Sustainability Next Seed Grants

The latest round of Sustainability Next Research Seed grants had been awarded. The seed grant program is administered by the BBISS. This year's grants were funded in collaboration with the Georgia Tech Arts Initiative, BBISS, Walter H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Design, School of City and Regional Planning, School of Computer Science, Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business, Energy Policy and Innovation Center, Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, Institute for Matter and Systems, Institute for People and Technology, Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines, Strategic Energy Institute, and Center for Sustainable Communities Research and Education. The goal of the program is to nurture promising areas for future large-scale collaborative sustainability research, research translation, and/or high-impact outreach; to provide mid-career faculty with leadership and community building opportunities; and to broaden and strengthen the Georgia Tech sustainability community as a whole.

The call for proposals was modeled after the Office of the Executive Vice President for Research’s (EVPR) “Moving Teams Forward” and “Forming Teams” programs. All told, the work of 46 people will benefit from these grants. The researchers come from 17 different Schools in 6 Colleges, and include external partners and research professionals from several of Georgia Tech’s Interdisciplinary Research Institutes (IRIs).

2025 Seed Grants

You can read the full announcement here.

Forming Teams:

Moving Teams Forward:

2024 Seed Grants

College of Sciences Climate Frontiers Symposium Grantees (Co-funded by COS, BBISS, and SEI)

  • Climate Solutions in the Most Biodiverse Regions on Earth: Testing Whether Warming Temperatures have set in Motion an “Escalator to Survival” in Tropical Rainforests; Benjamin Freeman (BIOL), James Stroud (BIOL), Saad Bhamla (ChBE), Amirali Aghazadeh (ECE).
    •    Macro- and Microscale Drivers of Coral Reef Resilience in a Changing Climate; Isaiah W. Bolden (EAS), Lauren Speare, (BIOL and CMDI).
    •    A Workforce and Community-Engaged Team Building Approach for Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling in the U.S. Southeast: Addressing Social and Ecological Implications; Joe Bozeman (CEE and PP), Jennifer Hirsch (SCoRE).
    •    Building Coastal Resilience: Science-based Adaptive Solutions to Mitigate Hurricane-Induced Compound Flooding in the Southeast U.S.; Ali Sarhadi (EAS).

ORNL Southeastern Climate Mitigation and Adaptation Partnership Grantees (Co-funded by BBISS, and SEI)

Moving Teams Forward

Forming Teams

Joint Initiative

2023 Seed Grants

Moving Teams Forward

Forming Teams