Dr. Sundaresan Jayaraman, a professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering, here at Georgia Tech worked on finding a form-fitting mask that provided superior protection against respiratory viruses like COVID-19. These masks, which have been in development even before the COVID-19 pandemic, aim to provide...

Being a Georgia Tech student sure does come with its ups and downs. There are times during the semester when your life is great, you meet up with friends, finish your work early, and even sleep before 10 pm. On the opposite side, there are weeks where...

As a senior in college, about to graduate with an engineering degree, I've come to actually appreciate the dreaded "group project" - and trust me, working with others can be very challenging. But on reflection, I can really see how they also build key skills in collaboration...

Working behind the scenes of an event can be an eye-opening experience, especially when it's a science show with a unique twist. That's exactly what happened when I had the opportunity to be a part of the Atlanta Science Festival's The Devil Wears Science fashion science show...

As STEM majors, if you look up helpful apps to help you while studying or writing papers, you’ll get a lot of listicles of apps that fall under a few categories: Costs money (or hidden costs) Does the same thing as a bunch of other apps. Most...

Have you heard the story about some scientists trying to turn purple petunias more purple, and instead the petunias threw a tantrum and turned white? The theory I heard was that because the method to insert new genes into an organism usually involves using a modified virus, when...

Since ancient times the causes of severe infectious diseases in humans have been puzzling to people. Specifically, the recurrence of outbreaks, the severity of outcomes after infection ranging from permanent sequelae to premature death as well as the large impact in numbers in human populations have created...

This semester, I started doing animal work in a research lab that uses mice as model organisms. Every time I’ve explained my training to other people, I usually get a shocked response. And I know this isn’t a common thing people do, so I wanted to give...

Brachistochrone - A word originating from Greece that means "shortest time." The brachistochrone problem is a well known problem in the world of physics that involves finding a curve such that, assuming there is no friction, a ball traveling along this curve would reach its destination in...

This semester I took a course called Locomotion Neuromechanics. Like me, you might think that it would be a course where you would learn more about the movement within one’s body, different things that can affect mobility, etc. However, after attending the first class, I realized it...

As my previous article mentioned, this will be focused on what my role in The Devil Wears Science and what my group had accomplished for everything to run smoothly. I was in the group called Too Hot to Handle along with Sachit Swaminathan and  Ashmitha Aravind. Below showcases what...

Whew! That was a rollercoaster of emotions. It has been a couple of weeks since our Atlanta Science Festival (ASF) event, The Devil Wears Science. We have been planning this fashion show since October 2022. All the hard work paid off and I couldn't have done it...