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Professor Joel E. Kostka has been named a Union Fellow by the American Geophysical Union, joining a slate of 53 international researchers selected as 2024 AGU Fellows for “significant contributions to the Earth and space sciences.”
The College of Sciences congratulates the five graduate scholars who won Herbert P. Haley Fellowships for the 2024-2025 school year.
The School of Psychology assistant professor was named one of the publication’s top 35 innovators under 35 for her work on language in the human brain and artificial intelligence.
School of Psychology Professor Randall W. Engle has been honored by the Association for Psychological Science with the William James Fellow Award for his lifetime of significant contributions to the field of scientific psychology.
New research shows that an effort to improve wintertime air quality in Fairbanks, Alaska may not be as effective as intended.
The Georgia Tech Career Center offers a few tips for students attending the fair. Most importantly — mark your calendar for Sept. 9 – 10 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Campus Recreation Center.
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Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and India's National Center for Biological Sciences have found that yeast clusters, when grown beyond a certain size, spontaneously generate fluid flows powerful enough to ferry nutrients deep into their interior.
In the study, "Metabolically driven flows enable exponential growth in macroscopic multicellular yeast," published in Science Advances, the research team — which included Georgia Tech Ph.D. scholar Emma Bingham, Research Scientist G. Ozan Bozdag, Associate Professor William C. Ratcliff, and Associate Professor Peter Yunker — used experimental evolution to determine whether non-genetic physical processes can enable nutrient transport in multicellular yeast lacking evolved transport adaptations.
A similar story also appeared at The Hindu.
Phys.org June 24, 2025Imagine your memories, way of thinking, and who you are being saved into a computer system. Not as a backup, but as a fully conscious version of yourself. Without a body, but with a mind. Sounds like science fiction? That’s exactly what mind uploading to a computer is. It’s an attempt to create a digital existence that can last forever.
In a virtual world where physics operates on different principles, a digital consciousness could eat virtual food, fly, travel to planets, or pass through walls.
Limitations? Only those imposed by technology and the current state of knowledge. Associate Professor Dobromir Rahnev from the Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Psychology does not rule out this possibility.
“Theoretically, mind uploading is possible. However, we are currently very far from this goal,” he writes in The Conversation.
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