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The Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty recognizes faculty and research professionals promoted this spring across academic, research, and Library roles. These promotions reflect sustained excellence in scholarship, teaching, service, and research leadership across the Institute.
As the academic year nears its end, a season of celebration begins. Several students were recognized for excellence this year at the annual Student Honors Celebration on Thursday, April 23.
The Bald Head Island Conservancy (BHIC) and Georgia Tech for Georgia’s Tomorrow (GT²) are pleased to announce a formal research fund and partnership between BHIC’s Johnston Center for Coastal Sustainability and the GT² initiative.
Elliot Huang will graduate in May with bachelor’s degrees in psychology and computer science, along with minors in computation and cognition, health and medical sciences, and the science of mental health and well-being.
This semester, 31 faculty members from across the Institute, including six from the College of Sciences, were awarded tenure.
Georgia Tech researchers demonstrated the mechanics behind neural tube closure, which can lead to severe or fatal birth defects if unsuccessful.
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Researchers have long known that when two galaxies approach each other and merge, the supermassive black holes at their centers form a pair and are eventually expected to merge as well. It is precisely these mergers that are considered one of the sources of the gravitational-wave background — a faint “hum” of spacetime detected in recent years. However, the role played by the geometry of the collision in this process has remained an open question.
Graduate student Sena Ghobadi of the Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Physics, along with her colleagues, has developed three-dimensional dynamic models of such collisions.
A similar story appeared in Sky & Telescope.
Universe Magazine April 28, 2026Zachary Handlos, senior academic professional in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, explains how weather patterns can lead to conditions conducive to the types of wildfires currently seen in Florida and Georgia.
This piece also appeared in The Washington Post and The Conversation.
Atlanta Journal Constitution April 25, 2026
