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Mount Agung

The Alumni Magazine thought it would be a blast to talk to Dufek about his work at Tech and find out if we’re all inevitably doomed to die under mounds of volcanic ash and lava.

GA Tech Tower

The College of Sciences applauds faculty members who earned promotions and/or tenure in 2017-18.

School of Mathematics Professor Molei Tao, School of Physics Asst. Professor Gongjie Li, and Stephen Hawking at the California Institute of Technology in April 2007 (Courtesy of Gongjie Li)

Stephen Hawking's death on March 14 – Albert Einstein's birthday – brought an end to the legendary career of the world-reknowned physicist and cosmologist. Hawking's groundbreaking work on black holes inspired several College of Sciences researchers in their own studies about the nature of the universe.

Recording Earthquakes

Many of us grew up thinking of California as the epicenter of most earthquake activity in the United States. (It’s really Alaska.) But today, in the contiguous U.S., most of the major tremors—magnitude 3 or higher—actually occur in Oklahoma. And these tremors don’t appear to come from wholly natural causes.

ComSciCon-Atlanta Attendees (from left) Justin Lanier, Audra Davidson, and Justin Lawrence (Photo by Maureen Rouhi)

Three graduate students from College of Sciences attended the inaugural Communicating Science Conference—Atlanta (ComSciCon-Atlanta), held on March 1-2, 2018, at Georgia Tech. Like the 46 other participants, they wanted to improve how to talk to nonscientists about their research.

Liang Han

Itch receptors in the throats of mice appear to contribute to bronchoconstriction and airway hypersensitivity, which are hallmarks of asthma and other respiratory disorders.