ALL ABOUT THE COMMUNITY NEWSMAKERS
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Krishnendu Roy wins Georgia Tech award for outstanding achievement
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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Vinod Ruppa-Kasani honored at Georgia Science & Engineering Fair
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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Prof. Joyce Fuleckiger receives Emory Excellence Award
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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Emory Excellence Award for Prof. Amita Manatunga
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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Shyam K. Reddy appointed chair of the Carter Center’s Board of Councilors
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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Padma Bhushan for Dr. Jagdish Sheth
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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Neha Devineni receives a Prudential award
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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Team Atlantis shines at its first robotics tournament
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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CREATE-X bags Amazon’s Alexa fellowship
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.
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Sharvil Patel wins entrepreneur award from Emory
March 2020 -
Emory University student Sharvil Patel is the founder and Executive Director of OmniMed, a nonprofit run by students that uses technology tools to make access to healthcare more equitable.
