College of Sciences

Rare earth elements are critical to technology, electronics, and rapidly evolving clean energy efforts. Equipped with a new NSF grant, Yuanzhi Tang is helping find and unlock these key minerals in Georgia kaolin deposits.

President Ángel Cabrera highlighted Georgia Tech’s record-breaking year.  

The Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems (BBISS) Graduate Fellows Program provides graduate students with enhanced training in sustainability, team science, and leadership in addition to their usual programs of study.

Shi provides her techniques for cultivating a positive and productive mentor-mentee connection. 

Alex Robel and Shi Joyce Sim have a new model for how water moves under glaciers. Their theory shows that up to twice the amount of subglacial water that was originally predicted might be draining into the ocean – potentially increasing glacial melt, sea level rise, and biological disturbances.

USG Regents' distinctions are given to those who make outstanding contributions to their respective institutions and may be granted for a period of three years to faculty members from Georgia Tech, Augusta University, Georgia State University, the University of Georgia, and, in special circumstances, other USG institutions.