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Will Overholt

At Georgia Tech, Will Overholt was part of a supportive and collegial community, with everyone going out of their way to help.

Britney Schmidt and researchers

Britney Schmidt takes researchers and grad students to search for life under the ice of Antarctica, an environment that may have a lot in common with Jupiter's moon, Europa. 

Akinade Ojemakinde

Akinade Ojekimande believes Georgia Tech has prepared him well for medical school, the next stop in his dream to be a surgeon.

Mary Elizabeth Lee

Several professors in the School of Physics inspired and mentored Mary Elizabeth Lee, who is heading to Massachusetts to earn her own Ph.D. 

Icefin Diving

A team of Georgia Institute of Technology researchers will head to West Antarctica next winter as part of an international collaboration to explore a melting glacier that could significantly affect global sea levels. The Thwaites Glacier drains the ice from an area roughly the size of Florida, accounting for around 4 percent of current global sea-level rise — an amount that has doubled since the mid-1990s and looks to be accelerating. 

Dar-Wei Chen

Georgia Tech provided Dar-Wei Chen with opportunities to apply theory to practice, which positions him well for jobs in industry.