Georgia Institute of Technology Faculty Affairs | Georgia Institute of Technology | Atlanta, GA

Georgia Tech Basketball Coaches MaChelle Joseph and Josh Pastner invite the children of all Tech employees to register for basketball camps this summer.

On April 18, the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) held its 16th annual Roger P. Webb Awards Program, which honors the students, staff, and faculty who have shown exceptional dedication to their professions and studies.

After 19 years of service to Tech, Cozzens, vice provost for Graduate Education and Faculty Development (VPGEFD), will retire on June 30.

The Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Spring Faculty and Staff Recognition Luncheon was held on April 18, 2017.

ECE Professor Geoffrey Ye Li has been chosen for the 2017 IEEE Communications Society Award for Advances in Communication. 

Interested in taking a break and releasing some stress during finals week? The Georgia Tech Campus Recreation Complex (CRC) can help. During finals week, the CRC will offer free GIT FIT drop-in classes to all members.

The annual President’s Campus Walk, hosted by the Office of Health & Well-Being and Go T.E.C.H., will take place on Thursday, May 11 at 4 p.m. Join your Georgia Tech colleagues for a walk through campus. Two routes will be offered this year: a one-mile option or a three-mile option, both along the Tyler Brown Pi Mile.

ECE Professor Ayanna Howard has been selected as one of Atlanta magazine’s 2017 Women Making a Mark, a distinction reserved for a select group of women working to grow and strengthen the metro Atlanta community. 

17 faculty have been selected for the Center for Teaching and Learning’s new Provost Teaching and Learning Fellows program.

ECE Assistant Professor Mark A. Davenport has been named as one out of 126 U.S. and Canadian researchers, representing eight scientific fields, to receive a 2017 Sloan Research Fellowship.

ECE Associate Professor Wenshan Cai has received an Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award.

Starting Feb. 20, Georgia Tech faculty can participate in the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE) survey.

Faculty members of all levels are wanted to serve on committees as part of Georgia Tech’s Faculty Governance.

The majority of the Faculty Senate’s Feb. 14 meeting was devoted to student-related matters and business, with several student guest speakers in attendance.

ECE Professor Raheem Beyah was named as an Emerging Scholar in the January 26, 2017 edition of Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. 

Students, teaching assistants, and faculty can continue to use Piazza as they have in the past, without concern that their data might be sold, accessed, or used in ways that breach their privacy.

ECE Assistant Professor Alenka Zajic has received the prestigious NSF CAREER Award.

Today's most pressing problems faced by humanity and our planet are complex, requiring a systems-level perspective, such as that of William W. George Chair and Professor Pinar Keskinocak.

We asked several members of the Georgia Tech community for leisure reading recommendations.

Once again, faculty members and graduate students from ISyE have received awards at this year's INFORMS conference.

Starting this year, participation in this benefit program will require membership in the form of a one-time donation of at least eight hours and a qualifying personal retainer.

Still gotta catch ‘em all? Take part in the Campus Recreation Center’s Halloween Holla 5k Pokemon Challenge on Friday, October 28th! Walk the Tyler Brown Pi Mile with your cohorts, and enter for a chance to win a Pikachu Halloween costume.

Starting this fall, Campus Recreation will offer a Faculty/Staff Tennis League. The Friday night mixed-doubles tennis round-robin program will provide a social and healthy outlet for faculty and staff through tennis.

In collaboration with Georgia Tech’s ADVANCE Program, Institute Diversity has been offering 90-minute workshops to address the concepts of implicit bias and perceptions of competence. 

Huan Xu was hired in August 2016 by ISyE as an assistant professor.

Magnus Egerstedt has been appointed as the Julian T. Hightower Chair Professor in Systems and Controls in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective August 1. 

Georgia Tech Human Resources announces an enhancement to its supplemental retirement investment options. Employees now have access to a Roth 457(b). 

Ayanna Howard has been named to the Invention Ambassadors Program, sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Lemelson Foundation.

