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Georgia Tech has appointed David Sherrill as executive director of the Institute for Data Engineering and Science (IDEaS), effective March 1. Sherrill is a Regents' Professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry with a joint appointment in the School of Computational Science & Engineering. Sherrill has served as associate director for IDEaS since its founding in 2016 and as interim director since January 1, 2025.
The Plant Library enables the campus community to learn environmental concepts, unwind, and help new plants take root.
In the latest episode of Generating Buzz, Lesley Baradel explores the high-protein food craze and explains how the rise of GLP-1s factors into the increased focus on this essential macronutrient.
Templeton has dedicated six decades to Georgia Tech — as a student, administrator, and volunteer — demonstrating an enduring commitment to his beloved alma mater.
It is the highest degree of membership awarded by the society. "I look forward to giving back to the physics community, supporting the mission of the society, and working to remind the next generation that physics is for everyone," says Kamerlin.
The fellowship is one of the most competitive and prestigious awards available to early-career scholars, and will support Freeman as he studies birds worldwide from Appalachia to Ecuador, investigating how mountain species respond to a changing climate — and how to facilitate their survival.
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Bacteria have no neurons or memories in the human sense. Yet in a new study, researchers at Georgia Tech and Carnegie Mellon University — including School of Physics Associate Professor Shiladitya Banerjee and Postdoctoral Fellow Josiah Kratz — found that individual E. coli cells carried traces of past hardship into the future. When nutrients repeatedly rose and fell, the cells changed how quickly they grew, suggesting that even simple microbes can use experience to prepare for what may come next.
ZME Science June 10, 2026A new Georgia Tech study found the chemical plume from the 2024 BioLab fire in Conyers, Ga., released bromine, not chlorine, as its dominant compound in the immediate aftermath. This finding stands in stark contrast to early public warnings about the fire, which prompted 17,000 evacuations, closed portions of I-20, and led to overnight shelter-in-place orders for weeks. Nearly two years later, the U.S. Chemical Safety Board is still investigating the fire and chemical release.
The Georgia Tech paper containing the study was published in the March 2026 issue of Environmental Science & Technology Letters and identified 26 different chemical species in the air following the Sept. 29, 2024, fire at the BioLab facility in Conyers. The authors wrote that the chemically complex plume "exposed millions in metropolitan Atlanta to numerous toxic compounds" and represented the first detailed study of a pool chemical facility fire.
GPB June 10, 2026
