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Tech launches new virtual campus tour.

Tech's virtual campus tour launched on Aug. 14 and features 360-degree views of iconic spots across campus.

Through a partnership among Enrollment Management, Institute Communications, Housing and Residence Life, and Athletics, the Georgia Institute of Technology launched the YouVisit Virtual Campus Tour on Aug. 14. 

This resource continues the Institute’s dedication to increasing access across Georgia and the world. The tour allows anyone to experience campus from where they are, tour at their own pace, and experience an in-depth look at Tech in an engaging and informative experience. 

"We are excited to not only showcase our beautiful campus but to also continue to make strides in accomplishing our goals of expanding access and amplifying impact,” said Becky Tankersley, director of communications for Enrollment Management. “This virtual tour platform enables every unit on campus to provide a glimpse into life at Tech. In addition to helping recruit prospective students to Tech, the new virtual tour will help high school counselors, K-12 partnerships, faculty and staff recruitment, and collaboration with other stakeholders such as alumni, community relations, and corporate partners.”  

With the new virtual tour technology, it has never been easier for prospective students to explore the Tech campus. The tool adds to existing in-person campus tour options, which can be scheduled online, and supplements the virtual information sessions . 

As part of this YouVisit Virtual Campus Tour, along with the imagery of campus, a tour guide reads essential information about the campus, with interactive icons at each location offering users the option to click and launch videos and photos of associated traditions and campus activities.  

“YouVisit is a great marketing tool for campus to not only highlight our facilities but to immerse students and their families in the various experiences they can have across our community,” said Niccole Coleman, director of Marketing Communications Consulting in Institute Communications. 

With 360-degree interactive views, the tour allows a visit to the Georgia Tech campus from anywhere in the world. From the iconic Tech Tower to the West Campus residence halls and everywhere in between, visitors can learn more about the campus when an in-person visit isn’t possible or practical. 

“It takes the whole campus to do something like this,” said Andrew Cohen, associate director for Guest Experience in the Office of Undergraduate Admission. “We appreciate the support from all of our campus partners who opened their doors to show us their spaces as part of this tour.” 

Access the tour here . 

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College of Engineering

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Each of our eight engineering schools hosts in-person tours and information sessions throughout the year.  There are also options to watch recorded or live info sessions online.

Visit Georgia Tech

The Office of Admission offers several in-person and virtual visit options for prospective high school and transfer students. These opportunities are offered to to help you learn everything about Georgia Tech and the college admission process.  

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Take a Virtual Tour of the College

Join engineering students Andy and Emily on a virtual tour of the College of Engineering. They'll give you a behind-the-scenes look at engineering labs and student makerspaces. You can view the full-length tour below or scroll down to find a particular area on campus that you want to see. Enjoy your tour!  

Student Competition Center

Take an in-depth tour inside the Student Competition Center at Georgia Tech where student teams including RoboJackets, GT Motorsports, GT Off-Road, HyTech Racing, EcoCAR, GT Solar Racing, and Wreck Racing build their projects! Any student at Georgia Tech can join these teams. The only problem is deciding which team to join!  

Interdisciplinary Design Commons

Get a glimpse of the Interdisciplinary Design Commons (IDC) at Georgia Tech! The IDC is a 15,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art makerspace that is located in the rotunda of the Van Leer Building, right in the heart of Georgia Tech's campus. Catering specifically to electronics and computer engineering design and innovation, it represents the largest makerspace of its kind in the nation. The IDC offers students of all majors a hands-on learning environment where they can work together to solve technology design challenges. The space features a woodshop, 3D printers, laser cutters, a plasma cutter, function generators, power supplies, soldering irons, computers, and embedded systems equipment.

Flowers Invention Studio

The Invention Studio is a student run organization located in the Flower's Invention Studio. We support ALL students, staff, and faculty in building their dream project, whether it’s for research, personal or academic usage. Our tools are 100% free to use. 

Get a quick Glimpse of the NanoEngineered Systems and Transport (NEST) Lab directed by Dr. Baratunde Cola at Georgia Tech. 

Autonomous and Connected Transportation Lab

Sit in the driver's seat of the new car simulator at the Autonomous and Connected Transportation Lab directed by Dr. Srinivas Peeta at Georgia Tech.

Take a tour of the Physiology of Wearable Robotics Lab (PoWeR Lab) directed by Dr. Greg Sawicki at Georgia Tech.

Take a tour of the Robotarium at Georgia Tech! This was the first remote access robotics test bed that could be used by anyone in the world.