Beginning in September, the nine-month program will include monthly workshops, as well as a weekend workshop in late October.  Other program activities will include small team teamwork, as well as self - and 360 assessments. 

When Rimoli was little, he shared a dream with many other kids who grew up watching space missions: He wanted to be an astronaut.

Faculty Upbeat After Road Trip to Oak Ridge National Lab

Georgia Tech faculty and staff members can attend all seven home games this year and receive a 20 percent discount on season tickets. 

The Stamps Health Services Pharmacy, located on Ferst Drive next to the Campus Recreation Center, now has the ability to process most presciption insurance.

With the exception of some students-only expeditions, ORGT activities and resources are available to all members of the Georgia Tech community — alumni and sponsored guests included.

While many students are away, faculty and staff can play. Registration is now open for Tech’s first faculty/staff summer bowling league. 

The Center for Community Health and Well-Being and Go T.E.C.H. are hosting the seventh annual Employee Health Fair on Wednesday, May 25th. All faculty and staff are invited to attend the Health Fair free of charge.

School of Building Construction Professor, Debbie Phillips, was profiled for the series "In The Classroom"

Many alumni find themselves back at Tech as faculty and staff members, and even back at Commencement time and again. 

The Office of Human Resources hosted its Employee Service Awards celebration to honor employees who have worked at Georgia Tech for 10 and 25 years.

Georgia Tech boasts some of the finest faculty and staff members in higher education, and each year it honors some of them at the annual Faculty and Staff Honors Luncheon.

The Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Spring Faculty and Staff Recognition Luncheon was held on Tuesday, April 19.

Raheem Beyah has been named as the Motorola Foundation Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective March 1. 

The Mutual Expectations of Research Advisors and Advisees is meant to serve as a starting point in the Institute’s efforts to improve advisor and advisee relationships.

After an extensive international search, Building Construction at GT has a new professor.
Eunhwa Yang has accepted the position of Assistant Professor in the teaching areas of Facility and/or Real Estate Management. 

FLCs are cohorts of eight to 12 faculty members who meet regularly over the course of a semester or year.

Georgia Tech offers the Faculty/Staff Assistance Program as a confidential resource to all faculty and staff, as well as their families. 

ECE Professor Bonnie Ferri has been unanimously selected for the 2016 Regents’ Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award. 

Fellows serve as coaches for Georgia Tech students and also have the chance to strengthen their own leadership skills.

Both Faculty Governance and Staff Council are looking for volunteers to serve on a number of committees that shape life at Tech. 

The College remembers our colleague Wister Cook who passed away on January 13, 2016.

With Presidents Day on Feb. 15 and the 2016 presidential election in full swing, this is a good time to look at a few books written by or about some who have held the nation’s highest office. 

Instead of buying loved ones flowers or chocolates, make them a disaster preparedness food kit.

Faculty members, the Graduate Student Government Association and other sponsors of the annual Career Research and Innovation Development Conference (CRIDC) need your help. 

Matt Baker, an award-winning professor in Tech’s School of Mathematics, also happens to be an award-winning magician. 

Goel, an award-winning professor in the College of Computing, talks about how he got into teaching and what inspires him in the classroom.

ECE Regents' Professor Ajeet Rohatgi has been named as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). 

With Georgia Tech continuing to get more competitive, the Office of Undergraduate Admission has been looking for ways to better evaluate the growing pool of candidates. 

Celebrate your colleagues by nominating them for a 2015 award. 

ECE Associate Professor Arijit Raychowdhury has been selected for a 2015 Intel Early Career Faculty Award. 

Sudhakar Yalamanchili has been promoted to the rank of Regents’ Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective November 1.

Georgia Tech’s current regalia was adopted in 2009. Take a look at the caps and gowns worn by Institute leaders.

From monster El Niños to electronic spaghetti, the thesis topics covered during Georgia Tech’s inaugural Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition were as different as the students who presented them. But it was a compelling argument to leave ancient rocket engines behind that brought home the gold.   

