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GEMs and GRACE Workshop - Yuanzhi Tang
The third Georgia Partnerships for Essential Minerals (GEMs) Workshop, held jointly with the Growing Resilience for America’s Critical Mineral Economy (GRACE) Engine initiative marked a pivotal step in the region’s critical mineral strategy.
Interdisciplinary faculty co-directors of the Astrobio Minor (from left): Jennifer Glass, Frances Rivera-Hernández, Nicholas Hud
Students from all majors are invited to register for the new Minor in Astrobiology at Georgia Tech.
Piles of rare earth oxides praseodymium, cerium, lanthanum, neodymium, samarium and gadolinium. Peggy Greb/USDA-ARS
Every time you use your phone, open your computer or listen to your favorite music on AirPods, you are relying on critical minerals.
CHART Founding Director Bruce Walker
Georgia Tech’s new Center for Human-AI-Robot Teaming (CHART) looks to revolutionize the collaboration between humans, AI, and robots.
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Physicists have developed a new type of molecule that could offer a groundbreaking material for computer chips.
Lynn Kamerlin
The award honors Professor Kamerlin’s “outstanding promise and resilience,” recognizing her achievements and contributions to the field of molecular bioscience in the face of significant challenges.

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School of Biological Sciences Professor Marvin Whiteley has been named the 2026 recipient of the American Society for Microbiology's D.C. White Award for Interdisciplinary Research. This award recognizes Whiteley’s distinguished accomplishments in interdisciplinary research and mentoring in microbiology.

American Society for Microbiology September 5, 2025

Reproduction is strange in many social insects, but the Iberian harvester ant (Messor ibericus) takes the weirdness to the next level. Queens mate with males of another species and then clone them, researchers report today in Nature, which means this ant is the only known organism that propagates two species by itself. Evolutionary biologist Jonathan Romiguier of the University of Montpellier, who led the team, calls M. ibericus “in a sense, the most complex, colonial life form we know of so far.”

The finding “is almost impossible to believe and pushes our understanding of evolutionary biology,” says Michael Goodisman, an evolutionary biologist and professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology who was not involved with the new research. “Just when you think you’ve seen it all, social insects reveal another surprise."

Science Magazine September 3, 2025