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Congratulations to our 2026 Impact Award winners!

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Congratulations to our Foley Scholar winners and finalists: Mansi Saini, Debbie Hsu, Mohit Chandra, Grace Barkhuff, and Cynthia Baseman (pictured left-to-right).

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Great turnout to celebrate IPaT's 15th anniversary and hear our 2026 Distinguished Alum Lecture given by Beth Mynatt, the former IPaT executive director!

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IPaT welcomes our new advisory board members:

Mohammed K. Ali, Donnie Beamer, Phil Breedlove, Alison Cernich, Robert Kinyanjui, Bruce McEvoy, Laura Moody, Kevin Perry, Jill Savitt, Barbara Smith

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Maribeth Gandy Coleman, director of research from Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) at Georgia Tech presented a keynote speech today at the Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Align & Engage 2026 event, at UGA.

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IPaT's Jill Gambill is a PI of this project with the UGA Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant, and she co-ran the UGA summer camp.
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Dominic Kao from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign gave a lunch talk about his avatar and virtual world research findings at yesterday's IPaT lunch lecture, followed by IPaT's lab manager Tim Trent giving a Trash Lab talk at the Tech Square Conversations event.

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Michael Best, Nakia Melecio, and Shelton Chan visited Hanoi to participate in the International Conference on Education Cooperation in the Digital Era and the Education and EdTech Exhibition. There were invited by the U.S. Embassy and Vietnamese Ministry of Education.

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Shelton Chan, Michael Best (IPaT) and Nakia Melecio (commercialization) recently participated in a Vietnam education tech cooperation conference with the chargé d'affaires, Courtney Beale, with the US Embassy.

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Some folks from Georgia Tech's Institute Relations unit visited IPaT's Trash Lab today for a demo! Thanks for visiting us.

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IPaT research scientists Scott Gilliland and Sterling Peet contributed to the build of this newly launched satellite. Gilliland is pictured in the foreground with his back showing. https://t.co/mkXwAZ2WNi

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Did you know IPaT research scientists work on space projects? Congrats to IPaT's Scott Gilliland and Sterling Peet who have been doing work in collaboration with one of the GT Aerospace labs on a joint cube satellite that just launched Oct 1 on Space X's Transporter-18 mission.

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Heidi J. Boisvert, chair of the School of Arts, Entertainment & Creative Technologies at Georgia Tech, gave a talk about how culture changes us at IPaT's lunch lecture series held at the Tech Square Clubhouse.

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A studio course IPaT's Noah Posner developed and teaches was recently profiled by Dezeen, an online architecture, interiors, and design magazine.

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Na Du, Assistant Professor, Department of Informatics and Networked Systems, University of Pittsburgh speaking at today's IPaT lunch lecture in the Tech Square Clubhouse. Her talk topic: Beyond Words: Building Shared Understanding through Bidirectional Human-Robot Communication.

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IPaT's new Trash Lab hosted WSB-TV yesterday. And the TV news segment airs today (Sept 17) at 4pm in Atlanta. Here's a preview:

https://t.co/WE166dWCgu

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Gregory Abowd, former dean of engineering at Northeastern (and former GT faculty member) giving a talk at the Tech Square Clubhouse, "Looking Backwards to Surge Forwards: What 40 years as a researcher has taught me."

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Emeritus Professor Jim Foley, who established IPaT's Foley Scholar Awards, has been named a Distinguished Educator by ACM SIGGRAPH. Georgia Tech established the James D. Foley Endowment in 2007 to honor his achievements.

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Georgia Tech Opens Trash Lab to Turn Campus Waste Into New Possibilities.

This new makerspace combines advanced recycling technology, hands-on learning, and sustainability innovation. Read more >>

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Undergraduate computer science student, Chayanat Tanjariyaporn, inserting different VR headsets into IPaT's display case.