The George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering of the Georgia Institute of Technology is considering applicants for a tenure track faculty member at the Assistant, Associate or Professor level for its European campus of Georgia Tech Lorraine in Metz, France.

ECE Professor Anthony J. Yezzi has been offered a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program grant to Italy, the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board announced recently.

Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University faculty members are uniting to train the next generation of engineering students in healthcare robotics technologies, so they can better understand the changing needs of patients and their caregivers and healthcare providers. 

Six Flags Over Georgia is open just for Tech again, so get ready to enjoy a night away from campus!

When it comes to speaking to lay audiences — particularly the popular press — many researchers put on the brakes because they are afraid of being misunderstood or misquoted. What are the benefits to overcoming this fear and communicating with a broader audience?

Amber Johnson, nutritionist in Health Promotion and Dining Services, offers advice on how to pack easy, healthy lunches.

Twelve faculty members have been selected to the inaugural class of fellows with the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems.

When the United States Supreme Court announced last month that same sex couples would be legally recognized within all 50 states, questions about practical matters such as healthcare coverage soon followed.

The Priestley Medal honors nearly 60 years of work from Mostafa El-Sayed, Regents’ Professor and the Julius Brown Chair in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry.

The National Science Foundation has awarded a three-year $300,000 grant for research in environmental sustainability to Juan Moreno-Cruz, Assistant Professor of Economics.

Dana Randall is the ADVANCE Professor of Computing and director of the Algorithms and Randomness Center at Georgia Tech. Recently, the Office of Faculty Affairs had the opportunity to learn more about Randall and her time at Tech. Here’s what she said.

The Center for 21st Century Universities recently assembled a team of “flipping veterans" to share successes and failures they’ve experienced in learning to flip a class. 

Sara Loughran Dommer is an assistant professor in the Scheller College of Business at Georgia Tech. Recently, the Office of Faculty Affairs had the opportunity to learn more about Dommer and her time at Tech. Here’s what she said.

Numerous faculty and staff were honored for their hard work and service to the Institute this month.

Richard Barke is an associate professor in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech. Recently, the Office of Faculty Affairs had the opportunity to learn more about Barke and his time at Tech. Here’s what he said.

Jason Freeman is an associate professor in the School of Music at Georgia Tech. Recently, the Office of Faculty Affairs had the opportunity to learn more about Freeman and his time at Tech. Here’s what he said.

M.G. Finn is a professor and chair of the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Georgia Tech. Recently, the Office of Faculty Affairs had the opportunity to learn more about Finn and his time at Tech. Here’s what he said.

John Matthew Smith, assistant professor in the School of History, Technology, and Society, has been named a recipient of the 2015 CETL/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award.

Jeanne Balsam will replace Bohlander beginning this month.

Recently, the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL) joined the Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Faculty Affairs, which has resulted in a name change. 

Celebrating Teaching Day will take place on March 26.

For anyone with student interactions on campus, one option for becoming well-versed in suicide prevention is through specialized training offered by the Counseling Center.

Events will be hosted for faculty, staff during the spring semester.

The committees cover a range of topics such as benefits, curriculum, regulations, and academic integrity. 

Election to NAE is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. 

Iris Tien is an assistant professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech. Recently, the Office of Faculty Affairs had the opportunity to learn more about Tien and her time at Tech. 

The chair position is awarded to outstanding tenured faculty who have demonstrated excellence in research and teaching, as well as leadership in the campus Hispanic community and beyond.

Dupuis and Prausnitz join Peterson and Juang who were named in recent years.

The Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering is starting the New Year off with a new School Chair, H. Edwin Romeijn.

Natashia Boland joins the ISyE faculty this winter as a professor. She hails from the University of Newcastle's School of Mathematics and Physical Sciences where she was a Professor of Applied Mathematics. Boland is no stranger to Georgia Tech, having completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at ISyE.

Out of twenty four teams of undergraduate students in the Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISyE), the Emory Winship Senior Design Team took home first place in the Fall 2014 Senior Design Competition. 

