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Oxford University is the next stop on Calvin Runnel’s amazing academic journey.
At Georgia Tech, Will Overholt was part of a supportive and collegial community, with everyone going out of their way to help.
Britney Schmidt takes researchers and grad students to search for life under the ice of Antarctica, an environment that may have a lot in common with Jupiter's moon, Europa.
Akinade Ojekimande believes Georgia Tech has prepared him well for medical school, the next stop in his dream to be a surgeon.
Several professors in the School of Physics inspired and mentored Mary Elizabeth Lee, who is heading to Massachusetts to earn her own Ph.D.
A team of Georgia Institute of Technology researchers will head to West Antarctica next winter as part of an international collaboration to explore a melting glacier that could significantly affect global sea levels. The Thwaites Glacier drains the ice from an area roughly the size of Florida, accounting for around 4 percent of current global sea-level rise — an amount that has doubled since the mid-1990s and looks to be accelerating.
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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
