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Lynn Kamerlin
The award honors Professor Kamerlin’s “outstanding promise and resilience,” recognizing her achievements and contributions to the field of molecular bioscience in the face of significant challenges.
Benjamin Freeman
Freeman is one of only 10 Early Career Fellows honored by the Ecological Society of America this year for advancing the knowledge and application of ecological science in a way that strengthens the field and benefits communities and ecosystems.
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Physicists have developed a new type of molecule that could offer a groundbreaking material for computer chips.
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The work suggests that a protein fragment thought to be foundational for all life needed help.
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In Spring 2025, 67 academic and research faculty members were promoted to the highest rank. We are honored to celebrate their accomplishments and contributions to the Georgia Tech community.
Andrew McShan
Andrew McShan has been awarded a $1.4M NSF CAREER grant to research lipids, and how they interact with proteins in the body.

Experts In The News

This week could be a jackpot for birders in Georgia, as an estimated 10 million will fly every night over the state. When they aren't flying, they'll be on the ground feasting. In an 11Alive interview, Benjamin Freeman, assistant professor in the School of Biological Sciences, discusses the “river of migrating birds” over Georgia skies:

"So most of these small birds, they're actually... flying at night. So when they're flying, they're spending so much energy they're heating up, so they like to fly when it's cool at night. And they're flying a couple thousand feet up. They're flying all night and then sometime in the morning they'll land and they'll spend the day looking for food. And then the next night, they'll often rise up again and keep flying north, so they're flying a couple 100 miles a night.”

Discover the full interview here.

11 Alive April 28, 2025

Biofilms have emergent properties: traits that appear only when a system of individual items interacts. It was this emergence that attracted School of Physics Associate Professor Peter Yunker to the microbial structures. Trained in soft matter physics — the study of materials that can be structurally altered — he is interested in understanding how the interactions between individual bacteria result in the higher-order structure of a biofilm

Recently, in his lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Yunker and his team created detailed topographical maps of the three-dimensional surface of a growing biofilm. These measurements allowed them to study how a biofilm’s shape emerges from millions of infinitesimal interactions among component bacteria and their environment. In 2024 in Nature Physics, they described the biophysical laws that control the complex aggregation of bacterial cells.

The work is important, Yunker said, not only because it can help explain the staggering diversity of one of the planet’s most common life forms, but also because it may evoke life’s first, hesitant steps toward multicellularity.

Quanta Magazine April 21, 2025

Upcoming Events

May
01 to 03
2025
Congratulations, graduates! The Spring 2025 Commencement ceremony schedule has been announced.
May
07
2025
This one-day workshop introduces Georgia Tech faculty to the cyberinfrastructure (CI) resources, technologies, and services available to support research and teaching—both at the institute and through national platforms.
May
07
2025
Join us for this live storytelling event, where individuals will share their personal experiences with brain implants and reveal the profound impact of this technology on their lives.
May
08
2025
Join fellow College of Sciences faculty, staff, students, and alumni for food, games, and fun.
May
08
2025
Join us for two special events celebrating women in STEM, a public lecture featuring Professor Laura Cadonati and a community celebration at a local brewery!

Spark: College of Sciences at Georgia Tech

Welcome — we're so glad you're here. Learn more about us in this video, narrated by Susan Lozier, College of Sciences Dean and Sutherland Chair.