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  • Cracking the Brain’s Code

    Cracking the Brain’s Code

    Despite many discoveries in the field of neuroscience over the past several decades, researchers haven’t been able to fully crack the brain’s “neural code,” which explains how the brain’s roughly 100 billion neurons turn raw sensory inputs into information we can use. But in an article in Nature Neuroscience, biomedical engineering professor Garrett Stanley has more

  • Wrecks of Art

    Wrecks of Art

    On a sunny February afternoon, the Institute’s technological prowess took a backseat to the artistic bent of its undergraduate students, when the interior of the Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons was converted into a massive art gallery and performance space. As part of the second annual Clough Art Crawl, paintings, drawings and photographs stood on easels more

  • Clues in the Coral

    Clues in the Coral

    There were plenty of tedious moments over the many years Kim Cobb spent studying what fossil coral data can reveal about the Earth’s climate. And her graduate adviser, Miriam Kastner, was never shy about rubbing it in. “[She] was famous for saying that a monkey could do my thesis, by which she meant that it more

  • The Noon Basketball Association

    The Noon Basketball Association

    When I first joined the staff of the Georgia Tech Alumni Association in 2008, I quickly set out in search of pickup basketball. I’ve played hoops for years, and I figured a college campus would be an easy place to find a game. One day around noon, I climbed up to the fourth floor the more

  • Tech’s Gearheads Unite

    Tech’s Gearheads Unite

    With three hours to go, the students stared at a useless transmission in disbelief. The Georgia Tech Wreck Racing team had spent the past year tweaking a 1969 MG Midget to near perfection, and much of the crew was already in Gainesville, Fla., preparing for the Grassroots Motorsports Challenge. Those still in Atlanta had decided more