IEEE is focused on advancing electrical and electronic engineering, telecommunications, computer engineering, and other related disciplines.

Christopher W. Jones, C. David Sherrill, and Howie Weiss earn top honor from peers in scientific community.

Georgia Tech Professor Spyros Reveliotis has been named a 2015 Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) for his extraordinary accomplishments in the field of discrete event systems for resource allocation.

Paul Griffin will be returning to ISyE as the Joseph C. Mello Chair, starting January 2015. The Joseph C. Mello Chair was created through an endowment established by Joseph Mello, IE 1980, to support the work of an outstanding ISyE faculty member whose work focuses on health care delivery operations.

Faculty from the College of Computing and the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts will lecture and conduct research abroad. 

For new faculty, the university environment is not necessarily new but can be an overwhelming entity of operations during the first years. At Tech, many find their place among their peers on campus through mentoring.

Professor Sandra Slaughter, holder of the Alton M. Costley Chair, died Nov. 3.

Whether through formal or informal means, mentoring proves crucial for faculty acclimation.

Sebastian Pokutta, Coca-Cola Assistant Professor in ISyE, along with Nadine Gatzert, Professor for Insurance Economics and Risk Management at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, and her Ph.D. student, Nikolai Vogl, received the 2014 SCOR/EGRIE Young Economist Best Paper Award at the 41st Annual Seminar of the European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists (ERGIE).

Kamran Paynabar, ISyE assistant professor, has been selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering's (NAE) sixth Frontiers of Engineering Education symposium. He is one of the nation's seventy-seven innovative, young engineering educators who were selected from a highly competitive pool of applicants.

The School of City and Regional Planning (SCaRP) at Georgia Tech invites applications for a tenure track Assistant Professorship with an expected start date of August 2015.  The successful candidate will show great promise to make significant contributions to the advancement of transportation/city and regional planning; will contribute to our teaching program in transportation planning and core curricular areas; and will become an active participant in Georgia Tech’s multiple University Transportation Centers funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation.

Mark Hay, Dimitri Mavris, Helena Mitchell, and Lora Weiss earned the highest academic and research status bestowed by the University System of Georgia.

Fellows serve as coaches and mentors to undergraduate students who want to develop stronger leadership skills.

The associate professor in the Scheller College of Business once planned to go into medicine, but now studies how people decide their career choices.

The electronic system designed to reduce the amount of time faculty and researchers spend each year gathering information for annual activity reports, promotion and tenure packages, CV updates, and grant applications.

Watkins' research focuses on sustainable transportation, and her work applies to her everyday life.

Students and professors are jointly exploring new territory when it comes to inverted, or flipped, classes. 

With a number of political campaigns underway, it’s important to be aware of the University System of Georgia’s (USG) policies on employee involvement. 

Georgia Tech faculty will soon be asked for honest, candid, and confidential feedback through the Faculty Survey of Student Engagement (FSSE).

From military veterans to black alumni, Georgia Tech offers an affinity group for everyone. But there’s one major misconception about the groups — people think they’re just for alumni.

These employees and units have received honors in recent months.

If you’re looking for a way to give back to Georgia Tech while getting to know students, consider rolling up your sleeves and volunteering for Tech Beautification Day on March 29 from 9 a.m. to noon.

These employees and units have received honors in recent months.

During the Feb. 18 faculty governance meeting, proposed changes regarding the definition of “faculty” in the faculty handbook made it past the first of two readings.

Dr. Andrew Riess at the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES) will be visiting Georgia Tech to offer two workshops on the Fulbright Program for Faculty and Professionals.

The following Georgia Tech employees and units have received honors in recent months.   

Carole-Anne Whitehurst has a very personal reason for supporting Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta —  if it weren’t for this nonprofit, Whitehurst wouldn’t have made it past her first birthday.

On Nov. 19, Georgia Tech held its annual celebratory send-off for retiring faculty and staff, highlighting their contributions to the Institute — and reminding them they will always be part of the family.

