Sonja Brankovic, a second-year mechanical engineering PhD student at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has received the 2020 Chih Foundation Graduate Student Research Publication Award for her first-author paper entitled "MMP12 Preferentially Attenuates Axial Stiffening of Aging Arteries."
Dear Woodruff School Family,
You don’t get much more Atlanta than Kentez Craig.
“I grew up just five minutes south of the airport,” said Craig. “My parents were always driving to the local hospital or fire station for work.”
They’re not just outstanding students; they’re Georgia Tech tradition-keepers. Armando Gonzalez and Aaron Burtz are two of just a handful of students who have ever donned black tights, a fuzzy head, and antennae to embody Georgia Tech’s mascot, Buzz.
“It’s hot,” Burtz joked when asked about his memories as mascot. “Really, though, I’ll remember pre-game and seeing the faces of the youngest fans light up when they see Buzz.”
Why did the gecko climb the skyscraper? Because it could; its toes stick to about anything. Engineers can already emulate the secrets of gecko stickiness to make strips of rubbery materials that can pick up and release objects, but simple mass production for everyday use has been out of reach until now.
