Announcements & Student Achievements for the Ivan Allen College
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This Kudo goes out to Amrit Rattan Bhavinani! In the latest issue of the Technique, The ANAK Society recognized Amrit as a member and congratulated him for graduating at the end of this semester. The ANAK Society is a highly sought after honor society which recognizes Junior and Senior students for exemplary leadership ability, personal achievement, strong character, and true love for Georgia Tech.
Kudos, Amrit. and mad respect.
Congratulations go out to the twelve new members of Ivan Allen College’s Student Advisory Board! Kudos, ladies and gentlemen:
| Crystal Xu | Erin Robinson | Nanki Walia |
| Elena Petrakieva | Katie Guebert | Casey Aultman |
| Aaron Hoodin | Austen Edwards | Jordan Kor |
| Michael Tallini | Steven Waugh | Allyn Woodward |
Kudos to Joy Guan (EIA) and Toby Tatum (PUBP) for being specially selected to participate in the Provost’s Retreat on the Academic Experience of Undergraduate Students on October 5th. They are bringing lots of good suggestions from your Student Advisory Board, but is willing to hear more ideas if you have them.
Nearly 200 new freshmen came to the Ivan Allen College FASET Orientation sessions this summer…and had a great experience, got registered, and met friends. Thank you so much to the following many current IAC students who took the time to help facilitate the events and participate in advising. IAC FASET is organized by students, it could not have been done without you. GREAT JOB!
John Akin
Lindsay Anglin
Wallace Benton
Crystal Xu
Amrit Bhavinani
Courtney Smith
Charlie Holder
Joy Guan
Sarabrynn Hudgins
Katie Lange
Christina McMillian
Nicole Morado
Crystal Xu
Georgianna Nutt
Emily Chambers
Landon Reed
Liz Settle
Toby Tatum
Kelsey Taylor
Nicole Turner
Liana Wildeboer
We are pleased to announce that selections for recipients of funding for the Fall 2009 President’s Undergraduate Research Award (PURA) for salary have been finalized.
Several IAC students and faculty were honored at the Up With the White and Gold banquet last Monday.
Congratulations!
Congratulations to the following students who won awards last night at the Student Honors Program Awards Banquet!
Senior HTS Major, Carrie Freshour, won the Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher award. Her Mentor is Dr. Winders, an HTS professor. Her project: Being a ‘Budgetarian’: Shoppers, Stores, and Organic Foods. She has conducted two major research projects with faculty in HTS. Her most recent research project demonstrates her strong aptitude in statistics and historical research as well as original interviews. She presented each of her papers at the Southeastern Undergraduate Sociological Symposium in late February.
Congratulations Carrie!
Graduating EIA major Kathryn Stucki has won a Fulbright award. She will be going to Mexico (either Mexico City or Monterrey) with a Binational Business Grant to do an internship and take graduate-level classes in comparative law. Congratulations Kathryn!
A congratulations goes to two IAC students for their presentations at the UROP Symposium
Toby Tatum (PUBP)- Outstanding Oral Presentation
Kady Rosier (CM)- Outstanding Poster
Big Kudos to PUBP Senior Nick Wellkamp, for being selected from among 601 candidates nominated by 289 colleges and universities as one of this year Truman Scholars. Nick will receive a scholarship up to $30,000 for graduate study. He will also receive priority admission and supplemental financial aid at some premier graduate institutions, leadership training, career and graduate school counseling, and special internship opportunities within the federal government. Currently, Nick is hoping to pursue a joint J.D./Master’s in Public Affairs program between Yale Law School and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs at Princeton in Fall 2010.
The Ivan Allen College Student Advisory Board has named the 2009 Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher. This year’s winner is Carrie Freshour, a senior HTS major. Carrie has been engaged in a wide variety of research projects and has won a PURA for her work. She will continue her research in the graduate program in the Department of Sociology at Cornell University, after completing a one-year Fulbright ETA in Indonesia.