Wind tunnel

Take a tour of the closed-looped wind tunnel at Georgia Tech!

Learn what research is conducted at the SMART lab directed by Dr. Nazanin Bassiri-Gharb at Georgia Tech.

Structural Engineering & Materials Lab

Get a glimpse of an experiment in the Structural Engineering & Materials Laboratory directed by Dr. Lauren Stewart at Georgia Tech.

Admitted Undergraduates

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You've made it through the toughest part of the admission process — getting in. Next, dive in and explore this website to learn what Georgia Tech offers each member of the Yellow Jacket family and plan your next steps to enroll.

To start your experience, accept your admission by paying your enrollment deposit via your admission portal.

From paying your deposit to registering for classes, here is your timeline for next steps to enroll at Georgia Tech.

It’s never too early to start applying for financial aid. Get started here.

Learn how to register for orientation, view housing application steps, and explore the variety of dining options on campus.

From academics to Atlanta to student life, there’s a lot to learn about campus. Learn how you can get plugged in.

Connect with student groups on campus and get to know your fellow Yellow Jackets.

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Take a Virtual Tour

Get a closer look at our beautiful campus located in the heart of Midtown Atlanta. Click below to explore!

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Prospective Student Tours

Interested in visiting georgia tech and touring the campus, undergraduate students, graduate students, directions to campus.

• South on I-75/85 into Atlanta Take Exit 249D (North Avenue). At the top of the exit ramp, turn right onto North Avenue. Cross Techwood Drive (the first light) and continue on North Avenue approximately two blocks to Cherry Street. Turn right onto Cherry Street and then turn left onto Ferst Drive. The Student Center will be located on the right side. Park in the Area 2 visitor’s parking lot adjacent to the Student Center.
• Driving North on I-75/85 into Atlanta Take Exit 249D (North Avenue/Spring Street/West Peachtree Street). At the top of the exit ramp, proceed through the first intersection (Spring Street). At the next intersection (West Peachtree), turn left. Continue on West Peachtree  

MARTA TRAIN

Georgia Tech is served by two MARTA rail stations: the North Avenue Station and the Midtown Station.

• From the Midtown Station  Take Tech Trolley to campus.
• From the North Avenue station East Campus is within walking distance. Or, walk three blocks west of the station and take a Red or Blue Stinger bus.

Visitor Parking

Several hourly parking lots are located on campus. Cash and credit cards are accepted at all visitor parking areas. 

Parking rate details, handicap parking locations, temporary and weekend parking permit information:   Georgia Tech Parking & Transportation Services .

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Campus Transit

There are a variety of free transit options for getting around campus and to nearby destinations. Each service complies with the recommendations of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Campus Bus Routes

Search for parking lots, campus transit stops, buildings, areas of interest, and a self-guided campus tour.

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Area Hotels

Click the link below to view a list of hotels that are close to campus. Some may offer special rates for prospective students, families, and visitors to the Institute.

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Group Campus Visits

Georgia Tech group visits consist of a 30-minute admission information session and a self-guided tour of campus. Information sessions are offered twice a week with a registration capacity of two groups per session.

Our office is also offering virtual programming . Through these programs, students and families will have opportunities to engage with admission staff, current Tech students, and the greater Tech Community.

Group Visit Criteria

To be considered for a group visit, you must fit the following criteria:

High school students grades 9 through 12 or college students interested in transfer. Unfortunately, we are unable to accommodate elementary and middle school groups.

Groups must be visiting from a high school, higher education institution, or directly affiliated with high school program. This includes community-based organizations with a college readiness program.

Group visits must be arranged for any group larger than 10 students. Groups should be no larger than 50 people (including chaperones). If your group is larger than 50, please contact our group visit coordinator .

There should be one chaperone per 20 visiting students.

Registration Information

Reservations are required and must be completed online at least 3 weeks in advance.

For a transfer group visit, please directly email the group visit coordinator with your request (group name, desired date, and number of participants).

Once you have completed the online inquiry form, it will be reviewed by our group visit coordinator. You will receive an email within five (5) business days of submitting your request.

If your group is approved to visit campus, please familiarize yourself with the Group Expectations Contract. This contract contains all our expectations for group visits. We reserve the right to deny future visit requests from groups that do not abide by our policies.

All reservations requests should be submitted by the school group. If you choose to use a tour company to schedule your visit, they must provide the name and phone number of a chaperone who will be attending with the group.

Important Reminders

If interested in viewing a residence hall, visit our housing website to access a 3D floor plan and 360 degree tour for each of our housing options.

