Three of 12 projects that received funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Using the Rules of Life to Address Societal Challenges are led by researchers in Georgia Tech’s School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE). The 12 projects received a total of $27 million in investment, supporting the use of knowledge…
This story originally appeared in Yale Insights on Aug. 7, 2023, and was written by Aimee Levitt. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in March of 2020, Heather Tookes, a professor of finance at Yale SOM, began to study the impact of various government policy responses to the crisis. With colleague Matt Spiegel, she published two research papers about…
Carson Meredith, executive director of the Renewable Bioproducts Institute and professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE), has been elected to the 2023-2024 class of American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) fellows. The Fellow status is AIChE's highest grade of membership and is achieved through election…
Billions of years ago, self-replicating systems of molecules became separated from one another by membranes, resulting in the first cells. Over time, evolving cells enriched the living world with an astonishing diversity of new shapes and biochemical innovations, all made possible by compartments. Compartmentalization is how all living…
The Georgia Institute of Technology contributed over $4.5 billion to the state economy in fiscal year 2022 –– a 7.4% increase from the previous year and the largest impact among the 26 University System of Georgia (USG) member institutions. With Tech leading the way, a new USG study finds that the system contributed a total of $20.1 billion…
Investors have been buying houses at a steady rate since the last recession, but how much does it affect availability in the housing market? New research from the Georgia Institute of Technology shows investors are most likely to push out Black, middle-class homeowners from neighborhoods. Data from 800 neighborhoods in the Atlanta metropolitan…
The Institute for Data Engineering and Science (IDEaS) held their annual faculty leadership retreat on Wednesday July 13th in Savanna Hall, located in Grant Park on the grounds of Zoo Atlanta. The retreat brought together the current IDEaS Leadership Team and a cohort of newly hired research faculty in Data Science, High-Performance…
Carsten Sievers, a professor in Georgia Tech's School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, was selected as part of the 2023 class of Fellows of the American Chemical Society (ACS). This honor is reserved for roughly 1% of the membership of the society based on scientific contributions and service to the ACS community. Sievers is…
A highlight of the Renewable Bioproducts Institute (RBI) workshops is the student poster session that provides industry interaction for Paper Science and Engineering (PSE) Fellows and an opportunity to communicate the breadth of research supported by RBI to the workshop participants. The session also provides a chance for new students to share…
Following a national search, the Georgia Institute of Technology has selected Robert Foy as its executive director of business operations and general manager of the Georgia Tech Research Corporation (GTRC) and the Georgia Tech Applied Research Corporation (GTARC). Foy, who has served as interim general manager for the two research corporations…
