Released: 26-Jul-2005 1:00 PM EDT
Physicists Entangle Photon and Atom in Atomic Cloud
Georgia Institute of Technology

Physicists have just reached an important milestone in the development of quantum communications networks by entangling a photon and a single atom located in an atomic cloud. This is the first time an entanglement between a photon and a collective excitation of atoms has passed the rigorous test of quantum behavior known as a Bell inequality violation.

Released: 4-Aug-2005 9:05 AM EDT
Lasers Key to Handheld Gas and Liquid Sensors
Georgia Institute of Technology

Georgia Tech researchers are using quantum cascade lasers to develop handheld gas and liquid phase sensors capable of providing instantaneous and continuous detection of trace elements. Potential applications include chemical weapon detection and diagnosing illnesses through breath.

Released: 18-Aug-2005 3:50 PM EDT
Encouraging More Women in Science & Technology
Georgia Institute of Technology

In order to remain technologically and scientifically competitive, the U.S. needs all the brainpower it has. Currently however, a significant brain drain is taking place as bias has created a significant barrier to women and under-represented groups from pursuing technological or scientific careers.

Released: 24-Aug-2005 11:45 AM EDT
Georgia Tech Chemical Discovery Could Revolutionize Fuel Cells
Georgia Institute of Technology

A Georgia Tech researcher has discovered that combining a particular chemical compound with a fuel cell membrane can solve many of the problems that have kept polymer fuel cells largely out of the marketplace.

Released: 9-Sep-2005 2:20 PM EDT
Students Hold Memorial of 2,966 Flags for Sept. 11
Georgia Institute of Technology

Georgia Tech students have organized a memorial consisting of 2,996 flags, one for each victim of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The flags will be on display near the Student Center Campanile, from 10 a.m. Friday through 4 p.m. on Sunday. Georgia Tech will hold a moment of silence at noon Friday.

12-Sep-2005 12:00 AM EDT
Hurricanes Are Getting Stronger, Study Says
Georgia Institute of Technology

The number of Category 4 and 5 hurricanes worldwide has nearly doubled over the past 35 years, even though the total number of hurricanes has dropped since the 1990s, according to a study published in the journal Science. The shift occurred as global sea surface temperatures have increased over the same period.

Released: 12-Sep-2005 10:00 AM EDT
Research Shows How Water May Enhance Nanocatalysis
Georgia Institute of Technology

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have uncovered important evidence that explains how water, usually an inhibitor of catalytic reactions, can sometimes promote them. The findings could lead to the development of lower cost techniques for certain industrially important catalytic reactions.

Released: 12-Sep-2005 10:00 AM EDT
Native Plant Eaters Have Gourmet Palates
Georgia Institute of Technology

New research suggests that plant eaters may prefer to eat exotic species over domestic plants. The findings could lead to better strategies for controlling the billions of dollars in damage that invasive plants cause every year.

23-Sep-2005 12:00 PM EDT
Researchers Uncover E.coli’s Defense Mechanism
Georgia Institute of Technology

Researchers have uncovered a mechanism with which disease-causing bacteria may thwart the body's natural defense responses. The discovery of how iron is key to nitric oxide reduction could ultimately lead to the development of more effective antibiotics.

Released: 28-Sep-2005 10:15 AM EDT
Math Unites the Celestial and the Atomic
Georgia Institute of Technology

In recent years, researchers have developed new insights into a hidden unity between the motion of objects in space and that of the smallest particles. There is an almost perfect parallel between the mathematics describing celestial mechanics and that governing some aspects of atomic physics.

Released: 8-Nov-2005 12:05 PM EST
Changes to Embryos Can Elicit Change in Adult Fish
Georgia Institute of Technology

In a study illustrating the apparent linkages between the evolutionary development and embryonic development of species, researchers have uncovered the genetic elements that determine the structure and function of a simple biomechanical system, the lower jaw of the cichlid fish.

Released: 2-Dec-2005 1:35 PM EST
Teaching Assistant Program at Georgia Tech Honored
Georgia Institute of Technology

The Mathematics Teaching Assistant Development Seminar at the Georgia Institute of Technology is the recipient of the 2005 Georgia Board of Regents' Teaching Excellence Award in the Department/Program Division. The program originated in 1995 as a way to address communication difficulties between math students and international teaching assistants.

