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NIH-funded program to recruit thousands of participants to reveal impact of physical exercise at the molecular level

Andrea Welsh

Welsh reflects on her experiences in the College of Sciences and Georgia Tech Grad Pride, and shares how to support and be an ally to the LGBTQIA community.

Buzz and Victoria Pham celebrate Pridefest 2019!

Victoria shares how friendships and mentorship have supported her through her time at Georgia Tech.

Schematic illustration of molecular cooperation between proto-peptides and RNA that could have fostered their co-evolution.

An interdependence of biology leads to apparent paradoxes for the start of life: which came first, nucleic acids or proteins – the chicken or the egg? Moran Frenkel-Pinter shares exciting findings from a new study with the Nature Research Chemistry Community.

Neuroscience major Cristina Baker (left) and biochemistry major Michelle Schroeder have been selected to receive the Beckman Scholarship.

Neuroscience major Cristina Baker and biochemistry major Michelle Schroeder have been selected to receive the Beckman Scholarship, which provides top undergraduate students with research stipends, as well as funds for travel and research materials. Baker and Schroeder will be supported to conduct research from summer 2020 through to the end of summer 2021.

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport

NASA recently funded two new rapid-turnaround projects focused on Covid-19. Jennifer Kaiser at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and Elena Lind at Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg, are examining the pandemic’s impact on air quality related to reduced airport traffic. Joanna Joiner and Bryan Duncan at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, are creating maps and images that show how Covid-19 has reduced air pollution across the world.