuclear Nonproliferation Research and Education

Georgia Tech will lead a consortium of 12 universities and 12 national labs as part of a …

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July 16, 2024
Engineering a Fast Olympic Pool

What makes a swimming pool fast? It’s not just the fit, strong, and elite athletes competing at the Summer Olympics in Paris. The speed of swimming is also created by the structural…

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July 2, 2024
Stay Cool: Top Fabrics to Wear to Survive the Summer Heat

As the summer heat intensifies, with temperatures sometimes soaring to triple digits, the question of which fabrics are best for staying cool becomes particularly relevant. …

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June 27, 2024
AI for a Better World

Artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques are infused across the College of Engineering’s education and research.

From safer roads to new fuel cell technology, semiconductor…

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June 12, 2024
Nanowires Create Elite Warriors to Enhance T Cell Therapy

Adoptive T-cell therapy has revolutionized medicine. A patient’s T-cells — a type of white blood cell that is part of the body’s immune system — are extracted and modified in a lab and then…

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June 3, 2024
Unraveling the Physics of Knitting

Knitting, the age-old craft of looping and stitching natural fibers into fabrics, has received renewed attention for its potential applications in advanced manufacturing. Far beyond their use for…

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May 30, 2024
Georgia Tech Is at the Leading Edge of Semiconductor Research

Semiconductors make our world run, but the industry faces a turning point. For decades, computer chip efficiency has doubled every two years, but that progress is slowing. To complicate the…

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May 29, 2024
Georgia Tech Joins Global Industrial Technology Cooperation Center to Advance Semiconductor Electronics Research

Georgia Tech has been selected as one of six universities globally to receive funding for the newly established Global Industrial Technology Cooperation Center. The announcement was made by the…

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May 23, 2024
Biden-Harris Administration Announces Preliminary Terms with Absolics to Support Development of Glass Substrate Technology for Semiconductor Advanced Packaging

The Biden-Harris Administration announced that the U.S. Department of Commerce and Absolics, an affiliate of the Korea-based SKC, have signed a non-binding preliminary memorandum of terms to…

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May 20, 2024
This Modified Stainless Steel Could Kill Bacteria Without Antibiotics or Chemicals

An electrochemical process developed at Georgia Tech could offer new protection against bacterial infections without contributing to growing antibiotic resistance.

The approach capitalizes…

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Family Loss Brings About Medical Breakthrough
May 14, 2024
Family Loss Brings About Medical Breakthrough

The call from his mom is still vivid 20 years later. Moments this big and this devastating can define lives, and for Hong Yeo, today a Georgia…

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May 2, 2024
Physicists Pioneer New Quantum Sensing Platform

Quantum sensors detect the smallest of environmental changes — for example, an atom reacting to a magnetic field. As these sensors “read” the unique behaviors of subatomic particles, they also…

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May 2, 2024
Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology Builds the Future Microelectronics Workforce

When Amy Bonecutter-Leonard was a second-semester undergraduate at the Georgia…

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