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Breanna Shi

The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) recently awarded Georgia Tech Bioinformatics Graduate Program Ph.D. student Breanna Shi the Advanced Graduate Ambassadorship from their Women and Mathematics program. As part of this award, Shi will organize a workshop to address equity by using her math background to help other underrepresented graduate students across Georgia Tech’s College of Sciences learn and apply math and computational methods in their research.   

Svetlana Jitomirskaya (Credit: Monica Almeida for Quanta Magazine)

Svetlana Jitomirskaya, Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Irvine, and a prize-winning mathematician, joins Georgia Tech as the inaugural Hubbard Chair Professor in the School of Mathematics. She is among more than 20 new mathematics faculty members for the 2022-2023 school year. 

 

Lizanne DeStefano at White House Summit on STEMM Equity and Excellence

Summit launches national initiative to expand access and opportunities in STEM and medicine fields.

The Georgia Institute of Technology will hold its Fall 2022 Commencement ceremonies Dec. 16 – 17 at Bobby Dodd Stadium.

This semester's ceremonies celebrate 1,500 bachelor’s students, 3,760 master’s students, and 360 doctoral students. Three distinguished speakers — all of them familiar with the Georgia Tech experience — will address graduates as they embark on their post-graduate lives and careers.

2022 BBISS Faculty Fellows

Nine new Faculty Fellows were appointed to the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems (BBISS), including Jenny McGuire, assistant professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences with a joint appointment in the School of Biological Sciences.

Facundo Fernandez

Facundo Fernández, Regents’ and Vasser Woolley Professor and Associate Chair for Research and Graduate Training in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, is set to join the board of directors of the Metabolomics Association of North America.