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GTRI Agile Aperture Antenna Technology is Tested on an Autonomous Ocean Vehicle

June 18, 2013 — Antenna technology originally developed to quickly send and receive information through a software-defined military radio may soon be used to transmit ocean data from a wave-powered autonomous surface vehicle. The technology, the lowest-power method for maintaining a satellite uplink, automatically compensates for the movement of the antenna as the boat bobs around on the ocean surface.

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Moving Iron in Antarctica

June 12, 2013 — Georgia Tech research indicates that diatoms stuff more iron into their silica shells than they actually need. As a result, there’s not enough iron to go around, and the added iron may stimulate less productivity than expected.

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Polymer Structures Serve as “Nanoreactors” for Nanocrystals with Uniform Sizes and Shapes

June 11, 2013 — Using star-shaped block co-polymer structures as tiny reaction vessels, researchers have developed an improved technique for producing nanocrystals with consistent sizes, compositions and architectures – including metallic, ferroelectric, magnetic, semiconductor and luminescent nanocrystals. The technique relies on the length of polymer molecules and the ratio of two solvents to control the size and uniformity of colloidal nanocrystals.

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Ravi Bellamkonda Named Biomedical Engineering Chair

June 10, 2013 — Ravi Bellamkonda Named Biomedical Engineering Chair - Bellamkonda to serve as chair of Georgia Tech & Emory's joint biomedical engineering department

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Borneo Stalagmites Provide New View of Abrupt Climate Events Over 100,000 Years

June 6, 2013 — A new set of long-term climate records based on cave stalagmites collected from tropical Borneo shows that the western tropical Pacific responded very differently than other regions of the globe to abrupt climate change events. The 100,000-year climate record adds to data on past climate events, and may help scientists assess models designed to predict how the Earth’s climate will respond in the future.

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Adhesive Differences Enable Separation of Stem Cells to Advance Potential Therapies

April 7, 2013 — A new separation process that depends on an easily-distinguished physical difference in adhesive forces among cells could help expand production of stem cells generated through cell reprogramming. By facilitating new research, the separation process could also lead to improvements in the reprogramming technique itself and help scientists model certain disease processes.

Project Will Improve Heat Dissipation in 3-D Microelectronic Systems

April 2, 2013 — Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have won a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract to develop three-dimensional chip cooling technology able to handle heat loads as much as ten times greater than systems commonly used today.

Georgia Tech Researchers Attend White House Event Announcing New BRAIN Initiative

April 2, 2013 — President Barack Obama today announced a major new commitment to fund research to map the activity of the human brain. The goal of this grand challenge project is to develop new technologies that reveal in real time how brain cells and neural circuits interact to process information. The Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative will be launched with $100 million in the President's FY 2014 Budget.

Automaton: Robotic Dance Performance at Georgia Tech

Engineering Style of Dance for Robots and People

April 1, 2013 — Instead of programming a robot to copy an existing dance such as those in the online videos, Amy LaViers, a Ph.D. candidate in electrical and computer engineering, is defining the various styles of human movement and creating algorithms to reproduce them on a humanoid robot.

Acoustic Time Delay Device Could Reduce the Size and Cost of Phased Array Systems

March 29, 2013 — A research team has developed an ultra-compact passive true time delay device that could help reduce the size, complexity, power requirements and cost of phased array designs. The patent-pending device takes advantage of the difference in speed between light and sound to create nanosecond signal delays needed for beam steering.

Georgia Tech Honored by Boeing for Performance Excellence

March 28, 2013 — Georgia Tech received a 2012 Boeing Performance Excellence Award. The Boeing Company issues the awards annually to recognize suppliers who have achieved superior performance.

New Nanotechnology Research Study Turns Brain Tumors Blue

March 27, 2013 — Georgia Techn and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta announce new technique that increases precision in brain tumor removal.

Farrugia to Manage Georgia Tech/Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Research Partnership

March 27, 2013 — The Georgia Institute of Technology and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta are advancing their commitment to collaborative research through enhanced management of their vast joint research portfolio.

IRI Intros: 5 Questions with Bob Guldberg

March 27, 2013 — This article is the second in a series of Q&As to introduce the Tech community to the eight IRIs and their directors. In this installment, Executive Director Bob Guldberg answers five questions about the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering & Bioscience.

NSA Director to Speak at Georgia Tech Cyber Security Symposium

March 27, 2013 — General Keith B. Alexander, director of the National Security Agency, will speak at Georgia Tech on Thursday about the need for a stronger digital defense to combat the growing number of cyber attacks.

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