Major Philanthropic Grant Will Create New Center to Advance Open-Source Software

Atlanta, GA

Using a new philanthropic grant, Georgia Tech will hire software engineers to write scalable, reliable, and portable open-source software for scientific research.

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Looking Ahead 2022 and beyond

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Five trends that will reshape our lives in 2022

Addressing the Microchip Shortage

Atlanta, GA

Georgia Tech expert predicts that America will need to make major changes to the manufacturing and supply chain

Prof. Seung Woo Lee (left) and Michael J. Lee (right) have demonstrated a more cost-effective, safer solid polymer electrolyte (rubber material) for all-solid-state batteries. (Photo credit: Georgia Tech)

Rubber Material Holds Key to Long-lasting, Safer EV Batteries

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Georgia Tech engineers have solved common problems (slow lithium-ion transport and poor mechanical properties) using rubber electrolytes.

This graphic shows the representation of various racial, ethnic, and gender groups as published authors in various fields. It shows that Latino, Black, and white women are significantly underrepresented as authors in engineering and technology, mathematics, and physics publications and are heavily overrepresented in health fields. (Courtesy Diego Kozlowski/University of Luxembourg)

Study Examines Diversity in Research Publishing

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Analysis of more than 5 million scholarly articles strengthens the case for diversifying research

The top U.S. universities for research and development expenditures for fiscal year 2020

Georgia Tech Earns Top 20 Spot for Higher Education Research Spending

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The Georgia Institute of Technology has broken into the top 20 in higher education research and development spending for the first time in a decade.

Edgar Garay, a doctoral candidate at Georgia Tech's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, reviews a set of filaments as part of a  review his microchip design for his startup, Falcomm. (Photo: Matt Hummel)

Georgia Tech Student’s Microchip Startup Reduces Energy Waste, Amplifies Power Systems in 5G Space

Atlanta, GA

Startup technology leads to Silicon Valley investment

Aaron Stebner (second from left), associate professor in the College of Engineering, leads a lab session with students in the Delta Air Lines Advanced Manufacturing Pilot Facility at Georgia Tech. (Photo: Christa M. Ernst)

Georgia Tech Leads Effort to Strengthen State’s Defense Manufacturing Industry

Atlanta, GA

Department of Defense grant enables collaboration with Spelman College, Technical College System of Georgia, and the Georgia Department of Economic Development in pilot project

Three engineering labs at Georgia Tech collaborated to demonstrate a new level of stretchability of a photodetector. Pictured above is first author Youngrak Park (right) with the lab leads (L to R) Bernard Kippelen,  Samuel Graham, and Olivier Pierron. (Photo credit: Ben Wright, Georgia Tech)

Soft Semiconductors that Stretch Like Human Skin Can Detect Ultra-low Light Levels

Atlanta, GA

Georgia Tech researchers have created a semiconductor material that acts like a second skin layer and is up to 200% more stretchable than its original dimension without significantly losing its electric current.

Thomas Kurfess (rear left), professor and HUSCO/Ramirez Distinguished Chair in Fluid Power and Motion Control in Georgia Tech's George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, explains some of the metallurgy testing that occurs at the Advanced Manufacturing Pilot Facility as (l-r)  U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Gina M. Raimondo, Professor Aaron Stebner, Assistant Commerce Secretary Alejandra Castillo, and Georgia Tech President Àngel Cabrera listen. Commerce Department officials were in

Georgia Tech Wins Commerce Department Grant to Develop AI Manufacturing Economic Corridor

Atlanta, GA

The Georgia Institute of Technology was awarded a grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) as part of its $1 billion Build Back Better Regional Challenge.