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Dr. Abdallah testifies on U.S. competitiveness, research, STEM pipeline at Congressional hearing

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On Jan. 29, Chaouki Abdallah, Georgia Tech’s executive vice president for Research, testified before a U.S. House of Representatives committee about the cooperative United States research and development (R&D) enterprise, including the threat of falling behind other nations in critical technologies, investment in the nation’s institutions of higher education, and the future of the STEM talent pipeline.

Along with Abdallah, the hearing brought together expert testimony from representatives from federal and industry perspectives, including Diane Souvaine, chair of the National Science Board, and Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google and founder of Schmidt Futures.

In his testimony to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Abdallah stressed the importance of maintaining the U.S. position of leadership in R&D, and the importance of the collaboration between the federal government, higher education, and the private sector.

“The mission, alignment, and cooperation of these three actors have historically made the U.S. research landscape the most productive and admired in the world … and made the U.S. safer, healthier, and wealthier.”

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Georgia Tech’s Technology Square Phase III to include George Tower

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Momentum for Technology Square Phase III continues to grow with the naming of its second tower in honor of longtime supporters of Georgia Tech.  The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia approved the naming of George Tower at its meeting Feb. 11 in recognition of philanthropists William “Bill” and Penny George.

George Tower will be home to the nation’s No. 1-ranked H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, as well other programs.  George Tower will complement Scheller Tower, also planned on the site, to house the graduate and executive education programs of the Scheller College of Business.  Both new towers in Tech Square Phase III are expected to open by the end of 2022.

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Student surprises his teacher with Georgia Tech acceptance news

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Since the seventh grade, 17-year-old Max Pacheco has dreamed of attending Georgia Institute of Technology. On Jan. 18, Pacheco checked the school’s website and found out his dream was coming true — he had been accepted.

The South Forsyth High School senior wanted to thank and surprise his favorite teacher, Dr. Gloria Green, an AP Spanish teacher who wrote a letter of recommendation on his behalf.

Pacheco delivered the good news to Dr. Green along with a bouquet — and her response was priceless.

Continue reading at:  WSB TV

Georgia Tech Applied Research will support DHS information safeguarding effort

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) awarded a $704,000 research-and-development (R&D) contract to Atlanta-based Georgia Tech Applied Research Center (GTARC) to support trustmark framework efforts to aid the public safety community’s information sharing and safeguarding capabilities, DHS reported.  The GTARC R&D project will specifically address the lack of mature software tools to support the trustmark framework’s primary use-cases, such as emergency communications interoperability.  GTARC will upgrade the trustmark framework’s Federated Identity, Credential and Access Management (Federal ICAM) capability, in order to help advance public safety information sharing and safeguarding capabilities communications across agency boundaries.

Continue reading at:  SIGNAL magazine

$25 million project will advance DNA-based archival data storage

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The demand for archival data storage has been skyrocketing, and if a new research initiative reaches its goals, that need could be met by taking advantage of an efficient and robust information storage medium that has proven itself through the centuries: the biopolymer DNA.

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity’s (IARPA) Molecular Information Storage (MIST) program has awarded a multi-phase contract worth up to $25 million to develop scalable DNA-based molecular storage techniques.  The goal of the project, which will be led by the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), is to use DNA as the basis for deployable storage technologies that can eventually scale into the exabyte regime and beyond with reduced physical footprint, power and cost requirements relative to conventional storage technologies.

The technology already exists for storing and reading information into DNA — which also encodes the genetic blueprint for living organisms — but significant advances will be needed to make it commercially practical and cost competitive with established magnetic tape and optical disk memory.  While current archival storage has a limited lifetime, information stored in DNA could last for hundreds of years.

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Georgia Tech collaborates with IBM to develop software stacks for quantum computers

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The Georgia Institute of Technology has announced its agreement to join the IBM Q Hub at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to help advance the fundamental research and use of quantum computing in building software infrastructure and developing specialized error mitigation techniques.  Georgia Tech will have cloud access, via the Oak Ridge Hub, to the world’s largest fleet of universal quantum computing systems for commercial use case exploration and fundamental research.

