College of Sciences

 

Welcome to the College of Sciences at Georgia Institute of Technology

The College of Sciences at Georgia Tech cultivates curiosity, encourages exploration, and fosters innovation to develop leaders and scientific solutions for a better world. Discover more.

Latest News

Claudia and Loren

Creative Destruction: Williams Lab Probes the Evolution of Proteins

Georgia Tech researchers apply an economics theory to study the building blocks of biological evolution
Atlanta Science Festival attendees engaged in a demonstration. Credit: Atlanta Science Festival.

Georgia Tech Students, Faculty, and Staff Bring STEAM to Atlanta During the Atlanta Science Festival

For STEAM enthusiasts across Atlanta, the month of March is a highlight of the year for one big reason: the Atlanta Science Festival. We spoke with some of the event organizers and presenters to get a sneak peek at what this year's festival will have to offer.
Hank Zapple, 7, demonstrates how flamingos stand on one leg at Zoo Atlanta during the Atlanta Science Festival. (Photo Renay San Miguel)

If We Could Walk Like The Animals: Scientists and Engineers Host Biomechanics Day at Zoo Atlanta

On Saturday, March 11, scientists and engineers shared their biomechanics work with snakes, elephants, monkeys, flamingos, and other wildlife as part of the "Animals in Motion: Biomechanics Day at Zoo Atlanta" during the 2023 Atlanta Science Festival.
IceFin maps the Ross Ice Shelf near Kamb Ice Stream. (Icefin/NASA PSTAR RISE UP/Schmidt/Quartini)

Robot Provides Unprecedented Views Below Antarctic Ice Shelf

The Icefin robot’s unprecedented look inside a crevasse, and observations revealing more than a century of geological processes beneath the ice shelf, are detailed in “Crevasse Refreezing and Signatures of Retreat Observed at Kamb Ice Stream Grounding Zone,” published March 2 in Nature Geoscience.
Celebrating the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDG) Action and Awareness Week

SDG Week Highlights Sustainable Development Goals

The campus community is invited to participate in a variety of events that increase awareness of and encourage actions that advance the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
DNA samples are loaded into the Sanger processing machine.

Sanger Sequencing Initiative Offers In-House Alternative For Sample Testing

News Center

Experts In The News

Angle of collision between galaxies affects the merger of supermassive black holes

Researchers have long known that when two galaxies approach each other and merge, the supermassive black holes at their centers form a pair and are eventually expected to merge as well.  It is precisely these mergers that are considered one of the sources of the gravitational-wave background — a faint “hum” of spacetime detected in recent years. However, the role played by the geometry of the collision in this process has remained an open question. 

Graduate student Sena Ghobadi of the Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Physics, along with her colleagues, has developed three-dimensional dynamic models of such collisions. 

A similar story appeared in Sky & Telescope. 

Universe Magazine April 28, 2026

Opinion: Why the Southeast is burning. Extreme drought is only part of the reason.

Zachary Handlos, senior academic professional in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, explains how weather patterns can lead to conditions conducive to the types of wildfires currently seen in Florida and Georgia. 

This piece also appeared in The Washington Post and The Conversation.

Atlanta Journal Constitution April 25, 2026
More Experts

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.