ALL ABOUT THE COMMUNITY NEWSMAKERS
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Hansinee Mayani sings her way into Bollywood
July 2019 - Hansinee Mayani, a recent STEM Honors graduate of Lassiter High School, wrote and sang background vocals and English fusion for the new song “Lamhe Ishq Wale,” composed by Nikhil Kamath.
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Southeast Emmy Award winners
July 2019 - The 45th Annual Southeast Emmy Award winners were honored by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Southeast. Four desi winners and nine more nominees were among the 1,300 entries.
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Pari Jain is GA Positive Athlete
July 2019 - In a ceremony at the College Football Hall of Fame, Pari Jain, a sophomore at Peachtree Ridge High School, received both a scholarship and Positive Athlete Georgia’s Girls Golf award.
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TYE High School in Global Competition
July 2019 - Team CleanMyEco won TiE Atlanta’s Youth Entrepreneurship (TYE) Pitch Competition (High School level) and went to TYE Globals, where they won the Best Execution Award.
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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.