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Recent News

BrandSafway was honored as the 2024 Internship Company of the Year. (From left): Susan Lozier, Karl Fessenden, Lauren Hester, Nadia Muhammad, Karen Riapos, Brenton Jones, and David Gaston.

The annual Student and Alumni Leadership Dinner highlighted the importance of alumni-student connections, with BrandSafway receiving the first-ever Internship Employer of the Year award for its outstanding internship program.


New College of Sciences ARCS Scholars (from left to right): Alivia Eng, Marrissa Izykowicz, Zach Mobille, and John Pederson.

Highlighting their potential to make significant contributions to science and technology, four College of Sciences Ph.D. candidates have earned the prestigious Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation Scholar Award.



Estefania Garcia, featured for the second time for her work with the US Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management, is a graduate student studying biogeochemistry.


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ARCS Foundation Atlanta awarded a total of $117,500 to 15 Ph.D. students who show exceptional promise of making a significant contribution to the worldwide advancement of science and technology.


Upcoming Events

Seminars are held on Thursdays from 11:00 AM-12:00 PM (except where noted) virtually or in the Charles H. Jones Auditorium (L1205) in the Ford ES&T Building. For more information, please contact the Main Office at (404) 894-3893 or the speaker host (listed below).

Organizers: Ali Sarhadi, Shi Sim, and Nisaa Buchanan

Nov
07
2024

The focus of this talk is the comparison of hydroclimate variability from the middle Holocene to present in paleoclimate data to that from state-of-the-art climate models.

Nov
08
2024

Come join the Spatial Ecology and Paleontology Lab every Friday for Fossil Fridays! Become a fossil hunter and help discover how vertebrate communities have changed through time.

Nov
09
2024

Celebrate homecoming and cheer on the Yellow Jackets with the College of Sciences.

Nov
14
2024

The Cascadia subduction zone (CSZ) has previously hosted great earthquakes of moment magnitude > 8.0 and poses a major hazard to communities in the Pacific Northwest.

Nov
15
2024

Come join the Spatial Ecology and Paleontology Lab every Friday for Fossil Fridays! Become a fossil hunter and help discover how vertebrate communities have changed through time.

Experts in the News

Hurricane Helene hit parts of inland North Carolina and caused flooding and damage in parts of Georgia, both areas not used to these sorts of conditions. Annalisa Bracco, a professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, said climate change is causing extreme weather conditions in places unfamiliar with these disasters.

“In general, [the increase in natural disasters] is telling us that the climate is indeed changing and that climate models have been overall correct in predicting conditions that will exacerbate extreme events, and we are seeing the impacts of that,” Bracco said. 

“Temperatures are getting higher and extremes are getting more common: more droughts, more heavy rains, more forest fires, more heat waves, increased storminess, also more strong cold spells in places not used to getting them as strong.”

The Southerner

October 29, 2024

The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season has been intense, marked by multiple powerful storms hitting the U.S. coast. The season runs from June 1 to November 30, with conditions like warm ocean temperatures and low wind shear fostering storm development. "Storms can intensify fast if they encounter the right conditions and that could happen at any time," says Annalisa Bracco, associate chair and professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. "But we are later in the season, and that means that favorable conditions for fast intensification are less likely than when Milton happened. Wind shear tends to be stronger — on average — at the end of October compared to early September, and sea surface temperatures are on average cooler than in August-September."

Newsweek

October 22, 2024

Talk about a Halloween treat. Astronomers say a recently discovered comet will be blazing by the Earth in broad daylight just in time for Halloween. Professor James Wray in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences says Comet C/2024 S1, first found at the end of September, will pass around the Earth on Oct. 24. "Look low in the eastern sky just before sunrise,” says Wray. "Then, after swinging around the sun, the comet may reappear in the western night sky right around Halloween.”

Related Coverage: The Times of India, Space.com

New York Post

October 21, 2024

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