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From top left clockwise: Asia Taylor, Diana Kim, Sean Alexander, Christopher Saetia, and Melanie Su (Photos by Yasmine Bassil)

We all know about the periodic table in some capacity. For scientists, it is a widely-accepted arrangement of chemical elements organized by trends and properties. For others, it’s mostly a colorful reminder of high school classrooms and chemistry textbooks. But have you ever considered trying to use the periodic table as an organizing principle? First-year students in Courtney Hoffman’s English 1102 course last summer did exactly that – create their own periodic tables. 

Off-the-shelf robot with four legs

To walk or run with finesse, roaches and robots coordinate leg movements via signals sent through centralized systems -- but utterly divergent ones. Despite their seemingly unbridgeable differences, researchers have devised handy principles and equations from studying roaches to assess how both beasts and bots locomote and to improve robotic gait.

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School of Mathematics Professor Haomin Zhou is a recipient of the 2019 Feng Kang Prize.

Buzz with a scavenger hunt playing card (Photo by Renay San Miguel)

“I wanted to be sure to point out that you have in your Convocation tradition bags a collection of Periodic Table scavenger-hunt cards provided by the College of Sciences to help you get out and explore the campus and meet new people this week. As you’ll learn, this is a very ‘Georgia Tech’ kind of game!” With those words of President G.P. “Bud” Peterson, addressed to the 3,100 new students at the Convocation on Aug. 18, 2019, the Georgia Tech Scavenger Hunt for the Chemical Elements commenced.

Journal of Proteome Research August 2019 Cover (Credit ACS Publications)

Work in the lab of Facundo Fernandez about detecting ovarian cancer in mice is highlighted on cover of the August 2019 issue of the Journal of Proteome Research.

Courtney Ferencik (left) and Erin Green

The College of Sciences welcomed two development professionals early this month. Courtney Ferencik is the new director of development, and Erin Green is the College’s first development associate. Both started in their new roles on August 1.