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Keith Oden

Keith Oden, longtime Director of Academic Diversity for the College of Sciences, will retire after serving and building the Georgia Tech community for 35 years. 

A magnified view of the "branchy structure" found in snowflake yeast (Image: Will Ratcliff)

Two Georgia Tech scientists are raising new questions about the development of specialized cells in early multicellular organisms. 

Divers preparing the autonomous benthic lander vehicle developed by Georgia Tech's Martial Taillefert during exploration of the Gulf of Mexico's "blue holes." (Photo Florida Atlantic University)

A former Georgia Tech researcher and current School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences professor continue their dives into "blue holes," underwater sinkholes that offer clues for ocean/coastal relationships, as well as the lasting impact of climate change. 

Dino Store game

Students working in the Digital Integrative Liberal Arts Center and Quantitative Biosciences Graduate Program created two video games as part of a major independent game design event to help stem the spread of Covid-19.

NSF Grant Awarded to Advance Recruitment of Underrepresented Minorities in STEM Ph.D. Pipeline

College of Engineering and College of Sciences leverage grant to drive diversity across all graduate programs. The project is known as Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) Research Universities Alliance Model: Advancing Minority Math, Physical Science, Environmental Science, and Engineering PhD Candidates and Postdoctoral Scholars to Faculty.

Molei Tao

Molei Tao's recent interest in machine learning has paid off for the School of Math researcher, as his first paper on the subject won top honors at the 23rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics.