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Calvin Clark, Xenia Wirth, Osvaldo Broesicke and Anna Skipper, who have each earned a scholarship from the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation for 2017.

ARCS awards go to 4 grad students

07 September 2017

Alumnus C. David Moody Jr., who made the Atlanta Business Chronicle's list of the city’s most-admired chief executives.

Business Chronicle names Moody one of Atlanta’s most-admired CEOs

01 September 2017

Associate Professor David Scott, right, accepts a President's Award from American Society of Civil Engineers Georgia Section President Shaukat Syed. (Photo Courtesy: John Pierson)

Scott, Goldman, Blissit win statewide ASCE awards

31 August 2017

Ph.D. student Rodrigo Borela, who is a 2017 fellow of the Geosynthetics Institute.

PhD student Borela named a 2017 GSI fellow

29 August 2017

Post-doctoral researcher Neda Mohammadi is one of the few early career women invited to MIT's Rising Stars workshop in October. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

Mohammadi to join select early career engineers at Rising Stars workshop

25 August 2017

WABE webpage for story featuring Kari Watkins, 'Do the "slow down" signs around Atlanta work?'

WABE asks Watkins, do those neighborhood ‘slow down’ signs work?

24 August 2017

Eric Marks joined the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Aug. 1 as a professor of the practice — a homecoming of sorts, since Marks earned his Ph.D. in the School a few years ago.

Marks joins faculty as construction engineering professor of the practice

22 August 2017

Sam Coogan joins the Georgia Tech faculty this fall as an assistant professor in both the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

New faculty member Sam Coogan connects civil and electrical engineering to run the transportation systems of tomorrow

21 August 2017

New faculty member Xing Xie stands in the lobby of the Ford Environmental Science and Technology Building. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

New faculty member Xing Xie works to clean water by killing bad microbes and harnessing the power of useful ones

18 August 2017

Students in Kari Watkins' Sustainable Transportation Abroad class ride bicycles in the kind of bike lanes that permeate the Netherlands. The class spent nearly two weeks riding across the country and exploring the Dutch approach to transportation. (Photo: Anna Nord)

From London to Amsterdam: Summer study abroad takes students to experience what they’re learning about

16 August 2017

Screenshot of the BET Black Girls Rock! 2017 webpage, featuring alumna Suzanne Shank and other winners, Issa Rae, Maxine Waters, Natalie and Derrica Wilson, Roberta Flack, and Yara Shahidi.

Alumna Shank honored at BET’s Black Girls Rock awards

15 August 2017

Undergraduate Maggie Lindsey, left, with structural engineer Priyanka Singh in the main room of the Gaddi Baithak in Kathmandu, Nepal. Lindsey was an intern with Miyamoto International in the country during spring 2017, where she worked on a project to restore the 100-year-old palace. (Photo: Binod Shrestha)

Lindsey tells Global Atlanta her internship in Nepal showed her the power of earthquake engineering to improve lives, communities

11 August 2017

Benjamin Hurwitz, Alexandra Muscalus, and Youngjun Son, the three civil and environmental engineering students who are part of the inaugural class of the ocean science and engineering Ph.D. program.

Ocean science and engineering Ph.D. program welcomes first class, including 3 in CEE

11 August 2017

Social media flyer for Arcadis Global Shapers 2017 in Malaysia. Three people smiling at laptops and a photo of the Kuala Lumpur skyline.

Arcadis picks three young alumnae for its 2017 Global Shapers program

07 August 2017

Ph.D. student Anna Skipper, who will spend several months doing research at the University of Cambridge this fall as a Crighton Fellow.

Skipper will spend fall at Cambridge as Crighton Fellow

03 August 2017

Going with the Flow: On their entrepreneurial quest to make drinking water safe for all, two new Tech alumnae stand as testimony to the gumption and perseverance necessary to sustain a startup.

TruePani goes with the flow and adjusts approach in quest to make drinking water safe

01 August 2017

Professor Spyros Pavlostathis, who is this year's recipient of the Fair Distinguished Engineering Educator Medal from the Water Environment Federation.

Pavlostathis awarded Fair Medal for his contributions to engineering education

31 July 2017

Using an iPad and an augmented reality model like this, students and other future users of Georgia Tech's Living Building will be able to tour the facility long before it opens, offering input on some of the design decisions. A user shows how the model will work at the future site of the building. (Photo Courtesy: Kendeda Fund Living Building Chronicle)

Using augmented reality to crowdsource Tech’s Living Building

28 July 2017

University of Oregon volcanologist Thomas Giachetti stands with an iceberg washed ashore by a landslide-generated tsunami in Greenland in June. (Photo: Hermann Fritz)

After recon trip, researchers say Greenland tsunami in June reached 300 feet high

21 July 2017

Smart Cities graphic with a rendering of the city of Atlanta.

Smart Cities: Innovative approaches combining engineering, technology and the social sciences are boosting the urban IQ

21 July 2017