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Recent News

Tech Tower in Spring. Photo: Brice Zimmerman.

Celebrating Excellence Across the College of Sciences

Dozens of members of the College of Sciences community were honored during Institute-wide celebrations held in March and April 2025.

Interdisciplinary faculty co-directors of the Astrobio Minor (from left): Jennifer Glass, Frances Rivera-Hernández, Nicholas Hud

Georgia Tech Offers New Astrobiology Minor

Students from all majors are invited to register for the new Minor in Astrobiology at Georgia Tech.

Benjamin Freeman Named Early Career Fellow by Ecological Society of America

Freeman is one of only 10 Early Career Fellows honored by the Ecological Society of America this year for advancing the knowledge and application of ecological science in a way that strengthens the field and benefits communities and ecosystems.

Propelling Georgia Tech to the Final Frontier

New space IRI and commercialization activities showcase space as an exciting destination for students and faculty.

Upcoming Events

May

2025

INNS Executive Director Search Vision Talk: Candidate 1

Lewis Wheaton, a finalist for the role of Executive Director of the Institute for Neuroscience, Neurotechnology, and Society (INNS), will give a seminar on his vision for the INNS.

Jun

2025

INNS Executive Director Search Vision Talk: Candidate 2

Chris Rozell, a finalist for the role of Executive Director of the Institute for Neuroscience, Neurotechnology, and Society (INNS), will give a seminar on his vision for the INNS.

Jun

2025

INNS Executive Director Search Vision Talk: Candidate 3

Michelle LaPlaca, a finalist for the role of Executive Director of the Institute for Neuroscience, Neurotechnology, and Society (INNS), will give a seminar on her vision for the INNS.

Experts in the News

A 'river' of 10 million birds fly over Georgia skies nightly this week, migrating north

This week could be a jackpot for birders in Georgia, as an estimated 10 million will fly every night over the state. When they aren't flying, they'll be on the ground feasting. In an 11Alive interview, Benjamin Freeman, assistant professor in the School of Biological Sciences, discusses the “river of migrating birds” over Georgia skies:"So most of these small birds, they're actually... flying at night. So when they're flying, they're spending so much energy they're heating up, so they like to fly when it's cool at night. And they're flying a couple thousand feet up. They're flying all night and then sometime in the morning they'll land and they'll spend the day looking for food. And then the next night, they'll often rise up again and keep flying north, so they're flying a couple 100 miles a night.”Discover the full interview here.A similar story also appeared at The Atlanta Journal Constitution.

11 Alive | 2025-04-28T00:00:00-04:00

How I finally found my confidence as a scientist

In an article published in Science, Maria Martignoni, a postdoctoral fellow at Georgia Tech’s Center for Microbial Dynamics and Infection, reflects on her path as a scientist and shares advice to students: "One does not need to have a clear life plan to belong in science. Many scientists know from the start that they want to be academic researchers. But for others the path unfolds gradually, with spurts of doubt and uncertainty along the way. In a way, that’s fitting. As researchers we are explorers, and part of our mission involves finding our way without always knowing where we are going.”

Science Magazine | 2025-04-10T00:00:00-04:00

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.