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Joshua Weitz, Greg Gibson and JulieAnne Williamson discuss campus cases and tracking, actions taken to date, and next steps for surveillance testing at Georgia Tech followed by open Q&A.
The first class of the College of Sciences Staff Advisory Council is named, with the goal of providing staff advocacy and advisory expertise to address immediate and long-term needs across the College and Institute.
Students and faculty discuss the science of campus surveillance testing, why they’re taking advantage of free weekly campus testing, and how the Georgia Tech community can help crush the curve on Covid-19 this fall.
In the spring and summer, an effort led by researchers across three Sciences schools created SARS-CoV-2 test kits that helped fill testing gaps across Georgia. Now, they're sharing that test kit recipe in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, which has selected the research as a September "Editor’s Pick".
Two researchers in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences win grants from the Heising-Simons Foundation to study just how fast ice sheets are melting, and how much sea levels are rising, due to climate change.
Please join the College of Sciences in congratulating seven faculty members sharing honors for their work in the 2019-2020 school year at Georgia Tech.
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In December, The Conversation hosted a webinar on AI’s revolutionary role in drug discovery and development. Science and technology editor Eric Smalley interviewed Jeffrey Skolnick, Regents' Professor and eminent scholar in computational systems biology at Georgia Institute of Technology, and Benjamin P. Brown, assistant professor of pharmacology at Vanderbilt University. Skolnick has developed AI-based approaches to predict protein structure and function that may help with drug discovery and finding off-label uses of existing drugs. Brown’s lab works on creating new computer models that make drug discovery faster and more reliable.
The Conversation April 7, 2026While it often gets written off as being distracted or not paying attention, daydreaming is actually a sign of an active and imaginative mind. In fact, a 2017 study found that daydreamers are generally smarter than their focused peers. “People with efficient brains may have too much brain capacity to stop their minds from wandering,” said Eric Schumacher, the Georgia Tech psychology professor who co-authored the study.
People who daydream frequently have things running through their heads, whether they are thinking through ideas or picturing possible outcomes. Letting the mind wander allows unexpected connections to form. To an outside observer, they may seem checked out of reality. However, other highly intellectual people know that they're truly deeply engaged, just not with what's going on right in front of them.
Your Tango April 4, 2026
