Aquatic Harmonics
The Take Away.org - Dec. 24  Researchers at GEORGIA TECH have developed technology that  tracks movements of fish in a tank by corresponding their movement with musical notes.  The end result is a polyphonic pleasure that will allow visually impaired people to enjoy aquariums, zoos, and other places of informative learning.  ( Podcast w/Bruce Walker  | Accessible Aquarium Project - be sure to checkout all the movie samples at the bottom of this page | Bruce Walker )

Uzi Landman honored with Humboldt Award
Nanowerk News - Dec. 23 Regents Professor Uzi Landman is the recipient of a Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists. He will accept the award in June 2009 at the annual meeting of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation . . .Humboldt Awards are given to researchers whose fundamental discoveries have had a significant impact on their own discipline and who are expected to continue producing significant achievements in the future.  (full story... | Uzi Landman )

Profile: EAS's  Carol Paty
Physics Central  - Dec '08  The American Physical Society online magazine Physics Central recently did a piece profiling Dr. Carol Paty,  assistant professor in the school of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, and new arrival here at Tech. Her research focus is planetary magnetospheric dynamics. ( read the article | Carol Paty )

Notes from the Hill - interim president Schuster  joins the blogosphere
Interim president,  provost,  &  former CoS dean Gary Schuster somehow manages to find time to also pen a pretty good blog.  Notes from the Hill  is just one of many blogs written by members of the Tech Community, all of which can  be accessed via the new Blogs@Tech section of the Georgia Tech website. Click on over and have a read. Feel free to add a comment, but please don't Flame him - he's already got a few Trolls lurking about the comment bin. If you do though, he might have to Mod You Down! (Notes from the Hill | Gary Schuster | Internet slang translator )