Tag: institute for resilient infrastructure systems

  • UGA Honors Week: IRIS recognized with Team Impact Award

    UGA Honors Week: IRIS recognized with Team Impact Award

    This week, the University of Georgia is celebrating exceptional faculty, staff, alumni and students during Honors Week, a spring tradition to highlight excellence around campus. The Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems is honored to have been recognized with a Team Impact Award. Established by the UGA Research Foundation, these awards recognize exceptional, sustained research and creativity.  “The Institute for Resilient…

  • UGA’s 2026 Charter Lecture focuses on AI-human co-evolution and climate risks

    UGA’s 2026 Charter Lecture focuses on AI-human co-evolution and climate risks

    Regents’ Professors Elena Karahanna and J. Marshall Shepherd explore technological transformation and extreme weather impacts Two of the University of Georgia’s most distinguished scholars took the stage at the Chapel on March 25 to discuss the “mutual co-evolution” of humans and artificial intelligence and the rising risks of a more volatile global climate. Elena Karahanna and J. Marshall Shepherd, the…

  • Resilient Futures Podcast: The Gospel of Grass

    Resilient Futures Podcast: The Gospel of Grass

    Patrick Keyser knows the grass may not always be greener–but there’s still a lot to learn from it. Since long before European colonization, grasslands have a rich history as one of North America’s most diverse, resilient, and iconic landscapes. These ecosystems are the epicenters of agriculture in the US, but native grass species are disappearing as introduced plants take over…