ALL ABOUT THE COMMUNITY NEWSMAKERS
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August 2020 -
Archith Seshadri of Nexstar Media Group received the Knight TV Data Fellowship. The Knight TV Data Fellowship is funded by the Knight Foundation to strengthen data watchdog skills at local TV stations across the United States.
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August 2020 -
Unjali Gujral and Megha Shah of Rollins School of Public Health, School of Medicine at Emory, have been awarded one of the seven grants to researchers to improve health outcomes
for Atlanta’s at-risk immigrant population.
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August 2020 -
As a recipient of Washington Leadership Program 2020 which places South Asian youth in various government and elected offices for summer internships, Tarun Ramesh will be interning at Department of Health and Human Services–Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services this summer.
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August 2020 -
Bhavin Patel, a political science student at the University of West Georgia, has been named president of the College Democrats of Georgia (CDG).
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July 2020 -
Princeton senior Preeti Iyer, a resident of Alpharetta, Georgia, received the Walter E. Hope Class of 1901 Medal, which recognizes the senior who, in the judgment of the student’s classmates, has done the most for Princeton University.
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July 2020 -
Santosh Kaveti, ProArch’s current CEO, will continue in that position with the acquired company, which will be known as iV4, a ProArch Company. iV4’s current CEO Michael Spoont will serve as president.
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July 2020 -
Nihshanka Debroy, the son of noted economist Bibek Debroy and a former under-12 Delhi chess champion who twice represented his state at the national level, has just had his debut novel, Checkmate, released by Westland in India.
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July 2020 -
Mahak Jain of Bhopal, India, who committed to Georgia Tech University in 2019, is part of the Georgia Tech women’s tennis 2020 recruiting class, ranked no. 2 by Tennis Recruiting Network and Mizuno, the sportswear and equipment company.
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June 2020 -
Prof. Devesh Ranjan, who is with Georgia Tech’s George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, led a research team at Georgia Tech to create a prototype for a low-cost, portable emergency ventilator that uses electronic sensors and computer control to manage key clinical parameters such as respiration rate, tidal volume,inspiration and expiration ratio, and pressure on the lungs.
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June 2020 -
Prof. Raman Parimala, Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Emory College of Arts and Siences is one of 11 “STEM” Indian women scientists being recognized by the Indian government with a chair
created in their honor.
