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The volcanic tsunami generator simulates a volcanic eruption by “punching” through the water’s surface. Professor Hermann Fritz built this one-of-a-kind setup and conducted a series of experiments to better understand tsunamis created by eruptions of underwater volcanoes. (Photo: Yibin Liu)

NSF natural hazards group highlights Fritz’s unique volcanic landslide generator

16 July 2019

Ph.D. student Shahrokh Shahi

Shahi produces best paper at fuzzy systems conference

10 July 2019

Researchers studied the impact of warming on microbial communities in a tundra area near Denali National Park in Alaska. (Photo: Ted Schuur, Northern Arizona University)

Rising tundra temperatures create worrying changes in microbial communities

08 July 2019

Screenshot of GPB story about G. Wayne Clough's new book, "Things Strange and New: A Southerner’s Journey through the Smithsonian Collections."

LISTEN: Clough shares new book, his explorations of Smithsonian archives on GPB’s On Second Thought

02 July 2019

Frederick Law Olmstead John E. Taylor (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

Taylor appointed associate chair of graduate programs

01 July 2019

Ph.D. student Anye Zhou drives the new full-size simulator in Srinivas Peeta’s lab. The simulator is built from a 2013 Ford Focus and includes wraparound screens to immerse test drivers in the simulated environment. (Photo: Candler Hobbs)

New simulator puts people in a full-size car to understand their driving behavior

26 June 2019

A laptop computer and iPhone show the Filio web app and mobile app, respectively. (Photo: Amelia Neumeister)

Grad students’ startup Filio makes it easy to capture and catalog worksite photos

24 June 2019

Angshuman Guin demonstrates how a cell phone tracks Gwinnett County Fire Department trucks and data about traffic to improve response times. Guin is working with Gwinnett on connected vehicle technology as part of the first round of Georgia Tech’s Georgia Smart Communities Challenge. (Photo: Allison Carter)

Taylor, Watkins, Guin will help Columbus, Milton with smart communities projects

19 June 2019

Second round of Tech's Georgia Smart Communities Challenge also will work on projects in Macon and Woodstock

Professor Adjo Amekudzi-Kennedy.

Amekudzi-Kennedy elected to National Academy of Construction

18 June 2019

Alejandro Martinez welcomes engineers, biologists, physicists and others to the First International Workshop on Bio-Inspired Geotechnics in May at the University of California, Davis. The unique gathering aimed to better define the emerging field of bio-inspired geotechnics and connect researchers from a broad range of disciplines to collaborate on groundbreaking ideas in the area. (Photo: Noah Pflueger-Peters/UC Davis)

NSF workshop sets out to define ‘bio-inspired geotechnics’ and lay groundwork for new collaborations

14 June 2019

The new class of Future Faculty Fellows: Bill Jin, Sung Hoo Kim, Yunping Liang and Ming Liu.

New Future Faculty Fellows had great teachers so they want to become great teachers

11 June 2019

Roman arenas have survived in many earthquake-prone regions. Did the Romans inadvertently build seismic wave cloaks when they designed colosseums? Some researchers believe they did due to the arenas' resemblance to modern experimental elastodynamic cloaking devices. (Photo: Paolo Costa Baldi via Wikimedia Commons)

Dashing the dream of ideal ‘invisibility’ cloaks for stress waves

07 June 2019

Screenshot of Atlanta Journal-Constitution story "Could drones be the solution to Atlanta's traffic gridlock?" including a rendering of a city with a four-propeller Uber Eats drone flying above.

AJC: New Tech center prepping for future where drones fly people over Atlanta traffic

27 May 2019

A researcher measures the width of a crack in a reinforced concrete column after testing the strength of the column. A new project funded by the U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency will develop a field-deployable tool to detect cracks far smaller than this — and inside rather than outside — thick reinforced concrete structures. (Photo: Chris Kiser)

New tool will give large concrete structures what amounts to an ultrasound, finding tiny cracks before they grow

23 May 2019

Ph.D. student Tuo Zhao stands in front of shelves filled with books. (Photo Courtesy: Center for Teaching and Learning)

Zhao honored as Institute-wide TA of the Year

15 May 2019

Raymond Allen Jones Chair Glaucio Paulino looks leftward and smiles. (Photo: Rob Felt)

Mechanical engineering society elevates Paulino to fellow

09 May 2019

Andrea Hence Evans, BCE 1999, who's now an intellectual property attorney outside Washington. (Photo Courtesy: Law Firm of Andrea Hence Evans)

Patented Calling: Best-selling author, TV expert and civil engineer Andrea Hence Evans helps entrepreneurs protect their ideas

07 May 2019

Guiliana Stovall sits on a bench with her roller derby roller skates. Stovall, a long-time roller derby player, knew she would continue to skate when she came to Georgia Tech. And since Tech had no outlet, she founded Yellow Jacket Roller Derby. (Photo Courtesy: Giuliana Stovall)

Community is what matters to Giuliana Stovall, in life and in career

01 May 2019

First-year Ph.D. student Aaron Miller

Tapping Georgia’s resources to make stronger concrete for bridges wins Miller a national American Concrete Institute scholarship

25 April 2019

Professor Spyros Pavlostathis

Pavlostathis honored for connecting education, research, practice with medal named for former Tech professor

24 April 2019