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Foley Scholars for 2024-2025: Vanessa Oguamanam, Charles Ramey, and Momin Siddiqui. Jiawei Zhou, bottom right, was unable to attend.

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The Foley Scholar Awards recognize the achievements of top graduate students whose vision and research are shaping the future of how people interact with and value technology.
Mothbox

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Georgia Tech’s Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) along with the Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) award sponsored a two-day Mothbox science workshop held on October 28-…
Richard Agbeyibor, flight test engineer, U.S. Air Force, sitting in a space exploration simulator.

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Many people dream of flying into space for NASA, but few achieve it. Georgia Tech has produced 14 astronauts, inspiring current students to pursue this challenging path. Despite long odds,…

Beatriz Palacios Abad

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Beatriz Palacios Abad, a computer science doctoral student in Georgia Tech’s College of Computing, won both a best paper award and impact recognition award at the 2024 ACM SIGCHI conference
Pinar

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Distinguished ISyE professor will lead the nation’s No. 1 industrial engineering program.
School of IC's Josiah Hester (left) and Cindy Lin discuss AI's future impact on sustainability.

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Interactive Computing Chair has led a faculty initiative establishing an annual forward-thinking conference to address societal impacts of AI-driven technologies.
A woman in a white shirt and a man in a blue button-down shirt are smiling while looking at a computer screen.

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In the workshop, leaders from academia and government shared strategies for creating secure international research collaborations while protecting national security and economic interests.
Kait Morano is the resilience planning director for the Coastal Equity and Resilience Hub (CEAR Hub) and research scientist with Georgia Tech.

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In a recent interview on The Weather Channel, Kait Morano, a research scientist from Georgia Tech, discussed disaster resilience and the strategies communities can adopt to withstand extreme weather…
American flag and faces

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Deepfakes are increasingly used during election cycles, posing significant challenges for detection and regulation, warns Georgia Tech’s Mark Riedl.
Russell Clark named the interim director of sustainability for IPaT.

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Russell Clark, lead principal investigator of the CEAR HUB and senior research scientist at the Institute for People and Technology (IPaT), has been named the interim director of sustainability…

Michael Best, executive director of IPaT, presents Gillian Hayes with a gift bag before her IPaT distinguished alumnus talk on Oct. 17, 2024

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Gillian Hayes, who received her doctorate in computer science from Georgia Tech in 2007, was honored with the Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) Distinguished Alumni Award.
Muzna Raheel and Delaney Gomen pictured (left-to-right).

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The Georgia Institute of Technology today announced the recipients of fellowships in which students will collaborate with The Carter Center during the fall 2024 academic semester.
A logo with the words "Georgia Tech Strategic Plan" over "Sustainability Next" with an abstract half-flower with blue, yellow, and gold rectangular petals.

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The seed grant program is administered by BBISS in collaboration with RBI, SEI, and IPaT.
Rising Georgia 7th-8th graders learn how coastal areas are changing due to sea level rise. 

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The CEAR Hub partnered with the University of Georgia Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant to host a week-long NASA Sea Level Changemakers Summer Camp
Tim Lieuwen standing outside the CNES Building at Georgia Tech

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Lieuwen enters the role of interim EVPR with plans to focus on research security and operational excellence and to strengthen the Institute’s ties to Georgia and the Southeast.

 

 


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