You may have lunch on campus. Please visit our Dining Services website to view the dining options, hours of operation, and their contact information.

Parking on campus is limited. If you plan to bring a bus to campus, you will need to reserve a bus parking spot by completing the Special Event Parking Request form through Parking & Transportation Services 72 business hours before your visit. There is a fee of approximately $30 associated with this reservation.

Atlanta weather is oftentimes unpredictable. Please wear comfortable shoes and bring an umbrella and water bottle with you to campus.

If we are unable to accommodate your group for any reason, we hope that you still consider visiting Georgia Tech! Our virtual visits page contains a self-guided tour that will help you lead your group on a campus tour.

All questions regarding group visits may be directed to our group visit coordinator Ja’Kira Jackson at [email protected] .

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Coda Datacenter

The Coda ecosystem is designed as a future-forward workplace enabling unique collaborations and partnerships between higher education and industry – both established and start-up – the overall theme is the nexus of CI, data sciences, and discovery focusing on HPC/HTC, “big data” storage and analytics capabilities, and leadership class network services including research and education (R&E) backbone access.

The Coda Data Center is the new home for PACE, offering increased room for expansion and allowing for much higher power density per rack — an important consideration for growth in areas such as machine learning and artificial intelligence that benefit from GPUs and other computational accelerators. The facility has expansion capability up to 9-10 megawatts of power in a modular fashion, enabling a dynamic response to evolving needs. Along with the Office Tower, the Data Center serves as a highly-instrumented Technology Showcase/Living Lab with access to complete operational data that is captured and available for researchers.

Owned and operated by DataBank, the Coda Data Center is a multi-story, state-of-the-art commercial data center facility. Three floors provide over 40,000 square feet of server space, with additional floors providing sup- porting mechanical and electrical space bringing the total facility up to 94,000 square feet. Initially, Georgia Tech has leased two megawatts of power: 1.5 megawatts in the Research hall, primarily allocated to PACE compute nodes; and another 0.5 megawatts in the Enterprise hall, used for critical PACE servers and storage, as well as OIT enterprise services. A number of sustainability technologies are being utilized in the Coda data center; waste heat from the data center is captured and provides heat to the office tower. Water recovered from an onsite fresh- water spring supplies 50+ gallons per minute of makeup water for the cooling systems, and temperatures within the data center are increased from the typical level, while staying within the applicable ASHRE standards. Combined, these technologies comprise a low PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) design of 1.25 to deliver long-term operational cost savings. A research partnership with Georgia Power provides a self-contained power system nearby. This microgrid provides up to 1.5 megawatts of power to the data center using a variety of alternative technologies such as fuel cells, battery storage, and micro-turbines. The intent for the MicroGrid is to provide protection from brownouts during peak midtown grid utilization. The power feed will auto-switch diverse sources automatically, and this happens within the minimum flywheel UPS operation time of 15 seconds. The MicroGrid will auto start should both diverse sources fail or upon a Georgia Power directive. The facility is adaptable to incorporate future power generation technologies.

Currently, the Coda datacenter hosts PACE’s Hive, Phoenix, ICE clusters, and soon to be deployed CUI cluster for export controlled research. A brief overview of the current clusters in production are provided below.

Read more about Coda datacenter in the prior issue of the PACE Newsletter ( page 7 ) and to read more about the great work accomplished by the Georgia Tech research community that was enabled by PACE resources, please see our prior issues of the PACE Newsletter .

As part of SC20 Student Tours , the Coda datacenter is one of the featured virtual tours for the high school and university students.  Also, Coda datacenter virtual tour was featured in an  HPCwire article . 

Phoenix Supercomputer

The Phoenix cluster is Georgia Tech’s latest leading edge supercomputer that accelerates the computational research efforts of the Institute's diverse community in support of data-driven work in astrophysics, biology, health science, chemistry, materials and manufacturing, public policy, among other disciplines.

The Phoenix supercomputer is built in collaboration with Penguin Computing, Intel, Mellanox, and NVIDIA, and represents the largest single research computing investment by Georgia Tech in support of accelerating computational research. Phoenix is a heterogeneous cluster featuring Intel’s Cascade Lake processors and NVIDIA’s Volta and Quadro Pro graphics processing units, and consumes approximately 1 megawatt of power. The 34,440 cores deliver over 1.8 PF of performance based on the LINPACK Benchmark.

Please refer to this link about citing or acknowledging PACE if your research benefited from the Phoenix cluster. 

