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Recent News

A collage of this year's Fulbright recipients from Georgia Tech

Sciences Scholars Join Prestigious Fulbright U.S. Student Program

Among this year’s recipients are several members of Georgia Tech’s Class of 2026, as well as a doctoral student.

Advancing Innovation: Tech Ready Grants Support Faculty Commercialization Efforts

The Office of Technology Licensing announced the latest recipients of the Tech Ready Grants, supporting Georgia Tech faculty as they advance innovative technologies toward commercialization and real-world impact.

College of Sciences Students and Alumni Awarded Prestigious NSF Fellowships

The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship supports “outstanding students with exceptional potential for leadership in STEM.”

Spartina alterniflora lines a marsh environment on Sapelo Island. (Credit: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

Georgia’s Tomorrow Awarded National Climate Resilience Grant

The award is one of ten in a new $3.4 million fund to leverage genetic rescue for marine and coastal ecosystems under threat from climate shifts.

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Experts in the News

It’s a sing‑off! Myth‑busting about birds and sex when it comes to defending the nest

Assistant Professor Benjamin Freeman and graduate student Shreyas Arashanapalli of the School of Biological Sciences detail their study on the use of birdsong for territorial defense. They highlight that male birds — and many female birds — sing and defend territories. Their examination uncovered that cooperative territorial defense is especially common in birds with long-term social bonds or that live close to the equator.

The Conversation | 2026-04-22T00:00:00-04:00

AI is reengineering drug discovery by speeding up testing and scanning petabytes of data for connections between diseases

In December, The Conversation hosted a webinar on AI’s revolutionary role in drug discovery and development. Science and technology editor Eric Smalley interviewed Jeffrey Skolnick, Regents' Professor and eminent scholar in computational systems biology at Georgia Institute of Technology, and Benjamin P. Brown, assistant professor of pharmacology at Vanderbilt University. Skolnick has developed AI-based approaches to predict protein structure and function that may help with drug discovery and finding off-label uses of existing drugs. Brown’s lab works on creating new computer models that make drug discovery faster and more reliable.

The Conversation | 2026-04-07T00:00:00-04:00

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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.