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When a patient is in heart failure, they are often hospitalized over and over again, with high mortality rates. But Georgia Tech professor Omer Inan is hoping to change that with an innovation that recently received FDA clearance. Called CardioTag, the device, which uses wearable sensors to measure physiological signals from the heart, is paired with start-up company CardioSense’s AI to change the way heart failure patients are monitored, which could reduce hospitalizations.

This summer, soccer fans from all over the world with converge on Atlanta for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. More than a few of these ultras will be looking to vicariously live out their childhood dream of representing their country on the pitch. But thanks to Georgia Tech, some lucky visitors can replicate the experience of being on a traveling amateur soccer team. Right down to sharing a bathroom.

Emory University, along with several other Atlanta universities, announced they would comply with President Donald Trump’s directives to higher-education institutions to end programs dedicated to DEI. According to students and faculty from two metro-area universities, the overall impact has been a systematic chipping away at the resources and programs that support students from minority groups on campus—which, for many of them, were a major draw to the university in the first place.

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The Georgia Tech Green is one of 14 stations that 280 members of the Georgia Tech Campus Cats club maintain, servicing about 50 community cats. With an app created by computer science students to record and share observations, they track the cats’ whereabouts and coordinate veterinary care and daily feedings.

Atlanta native Jonathan Fitch has managed his Type 1 diabetes for 15 years successfully, including during his time as an undergrad majoring in computer science at Georgia Tech—except for one fateful night. An all-nighter before finals stressed his body out a little too much, which made his body insulin resistant. He had a seizure and ended up in the emergency room. It was scary, but the incident sparked a business idea.

The researchers used insulin as a model because it’s a highly sought-after and expensive drug with lots of well-established analysis methods, but the application could potentially be much wider. “Our expectation is that this kind of pill is generally useful, and that a whole variety of different drugs, including GLP-1s, could be delivered using it,” says Mark Prausnitz, PhD, Regents Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Tech.

There’s a glow emanating from the windows of Georgia Institute of Technology’s Hinman Research Building, and it’s cast by a collection of unusual geometric lamps. If you’re there at the right time, you might catch Sam Thurman using a 3D printer to create one based on his custom design script. Such 3D printers are typically used for industrial prototypes, says Thurman, a student at Georgia Tech’s Master of Science in Urban Design program, who also holds a master’s degree in architecture from the school. “But a few people are pushing them into the realm of high-concept sculptural art the way I am.”

“The official MARTA app was pretty rough,” Chad Etzel says of the On the Go app. A former Apple engineer, Etzel found all the data he needed online and began tinkering with an app that would provide more accurate, user-friendly information about MARTA’s buses and trains. A few days later, he had his prototype, which he named Terminus.