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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.
Victoria shares how friendships and mentorship have supported her through her time at Georgia Tech.
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 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.
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.
“The pandemic is devastating in many ways and levels but from the air quality perspective, the shutdown is a valuable experiment on how fewer emissions will affect the overall air quality,” said Nga Lee “Sally” Ng, associate professor at Georgia Tech’s School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and School of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences.