This year, Georgia Tech is offering employees a new identity theft protection plan.

The University System of Georgia will offer Tech employees three dental plan options — all through Delta Dental.

The following Georgia Tech employees and units have been honored in recent months.

One of the most significant goals in Georgia Tech’s long-term strategic plan is to sustain and enhance excellence in scholarship and research, which means that Tech has to have the resources to attract and retain the very best faculty, at all levels, from around the nation and the world — not only for a fleeting moment, but also for the foreseeable future.

The Office of Human Resources has established a helpline to provide employees assistance during the open enrollment season.

If you’ve ever tried to buy Adobe or Microsoft software — think Photoshop or Microsoft Word — you know it’s not cheap. That’s where a program offered by the University System of Georgia (USG) comes in handy.

During last Tuesday’s faculty governance meeting, Jeanne Balsam, chair of the Statutes Committee, announced that two town halls would be held in November to discuss a revised definition of “faculty.”

With the open enrollment period planned for Nov. 11-22, faculty and staff will have a shorter window of opportunity for making their 2014 benefits elections than in previous years.

Remember that all employees with current University System of Georgia/Georgia Tech benefits must re-enroll via TechWorks during open enrollment (Nov. 11-22) to receive the 2014 benefits of their choice.

Georgia Tech’s faculty is a major source of its prestige, nationally and internationally.

When the University System of Georgia (USG) decided to offer new benefit options in 2014, in addition to medical plans, Georgia Tech was one of the institutions it turned to for advice.

In 2006, William Tandongfor moved into his first house — and his life would never be the same.

All faculty and staff who are eligible for benefits will receive information regarding open enrollment at their home address near the end of October.

Open enrollment is an exciting time for Georgia Tech and the Office of Human Resources. We take pride in providing Georgia Tech faculty and staff with the best options at affordable rates. This year’s open enrollment period—Monday, November 11 to Friday, November 22—features new vendors and new plan options.

Opportunities to network with Georgia Tech colleagues, receive professional development, and hear from others with common interests.

The following Georgia Tech employees and units have been honored in recent months.

Whether you’re a walker, runner, or cardio newbie, take your time, and enjoy the experience. That’s Larissa Brown’s advice for anyone participating in this year’s Kaiser Permanente Corporate Run/Walk.

Following an extensive search process, the School of City & Regional Planning have selected Anna Joo Kim and Tim Welch to join the school's faculty as assistant professors.

Whether you’re saving for retirement or your child’s college tuition, understanding the investing options available to you is key to your success.

Whether you’re looking to better balance teaching and life or tips for keeping students engaged, there’s a workshop to suit every faculty members’ needs during Fall Teaching Kickoff Aug. 5-15.

For the second year, the Office of Leadership and Civic Engagement is inviting the campus community to join incoming students in a service project to serve local women and children in need.

The following Georgia Tech employees and units have been honored in recent months.

If you are a faculty member who is interested in new ways to interact with Georgia Tech students, consider volunteering to host a Residence Life Hot Topic Dinner.

A title was all it took to pique Paul Kohn’s curiosity about this year’s Diversity Roundtable event.

It was during new employee orientation in 1999 that Stephanie Merrick first heard about the tuition benefits that Georgia Tech offered. In 2014 — and two degrees later — she plans to finish her Ph.D.

A title was all it took to pique Paul Kohn’s curiosity about this year’s Diversity Roundtable event.

If you are looking for funding for an innovative research project, Georgia Tech Starter may be just the tool you need.

From managing common conditions like asthma and diabetes to handling the day-to-day pressures of the workplace, healthy living can be a challenge.

The following Georgia Tech employees and units have been honored in recent months.

As the semester winds down, it’s time to recognize the efforts of fellow colleagues at this year’s Faculty and Staff Honors Luncheon.

Sandi Bramblett volunteers to teach GT1000 because it provides her with an opportunity to interact with students — something she generally doesn’t get to do as executive director of Institutional Research and Planning and Decision Support Services.

