During International Education Week, the College of Sciences celebrates the impact of international perspectives, connection, and contributions in our community. We’ve gathered stories over the years celebrating the work of math, science, and technology within our international community. From international students enrolled at Georgia Tech, to professors with unique cultural perspectives, to partnerships with our global community, this month we shine a special spotlight on the importance of international education and research.
What is International Education Week?
International Education Week, celebrated at Tech November 15 to 19 this year, is an opportunity to celebrate the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide. This joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education is part of the efforts to promote programs that prepare Americans for a global environment and attract future leaders from abroad to study, learn, and exchange experiences.
The worldwide celebration of IEW offers a unique opportunity to reach out to people in every nation, to develop a broader understanding of world cultures and languages, and to reiterate the conviction that enduring friendships and partnerships created through international education and exchange are important for a secure future for all countries.
Faculty and Staff Perspectives
Hispanic and Latinx Heritage: President Ángel Cabrera
During National Hispanic Heritage Month, President Ángel Cabrera reflected on his time as a student in the College of Sciences at Georgia Tech, and spoke to recruiting and supporting more Hispanic and Latinx students and faculty in STEM.
Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month: Faculty Perspectives
“I want to make sure that other people like me can see themselves…as scientists.” Frances Rivera-Hernández, Facundo Fernández and Carlos Silva Acuña share early school day stories, why they chose science, and their perspectives on representation.
Joshua Weitz Named Blaise Pascal International Chair of Excellence
Joshua Weitz, School of Biological Sciences professor, Tom and Marie Patton Chair, and key member of Georgia Tech’s Covid-19 response team continues his research on viruses through fall of 2021, and is now conducting those studies from Paris, France, thanks to receiving a prestigious award designed to foster more collaboration among international scientists. Weitz is currently based at the Institute of Biology at the École Normale Supérieure (IBENS) in Paris.
Tansu Celikel Appointed School of Psychology Chair
Newly appointed chair of the School of Psychology Tansu Celikel brings a unique international perspective from Europe to Georgia Tech. Celikel received his Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience at La Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA) in Italy and conducted postdoctoral research the Max-Planck Institute for Medical Research in Germany. He also conceived and led the establishment of the European University of Brain and Technology (NeurotechEU), funded by the European Union.
School of Mathematics Celebrates Two Researchers Receiving “Very High Prestige” Invitations to Lecture at Major Global Math Conference
Jennifer Hom, Konstantin Tikhomirov will present on topology, discrete probability at the 2022 International Congress of Mathematicians in Russia. “The ICM speaker invitations are a major news item in the mathematics community every four years. The invitations carry very high prestige, selected with extreme diligence to highlight leading breakthroughs across all of mathematics,” explains Rachel Kuske, Professor and Chair of the School of Mathematics.
Chung Kim: Inclusivity, Kindness, Celebrating Heritage and Culture
Academic Program Coordinator Chung Kim speaks on representation and racial justice, her experiences growing up Korean-American, and Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month. She also discusses the College of Sciences Staff Advisory Council, of which she is an inaugural member.
Bernard F. Schutz Elected as Fellow of the Royal Society
Bernard Schutz, School of Physics adjunct professor, served as a founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute - AEI) in Germany, helped spark the creation of the Center for Relativistic Astrophysics (CRA) at Georgia Tech, and laid the analytical foundation in the search for gravitational waves. He is now the recipient of top honors as a Fellow to the Royal Society, the United Kingdom’s national academy of sciences and the world's oldest independent scientific academy.
Bernard F. Schutz Elected as Fellow of the Royal Society | News Center (gatech.edu)
Global Research & Impact
New 'Vibrant Pack Energy Harvesters' to Harness Big Bridge Vibrations
In collaboration with colleagues at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh and Georgia State University, Georgia Tech researchers including School of Mathematics chair Rachel Kuske have intended to capture and recycle vibrations on bridges using principles of physics. They have received funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, part of UK Research and Innovation, and the National Science Foundation.