Released: 14-Dec-2005 2:15 PM EST
Jeffrey Skolnick to Lead New Center at Georgia Tech
Georgia Institute of Technology

Jeffrey Skolnick, renowned systems biologist and previous director of the Buffalo Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics at SUNY-Buffalo, will join the faculty of the Georgia Tech this spring as the Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Computational Systems Biology.

Released: 14-Dec-2005 4:50 PM EST
Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin to Address Georgia Tech
Georgia Institute of Technology

Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin will deliver the address to the undergraduates at the Georgia Institute of Technology's 223rd commencement ceremony at 9 a.m. on Saturday, December 17, 2005 at Alexander Memorial Coliseum.

Released: 15-Dec-2005 1:35 PM EST
Fishing for the Origins of Genome Complexity
Georgia Institute of Technology

Biologists at Georgia Tech have provided scientific support for a controversial hypothesis that has divided biologists for two years.

Released: 15-Dec-2005 1:35 PM EST
Georgia Tech Students Spend Break Doing Hurricane Relief
Georgia Institute of Technology

As many Americans take pains to complete their last-minute holiday shopping, a group of Georgia Tech students will be helping people whose homes were destroyed by Hurricane Katrina to rebuild their lives.

19-Jan-2006 1:45 PM EST
Evolution Study Tightens Human-Chimp Connection
Georgia Institute of Technology

Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have found genetic evidence that seems to support a controversial hypothesis that humans and chimpanzees may be more closely related to each other than chimps are to the other two species of great apes "“ gorillas and orangutans.

Released: 1-Feb-2006 9:50 AM EST
Biofuels Can Help Pick Up Oil's Slack
Georgia Institute of Technology

A group of experts in science, engineering and public policy from Georgia Tech, Imperial College London and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory have a plan to make biofuels and biomaterials a viable supplement to petroleum, replacing as much as 30 percent of transportation fuel needs.

Released: 8-Feb-2006 2:15 PM EST
Georgia Tech Creates More Compact, Inexpensive Spectrometer
Georgia Institute of Technology

Researchers have developed a technology to help spectrometers analyze substances using fewer parts in a wider variety of environments, regardless of lighting. The technology can improve the portability while reducing the size, complexity, and cost of many sensing and diagnostics systems that use spectrometers.

Released: 8-Feb-2006 3:00 PM EST
GA Tech Professor President of French Research Center
Georgia Institute of Technology

Catherine Brechignac, adjunct professor of Physics and a distinguished visiting scholar chair at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has been appointed president of France's Centre National de la Recherché Scientifique (CNRS), the largest scientific organization in Europe.

Released: 8-Feb-2006 3:30 PM EST
GA Tech Accelerates Drug Discovery with IBM Supercomputing Cluster
Georgia Institute of Technology

IBM and the Georgia Institute of Technology today announced that one of the world's most powerful supercomputing clusters will anchor Georgia Tech's new Center for the Study of Systems Biology.

Released: 9-Feb-2006 1:30 PM EST
New Georgia Tech Probe Revolutionizes Nano Imaging
Georgia Institute of Technology

Georgia Tech has developed a new probe for AFM capable of high-speed imaging 100 times faster than current AFM. This technology could prove invaluable for many types of nano-research, even translating into movies of molecular interactions in real time.

10-Feb-2006 1:15 PM EST
Scientists Model 900 Cell Receptors, Drug Targets
Georgia Institute of Technology

In an important step toward accelerating drug discovery, researchers have created computer models of more than 900 cell receptors from a class of proteins known to be important drug targets. The models promise to help scientists narrow their research inquiries, potentially speeding up the discovery of new drug compounds.

Released: 13-Feb-2006 1:30 PM EST
Reversible Microlenses to Speed Chemical Detection
Georgia Institute of Technology

Scientists at Georgia Tech have created technology capable of detecting trace amounts of biological or chemical agents in a matter of seconds, much faster than traditional methods, which can take hours or up to a day.

Released: 16-Feb-2006 1:20 PM EST
Overseas NOx Could Be Boosting Ozone Levels in U.S.
Georgia Institute of Technology

Large amounts of a chemical that boosts ozone production are being transported to North America from across the Pacific Ocean in May. These higher levels of NOx could be contributing to significant increases in ozone levels over North America.

