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  • InVenture Prize Honors Undergrad Inventors

    Now in its fifth year, the InVenture Prize competition serves as an annual celebration of innovation among Georgia Tech’s undergrads. From an initial pool of 500 applicants, six teams were selected to compete in the March 13 live finals, broadcast on Georgia Public Broadcasting. Here are the finalists. Chewbots What is it? A line of more

  • Hitting the GPA ‘Reboot’ Button

    As everyone who remembers “getting out” knows, there’s no reset button for a low GPA.But Tech’s Reboot Academic Recovery Program offers some help for students looking to improve their academic standing. Reboot automatically invites all students on academic probation (those with a 2.2 or lower GPA) to apply and encourages applications from any first- or more

  • 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

    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

    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