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Will Gutekunst in his lab

Will Gutekunst, associate professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Georgia Tech, co-leads the interface of polymer science and wood-based materials initiative along with Blair Brettmann at the Renewable Bioproducts Institute (RBI). 

Below is a brief Q&A with Gutekunst where he discusses his research focus areas and how they influence the interface of polymer science and wood-based materials initiative at Georgia Tech.

Incoming Explore students and their new home for the 2024-2025 school year: Eighth Street West Apartments provides two-, four-, and six-bedroom two-bath residences with a shared living room and kitchen.

In a break from tradition, Explore students will live and learn in apartment-style dorms during the 2024-2025 school year. The Eighth Street West address will be new, but Explore’s mission to provide a science-focused hub where students thrive through academic support, career exploration, and engaging social activities remains unchanged.

Georgia Tech Alumni Association's 2024 Class of 40 Under 40

Four College of Sciences alumni have been selected as members of the 2024 class of 40 under 40. 

Chemistry Ph.D. student Isabel Berry

Berry, a Chemistry Ph.D. student, is one of 40 students in the U.S. to receive the Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship awarded to emerging leaders in computational science. She is the sole student from Georgia Tech to earn the distinction this year.

A view of Tech Tower from Crosland Tower. Photo: Georgia Tech

Nine early-career professors will pursue cutting-edge climate mitigation research during the upcoming year as part of the initiative.

Neural networks do the opposite, making the same decisions each time. Now, Georgia Tech researchers in Associate Professor Dobromir Rahnev’s lab are training them to make decisions more like humans. This science of human decision-making is only just being applied to machine learning, but developing a neural network even closer to the actual human brain may make it more reliable, according to the researchers.

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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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.