Five Woodruff School Students Receive NSF Fellowships
The National Science Foundation (NSF) received more than 12,000 applications, from all 50 states as well as the District of Columbia and U.S. territories, for this year’s Graduate Research Fellowship....
View ArticleRanjan Named Provost Teaching and Learning Fellow
Woodruff School Associate Professor Devesh Ranjan has been selected to serve as one of five 2018-2020 Provost Teaching and Learning Fellows by the Center for Teaching and Learning and the Dean of the...
View ArticleAlumna Sophia Velastegui Discusses Life After Georgia Tech
Woodruff School alumna and advisory board member Sophia Velastegui recently gave a talk to the Georgia Tech ASME chapter about life after Tech and her career. The Woodruff School communications team...
View ArticleCapstone Sponsor Spotlight: Not Impossible Labs
The Capstone Design course is generously supported by numerous corporate partners and alumni. This weekly article series will highlight a few select sponsors, their projects and the student teams...
View ArticleRanjan Named 2018-2020 Provost Teaching and Learning Fellow
Woodruff School Associate Professor Devesh Ranjan has been selected to serve as one of five 2018-2020 Provost Teaching and Learning Fellows by the Center for Teaching and Learning and the Dean of the...
View ArticleUltrafast Compression Offers New Way to Get Macromolecules into Cells
By treating living cells like tiny absorbent sponges, researchers have developed a potentially new way to introduce molecules and therapeutic genes into human cells. The technique first compresses...
View ArticleMayo Clinic Taps Tech Capstone Team
BME and ME students collaborate on novel device to improve epidural procedures Larry Huang has made a career of turning good ideas into tangible results. Since graduating from the Georgia Institute of...
View ArticleHytech Racing wins first place at Formula Hybrid Competition
Georgia Tech student competition team Hytech Racing recently won first place in the electric category at the Formula Hybrid Competition, with high scores in Project Management, Design, and the...
View ArticleWoodruff School Faculty Receive MURI Award from DoD
The Department of Defense announced that it will issue twenty-four awards, totaling $169 million over five years, to academic institutions to perform multidisciplinary basic research. Woodruff School...
View ArticleRemembering Lawrence Dennis Ballou
Lawrence Dennis Ballou (‘54), of Tallulah Falls, Atlanta and Macon, GA, died on October 20, 2017 in Macon. Dennis Ballou began his 19 year teaching career at Georgia Tech in the winter of 1991. After...
View ArticleME Team Wins 2nd Place in Siemens FutureMakers Challenge
Woodruff School graduate students Changxuan Zhao, Kedar Josh, and Vinh Nguyen (all advised by Dr. Shreyes Melkote) won second place in the Seimens FutureMakers Challenge Hackathon with their project...
View ArticleA Peek Inside Ga Tech's Smart Materials Lab
Smart materials are becoming pervasive in many areas of engineering to help devices monitor and collect information about their environment and to assist in specific tasks. The materials—which include...
View ArticleIn Child-Crippling Mucolipidosis IV, Drug Shows Hope in Lab Cultures
Mucolipidosis IV debilitates afflicted children’s nervous systems in their first year of life, steals their eyesight in their teens and often takes their lives in their twenties, and so far, there is...
View ArticleBiomaterial Particles Educate Immune System to Accept Transplanted Islets
By instructing key immune system cells to accept transplanted insulin-producing islets, researchers have opened a potentially new pathway for treating type 1 diabetes. If the approach is ultimately...
View ArticleME Graduate Students Win ITherm-2018 Awards
Five Woodruff School graduate students received accolades at the ITherm-2018 Conference. Sponsored by the IEEE's Electronics Packaging Society (EPS), ITherm-2018 is an international conference for...
View ArticleME Faculty Win Research Awards to Advance Concentrated Solar Power
Georgia Institute of Technology researchers are part of a new U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) initiative to develop the next generation of concentrated solar power (CSP), a technology that uses heat...
View ArticleSodium- and Potassium-based Batteries Hold Promise for Cheap Energy Solution
From electric cars that travel hundreds of miles on a single charge to chainsaws as mighty as gas-powered versions, new products hit the market each year that take advantage of recent advances in...
View ArticleGT Team Makes Boeing GoFly Finals
The Boeing Company announced this week that Hummingbuzz - a Georgia Tech-based team of engineering students - is one of just 10 teams to triumph in Phase I of the company's $2 million global GoFly...
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