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Georgia Tech Experts Weigh In on Massive Turkey-Syria Earthquake
The death toll is believed to have topped more than 30,000  after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake devastated south-central Turkey and northwestern Syria. The disaster zone is home to more than 13 million people in Turkey and an unknown number in a region of Syria torn by civil war. It’s an area that stretches beyond the distance from Atlanta to Kentucky.
A screenshot from a Nils Berglund video of a Bunimovich stadium in action. (Courtesy Nils Berglund)
Georgia Tech mathematician Leonid Bunimovich’s eponymous innovations bring fame within his discipline as he visualizes dynamical systems — with an ultimate goal of predicting and finding probabilities within unknown evolution, and helping mathematicians and physicists with the ‘vision of chaotic dynamics’.  
Vice President Kamala Harris
With the Ferst Center filled to the brim Wednesday, Georgia Tech hosted Vice President Kamala Harris for a discussion about the climate crisis, which she called a transformational moment in America.
A school of planktivorous fish sheltering around a coral on a reef in the Solomon Islands in the Coral Triangle. Photo by Mark Hay
In the face of climate change, Annalisa Bracco, professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Institute of Technology, and Lyuba Novi, a postdoctoral researcher, offer a new methodology that could revolutionize how conservationists monitor coral. 
Association for Psychological Science Rising Stars
The Association for Psychological Science (APS) recognizes French in its annual list of impactful early career researchers around the world.  
Spruce-fir boreal forest in western North Carolina
Plants, like animals and people, seek refuge from climate change. And when they move, they take entire ecosystems with them. To understand why and how plants have trekked across landscapes throughout time, researchers at the forefront of conservation are calling for a new framework. The key to protecting biodiversity in the future may be through understanding the past.
Lauren Hester, undergraduate student in the School of Psychology
Atlanta history is ripe with achievements from the Black community, and history continues to be made here today. Great work is being done on campus, across Atlanta, and beyond by Georgia Tech students, faculty, staff, and alumni who are working across different industries to help bring about change to improve the human condition. Atlanta Change-Makers introduces you to a few of the people whose aspirations and actions are making a difference — for today, and for a brighter future.  
Atlanta Science Festival Demo 2022
On Saturday, March 11, Georgia Tech will open its doors to the community for Science and Engineering Day at Georgia Tech.
The moon
Public Nights begin at the Georgia Tech Observatory.
AAAS Fellows 2022
Recognized among the nation’s most distinguished leaders, three Georgia Tech professors have been selected as fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of Science for 2022. 
The Law, Science, and Technology Program has a new information portal for students interested in legal careers.
The portal provides information on how to apply for law school.
Students received admission decisions in Early Action 2.
Another record-breaking number of applicants, with increased applications for all six of Georgia Tech’s Colleges.