ALL ABOUT THE COMMUNITY NEWSMAKERS
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June 2020 -
Ananya Ganesh of The Westminster School, Atlanta, was selected as one of this year’s 150 Coca-Cola scholars, chosen from more than 93,000 applicants residing in the country.
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June 2020 -
Prof. Krishnendu Roy, who is with the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, and with the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, won the the 2020 award for research program
development.
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May 2020 -
Vinod Ruppa-Kasani receives multiple awards at 72nd Georgia Science & Engineering Fair
Vinod Ruppa-Kasani, a student of Grade 9 at Chattahoochee High School, Johns Creek, Georgia picked up multiple awards at the recently concluded 72nd Georgia Science & Engineering Fair (GSEF). He was awarded for his project, “Detecting and Imaging Triple Negative Breast Cancer Using Perovskite Quantum Dots”.
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May 2020 -
Dr. Joyce B. Fuleckiger receives Emory Women of Excellence Award
Already a recipient of Emory’s highest award for teaching, the Emory Williams Teaching Award in 2003, Dr. Joyce B. Fuleckiger, PhD, has now been honored with The Emory Women of Excellence Awards for Mentorship for 2020.
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May 2020 -
Emory Women of Excellence Award for Amita K. Manatunga
Amita K. Manatunga, PhD, has been honored with The Emory Women of Excellence Awards for Mentorship for 2020. She has been recognized for her extensive record of mentoring women statisticians and for co-founding the ENAR Diversity workshop, which seeks to promote recruitment, retention and mentoring of underrepresented graduate students.
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May 2020 -
Shyam K. Reddy appointed chair of the Carter Center’s Board of Councilors
Shyam K. Reddy has been appointed chair of the Carter Center’s Board of Councilors for 2020. Chief administrative officer and senior vice president of corporate development at BlueLinx Corporation, Reddy follows outgoing chair Dan Cathy, chairman, president and CEO of Chick-fil-A.
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March 2020 -
Dr. Jagdish Sheth, Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Business at Goizueta Business School, Emory University, was honored with the Government of India’s Padma Bhushan award on the country’s Republic Day, January 26, 2020.
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March 2020 -
Neha Devineni, 17 from Atlanta who is a high school senior at Riverwood International Charter School, is the founder of ASA , a nonprofit she started in 2017 to help underprivileged children with nutrition, sanitation, and education.
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March 2020 -
Atman Singh, Ayyan Vellore, Arav Dash, and Sammy Shalim, 13-year-old eighth-graders from Johns Creek—are the brains behind the robotics team Atlantis 17456 that partnered in a 3-team alliance to win the First Tech Challenge’s Central Georgia League Tournament in January.
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March 2020 -
CREATE-X, an entrepreneurship teaching program at Georgia Tech, will partner with Amazon to mentor and fund student start-ups in the fields of voice technology and conversational AI.