Global Climate Action Symposium
With swaths of the country engulfed in flames, battered by winds, steeped in floodwaters, or parched by drought – tragic and costly conditions that a recent United Nations report links to global warming – Georgia Tech joined UN leaders in hosting the third annual Global Climate Action Symposium in September of this year.
Finding and Connecting Ocean Ecoregions — to Find and Conserve Marine Species
A study by School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences researchers is charting a new path to help scientists create tools to uncover global marine connectivity through sea surface temperature. The study is led by professor Annalisa Bracco, graduate student Fabrizio Falasca, and one of Bracco’s visiting students, Ljuba Novi from the Institute of Geosciences and Earth Resources (part of the National Research Council in Pisa, Italy).
Creative Cutting-Edge Coral Scientist
In alumna Kristen Marhaver’s research lab at CARMABI (Caribbean Research and Management of Biodiversity) on the island of Curaçao, Marhaver and her team have made great strides in aiding coral survival by inventing methods for coral breeding, baby coral propagation, and coral gene banking. Marhaver now sponsors a first-year biology researcher each year at Tech through the FastTrack Research Program.
Georgia Tech Alumni Association - Creative Cutting-Edge Coral Scientist (gtalumni.org)
Student Stories
Where Linguistics, French, and Psychology Intersect: Zach Hopton Discusses Collaborative Time at Tech
Psychology and Applied Languages and Intercultural Studies student Zachary Hopton discusses the balance between experimental psychology and language, and the relationship that the two disciplines have with each other. He shares his experiences in the French Language, Business, and Technology Program and during an exchange semester at Sciences Po in Paris, France.
Celebrating #GT21 Graduate Stories: Maria Zulfiqar
“I am the first person in my family’s history to obtain a college degree in the United States, the first woman to ever obtain a college degree at all in my family — and I’m doing it two years early, with highest honors,” shares Maria Zulfiqar. Zulfiqar, who is Pakistani, grew up in Alpharetta, Georgia, and was born in Mississauga, Canada.
Georgia Tech Language Institute: Meet Taehwan Yang
After completing a bachelor’s degree in biotechnology and bioscience in South Korea, Taehwan Yang decided to pursue a master’s degree in biology in the United States with support from the Georgia Tech Language Institute. The Language Institute helps international students, professionals and visitors improve their English proficiency through short courses, summer classes, and semester-long programs.
International Education Week Events
This year, IEW will take place from November 15-19. If your organization is interested in participating in International Education Week, there's still time to fill out the following form with a proposal for your event: https://gatech.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8CkFDGTubkx5VBk.
Monday, November 15:
Georgia Tech-Lorraine Table at IEW Kick-Off!
Location: Outside of Clough
Time: 10:30 to 11:30 am
Description: Stop by the Georgia Tech-Lorraine table at the IEW Kick-Off Event on November 15th from 10:30-11:30am outside of Clough. GTL representatives will be present to answer all your questions and give you details about a semester on Tech's campus in France for undergraduates and graduates!
French program tabling at IEW Kick-off
Location: Outside of Clough
Time: 10:30 to 11:30 am
Description: Information about French and Francophone Studies at Georgia Tech, including study abroad summer 2021 LBAT Paris and Senegal, and SLS GT Lorraine semester-long immersion program in Metz, fall 2022.
English Conversation Hour
Location: Clough 447
Time: 5 to 6 pm
Description: Learning English? Come practice your spoken English skills in a friendly, informal setting with the staff of the Naugle Communication Center!
Tuesday, November 16:
How to Afford Study Abroad
Location: Exhibition Hall: Buckhead Room
Time: 11 am to 12 pm
Description: Study abroad doesn't have to break the bank. Come to the "How to Afford Study Abroad" information session to learn more.
Salud in Spain Summer Program Informational Session
Location: virtual/bluejeans - https://bluejeans.com/556633472/1660
Time: 11 am to 12 pm
Description: If you are interested in participating in the Salud in Spain Program in Summer 2022, please attend this information session.
ISYE Summer Program in Europe Information Session
Location: virtual/bluejeans - https://bluejeans.com/616106986/8966
Time: 11 am to 12 pm
Description: Learn more about the ISYE Summer Program in Europe! This 10-week summer program offers Georgia Tech ISYE students the opportunity to take standard undergraduate industrial engineering courses in Ireland and Spain during the Summer 2022 semester.
