A solar energy material that is remarkably durable and affordable is regrettably also unusable if it barely generates electricity, thus many researchers had abandoned emerging organic solar technologies. But lately,…

The Southeast Center for Mathematics and Biology (SCMB) will host its annual SCMB Symposium at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Feb. 17-18, in the Marcus Technology Building…

By Michael Pearson

Georgia Institute of Technology Regents’ Professor Marilyn Brown has written an article for Scientific American analyzing the employment impact of the proposed “Green New Deal”…

School of Computational Science and Engineering Associate Professor Polo Chau received the 2019 Outstanding Researcher Award from Intel, honoring his innovations in artificial intelligence…

Extracting nectar from flowers that may be dancing in the wind requires precise, millisecond timing between the brain and muscles.

By capturing and analyzing nearly all of the brain signals sent to the wing…

Students who want to study complicated biophysics problems used to have to rely on pricey supercomputers. A new paper from School of Physics researchers promises a less expensive, more hands-on approach.

Azadeh Ansari has been named as a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award. Ansari holds the Sutterfield Family Junior Professorship in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering…

Energy access in sub-Saharan Africa is extremely limited, and much of the energy currently consumed is used to cook food. Most people use biomass — organic materials such as wood, plants, or waste — for this purpose…

Georgia Institute of Technology bioethicist Aaron Levine said there is merit in a proposal from researchers at two universities calling on crowdfunding platforms to stop accepting campaigns for unproven medical…

Georgia Tech biomedical engineering (BME) alumni Rob Mannino (B.S. BMED, 2013; Ph.D. BMED, 2018) and Erika Tyburski (B.S. BMED, 2012) were recognized as top young entrepreneurs on…

Georgia Tech’s Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) and IoT software company People Power are working together to collect and analyze data from in-home sensors as part of…

Ahmet Coskun has seen the future for the ubiquitous poster session and it is paperless. Coskun, assistant professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical…

A small company built around technology developed by researchers in the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience at Georgia Tech is realizing some big dreams with the announcement of a new business…

An interdisciplinary research group from Georgia Tech has received a grant from the National Science Foundation to design an advanced self-propelled robot…

By A. Maureen Rouhi

Examine your hands. The right is a mirror image of the left. They look very similar, but you know they’re not when you try to put your left hand inside a right glove.

The…

By Jessica Barber

On March 13, 2019, the lives of team members Dev Mandavia, Lucas Muller, and Cassidy Wang began to change. Once Ethos Medical was announced as the winner of the 2019 InVenture Prize, the…

A team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and The Ohio State University has developed a soft polymer material, called magnetic shape memory polymer, that uses magnetic fields to transform into a…

Dear IPaT Community,

Happy holidays! We're quickly approaching the close of 2019, a time for reflection and looking forward to the year ahead. Before we usher in a new decade, we'd like to thank you for…

There is a growing national community of researchers taking our understanding of brain function to the next level, and some of them recently gathered at the Georgia Institute of Technology to share their vision at…

Cutting-edge research in topics such as regenerative medicine, DNA synthesis, and genome design and editing took center stage at the first-ever AfroBioTech Conference, which touched down in Atlanta in late October.…