You walk out to your backyard and call after your pup — and nothing. Your four-legged best friend normally comes trotting back to the door, but not this time. You walk around and find a hole in the fence, and panic sets in. Sadly, this is a common occurrence. According to the American Humane Association, […]
After a four-month search across the country, Georgia Tech’s Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) has named a new director in John Avery. The serial entrepreneur most recently served as an engineering manager at the Panasonic Innovation Center, as well as a mentor at the ATDC. Before his six years with Panasonic, Avery had a long startup […]
The New York Times reported this week that, due to rising ocean temperatures, the Northern California coast experienced a sudden surge of purple urchins — a pest that devoured 93 percent of the coastline’s kelp forest. Similar urchin outbreaks are occurring all over the world, from California to Maine to Australia. Why does this matter? […]
In partnership with Your Ideas Are Terrible, Georgia Tech Athletics presents The Sports Innovation Challenge, a free 24-hour hackathon focused on innovation in sports and athletics. During the challenge, teams will build new products or services to fix an existing problem, all within a day. Participants will pitch their final projects to a panel of school […]
When you’re imagining an entrepreneur championing better technology for female contraception, recent Georgia Tech biomedical engineering grad Idicula Mathew might not immediately seem to fit the profile. But once you talk to Mathew, it’s clear why he’s focusing his medtech startup on improving female birth control — like any good entrepreneur, he found a pain point […]