This year, three Ph.D. students were awarded $3,000 each to pursue their research. These students demonstrated that their research, and associated publication, contributed to societal progress.

A group of Georgia Tech students and alumni were among the winners of $2 million in DARPA's AI Cyber Challenge and will compete in the final competition next August.

Their awards total more than $9.5 million in funding, the most Georgia Tech has ever had in the program.

Dongsuk Sung's research and published work in studying brain temperature earned a Chih Foundation Graduate Student Research Publication award.