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Graduate Student Awards for Fall 2008
Atlanta (November 17, 2008) — Thanks to everyone who participated in the student research symposium and homecoming events this fall. We hosted a number of alumni and industrial representatives. The research symposium on Friday included five excellent presentations by senior graduate students who were finalists for the graduate student research awards. A committee of faculty and staff served as judges of the presentations. Congratulations to:
First Place ($1000):
Philseok Kim (Perry group)
Second Place ($750):
Chris Richard (Dickson group)
Third Place, tie ($300):
Srividya Mohan (Williams group)
Christina Young (Mizaikoff Group)
Runner-up ($100):
Doogie Oh (Orlando group)
In addition, awards for best posters ($75) were presented:
Graduate Student Poster - Glenn Harris (Fernandez group)
Undergraduate Student Poster - Cody Stone (Zhang group)
Outstanding Performance as a T.A. Awards were presented to:
JP Aragon, Diya Mohan, Dan Sabo, Gungor Ozer, and Alex Jonke.
Best Seminar award - Tina Dreaden
Other awards received after this event were:
Philseok Kim has been selected as a finalist for the 2008 MRS Graduate Student Award.
Kathy Woody has received an ACS Women Chemists Committee travel award, sponsored by Eli Lilly & Co, to present her work at the spring 09 ACS meeting.
The Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the nation's premiere research universities. Ranked among U.S. News & World Report's top 10 public universities, Georgia Tech educates more than 16,000 students every year through its Colleges of Architecture, Computing, Engineering, Liberal Arts, Management and Sciences. Tech maintains a diverse campus and is among the nation's top producers of women and African-American engineers. The Institute offers research opportunities to both undergraduate and graduate students and is home to more than 100 interdisciplinary units plus the Georgia Tech Research Institute. During the 2003-2004 academic year, Georgia Tech reached $341.9 million in new research award funding.