Universities are at times criticized for engaging in apparently useless research. explains why "not-yet-applied" research is so important, in his intro to Abraham Flexner's essay "The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge"
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#BlackHistoryMonth seems like a perfect opportunity to celebrate the contributions of some of our great Black to our city: news.gatech.edu/features/2023/ 💪🏾🐝 #WeCanDoThat
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The new office looks great! Loved touring it with fellow alumni and . Tech Square is really the place to be! 🐝
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Introducing the first hybrid bus to the Georgia Tech fleet!
The bus features regenerative braking, improved accessibility with low floor and ramp, upgraded GPS, automated passenger counters, and bike racks. 🚌#WeCanDoThat | c.gatech.edu/3Yk904M
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One step closer to breaking an awesome collegiate record! Kudos to the Yellow Jacket Space Program! 🚀🐝 #WeCanDoThat Watch this:
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It was the largest rocket ever launched by Georgia Tech @GTaerospace students. And it’s just the beginning of their aspirations …
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Thanks so much @SenOssoff for meeting with @gatechsga & @gtgradsga leaders today!
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This is what it's all about 🐝
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Eden tells us she’s known she wanted to come to Georgia Tech since the ninth grade. She was in her high school robotics class when she opened the email letting her know she’d been accepted here. 
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I will miss dearly, but I'm happy to know that she'll continue to make a difference in higher ed. She's been a transformative leader at and a fabulous colleague. Congrats to on a great catch!
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We’re so proud to see how our founders have grown after CREATE-X and to see them recognized for their work. Thank you, for sharing.
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Kudos to faculty colleagues and who were just named Fellows! acm.org/media-center/2 One is advancing computer memory systems. The other, advancing computer visualization! #WeCanDoThat 🐝💻
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Three great scientists of recognized by news.gatech.edu/news/2023/01/3 Congrats Drs. Usselman, , . Together they're expanding access to science, studying the origin of life, developing new semiconductors and optical devices #WeCanDoThat
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Faculty around the world are trying to figure out how to teach and test in the era... my colleague chimes in insidehighered.com/news/2023/01/3 via
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Using AI to rat AI out 🤔... next up, an AI tool to make AI-written text undetectable by the AI-detector...
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Political commentator talks science--the origin of the universe, big bang, redshift and the Webb space telescope--in this piece really worth adding to your weekend reading:
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I'll never forget my visit to . On this Holocaust Remembrance Day, I recommend its impressive online resources for learning, reflection and dialogue. Indeed, those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it
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We will miss Prof. Manu Platt dearly. I'm grateful for the transformative impact of his research and his work with students. I can't wait to see how much more he accomplishes in his new role!
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Our incredible team in Huntsville does amazing research to keep our soldiers safe (but they couldn't teach this old dog to fly a helicopter without crashing it within seconds!) 🚁🐝
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"It's at a level that we’ve probably never seen since the Industrial Revolution." In clean energy transition, Georgia is at the tip of the spear #gapol ajc.com/news/in-clean-
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This summer, is expanding undergraduate offerings to target a wider range of job and research opportunities with 3️⃣ new B.S. degrees in⬇️
🌊 Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences
🌱 Environmental Science
🌏 Solid Earth and Planetary Sciences
💫 b.gatech.edu/3XYpizQ
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Time and time again, students, graduates and employees of the Institute have proven themselves to be drivers of innovation and leaders of large-scale change.
Read more about the Tech alumni featured on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list – link in bio! #GTNique
📝: Emily Russell
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Granted, not the most comfortable cockpit, but this @gerogiatech student designed and built solar powered vehicle has gone thousands of miles without burning a drop of fuel! #WeCanDoThat 🌞🏎️🐝
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Congratulations to Professor Moin Qureshi for being named as both an ACM and IEEE fellow!
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These amazing student interns are supporting the state legislative session, learning and growing. Many will launch successful careers in government and policy or will run for office--like some photobombers in the pic! gov.gatech.edu/internships/ge
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Georgia Tech students successfully launched the largest liquid rocket built on campus. It’s the first step as these students continue their mission to construct and fly a rocket to the Karman Line, the official edge of outer space where Earth's atmosphere ends. #WeCanDoThat 🚀🐝
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We need to put less carbon in the air *and* recapture what we already have. My colleagues are inventing ways to do just that 🌎
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Direct air capture will be an important tool to help keep rising global temps below 2 degrees C. It’s an area @GeorgiaTech researchers have led since its infancy. How they’re pushing carbon-capture tech toward reality: b.gatech.edu/3ZK7yKm #climate
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Prof. Oyelere and students in his are designing drugs to improve cancer treatments and treat currently incurable cancers #ProgressAndService
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How do you reconnect the core of ’s campus with the growing Science Square and beyond? You ask students to design solutions! See what a combo class of & architecture students came up with: b.gatech.edu/3J5G6kw
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We're working to re-stitch our city together, building bridges to connect us--physically and figuratively. @gatechengineers + architecture students have amazing ideas to do that. Thx Charles, Isaac, Mark, Korawat, Shyam, Hana, Mason, Priyank, Jaiyong and Swetha!
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Thrusters not working as planned? No problem... reports on the Lunar Flashlight mission and the work by the team that operates the satellite to adapt and test a new approach jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-lun 🚀🐝🌑
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We're working to re-stitch our city together, building bridges to connect us--physically and figuratively. + architecture students have amazing ideas to do that. Thx Charles, Isaac, Mark, Korawat, Shyam, Hana, Mason, Priyank, Jaiyong and Swetha!
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Hana Herndon was finalist in a bridge design competition. Impressed by her work, she shares she graduated in civil at before starting her PhD. Then casually adds that she ran and had the school 5K record for some time! Amazing students #WeCanDoThat
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The climb continues! Georgia AGAIN moves up in university research $ - now ranks #8 in the U.S.gra.org/blog/218 #GoodforGeorgia
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Always informative, energizing, and fun to meet with our amazing student government leaders!
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In the headquarters of the legendary Atlanta company today, a full four-minute walk from my office, loving the refreshing hospitality of ! Thank you for all you do for and for our community!
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NEWS: Sen. , Public Service Commissioner , and today launched the Georgia Hydrogen Energy Braintrust to strengthen energy security and attract new economic investment to Georgia.
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