ALL ABOUT THE COMMUNITY NEWSMAKERS
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May 2018 -
A scholar, musician, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, Mehul Bhagat is the 2018 class orator and the only student to speak at the diploma ceremony this month at the Emory College of Arts and Sciences.
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May 2018 -
Nina Gummadi of Suwanee, GA, has won a Fulbright Scholar Award and will be working on mental health issues of parentless children in Thotapalli, South India. She plans to pursue pediatrics.
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May 2018 -
Zoher F. Kapasi is the new dean of the Medical University of South Carolina’s College of Health Professions. He has been an academic leader and acclaimed teacher at Emory University School of Medicine.
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May 2018 -
A Georgia Tech student team, led by senior Arjun Bir, came up with an affordable test that detects E. coli, winning grand prize in the MIT Water Innovation Prize competition.
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May 2018 -
Atlantan Ayush Setty, the 2018 Georgia Brain Bee champion, participated in the 11th National Brain Bee competition in Baltimore and came in sixth. Seven of the eight top winners were Indian-Americans.
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May 2018 -
Atlantan Meghana Nallajerla has won a Fulbright Scholar Award to Sri Lanka. She will research intergenerational trauma among Tamil families who survived the civil war.
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May 2018 -
Vishal Sareddy, an eighth grader at Riverwatch Middle School, Suwanee (Forsyth County), Georgia, successfully defended his title of Georgia State Geography Champion.
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May 2018 -
Aventure Aviation and CocoaTown were among 40 winners of the Georgia’s GLOBE Awards, which recognize companies selling their products or services to a new country over the previous year.
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May 2018 -
As well as being a Georgia GLOBE Award winner (see previous Newsmaker report), Cocoatown was among the top 10 companies receiving credits from UPS in the March 28, 2018 Atlanta Metro Export Challenge.
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April 2018 -
Junior Mona Mahadevan and senior Arjun Srinivasan helped earn Woodward Academy's third consecutive Georgia State Debate Championship win. Info also on Praval Kandimalla and Sachi Reddy.
