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BrandSafway was honored as the 2024 Internship Company of the Year. (From left): Susan Lozier, Karl Fessenden, Lauren Hester, Nadia Muhammad, Karen Riapos, Brenton Jones, and David Gaston.
The Student and Alumni Leadership Dinner provided a platform for students and alumni to network and share career insights. The event also honored BrandSafway with the inaugural Internship Employer of the Year award, highlighting the company's commitment to offering valuable learning experiences to interns.
Bernie Marcus honorary degree
Marcus was an honorary alumnus whose financial gifts have had a transformative impact at Georgia Tech and the Atlanta community.  
Molei Tao holding his College of Sciences Faculty Development Award during the 2022 Spring Sciences Celebration.
School of Mathematics Associate Professor Molei Tao has been honored for his work on the foundations of machine learning, particularly diffusion generative models. 
Students say the course, APPH 1040: Scientific Foundations of Health, has provided helpful tools to succeed in college.
The newly redesigned course, APPH 1040: Scientific Foundations of Health, expands the Institute’s First-Year Wellness Experience and provides students with practical wellness tools and strategies for college life and beyond.
School of Physics Professor Ignacio Taboda has been awarded over $1.5 million in funding to build P-ONE’s sensor trigger system.
Ignacio Taboada has been awarded an NSF grant to build a sensor trigger system for the Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment — a powerful neutrino detector that will be built more than 2,600 meters under the surface of the Pacific Ocean, providing a new window into neutrino astrophysics.
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Researchers combine deep learning with advanced sequencing techniques to predict how antibodies interact with antigens.
New College of Sciences ARCS Scholars (from left to right): Alivia Eng, Marrissa Izykowicz, Zach Mobille, and John Pederson.
Highlighting their potential to make significant contributions to science and technology, four College of Sciences Ph.D. candidates have earned the prestigious Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation Scholar Award. The new scholars join three returning College of Sciences ARCS recipients.
D2B2 was created almost entirely by artificial intelligence.
The School of Psychology, led by Chair Tansu Celikel, has launched Deep Dive into Brain and Behavior (D2B2), an AI-generated podcast that distills the School's latest research in psychology and neuroscience into engaging, easy-to-understand episodes. Using Google's NotebookLM, the podcast aims to make complex scientific findings accessible to a wide audience, from students to experts, while maintaining accuracy through author reviews.
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Dana Randall, a professor in the School of Computer Science, and Jacob Calvert, a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Data Engineering and Science, have formulated a theory of rattling that answers these fundamental questions. 
Alexander Dunn (Credit: Caltech)
School of Mathematics Assistant Professor Alexander Dunn has been honored for his contributions to the field of mathematics, particularly his work solving the Kummer-Patterson Conjecture on the distribution of cubic Gauss sums. 
Vespula maculifrons queen, gyne, and males.
A Georgia Tech professor and his team are cracking the code on the Institute's most recognizable social insect. 
A rufous-tailed jacamar (Photo by Benjamin Freeman)
Climate change has set in motion an “escalator to extinction” as mountain species move uphill to cooler elevations, occupy shrinking ranges, and then go extinct. The Freeman lab investigates why some species are riding this “escalator” — and how mountain biodiversity can persist in a warming world.