French and Francophone Studies Research Round Table
Location: Swann 115
Time: 11 am to 12 pm
Description: French and Francophone Studies Round Table and Q&A with Faculty. Moderated by Andrea Jonsson.
Leadership for Social Good Virtual Info Session
Location: virtual/bluejeans - https://bluejeans.com/676192608/7312
Time: 11 to 11:30 am
Description: Come join this alumni-led information session to hear more about the Leadership for Social Good Study Abroad Program. The Leadership for Social Good Study Abroad Program in Central and Eastern Europe offers interested students the opportunity to gain insight into global civil society, to learn about the challenges of creating and leading effective and sustainable social enterprises, and to make a positive impact by working closely with a non-profit organization in Budapest, Hungary.
Japan Day
Location: Swann Building Backyard
Time: 11 am to 2 pm
Description: Please join us, "Japan Day"! Learn about the Japanese program at Tech! Meet Furoshiki master and Kendama master and have fun with Anime trivia contest and more! Japanese sweet and bakery will be served.
Note: If it rains on the 16th, this event will be move to Nov. 18th
Virtual Info Session on the Study Abroad & Immersion Programs in France and Senegal
Location: virtual/bluejeans - https://bluejeans.com/441452800/9256
Time: 12 to 1 pm
Description: Learn more about the School of Modern Languages' LBAT (Language for Business & Technology) France (Paris) and LBAT Senegal (Dakar) study abroad summer programs, and the SLS (Serve-Learn-Sustain) fall semester program at Georgia Tech Lorraine (Metz,France).
Georgia Tech-Lorraine Undergraduate Info Session
Location: virtual/bluejeans - https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/gjfwagkq
Time: 1 to 2 pm
Description: Can't make it to a weekly GTL Info Session held on Thursdays from 11am-12pm? No worries! Tune in to this special IEW GTL Info Session held on Tuesday, November 16th from 1-2pm for details about studying at Tech's campus in France!
ISYE Summer Program in Asia Information Session
Location: virtual/bluejeans - https://bluejeans.com/734576054/3476
Time: 2 to 3 pm
Description: Learn more about the ISYE Summer Program in Asia! This 12-week summer program offers Georgia Tech ISYE students the opportunity to take standard undergraduate industrial engineering courses while exploring some of the most important locations for logistics and manufacturing in the 21st century: China and Singapore.
Wednesday, November 17:
Passport to GT
Location: virtual/bluejeans - RSVP at https://gatech.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7QxiuEsHQtiuqnc
Time: 9:30 to 11:30 am
Description: Join OIE ISSS Staff to learn more about the international student experience of coming to Georgia Tech, as well as the various services ISSS offers. Registration is required. Limit of 30 attendees. *This event if for faculty/staff only*
Graduate Studies at Georgia Tech-Lorraine: Virtual Info Session
Location: virtual/bluejeans - https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/uwfqpxtj
Time: 10:00 to 11:00 am
Description: Join Georgia Tech-Lorraine's virtual Grad Student info session to learn how easy it is to spend a semester on Tech's European campus in Metz, France at up to half the cost of the Atlanta campus!
LBAT Ecuador Information Session
Location: Skiles 170
Time: 12:30 to 1:30 pm
Description: Information session about Study Abroad Program in Ecuador (Cuenca and Galapagos Islands) for summer 2022. https://modlangs.gatech.edu/lbat/ecuador-galapagos
Thursday, November 18
International Fellowships
Location: virtual/bluejeans - https://bluejeans.com/2610797883/
Time: 11 am to 12 pm
Description: Attend this informational webinar to learn about Prestigious Fellowships offering International Placements!!
Photo Contest Reception
Location: Price Gilbert - G116 Wilby (by Blue Donkey)
Time: 2 to 3 pm
Description: Join the Office of International Education as we celebrate the winners of the annual Photo Contest!
