ALL ABOUT THE COMMUNITY NEWSMAKERS
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Prof. Jagdish Sheth honored with Thomas Jefferson Award
June 2019 -
Prof. Jagdish Sheth has been awarded the Thomas Jefferson Award for enhancing the quality of intellectual and civic life at Emory; he is the first recipient at the Goizueta Business School.
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Reshma Shah Receives the Emory Williams Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award
June 2019 -
Reshma H. Shah, Assoc. Professor in the Practice of Marketing at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School, has recieved a 2019 Emory Williams Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award.
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Adwait Joshi is “Taming the Data Demon”
June 2019 -
Adwait Joshi's fintech start-up DataSeers is on TAG’s 2019 TOP 40 Innovative Tech Companies, Atlanta Inno’s 50 on Fire, and a LexisNexis awardee, and Joshi won Alpharetta's Community Award.
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Duluth boy crowned in national golf tournament
June 2019 -
Sahish Reddy of Duluth was one of 80 young golfers ages 7 to 15 playing in the sixth annual Drive, Chip, and Putt National Finals on April 28, 2019. He won the male 10- and 11-year-old competition.
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Georgia Legal Awards
June 2019 -
The Daily Report lists 55 individuals for the 2019 Georgia Legal Awards, including Bhavya Chaudhary (a Best Mentor), and Aamir Kazi and Raj Shah (in On the Rise group of lawyers under age 40).
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Gurmeet Kaur publishes audio stories in Punjabi
June 2019 -
Longtime Atlanta resident Gurmeet Kaur, author of Fascinating Folktales of Punjab, now has free audiobooks in Ma-Boli Punjabi to nurture chidren’s imaginations, language, and good values.
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TYE University team wins in Global Competition
June 2019 -
Georgia Tech's Team MagTrack won Atlanta’s TYE Pitch Competition (University level) and went on to win at the inaugural TYE University Global in Silicon Valley. The team also won for Technology Innovation.
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Two U.S. Presidential Scholars
June 2019 -
Vani Senthil and Keerti Soundappan have earned one of the top academic honors in the USA: recognition as a 2019 U.S. Presidential Scholar. Of 3.6M high school seniors, only 161 receive the honor.
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Farooq Mughal on the Gwinnett County Community Outreach Board
June 2019 -
Farooq Mughal has been appointed to the Gwinnett County Community Outreach Advisory Board by Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners. Mughal is a public policy and government relations expert.
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Georgia Youth Leadership Award winners
June 2019 -
Gautam Satya Desai, a junior at the Gwinnett School of Math, Science, and Technology, and Anudeepa Ramachandiran, a junior at Duluth High School, are among Georgia Youth Leadership Award winners.
