Harrison Square was the setting April 18 for the Spring Sciences Celebration of the College of Sciences. (Photo Jess Hunt-Ralston)
College of Sciences Honors Faculty and Staff at Spring Sciences Celebration
Spring Sciences Celebration in Harrison Square recognizes excellence in research, teaching, service
Steven Chu (Credit: Imke Lass/Redux)
Physics to Host Climate Talk with Former U.S. Secretary of Energy, Nobel Laureate
Physicist Steven Chu was the first person appointed to the U.S. Cabinet after having won a Nobel Prize. On April 26, he will deliver a public lecture at Georgia Tech on climate change and innovative paths towards a more sustainable future.
An mosaic-like illustration of chemistry equipment, including flasks and beakers
The Fundamental Questions: Jesse McDaniel Awarded NSF CAREER Grant for Research Into New Method of Predicting Chemical Reaction Rates, Leveraging Computer Modeling
By developing modeling techniques that can be applied to reactions at multiple scales, McDaniel aims to expand scientist’s ability to predict and model chemical reactions, and how they interact with their environments.
An mosaic-like illustration of chemistry equipment, including flasks and beakers
Chemistry, Chaos, Peptides, and (Infinite) Problems: Georgia Tech Researchers Pioneer New Frontiers with NSF CAREER Grants
Five Georgia Tech College of Sciences researchers have been awarded CAREER grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
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Making Medicines: Vinayak Agarwal Awarded NSF CAREER Grant for Peptide Research
Over 100 peptide-based drugs are currently available in the US, where they’re used to treat conditions ranging from type-2 diabetes to MS
A blue image of interconnected nodes
Solving the Infinite Problems: Anton Bernshteyn Awarded NSF CAREER for Developing New, Unified Theory: Descriptive Combinatorics
The new theory brings together work from mathematics and computer science, greatly increasing the tools available to both fields.
Man holds coral on boat
Using Coral to Unravel the History of the Slave Trade on St. Croix
With funding from the National Geographic Society, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) will travel to St. Croix to analyze coral.
The new image generated by the PRIMO algorithm (EHT / Medeiros et al. 2023)
A Sharper Look at the M87 Black Hole
A team of researchers, including astrophysicists from Georgia Tech, has created a new, high-fidelity version of the iconic Event Horizon Telescope's image of the supermassive black hole at the center of Messier 87.
A new hypothesis states that the first sugars emerged from glyoxylate (pictured as the center molecule). In this hypothesis, glyoxylate first reacts with itself and then the byproducts from these reactions, ultimately forming simple sugars and other products (pictured as the surrounding molecules). Credit: Scripps Research and Unsplash
Where Did the First Sugars Come From?
Origin-of-life chemists from Scripps Research and the Georgia Institute of Technology propose that glyoxylate could have been the original source of sugars on the “prebiotic” Earth.
A cross-sectional view of onggi showing fermenting cabbage. Credit: Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism.
Want Better Kimchi? Make It Like the Ancients Did
Researchers explain why kimchi enthusiasts are right when they say the highest quality fermented cabbage is made in traditional earthenware onggi.