Physics to Host Climate Talk with Former U.S. Secretary of Energy, Nobel Laureate

Physicist Steven Chu was the first person appointed to the U.S. Cabinet after having won a Nobel Prize. On April 26, he will deliver a public lecture at Georgia Tech on climate change and innovative paths towards a more sustainable future.

Making Medicines: Vinayak Agarwal Awarded NSF CAREER Grant for Peptide Research

Over 100 peptide-based drugs are currently available in the US, where they’re used to treat conditions ranging from type-2 diabetes to MS

Chemistry, Chaos, Peptides, and (Infinite) Problems: Georgia Tech Researchers Pioneer New Frontiers with NSF CAREER Grants

Five Georgia Tech College of Sciences researchers have been awarded CAREER grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

The Fundamental Questions: Jesse McDaniel Awarded NSF CAREER Grant for Research Into New Method of Predicting Chemical Reaction Rates, Leveraging Computer Modeling

By developing modeling techniques that can be applied to reactions at multiple scales, McDaniel aims to expand scientist’s ability to predict and model chemical reactions, and how they interact with their environments.

A new hypothesis states that the first sugars emerged from glyoxylate (pictured as the center molecule). In this hypothesis, glyoxylate first reacts with itself and then the byproducts from these reactions, ultimately forming simple sugars and other products (pictured as the surrounding molecules). Credit: Scripps Research and Unsplash

Where Did the First Sugars Come From?

Origin-of-life chemists from Scripps Research and the Georgia Institute of Technology propose that glyoxylate could have been the original source of sugars on the “prebiotic” Earth.

Announcing the Recipients of the 2022-2023 Krish Roy – GRA Travel Awards

Spotlight on the recipients of the award