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Faculty selected for NIA

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Six Georgia Tech College of Engineering faculty members are among the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) 2023 Class of Fellows.
Pictured left to right: Matthew McDowell, Min Zhou, and Ting Zhu.

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Matthew McDowell, Min Zhou, and Ting Zhu will hold the position for a five-year term.
EAS graduate students sample water during a November trip to Puerto Rico: (From L to R) Sharissa Thompson, Tatiana Gibson, Dru Ann Harris. (Photo Frances Rivera-Hernández.)

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The Kendeda Building Advisory Board has awarded 12 micro research grants ($50 – $500) for sustainability-related, small-scale, short-term…
Photo collage of Jordan Hale, Jake Churchill, Henry Kantrow, Betina Arkhurst, Andrew Hill, Jacob Tjards, Emily Marshall

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SEI and EPICenter Announce 2023 James G. Campbell Fellowship and Spark Awards Recipients
Outline of the state of Georgia on a dark blue background with the image of the sun shining through a tree inside the outline of the state.

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The emissions tracker created by a Georgia Tech-led team will play an important role in the work, researchers say.
a photo of Omar Asensio

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Georgia Tech Associate Professor Omar Asensio was awarded a Business in Global Society (BiGS) Visiting Fellowship at Harvard Business School, where…
House with solar panels

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This paradox is called the solar rebound effect: the ratio of the increase in energy consumption to the amount that is generated by the solar panels.
RCF event

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The Georgia Institute of Technology is building MSI partnerships and recently hosted its first research collaboration forum (RCF) specifically to…
A closeup of Georgia Tech's iconic Tech Tower

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Professor Christos Athanasiou advances sustainable innovations through creative mechanics.
A closeup of Georgia Tech's iconic Tech Tower

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Georgia Tech faculty and researchers are involved in five university-led projects and two new Energy Earthshot Research Centers that are part of a…

GT Energy In The News

Walter de Heer, a professor of physics at Georgia Institute of Technology, holds a molecular model of graphene in his lab.
Wall Street Journal

A team of scientists have determined graphene, the same substance found in common pencil lead, can act as a semiconductor. Walter…

Georgia Tech's iconic Tech Tower with the Atlanta midtown skyline in the background
TechXplore

It was a good year for technology research and development, and nothing made the news more often than energy research efforts.…

Panasonic's Powder-Powered batteries to charge EVs
Wired

Sila, Gleb Yushin's battery materials company, will begin supplying to Panasonic, one of the largest EV battery manufacturers.

A geothermal production well and the Blundell Geothermal Power Plant near Milford, Utah. This well provides 400 degree steam and hot water from deep underground to run the turbines at the power plant. Credit: Jon G. Fuller/VW Pics/ Universal Images Group via etty Images
Scientific American

The potential of geothermal energy as a carbon-free power source is well known. Now companies such as Google are helping to unlock…

ORNL’s Climate Change Science Institute and Georgia Tech co-hosted a Southeast Decarbonization Workshop in November 2023. Credit: ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy
ORNL News

November 29, 2023

Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Climate Change Science Institute and the Georgia…

A truck is parked betwenn brine evaporation ponds at Albemarle Corp's Silver Peak lithium facility, Oct 6, 2022, in Silver Peeak, Nev. The Energy Department is making a push to strenghten the U.S. battery supply chain, announcing Wednesday, Nov 15, 2023, up to $3.5 billion for companies that produce batteries and the critical minerals that go into them. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
Associated Press

While the funding may not have been make-or-break for them, Matthew McDowell, associate professor of engineering at Georgia…

George White, a principal research engineer and the senior director for Strategic Partnerships at Georgia Tech, and Taiesha Smith, the senior program manager for HBCUs and minority-serving institutions Research Partnerships at Georgia Tech, discuss the goals of the Research Collaboration Initiative. (Courtesy of Georgia Tech)
WABE

With the goal of building a diverse workforce in science and technology, Georgia Tech is working to establish new research…

Georgia Tech's iconic Tech Tower with the Atlanta midtown skyline in the background
WSB-TV

Are they ready for crazy Atlanta drivers and crazy Atlanta roads here?” Gray asked Georgia Tech professor Srinivas Peeta, who…

Georgia Tech's iconic Tech Tower with the Atlanta midtown skyline in the background
Atlanta Business Chronicle
Solar Panels
AJC

Suniva had been growing rapidly since its 2007 founding at Georgia Tech. The company filed for bankruptcy in 2017 under…