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Newswise: Student Evaluations Show Bias Against Female Professors
Released: 19-Sep-2022 12:05 PM EDT
Student Evaluations Show Bias Against Female Professors
Georgia Institute of Technology

Drawing on social role theory, researchers sought to understand the nature and causes of gender bias in student evaluations of teaching (SETs) by looking at student evaluations of faculty at two time periods in the semester. The study found that bias is driven by backlash against female faculty after the first exam grade is received.

Newswise: Researchers Map Rotating Spiral Waves in Live Human Hearts
Released: 7-Sep-2022 6:30 PM EDT
Researchers Map Rotating Spiral Waves in Live Human Hearts
Georgia Institute of Technology

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and clinicians at Emory University School of Medicine are bringing a new understanding to these complicated conditions with the first high-resolution visualizations of stable spiral waves in human ventricles.

   
Newswise:Video Embedded pettrack-lets-owners-know-exactly-where-their-dog-is
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Released: 30-Aug-2022 3:05 PM EDT
PetTrack Lets Owners Know Exactly Where Their Dog Is
Georgia Institute of Technology

PetTrack uses a combination of sensors to give the accurate, real-time indoor location of an animal.

Newswise: Physicists Uncover New Dynamical Framework for Turbulence
Released: 29-Aug-2022 4:45 PM EDT
Physicists Uncover New Dynamical Framework for Turbulence
Georgia Institute of Technology

Physicists at Georgia Tech have proven — numerically and experimentally — that turbulence in fluid flows can be understood and quantified with the help of a small set of special solutions that can be precomputed for a particular geometry, once and for all.

Newswise: Color Change in Space Materials May Help Measure Degradation Remotely
Released: 29-Aug-2022 8:05 AM EDT
Color Change in Space Materials May Help Measure Degradation Remotely
Georgia Institute of Technology

For the next six months, a camera system on the exterior of the International Space Station (ISS) will be snapping photos of more than a dozen different material samples, gathering detailed information that will help researchers determine how – and why – the harsh conditions of space affect these materials.

Newswise: New Chip Could Make Treating Metastatic Cancer Easier and Faster
Released: 15-Aug-2022 2:55 PM EDT
New Chip Could Make Treating Metastatic Cancer Easier and Faster
Georgia Institute of Technology

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have found a detection method that could revolutionize cancer treatment by showing how cancers metastasize and what stage they are.

   
Newswise: Robotic motion in curved space defies standard laws of physics
Released: 9-Aug-2022 2:05 PM EDT
Robotic motion in curved space defies standard laws of physics
Georgia Institute of Technology

When bodies exist in curved spaces, it turns out that they can in fact move without pushing against something.

Newswise: 3D Study of “Gigantic Jet” Provides New Insights into Upward Lightning Bursts
2-Aug-2022 4:20 PM EDT
3D Study of “Gigantic Jet” Provides New Insights into Upward Lightning Bursts
Georgia Institute of Technology

A detailed 3D study of a massive electrical discharge that rose 50 miles into space above an Oklahoma thunderstorm has provided new information about an elusive atmospheric phenomenon known as gigantic jets.

Newswise: A New Framework for Investigating Stability During Walking
Released: 31-Jul-2022 12:05 PM EDT
A New Framework for Investigating Stability During Walking
Georgia Institute of Technology

By creating a new framework for using mechanical energetics as a measurement for stability, Georgia Tech researchers have gained deeper insights into how and why we fall.

Newswise: The Elephant Trunk's Overlooked Tool: Its Skin
Released: 18-Jul-2022 11:05 PM EDT
The Elephant Trunk's Overlooked Tool: Its Skin
Georgia Institute of Technology

A new study from the Georgia Institute of Technology suggests that an elephant’s muscles aren’t the only way it stretches its trunk — its folded skin also plays an important role. The combination of muscle and skin gives the animal the versatility to grab fragile vegetation and rip apart tree trunks.

Newswise:Video Embedded tiny-limbs-and-long-bodies-coordinating-lizard-locomotion
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Released: 27-Jun-2022 4:00 PM EDT
Tiny Limbs and Long Bodies: Coordinating Lizard Locomotion
Georgia Institute of Technology

Using biological experiments, robot models, and a geometric theory of locomotion, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology investigated how and why intermediate lizard species, with their elongated bodies and short limbs, might use their bodies to move. They uncovered the existence of a previously unknown spectrum of body movements in lizards, revealing a continuum of locomotion dynamics between lizardlike and snakelike movements.

