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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

Students in the Japan Program on Sustainable Development traveled all over Japan during the first week of the program and saw some iconic landmarks, like this "floating" torii gate on the island Miyajima. The group includes students from Georgia Tech, Tokyo Tech in Japan, and faculty members from Tech’s College of Engineering. (Photo: Alexandra Akosa)

Study abroad and sustainability in the world's largest city

20 July 2017

A global approach to sustainable development brings Georgia Tech students to Japan

Professor of the Practice Rudy Bonaparte, who will deliver the 2018 Terzaghi Lecture at the ASCE Geo-Institute annual meeting. (Photo Courtesy: Geosyntec Consultants)

Meet the 2018 Terzaghi Lecturer: Rudy Bonaparte

17 July 2017

Patricia Mokhtarian, the Susan G. and Christopher D. Pappas Professor. She has been invited to deliver the Deen Distinguished Lecture at the 2018 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting.

Transportation Research Board invites Mokhtarian to deliver 2018 Deen Distinguished Lecture

05 July 2017

Global Atlanta website story featuring civil engineering alumna Guiomar Obregon.

Building her business and Colombian engineers’ capacity: Global Atlanta profiles alumna Guiomar Obregon

03 July 2017