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The rising sea levels along Georgia’s Savannah coast and an uptick in more severe storms during hurricane season are bellwethers to looming ecological challenges stemming from climate change. Ongoing research to study sea level rise led by Georgia Tech researchers, a coalition of universities, Savannah and Chatham County government leaders, and…
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Whether pulling a sled across the frozen tundra for hundreds of miles or guiding a visually impaired runner on a cross-country marathon, canine athletes are as prone to injury as their human counterparts. To help reduce injuries and improve performance for canine athletes, student researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a wearable…
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Georgia Tech has received two Department of Defense (DoD) 2022 Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) awards totaling almost $14 million. The highly competitive government program supports interdisciplinary teams of investigators developing innovative solutions in DoD interest areas. This year, the DoD awarded $195 million to 28…
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Georgians can now track where greenhouse gas emissions come from thanks to a tool that estimates those emissions at the state and county level. Developed by Georgia Tech professors, the interactive map allows users to filter publicly available greenhouse gas estimates by county, month, year, and energy sector. Users can specify whether the…
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Researchers from Georgia Tech’s Colleges of Engineering and Computing have completed the first published study on the link between America’s mass transit use and Covid-19 cases at the beginning of the pandemic. Using data from the Federal Highway Administration’s National Household Travel Survey, the team looked at the nation’s 52 largest…
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It’s been in the works for more than a decade and now construction will officially begin. An announcement from Georgia Advance Technology Ventures (GATV), a cooperative organization of Georgia Tech, and Trammell Crow Company (TCC), the project developer, shares details of what will become a major life science innovation hub for the Atlanta region…
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By applying natural-language artificial intelligence techniques to analyze text fields in health records, researchers have developed an automated approach for classifying the severity of COVID-19 illness among pregnant people. The automated approach could accelerate the processing of surveillance records for pregnant patients, who are at higher…
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Georgia Tech researchers have shown that robots about the size of a particle of dust are capable of precise bidirectional control. By harnessing the power of a magnetic field generated by only a single electromagnetic coil, the mobile micro-robots are the smallest of their type. “There are swimmer micro-robots that move in a fluid with similar…
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In late 2020, Yakut Gazi, associate dean for Learning Systems at Georgia Tech Professional Education, ran into a problem. The collection of essays she edited with Dean Nelson Baker detailing pandemic-driven remote and online delivery of courses was ready for publication and distribution, but the funds didn’t exist to take it to market. The essays…
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The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is pleased to announce that our search for the new GTRI Deputy Director for Research for the Information and Cyber Sciences Directorate (ICSD) is complete. On April 18, William H. Robinson, Ph.D., will assume the role of ICSD Director and begin leading two of GTRI’s labs: the Information and…
