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Researchers discuss ideas at the spring 2023 EHT workshop at Georgia Tech. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

Event Horizon Telescope Team Leverages Machine Learning for 'Optimizing Worldwide Astronomical Observations'

Event Horizon Telescope founding mbmers Feryal Özel and Dimitrios Psaltis are working with an international slate of researchers to leverage machine learning for more accurate weather forecasts near EHT’s 11 radio telescopes around the world.
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14 Finalists Announced Ahead of This Year's 3MT Competition

The campus community is invited to attend this year’s in-person 3MT Finals on Thursday, April 6, in the John Lewis Student Center.
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Founding Director of Integrated Cancer Research at Tech Publishes ‘A Patient’s Guide to Cancer: Understanding the Causes and Treatments of a Complex Disease’

Professor Emeritus John McDonald wrote the book for friends who were diagnosed and asked him about his unique perspective on the latest treatments.
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Rising Temperatures Alter ‘Missing Link’ of Microbial Processes, Putting Northern Peatlands at Risk

Georgia Tech researchers show that rising temperatures in northern regions may damage peatlands: critical ecosystems for storing carbon from the atmosphere — and could decouple vital processes in microbial support systems.
Jennifer Leavey working with bees on top of The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design.

Know Your Stingers

While Georgia Tech is of course home to yellow jackets, it’s also home to many other insects that are part of the complex ecosystem of campus.
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TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets May Harbor Life — But Disruptions Due to Gravity and Climate Could Turn One of Its Earth-size Planets Into a “Snowball”

Georgia Tech researchers from the School of Physics and Mathematics use complex math formulas and 3D climate modeling to study potential changes to TRAPPIST-1 exoplanets’ rotation and orbits
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Experts In The News

First evidence of ‘living towers’ made of worms discovered in nature

David Hu, professor in the Schools of Biological Sciences and Mechanical Engineering, drew on ant behavior in his commentary of a study that examined towering behavior in nematodes.

Ants, which assemble to form buoyant rafts to survive floodwaters, are among the few creatures known to team up like nematodes, said Hu.

“Ants are incredibly sacrificial for one another, and they do not generally fight within the colony,” Hu said. “That’s because of their genetics. They all come from the same queen, so they are like siblings.”

Notably, there has been a lot of interest in studying cooperative animal behaviors among the robotics community, Hu said. It’s possible that one day, he added, information about the complex sociality of creatures like nematodes could be used to inform how technology, such as computer servers or drone systems, communicates.

CNN June 5, 2025

These triplets who graduated from Georgia Tech with neuroscience degrees head to medical school

Three years after the Kashlan triplets graduated from Georgia Tech together at 18 years old with B.S. in Neuroscience degrees, they are now entering medical school.

Zane, Rommi and Adam Kashlan spoke with 11Alive on Friday, giving an update on what's next after sharing the graduation stage in high school as valedictorians and earning neuroscience degrees with minors in health and medical sciences in college. 

11 Alive May 31, 2025
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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 Sutherland Chair.