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Will Roper, a Georgia Tech alumnus and a distinguished professor of the practice in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, has joined the Defense Innovation Board, an advisory panel for the U.S. Secretary of Defense.
Researchers have developed new tools and approaches to image, monitor, and probe heme in biological systems to study how organisms handle this essential but potentially cytotoxic metabolite.
Among the speakers is Renee Wegrzyn, the newly-named director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, also known as ARPA-H. Wegrzyn holds a Ph.D. and bachelor of science degree in applied biology from Georgia Tech and will give a keynote talk on Wednesday, October 26.
Stargazers are invited to the Georgia Tech Observatory for public nights this semester.
Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Assistant Professor Frances Rivera-Hernández is the recipient of two new research grants. As a 2022 Scialog® ‘Signatures of Life in the Universe’ Fellow, and co-investigator of a new $2.9 million NASA Planetary Science and Technology from Analog Research (PSTAR) grant, she will help develop smarter autonomous rovers and robotics for the Moon and Mars, and hunt for chemical signs of life beyond Earth.
Ph.D. students Cassandra Shriver, in Quantitative Biosciences (QBioS) and Noam Altman-Kurosaki in Biological Sciences have been selected to receive an ARCS® Scholar Award: Achievement Rewards for College Scientists.
