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Hands raised

New research suggests the “growth mindset” strategy favored by some educators to improve student performance hasn’t lived up to its promise—resulting in time and effort dedicated to growth mindsets in the classroom without meaningful gains in grades or test scores.

Hubble image of the spiral galaxy Messier 77, also known as NGC 1068. (Photo credit NASA/ESA/A. van Der Hoeven)

Ignacio Taboada, School of Physics professor, is the spokesperson for an international team of scientists using a massive Antarctica-based neutrino telescope to detect the particles coming from a supermassive black hole 47 million light-years from Earth.

 

2022 observatory night

The campus observatory at the Howey Physics Building will open at 4 a.m. where the Aloha Telescope in Maui, Hawaii, will livestream a clear view of every stage of the eclipse, from 4 to 8 a.m. on the Georgia Tech Observatory YouTube channel.   

Postdoc Symposium 2022 Winners

Six Tech postdocs were announced as winners of the 2022 Fall Postdoctoral Research Symposium, which took place on Friday, Oct. 28. School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences' Mathias Louboutin was awarded Best Lightning Talk for the College of Sciences.

 

ARCS Foundation Logo

ARCS Foundation Atlanta awarded a total of $120,000 to 15 Ph.D. students who show exceptional promise of making a significant contribution to the worldwide advancement of science and technology.

From left: Elizabeth H. Beveridge, Lou Eschapasse, Jancy Ling Liu

A recent paper from the School of Psychology and the School of Economics has found that good navigators often use a bird’s eye view perspective to organize and remember different places in the environment and have a map-like representation of the environment in their mind.