Welcome to CoS-eNews!
Paul Houston, newly appointed Dean of the College of Sciences at Georgia Tech, would like to welcome you to this first edition of our new eNewsletter, CoS-eNews! (letter from the dean...)

Microbes May Use Chemicals to Compete for Food
Microbes may compete with large animal scavengers by producing repugnant chemicals  that deter higher species from consuming valuable food resources. (full story  | NPR interview:  aquatic ecologist Mark Hay )

Georgia Tech/Emory Center to Study Origin of Life
Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University have received a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to establish "The Origins Project", a center for integrated research, education and public outreach focused on the chemistry that may have led to the origin of life. (full story...)

Georgia Tech Takes Comprehensive Biofuels Approach
Georgia Tech researchers  are taking a comprehensive approach to producing bioethanol: selecting the best plant material, preparing the plants for conversion, breaking down the carbohydrates into simple sugars, fermenting the sugars into alcohol and separating the ethanol from water. (full story...)

Cave Records Provide Clues to Climate Change
When Georgia Tech Asst. Professor Kim Cobb and graduate student Jud Partin wanted to understand the mechanisms that drove the abrupt climate change events that occurred thousands of years ago, they didn't drill for ice cores from the glaciers of Greenland or the icy plains of Antarctica, as is customary for paleoclimatolgists. Instead, they went underground. (full story...)

Jean-Luc Bredas Third Most Cited for OTFTs
Jean-Luc Bredas is the third most cited author for scientific papers on organic thin-film transistors over the past decade.  (full story...)