Georgia Institute of Technology College of Sciences

The last blockbuster of the summer season promises to be more spectacular than any movie about superheroes or shape-shifting robots. This particular show has been going on since human history has been recorded, and it’s back once again to thrill and educate everyone, including the Georgia Tech community.

A team of Georgia Institute of Technology researchers has created an original music composition for Monday’s eclipse. The Georgia Tech Sonification Lab uses drums, synthesized tones and other sounds to symbolize the movements of the sun and moon and the gradual darkness they will produce during the August 21 event. The audio experience, which at times sounds both hopeful and ominous as it builds anticipation toward the moment of the total eclipse, includes several segments.

Gigi Pavur will look out into the faces of almost 4,000 Tech freshmen, transfer students, and parents, and officially welcome them into the Georgia Tech community on Sunday

CEISMC has been awarded a two-year  National Science Foundation (NSF) grant of $426,500 to explore social networks and self-efficacy as factors influencing the retention of Noyce teachers in high-needs schools. Funded by NSF, the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program recruits and prepares highly effective K-12 STEM educators to teach in high-needs schools

A flick of a switch, and electrochromic films change their colors. Now they can be applied more safely and more commonly thanks to an innovative chemical process that makes them water soluble. They can be sprayed and printed, instead of being confined behind safety implements to handle volatile and toxic fumes.