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Screenshot of the BET Black Girls Rock! 2017 webpage, featuring alumna Suzanne Shank and other winners, Issa Rae, Maxine Waters, Natalie and Derrica Wilson, Roberta Flack, and Yara Shahidi.

Alumna Shank honored at BET’s Black Girls Rock awards

15 August 2017

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Undergraduate Maggie Lindsey, left, with structural engineer Priyanka Singh in the main room of the Gaddi Baithak in Kathmandu, Nepal. Lindsey was an intern with Miyamoto International in the country during spring 2017, where she worked on a project to restore the 100-year-old palace. (Photo: Binod Shrestha)

Lindsey tells Global Atlanta her internship in Nepal showed her the power of earthquake engineering to improve lives, communities

11 August 2017

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Benjamin Hurwitz, Alexandra Muscalus, and Youngjun Son, the three civil and environmental engineering students who are part of the inaugural class of the ocean science and engineering Ph.D. program.

Ocean science and engineering Ph.D. program welcomes first class, including 3 in CEE

11 August 2017

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Social media flyer for Arcadis Global Shapers 2017 in Malaysia. Three people smiling at laptops and a photo of the Kuala Lumpur skyline.

Arcadis picks three young alumnae for its 2017 Global Shapers program

07 August 2017

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Ph.D. student Anna Skipper, who will spend several months doing research at the University of Cambridge this fall as a Crighton Fellow.

Skipper will spend fall at Cambridge as Crighton Fellow

03 August 2017

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Going with the Flow: On their entrepreneurial quest to make drinking water safe for all, two new Tech alumnae stand as testimony to the gumption and perseverance necessary to sustain a startup.

TruePani goes with the flow and adjusts approach in quest to make drinking water safe

01 August 2017

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Professor Spyros Pavlostathis, who is this year's recipient of the Fair Distinguished Engineering Educator Medal from the Water Environment Federation.

Pavlostathis awarded Fair Medal for his contributions to engineering education

31 July 2017

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Using an iPad and an augmented reality model like this, students and other future users of Georgia Tech's Living Building will be able to tour the facility long before it opens, offering input on some of the design decisions. A user shows how the model will work at the future site of the building. (Photo Courtesy: Kendeda Fund Living Building Chronicle)

Using augmented reality to crowdsource Tech’s Living Building

28 July 2017

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University of Oregon volcanologist Thomas Giachetti stands with an iceberg washed ashore by a landslide-generated tsunami in Greenland in June. (Photo: Hermann Fritz)

After recon trip, researchers say Greenland tsunami in June reached 300 feet high

21 July 2017

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Smart Cities graphic with a rendering of the city of Atlanta.

Smart Cities: Innovative approaches combining engineering, technology and the social sciences are boosting the urban IQ

21 July 2017

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Students in the Japan Program on Sustainable Development traveled all over Japan during the first week of the program and saw some iconic landmarks, like this "floating" torii gate on the island Miyajima. The group includes students from Georgia Tech, Tokyo Tech in Japan, and faculty members from Tech’s College of Engineering. (Photo: Alexandra Akosa)

Study abroad and sustainability in the world's largest city

20 July 2017

A global approach to sustainable development brings Georgia Tech students to Japan

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Professor of the Practice Rudy Bonaparte, who will deliver the 2018 Terzaghi Lecture at the ASCE Geo-Institute annual meeting. (Photo Courtesy: Geosyntec Consultants)

Meet the 2018 Terzaghi Lecturer: Rudy Bonaparte

17 July 2017

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Patricia Mokhtarian, the Susan G. and Christopher D. Pappas Professor. She has been invited to deliver the Deen Distinguished Lecture at the 2018 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting.

Transportation Research Board invites Mokhtarian to deliver 2018 Deen Distinguished Lecture

05 July 2017

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Global Atlanta website story featuring civil engineering alumna Guiomar Obregon.

Building her business and Colombian engineers’ capacity: Global Atlanta profiles alumna Guiomar Obregon

03 July 2017

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Claire Anderson rides a ferry to the Oslo fjords in Norway. The environmental engineering junior spent the spring semester studying at Lund University in nearby Sweden with support from the Joe S. Mundy Global Learning Endowment. (Photos Courtesy: Claire Anderson)

Anderson finds balance — in life and the environment — during semester in Sweden

29 June 2017

A Mundy scholar essay

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Ph.D. students Courtney Di Vittorio, Laura Mast and Xenia Wirth, the School's first Future Faculty Fellows.

New CEE Future Faculty program selects first three fellows

27 June 2017

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Assistant Professor Iris Tien, who will join 80 other exceptional young engineers at the National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering symposium. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

Tien invited to join nation’s brightest young engineers at 2017 Frontiers of Engineering symposium

23 June 2017

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Civil engineering senior Lin Htet Kyaw, who just won a scholarship from the Simpson Strong-Tie Company. (Photo Courtesy: Lin Htet Kyaw)

Kyaw wins Simpson Strong-Tie scholarship for structural engineering students

22 June 2017

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Students wait to meet with company representatives at the 2016 School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Career Expo. Among the firms that had success recruiting at the event were ARCADIS and Skanska, who were inaugural members of the School’s Corporate Affiliates Program and had prominent placement at the expo. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

Companies say affiliates program nets them recruits, interns, and deeper ties with CEE

19 June 2017

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Georgia Tech researchers Glaucio Paulino, left, and Jerry Qi hold 3-D printed objects that use tensegrity, a structural system of floating rods in compression and cables in continuous tension. They’ve developed a new way to create structures with “memory” that can expand dramatically when heated. (Photo: Rob Felt)

Researchers print objects that ‘remember’ their shape, allowing them to change dramatically when heated

14 June 2017

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