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Fresh fault outcrop (Arabia Mountain National Heritage Area)

Geophysics Professor and incoming Seismological Society of America President Zhigang Peng shares what's new in research and recent work — from earthquakes and sewer pipes to exploding rock outcrops.

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Georgia Tech’s Office of Technology Licensing has named the latest Tech Ready Grant awardees, recognizing faculty-led projects spanning advanced manufacturing, biotechnology, medical devices, sustainability, and software systems. The grants provide early-stage funding to support prototype development, validation, and commercialization readiness, helping move promising research closer to industry application and market impact.

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The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship supports “outstanding students with exceptional potential for leadership in STEM.”

Spartina alterniflora lines a marsh environment on Sapelo Island. (Credit: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

A Georgia Tech-led project advancing coastal resilience and ecosystem restoration has been selected for the inaugural Climate Resilience Fund cohort, awarded by Revive & Restore. The award is one of ten in a new $3.4 million fund to leverage genetic rescue for marine and coastal ecosystems under threat from climate shifts.  

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Scientific discovery is often portrayed as the result of long hours alone in a lab, but true science is inherently collaborative. The most robust experimental processes are developed through partnerships across multiple areas of research. 

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The Regents’ Awards are among the University System of Georgia’s highest honors, recognizing sustained excellence, national distinction, and long-term impact by faculty and researchers across the state’s public institutions. 

Experts In The News

After 10 days in isolation, a group of Georgia Tech students will be returning from Arkansas having completed their first simulated Mars mission. Southeast Analog is a program run by students at Georgia Tech interested in spaceflight. 

The SEA-1 Thalassa mission included six "astronauts" on a simulated Mars habitat in Arkansas and 30 crew in mission control on campus. Students in the Southeast Analog program worked in three shifts around the clock to do astronaut training, spaceflight operations, and research.

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GPB August 19, 2026

Dangerously high heat levels forced at least one metro Atlanta school district to pull students inside Monday as heat index values head toward triple digits this week. 

Georgia Tech biology adjunct professor Mike Sawka explained that extreme heat creates severe cardiovascular strain during exercise. "The main problem with heat stress is it puts stress on the cardiovascular system," Sawka said. "The blood flow that would normally go to the muscles has to be shared by the skin. So as you exercise, you're cheating the blood flow from the heart called your cardiac output". 

Sawka noted that extended exertion in hot weather puts the human body into overdrive, triggering a progression of severe health risks. "That can lead to either heat exhaustion, heat injury, or heat stroke, which is a continuum of serious heat illnesses, with heat stroke being the most severe," Sawka said. 

Fox 5 Atlanta August 10, 2026

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Welcome — we're so glad you're here. Learn more about us in this video, narrated by Susan Lozier, College of Sciences Dean and Betsy Middleton and John Clark Sutherland Chair.