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Illustration of NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft with Jupiter and its icy moon Europa in the background (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

In four years, NASA's Europa Clipper mission will arrive in Jupiter’s orbit to investigate whether the planet’s icy moon, Europa, could support life. In the interim, Professor Sven Simon is working to uncover critical information to support the rapid analysis of measurements from the mission.

Adam Decker demonstrates how the Anatomage Table turns traditional dissection into a high-tech learning experience.

Georgia Tech’s new Anatomage Table blends traditional dissection with digital technology  preparing students for the future of medicine.

Nursing students at the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University

Georgia Tech and the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University are partnering to develop a pipeline that prepares more local nurses to meet workforce demands. 

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Growing up in rural southwest Georgia, Kinsey Herrin loved “making stuff.” She loved it so much that she regularly dug up muddy clay from her family’s property and the surrounding area to make ceramics. As a prosthetist/orthotist, she creates and tests devices that help patients improve or regain mobility — from prosthetic limbs to braces of all kinds. But Herrin’s role at the Institute is even more expansive. She’s at the epicenter of a research community where medical devices, studies, data, patients, clinicians, and students collide.

Yurt-like test chambers in a natural boreal spruce bog in northern Minnesota (provided).

Peatlands make up just 3% of the earth’s land surface but store more than 30% of the world’s soil carbon, preserving organic matter and sequestering its carbon for tens of thousands of years. A new study sounds the alarm that an extreme drought event could quadruple peatland carbon loss in a warming climate. 

Deloitte Manager Maureen Metcalfe (M.S. in Biology, 2014) provided insights into the Deloitte recruiting process.

The Student-Employer Networking Expo (SENE) brought together nearly 200 science and math students with employers to build connections and explore career opportunities.

Experts In The News

In an article published by The Conversation, Professor Joseph Montoya, Postdoctoral Fellow Xing Zhou, and their collaborator discuss sargassum blooms and their impact on the Caribbean and Gulf coasts and the coasts of the tropical Atlantic. According to their research, the vast mats of smelly, brown seaweed affecting these areas may have entered a "self-sustaining cycle, effectively feeding their own expansion."

The Conversation July 28, 2026

Researchers in the School of Physics, working with King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, have found that standard methods for identifying chirality in topological phases fail when applied to mixed quantum states. The study reveals that established diagnostics, including bulk-boundary correspondence and the modular commutator, are unreliable in these complex systems. Consequently, the research presents two new measures, based on relative entropy, to accurately diagnose chirality and determine the chiral central charge in decohered topological phases, indicating a need for a new set of tools when investigating mixed-state topology.

Quantum Zeitgeist July 16, 2026