Forty Postdocs Receive "Thank a Teacher" Notes

Apr 01, 2019 - Atlanta, GA
Forty postdoctoral scholars were recognized at Celebrating Teaching Day 2019 as the recipients of “Thank a Teacher” notes.

Contraceptive Jewelry Could Offer a New Family Planning Approach

An earring is shown paired with a transdermal patch backing. The white ring is the patch containing the contraceptive hormone. (Credit: Mark Prausnitz, Georgia Tech)
Mar 26, 2019 - Atlanta, GA
Family planning for women might one day be as simple as putting on an earring.

When Sand-Slithering Snakes Behave Like Light Waves

Georgia Tech undergraduate student Lillian Chen demonstrates how she and colleague Alex Hubbard studied snakes as they moved through an arena covered with shag carpet to mimic sand. (Photo: Allison Carter, Georgia Tech)
Feb 25, 2019 - Atlanta, GA
A new study shows how the motion of snakes moving across a sandy surface can be affected by obstacles.

Brittain Fellow Rebekah Greene wins 2019 Joseph R. Dunlap Memorial Fellowship Award

Dec 19, 2018 - Chicago, IL
Greene Named as 2019 Joseph R. Dunlap Memorial Fellowship Award Winner by the William Morris Society in the United States

Study Finds Dramatic Growth in Numbers of “Supporting Scientists” on Research Teams

As university research has become more complex and interdisciplinary, laboratory teams have grown in size, with increasing numbers of specialists in such areas such as statistical analysis, electron microscopy or mass spectrometry. (Georgia Tech photo)
Dec 13, 2018 - Atlanta, GA
A new study examines the roles of supporting scientists in the research enterprise.

Swapping Bacteria May Help ‘Nemo’ Fish Cohabitate with Fish-Killing Anemones

A clownfish peers out of an anemone in a tank at Georgia Aquarium. Anemones usually sting, kill and eat fish, but not clownfish. Georgia Tech researchers found that the microbial colonies in the slime covering clownfish shifted markedly when the nested in an anemone. Could the microbes be putting out chemical messengers that pacify the fish killer? Credit: Georgia Tech / Ben Brumfield
Dec 10, 2018 - Atlanta, GA
Why the fish-killing anemone spares the clownfish is a scientific mystery that Georgia Tech marine microbiologists are now tackling in fish mucus.

Catalog of Cosmic Cataclysms Helps Establish Gravitational Wave Astronomy

Image shows simulation of gravitational waves produced when two binary black holes collide. (Credit: Center for Relativistic Astrophysics)
Dec 05, 2018 - Atlanta, GA
A new catalog of cataclysmic events supports the development of gravitational wave astronomy.

2019 Postdoc Teaching Courses are Open for Registration

Nov 28, 2018 -
Are you expecting to teach at the college level during the next phase of your career? Register for one or both of these six-week (non-credit) courses for postdocs offered by the Center for Teaching and Learning!

When Boy Fish Build Castles to Impress Girl Fish, Boy Genes Get a Rise

A special breed of cichlid fish has allowed researchers to match up gene activation with behavior. The up and down-regulation of genes may actually be steering ritual mating behaviors. The research is potentially useful in understanding autism since some genes involved in the fish behavior have human genetic cousins implicated in autism spectrum disorder. Credit: Georgia Tech / Rob Felt
Nov 21, 2018 - Atlanta, GA
Instinctive behavior may be directly driven be gene regulation, at least researchers were able to match the two up.

Brittain Fellow Courtney Hoffman Publishes Chapter on Theatre Productions of Frankenstein

Nov 07, 2018 - Atlanta, GA
Hoffman's essay, "‘Now I am a Man!’: Performing Sexual Violence in the National Theatre Production of Frankenstein," in the collection Global Frankenstein was just released in ebook in October and print in November, 2018.