As many as one in five Americans experienced multiple hardships during the worst days of the Covid-19 pandemic, with the most common combination being job insecurity paired with mental health issues, according to a new study from Georgia Tech’s School of Economics. The study, published recently in the journal Social Indicators Research, is the…
The World Health Organization reports that millions of adults worldwide live with neurological disorders and brain or brain-related injuries. Globally, 5 million people are left permanently disabled each year after suffering a stroke or spinal cord injury, creating a critical need for advances in patient care and support. The IUCRC BRAIN Center (…
President Joe Biden and the White House announced $24 million in support Aug. 23 for a team led by Georgia Tech and Emory University biomedical engineers who want to use mRNA to unlock new treatments for cancer and other chronic diseases. Their project, called Curing the Uncurable via RNA-Encoded Immunogene Tuning (CUREIT), aims to use mRNA to…
Two Georgia Tech researchers, Alex Robel and Shi Joyce Sim, have collaborated on a new model for how water moves under glaciers. The new theory shows that up to twice the amount of subglacial water that was originally predicted might be draining into the ocean – potentially increasing glacial melt, sea level rise, and biological disturbances. The…
Generative AI has captured worldwide attention for its potential applications in such areas as disease diagnosis, data analysis, writing, and computer coding. But at a recent meeting held at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) in Atlanta, attendees were concerned about how very different applications of AI may be affecting critical…
The University System of Georgia’s (USG) Board of Regents has awarded two GTRI researchers the title of Regents’ Researcher. The two are Doug Denison, director of the Advanced Concepts Laboratory (ACL), and Linda Viney, principal research engineer and chief of the Systems Integration Division in the Applied Systems Laboratory (ASL). The USG may…
Georgia Tech Ph.D. student Niranjan Kumar created the Cascaded Compositional Residual Learning (CCRL) framework, enabling a quadrupedal robot to perform increasingly complex tasks without relearning motions, mirroring human learning, showcased by the robot opening a heavy door using energy transfer, a remarkable achievement in robotics. The CCRL…
A new cybersecurity technology that relies on the unique digital fingerprint of individual semiconductor chips could help protect the equipment of electrical utilities from malicious attacks that exploit software updates on devices controlling the critical infrastructure. The GridTrust project, which has been successfully tested in a real…
Andrew Stevens MS (pictured), Jon Duke MD, and Richard Boyd Ph.D. secured the Outstanding Poster Presentation Award at the 2023 Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists Annual Conference. Their winning project, “Automated Extraction of Social Determinants of Health from Electronic Health Records,” addresses the challenge of…
Software updates are a ubiquitous part of our lives. That’s true at home and at work. And it’s true for the critical systems the U.S. Department of Defense relies on to protect the nation. Think about all the highly sophisticated systems that power drones or fighter jets or even secure authentication programs. Many of those systems are custom…
