Georgia Tech College of Sciences

Biophysicist Lynn Kamerlin Becomes Institute of Physics Fellow

🎉Congrats to Professor @lynnkamerlin.bsky.social on being named an @iop.org Fellow.
Kamerlin's research in computational biophysics is at the intersection of chemistry and biology. She investigates fundamental physical chemistry and uses computational tools to understand biomolecular problems.

Is the Whole Universe Just a Simulation?

💡 Physics Associate Professor Zeb Rocklin recently took a deep dive into the simulation hypothesis — the idea that the world is a computer simulation, akin to a giant video game in which we're the characters. 👀 Check out Rocklin's review:

Measles can ravage the immune system and brain, causing long-term damage – a virologist explains Complications from measles infection are surprisingly common.

Measles is not "just a rash." It's one of the most contagious diseases in the world and can cause long-term damage to the immune system and the brain.
💡Professor Peter Kasson explains the near-and long-term risks: theconversation.com/measles-can-...

💬Support from the @rescorp.org is much appreciated right now to maintain our research productivity and pedagogic service to our student body. The focus of RCSA extends beyond scientific research to include student success, which is in excellent concert with Georgia Tech’s mission. - Vinayak Agarwal

Vinayak Agarwal Wins Bridge Award

🎉We congratulate Associate Professor Vinayak Agarwal on receiving the @rescorp.org Bridge Award, which provides continuity funding to support early-career researchers pursuing programs focused on training the next generation of scientists.

Yellow Jacket Connection Sparks Glaucoma Research Fund at Tech

👁️ Glaucoma is a group of eye diseases that can lead to vision loss and blindness. 
Georgia Tech is advancing the fight against this condition through a new Glaucoma Research Fund that aims to support cutting-edge work to understand and advance treatments.

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🎉 Congratulations to School of Mathematics Assistant Professor Gong Chen, recipient of the 2026–2027 @amermathsoc.bsky.social Stefan Bergman Fellowship, a prestigious award recognizing exceptional early-career mathematicians.
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Congrats to incoming School of Biological Sciences Assistant Professor Armita Manafzadeh for her Carl Gans Young Investigator Award from the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology.

Joining Georgia Tech in Aug. 2026, her lab will explore how joints work and how they evolved.

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College of Sciences Professor Named AI in Higher Education Faculty Fellow

🎉Congrats Physics Professor Flavio Fenton on being named an inaugural Bill Kent Family Foundation AI in Higher Education Faculty Fellow. This fellowship will support his project to develop AI-enabled instructional modules.
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Coastal Resilience Project Secures Nearly $1 Million to Restore Wetlands

🌊 A new Coastal Resilience Project has secured nearly $1 million to restore wetlands in south Georgia.

🗣️ “Restoring wetlands is not just an environmental priority—it’s a resilience strategy,” says Joel Kostka, faculty director of Georgia Tech for Georgia’s Tomorrow.
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AI4Science Center Awards Inaugural Seed Grants

We are pleased to announce the inaugural recipients of #AI4Science Center’s seed grants. Led by faculty from across the Institute, the selected projects push the boundaries of AI-enabled scientific discovery.
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Science for Public Good: Introducing the Community Engagement Graduate Fellows

Meet the @gtsciences.bsky.social grad students selected for the new Community Engagement Graduate Fellowship, made possible through a gift from Google. They will develop projects that positively impact metro Atlanta and highlight how science can align with public good.
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Garg Recognized as Rising Star

🌟Congratulations to Neha Garg, Blanchard Early Career Professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, who has been selected as a recipient of the @acs.org's 2026 Women Chemists Committee (WCC) Rising Star Award. 🌟

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Outside the Box: The Adaptation of Georgia Tech’s Beekeeper in Residence From Advertising to Apiaries

In 2025, Deb DeWitt was named Beekeeper of the Year by the Georgia Beekeepers Association. 🍯 Discover her journey from advertising to apiaries and test out her favorite honey-inspired recipes.

