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  <title><![CDATA[Students at the Intersection of Law, AI, and Justice Tackle Medical Debt Through Data]]></title>
  <body><![CDATA[<p>Eight students. Four Georgia Tech colleges. One semester-long project with an uncertain outcome. Led by Scheller College of Business Law and Ethics&nbsp;<a href="https://www.scheller.gatech.edu/directory/faculty/alexander/index.html">Professor Charlotte Alexander</a> students from across the Institute came together in the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.scheller.gatech.edu/centers-and-initiatives/law-data-design-lab/index.html">Law, Data, and Design Lab</a> to complete a <a href="https://vip.gatech.edu/">Vertically Integrated Project</a> during the 2025 Spring semester. One team project addressed a growing crisis affecting some of the nation’s most vulnerable: medical debt litigation.&nbsp;</p><p>Armed with a desire to do good in the world, and growing expertise in their current studies at the colleges of Business, Computing, Engineering, and Industrial and Systems Engineering, the students discovered how powerful interdisciplinary collaboration and cutting-edge technology can be in creating social change.</p><p>The Law, Data, and Design Lab is the brainchild of Alexander, who from a young age felt a call to serve her community. “I went to law school because I saw law as a tool to look beyond myself and contribute to the greater good,” said Alexander. “I see this as part of my purpose. Being at a public university, I take seriously the responsibility to ensure my research is outward facing, that it reaches beyond academia and helps make the world a better place.”</p><p><a href="https://www.scheller.gatech.edu/news/2025/law-ai-justice-medical-debt-data.html">Read More</a></p>]]></body>
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      <value><![CDATA[Georgia Tech students from four colleges collaborated in a semester-long Vertically Integrated Project in the Scheller College of Business Law, Data, and Design Lab.]]></value>
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            <title><![CDATA[Katherine Hughes, B.S. Business Administration ‘27, and Bratee Podder, B.S. Computer Science ‘25, at the Georgia Tech Undergraduate Research Symposium poster session]]></title>
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