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Air travel and COVID-19: An opportunity for lasting emissions reductions

by Lalith Polepeddi

By Guest Columnist LALITH POLEPEDDI, a research scientist at Georgia Tech’s Global Change Program

Efforts to curb the spread of COVID-19 have radically transformed travel patterns across the globe. Between April and September 2020, global air travel dropped by 58% compared to the same time period in 2019. In the US, air travel dropped by 79% in that same time period. The steepest reductions occurred in the US in April, when air travel fell by 95%, and globally in May, when air travel fell by 68%.

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Higher education amid a pandemic: Insights from a Georgia Tech master’s student

Quynh Pham by Quynh Pham

By QUYNH PHAM, master’s student of Architecture and City and Regional Planning at Georgia Tech

To say that the last several months have been distressingly surreal would be an understatement. For students, it began with an unusual end to the spring semester, one marked by sudden shifts to online learning, early prompts to move out of campus housing, virtual graduations, and understandably high levels of anxiety due to the uncertainties that laid ahead.

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COVID-19 makes ‘Think Globally, Act Locally’ more than a check-box exercise

by Jason Marshall

By Guest Columnists ANNA WESTERSTAHL STENPORT and SEBNEM OZKAN, of the Atlanta Global Studies Center at Georgia Institute of Technology

Universities and colleges, as local and global anchor institutions, are poised to educate the next generation of global citizens and empower metro Atlanta’s ‘new’ global agenda through the common international language of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.

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Addressing Atlanta’s health disparities through community service approaches

by Jason Marshall

By Guest Columnist JENNIFER S. SINGH, associate professor of sociology at Georgia Tech

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in Georgia, and in Atlanta it disproportionately affects black and low-income communities. To address heart health disparities, Georgia Tech college students are getting involved through a community service-learning program at Georgia Tech in collaboration with American Heart Association and Grove Park Foundation.

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Hackers could gridlock Atlanta, any other city by stranding connected vehicles: Georgia Tech

by David Pendered

The allure of self-driving cars and other connected vehicles just suffered another ding, this one in a report of Georgia Tech research into the traffic gridlock that could be created if hackers immobilized vehicles. Metro Atlanta is especially vulnerable because of the layout of the region’s road network researchers said.

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Georgia Tech Football Season Tickets Surge with Atlanta’s SalesLoft Digital Sales Platform

by SaportaReport

Photo above: Georgia Tech Campus. Photo provided by Metro Atlanta Chamber via the ATL Brand Box. Metro Atlanta’s sporting momentum surged forward in the first quarter of 2019 with the continued success of hometown teams and the city itself serving as host for Super Bowl LIII. Adding to the region’s success is the building excitement for Georgia […]

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