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Career Fair at the Campus Recreation Center

The Georgia Tech Career Center offers a few tips for students attending the fair. Most importantly — mark your calendar for Sept. 8 – 9 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Campus Recreation Center.  

Azure Grant Award F2025

This successful initiative was made possible through the generous support of Microsoft, whose contribution of research resources has empowered Georgia Tech researchers to explore new frontiers in GenAI. 

W. Hong Yeo

Georgia Tech researcher W. Hong Yeo has received a $3 million NSF grant to lead a multidisciplinary team in training graduate students to develop sustainable, biocompatible medical devices that address environmental impacts, aiming to establish best practices in higher education for creating reliable and personalized healthcare solutions.

Photo by Clint Adair, Unsplash

Mao will use the $450,000 grant to develop new statistical techniques and models for extracting information hidden in networks, with applications spanning biology, economics, engineering, and beyond. The five-year award is NSF’s most prestigious funding for untenured assistant professors.

After instruction from the L’Atelier Gourmand chef, second-year Chemical Engineering major Juan Pablo Gonzalez-Villaseca and second-year Biomedical Engineering major Alexis Vladescu prepare a Basque-style wok chicken for their entrée.

Students explored the fusion of scientific inquiry and French cuisine in a newly created course offered through the Biomolecular Engineering, Science, and Technology (BEST) Study Abroad program in Lyon, France.

Georgia Tech Professor Emeritus Tom Morley created the original Distance Math program 20 years ago. Photo submitted by: Gregory Mayer

Long before distance learning was a global concept, Georgia Tech pioneered the Distance Math program for exceptional high school students. Now, in its 20th year, the program serves a record number of students. 

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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College of Sciences students, faculty, and staff are invited to our end-of-school year town hall.
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2026
EAS 1600 students maintain the Library, and it's open to everyone on Fridays from 3:30 - 4:30 pm when classes are in session. Come learn about houseplants and bring your own plant home!

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 Betsy Middleton and John Clark Sutherland Chair.