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Recent News


From navigating unexpected job pathways to the importance of networking and soft skills, College of Sciences alumni shared insights and advice about leveraging a Georgia Tech education into a successful career at the What Can I Do With My Georgia Tech Sci



Dean and Betsy Middleton and John Clark Sutherland Chair Susan Lozier has been reappointed to a five-year term in the College of Sciences.



Three CoS faculty members are named as recipients of C-PIES Inclusive Excellence Fellowship.



The College of Sciences proudly recognizes the five graduate scholars awarded O’Hara Fellowships for the 2024-25 school year.


Upcoming Events

Oct
17
2024
Join the Center for Promoting Inclusion and Equity in the Sciences to celebrate the new academic year!
Oct
18
2024
2024 Virtual Graduate School Showcase Hosted by Georgia Tech: October 18th
Oct
18
2024
Join the fun and become a Fossil Hunter! Sort through fossil specimens up to 30,000 years old. Come anytime between 3 - 5 p.m. every Friday!
Oct
25
2024
Join the fun and become a Fossil Hunter! Sort through fossil specimens up to 30,000 years old. Come anytime between 3 - 5 p.m. every Friday!
Oct
30
2024
Join us for a memorable evening of growth and camaraderie.

Experts in the News

One group of birds is relatively scarce in the lowlands of South Asia: insect eaters. A study published in Ecology Letters may explain why. Weaver ants—forest-dwelling ants that live in the lowlands and ferociously prey on small invertebrates—might be gobbling up the birds’ food source and pushing them to higher elevations.“That’s a big-time idea, that it’s ants that shape insect-eating bird communities,” says School of Biological Sciences Assistant Professor Ben Freeman. He added though, while it’s an intriguing pattern, he would like to see future work test the hypothesis experimentally.

Science | 2024-09-25T00:00:00-04:00

With global ocean heat at record levels, scientists have confirmed that a global coral bleaching event is underway. In an article published in The Conversation, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Professor Annalisa Bracco discusses how research on reef connectivity and resilience may open new avenues for helping corals survive. 

The Conversation | 2024-06-26T00:00:00-04:00

Spark: College of Sciences at Georgia Tech

 

Spotlight on Research Centers

  • CMDI Center for Microbial Dynamics and Infection The Center for Microbial Dynamics and Infection (CMDI) is an interdisciplinary collaboration at Georgia Tech seeking to understand the ecology, interactions and evolution of microbes. We are focused on the understanding microbe-microbe and microbe-host interactions that are relevant to human health, ecosystem dynamics and sustainability.
  • CSSB Center for the Study of Systems Biology Recognized by most experts in the field as the future of biology, Systems Biology seeks to understand how complex living systems interact with each other so that we can diagnose and treat disorders such as cancer.
  • ACE Aquatic Chemical Ecology Center At Georgia Tech we have organized a diverse group of ecologists, chemists, sensory biologists, engineers, and quantitative modelers, to focus on chemical cues that many organisms use for to make basic survival decisions.
  • CBID Center for Biologically Inspired Design CBID is an interdisciplinary center for research and development of design solutions that occur in biological processes.
  • CIG Center for Integrative Genomics The Center for Integrative Genomics at Georgia Tech is a virtual affiliation of researchers interested in the application of genome-wide research strategies to diverse biological themes.
  • ICRC Integrated Cancer Research Center The mission of the ICRC is to facilitate integration of the diversity of technological, computational, scientific and medical expertise at Georgia Tech and partner institutions in a coordinated effort to develop improved cancer diagnostics and therapeutics.
  • NanoMAD Center for NanoMAD Our mission is to develop new technologies for detecting, monitoring and controlling self-assembled macromolecular complexes at various levels, including their pathogenic consequences, biological roles and evolutionary origins.

 

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