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Ross Brockwell, CE 99, is one of four crew members selected to embark on NASA's first one-year analog mission in a habitat to simulate living on Mars. During the ground-based mission, set to begin in June at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, the crew will live and work in a 3D-printed, 1,700-square-foot habitat.

Ph.D. student Junyue "Holden" Wang has been awarded the Gonter Research Paper Award from the Division of Environmental Chemistry of the American Chemical Society. This prestigious award is the highest honor given to students by the Division of Environmental Chemistry and recognizes exceptional research contributions in the field.

K. Harrison Brown Family Chair and Professor Rafael L. Bras has joined a group of distinguished artists, thinkers, and scientists as a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, an organization that dates to the early days of the United States.

Associate Professor Xing Xie, Ph.D. graduate Wensi Chen, and master's graduate Matthew Phillips have been honored with the Georgia Tech Chapter of Sigma Xi's 2023 Faculty and Student Research Awards. These awards recognize outstanding research accomplishments and contributions to the scientific community.

Georgia Tech's civil engineering and environmental engineering graduate programs were each ranked in the top five for the second year in a row, according to U.S. News and World Report's 2023-2024 list of the nation’s best engineering graduate schools.

A new study from Georgia Tech’s College of Engineering looks closer at using overhead cable line (OCL) technology to power trucks, evaluating if they are wise environmental and economical choices. For some countries, the team suggests OCL technology is ideal. But for other areas, it shouldn’t be implemented until the region’s electric grid is cleaner.

A tool developed by Georgia Tech researchers can help pinpoint the ideal locations for water level sensors to maximize the real-time data available to emergency managers to help anticipate flood risks and respond in emergencies.

Four faculty members have been recognized by students for their excellence in the classroom.

Georgia Tech’s executive vice president for research has recognized four College of Engineering faculty members and a spaceflight group for their outstanding contributions to the research enterprise.

Professors David Frost and Paul Mayne have been selected to deliver prestigious lectures at the Geo-Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers’ 2023 Geo-Congress, a gathering of the nation’s leading geotechnical engineering experts.

Postdoctoral researcher Ting Wang has received the 2023 Graduate Student Award in Environmental Chemistry by the Division of Environmental Chemistry of the American Chemical Society.

The Georgia Chapter of the American Concrete Institute has selected PhD student Connor Szeto to receive the $5,000 Robert H. Kuhlman Student Scholarship.

Professor Laurie Garrow has launched a new transportation center that focuses on modeling passenger demand for air travel.

This installment of the Faces of Research Q&A series is with Joe F. Bozeman III, assistant professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the School of Public Policy, and director of the Social Equity and Environmental Engineering Lab (SEEEL).

Georgia Tech has been selected to be part of three university transportation centers—prestigious, federally funded research consortiums that advance the future of transportation.

This year, 14 women occupy critical leadership roles guiding the College of Engineering and its eight schools and departments. Their positions span research, entrepreneurship, faculty development, and more.

The Steel Bridge Task Force, which consists of the American Iron and Steel Institute, the National Steel Bridge Alliance, and the American Association of State and Highway Transportation Officials T-14 Technical Committee for Structural Steel Design, have selected assistant professor Ryan Sherman as the recipient of the 2023 Robert J. Dexter Memorial Award Lecture.

Assistant Professor Jorge Macedo has received the 2023 Young Researcher Award from the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering's (ISSMGE) Technical Committee on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering.

The American Society of Civil Engineers has named Georgia Tech civil engineering student Lisa Wu to its 2023 class of New Faces of Civil Engineering: College Edition, which honors 10 of the brightest students from college campuses around the nation.

Professor Rafael Bras among those gathering data about landslides caused by hurricanes hitting the island in hopes of creating a national geohazards center.