Boren Information Session
Location: Savant #308
Time: 3:30 to 4:30 pm
Description: Want to learn more about getting $23,000 to study language abroad? Join us at the Boren Information Session to learn more about this exciting
Q&A with Sabine Landolt & Agathe Laurent, co-authors of Can We Agree to Disagree
Location: virtual/bluejeans - https://bluejeans.com/655772209/7771
Time: 5:00 to 6:00 pm
Description: Join us for a Q& A with Sabine Landolt, the co-authors of Can We Agree to Disagree, a compelling collection of anecdotes about French and American professionals on their experiences working together. This book reveals the risks of misjudgments. It provides tips and tricks to foster mutual understanding, sparks curiosity, and encourages professionals to adopt the best methods from both cultures, and to better work together. Meeting URL
Friday, November 19
Pacific Program Information Session
Location: virtual/bluejeans - https://bluejeans.com/655185001/1185
Time: 11 am to 12 pm
Description: Are you interested in participating in study abroad program during the Summer? If you are, make sure you mark your calendar and come to one of the Pacific program's information sessions. The Pacific program is GT faculty-led program that usually happens during the Spring semester; however, it has recently been shifted to the Summer semester for 2022 only. The Pacific program travels to New Zealand and Australia for 11 weeks! In this information session you will learn valuable information about the program including what classes the program is offering, specific program dates, program itinerary, and much more. Please note that the program's application is nor open. If you can't attend the session, but you would like more information, reach out to Andrea Henriquez (andrea.henriquez@oie.gatech.edu) to make an online advising appointment.
Budgeting for International Experiences
Location: Savant #308
Time: 4 to 5 pm
Description: Join us to learn ways to make international experiences more affordable!
Laternenfest
Location: Tech Green
Time: 4:15 to 6:15 pm
Description: Join the German Program to celebrate Laternenfest by making Lanterns, eating sweet treats, and learning children's songs for the holiday!
Questions? Need help developing an idea? Email Kelci Reyes-Brannon at Kelci@oie.gatech.edu
Visit the Georgia Tech International Education Week Website to learn more.
Some of the instruments in Christy O’Mahony’s Analytical Chemistry Lab are split into two groups: The Avengers and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
The stickers that students and O’Mahony, senior academic professional in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, have placed on the equipment are appropriate: ‘Thor, Hulk, Iron Man, and Captain America’ denote equipment that breaks apart and transforms materials into their chemical and molecular components — while the ‘Mutant Turtles’ machines safely look for and analyze possible trace amounts of radioactivity in materials.
Each machine sports a sticker with another popular public figure — Tech’s very own Buzz ringed by a halo saying: “Purchased with Technology Fee Funds.”
Tech Fees “make a huge difference in putting sophisticated instrumentation into our teaching labs,” says David Collard, senior associate dean in the College of Sciences and professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry. “This allows us to provide our undergraduates with experiences that are far beyond what is available at other institutions.”
“Most curriculum would have an instrumental analysis class, an analytical chemistry class where students are taught the concepts of this in a chemistry curriculum,” says O’Mahony. “But it’s unusual for them to have the access to actually do the measurements.”
The lab’s latest Tech Fee-funded purchase, a laser-induced breakdown spectrometer, will provide more accurate measurements of chemical components in materials. An earlier purchase, a capillary electrophoresis instrument, helped O’Mahony and a graduate student publish a research paper detailing a new applied lab exercise on analyzing phenylketonuria (PKU), a birth defect.
“I think the students being able to put on their curriculum vitae that they have done these techniques, they know these software packages, and [that] these are all the exact same ones that industry has, is a huge help for them,” O’Mahony says. “And I've had quite a few students who I've provided references for who have gone into quality control. ‘They say they're familiar with this equipment. So, what level did they use it?’,” she says companies often ask. “Well, they sat down and ran the whole thing, and fixed a problem.”
Hear from a few of O’Mahony’s students on their experiences with the equipment and instruments:
Dhruti Triveti, third-year biochemistry major
“I did not expect being able to use equipment like this. I did not know that the technology would be this high — that the equipment that we're able to use is very cutting-edge, I believe — and some of this is used in industry, which I think is really a good stepping stone to what we want to do in the future.”