“Access to IBM machines will allow Georgia Tech to build software infrastructure to make it easier to operate quantum machines, create specialized error mitigation techniques in software – thereby mitigating some of the hardware errors – and develop algorithms and applications for the emerging noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) computing paradigm,” said Moinuddin Qureshi, a professor in Georgia Tech’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.  “Access will also allow Georgia Tech researchers to better understand the error patterns in existing quantum computers, which can help with developing the architecture for future machines.”

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Georgia Tech’s 100,000th living engineering graduate

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A stroke of luck changed Oluwaferanmi Adeyemo’s entire life trajectory.

“My mother applied for the visa lottery system in Nigeria,” Adeyemo said.  “She’d done it on a whim and ended up winning.”

Known to friends and family as Feranmi, she says she was only 5 years old when her family packed up and moved to Illinois.

As a student in Chicago, she excelled in math and science.

“I particularly loved chemistry,” she said.

When it came time to apply to colleges, a teacher suggested that Adeyemo check out chemical engineering programs.

She applied to two top programs after an online search: MIT and Georgia Tech.  She ended up being accepted to Tech and has not looked back.

Continue reading at:  Georgia Tech News Center

President Cabrera’s First Week

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Since taking the helm as Tech’s 12th president, Ángel Cabrera has been a man on a mission.  His first day was filled with opportunities, both planned and unplanned, to meet members of the campus community and get to know Georgia Tech in a new way — not as a graduate or a parent, but as president.  In the days that followed, his efforts continued apace.  In addition to giving his first Institute Address, President Cabrera attended several campus events, including the football home opener, the opening of Tech’s newest mental health facility, and the ceremony honoring four young men who blazed a history-making trail at the Institute.

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Research, sponsored activity awards top $1 billion at Georgia Tech

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Research, economic development and other sponsored activities at Georgia Tech passed a significant milestone during the fiscal year that concluded on June 30, recording more than a billion dollars in new grants, contracts and other awards.  The record amount comes from federal government agencies, companies, private organizations, the state of Georgia and other sources.

The growth in new awards for sponsored activity allows Georgia Tech to take on complex and significant challenges involving multiple disciplines and collaborating organizations that bring together teams of researchers with a broad range of specialized expertise, noted Chaouki Abdallah, Georgia Tech’s executive vice present for research.

“Tackling society’s most pressing challenges requires multidisciplinary teams of scientists, engineers, business experts, policymakers and humanists, crosses multiple areas of specialization and often necessitates involvement from more than one research organization,” Abdallah said.  “This level of funding allows us to participate in and lead more complex, more important and more impactful research projects.  We are grateful to our research collaborators and to the state of Georgia for the confidence they have placed in us by providing these resources.”

Continue reading at:  Georgia Tech News Center

Georgia Tech’s economic impact on Atlanta clocks in at $3.3B in 2018

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The Georgia Institute of Technology’s impact on Atlanta’s economy grew 8.5% between 2017 and 2018, according to a new analysis released August 20.

All told, the Institute was responsible for more than $3.35 billion in direct and multiplied spending in fiscal year 2018.  That’s the highest of any University System of Georgia school, according to the Selig Center for Economic Growth at the University of Georgia.

Overall, the 26 public colleges and universities in Georgia created nearly $17.7 billion in economic activity for their communities.

“The annual state economic impact report highlights just how vital University System of Georgia institutions are to communities throughout the state through the multiplier effect,” said Georgia Tech President G.P. “Bud” Peterson.  “When you add in the impact of graduates in the community, the value is priceless.  In addition, Georgia Tech is honored to contribute through research collaborations, innovation neighborhoods and partnerships throughout the state, as well as through programs to strengthen Georgia’s STEM workforce.”

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