Nicole Larsen - Astronaut Foundation Scholar
Nicole Larsen,  a senior with a dual  major in Physics & Mathematics is a cutting-edge undergraduate researcher and a recent recipient of the prestigious Astronaut Scholarship Foundation award. (full story...)

Scientists warn: cut emissions now to avoid climate tipping point
Countries need to act soon to cut carbon dioxide emissions if the worst impacts of global warming are to be avoided, warned a panel of scientists  speaking at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union. The group, which  included EAS Professor  Paul Webster from Georgia Tech, said that Earth's climate system is approaching tipping points that once breached may be irreversible and unstoppable on a practical time scale. ( full story... )

Tech teaching high school students calculus via distance learning
How do high schools provide advanced classes to one or two bright students who have completed all the math classes their high schools offer? Fulton & Cobb County Schools have found a solution — partnering with Georgia Tech to provide college-level calculus classes taught by Math professor Tom Morley via distance-learning technologies. ( full story... )

Carbon nanosheets promise super-fast chips
Atom-thick sheets of a carbon compound called graphene should smash the record for  room-temperature conductivity.  But at present it's hard to isolate pure layers of graphene suitable for industrial manufacture. Professor Walt de Heer at Georgia Tech & colleagues are working to overcome this problem. "We are able to 'grow' a canvas of material that has similar if not identical electrical properties" (full story...)