Jack Winn, fourth-year biochemistry major:
“This has given me a chance to dive into a different field of chemistry, and see, as I'm preparing to graduate, which field I want to go into.
That's actually part of the reason I came to Tech. I knew that we had these available resources and cutting-edge technology that would put me at an advantage, I suppose, to other schools.”
Julianna Mercado, third-year biochemistry major:
“I'm able to be a little bit more comfortable going into different jobs, or research internships or something like that, rather than just be, ‘oh, how do I do this again?’ I feel like it gives me a better advantage with that — and that's a good thing.”
Scot Sutton, graduate biochemistry student and Analytical Chemistry Lab teaching assistant:
“One of our experiments for the first rotation is flow injection analysis, which, in a lot of ways, is if you kind of took out the guts of one of our liquid chromatography instruments. That's actually how I explained it to the students — there's a lot of different tubing, so they get to see how the reaction takes place over time and get to see what the differences are between a batch process that they might do by hand, versus what the instrument itself can do. And they see different ways to approach chemical problems they might run into.”
A list of recently purchased College of Sciences lab and classroom equipment, instruments, and resources powered by Tech Fee funds:
Neuroscience/Biological Sciences — Instruments that use light to measure and manipulate the activity of neurons, and read electrical signals from specialized cells triggered by light/photons to learn about neurological activity.
Biological Sciences — Equipment for "western blotting" protein identification procedures, allowing Intro to Biology students to visualize the presence of proteins downstream of various molecular biology techniques. Fall 2021 students are using it to explore the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein.
Earth and Atmospheric Sciences — Equipment for Kendeda Building EAS Teaching Labs
Chemistry and Biochemistry — Next-Level Laptops for the Biochemistry Teaching Laboratories
Physics (Neuroscience) — Electrophysiology instruments, allowing students to record the activity from neurons and hearts for Georgia Tech’s new advanced neuroscience curriculum.
Earth and Atmospheric Sciences — Equipment and resources for the EAS 1600 courses, including Introduction to Environmental Science and Habitable Planet.
Biological Sciences — Biological safety cabinets
Neuroscience (Biological Sciences) — Microscopy in Neuroscience Undergraduate Laboratory
Psychology — Psychology Research Methods, including instruments for eye tracking and skin galvanic response, which measure how the body responds to various emotional states.
Biological Sciences — Green Lab-Living Building Ecology; more campus wildlife data gathering for conservation studies; proposed building of towers on Tech campus for tracking bird migration.
One of Georgia Tech’s core values, “We act ethically,” guides our priorities every day. But Ethics Awareness Week puts a spotlight on that value and the ways we engage ethically around campus.
This year’s events, taking place Nov. 8–12, will be a mix of scheduled in-person, virtual, and hybrid events, daily ethics IQ questions, and in-person ethics tables around campus. Experts from the Veterans Resource Center, the LGBTQIA Resource Center, Ethicx, and the Alumni Association, among others, will join the Office of Ethics and Compliance to showcase ethics in a variety of contexts.
Kara Tucker, lead counsel and director of Ethics and Compliance in the Office of the General Counsel, said partnering with campus departments helped create a diverse schedule of events that provides an opportunity for everyone to engage.
“As an organization whose mission is to develop leaders in our students, faculty, and staff, we know that leading ethically is a critical component. A leader is anyone who influences others, and we aim to create leaders who not only act ethically, but also influence others to act ethically.”
View a full list of the week’s events and chances to win door prizes at ethicsfirst.gatech.edu/ethicsweek.
A few events to look forward to:
- Game Time Mashup With Executive Leadership: President Ángel Cabrera and Executive Vice Presidents Steven McLaughlin, Chaouki Abdallah, and Kelly Fox will go head-to-head playing familiar games with an ethical twist. Nov. 8, 10:30 a.m. Register to attend.
- Sticker Blitz With the Ramblin’ Wreck: Visit the Ramblin’ Wreck, take photos, collect vinyl stickers, and receive Ethics First giveaways. Nov. 8, 11 a.m., Exhibition Hall. No registration required.
