By listening for specific vocal changes, BRAVE Innovation's COVIDvoice will be able to detect if a voice donor has COVID-19. This will act as an early warning system for donors who provide contact information, and will help us get our schools, teams, and communities back together, safely.

Dobromir Rahnev, assistant professor in the School of Psychology, has won the American Psychological Assocation's Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions Award.

The APA Distinguished Scientific Awards for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology honor early career scientists for contributions in the first nine years post-PhD.

Samsung is partnering with Georgia Tech on research associated with consumer electronics so that individuals with disabilities can achieve independence, improve quality of life, and enhance their community participation. The electronics manufacturing giant is highlighting its partnership with the Wireless Inclusive Technologies Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center (RERC), a collaboration including Shepherd Center’s Virginia C. Crawford Research Institute and Georgia Tech.

In addition to encouraging weekly testing, mask-wearing, and physical distancing, Georgia Tech researchers have developed even more ways for members of the Georgia Tech community to help slow the spread. Those include a unique voice-related project led by Bruce Walker, professor in the School of Psychology. 

The headline on this story doesn't refer to the actual lifting of a piano. It's about learning a complicated skill (like piano) at a later age in life, long after the neuroplasticity that helps younger people learn the necessary dexterity and musical skils has faded. The story quotes Alexander P. Burgoyne, a postdoctoral researcher in Randall Engle's Attention and Working Memory Lab in the School of Psychology.

If you noticed a Tom Cruise deepfake video making the rounds recently on your social media accounts, you'll want to check out another video — this tutorial on deepfakes (videos that use artificial intelligence to replace the likeness of one person with another) by School of Psychology graduate student Zachary Tidler, who is investigating the phenomenon and the ethical issues raised by them.

Improving creativity, managing anxiety, and strengthening relationships are just three of the benefits of daydreaming, according to this Yahoo!Life story that cites academic studies touting the good side of occasionally checking out from your own head.

Lauren Moran, a first-year doctoral student in the School of Psychology's Work Family Health Lab, is working with the United Nations to develop its talent management systems, including measurement of employee engagement, and improve reward and recognition systems.

School of Psychology alumnus Myounghoon "Philart" Jeon has received the Earl Alluisi Award for Early Career Achievement from the American Psychological Association.

It's what we should have told our middle school teachers when they caught us staring off into space in class: Daydreaming can be "a powerful mental health tool," according to this Popular Science story. The argument is backed up by a 2019 study led by School of Psychology researchers who noted that participants improved work performance and emotional states thanks to some mind wandering.