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School of Physics Professor Ignacio Taboada has been awarded over $1.5 million in funding to build P-ONE’s sensor trigger system.

Ignacio Taboada has been awarded an NSF grant to build a sensor trigger system for the Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment — a powerful neutrino detector that will be built more than 2,600 meters under the surface of the Pacific Ocean, providing a new window into neutrino astrophysics.

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Researchers combine deep learning with advanced sequencing techniques to predict how antibodies interact with antigens.

New College of Sciences ARCS Scholars (from left to right): Alivia Eng, Marrissa Izykowicz, Zach Mobille, and John Pederson.

Highlighting their potential to make significant contributions to science and technology, four College of Sciences Ph.D. candidates have earned the prestigious Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation Scholar Award. The new scholars join three returning College of Sciences ARCS recipients.

D2B2 was created almost entirely by artificial intelligence.

The School of Psychology, led by Chair Tansu Celikel, has launched Deep Dive into Brain and Behavior (D2B2), an AI-generated podcast that distills the School's latest research in psychology and neuroscience into engaging, easy-to-understand episodes. Using Google's NotebookLM, the podcast aims to make complex scientific findings accessible to a wide audience, from students to experts, while maintaining accuracy through author reviews.

Smarticle Robots

Dana Randall, a professor in the School of Computer Science, and Jacob Calvert, a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Data Engineering and Science, have formulated a theory of rattling that answers these fundamental questions. 

Alexander Dunn (Credit: Caltech)

School of Mathematics Assistant Professor Alexander Dunn has been honored for his contributions to the field of mathematics, particularly his work solving the Kummer-Patterson Conjecture on the distribution of cubic Gauss sums. 

Experts In The News

In December, The Conversation hosted a webinar on AI’s revolutionary role in drug discovery and development. Science and technology editor Eric Smalley interviewed Jeffrey Skolnick, Regents' Professor and eminent scholar in computational systems biology at Georgia Institute of Technology, and Benjamin P. Brown, assistant professor of pharmacology at Vanderbilt University. Skolnick has developed AI-based approaches to predict protein structure and function that may help with drug discovery and finding off-label uses of existing drugs. Brown’s lab works on creating new computer models that make drug discovery faster and more reliable.

The Conversation April 7, 2026

While it often gets written off as being distracted or not paying attention, daydreaming is actually a sign of an active and imaginative mind. In fact, a 2017 study found that daydreamers are generally smarter than their focused peers. “People with efficient brains may have too much brain capacity to stop their minds from wandering,” said Eric Schumacher, the Georgia Tech psychology professor who co-authored the study.

People who daydream frequently have things running through their heads, whether they are thinking through ideas or picturing possible outcomes. Letting the mind wander allows unexpected connections to form. To an outside observer, they may seem checked out of reality. However, other highly intellectual people know that they're truly deeply engaged, just not with what's going on right in front of them.

Your Tango April 4, 2026

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