Read more about Phoenix Supercomputer

Hive Supercomputer

The Hive Supercomputer is a $5.3 million HPC system that is enabling data-driven discovery in data science, computational astrophysics, biology, chemistry, and materials science at GT. Hive is a fulfillment of a recent $3.7M Major Research Instrumentation award to Georgia Tech from the National Science Foundation.

The Hive is built in collaboration with Penguin Computing, Intel, Mellanox, and NVIDIA. This heterogeneous cluster is comprised of 484 nodes featuring Intel’s Cascade Lake processors and NVIDIA’s VOLTA graphics processing cards. The 11,616 cores deliver 0.7 PF of performance based on the LINPACK Benchmark."

Please refer to this  link  about citing or acknowledging PACE if your research benefited from the Hive cluster. 

Read more about Hive Supercomputer

ICE Clusters

In 2018, PACE initiated a project called “Instructional Cluster Environment (ICE)” to build instructional clusters in support of growing demand for coursework requiring HPC in accordance with Georgia Tech's strategic plan. These resources offer an educational environment that’s identical to production clusters, and expected to provide thousands of grad/undergrad students with ample opportunities to gain first-hand scientific computing experience including HPC and GPU programming each year. Furthermore, the entire PACE scientific software repository is made accessible to all ICE students, providing an education environment that mirrors production research clusters in every aspect.

In addition to credit-bearing courses, ICE enables PACE team to develop or host hands-on tutorials and workshops to help GT researchers and students improve their computational skills, in accordance with GT’s strategic plan that states “In addition to traditional classroom experiences, we will explore the possibility of enabling faculty, students and staff to interact in venues such as short courses and workshops where a shared culture of innovation, collaboration and leadership can evolve.”

Read more about ICE Clusters  

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Congratulations new PhD Admits! We are excited to have you visit us here at Georgia Tech's School of Cybersecurity and Privacy. Visit Day events will start on March 6th (Wednesday) and conclude on March 8th (Friday).

Please contact Nancy Baker ( [email protected] ) if you have any questions.

Schedule (Tentative)

: indicates that an in-person event that will be live streamed for virtual attendees.

Important Links

• Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurship @ GT Computing , CREATE-X , Venture Lab
• Women in Computing Communities and Support: W@CC , WHPC , and Women’s Resource Center
• People of Color Communities and Support: AAMI , OMED , and OHI
• Gender & Sexuality support: LGBTQIA Center and Georgia Tech Pride Alliance
• Resources for veterans, service members, and their families
• Mental health and well being resources: CARE , Counseling Center , Thrive@GT
• Study support: Tutoring and Academic Support and the Communication Center

Take a Virtual Tour of Campus

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Get a bird’s-eye view of our green campus nestled in the heart of Midtown Atlanta.

Virtual Campus Tour

Get a feel for what it’s like to walk around campus with our virtual tour.

Take the Tour

Prefer a 2D experience? Check out our campus map.

Explore Campus

Campus Housing Tour

Take an inside look at the residence halls you’ll call home for the next four years.

Visit Housing

About Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta, Georgia , combines the entertainment, educational, and economic opportunities of an international city with the flavor and personality of close-knit, eclectic neighborhoods.

Our Midtown neighborhood is a thriving place to create, learn, live, work, and play. The city's network of diverse neighborhoods offers a taste of home for everyone — from apartments, lofts, and high-rises to small bungalows or impressive mansions. As the state's economic and cultural hub, Atlanta is packed with attractions, small businesses, high-tech startups, and multinational corporations, along with restaurants, theaters, museums, and concert venues.

Within an easy walk to campus are green spaces and parks, including Centennial Olympic Park, Piedmont Park, and the Atlanta BeltLine — a network of public parks, multi-use trails, and multiple public transit options.

Atlanta International Airport (ATL)

Why should you care about the airport.

If you plan to travel at all during your PhD years, you should consider that ATL will make your life much easier than most other airports. ATL is relatively close to campus (14 minutes by car and 30 minutes by MARTA). ATL is the second most connected airport in the US (8th in the world). This should reduce the number of hops that you have to go through.

From ATL to Campus

Via MARTA: You may choose to use Atlanta's public transportation system, MARTA. There is a rail station located inside the airport. This service offers the quickest and most inexpensive way to get to Georgia Tech. All trains leaving the airport travel north toward Georgia Tech. The Airport Station is located near the baggage claim area at the north end of the airport. Trains leave approximately every 10 minutes. For more information about traveling to campus via MARTA click here .

