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Georgia Tech Alumni Association's 2025 Class of 40 Under 40

Four exceptional alumni from Georgia Tech’s College of Sciences have been named to the Georgia Tech Alumni Association’s 2025 class of 40 Under 40, recognized for their contributions in science, medicine, entrepreneurship, and education.

Lesley Baradel and Christie Stewart

College of Sciences faculty Lesley Baradel and Christie Stewart were awarded an Innovation Incubator grant to integrate community-based learning into their wellness course, Flourishing: Strategies for Well-Being and Resilience (APPH 1060).

An illustration of the binary black hole merger. (Image credit: Raul Perez and Davis Newell)

Before merging, both black holes were spinning exceptionally fast, and their masses fell into a range that should be very rare — or impossible. The result of the merge, GW231123, is the largest binary black hole merger ever detected with gravitational waves.

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A study led by a Georgia Tech researcher analyzing more than a century of climate science publications has found that women in the field are just as productive and successful as their male peers. However, they tend to have shorter careers and therefore fewer total publications. 

According to the study, women are 90% as likely as men to maintain their careers.

Eric Schumacher

Approved by the Board of Regents in 2017, the B.S. in Neuroscience program is one of Georgia Tech’s fastest-growing majors with more than 500 students enrolled in 2024.

Experts In The News

Research led by Georgia Tech physicist Itamar Kolvin has found that the presence of small imperfections or heterogeneities in materials can have a dual effect on their strength and resilience. While heterogeneities were historically believed to make materials stronger by creating an obstacle course for cracks, the new study shows that in some complex materials, heterogeneities can actually accelerate crack propagation and weaken the overall structure. The findings have implications for how engineers design and reinforce materials to optimize their toughness.

Atlanta Today February 27, 2026

Assistant Professor Zhu-Xi Luo and Ph.D. student Yi-Lin Tsao from Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Physics have demonstrated a novel mechanism for stabilising physical phases vulnerable to topological defects. Their work addresses a fundamental problem in condensed matter physics: the destabilisation of phases like superfluids by thermally-induced defects such as anyons and vortices. 

Quantum Zeitgeist February 25, 2026