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Meet the Microbes: What a Warming Wetland Reveals About Earth’s Carbon Future

A new study is unearthing how and why peatlands are producing carbon dioxide and methane.

Georgia Tech, Shepherd Center Award Inaugural Seed Grants

Grants include projects on improving seating surfaces for wheelchair users, easing the transition home after stroke rehabilitation, evaluating lower limb exoskeletons, and using AI in remote rehabilitation.

Congratulations to our 2025 Distinguished Alumni: Margaret Beier, Ph.D.; Rutt Bridges; Frank Cullen, Ph.D.; Jack McCallum, M.D., Ph.D.; Nathan Meehan, Ph.D., P.E.; Kelly Sepcic Pfeil, Ph.D.; Kristel Topping, Ph.D.; John Sutherland, Ph.D.

College of Sciences Announces Inaugural Distinguished Alumni Award Honorees

Congratulations to the 2025 College of Sciences Distinguished Alumni Award winners.

Inaugural Cohort of Georgia Tech’s Research Leadership Academy Announced

Upcoming Events

Sep

2025

College of Sciences Alumni and Career Education Day with the State of Georgia (2 Locations)

This event offers two exciting opportunities for students to learn about career options in the State of Georgia government.

Sep

2025

Neuro Alumni Panel: What Can I do With a Neuroscience Degree?

Career Exploration: What can I do with an undergraduate degree in neuroscience? Insight from our Alum.

Sep

2025

Fossil Friday

Join the Spatial Ecology and Paleontology Lab for Fossil Fridays! Become a fossil hunter and help discover how vertebrate communities have changed through time.

Sep

2025

What Can I Do with My Georgia Tech Science Degree: Wellstar Edition

College of Sciences alumni who currently work at Wellstar will share insights on their professional journeys, the company culture, and how students can make a meaningful impact in healthcare.

Sep

2025

The School of Biological Sciences Fall 2025 Seminar Series presents Dr. Ritu Raman

Neuromuscular Tissue Engineering for Regenerative Medicine and Biohybrid Robotics

Experts in the News

Professor Marvin Whiteley Receives ASM D.C. White Award for Interdisciplinary Research

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 | 2025-09-05T00:00:00-04:00

Ant queen lays eggs that hatch into two species

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 | 2025-09-03T00:00:00-04:00

Spark: College of Sciences at Georgia Tech

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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.