August 27, 2019
School of Mathematics Professor Mohammad Ghomi and Joel Spruck of Johns Hopkins University recently posted ArXiv their proposed solution tothe Cartan-Hadamard Conjecture, a long-standing problem in Analysis and Geometry.
August 26, 2019
We all know about the periodic table in some capacity. For scientists, it is a widely-accepted arrangement of chemical elements organized by trends and properties. For others, it’s mostly a colorful reminder of high school classrooms and chemistry textbooks. But have you ever considered trying to use the periodic table as an organizing principle? First-year students in Courtney Hoffman’s English 1102 course last summer did exactly that – create their own periodic tables.
August 22, 2019
To walk or run with finesse, roaches and robots coordinate leg movements via signals sent through centralized systems -- but utterly divergent ones. Despite their seemingly unbridgeable differences, researchers have devised handy principles and equations from studying roaches to assess how both beasts and bots locomote and to improve robotic gait.
August 20, 2019
School of Mathematics Professor Haomin Zhou is a recipient of the 2019 Feng Kang Prize.
August 19, 2019
“I wanted to be sure to point out that you have in your Convocation tradition bags a collection of Periodic Table scavenger-hunt cards provided by the College of Sciences to help you get out and explore the campus and meet new people this week. As you’ll learn, this is a very ‘Georgia Tech’ kind of game!” With those words of President G.P. “Bud” Peterson, addressed to the 3,100 new students at the Convocation on Aug. 18, 2019, the Georgia Tech Scavenger Hunt for the Chemical Elements commenced.
August 14, 2019
Work in the lab of Facundo Fernandez about detecting ovarian cancer in mice is highlighted on cover of the August 2019 issue of the Journal of Proteome Research.
August 13, 2019
The College of Sciences welcomed two development professionals early this month. Courtney Ferencik is the new director of development, and Erin Green is the College’s first development associate. Both started in their new roles on August 1.
August 8, 2019
This year Georgia Tech faculty members going through promotion and tenure will have a different experience from their predecessors. For the first time, the process will be tracked from beginning to end in PROMOTE, software that enables faculty to upload their promotion package and monitor its progress through each stage.
August 6, 2019
To celebrate the International Year of the Periodic Table, Tech students, faculty, and staff talk about their favorite elements. For August we have Jasmine Howard, an MBA candidate in the Scheller College of Business.
August 5, 2019
A couple of Georgia Tech courses are in pursuit of happiness. One is offered by the School of Psychology.
