Building Community in Unexpected Ways
<p>The team working in the College of Design’s woodworking space during the squirrel box-building event. Photo credit: Thomas Bordeaux, ARCH 2022.</p>
Tech students lend their talents to helping a local animal rehabilitator.
Secretary of Energy Discusses Clean Energy
<p><span><span>Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm visited Georgia Tech </span></span>to talk about clean energy. (Photo by Allison Carter)</p>
Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm visited Georgia Tech to talk about President Joe Biden's investment in clean energy.
Georgia Tech Making Waves in Tsunami Research
<p>The volcanic tsunami simulator, developed by Georgia Tech researchers, gets a test run in an Oregon State wave basin.</p>
Researchers develop volcanic tsunami simulator to closely study potential natural disasters
Echoes of Extinctions: Novel Method Unearths Ecosystem Disruptions
<p>While most species have gone extinct, eastern Africa is home to vibrant natural communities of mammalian megafauna, including elephants, zebras, hippopotamuses, antelope, giraffes, and many others. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)</p>
Their novel approach showed how mammal traits evolved with changing environments and revealed factors that contributed to biodiversity loss.
Long-Term Lizard Study Challenges the Rules of Evolutionary Biology
By lassoing lizards, putting tiny chips on their legs, and tracking them for three years, Georgia Tech’s James Stroud revealed why species often appear unchanged for millions of years despite Charles Darwin’s theory of constant evolution.
Georgia Tech to Help Develop State’s First Climate Action Plan
<p>Georgia Tech researchers will help the state develop its first climate action plan.</p>
The emissions tracker created by a Georgia Tech-led team will play an important role in the work, researchers say.
Poor and Disadvantaged People Sit in the Dark Longer After a Storm Outage
<p>Extreme weather events impact disadvantaged communities more harshly, and extended power outages can be dangerous and life-threatening. </p>
The research shows that people in lower socioeconomic tiers wait nearly three hours longer on average for their power to be restored.
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.
AI-ALOE Brings AI-based Ecological Research Power To Local Technical College
The AI-ALOE Institute offers the Georgia Tech led web application VERA to local technical college.
Balancing Act of Hurricane Season Sways With Climate Change
Forecasts call for a near-normal hurricane season, but climate change could make future seasons more unpredictable than ever before.