HTS major Carrie Freshour and recent HTS alum Clay Karwisch were both awarded the 2009 Bernard Bellon Prize for distinguishing themselves in academic achievement, leadership, and personal integrity. Both Carrie and Clay will receive $1000. Clay is a law school student at Georgetown University, while Carrie is graduating in May then heading to Indonesia for a Fulbright ETA, followed by graduate school at Cornell. Congrats to both of you!
Congratulations to the following liberal arts students who will be awarded funding this summer to conduct research through PURA. Interested in applying for Fall? Applications due May 18th.
ECON major Joy Guan -Modeling and Application of Swarm Theory to Economic
HTS major Todd Christopher-Technological Innovations in the Origins and Development of the Electric Guitar Salary
INTA major Alyssa Crews-Human Trafficking in the European Union Salary
INTA major Shehzin Jafar-Terrorism stemming from Islamic Fundamentalism: What are the causes and how can we prevent them?
INTA major Adam Weiss-Modeling the Correlations and Relationships between Globalization, Modernization, and Overpopulation and how they pertain to World Poverty Salary
The Ivan Allen College Student Advisory Board proudly announces our recipients for the 2009 IAC SAB Awards. These students received recommended by IAC professors as well as students and were carefully selected from an encouraging group of applicants. Their truly exceptional records of spirit, service, and leadership within the college, the greater community, and even internationally represent outstandingly the goals of the Ivan Allen College. Deserved congratulations to the following students for hard work and success in the IAC: Read the rest of this entry »
Congratulations to CM major Yunhee Lee for winning the Ivan Allen College Student Advisory Board’s Website Redesign contest. Yunhee won $75 and and the opportunity to get some mentoring from our own recent alumni entrepreneur star Paul Stamatiou. Yunhee will also begin working with the SAB to begin redesigning the SAB site in the coming weeks.
Kudos to Candis Pham for being selected as only one of 3 students to be awarded the 2009 Georgia Tech Women’s Forum Scholarship Award!
Jessica Luza STAC 2007 Graduate has been working as co-host of MTV’s The Hills Fashion Wrap-up, a web-based series in Los Angeles, CA. Jessica also works part time with a graphics playback company that does computer graphics for television shows like CSI, Dexter, and Lost. http://style.mtv.com/u5505/the_hills
The Ivan Allen College Student Advisory Board is sponsoring a research award to recognize a student who has proven outstanding research capabilities. Each school in the Ivan Allen College is invited to nominate one student to receive an award entitled: Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher, Ivan Allen College.
For the third year, the Ivan Allen College is recognizing students who have exemplified excellence in leadership, service, extracurricular pursuits, and research. The Ivan Allen College Student Advisory Board is sponsoring several awards which will be presented at the 2009 institute-wide “Student Honors Day,” on Thursday, April 23, 2009.
Students, Faculty, Staff, and Administration are invited to nominate students who are outstanding examples of any of the award areas. Details on the nomination process are found below. All nominations should be sent in by March 6th to Mithuna@gatech.edu.
Student Leadership Award for leaders of student organizations. This award will be presented to the student who most succeeded in achieving the goals set out by his or her organization. The student receiving this award will exemplify positive leadership qualities such as organizational skills, the ability to inspire, and the capacity to work well with others. Read the rest of this entry »
Katayoun Kishi has been honored as one of twenty Atlanta students who are making a difference in their community. This is the first year of the recognition given by the Intown Atlanta newspaper and sponsored by Spelman College. The twenty students were honored at a reception at the Conant Center on January 5, 2009. Kishi is an International Affairs / Modern Languages (IAML) major. Read about her service work at Georgia Tech and in the community.
Under the energetic leadership of Accounting Manager, Chris Fehrenbach, and undergraduate Lawton Fairchild, IAC is the first Georgia Tech college to expand its recycling program. The program satisfies the requirements set forth by Tech’s Campus Environmental Sustainability & Stewardship initiative.
Fehrenbach and Fairchild have extended recycling to all four IAC buildings and this month, will add the new Old CE Building to the program. Recycling bins have been placed prominently in the buildings and they are labeled to indicate that the Ivan Allen College is now recycling plastic bottles. Fairchild is also working with IAC event coordinators to ensure that plastic bottles are recycled at events.