“I fell in love with honey bees and all things related. There is an innate spirituality in keeping bees. Once I put the veil on, life slows to a standstill and becomes a walking meditation into a delicately complex and endlessly fascinating world.”
-Deb DeWitt, Georgia Tech’s Beekeeper in Residence

Meet Deb DeWitt, Georgia Tech’s 2025 Beekeeper in Residence with the Urban Honey Bee Project. DeWitt mentors student beekeepers and maintains colonies at The Kendeda Building and in the EcoCommons.
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Karl Lang Earns Scialog Grant to Advance Critical Minerals Research

Modern tech depends on critical minerals — and many key resources are rare earth elements.

🎉 Congrats to Karl Lang on earning a Scialog grant to study how radiation affects REE-hosting minerals, in collaboration with Claudia Avalos.

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Professor Will Ratcliff’s lab has pioneered one of the world’s longest-running evolution experiments. For more than a decade, his lab's snowflake yeast has completed tens of thousands of life cycles, providing a unique lens for studying how single-celled organisms make the leap to multicellularity.

Georgia Tech Professor Awarded John Templeton Foundation Grant

#Congrats | Professor @wcratcliff.bsky.social has been awarded a @templetonfdn.bsky.social grant for his groundbreaking research into the origins of multicellular life.

Andrzej Święch Named Fellow of the American Mathematical Society

🎉Congrats to Math Professor Andrzej Święch on being named a @amermathsoc.bsky.social Fellow. Professor Święch joined Georgia Tech in 1993 and is a leading global expert in the theory of viscosity solutions in nonlinear partial differential equations.

Anton Leykin Awarded AI for Math Fund Grant

School of Mathematics Professor Anton Leykin and an international research team have been awarded an AI for Math Fund grant to develop an AI-powered interface that bridges the gap between proof verification and computational algebra.

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Undergraduate Neuroscience Research Program Gives Georgia Tech Students an Advantage

Georgia Tech is building a neuroscience pipeline that starts early and runs deep. Each year, more than 100 undergraduates conduct neuroscience research in labs across campus, including at @gtsciences.bsky.social.

Professor Randall Engle Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

🎉We congratulate Psychology Professor Randall Engle on receiving the 2026 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for Intelligence Research. His pioneering work focuses on the nature of our ability to maintain attention and focus in the face of external and internal distractions.

"My work this year will show people that crafting traditions are incredible technological feats — they are entire knowledge systems waiting to be explored. There is so much we can learn from craft.”
- Alexander Cachine, Ph.D. student in the School of Physics

#Congrats 🎉 Physics Ph.D. student Alexander Cachine has been awarded a @stevejobsarchive.bsky.social Fellowship for his work using ancient textile techniques, like knitting and weaving, to solve modern medical challenges.

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New Stats HelpDesk Empowers Georgia Tech Researchers

Thank you to @eastshie.bsky.social for creating the new Stats HelpDesk, providing guidance and support for researchers at Georgia Tech who are stuck on statistics! cos.gatech.edu/news/new-sta...

Diatoms—tiny ocean algae with glassy shells—don’t just capture CO₂ while alive. Georgia Tech researchers found they leave a chemical fingerprint after death, playing a lasting role in Earth’s climate regulation. b.gatech.edu/44gy6qi

Space Exploration in the Backyard, On a Budget – How NASA Simulates Conditions in Space Without Blasting Off

For Bretzfelder, participating in one of NASA's analog missions “was one of a kind. We had the satisfaction of knowing that our efforts advanced space exploration in its own small way, one IQ test and slapdash cake at a time."
Read about her experiences here⤵️

Space Exploration in the Backyard, On a Budget – How NASA Simulates Conditions in Space Without Blasting Off

Postdoc Fellow Jordan Bretzfelder served as a volunteer crew geologist during a 28-day lunar surface mission simulated by NASA. Such simulations, known as analogs, replicate elements of a real mission so that researchers can study crew performance and test instruments developed for use in space.