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Andrew Schilling

First-year biochemistry major Andrew Schilling wins quiz 5 of ScienceMatters Season 3.

Kim Cobb honored with 2020 Hans Oeschger Medal

Kim Cobb is one of 49 recipients of the 2020 awards and medals of the European Geoscience Union (EGU). A professor in the Georgia Tech School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS), Cobb will receive the 2020 Hans Oeschger Medal. The medal recognizes scientists “for their outstanding achievements in ice research and/or short-term climatic changes (past, present, future).”

Lewis Wheaton, associate professor, School of Biological Sciences

School of Biological Sciences Associate Professor Lewis Wheaton uses his Cognitive Motor Control Lab to research the neurological processes involved when people cope with the loss of a limb, a stroke, or a traumatic brain injury that can impact motor skills. 

 

Venkata Ramana Makkapati

Fourth-year aerospace engineering Ph.D. student Venkata Ramana Makkapati wins quiz 4 of ScienceMatters Season 3.

Sally Ng, associate professor, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

Since joining Georgia Tech in 2011, Sally Ng has built a formidable research team trying to learn more about aerosols, tiny particles that float in our atmosphere. Ng has already added considerable insight into what aerosols can do to the environment.

 

Winners of 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (Credit: Nobel Media)

The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “is a long-overdue recognition to three great scientists and to the electrochemistry research community.” That’s the reaction of Hailong Chen, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech to the announcement on Oct. 9. “They should’ve gotten the prize 10 years ago,” says Matthew McDowell, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering and materials science and engineering at Tech.