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Collision and merger of two black holes, resulting in the first detection of gravitational waves, GW150914, by LIGO. (Photo LIGO/SXS.)
School of Physics graduate students and undergraduates analyze new data on ‘wonderful diversity’ of black holes and neutron stars for catalog of gravitational wave events.
A barred owl on a tree in green space between the IBB and IEN buildings. Photo by Yumiko Sakurai
Atlanta is often called the “city in a forest” because of its lush canopy of trees, uncommon for a major city. In the heart of that forest sits Georgia Tech’s 400-acre campus. And within campus lies a variety of wildlife that's made Georgia Tech its home.
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Prof. Dan Margalit will give an invited lecture at the AMS Special Session AMS Maryam Mirzakhani Lecture at the Joint Math Meetings (JMM) in Seattle, in January 2022.
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Satellite counselor Tara Holdampf will provide confidential consultations and support for students, virtually and from the Molecular Science and Engineering Building
An example of gaze tracking. Subjects are watching stone toolmaking; the red, blue, green dots are where visual focus is during this segment of action. (Photo Lewis Wheaton)
New study led by School of Biological Sciences’ Lewis Wheaton uses prehistoric stone toolmaking to fill in the gaps on how vision and movement evolve to help people learn complicated tasks
Jack Winn (left), Dhruti Triveti, and Julianna Mercado wait for measurements from specialized equipment in the Analytical Chemistry Lab in the Boggs Building. (Photo Renay San Miguel)
Learn about new Tech Fee-powered equipment and resources, and hear from Analytical Chemistry Lab instructors about how they’re using new instruments to advance their curriculum and the impact of these on students' career preparation.

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David Hu, professor in the Schools of Biological Sciences and Mechanical Engineering, drew on ant behavior in his commentary of a study that examined towering behavior in nematodes.

Ants, which assemble to form buoyant rafts to survive floodwaters, are among the few creatures known to team up like nematodes, said Hu.

“Ants are incredibly sacrificial for one another, and they do not generally fight within the colony,” Hu said. “That’s because of their genetics. They all come from the same queen, so they are like siblings.”

Notably, there has been a lot of interest in studying cooperative animal behaviors among the robotics community, Hu said. It’s possible that one day, he added, information about the complex sociality of creatures like nematodes could be used to inform how technology, such as computer servers or drone systems, communicates.

CNN June 5, 2025

Three years after the Kashlan triplets graduated from Georgia Tech together at 18 years old with B.S. in Neuroscience degrees, they are now entering medical school.

Zane, Rommi and Adam Kashlan spoke with 11Alive on Friday, giving an update on what's next after sharing the graduation stage in high school as valedictorians and earning neuroscience degrees with minors in health and medical sciences in college. 

11 Alive May 31, 2025