- A “Google Chat” With Google's Chief Compliance Officer, Spyro Karetsos: Keynote speaker Spyro Karetsos, chief compliance officer at Google, will offer insight about expectations and best practices at Google. Nov. 9, 10 a.m. Register to attend.
- Preparing Future Leaders for Ethical Challenges: An interdisciplinary panel of faculty in biological sciences, civil and environmental engineering, business, and public policy discusses teaching ethics and preparing students for ethical dilemmas in their careers. Nov. 10, 11 a.m. Register to attend.
- Gender Equity From the Perspective of Military Leadership: Examine gender equality and equity in the military through the experiences of two U.S. military members and current Georgia Tech students. They will discuss gender bias and equity, stereotypes, sexism, and how these challenges affect veterans transitioning to civilian life. Nov. 12, 12:30 p.m. Register to attend.
All in-person and hybrid events will have giveaways and beverages or light refreshments.
This year, Ethics Awareness Week coincides with the annual online compliance training that is required of all employees. The four training modules must be completed by Nov. 19 in the Georgia Tech Learner Dashboard.
Learn more about ethics at Georgia Tech at ethicsfirst.gatech.edu.
The Georgia Tech research community is invited to a virtual research town hall hosted by Executive Vice President of Research (EVPR), Chaouki Abdallah.
Agenda will include a welcome and research update from the EVPR. Research panel with Irfan Essa, Tim Lieuwen, and Helen Anne Curry, and a moderated Q&A session.
Event Details
During the Institute Address, President Ángel Cabrera will highlight recent Institute achievements, convey his vision and goals for the upcoming academic year, and answer audience questions. The campus community is invited to join in person or watch live on president.gatech.edu.
Email your questions in advance to townhall@gatech.edu. Questions should be submitted by 5 p.m. on Wednesday, August 30.
Event Details
Dean Susan Lozier will host the 2023 College of Sciences Plenary and Reception the afternoon of August 30 in the Petit Institute (IBB) Building.
All College of Sciences faculty, staff, and graduate students are invited to attend.
RSVP by August 21 for details and a calendar invitation. (GT login required.)
Event Details
The University System of Georgia (USG) Board of Regents announced 12 first-time Georgia Tech appointments to Regents’ distinctions for 2023 and affirmed the renewal of existing distinctions for four esteemed faculty members.
Regents’ distinctions may be granted for a period of three years by the Board of Regents (BOR) to outstanding faculty members from Georgia Tech, Augusta University, Georgia State University, the University of Georgia, and, in special circumstances, other USG institutions. A Regents’ professor, researcher, or entrepreneur distinction is awarded only after unanimous recommendation from the president of the recipient’s university, their chief academic officer and dean, as well as three additional members of the faculty who are named by the university president. Approval by the chancellor and the BOR Committee on Academic Affairs is also required. These distinctions are given to those who make outstanding contributions to their respective institutions.
Georgia Tech faculty named as Regents’ Professors include:
Srinivas Aluru, Professor, School of Computational Science and Engineering, College of Computing
Rafael L. Bras, K. Harrison Brown Family Chair and Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering and Professor, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, College of Sciences
Thomas Orlando, Professor, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Sciences
Frank T. Rothaermel, Russell and Nancy McDonough Chair in Business and Professor, Scheller College of Business
Jeffrey Skolnick (renewal), Mary and Maisie Gibson Chair, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Computational Systems Biology, and Professor, School of Biological Sciences, College of Sciences
Vigor Yang (renewal), Professor, School of Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering
Lisa Yaszek (renewal), Professor, School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts
Ellen Zegura (renewal), Stephen Fleming Chair in the College of Computing and Professor, School of Computer Science, College of Computing
Faculty named as Regents’ Researchers include:
Maribeth Coleman, Director of Research and Associate Director of Interactive Media, Institute for People and Technology
Douglas Denison, Laboratory Director, Advanced Concepts Laboratory, GTRI
Mehmet Talat Odman, Principal Research Engineer, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering
Linda Viney, Principal Research Engineer and Chief, Systems Integration Division, Applied Systems Laboratory, GTRI
Faculty named Regents’ Entrepreneurs — granted to outstanding full-time, tenured faculty members who have established reputations as successful innovators and who have taken their research into a commercial setting — include:
J. David Frost, Elizabeth and Bill Higginbotham Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering
Jennifer Olson Hasler, Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering
Raghupathy Sivakumar, Vice President of Commercialization, Chief Commercialization Officer and Wayne J. Holman Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering
Todd Sulchek, a professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering within the College of Engineering, has been named a Regents’ Innovator.