Faculty, Staff, Students! Every Friday wear your GT colors!

go to gtif.gatech.edu for more information

The following Georgia Tech employees have been honored in recent months.  

During a recent discussion, sponsored by the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL), a professor shared an experience from recent years that he hopes no other faculty member has to go through.

The Alumni Magazine talks with Keith Golden, Todd Long and Ryan Gravel about Atlanta's transportation infrastructure.

If you’ve ever been interested in serving on a faculty committee, now is the time to throw your name in the hat. 

Thanks to the generosity of the Georgia Tech community, the Institute has raised $330,261 for the annual statewide Charitable Campaign — exceeding this year’s goal of $325,000.

The core Fulbright Scholar Program sends 800 U.S. faculty and professionals abroad each year. Grantees lecture and conduct research in a wide variety of academic and professional fields.

After several months of examining Georgia Tech’s practices for easing the integration of work and life, the Task Force on Family Friendly Policies is sharing its recommendations with the campus community.

Two town hall meetings have been scheduled to discuss substantial revisions to the Faculty Handbook. 

Cindy Zapata first learned about the Hot Topic Dinners that Residence Life sponsors from a student who invited her to host one.

From leading the way in cybersecurity to improving flood predictions in developing nations, Georgia Tech researchers are internationally known for their discoveries.

The following Georgia Tech employees and units have been honored in recent months.

The Whistle asked Tech faculty and staff members to share their favorite holiday traditions.

The following Georgia Tech employees have been honored in recent months.

During the Nov. 27 meeting of the General Faculty and Academic Senate, Georgia Tech faculty adopted an open access policy that will make articles about research conducted at the Institute free and accessible.

The Fulbright Specialist Program is currently looking for a Professor with U.S. citizenship to undertake a short-term (approximately 6-week) grant to assist a Burmese university in restarting its undergraduate engineering program.

In 1997, the first TEAM (Tech Enhancing Atlanta Metropolitan) Buzz Service Day was introduced to unite students, faculty, staff and alumni under Georgia Tech’s motto: “Progress and Service.”

The School of City and Regional Planning (SCaRP) at Georgia Tech invites applications for a tenure track nine-month position at the rank of Assistant Professor with an expected start date of August 2013.

If you’re looking for a convenient child care solution when it comes to school year holidays, look no further than the Campus Recreation Center’s (CRC) Tech Wreck Break Camp.

From Oct. 15 to Nov. 9, faculty and staff members will have the opportunity to adjust benefit elections based on their needs for the coming year. 

Georgia Tech wants to adopt an open access policy that would make much of the research conducted at the Institute free and accessible to all.

How do you become the kind of mentor that people fondly remember as someone who made a difference in their lives?           

Three hours prior to the kickoff (TBA) of the Sept. 22 home game against Miami, the public is invited to stop by McCamish Pavilion for a sneak peek of the new facility.

The Provost’s Town Hall on Online Education is open to the campus community and will be held on Sept. 13 at 11 a.m. in room 1116, Klaus Advanced Computing Building.

The Language Institute now offers classes for spouses of international students whose first language is not English.

Donna Ennis takes the time to attend Georgia Tech’s annual Diversity Symposium because it offers an opportunity to learn what the Institute is doing in this area and provides a forum for offering her feedback. 

The following Georgia Tech employees or units have been honored in recent months.

Jennifer Leavey created Charged Magazine with one thought in mind — to create an online science magazine for people who don’t know much about science.

Whether you’ve always wanted to learn how to use Adobe Photoshop or you’d like to learn the ins and outs of switching from a PC to a Mac, a new free service offered by Georgia Tech can provide you with training on a variety of software and technology topics.

The following Georgia Tech employees or units have been honored in recent months.

For many Atlantans, the Fourth of July means it’s time to run — or walk — another Peachtree Road Race. Below are a few race memories from members of the Georgia Tech community.