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Panasonic's Powder-Powered batteries to charge EVs
Wired

Sila, Gleb Yushin's battery materials company, will begin supplying to Panasonic, one of the largest EV battery…

Axios Atlanta

William Drummond, a Georgia Tech professor who created Drawdown Georgia's emissions tracker, is quoted about how the…

Graphic depiction of a geothermal power plant. Water is pumped down a deep borehole into hot rock that has been fractured, like fracking. The water gains heat and is forced up to the surface through a second borehole. The hot water is used to generate electricity, and then pumped back down for another cycle.
Scientific American

SEI Director, Tim Lieuwen, is quoted about geothermal energy's role in a less carbon intensive energy future.

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AP News

Matthew McDowell, associate professor of engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, said the Bipartisan…

Chunks of ice with distinctive melting patterns at the water line, float in a cluster near Antarctica.
Wired

Alexander Robel, assistant professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences who leads Georgia Tech's Ice and…

Solar Panels
AJC

Suniva had been growing rapidly since its 2007 founding at Georgia Tech. The company filed for bankruptcy in 2017…

apples and sweet potatoes
BBC Future

Helen Anne Curry, a Georgia Tech professor in the School of History and Sociology, talks about the role of landraces in…

Close up of a lithium-ion battery
SciTechDaily

Researchers from Georgia Tech's McDowell Lab are developing high-energy-density batteries using aluminum foil, a more…

Researcher working on battery technology
The Cool Down

Georgia Tech researcher Gleb Yushin is quoted about recent innovations in battery technology.

A thermal image of Atlanta, Georgia from 1997. NASA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The New York Times

Georgia Tech's Brian Stone weighs in on this feature looking at how Singapore could be a model for dampening the effects…

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Yuanzhi Tang
The College of Sciences is funding two research centers through a new seed grant program. Selected from a finalist pool of nine proposals,…
Some of the NVIDIA computer hardware in Georgia Tech's new AI Makerspace.
Georgia Tech’s College of Engineering has established an artificial intelligence supercomputer hub dedicated exclusively to teaching students. The…
Portrait of Tamsin Leavey.
Written by Benjamin WrightTamsin Leavy is a self-described “Australian-born Jersey girl” who has lived in, among other places, Montana, Massachusetts…
Portrait of Dr. Jennifer Hirsch
Georgia Tech Center for Sustainable Communities Research and Education (SCoRE) senior director, Jennifer Hirsch, presented a paper to a recent…
Josiah Hester sits at a desk in an electronics lab at Georgia Tech with an array of prototype projects and test equipment in front of him.
Josiah Hester likes to build things. Specifically, he likes to build tiny, computerized devices that can be used to help people monitor the…
Nicole Kennard introduces Georgia Tech Alum Andrew White on the stage at the Atlantic Theater.
This year’s Georgia Tech Sustainability Showcase, held March 4 – 8 in conjunction with the SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) Action and Awareness…
Portrait of Emma Blandford
Written by Benjamin WrightEmma Blandford is the Program & Portfolio Manager for Sustainability Next, an initiative outlined in Georgia Tech’s…
rocket launch conducted as part of Georgia Tech's space research
Some Georgia Tech researchers solve cosmic mysteries such as how supermassive black holes were born — and others now are getting a better, sharper…
Overhead view of the Re-Wind crew doing structural testing on a decommissioned wind turbine blade bridge on an industrial lot.
Pioneering a new recycling approach led to a big win for Re-Wind USA, a Georgia Tech research team led by Russell Gentry. The team has…
Astronaut floating in space with Earth behind them
Humans have looked to the stars for guidance for thousands of years — and when it comes to questions of sustainability, the practice is no different…