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Itamar Kimchi and Sourabh Saha

Itamar Kimchi and Sourabh Saha each received $875,000 for their pioneering work in quantum materials and fusion energy.

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Professor Peter Sarnak will give the Fall 2025 Stelson Lecture in the Bill Moore Student Success Center, Press Rooms A & B, on Thursday, October 24th at 4:30pm.

Santosh Vempala

School of Mathematics Adjunct Professor Santosh Vempala and Georgia Tech alumnus Ben Cousins (Ph.D. ACO 2017) were honored for their method of estimating the volume of a convex body.

Graduate SGA President Kiera Tran proudly represents Georgia Tech

The new Graduate Student Government Association President Kiera Tran explains how she manages to combine completing her Ph.D. research with leading the Graduate SGA, plus everything she wants to accomplish in her tenure as president. 

Joel Kostka

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.”  

Congratulations to the 2024 - 2025 Haley Fellows!

The College of Sciences congratulates the five graduate scholars who won Herbert P. Haley Fellowships for the 2024-2025 school year. The award may be held in conjunction with other funding, assistantships, or fellowships, if applicable. 

Experts In The News

A special issue of Pure and Applied Functional Analysis honors mathematician School of Mathematics Regents' Professor Leonid Bunimovich on his 75th birthday. 

Bunimovich's pioneering contributions have shaped modern dynamical systems. He is best known for discovering a fundamental mechanism of chaos in dynamical systems, including systems of chaotic billiards such as the Bunimovich stadium, Bunimovich flowers, and elliptic flowers. Learn about his research in this 2023 news story: Bringing Understanding to Chaotic Dynamics with Billiards, Flowers, and ... Mushrooms?

Georgia Tech School of Mathematics March 16, 2026

If you’ve walked the aisles of a grocery store, scrolled through social media, watched television, or set foot in a fast-casual restaurant chain in recent months, you know that protein is having its moment.

So, why are brands pushing protein? An International Food Information Council study found that 70% of adults are looking to increase their protein intake. But as it makes its way into more products than ever before, is it too much of a good thing?

Lesley Baradel is a registered dietitian, nutritionist, and lecturer in the College of Sciences at Georgia Tech. In this episode of "Generating Buzz", she digs into the protein-packed trend, with implications ranging from health and wellness to marketing and how the rise of GLP-1s factors into the increased focus on the macronutrient.

Futurity March 5, 2026