Georgia Tech College of Sciences
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- 🎉 Congratulations to School of Mathematics Assistant Professor Gong Chen, recipient of the 2026–2027 @amermathsoc.bsky.social Stefan Bergman Fellowship, a prestigious award recognizing exceptional early-career mathematicians. cos.gatech.edu/news/chen-na...
- Congrats to incoming School of Biological Sciences Assistant Professor Armita Manafzadeh for her Carl Gans Young Investigator Award from the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. Joining Georgia Tech in Aug. 2026, her lab will explore how joints work and how they evolved. bit.ly/3LG1jVV
- 🎉Congrats Physics Professor Flavio Fenton on being named an inaugural Bill Kent Family Foundation AI in Higher Education Faculty Fellow. This fellowship will support his project to develop AI-enabled instructional modules. cos.gatech.edu/news/college...
- 🌊 A new Coastal Resilience Project has secured nearly $1 million to restore wetlands in south Georgia. 🗣️ “Restoring wetlands is not just an environmental priority—it’s a resilience strategy,” says Joel Kostka, faculty director of Georgia Tech for Georgia’s Tomorrow. cos.gatech.edu/news/coastal...
- We are pleased to announce the inaugural recipients of #AI4Science Center’s seed grants. Led by faculty from across the Institute, the selected projects push the boundaries of AI-enabled scientific discovery. cos.gatech.edu/news/ai4scie...
- Meet the @gtsciences.bsky.social grad students selected for the new Community Engagement Graduate Fellowship, made possible through a gift from Google. They will develop projects that positively impact metro Atlanta and highlight how science can align with public good. cos.gatech.edu/news/science...
- 🌟Congratulations to Neha Garg, Blanchard Early Career Professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, who has been selected as a recipient of the @acs.org's 2026 Women Chemists Committee (WCC) Rising Star Award. 🌟 cos.gatech.edu/news/garg-re...
- Meet Deb DeWitt, Georgia Tech’s 2025 Beekeeper in Residence with the Urban Honey Bee Project. DeWitt mentors student beekeepers and maintains colonies at The Kendeda Building and in the EcoCommons. 🐝 cos.gatech.edu/news/outside...
- Modern tech depends on critical minerals — and many key resources are rare earth elements. 🎉 Congrats to Karl Lang on earning a Scialog grant to study how radiation affects REE-hosting minerals, in collaboration with Claudia Avalos. 🔗 bit.ly/491MpRp
- #Congrats | Professor @wcratcliff.bsky.social has been awarded a @templetonfdn.bsky.social grant for his groundbreaking research into the origins of multicellular life.
- 🎉Congrats to Math Professor Andrzej Święch on being named a @amermathsoc.bsky.social Fellow. Professor Święch joined Georgia Tech in 1993 and is a leading global expert in the theory of viscosity solutions in nonlinear partial differential equations.
- School of Mathematics Professor Anton Leykin and an international research team have been awarded an AI for Math Fund grant to develop an AI-powered interface that bridges the gap between proof verification and computational algebra. cos.gatech.edu/news/anton-l...
- Georgia Tech is building a neuroscience pipeline that starts early and runs deep. Each year, more than 100 undergraduates conduct neuroscience research in labs across campus, including at @gtsciences.bsky.social.
- 🎉We congratulate Psychology Professor Randall Engle on receiving the 2026 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for Intelligence Research. His pioneering work focuses on the nature of our ability to maintain attention and focus in the face of external and internal distractions.
- #Congrats 🎉 Physics Ph.D. student Alexander Cachine has been awarded a @stevejobsarchive.bsky.social Fellowship for his work using ancient textile techniques, like knitting and weaving, to solve modern medical challenges. cos.gatech.edu/news/alexand...
- Thank you to @eastshie.bsky.social for creating the new Stats HelpDesk, providing guidance and support for researchers at Georgia Tech who are stuck on statistics! cos.gatech.edu/news/new-sta...
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- Postdoc Fellow Jordan Bretzfelder served as a volunteer crew geologist during a 28-day lunar surface mission simulated by NASA. Such simulations, known as analogs, replicate elements of a real mission so that researchers can study crew performance and test instruments developed for use in space.
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- 🎉 Congrats Professor Michael Chapman on being awarded the 2025 Jesse W. Beams Award by the Southeastern Section of @apsphysics.bsky.social. Chapman's research centers on developing and applying novel experimental methods in the areas of ultracold atoms, quantum optics, and quantum information.
- 👋 Meet Assistant Professor @asarhadi.bsky.social. Sarhadi's research focuses on a growing threat: hurricanes fueled by a warming climate. He uses physics-based computational modeling to understand and mitigate hurricane risk in the age of climate change. Learn more⤵️
- Georgia Tech researchers are developing solutions to monitor and forecast flooding, as well as restore ecosystems to prevent future flooding. These efforts support communities’ resilience in the face of climate change and keep the U.S. secure. 🔗 Learn more here: research.gatech.edu/feature/fixi...
