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Using a new philanthropic grant, Georgia Tech will hire software engineers to write scalable, reliable, and portable open-source software for scientific research.

One of two ships involved in collecting data for the study sailing in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. Photo credit: Tara Clemente.

Collectively responsible for roughly half of global carbon fixation, diverse groups of microbes coexist while relying on limited nutrients even as some microbes depend on energy from the sun to grow via photosynthesis. Precisely because microbes compete for scarce nutrients, how such a vast diversity of ocean microbes coexist has long puzzled scientists. Researchers from Georgia Tech, in collaboration with 13 other institutions, aimed to shed light on the subject as part of new work published in Nature Ecology and Evolution.

Enhanced Image by Gerald Eichstädt and Sean Doran (CC BY-NC-SA)/NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS

The same forces that create circular eddies of water in Earth's oceans are also producing giant atmospheric systems of vortices along Jupiter's poles, according to new research from an international team of scientists that includes Annalisa Bracco, professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. 

Cancer survivors rank disorders in gait, balance, and skilled movements among the most distressing, long-term consequences of chemotherapy. (Photo: CDC)

Cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy can experience severe side effects that persist long after treatments end. A new study led by Tim Cope and Nick Housley has found a novel pathway for understanding why these debilitating conditions happen — and why scientists should focus on "all of the possible neural processes that deliver sensory or motor problems to a patient’s brain" and not just those that occur away from the center of the body.

James Stringfellow

James Stringfellow, an employment specialist with experience helping Atlanta’s veterans and entertainment industry, will now assist College of Sciences students and instructors with career mapping, planning, and workforce issues.