Research News Archive: 2014

Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure

Applying Lessons Learned from One of the Biggest Blackouts in History

Posted: January 31, 2014

Making the power grid smarter will allow integration of renewable power sources, and improve reliability.

Bioengineering and Bioscience

Researchers Discover Potential Drug Targets for Early Onset Glaucoma

Posted: January 23, 2014

Scientists have for the first time identified molecules with the potential to block the accumulation of a toxic eye protein that can lead to early onset of glaucoma.

NSF I-Corps: Turning Research Discoveries into Companies and Jobs

Posted: January 22, 2014

Georgia Tech was one of the first nodes in the NSF's I-Corps program, which helps faculty members commercialize research discoveries.

Study of Fossilized Shells Finds Little Evidence of Icebergs’ Influence on Ice Age Ocean Circulation

Posted: January 22, 2014

Scientists have thought that large iceberg surges disrupted a key ocean circulation pattern during the last North American ice age, but a new study found little evidence of a disruption during some of the major iceberg surges.

People and Technology

Research Horizons - NSF I-Corps - Ayanna Howard

NSF I-Corps: Turning Research Discoveries into Companies and Jobs

Posted: January 22, 2014

Georgia Tech Professor Ayanna Howard has launched a company to commercialize a system that connects interface devices used by children with disabilities to tablet computers.

Novel Collaborative Software Helps Systems Engineers Link Performance and Cost

Posted: January 22, 2014

An advanced web-based tool allows collaboration on systems engineering projects.

Soil Microbes Alter DNA in Response to Warming

Posted: January 16, 2014

Scientists studying grasslands in Oklahoma have discovered that an increase of 2 degrees Celsius in the air temperature above the soil creates significant changes to the microbial ecosystem underground.