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Mobile App Aims to Improve HIV Awareness, Prevention Among Black Women

Posted: November 22, 2021

Andrea Grimes Parker, School of Interactive Computing associate professor, to refine and test “in-the-kNOW,” a mobile app specifically designed for Black women eligible for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP).

Research Seeks to Detect SARS-CoV-2 Virus in Building Air

Posted: November 19, 2021

SenSARS: Important steps toward rapidly detecting the SARS-CoV-2 virus in building air.

Bioengineering and Bioscience

The Future of Space Exploration

Posted: November 19, 2021

Georgia Tech points to what’s next, and how the Institute will contribute. “Discovering life beyond Earth would fundamentally change humanity’s perspective on our place in the universe,” says Earth and Atmospheric Sciences' Jennifer Glass.

Embracing Socratic Paradox May Lead to More Reliable Predictions from AI Models

Posted: November 19, 2021

Researchers from the School of CSE are using new NSF and Facebook Research grants to better understand uncertainty in that use time-series data to make predictions.

Tech Economist Predicts Worsening Inflation but Relief in 2022

Posted: November 18, 2021

Things may get worse before they get better this holiday season according to Dr. Willie Belton, an economist in Georgia Tech’s School of Economics

Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure

Combined Heat and Power as a Platform for Clean Energy Systems

Posted: November 17, 2021

The state of Georgia could dramatically reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, while creating new jobs and a healthier public, if more of its energy-intensive industries and commercial buildings were to utilize combined heat and power, new research finds.

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

Posted: December 16, 2021

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

Electronics and Nanotechnology

Georgia Tech soft semiconductor researchers

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

Posted: December 15, 2021

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.

Lifesaving Device Providing Breath of Hope

Posted: December 15, 2021

Hollister lab at Georgia Tech re-engineers airway splint to treat rare, fatal condition in newborns

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

Posted: December 14, 2021

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.