Newswise: Spiral Wave Teleportation Theory Offers New Path to Defibrillate Hearts, Terminate Arrhythmias
Released: 27-Jun-2022 8:05 AM EDT
Spiral Wave Teleportation Theory Offers New Path to Defibrillate Hearts, Terminate Arrhythmias
Georgia Institute of Technology

Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology offer a new method to disrupt spiral waves that uses less energy and that may be less painful than traditional defibrillation.

   
Newswise: Flawed AI Makes Robots Racist, Sexist
Released: 27-Jun-2022 8:05 AM EDT
Flawed AI Makes Robots Racist, Sexist
Georgia Institute of Technology

The work, led by Johns Hopkins University, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and University of Washington researchers, is believed to be the first to show that robots loaded with an accepted and widely used model operate with significant gender and racial biases. The work is set to be presented and published this week at the 2022 Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency.

Newswise: Georgia Tech Researcher Finds that Military Cannot Rely on AI for Strategy or Judgment
Released: 14-Jun-2022 4:25 PM EDT
Georgia Tech Researcher Finds that Military Cannot Rely on AI for Strategy or Judgment
Georgia Institute of Technology

Although AI can automate everything from commerce to transit, judgment is where humans must intervene, Lindsay and University of Toronto Professor Avi Goldfarb wrote in the paper, “Prediction and Judgment: Why Artificial Intelligence Increases the Importance of Humans in War,” published in International Security.

   
Newswise: Introducing GTGraffiti: The Robot That Paints Like a Human
Released: 9-Jun-2022 5:00 PM EDT
Introducing GTGraffiti: The Robot That Paints Like a Human
Georgia Institute of Technology

Graduate students at the Georgia Institute of Technology have built the first graffiti-painting robot system that mimics the fluidity of human movement. Aptly named GTGraffiti, the system uses motion capture technology to record human painting motions and then composes and processes the gestures to program a cable-driven robot that spray paints graffiti artwork.

Newswise: New Study Shows Hybrid Learning Led to Significant Reduction in Covid-19 Spread
Released: 28-Apr-2022 4:50 PM EDT
New Study Shows Hybrid Learning Led to Significant Reduction in Covid-19 Spread
Georgia Institute of Technology

A new study published in BMC Public Health shows that hybrid learning utilizing alternating school days for children offers a significant reduction in community disease spread. Total closure in favor of remote learning, however, offers little additional advantage over that hybrid option.

     
Newswise: Virtual Reality Could be the Answer to Worker Shortages at Poultry Plants
Released: 27-Apr-2022 8:05 PM EDT
Virtual Reality Could be the Answer to Worker Shortages at Poultry Plants
Georgia Institute of Technology

The Georgia Tech Research Institute's (GTRI) Agricultural Technology Research Program (ATRP) is incorporating automation solutions, specifically virtual reality (VR), into poultry processing to boost efficiency and enhance worker safety.

Newswise: Terahertz Imaging Reveals Hidden Inscription on Early Modern Funerary Cross
Released: 25-Apr-2022 4:50 PM EDT
Terahertz Imaging Reveals Hidden Inscription on Early Modern Funerary Cross
Georgia Institute of Technology

Using terahertz imaging and signal processing techniques to look beneath the corroded surface of a 16th-century lead funerary cross, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Georgia Tech-Lorraine revealed an inscription of the Lord's Prayer.

Newswise: Quantum, Classical Computing Combine to Tackle Tough Optimization Problems
Released: 25-Apr-2022 4:05 PM EDT
Quantum, Classical Computing Combine to Tackle Tough Optimization Problems
Georgia Institute of Technology

A research team led by the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) was recently selected for second-phase funding of a $9.2 million project aimed at demonstrating a hybrid computing system that will combine the advantages of classical computing with those of quantum computing to tackle some of the world’s most difficult optimization problems.

Newswise: School of Physics Uses Moths and Origami Structures for Innovative Defense Research
Released: 21-Apr-2022 5:05 PM EDT
School of Physics Uses Moths and Origami Structures for Innovative Defense Research
Georgia Institute of Technology

Georgia Tech has received two Department of Defense (DoD) 2022 Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) awards totaling almost $14 million. The highly competitive government program supports interdisciplinary teams of investigators developing innovative solutions in DoD interest areas. This year, the DoD awarded $195 million to 28 research teams across the country.



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