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<p>Photo credit: Kathryn Lapierre</p>
For the second year in a row, HyTech Racing has brought the first-place trophy from Formula Hybrid back to Georgia Tech. The team outperformed its…
<p>The southern United States is disproportionately affected by hurricanes. Understanding these and other coastal threats is among the priorities for the South Big Data Innovation Hub. (Image from Sagis.org)</p>
Precision medicine and understanding health disparities, innovation to power competitive manufacturing, technology for smarter communities, and…
<p>Graduate Research Assistant Gennaro Notomista shows the components of SlothBot on a cable in a Georgia Tech lab. The robot is designed to be slow and energy efficient for applications such as environmental monitoring. (Photo: Allison Carter, Georgia Tech)</p>
For environmental monitoring, precision agriculture, infrastructure maintenance and certain security applications, slow and energy efficient can be…
Georgia Tech Solar Decathlon Team Wins Prize
A team from Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, School of Building Construction, and School of Civil and Environmental Engineering won first place…
<p>Atalay Atasu, a professor at the Scheller College of Business</p>
The falling cost of solar power has led to a boom in recent years, with more and more photovoltaic panels popping up on rooftops and backyard solar…
<p>Professor Richard Fujimoto Portrait</p>
The Faculty Honors Committee has awarded the Class of 1934 Outstanding Interdisciplinary Activities Award to Regent’s Professor Richard Fujimoto.…
<p>Georgia Institute of Technology's new Masters of of Science in Sustainable Energy and Environmental Management (MSEEM) is the only graduate degree in Georgia fully dedicated to sustainability issues.</p>
The Georgia Institute of Technology is launching a new Master of Science in Sustainable Energy and Environmental Management (MSEEM) — the only…
2019 SURF Group Photo
Twenty three Georgia Tech students have been selected for the second class of Sustainable Undergraduate Research Fellows (SURF). Twenty are new…
<p>Post-doctoral fellow Bopeng Zhang, Professor Yongsheng Chen and graduate research assistant Thomas Igou from the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering will pilot a project to use wastewater nutrients to grow lettuce, tomatoes and other fruits and vegetables. </p><p> </p>
Even if you do your best to eat local, chances are most of the fruits and vegetables you consume come from far away -- especially if you live in a…
<p>A recent development would make electricity generation from the sun's heat more efficient, by using ceramic-metal plates for heat transfer at higher temperatures and at elevated pressures. (Purdue University illustration/Raymond Hassan)</p>
Solar power accounts for less than two percent of U.S. electricity, but could make up more than that if the cost of electricity generation and energy…