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May 15, 2025 by Jessica C Bowman

Alex Deans-Rowe receives Teaching Assistant Award

PhD candidate and graduate research assistant Alex Deans-Rowe was presented with a William Emerson Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award at the 2025 El-Sayed Spring Research Symposium on May 8, 2025. Congratulations, Alex!

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April 25, 2025 by Jessica C Bowman

Keisha Durggin receives EVPR Institute Research Award

April 25, 2025. PI Loren Williams’s Faculty Support Coordinator, Research Admin Manager Keisha Durggin, along with Transuranic Chemistry Center of Research Excellence (TRU CoRE) PI Henry La Pierre and Research Scientist Julie Niklas, received a 2025 Georgia Tech Research Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research Program Development. This award is given annually to “a research team, preferably composed of both faculty and staff, that creates a new thought leadership platform to significantly expand Georgia Tech’s research and scholarship portfolio.” Congratulations, Keisha!

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April 22, 2025 by Jessica C Bowman

PI Loren Williams speaks at UW Astrobiology Colloquium

iCOOL Principal Investigator Loren Williams spoke on The Origins of Life on Earth and in the Universe at the University of Washington as part of a Spring 2025 Astrobiology Colloquium Series. The series is hosted by the University of Washington Astrobiology Program.

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March 10, 2025 by Jessica C Bowman

iCOOL celebrates STEAM at the Atlanta Science Festival

The Center for Integration of the Origins of Life (iCOOL) demonstrated “Chilling with Science: Cool Beyond Belief” at the kickoff of the 12th Atlanta Science Festival by the Georgia Tech community on March 8, 2025. iCOOL’s demonstration featured ultra COOL tricks with liquid N2 and solid CO2.

“Chilling with Science” Atlanta Science Festival demonstrators Yuzheng Yang, Lilian Teodoro, Alex Deans-Rowe, Biswajit Banerjee, Loren Williams, Morgan Polk, Rowan Stephan, and Chieri Ito

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November 1, 2024 by Jessica C Bowman

iCOOL participates in the WISE in Washington, D.C.

November 1, 2024. PI Loren Williams, Co-I Eric Smith, and PhD student Vahab Rajaei participated in the Workshop on Information, Selection, and Evolution (WISE) at the Carnegie Science Earth and Planets Laboratory in Washington, D.C., October 23-25, 2024. The purpose of the WISE is to convene expert and influential thinkers to share and discuss ideas, break disciplinary barriers, and further our understanding of the processes by which order arises.

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September 15, 2024 by Jessica C Bowman

Co-I Anton Petrov speaks at the University of Houston

seminar announcement

September 15, 2024. Center for Integration of the Origins of Life Co-I Anton Petrov was invited to speak at the University of Houston on September 11, 2024. His presentation on the Origins of Evolution and the Translation Machinery was part of the University of Houston Department of Biology and Biochemistry’s Fall 2024 Seminar Series.

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