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Samantha Mascuch

In the spring and summer, an effort led by researchers across three Sciences schools created SARS-CoV-2 test kits that helped fill testing gaps across Georgia. Now, they're sharing that test kit recipe in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, which has selected the research as a September "Editor’s Pick".

Helheim Glacier, Greenland (Photo NASA)

Two researchers in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences win grants from the Heising-Simons Foundation to study just how fast ice sheets are melting, and how much sea levels are rising, due to climate change. 

Balloons

Please join the College of Sciences in congratulating seven faculty members sharing honors for their work in the 2019-2020 school year at Georgia Tech.

Air Purifiers in the Classroom

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), taking steps to ensure indoor ventilation systems are operating at peak performance as well as increasing the flow of outdoor air are key to maintaining a healthy and safe indoor environment.

Jennifer Glass in her lab at Georgia Tech. She is holding a stromatolitic ironstone full of iron that rusted out of early oceans. An eon ago, oceans appear to have been full of ferrous iron, which would have facilitated production of N2O (laughing gas).

American Society for Microbiology awards Jennifer Glass its 2021 ASM Alice C. Evans Award for Advancement of Women, which recognizes outstanding contributions toward the full participation and advancement of women in the microbial sciences.

Mohammadreza Nazemi, postdoctoral fellow, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry

A proposal for a Georgia Tech postdoc's version of ammonia electrosynthesis technology, which could lean to a cleaner, cheaper alternative fuel source, is getting $50,000 in funding to explore commercialization prospects.