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James Stroud has been awarded the British Ecological Society Founder's Prize. Commemorating the enthusiasm and vision of the Society’s founders, the annual honor is bestowed upon “an outstanding early career ecologist who is starting to make a significant contribution to the science of ecology.”
Executive search firm WittKieffer will host several town halls to gather input from the Georgia Tech community about the EVPR selection process.
The Georgia Tech Career Center offers a few tips for students attending the fair. Most importantly — mark your calendar for Sept. 8 – 9 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Campus Recreation Center.
Georgia Tech researcher W. Hong Yeo has received a $3 million NSF grant to lead a multidisciplinary team in training graduate students to develop sustainable, biocompatible medical devices that address environmental impacts, aiming to establish best practices in higher education for creating reliable and personalized healthcare solutions.
This successful initiative was made possible through the generous support of Microsoft, whose contribution of research resources has empowered Georgia Tech researchers to explore new frontiers in GenAI.
Mao will use the $450,000 grant to develop new statistical techniques and models for extracting information hidden in networks, with applications spanning biology, economics, engineering, and beyond. The five-year award is NSF’s most prestigious funding for untenured assistant professors.
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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
