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Steve Diggle

School of Biological Sciences professor one of 65 new fellows lauded for their “excellence, originality, service, and leadership in the microbial sciences.”

 

Loop Currents, Electrons, and Honeycombs

A group of physicists, including two Georgia Tech researchers, have discovered a new quantum state in trimer-honeycomb material. The transformation allows for a billion percent increase in the material’s conductivity and could lead to a new paradigm for quantum devices. The discovery builds on a previous study that first investigated the material, also known as Mn3Si2Te6, for its unusual and unique qualities.

Fungi growing on plants in a forest

An international, collaborative team of researchers shed light on how fungi and plant roots work together to gather nutrients — and how the diversity of plant species may impact the process.

Blair Dowling Sullivan

The School of Mathematics will host 800 mathematicians on campus for a theorem-filled weekend of sessions and lectures — including one from a College of Sciences alumna — at the AMS Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting.

 

Elisabetta Matsumoto with a scarf that represents cellular automata, a mathematical construct depicting a system's evolution over time. (Photo Elisabetta Matsumoto)

Elisabetta Matsumoto and Frances Rivera-Hernández have won funding and support from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA), continuing a long history of backing for leading-edge research honored by Cottrell Scholars and Scialog

Tech Tower

Under new program guidelines, Tech Promise will now assist qualified families whose annual estimated family income is $55,500 or less.

Experts In The News

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

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

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.