Georgia Institute of Technology College of Sciences

In its Summer 2018 issue, Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine featured six educators, one from each college. The cover story was called "Transcendent Teachers". What set these teachers apart wasn’t necessarily their supreme subject knowledge or keen reputation with their peers and school administrators. No, it was the so-called soft skills—their caring and kindness, their commitment to creativity, their need to fully engage their students in the learning process—that put them top of mind and the first to be recommended for the feature story. 

Jennifer Hom, Takamitsu Ito, and Scott Moffat are the 2018 recipients of Cullen-Peck fellowships. The awards recognize innovative research by faculty at the associate professor or advanced assistant professor level.

Getting parched can fuzz attentiveness and make it harder to solve problems. Dehydration can easily put a dent in those and other cognitive functions, a new metadata analysis of multiple studies shows. Researchers at Georgia Tech are particularly interested in possible ramifications for people who toil in the heat around heavy equipment or military hardware.

Christoph Fahrni, Chrissy Spencer, and Haomin Zhou stand out for their extraordinary commitment to the professional development of colleagues

Lizanne DeStefano, executive director of the Georgia Tech Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing, is one of 18 inaugural members of the STEM Education Advisory Panel of the National Science Foundation. The new panel will advise the interagency federal Committee on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.

An international team of scientists, including two researchers from Georgia Tech, has found the first evidence of a source of high-energy cosmic neutrinos, ghostly subatomic particles that can travel unhindered for billions of light years from the most extreme environments in the universe to Earth.

Mathematician Galina Livshyts has received an NSF CAREER award. She will use the grant to study convex bodies in high dimensions and support early-career researchers.

Named for the late Georgia Tech Professor of Mathematics Eric R. Immel, the award recognizes exemplary teaching in a foundational undergraduate course.