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Environmental engineering Ph.D. student Laura Mast, left, and math Ph.D. student Samantha Petti visit Georgia congressman John Lewis' office. They were unable to meet with Lewis, but they did have conversations with staffers from several Georgia representatives' offices during the Catalyzing Advocacy for Scientists and Engineers Workshop, a three-day crash course in federal policymaking and science advocacy. Mast and Petti were the only two students from Georgia Tech who attended. (Photo: Robert Knotts)

Mast gets a taste of policy, advocacy during Washington science communication workshop

01 April 2019

Elizabeth and Bill Higginbotham at dusk with the Midtown Atlanta skyline in the background. (Photo: Gary Meek)

Higginbothams answer Messner challenge, endow new professorship

28 March 2019

Students from the International Disaster Reconnaissance Studies course walk through ruined buildings in Old Beichuan, China. The city has been left as a memorial to those killed when it was rocked by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in central China. The site was one of the places students visited in China and Japan over Spring Break as they considered the impact of disasters and how communities rebuilt. (Photo Courtesy: Lynnae Luettich and Katie Popp)

Spring Break travelers reflect on disaster recovery, a different approach to transportation, and water quality challenges after week abroad

27 March 2019

Assistant Professor Lauren Stewart in the Structural Engineering and Materials Lab. (Photo: Gary Meek)

Undergrad women say Lauren Stewart is one of their best engineering professors

21 March 2019

Former Ph.D. students Shelly Zhang and Eric Johnston, who have won the Sigma Xi Best Ph.D. Thesis award for 2019.

Johnston, Zhang produce two of Georgia Tech’s best Ph.D. dissertations this year

20 March 2019

Natual gas storage tanks with excess methane burning off. (Photo Courtesy: Jeffrey Phillips via Flickr)

Your carbon footprint is probably higher than you thought, thanks to methane leaking from natural gas systems

18 March 2019

Professor and Associate Dean Laurence Jacobs, left, accepts a lifetime achievement award in nondestructive evaluation from Tribikram Kundu at the SPIE Smart Structures and Nondestructive Evaluation Symposium in early March. (Photo Courtesy: Laurence Jacobs and SPIE)

Jacobs’ nondestructive evaluation work earns lifetime achievement honor

15 March 2019

Lauren Stewart and Nelson Baker, who both have earned promotions.

Stewart earns tenure, Baker promoted to full professor

14 March 2019

CEE's graduate programs in civil engineering and environmental engineering are No. 4 in the nation, according to U.S. News and World Report's 2020 survey. (Graphic: Amelia Neumeister)

Tech’s civil and environmental engineering graduate degrees again ranked among America’s best

12 March 2019

Water pouring from a faucet. (Photo Courtesy: Steve Johnson via Flickr)

Better water purification without the byproducts of using chlorine

07 March 2019

Ph.D. student April Gadsby. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

Gadsby to tackle policy side of transportation at Eno Future Leaders Development Conference

06 March 2019

Cargo ship loaded with freight containers at sea with a muted, gray sky. (Photo Courtesy: Mike Baird via Flickr)

Maritime journal editor: Paper on shippers’ reluctance to use Northern Sea Route the year’s top research

04 March 2019

First-year student Alex Ip.

Freshman Alex Ip selected for Al Gore’s Climate Reality Leadership Corps

27 February 2019

Fourth-year civil engineering student Rana Suleman accepts a scholarship from the Georgia Engineering Foundation in December. The award was one of two scholarships Rana received at the end of the year to fund his final year of undergraduate studies. (Photo Courtesy: Georgia Engineering Foundation)

Rana caps year with scholarships from concrete trade group, engineering foundation

26 February 2019

Top 100 Influential Women in Georgia graphic from Engineering Georgia magazine, including headshots of many of the women on the list.

Stewart, Watkins and a baker’s dozen alumnae make list of influential women in Georgia engineering

22 February 2019

Professor and Associate Dean Kimberly Kurtis (Photo: Christopher Moore)

Kurtis receives Concrete Institute’s Anderson Medal for excellence, creativity, leadership in concrete

15 February 2019

Professor of the Practice John Koon talks teaches his Senior Design class on a recent Thursday. Koon is one of the newest members of the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest honors for the nation's engineers. (Photo: Amelia Neumeister)

Koon elected to National Academy of Engineering

08 February 2019

Ph.D. student April Gadsby stands on a bridge over a canal in the Netherlands in 2017 with a few of the country's famed windmills in the background. (Photo Courtesy: April Gadsby)

Gadsby taking her cyclist safety research to the mecca of bicycling

05 February 2019

Rendering of a two-story air-mobility hub with a landing area for four-rotor aircraft and a lower level for vehicle traffic. If the new Center for Urban and Regional Air Mobility has its way, "vertiports" like this may soon be as popular as bus stops for city commuters and package transport. (Illustration: Yongmin Kim)

Making the case for urban air mobility in Atlanta

01 February 2019

Ph.D. student Jackie Knee

Marshall Commission names Jackie Knee the 2019 Marshall Sherfield Fellow

31 January 2019