Annual student surveys of faculty earns awards for 40 Georgia Tech instructors

Work by scientists in all six schools earns recognition and continued research opportunities

Although the pandemic and travel visas interrupted schedules for several first-years who planned to study on campus this fall, accommodations in Shenzhen, China and Metz, France are helping students start their academic careers on time, with their peers.

Please join the College of Sciences in congratulating seven faculty members sharing honors for their work in the 2019-2020 school year at Georgia Tech.

Institute Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion announces the 2020 Faces of Inclusive Excellence, an annual list of Georgia Tech faculty, staff, and students who combine academic and institute achievements with outreach efforts.

The Graduate Record Examination will not be required for fall 2021 application into any College of Sciences graduate program. Additionally, three Sciences schools and two graduate programs have opted to permanently #GRExit.

Students, staff, faculty, will lead a dozen projects focused on building communities of excellence, catalyzing discovery and solutions, and amplifying impact. Funded by the Sutherland Chair, the work aims to achieve goals in the College’s strategic plan.

Seven faculty members from five schools in the College of Sciences are among those honored with annual Spring awards from Georgia Tech's Center for Teaching and Learning that celebrate innovation in teaching.

Cadonati, a physics professor and director of the Center for Relativistic Astrophysics, has also held leadership positions in LIGO — including leading its data analysis and astrophysics division at the time of the discovery of gravitational waves.

Leavey has been named assistant dean for Faculty Mentoring in the College. Shepler joins the Dean’s Office as assistant dean for Teaching Effectiveness. Their collaborative leadership will execute key components of the College’s new strategic plan.