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Professor Joel E. Kostka has been named a Union Fellow by the American Geophysical Union, joining a slate of 53 international researchers selected as 2024 AGU Fellows for “significant contributions to the Earth and space sciences.”Kostka serves as Tom and Marie Patton Distinguished Professor and associate chair for Research in …
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Browser extensions, the software add-ons that help users customize and enhance their web browsers, are wildly popular. Some of the most-used extensions find shopping deals, fix grammar and typos, manage passwords, or translate web pages. The types of extensions available are nearly endless, and many have become indispensable tools for businesses…
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Anna Ivanova, assistant professor in the School of Psychology, was recently named to the MIT Technology Review’s 35 Innovators Under 35 for 2024 for her work on language processing in the human brain and artificial intelligence applications.A key pillar of Ivanova’s work involves large language models (LLM) commonly used in artificial intelligence…
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Stepping into the position of interim executive vice president for Research (EVPR) is just the latest role in which Tim Lieuwen has served Georgia Tech. Since 2012, he has been executive director of the Strategic Energy Institute (SEI), one of Tech’s largest Interdisciplinary Research Institutes; in 2023, he added the role of interim chair of the…
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Taking a summer internship in economic development, Stephanie Galicia, a graduate student at Kennesaw State University, didn’t expect she’d be saving lives.But Galicia, who is pursuing master’s degrees in business and public administration, found herself doing just that as an Enterprise 6 Intern in the Safety, Health, Environmental Services group…
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New research shows that an effort to improve wintertime air quality in Fairbanks, Alaska — particularly in frigid conditions around 40 below zero Fahrenheit — may not be as effective as intended. Led by a team of University of Alaska Fairbanks and Georgia Tech researchers that includes School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Professor Rodney…
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The Center for Urban Research at Georgia Tech has only been around for a couple of years. Still, the joint urban policy initiative of Georgia Tech and the City of Atlanta has already started to make a regional impact on issues such as tax policy, public safety, sustainable energy, and transportation solutions.The Center boasts a network of…
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James T. Stroud, Elizabeth Smithgall Watts Early Career Assistant Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at Georgia Tech, has been awarded the prestigious Founder's Prize by the British Ecological Society (BES), the largest scientific society for ecologists in Europe.Commemorating the enthusiasm and vision of the organization’s…
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Across Georgia Tech, researchers are exploring the universe — its origins, possible futures, and humanity and Earth’s place in it. These investigations are the efforts of hundreds of astrobiologists, astrophysicists, aerospace engineers, astronomers, and experts in space policy and science fiction — and all of this work is brought together under…
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The Institute for Matter and Systems (IMS) has received $700,000 in funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for two education and outreach programs. The awards will support the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) and Research Experience for Teachers (RET) programs at Georgia Tech. The REU summer internship program provides…
