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While a dominant narrative of American life paints a bleak picture of poorly informed internet partisans duking it out over a landscape denuded of anything resembling truth or reality, a new study from the Georgia Tech School of Public Policy offers a different take while also advancing the use of machine learning in the social sciences and an…
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A majority of Georgia residents strongly support new solar and wind power capacity over new coal-fired plants and believe the state should set a carbon emissions reduction goal, according to a new survey conducted for researchers at Georgia Tech and the University of Georgia. The survey, conducted by polling firm Dynata, found that 60% of Georgia…
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Insider Threat Program Analyst Chikita Sanders’ career path may not be a straight line, but all the experiences and people she met along the way granted her the skills to succeed. Chikita was a biologist for eight years for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. “In that role, there was also some aspects of project management, policy management,…
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GTRI Senior Research Engineer and Georgia Tech alumnus Roger Hill is on a mission to help rescue Afghan families who have supported the U.S. military out of Afghanistan. Hill is working on these efforts with CMM World, a faith-based nonprofit that supports humanitarian aid, disaster relief, and anti-human trafficking efforts worldwide. In…
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Georgia Tech Professor Sundaresan Jayaraman is among a small group of national experts that has authored a new National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) report that outlines a roadmap to protect the respiratory health of all Americans. The first-of-its-kind report seeks to ensure that everyone, including…
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As one of the best discrete mathematics and combinatorics graduate programs in the country, Georgia Tech’s Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization (ACO) doctoral program has long been known for its excellence and rigor. Newly appointed director Santosh Vempala plans to both “ensure that the program…
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Two assistant professors in the College of Sciences have just joined the ranks of Georgia Tech early career scientists selected to receive prestigious Sloan Research Fellowships. Hannah Choi of the School of Mathematics and Henry S. “Pete” La Pierre of the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry are among 118 early…
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Meet Nazanin Bassiri-Gharb, Harris Saunders, Jr. Chair & Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and researcher at the Institute for Materials (IMat) and the Institute of Electronics and Nanotechnology (IEN). IMat and IEN are two of Georgia Tech's 10 interdisciplinary research institutes (IRIs) within the Georgia Tech Research enterprise…
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Mo Jarin, a doctoral student in Georgia Tech’s School of Civil and Environmental Engineering has won the Career, Research, and Innovation Development Conference’s Innovation Competition for her VoltaPure water disinfection technology. Jarin, who is pursuing her degree in environmental health engineering, earned a $1,000 cash prize…
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The Georgia Institute of Technology has been selected as the in-depth cell characterization platform hub for the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) Regenerative Medicine Innovation Project (RMIP). Established under the 21st Century Cures Act, the main goal of the $30 million RMIP is the development of transformative new therapies based on adult…
