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Georgia Tech Stamps Fellows Program announces Inaugural Cohort

Georgia Tech welcomed the inaugural cohort of eight Stamps Fellows at a campus reception on August 27, 2025. As the Institute’s premier merit-based doctoral fellowship, the program supports outstanding graduate students across diverse disciplines through funding, professional development, and mentorship opportunities.

 

ATP synthase is an enzyme that has been using phosphate to generate life’s energy for millions of years.

The questions of how humankind came to be, and whether we are alone in the universe, have captured imaginations for millennia. But to answer these questions, scientists must first understand life itself and how it could have arisen.

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Scientists at Georgia Tech have teamed up with researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine and Columbia University to better understand how certain types of air pollution increase the risk of developing dementia. 

Crawling Faster Goldman Juntao Publication

Juntao He, a Ph.D. student in the group of Daniel Goldman, Professor in the School of Physics at Georgia Tech led a pair of research papers that paves the way to make these bots able to move faster and climb higher in challenging environments.  

Jun Ueda for NSF News

Jun Ueda, Professor and ASME Fellow in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech, has been awarded approximately $700,000 by the National Science Foundation to establish methods to enhance cybersecurity for networked motion-control system. 

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A recently awarded $20 million NSF Nexus Supercomputer grant to Georgia Tech and partner institutes promises to bring incredible computing power to the CODA building. But what makes this supercomputer different and how will it impact research in labs on campus, across disciplinary units, and across institutions? 

Experts In The News

In a new study published in Geophysical Research Letters, Georgia Tech physical oceanographer Susan Lozier and researcher Yao Fu shed light on the shifting dynamics of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). Their findings, produced in collaboration with an international team of scientists, reveal shifts across surface and deep ocean currents, with implications for climate prediction and ocean heat transport. This research underscores the importance of sustained observational efforts in understanding long-term ocean variability.

Geophysical Research Letters September 27, 2025

We may never agree on what AGI or “humanlike” AI means, or what suffices to prove it. As AI advances, machines will still make mistakes, and people will point to these and say the AIs aren’t really intelligent. Anna Ivanova, an assistant professor in the School of Psychology at Georgia Tech, was on a panel recently, and the moderator asked about AGI timelines. “We had one person saying that it might never happen,” Ivanova told me, “and one person saying that it already happened.” So the term “AGI” may be convenient shorthand to express an aim—or a fear—but its practical use may be limited. In most cases, it should come with an asterisk, and a benchmark.

IEEE Spectrum September 22, 2025

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10
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