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To celebrate the International Year of the Periodic Table, Tech students, faculty, and staff talk about their favorite elements. For January, we have School of Chemistry and Biochemistry Assistant Professor Amit Reddi.
Four faculty members, including two from the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering operated jointly by Georgia Tech and Emory University, have been awarded research fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The fellowships, awarded yearly since 1955, honor early-career scholars whose achievements mark them as among the most promising researchers in their fields.
Joshua Weitz led a press briefing on Sunday, Feb. 17, about how viruses reshape the fate of cells, populations, and global ecosystems. The briefing previewed the symposium “Virus, Microbes, and Their Entagled Fates,” which Weitz organized for the 2019 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in Washington, D.C.
It takes a lot to be a student athlete at Georgia Tech. Here are four who are succeeding as science majors and as athletes: Piero Chiappina, Cori Clifton, Ben Jean, and Jeanine Williams.
Georgia Tech has been selected to the 2019 class of Beckman Scholars Program Awardees. The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation gives these awards annually to colleges and universities that support basic research in chemistry and life sciences.
Relationships based on “you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours” are everywhere in the biological world. The recently established Center for the Origin of Life (COOL) will harness these mutualisms to unravel the distant past.
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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