7-Mar-2006 2:10 PM EST
Invasive Exotic Plants Helped by Natural Enemies
Georgia Institute of Technology

A new study in the journal Science suggests that exotic plants in the presence of their natural enemies actually do better in their introduced ranges. The findings could help mitigate the $120 billion in damage caused by exotic species in the U.S. each year.

Released: 14-Mar-2006 9:20 AM EST
Gold Nanorods May Make Safer Cancer Treatment
Georgia Institute of Technology

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have found that by using gold nanorods, rather than nanospheres, they can detect malignant tumors hidden deeper under the skin and destroy them with lasers only half as powerful as before "“ without harming the healthy cells.

Released: 15-Mar-2006 9:15 AM EST
Mood Affects Young and Old Differently
Georgia Institute of Technology

The effect of mood on how people process information changes greatly as they age, suggests new research from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Released: 16-Mar-2006 12:10 PM EST
Georgia Tech Research Institute to Open Institute in Ireland
Georgia Institute of Technology

The Georgia Tech Research Institute will open a research facility in Athlone, Ireland this summer with research and collaborations valued at about $24 million over a five-year period.

Released: 16-Mar-2006 2:00 PM EST
Research Re-examines Strong Hurricane Studies
Georgia Institute of Technology

A study strengthens the link between the increases in hurricane intensity and tropical sea surface temperature. It found that while factors such as wind shear affect the intensity of individual storms or seasons, they don't account for the global 35-year increase in Category 4 and 5 storms.

Released: 17-Mar-2006 8:45 AM EST
Students Spend Spring Break Doing Hurricane Relief
Georgia Institute of Technology

Forget Padre Island, Destin or even Cancun, this spring break's hot destination for a group of Georgia Tech students is New Orleans. Starting Sunday, March 19, a group of students will be helping people whose homes were damaged by Hurricane Katrina to rebuild their lives.

5-Apr-2006 1:40 PM EDT
Georgia Tech Releases Economic Impact Study
Georgia Institute of Technology

Ten of Georgia's top companies sponsored an economic impact study on Georgia Tech and how it contributes to the state and region's economy. The Study compares the city of Atlanta and the state of Georgia with other regions that are successful in providing their research universities with the tools they need to maximize their economic impact on their region.

Released: 20-Apr-2006 4:00 PM EDT
Georgia Tech Program to Halt Pandemics Installed in Georgia
Georgia Institute of Technology

Based on a clinical model created by the CDC, Dr. Eva Lee, a professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech, has developed a program, called RealOpt, to help U.S. state, city and county health care departments organize and test the most efficient plan for treating infectious illness, whether it's a natural or man-made pandemic. The DeKalb County Department of Health in Georgia is already using the program, and it's being installed at health departments all over the State of Georgia over the next few months. It's slated to be tested in 35 other states, starting with installation for the State of Virginia. The program will soon be available free to all U.S. health departments.

Released: 26-Apr-2006 10:00 PM EDT
Ga Tech and Solvay: $3M Deal for OLED Research
Georgia Institute of Technology

The Georgia Institute of Technology's Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE) and Belgian chemical giant Solvay announced a $3 million deal for OLED research.

Released: 9-May-2006 7:00 PM EDT
Tibet Pathway for Chemicals To Reach Stratosphere
Georgia Institute of Technology

In research that could improve climate prediction models, scientists at Georgia Tech and NASA have found that thunderstorms over Tibet provide a main pathway for water vapor and chemicals to travel into the stratosphere, home of the protective ozone layer.

Released: 11-May-2006 4:05 PM EDT
Nature Meets Technology at Bio-Design Conference
Georgia Institute of Technology

Engineers are looking to nature to help them solve some of the most complex problems of the day. For two days, May 11-12, researchers from 20 institutions will gather at the Georgia Institute of Technology for the first International Symposium for Biologically-inspired Design and Engineering.

Released: 15-May-2006 1:40 PM EDT
Researchers Look to Nature for Design Inspiration
Georgia Institute of Technology

Georgia Tech researchers are hoping to unlock the design secrets of nature to create everything from better sensors to better robots. They presented their research at the first International Symposium for Biologically-inspired Design and Engineering.

