The Tower, Spring 2025 Edition

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The Tower, Georgia Tech’s undergraduate research journal, is seeking submissions from students across all disciplines who want to have their work published in a campuswide platform.
Three Georgia Tech researchers working together in the lab on cancer research

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Georgia Tech has been ranked 7th in the world in the 2026 Times Higher Education Interdisciplinary Science Rankings
Person sitting outdoors on stone steps wearing a light blue button-up shirt and black pants, with autumn trees and sunlight in the background.

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Inspired by MythBusters and her global childhood education, Nisha Detchprohm pursued mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech, earning both bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Now a research engineer at CEISMC, she creates accessible K-12 STEAM curricula and teacher training resources to spark curiosity and engagement. Through hands-on projects and creative tools, she conducts research with classroom impact, empowering educators and inspiring the next generation.

Evolved snowflake yeast

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The grant will enable research into the origin of complex life.
This is a photo of a technician at PBS Aeros space placing a part on a balancing machine in the company's manufacturing facility

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Georgia Tech’s research and talent are helping PBS Aerospace launch a new era of aerospace manufacturing in Roswell, Georgia — advancing U.S. defense innovation and fueling the state’s growing leadership in drone and propulsion technology.
Brandon Biggs

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A Georgia Tech Ph.D. student who is nearly blind has developed Audiom, a cross-sensory digital map that translates spatial and geographic information into audio so that blind users can “hear” maps.
Researcher adjusting a device on another person’s head in a lab, with a computer displaying brain imaging data and a mounted camera in the background.

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Faculty at Georgia Tech use their expertise in engineering, math, and computer science to apply common principles of these disciplines to neuroscience research. Within the Institute for Neuroscience, Neurotechnology, and Society (INNS), neuroscientists use these quantitative methods to understand how humans think, treat disorders such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, and better understand psychiatric disorders.

Jieyu Zhou

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AI-powered 311 chatbots may unitentionally reduce residents' sense of connection within their community.
This close-up illustration shows what one of the twin ESCAPADE spacecraft will look like conducting its science operations. James Rattray/Rocket Lab USA/Goddard Space Flight Center

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Envision a time when hundreds of spacecraft are exploring the solar system and beyond. That’s the future that NASA’s ESCAPADE, or Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, mission will help unleash.
China’s Shenzhou-20 spacecraft – shown here hitching a ride on a Long March-2F carrier rocket – was hit by a piece of space debris. Pedro Pardo/AFP via Getty Images

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China’s Shenzhou-20 spacecraft took a hit from a piece of space debris floating through orbit, causing Chinese officials to delay the spacecraft’s return from its Tiangong space station in early November 2025.