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Wildfires have spread across the planet for millennia, but they are increasing as the climate warms. Decimated forests, depleted crops, and destroyed buildings are the hallmark of wildfire devastation. Another is the effect on air quality and even the entire climate system. Researchers at Georgia Tech offer solutions for not only surviving — but also benefiting from — fire.
Both Anthony Diaz and Melissa Nord have EAS degrees, but they pursued divergent professional trajectories — one crafting on-air weather forecasts and the other forecasting strategic shifts in the corporate world.
The dashboards highlight significant achievements in joint research, funding, and innovation, demonstrating each partnership’s commitment to addressing critical global challenges.
Jenny McGuire has been named a Teasley Professor, advancing Georgia Tech’s leadership in biodiversity research and climate resilience.
Snigdaa Sethuram (Ph.D. PHYS 2025) recently joined the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility as a Margaret Butler Fellow in Computational Science.
By uniting experts across disciplines, Georgia Tech is positioning itself at the forefront of neuroscience and space research.
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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
