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Susan Lozier, Dean of the College of Sciences (Photo: Tamara Lackey)

Susan Lozier, dean and Betsy Middleton and John Clark Sutherland Chair of the College of Sciences, will serve a three-year term on the inaugural Climate Security Roundtable, a joint initiative across the U.S. Congress and the National Academies.

Tech Tower

A Topology and Geometry conference run completely by graduate students took place in April at GT.

Lizanne DeStefano - Executive Director, Georgia Tech Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing (CEISMC) CEISMC

Georgia Tech is among a collaborative team of institutions awarded a $5 million OpenCI grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to help support the Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem Services and Support (ACCESS) program.

Nick Hud lab DNA

With support from the Sloan Foundation, the team hopes to create novel chemical systems that harness the power of evolution.

Samer Naif, assistant professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, co-authors a Scripps Institution of Oceanography study showing streams of heated rocks called mantle plumes probably play a role in creating a slippery base for tectonic plates.

Savannah Coast

The rising sea levels along Georgia’s Savannah coast and an uptick in more severe storms during hurricane season are bellwethers to looming ecological challenges stemming from climate change.