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Brian Hammer

Researchers experimenting with live zebrafish witnessed a 200% increase in the strength of intestinal contractions soon after the organisms were exposed to the cholera-causing bacterium Vibrio cholerae. The strong contractions led to expulsion of native gut bacteria.Researchers experimenting with live zebrafish witnessed a 200% increase in the strength of intestinal contractions soon after the organisms were exposed to the cholera-causing bacterium Vibrio cholerae. The strong contractions led to expulsion of native gut bacteria.

Christopher Stanzione

Chrisopher Stanzione is being recognized for his outstanding contributions as a non-tenure-track faculty to the education of undergraduate students.

Cobb & Toktay

Kim Cobb and Beril Toktay are being recognized for their groundbreaking accomplishments with the Internship and Co-op Carbon Reduction Challenge.

Troy Hilley

Troy Hilley, recipient of the 2018 Outstanding Achievement in Research Enterprise Enhancement Award, is the Academic and Research IT Support Engineer Lead for the School of Biological Sciences. The award recognizes staff members who consistently improve Georgia Tech’s research programs but are not traditional researchers themselves.

Laura Cadonati (Photo by Josh Meister)

Georgia Tech has selected Laura Cadonati to receive the 2018 Outstanding Faculty
Research Author Award. Georgia Tech presents the award to faculty who most contributed to highly impactful publications describing the results of research conducted at Georgia Tech and published during the period January 1, 2013, to December 31, 2017.

Butter Butter Butter

On March 14, 2018, Georgia Tech hosted 89 elementary through high school teams in the K-12 InVenture Prize tournament. The competition promotes student engagement with the engineering design process and empowers participants to pursue their innovative ideas. Competition winners will advance to the National Invention Convention & Entrepreneurship Expo (NICEE) later this year.