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Austin Hope (PSY 2014), a people partner at Google, chats with students and alumni during the Students and Alumni Leadership Dinner.
College of Sciences graduates deliver career insights at the Students and Alumni Leadership Dinner.
Georgia Tech Researcher
The fellowships are awarded to outstanding graduate students pursuing STEM research and education.
Lewis Wheaton (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)
Professor Wheaton has been involved in the American Society of Neurorehabilitation (ASNR) for nearly two decades. His research interests initially drew him to ASNR; his belief in the organization’s mission led him to join its leadership team.
Leykin's work could lead to new discoveries and a deeper understanding of how celestial bodies like planets, moons, and asteroids interact. (Credit: Adobe Stock)
Leykin is among two Georgia Tech mathematicians to receive the prestigious award. The Fellowship will support one year of research, during which he aims to tackle a key celestial mechanics problem using nonlinear algebra and tropical geometry.
From left: Susan Lozier, Robert Wilson, Farzaneh Najafi, Hannah Choi, Dobromir Rahnev, and Jennifer Leavey.
The College of Sciences’ signature research event featured thought-provoking discussions at the intersection of neuroscience, cognition, and artificial intelligence.
Joel Kostka
The new center, announced by the College in December 2024, will drive research aimed at improving life across the state of Georgia.

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Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and India's National Center for Biological Sciences have found that yeast clusters, when grown beyond a certain size, spontaneously generate fluid flows powerful enough to ferry nutrients deep into their interior.

In the study, "Metabolically driven flows enable exponential growth in macroscopic multicellular yeast," published in Science Advances, the research team — which included Georgia Tech Ph.D. scholar Emma Bingham, Research Scientist G. Ozan Bozdag, Associate Professor William C. Ratcliff, and Associate Professor Peter Yunker — used experimental evolution to determine whether non-genetic physical processes can enable nutrient transport in multicellular yeast lacking evolved transport adaptations.

A similar story also appeared at The Hindu.

Phys.org June 24, 2025

Imagine your memories, way of thinking, and who you are being saved into a computer system. Not as a backup, but as a fully conscious version of yourself. Without a body, but with a mind. Sounds like science fiction? That’s exactly what mind uploading to a computer is. It’s an attempt to create a digital existence that can last forever.

In a virtual world where physics operates on different principles, a digital consciousness could eat virtual food, fly, travel to planets, or pass through walls. 

Limitations? Only those imposed by technology and the current state of knowledge. Associate Professor Dobromir Rahnev from the Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Psychology does not rule out this possibility.

“Theoretically, mind uploading is possible. However, we are currently very far from this goal,” he writes in The Conversation.

Holistic News June 22, 2025

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.