“We are thrilled to have so many distinguished members of our community honored in this way by the Board of Regents of the USG,” said Steven W. McLaughlin, provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs. “Georgia Tech is known for the strength of our academics, research, innovation, and the brilliant entrepreneurs who emerge from all corners of the Institute. We are deeply grateful for their contributions.”
To learn more about the requirements for USG Regents’ distinctions, visit the Board of Regents Policy Manual.
The University System of Georgia (USG) Board of Regents announced 12 first-time Georgia Tech appointments to Regents’ distinctions for 2023 and affirmed the renewal of existing distinctions for four esteemed faculty members.
Regents’ distinctions may be granted for a period of three years by the Board of Regents (BOR) to outstanding faculty members from Georgia Tech, Augusta University, Georgia State University, the University of Georgia, and, in special circumstances, other USG institutions. A Regents’ professor, researcher, or entrepreneur distinction is awarded only after unanimous recommendation from the president of the recipient’s university, their chief academic officer and dean, as well as three additional members of the faculty who are named by the university president. Approval by the chancellor and the BOR Committee on Academic Affairs is also required. These distinctions are given to those who make outstanding contributions to their respective institutions.
Georgia Tech faculty named as Regents’ Professors include:
Srinivas Aluru, Professor, School of Computational Science and Engineering, College of Computing
Rafael L. Bras, K. Harrison Brown Family Chair and Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering and Professor, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, College of Sciences
Thomas Orlando, Professor, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Sciences
Frank T. Rothaermel, Russell and Nancy McDonough Chair in Business and Professor, Scheller College of Business
Jeffrey Skolnick (renewal), Mary and Maisie Gibson Chair, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Computational Systems Biology, and Professor, School of Biological Sciences, College of Sciences
Vigor Yang (renewal), Professor, School of Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering
Lisa Yaszek (renewal), Professor, School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts
Ellen Zegura (renewal), Stephen Fleming Chair in the College of Computing and Professor, School of Computer Science, College of Computing
Faculty named as Regents’ Researchers include:
Maribeth Coleman, Director of Research and Associate Director of Interactive Media, Institute for People and Technology
Douglas Denison, Laboratory Director, Advanced Concepts Laboratory, GTRI
Mehmet Talat Odman, Principal Research Engineer, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering
Linda Viney, Principal Research Engineer and Chief, Systems Integration Division, Applied Systems Laboratory, GTRI
Faculty named Regents’ Entrepreneurs — granted to outstanding full-time, tenured faculty members who have established reputations as successful innovators and who have taken their research into a commercial setting — include:
J. David Frost, Elizabeth and Bill Higginbotham Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering
Jennifer Olson Hasler, Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering
Raghupathy Sivakumar, Vice President of Commercialization, Chief Commercialization Officer and Wayne J. Holman Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering
Todd Sulchek, a professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering within the College of Engineering, has been named a Regents’ Innovator.
“We are thrilled to have so many distinguished members of our community honored in this way by the Board of Regents of the USG,” said Steven W. McLaughlin, provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs. “Georgia Tech is known for the strength of our academics, research, innovation, and the brilliant entrepreneurs who emerge from all corners of the Institute. We are deeply grateful for their contributions.”
To learn more about the requirements for USG Regents’ distinctions, visit the Board of Regents Policy Manual.
Billions of years ago, self-replicating systems of molecules became separated from one another by membranes, resulting in the first cells. Over time, evolving cells enriched the living world with an astonishing diversity of new shapes and biochemical innovations, all made possible by compartments.
Compartmentalization is how all living systems are organized today — from proteins and small molecules sharing space in separate phases to dividing labor and specialized functions within and among cells.