Via Rideshare Services: After collecting your bags at baggage claim, you will follow signs to the rideshare pick-up lot. It is about a 5 minute walk to the designated rideshare pickup area. It is recommended to wait to order your ride, until you have arrived at the pick-up location. The Student Center Parking Deck is located on Ferst Drive (353 Ferst Drive NW, Atlanta 30332) next to the Smithgall Student Services Building & the Student Center. Fare is approximately $35. For pick-up from the Student Center Parking Deck, you would provide the same address as listed above.

SCP PhD Visit Day

School of Cybersecurity and Privacy PhD Visit Day

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The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design

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Welcome 2024 Admits to Georgia Tech. Congratulations! We are excited to host you as you consider the School of Computer Science at Georgia Tech for your graduate studies. The Grad Student Visit Day is optimized for in-person visitors but several events will also accommodate virtual visitors. The visit day will start on March 7th (Thursday) and conclude on March 8th (Friday).

Schedule (Tentative)

All attendees will receive a personalized schedule before Wednesday March 6th.

Important Links

• SCS Graduate Student Association (GSA)
• Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurship @ GT Computing , CREATE-X , Venture Lab
• Women in Computing Communities and Support: W@CC , WHPC , and Women’s Resource Center
• People of Color Communities and Support: AAMI , OMED
• Gender & Sexuality support: LGBTQIA Center and Georgia Tech Pride Alliance
• Resources for veterans, service members, and their families
• Mental health and well being resources: CARE Counseling Center , Thrive@GT
• Study support: Tutoring and Academic Support and the Communication Center

Take a Virtual Tour of Campus

Flyover video tour.

Get a bird’s-eye view of our green campus nestled in the heart of Midtown Atlanta.

Virtual Campus Tour

Get a feel for what it’s like to walk around campus with our virtual tour.

Take the Tour

Prefer a 2D experience? Check out our campus map.

Explore Campus

Campus Housing Tour

Take an inside look at the residence halls you’ll call home for the next four years.

Visit Housing

About Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta, Georgia , combines the entertainment, educational, and economic opportunities of an international city with the flavor and personality of close-knit, eclectic neighborhoods.

Our Midtown neighborhood is a thriving place to create, learn, live, work, and play. The city's network of diverse neighborhoods offers a taste of home for everyone — from apartments, lofts, and high-rises to small bungalows or impressive mansions. As the state's economic and cultural hub, Atlanta is packed with attractions, small businesses, high-tech startups, and multinational corporations, along with restaurants, theaters, museums, and concert venues.

Within an easy walk to campus are green spaces and parks, including Centennial Olympic Park, Piedmont Park, and the Atlanta BeltLine — a network of public parks, multi-use trails, and multiple public transit options.

Atlanta International Airport (ATL)

Why should you care about the airport.

If you plan to travel at all during your PhD years, you should consider that ATL will make your life much easier than most other airports. ATL is relatively close to campus (14 minutes by car and 30 minutes by MARTA). ATL is the second most connected airport in the US (8th in the world). This should reduce the number of hops that you have to go through.

From ATL to Campus

Via MARTA: You may choose to use Atlanta's public transportation system, MARTA. There is a rail station located inside the airport. This service offers the quickest and most inexpensive way to get to Georgia Tech. All trains leaving the airport travel north toward Georgia Tech. The Airport Station is located near the baggage claim area at the north end of the airport. Trains leave approximately every 10 minutes. For more information about traveling to campus via MARTA click here .

Via Rideshare Services: After collecting your bags at baggage claim, you will follow signs to the rideshare pick-up lot. It is about a 5 minute walk to the designated rideshare pickup area. It is recommended to wait to order your ride, until you have arrived at the pick-up location. The Klaus Advanced Computing Building is located on Ferst Drive (266 Ferst Dr NW, Atlanta, GA 30332) and the Georgia Tech Hotel is located on Spring Street (800 Spring St NW, Atlanta, GA 30308). The typical fare is approximately $35.

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2024 frontiers in science: climate action.

This Earth Month more than 100 campus and community stakeholders gathered near the Georgia Tech EcoCommons for the 2024 Frontiers in Science: Climate Action Conference and Symposium .

On April 18, the College of Sciences hosted more than 20 speakers and panelists from across the Institute and Atlanta community presenting groundbreaking research and discussing innovations and ideas in climate change, challenges, and solutions. 

