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Georgia Tech researchers have been selected by NASA to lead a $7.5 million center that will study the lunar environment, and explore the generation and properties of volatiles and dust. 

Lily Cheung and Simon Sponberg

Cheung’s research has the potential to improve medical treatments — including many cancer treatments — and also to help create plants that are more resilient to climate change, which could help feed communities of the future. Sponberg’s research into agile movement also has medical applications — potentially changing the way we approach physical therapy for degenerative diseases — as well as a number of other applications, including building better robots.

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The Board of Regents (BOR) of the University System of Georgia (USG) voted Tuesday to maintain tuition and mandatory student fees at current levels for most USG institutions, including Georgia Tech, in the 2023-24 academic year. 

Georgia emissions fell 5% from 2017 to 2021, according to the Drawdown Georgia research team led by Regents' Professor Marilyn Brown.

Transportation is now the state's leading emitter of greenhouse gases, eclipsing energy production.

New Relic executive and College of Sciences alumna Tia Williams. (Photo Jess Hunt-Ralston)

New Relic executive Tia Williams was one of the first Earth and Atmospheric Sciences undergraduates at Georgia Tech. Now, she’s unveiling ways for current students to map their College of Sciences skills — and recently delivered the keynote at the College’s Spring Student and Alumni Leadership Dinner.


 

James X Zhong Manis

Georgia Tech Ph.D. Candidate James X. Zhong Manis is one of 87 awardees from 58 different universities who will conduct thesis research at one of 16 DOE national laboratories. For Manis, that lab will be the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) at Stanford University.