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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.

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.

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.

The first photosynthetic organisms, cyanobacteria, emerged billions of years ago, when Earth supported only anaerobic life and before life evolved mechanisms to cope with the toxic effects of reactive forms of oxygen. Abundant iron in ancient oceans exacerbated oxygen’s reactivity, making it an even stronger poison. So how did ancient cyanobacteria cope with the effects of the toxic by-product of their own metabolism?

The new STEM Teacher Leadership Program promotes computer science, computation, coding and software engineering skills. The program is a joint effort of Georgia Tech and Honeywell Hometown Solutions, the company’s corporate citizenship initiative.

Marc Weissburg, of the School of Biological Sciences, has been appointed Georgia Tech’s newest Brook Byers Professor. Yuanzhi Tang, of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, is one five newly appointed Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems Faculty Fellows.