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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. 

Danielle Skinner, graduate student and NASA FINESST Award winner, School of Physics

The collision of neutron stars during the formation of the early universe resulted in precious metals like gold and platinum soaring through the heavens. A School of Physics graduate student will get NASA funding to explore that heavy metal-making process through simulations. 

Laura Cadonati and Tamara Bogdanović to Lead Center for Relativistic Astrophysics

Please join the College of Sciences in welcoming the new leadership of Georgia Tech’s Center for Relativistic Astrophysics (CRA): School of Physics professor Laura Cadonati will serve as CRA Director, and is joined by associate professor Tamara Bogdanović, who will serve as CRA Associate Director.

Change in resilience

Reduced resilience of plant biomes in North America could be setting the stage for the kind of mass extinctions not seen since the retreat of glaciers and arrival of humans about 13,000 years ago, cautions a new study published August 20 in the journal Global Change Biology.