Released: 23-May-2006 8:05 PM EDT
Ports Vulnerable to Devastating Earthquake Damage
Georgia Institute of Technology

U.S. ports serve as crucial gateways for international trade, but they're particularly vulnerable to damage in an earthquake. A new project led by Georgia Tech aims to develop strategies to help safeguard critical U.S. ports from earthquake damage.

Released: 13-Jun-2006 9:00 AM EDT
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Center
Georgia Institute of Technology

Georgia Tech's College of Computing and College of Engineering announce the establishment of the Robotics and Intelligent Machines center (RIM@Georgia Tech), a new interdisciplinary research center drawing on the strengths of robotics experts from both colleges.

Released: 21-Jun-2006 4:15 PM EDT
Device Burns Fuel with Almost Zero Emissions
Georgia Institute of Technology

Georgia Tech researchers have created a new combustor (combustion chamber where fuel is burned to power an engine or gas turbine) designed to burn fuel in a wide range of devices with next to no emission of nitrogen oxide (NOx) and carbon monoxide (CO), two of the primary causes of air pollution. The device, originally developed for NASA, has a simpler design than existing state-of-the-art combustors.

Released: 29-Jun-2006 2:55 PM EDT
Scientists Uncover Rules for Gene Amplification
Georgia Institute of Technology

Gene amplification plays an important role in causing cancers. Researchers at Georgia Tech have discovered that the location of a hairpin-capped break relative to the end of the chromosome will determine the fate of the amplification event.

Released: 10-Jul-2006 3:10 PM EDT
President Wayne Clough Invited by White House to G8 Summit Symposium
Georgia Institute of Technology

Georgia Tech President Wayne Clough has been invited by the White House to participate in the G8 Business and University Leaders Symposium on Innovation in Moscow this week. The symposium will be an open discussion among selected leaders from business and education known for their successes in innovation and cutting-edge research.

Released: 11-Jul-2006 2:40 PM EDT
James Meindl is Named Nanotech Center Director
Georgia Institute of Technology

Georgia Tech's newly formed Nanotechnology Research Center has named Dr. James Meindl as its founding director.

Released: 24-Jul-2006 2:15 PM EDT
Nano Probe May Open New Window Into Cell Behavior
Georgia Institute of Technology

Georgia Tech researchers have created a nanoscale probe that can capture both the biochemical makeup and topography of complex biological objects in their normal environment "” leading to better disease diagnosis and drug design on the cellular level.

Released: 2-Aug-2006 4:15 PM EDT
Optical Breakthrough Makes “Lab-on-a-Chip” Possible
Georgia Institute of Technology

Georgia Tech researchers have found a way to shrink all the sensing power of sophisticated biosensors "” such as sensors that can detect trace amounts of a chemical in a water supply or a substance in your blood "” onto a single microchip.

Released: 8-Aug-2006 6:20 PM EDT
Researchers Find Controls to Gold Nanocatalysis
Georgia Institute of Technology

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have made a discovery that could allow scientists to exercise more control over the catalytic activity of gold nanoclusters, an important development in the rapidly developing field of nanotechnology.

Released: 23-Aug-2006 3:55 PM EDT
Scientists Uncover Critical Step in DNA Mutation
Georgia Institute of Technology

Scientists at Georgia Tech have made an important step toward solving a critical puzzle relating to a chemical reaction that leads to DNA mutation. The research uncovers knowledge that could be critical to the development of strategies for cancer prevention and treatment.

Released: 31-Aug-2006 7:05 PM EDT
SWAN System to Help Blind and Firefighters Navigate Environment
Georgia Institute of Technology

Georgia Tech researchers are developing a wearable computing system called the System for Wearable Audio Navigation designed to help the visually impaired, firefighters and soldiers navigate their way in unknown territory.

Released: 10-Sep-2006 7:00 PM EDT
Georgia Tech Remembers 9/11 with Ceremony, Flag Memorial
Georgia Institute of Technology

Georgia Tech students remember the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks with a memorial of nearly 3,000 American flags over the weekend and a remembrance ceremony on Monday.

Released: 11-Sep-2006 4:55 PM EDT
Georgia Tech's Calvin Johnson Tackles Global Sanitation Problems
Georgia Institute of Technology

Georgia Tech All-American wide receiver Calvin Johnson is working to improve sanitation in developing countries by helping to create a prototype for an improved solar latrine system.


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