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The NSF/NCAR Gulfstream V aircraft outside its hangar in Broomfield, Colorado. The research aircraft is being deployed to Korea as part of the ACCLIP campaign. (Photo: NASA/NCAR)
The Asian Summer Monsoon Chemical and CLimate Impact Project (ACCLIP) will allow a team of international scientists to study how the Asian summer monsoon — one of the largest and most important meteorological patterns in the world — affects atmospheric chemistry and global climate.
Ruth Kanfer
School of Psychology Professor Ruth Kanfer has a book, a highly cited paper, and a new project to study artificial intelligence’s potential for enhancing adult learning. Kanfer is also keeping an eye on the post-pandemic workforce, the status of aging employees, and the 21st century office.
Students are often involved in Ragan's outreach efforts. Here, Ragan is holding a student-designed electroconvulsive-therapy model for a Brain Awareness Day event.
Christina Ragan, a lecturer of Biology in the Undergraduate Neuroscience Program who also serves as director of Outreach and co-director of Neuroscience Teaching Conference at Georgia Tech, is one of 51 academics from across the country awarded new Course Hero grants to experiment with digital pedagogies and drive social change in their local communities.
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Researchers have developed a methodology to determine why coastal glaciers are retreating, and in turn, how much can be attributed to human-caused climate change.
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A new study from the Georgia Institute of Technology suggests that an elephant’s muscles aren’t the only way it stretches its trunk — its folded skin also plays an important role. The combination of muscle and skin gives the animal the versatility to grab fragile vegetation and rip apart tree trunks. The findings could help build more flexible robotics.
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Using biological experiments, robot models, and a geometric theory of locomotion, researchers investigate how and why intermediate lizard species, with their elongated bodies and short limbs, might use their bodies to move.
Joseph Montoya, professor in the School of Biological Sciences (Photo courtesy of Andreas Teske, ECOGIG)
The College of Sciences and College of Engineering are pleased to announce the appointment of Joseph Montoya, professor in the School of Biological Sciences, to the position of director of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Ocean Science and Engineering (OSE) at Georgia Tech.
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.
Housley Cope
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.