Mercury News


Despite the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, the College of Sciences' research programs remain strong, with a number of faculty members receiving grants to pursue their scientific studies. 



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The malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, which has been promoted as a potential treatment for Covid-19, is known to have potentially serious effects on heart rhythms. Now, a team of researchers has used an optical mapping system to observe exactly how the drug creates serious disturbances in the electrical signals that govern heartbeat.



Professor Michael Schatz will serve as interim chair for the School of Physics beginning July 1, 2020. Learn more about his work, and join us in welcoming him to this role.



Each year, Georgia Tech recognizes faculty and staff who have received campus accolades and awards throughout the previous academic year. Please join us in celebrating and sharing congratulations with this year's recipients.



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The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) has announced this year’s teaching assistant (TA) award winners. 


Georgia Tech Historical Marker
, Benjamin Breer
, Bruce Walker
, Chrissy Spencer
, Dan Margalit
, Declan McCarthy
, Marc Weissburg
, Mary Holder
, Nicole “Nikki” Aiosa
, Sara Singer
, Stephanie Bilodeau
, Sydney Popsuj

Two months after a rapid evolution to remote learning and teaching, College of Sciences students, faculty, and graduate teaching assistants share perspectives, challenges, surprises, and what they’ve learned together — apart.



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Built with wheeled appendages that can be lifted and wheels able to wiggle, a new robot known as the “Mini Rover” has developed and tested complex locomotion techniques robust enough to help it climb hills covered with granular material – and avoid the risk of getting ignominiously stuck on some remote planet or moon. 


Perseus cluster image taken by the Chandra X-Ray Observatory (Photo: NASA)
, Comparison of the Hubble Space Telescope observation of the filaments in the Perseus cluster (left) with the Yu Qiu research team's thermal energy illustration of the simulated cluster (right).
, Yu Qiu
, Tamara Bogdanovic, associate professor, School of Physics

Two Georgia Tech physicists may have come up with an answer for how cold gas filaments can stretch for tens of thousands of light-years from the super hot centers of galaxy clusters. 


Students celebrating graduation

Georgia Tech’s Spring 2020 Commencement Ceremony is postponed until… well, we don’t know just yet. Once we receive updated guidance on large gatherings, we will choose a date for our traditional, in-person ceremony — complete with all the pomp and circumstance (and gold and white balloons) graduating Yellow Jackets have come to expect! So, stay tuned for that announcement.


Up with the White & Gold
, Hemaa Selvakumar
, Daniella Noronha

Students in the Schools of Mathematics and Physics are recognized by their peers for service and support of the Georgia Tech experience during the Up with the White and Gold virtual celebration. 


Carlos Silva, professor in the School of Physics and the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Professor Carlos Silva is a new associate editor at Science Advances, an open access journal from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 


Dynamics of COVID-19: Near- and Long-Term Challenges
, Governor Brian Kemp discusses the limited re-opening of sectors of Georgia’s economy. Photo: Alyssa Pointer

Joshua Weitz shares COVID-19 expertise with media in Atlanta and around the globe.