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2022 BBISS Graduate Fellows
The second class of Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems (BBISS) Graduate Fellows has been selected. The BBISS Graduate Fellows Program provides graduate students with enhanced training in sustainability, team science, and leadership in addition to their usual programs of study.
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We spoke with the playwright of "Linear Algebra: The Musical" which opens this Friday night at Dramatech theater.
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The seventh cohort of Georgia Tech’s Emerging Leaders Program has been selected. Starting in Fall 2022 and continuing through Spring 2023, participants will take part in several leadership development activities, including a fall weekend workshop, monthly workshops, small-group work, and a 360-degree assessment.
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About half of cancer patients who receive chemotherapy are treated with drugs made from platinum-based compounds, which have demonstrated real success in improving cancer survival rates. However, there’s a downside: off-target side effects, neurotoxicity being among the more prevalent and significant. Now, a new grant from the NIH is helping Timothy Cope's lab identify the long-term effects from these drugs.
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Beam me up, Scotty! Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology offer a new method to disrupt spiral waves that uses less energy and that may be less painful than traditional defibrillation.
Feryal Özel, professor and chair of the School of Physics at Georgia Tech.
Astrophysicist Feryal Özel will chair the School of Physics, effective August 2022. The appointment will also bring Dimitrios Psaltis to the Georgia Tech Physics faculty. 
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Childhood psychological maltreatment is one of the most prevalent, yet under-addressed forms of childhood adverse events,” says Kimberly French, assistant professor in the School of Psychology. French leads a new study that traces the relationships between childhood trauma and work-family conflict in adulthood — and outlines several ways supervisors and policymakers can help.
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Having been accepted into the University of Chicago graduate program, one of the top programs in the world, we wanted to take one last opportunity to speak with Noah before he continues on his inspiring path. 
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In this article, the author briefly surveys some of Robin’s research achievements among his more than 100 papers, focusing on his most important work and results joint with his students and postdocs.
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Since 2017, the annual Quantitative Biosciences Hands-On Modeling Workshop has introduced students and faculty of all skill levels and backgrounds to the use of computational modeling in studying biological systems. This summer, attendees and organizers gathered for the workshop in person for the first time since 2019.
19 Faculty Members Completed the Inclusive STEM Teaching Fellows Institute
A collaboration between the Colleges of Computing, Engineering, and Sciences, along with the Center for Teaching and Learning and Institute Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion helps faculty members adopt and advance inclusive teaching practices.
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To create a stronger business and service model to support initiatives, investigators, and continued growth, the Institute is undertaking steps to structure and scale its research support functions.