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Building Community in Unexpected Ways

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The team working in the College of Design’s woodworking space during the squirrel box-building event. Photo credit: Thomas Bordeaux, ARCH 2022. 
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<p>The team working in the College of Design’s woodworking space during the squirrel box-building event. Photo credit: Thomas Bordeaux, ARCH 2022.</p>

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670923
Jun 05, 2023

Tech students lend their talents to helping a local animal rehabilitator.

Balancing Act of Hurricane Season Sways With Climate Change

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3D Render of Category 4 Major Hurricane Fiona east of Florida. Getty Images.
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672670
Jul 06, 2023

Forecasts call for a near-normal hurricane season, but climate change could make future seasons more unpredictable than ever before.

ISyE’s Valerie Thomas and Team Win Judges’ Choice Award from MIT’S Climate CoLab

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Valerie Thomas
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581862
Sep 29, 2016

Suriya Arulselvan (MSCE 2015) and Valerie Thomas, a professor in Georgia Tech’s Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISyE), have been awarded the Judges’ Choice Award for the 2016 Aviation contest from the Massachusetts Institute of Technol

Janelle Dunlap Turns Beekeeping Into Art

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672208
Oct 30, 2023

The Urban Honey Bee Project’s new beekeeper in residence is creating art and educating the public with her practice.

Digging Into Greenland Ice: Unraveling Mysteries in Earth's Harshest Environments

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The team snowmobiling to a remote field site.
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672274
Nov 09, 2023

Rachel Moore spent nearly 50 days in one of the most remote places on Earth, collecting ice cores; the research has implications for climate change predictions and searching for signs of life on icy worlds.

Study Reveals Wintertime Formation of Large Pollution Particles in China’s Skies

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Beijing pollution (Photo Kevin Dooley, Creative Commons)
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<p>Beijing pollution (Photo Kevin Dooley, Creative Commons)</p>

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672402
Nov 16, 2023

School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences researchers find dangerous sulfates are formed, and their particles get bigger, within the plumes of pollution belching from coal-fired power plants.

School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences to Offer Three New Undergraduate Degrees — Including Interdisciplinary Environmental Science Major

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Earth (Credit: NASA/Joshua Stevens)
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665008
Jan 23, 2023

The expanded undergraduate degree offerings are designed to continue Georgia Tech’s reputation for academic rigor — and also reflect trends in student interests, as well as current and forecasted needs in the job marketplace.

As Temperatures Climb, Flying Insects Slower to Migrate to Cooler Elevations

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A close up of bees flying into a hive on the CU Denver campus.
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<p>A close up of bees flying into a hive on the CU Denver campus.</p>

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671675
Sep 11, 2023

In response to changing climates, many plants and animals are moving to higher elevations, seeking cooler temperatures. But a new study finds that flying insects like bees and moths may struggle with insurmountable issues to this escape route.

Thinning Ice Sheets May Drive Sharp Rise in Subglacial Waters

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March 2, 2015: Image taken by the Operational Land Imager onboard Landsat 8. (NASA Earth Observatory)
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671437
Aug 21, 2023

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.

Scientists Unearth 20 Million Years of ‘Hot Spot’ Magmatism Under Cocos Plate

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Mantle plumes, shown in red, have been identified around the world. (Ingo Wölbern, via Wikimedia Commons)
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<p>Mantle plumes, shown in red, have been identified around the world. (Ingo Wölbern, via Wikimedia Commons)</p>

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670990
Jun 20, 2023

A team of scientists led by Georgia Tech have observed past episodic intraplate magmatism and corroborated the existence of a partial melt channel at the base of the Cocos Plate.

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