Georgia Tech President Ángel Cabrera (M.S. PSY 1993, Ph.D. PSY 1995) kicked off the morning sessions by highlighting the Institute’s new Climate Action Plan , which outlines the pathway to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. Cabrera’s remarks focused on Georgia Tech’s role on the frontlines of research and education informing how we respond to climate challenges — and noted that the Institute’s work must extend beyond our laboratories and classrooms.

“It is essential that we not only do the science, but that we also tell that science to the world,” Cabrera says.

Interdisciplinary inquiry

This year, Frontiers in Science featured an array of climate research and initiatives led by the College of Sciences, fellow colleges across Georgia Tech, and the wider Atlanta community.

Following a three-year hiatus of the Frontiers series, the 2024 edition re-envisioned the signature annual event as a research conference and symposium to convene campus experts — and to incubate seed grant proposals to support the work of early career faculty.

Frontiers previously hosted Nobel laureates and invited thought leaders for individual talks across the College’s six schools, and celebrated milestones like the International Year of the Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements.

“This year, we wanted to showcase what we are doing right here in the College of Sciences and throughout the Institute,” says Susan Lozier , dean of the College of Sciences, Betsy Middleton and John Clark Sutherland Chair and professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. “Our faculty are at the forefront of broadening our knowledgebase and uncovering solutions in areas critical to the planet and our well-being. We wanted to uplift that work and see what sort of connections could be made.”

Connections and collaboration were key themes of the day as faculty, staff, students, and alumni participants representing all six Georgia Tech colleges shared research results and ongoing work and discussed collaborative ideas for horizons ahead.

“Scientists alone cannot [create accurate models],” noted Annalisa Bracco , professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and associate chair for Research, who shared her own research alongside Lozier, who presented a version of her 2024 TED Talk on ocean overturning. “Engineers alone cannot do it. We need social scientists, policy makers, communicators.”

The importance of an interdisciplinary approach was reinforced by the Strategic Energy Institute at Georgia Tech (SEI) and  Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems (BBISS) , which announced an interdisciplinary seed grant funding opportunity for assistant professors with ideas for new climate solutions.

Frontiers in focus

Across three themed sessions , faculty and leadership from the Colleges of Sciences, Engineering, and Design spearheaded talks on the ocean and cryosphere, biodiversity, carbon cycling, coastal wetlands, biofuels production, and beyond.

Panels on climate challenges across community, technological, and policy initiatives were hosted by Georgia Tech Vice President for Interdisciplinary Research and Professor in the School of Biological Sciences and the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry Julia Kubanek .

Following a networking lunch with climate table topics, Georgia Tech Executive Vice President for Research and Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Chaouki T. Abdallah (M.S. ECE 1982, Ph.D. ECE 1988) kicked off the afternoon sessions — which also announced the scholarship recipients of a student video competition  and featured videos with a pair of alumnae working in meteorology, climate research, and policy.

Afternoon highlights also included discussions on the Georgia Tech Climate Action Plan and Sustainability Next initiative, led by Jennifer Chirico (B.S. MGMT 1997, Ph.D. PUBP 2011), associate vice president of Sustainability for Georgia Tech Infrastructure and Sustainability, and Jennifer Leavey (B.S. CHEM 1995), assistant dean for Faculty Mentoring in the College of Sciences and interim assistant director for Interdisciplinary Education in the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems.

Although many of the presentations provided a stern outlook of the state of our ecosystems, the conference concluded with a sense of hope. This optimism was grounded in the range of opportunities that exist to address climate challenges — thanks, in part, to the body of knowledge and solutions being tested and explored by Georgia Tech researchers.

At the end of the day, Katie Griffin , a first year undergraduate student in Environmental Science , read Amanda Gorman’s poem Earthrise and provided this reminder:

All of us bring light to exciting solutions never tried before For it is our hope that implores us, at our uncompromising core, To keep rising up for an earth more than worth fighting for.

Experience the event in pictures with the College of Sciences’ Flickr account , and discover the highlights through the day’s live tweets on College of Sciences’ X account .

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Frontiers in Science Banner Outside at Sunrise

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Frontiers in Science Policy Discussion Panelists: Michelle Midanier, Valerie Thomas and Joe F. Bozeman III

Frontiers in Science Participants

President Ángel Cabrera

Susan Lozier, Julia Kubanek, L. Beril Toktay, and Tim Lieuwen

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Jess Hunt-Ralston Director of Communications College of Sciences at Georgia Tech

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• 2024 Frontiers in Science: Climate Action - Program
• Georgia Tech's Climate Action Plan
• Sustainability Next: Georgia Tech’s Sustainability Plan

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