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News Articles: Georgia Tech

A pedestrian walks through the Georgia Tech campus as the downtown Atlanta skyline looms in the background, March 11, 2016.

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Georgia Tech commencement speaker pledges to cover startup incorporation costs for graduates

Georgia Tech's commencement speaker promised to cover incorporation costs for any graduate launching a startup. Tech entrepreneur Christopher Klaus spoke to graduates at the Friday commencement.

May 05, 2025
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  • Associated Press
Georgia State University's School of Public Health hosted it's third Public Health Research Day on April 17, 2025.

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  • Health

Research at Georgia universities has already taken a hit. What could be lost?

Institutions across the spectrum for research expenditures are scaling back and reassessing to prepare for cuts by the federal government.

April 28, 2025
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  • Sofi Gratas
Some universities are using AI to help read student names at graduation ceremonies. Image by Midjourney AI

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Georgia colleges restrict use of AI for classwork. Some will use it to call names at graduation

Young adults across Georgia will soon be passing that major milestone: walking across the stage, taking their diplomas in hand and basking in the applause after their names are read.

April 14, 2025
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  • Ross Williams
Hong Yeo holds a pacifier that can monitor electrolyte levels via saliva

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  • Children's Health

New high-tech pacifier monitors NICU babies' electrolytes, preventing multiple daily blood draws

Currently, the only way to monitor electrolytes is to draw blood multiple times a day, which can be painful and frightening for babies as well as challenging to perform for medical staff, who can have trouble drawing blood from tiny, underdeveloped blood vessels.

March 18, 2025
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  • Ellen Eldridge
Berry College and Georgia Tech University students pictured for WNET’s Preserving Democracy social media campaign, in which GPB, as a partner, asked students what democracy meant to them. Ambria Burton & Allexa Ceballos/GPB News

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Preserving Democracy: GPB asks college students about voting plans and democracy

In partnership with WNET for the nonpartisan Preserving Democracy project's "Ready to Vote" social media campaign, Georgia Public Broadcasting interviewed students from Berry College in Rome, Ga., and Georgia Tech in Atlanta about their plans to vote and their thoughts on democracy ahead of the election.

November 01, 2024
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  • Ambria Burton
Former President Donald Trump returned to Georgia Monday evening to pitch his candidacy to voters again ahead of the election. 

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Trump engages students in rally at Georgia Tech

Former President Donald Trump returned to Georgia on Monday evening to pitch his candidacy to voters again ahead of the election. 

 

October 29, 2024
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  • Sarah Kallis
Students watch debate

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In Georgia Tech watch event, students say VP debate was 'civil'

As Sen. JD Vance and Gov. Tim Walz debated policy during Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate, college students across Georgia held watch parties.

October 02, 2024
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  • Sarah Kallis
View from a Home Depot parking lot as smoke billows from a fire at the BioLab facility in Conyers, Ga., Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024.

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  • Health

Some Georgians asked to stay inside during daylight hours until chlorine plume passes

The Georgia Emergency Management Agency is warning that winds could shift and people in much of Atlanta could still see haze and smell chlorine by Thursday morning. The poor air quality effects come from a chemical reaction Sunday at BioLab, a pool supply manufacturing plant in Conyers.

October 02, 2024
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  • Ellen Eldridge
Waffle House CEO Walter Ehmer. Georgia Tech/X

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Waffle House CEO Walter Ehmer dies at 58

Waffle House CEO Walter Ehmer died Saturday at age 58 after a battle with cancer.

September 09, 2024
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  • Collin Kelley
Justice, center, points to a number on the board game in front of her.

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  • Children's Health

Georgia Tech’s 3D printer helps a Georgia girl breathe on her own

A team of Georgia Tech engineers developed a custom 3-D printed splint to support a newborn's airway, like an internal cast that dissolves as the trachea strengthens. Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta is one of only five hospitals in the nation offering this surgery.

August 29, 2024
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  • Ellen Eldridge
a close-up view of an airway support device that was created with a 3D printer

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  • Children's Health

Doctors in Atlanta use 3D-printed devices to help infants with airway disease breathe on their own

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta is one of a handful of places in the United States where 3D-printing technology is used to help patients on ventilators. And Georgia Tech is the only location capable of custom-printing it.

July 08, 2024
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  • Ellen Eldridge
The Ramblin’ Reck Garage (Photo by Garey Gomez)

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  • News

Perspectives in Architecture: Georgia Tech’s Ramblin’ Reck showcased in net-zero garage

The journey to create a permanent home for the Ramblin’ Reck has been paved with unwavering Georgia Tech spirit for over 100 years. Students first gave the Ramblin’ Reck moniker to the Ford Model T, Ford Model A, and Ford V8 cars driven by Georgia Tech Dean Floyd “Bob Cat” Field on campus and with trips during his tenure from 1900-1945.

July 08, 2024
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  • Melody Harclerode
Homer Rice of Georgia Tech

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Former longtime Georgia Tech athletic director and NFL coach Homer Rice dies at 97

Homer Rice, who as athletic director hired some of Georgia Tech's most successful coaches and implemented the school's Total Person Program, has died. He was 97. Rice died Monday, Georgia Tech announced on Monday night.

June 11, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Georgia Tech mascot Buzz intereacts with momo one of the many cats taken care of by the Campus Cats organization.

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  • Animals

Making a 'paw'-sitive impact: Student group at Georgia Tech cares for stray cats on campus

Students at the Georgia Institute of Technology have brought back a student organization that takes care of the university’s population of stray cats.

June 06, 2024
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  • Amanda Andrews
Deanna Yancey poses with a statue of her grandfather, Ronal Yancey, who became the first Black graduate of the university in 1965. Deanna earned her master's degree from Georgia Tech in May 2024.

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  • Education

He was Georgia Tech's first Black graduate in 1965. Now his granddaughter is a fellow alum

Graduation season is in full effect and Georgia Institute of Technology's grads are no exception. But one graduate, Deanna Yancey, who just earned her master's degree in electrical and computer engineering, had a very special person present her with her degree: her grandfather, Ronald Yancey, who broke barriers to become Georgia Tech's first Black graduate in 1965.

May 13, 2024
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  • Pamela Kirkland
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