Now, with $6 million in support from NASA, a team of researchers led by Georgia Tech’s Frank Rosenzweig will study the organizing principles of compartmentalization in a five-year project called Engine of Innovation: How Compartmentalization Drives Evolution of Novelty and Efficiency Across Scales.
It's one of seven new projects selected recently by NASA as part of its Interdisciplinary Consortia for Astrobiology Research (ICAR) program. ICAR is embedded among NASA’s five Astrobiology Research Coordination Networks (RCNs). Rosenzweig is co-lead for the RCN launched in 2022, LIFE: Early Cells to Multicellularity.
“We’re excited by the prospect of exploring this fundamental question through the interplay of theory and experiment,” said Rosenzweig, professor in the School of Biological Sciences, whose team of co-Investigators includes biochemists, geologists, cell biologists, and theoreticians from leading NASA research centers: Jeff Cameron, Shelley Copley, Alexis Templeton, and Boswell Wing from the University of Colorado Boulder; Josh Goldford and Victoria Orphan from California Institute of Technology; and John McCutcheon from Arizona State University. Collaborating with them is Chris Kempes, professor at the Santa Fe Institute.
Rosenzweig is also eager to eventually collaborate with existing ICAR teams, such as MUSE, led by the University of Wisconsin’s Betül Kaçar, a former Georgia Tech postdoctoral researcher, and newly selected teams, such as Retention of Habitable Atmospheres in Planetary Systems, led by Dave Brain at University of Colorado Boulder.
Meanwhile, he plans to build upon Georgia Tech’s outstanding reputation in astrobiology, where a cluster of researchers, such as Jen Glass, Nick Hud, Thom Orlando, Amanda Stockton, and Loren Williams, among others, is engaged in a diverse range of work supported by NASA.
“This is just the latest chapter in a long history of excellence in NASA research at Georgia Tech, one written by my colleagues across the Institute,” Rosenzweig said.
Billions of years ago, self-replicating systems of molecules became separated from one another by membranes, resulting in the first cells. Over time, evolving cells enriched the living world with an astonishing diversity of new shapes and biochemical innovations, all made possible by compartments.
Compartmentalization is how all living systems are organized today — from proteins and small molecules sharing space in separate phases to dividing labor and specialized functions within and among cells.
Now, with $6 million in support from NASA, a team of researchers led by Georgia Tech’s Frank Rosenzweig will study the organizing principles of compartmentalization in a five-year project called Engine of Innovation: How Compartmentalization Drives Evolution of Novelty and Efficiency Across Scales.
It's one of seven new projects selected recently by NASA as part of its Interdisciplinary Consortia for Astrobiology Research (ICAR) program. ICAR is embedded among NASA’s five Astrobiology Research Coordination Networks (RCNs). Rosenzweig is co-lead for the RCN launched in 2022, LIFE: Early Cells to Multicellularity.
“We’re excited by the prospect of exploring this fundamental question through the interplay of theory and experiment,” said Rosenzweig, professor in the School of Biological Sciences, whose team of co-Investigators includes biochemists, geologists, cell biologists, and theoreticians from leading NASA research centers: Jeff Cameron, Shelley Copley, Alexis Templeton, and Boswell Wing from the University of Colorado Boulder; Josh Goldford and Victoria Orphan from California Institute of Technology; and John McCutcheon from Arizona State University. Collaborating with them is Chris Kempes, professor at the Santa Fe Institute.
Rosenzweig is also eager to eventually collaborate with existing ICAR teams, such as MUSE, led by the University of Wisconsin’s Betül Kaçar, a former Georgia Tech postdoctoral researcher, and newly selected teams, such as Retention of Habitable Atmospheres in Planetary Systems, led by Dave Brain at University of Colorado Boulder.
Meanwhile, he plans to build upon Georgia Tech’s outstanding reputation in astrobiology, where a cluster of researchers, such as Jen Glass, Nick Hud, Thom Orlando, Amanda Stockton, and Loren Williams, among others, is engaged in a diverse range of work supported by NASA.
“This is just the latest chapter in a long history of excellence in NASA research at Georgia Tech, one written by my colleagues across the Institute,” Rosenzweig said.
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