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Dean Raheem Beyah at Drew Charter School

 The Institute continues to expand access to Georgia residents.

FoR: M.G. Finn Image

This installment of the Faces of Research Q&A series is with M.G. Finn, who chairs the School of Chemistry & Biochemistry at Georgia Tech.

New Stamps President's Scholars include (from left to right) Mariah Castillo, Elizabeth Patterson, and Emmarose Stern.

Three second- and third-year undergraduates – including two students from the College of Sciences – were recently chosen as walk-on recipients of the Stamps President’s Scholarship.

Nebulizer

Messenger RNA, or mRNA, has been used to immunize millions of people in just the past few years. Among the most likely targets for future mRNA therapies are the lungs, given the large number of pulmonary diseases, such as the coronavirus, influenza, asthma, cystic fibrosis, and others. Now, a team of multi-disciplinary investigators from five universities, led by Georgia Tech faculty researchers, has provided a potential path toward that future.

From left: Adegboyega "Yomi" Oyelere, Madhavan Swaminathan, Zhong Lin Wang.

Three faculty from Georgia Tech have been chosen as 2022 National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellows, the highest professional distinction for academic inventors:  Adegboyega "Yomi" Oyelere of the College of Sciences, along with Madhavan Swaminathan and Zhong Lin Wang of the College of Engineering.

An aerial view of the restoration site in historic Maryville.

What started as a citizen science initiative led by a Georgia Tech alum has led to a $2.6 million National Fish and Wildlife Foundation effort to restore degraded salt marshes in historic Charleston. As part of the project, which is being spearheaded by the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, School of Biological Sciences Professor and Associate Chair of Research Joel Kostka will lead a team of researchers to monitor restoration efforts — and to better understand why the marsh died off in the first place.