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Kim Cobb, professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Power Chair, ADVANCE Professor, and director of Georgia Tech's Global Change Program
An award-winning climate scientist and professor whose research focuses on building capacity for climate solutions, Cobb will depart Georgia Tech to lead IBES, an academic hub for scholars exploring the interactions between natural, human, and social systems.
Rahnev MRI
The Elsevier-VSS Young Investigator Award, sponsored by Vision Research, is given to an early-career vision scientist who has made outstanding contributions to the field. This year's recipient is Doby Rahnev, associate professor in the School of Psychology.
Thackery Brown at Georgia Tech's Center for Advanced Brain Imaging. (Photo Thackery Brown)
Thackery Brown, assistant professor in the School of Psychology, has won a pair of prestigious research grants from the Curci Foundation and National Institute on Aging — and his lab has new research findings on memory, spatial navigation, and decision-making.  
College of Sciences 2022 NSF Graduate Research Honorees: Mi Do, Claire Elbon, Tatiana Gibson, Madeleine Hardt, Emily Hughes, Tucker Lancaster, McKinley Paul.
More than a dozen College of Sciences student researchers and alumni are among nearly 90 Georgia Tech students and alumni being awarded five-year fellowships and honorable mentions for their work.
Bryan Gomez, Spring 2022 Graduate
It’s challenging enough to complete a Georgia Tech degree in four years. This week, Bryan Gomez will earn two: one in biochemistry and the other in neuroscience.
Diving Deep to Cure Diseases. (Illustration by Linda Richards)
Georgia Tech researchers venture out of the lab to find clues to everything from how to better communicate with robots to curing disease. Here are some of their wildest innovations inspired by nature.
Mark Hay (Photo Candace Klein)
Mark E. Hay, Regents' Professor and Teasley Chair in Environmental Biology in the School of Biological Sciences, has been elected a member of both the National Academy of Sciences, as well as the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
Tech Tower, Spring 2022 (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)
Over 30 from College of Sciences are recognized as 2021-2022 recipients of top student honors, teaching assistant accolades, and future faculty awards — including the Institute’s prestigious Love Family Foundation Award.
"Lost in Your Vibe" by IAMTIKICA.
“As long as you have the gift, do the work — and fit it in wherever you can.” Tikica Platt has been singing since she was three years old, which is what happens when your mom is in choir and your father is a drummer for Clarence Carter, Otis Redding, and Percy Sledge. Now, the School of Psychology administrative manager is releasing her first R&B EP.
Beth Cabrera
Beth Cabrera, the first lady of Georgia Tech, is a psychologist and Tech alumna (M.S. PSY 1993, Ph.D. PSY 1995). She recently shared her expertise on positivity with Tech students as a guest presenter in a five-week course called Resilience Building Strategies: Growing Through What We Are Going Through.
Susan Lozier, Dean of the College of Sciences (Photo: Tamara Lackey)
Susan Lozier, dean and Betsy Middleton and John Clark Sutherland Chair of the College of Sciences, will serve a three-year term on the inaugural Climate Security Roundtable, a joint initiative across the U.S. Congress and the National Academies.
Tech Tower
A Topology and Geometry conference run completely by graduate students took place in April at GT.