Celebrating the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDG) Action and Awareness Week

SDG Week Highlights Sustainable Development Goals

The campus community is invited to participate in a variety of events that increase awareness of and encourage actions that advance the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

A sharpshooter insect forming a urine droplet before it catapulting it high acceleration.

Super-fast Insect Urination Powered by the Physics of Superpropulsion

Atlanta, GA

Tiny insects known as sharpshooters excrete by catapulting urine drops at incredible accelerations. Their excretion is the first example of superpropulsion discovered in a biological system.

“As theoretical physicists, we develop new kinds of mathematical models,” says Itamar Kimchi. “When it’s qualitatively difficult to understand how anything can make sense in experimental data — when there’s something qualitatively shocking — we try to come up with that basic picture.”

New Quantum State Discovered in Trimer-Honeycomb Material

Atlanta, GA

The transformation allows for a billion percent increase in the material’s conductivity and could lead to a new paradigm for quantum devices.

Professor Lakshmi "Prasad" Dasi

Artificial Intelligence Improves Outcomes of Heart Valve Patients

Atlanta, GA

DASI Simulations, uses AI and computer vision in its technology for personalized and more accurate heart valve replacement modeling.

The cover illustration shows the surface of the halide perovskite structure being modified by a large organic cation. The cation diffuses through the thin film to reconstruct the surface structure. Credit: Advanced Materials

Research Reveals Thermal Instability of Solar Cells but Offers a Bright Path Forward

Atlanta, GA

Their work reveals what goes wrong within the cells’ interface layers.

A school of planktivorous fish sheltering around a coral on a reef in the Solomon Islands in the Coral Triangle. Photo by Mark Hay

Machine Learning Predicts Biodiversity and Resilience in the Coral Triangle

The team's new methodology offers hope for better coral connectivity monitoring and protection in the future.

Along the highest peaks in North Carolina, an isolated spruce-fir boreal forest stands as a relict of the Pleistocene, contrasting with deciduous trees on the Southern Appalachians. (Photo: Mount Mitchell State Park by Jess Hunt-Ralston, Georgia Tech)

The Plants Seeking Refuge Across Our Dynamically Changing Planet

Atlanta, GA

Researchers investigate how trees have moved across geography over time, where they’re heading, and why it’s important.

Several telescopes will be set up for viewing or visitors may bring their own telescope to Public Nights at the Georgia Tech Observatory.

Tips for Delightful Stargazing in 2023

Atlanta, GA

Public Nights begin at the Georgia Tech Observatory.

Professor Loren Wiliams holds a lecture in Howey Physics. 

Three Georgia Tech Professors Named 2022 AAAS Fellows

Atlanta, GA

Recognized among the nation’s most distinguished leaders, three Georgia Tech professors have been selected as Fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of Science for 2022.

Nga Lee "Sally" Ng, Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Earh and Atmospheric Sciences

Research Study Finds Unexpected Interactions in Formation of Secondary Organic Aerosol in Atmosphere

Atlanta, GA

Nga Lee “Sally” Ng leads a new study investigating the formation and properties of secondary organic aerosol from the nitrate radical oxidation of two common monoterpenes, compounds found in many plants.