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Illustration of NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft with Jupiter and its icy moon Europa in the background (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

In four years, NASA's Europa Clipper mission will arrive in Jupiter’s orbit to investigate whether the planet’s icy moon, Europa, could support life. In the interim, Professor Sven Simon is working to uncover critical information to support the rapid analysis of measurements from the mission.

Adam Decker demonstrates how the Anatomage Table turns traditional dissection into a high-tech learning experience.

Georgia Tech’s new Anatomage Table blends traditional dissection with digital technology  preparing students for the future of medicine.

Yurt-like test chambers in a natural boreal spruce bog in northern Minnesota (provided).

Peatlands make up just 3% of the earth’s land surface but store more than 30% of the world’s soil carbon, preserving organic matter and sequestering its carbon for tens of thousands of years. A new study sounds the alarm that an extreme drought event could quadruple peatland carbon loss in a warming climate. 

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Growing up in rural southwest Georgia, Kinsey Herrin loved “making stuff.” She loved it so much that she regularly dug up muddy clay from her family’s property and the surrounding area to make ceramics. As a prosthetist/orthotist, she creates and tests devices that help patients improve or regain mobility — from prosthetic limbs to braces of all kinds. But Herrin’s role at the Institute is even more expansive. She’s at the epicenter of a research community where medical devices, studies, data, patients, clinicians, and students collide.

Nursing students at the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University

Georgia Tech and the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University are partnering to develop a pipeline that prepares more local nurses to meet workforce demands. 

Deloitte Manager Maureen Metcalfe (M.S. in Biology, 2014) provided insights into the Deloitte recruiting process.

The Student-Employer Networking Expo (SENE) brought together nearly 200 science and math students with employers to build connections and explore career opportunities.