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Georgia Tech’s in-vessel composting program earns national recognition.

Staghorn coral samples used in Lauren Speare's research.

Georgia Tech researchers found that predatory bacteria can halt the spread of a destructive coral disease by hunting and consuming pathogens responsible for the infection.

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Georgia Tech researchers will lead two projects and contribute to several others as part of the Department of Energy’s $5 billion initiative. 

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Georgia Tech achieved a record-breaking fundraising year in fiscal year 2026, raising more than $415 million and pushing Transforming Tomorrow: The Campaign for Georgia Tech beyond its $2 billion goal with 18 months remaining. Support from alumni, donors, corporations, foundations, and friends is funding scholarships, fellowships, faculty excellence, groundbreaking research, and transformative campus projects, including new facilities for business, engineering, and athletics. Campaign investments are expanding access to education, advancing artificial intelligence and health research, and strengthening industry partnerships with organizations such as Delta Air Lines and Hyundai Motor Company. The historic fundraising success reinforces Georgia Tech’s position as a leading research university driving innovation, economic growth, and student opportunity.
Tech Tower Through the Trees

For the value it offers students, the Institute earned a five-star rating from the publication. 

Molecular Evolution Core Lab

Campus labs have a new pathway to strengthen sustainable operations through a campus comprehensive certification program.

Experts In The News

In an article published by The Conversation, Professor Joseph Montoya, Postdoctoral Fellow Xing Zhou, and their collaborator discuss sargassum blooms and their impact on the Caribbean and Gulf coasts and the coasts of the tropical Atlantic. According to their research, the vast mats of smelly, brown seaweed affecting these areas may have entered a "self-sustaining cycle, effectively feeding their own expansion."

The Conversation July 28, 2026

Researchers in the School of Physics, working with King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, have found that standard methods for identifying chirality in topological phases fail when applied to mixed quantum states. The study reveals that established diagnostics, including bulk-boundary correspondence and the modular commutator, are unreliable in these complex systems. Consequently, the research presents two new measures, based on relative entropy, to accurately diagnose chirality and determine the chiral central charge in decohered topological phases, indicating a need for a new set of tools when investigating mixed-state topology.

Quantum Zeitgeist July 16, 2026