- Georgia Tech researchers have received NASA funding to support the Europa Clipper mission. Launched in 2024, the spacecraft is expected to reach Jupiter’s orbit in 2030 in order to investigate the planet’s icy moon #Europa.
- Explore how AI is transforming teaching and learning during @ai-aloe.bsky.social’s Research Showcase at Georgia Tech. 📅Join us on Wednesday, Nov. 19, from 1 to 4:30 p.m. at the Georgia Tech Student Center.
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- Reposted by Georgia Tech College of SciencesHow are Pacific NW mountain birds responding to climate change? I got up at 4:00 am for a month to find out. but first the backstory, or "how I spent seven years telling everyone this project wasn't possible" new paper here: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
- 📢This fall, 20 undergraduate biology majors published a peer-reviewed scientific paper — doing hands-on original bioinformatics research on par with graduate students and working with bioinformatics tools to explore drug discovery potential. bit.ly/4nRVAcs
- 🎉Congratulations to Paul Sell, the new director of the Georgia Tech Observatory! Sell joined the Institute in Fall 2025 as a senior academic professional in the School of Physics. He also serves as advisor of our new undergraduate astrophysics program.
- Congratulations to @winnie-polargeo.bsky.social for earning an NSF CAREER grant to map temperatures at the base of the Antarctic ice sheet — the first project of its kind. This research will refine climate models and help predict future melt, protecting coastal communities. b.gatech.edu/3LyaveA
- Our new magazine is online! cos.gatech.edu/magazine
- 🧠One of Georgia Tech’s newest research institutes brings together experts from across campus to study the brain and shape how neuroscience serves society.
- The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale was developed in 1969 by Georgia Tech alum Herbert Saffir (CE 1940) and meteorologist Robert Simpson. It classifies hurricanes by sustained wind speed, from Category 1 to Category 5.
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- 🦴Georgia Tech's Fossil Friday was created to build a community centered on hands-on science outreach. Hosted by @sepl.bsky.social, this weekly event is free and open to the public. Learn more⤵️
- New Paper Alert | Georgia Tech researchers developed a mathematical formula to predict the size of lakes that form on melting ice sheets. They discovered that lake depth and span are linked to the topography of the ice sheet. Their findings were published in @natcomms.nature.com.
- The research team, which included @iceclimate.bsky.social, leveraged physics, model simulations, and satellite imagery to develop simple mathematical equations that can easily be integrated into existing climate models. It’s a first-of-its-kind tool that is already improving climate models.
- Reposted by Georgia Tech College of SciencesHelluva Engineer. Helluva Dean. Now, Helluva Provost! Meet Georgia Tech's new chief academic officer, our own @rbeyah.bsky.social. b.gatech.edu/3WkmtdS
- Georgia Tech researchers analyzed the seasonal differences of sulfur dioxide and sulfate concentrations in the atmosphere over the past two decades. Their goal was to determine the long-term impact of sustained air quality control efforts.
- 🎉We welcomed our first Neuroscience and Neurotechnology Ph.D. students to campus this fall. This new Ph.D. program integrates neuroscience research with technological development to explore all levels of nervous system function.
- Congratulations to @jameststroud.bsky.social on being named a 2025 #PackardFellow by @packardfdn.bsky.social. Stroud will receive $875,000 over 5 years to fund his pioneering research in evolutionary biology — studying 1,000 backpack-wearing lizards in South Florida. Read more: bit.ly/3KNrVU5
- Georgia Tech has a new degree, a B.S. in Mathematics and Computing. Designed to prepare students for careers in interdisciplinary fields, this undergraduate program offers a balanced, integrated curriculum that develops both mathematical depth and computational fluency.
- Jaden Wang, a Ph.D. student in mathematics and master’s student in aerospace engineering, is developing mathematically-backed solutions to improve spacecraft landings. His research will be supported by a #NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunity grant.
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- #Congrats | These College of Sciences faculty have been selected for Georgia Tech’s Research Leadership Academy: 🎉 @thackerybrown.bsky.social School of Psychology 🎉 @digglelab.bsky.social School of Biological Sciences 🎉Farzaneh Najafi, School of Biological Sciences 🎉Chris Wiese, School of Psychology
- We recently welcomed the very first students of our B.S. in Astrophysics program. This new major focuses on the future of astronomy and astrophysics as well as how big data and computing are driving innovation and discovery.
- Peatlands are a type of wetland that store between 1/3 and 1/2 of soil carbon on Earth. As temperatures rise, that stored carbon is at risk of being released as CO2 and CH4. Professor @joelkostka.bsky.social studies how, why, and how much these ecosystems release and what that means for our planet.
