OAK RIDGE, Tenn.—ORAU has awarded competitive research grants totaling $180,000 to 36 junior faculty from its member institutions. The annual grants are made through the company’s Ralph E. Powe…
Taha Ayari won the Young Scientist Award at the 2018 European Materials Research Society Meeting, held June 18-22 in Strasbourg, France. Based at Georgia Tech-Lorraine (GT-L), Ayari is a Ph.D. student in the Georgia…
By Michael Pearson
Electric vehicles equipped to pump electricity back into the grid could help make for a more resilient power system and make owners a little cash, to boot, according to a new U.S.…
“Movement is a defining feature of animals,” says Simon Sponberg. He is an assistant professor in the School of Physics and of Biological Sciences. How animals navigate their environments is the motivating question…
The Georgia Institute of Technology has named Chaouki T. Abdallah, currently provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of New Mexico, to be its new executive vice president for…
NMR – nuclear magnetic resonance – is a powerful tool to investigate matter. It is based on measuring the interaction between the nuclei of atoms in molecules in the presence of an external magnetic field; the higher…
The Georgia Institute of Technology has named Chaouki T. Abdallah, currently provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of New Mexico, to be its new executive vice president for…
With more than 300 universities and companies represented, the Georgia Institute of Technology ranks #14 for the number of accepted papers at the International Conference on…
Registration is now open for the latest summer skills workshop. Graduate students and postdocs working in data science, scientific computing, and related fields need to learn quite a few skills, many of which are not…
James Dahlman, assistant professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, and a researcher in the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, has…
The Georgia Tech EcoCAR 3 team placed fifth overall and won numerous top prizes at EcoCAR 3, a four-year student competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) and General Motors. This was the final…
A tidal-energy harvester inspired by the human heart. A soil-erosion solution that mimics a kingfisher’s eyelid. A mosquito-control device that functions like carnivorous plants. These technologies are among the…
A new research project announced recently as a collaboration between the Georgia Institute of Technology and satellite communications provider Xenesis could help open the bottleneck that now limits the flow of data…
LG Chem Global Innovation Contest 2018
This program is a platform for research collaboration designed by LG Chem that will be initiated with novel proposals from universities…
The South Big Data Hub is one of four regional big data hub partners awarded a $1.8 million grant from the…
The Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience at the Georgia Institute of Technology experienced a dramatic expansion with the addition of 20 new faculty researchers.
Joining the community of…
The vision of making affordable, high-quality cell-based therapies available to hundreds of thousands of patients worldwide moved closer to reality June 6 with the dedication of a new cell manufacturing research…
Siri knows where you live, but she couldn’t drive you there. Despite their name, artificial neural networks are very different from the brain. Yet machine learning performance could be improved if informed by state-…
The First Symposium on Machine Learning in Science and Engineering (MLSE’18), jointly organized by faculty from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Carnegie Mellon University, was held in Pittsburgh on June 6-8,…
From electric cars that travel hundreds of miles on a single charge to chainsaws as mighty as gas-powered versions, new products hit the market each year that take advantage of recent advances in battery technology…