Learn more about IAC’s recycling efforts by viewing Fairchild’s video
GET INVOLVED IN THE PROGRAM. Email Lawton at mfairchild3@gatech.edu
Congratulations to STAC majors Bryn Gravitt and Kyle Koza on winning PURA salary awards for Spring 2009!
Bryn will be doing research with Professor Narin Hassan on Women, Empire and Colonialism in Nineteenth Century Britain, while Kyle does research with Professor TyAnna Herrington on The Differences In Online Communication Between Russian and American Studies.
We wish you both the best of luck!
Click on the link to read about our own CM student, Paul Stamatiou, and his startup company on CNN. It is currently the top story in their tech section.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/biztech/11/24/startup.weekend/index.html
Kirk Bowman, an associate International Affairs professor at Georgia Tech, has been named the 2008 Georgia Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. Bowman was selected from nearly 300 top professors in the United States.
“I am thrilled to be named the Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation,” said Bowman. “It validates my belief that research and teaching can be mutually reinforcing and positive sum.”
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We had a lot of GREAT Liberal Arts students apply to be on the College’s Student Advisory Board this year, but only five openings. Congratulations to the following new members:
Wallace Benton- INTA
Katie Lange- INTA
Nicole Turner- STAC
Alexandra Henke- EIA
Timothy Carter- IAML
These students will be 5 of the 15 students that comprise the SAB and who represent YOU, YOUR VOICE, YOUR NEEDS. Make sure you congratulate them and seek them out if you have an idea for a student project or a student need that needs to be recognized.
If you were one of the other great candidates that we were unable to select this year, we really hope you stay involved and consider applying again.
As a part of the 2008 Homecoming Events, students voted Public Policy Senior Kevin Widmaier as Mr. Georgia Tech. He beat out three other Ivan Allen College majors to win this prestigious honor.
Congrats, Kevin! Way to go!
Congratulations to the following Ivan Allen College majors chosen as candidates for the 2008 Mr. and Ms. Georgia Tech competition:
George Ray (PUBP)
Michael Warwick (ECON)
Nick Wellkamp (PUBP)
Kevin Widmaier (PUBP)
Lauren Wildschut (IAML)
Lizzie Serafine (INTA)
We wish you all the best of luck and hope one of our own is chosen as Mr. or Ms. GT!!
STAC Major Talisa Kellogg was selected as one of the student athletes of the week at Georgia Tech!
Talisa an outside hitter on the volleyball team, was named the MVP of the 2008 Clemson Classic after leading Georgia Tech to victories over two teams that competed in the 2007 NCAA Tournament. The senior helped Tech to a 3-2 win over reigning ACC Champion Clemson with a season-high 28 kills and seven digs in the five-set match. She averaged a team-best 5.25 kills per set while hitting .333 on the week. Kellogg moved into sixth place on Georgia Tech’s list for kills in a career with 1,482 kills in her 3+ years on the Flats. She also moved into ninth place on Tech’s career solo blocks list (with 55) with a key block in the fifth set against the Tigers.
In the Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine Summer 2008 issue, seven out of the thirty students named in their esteemed “30 Under 30″ alumni listing were from the Ivan Allen College.
Jeremy Farris (INTA 2004), a President’s Scholar during his time at Tech, is now a graduate student reading for a doctorate in political philosophy at Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship.
Beau Cleland (HTS 2003) is nearing the halfway mark in a 15-month tour in Iraq, where he serves as an Army field artillery captain in the 10th Mountain Division.
Saira Amir (PUBP 2006) has just finished a two-year stint in Honduras with the Peace Corps. While there, she worked on tourism development for a small mountain village. She is now attending Georgetown Law School.
Ed Bolian (PUBP 2008) is the President and CEO of Supercar Rentals, a luxury car rental company specializing in Lamborghinis, Ferraris, and Bentleys for the short term thrill ride.
Kristi Miller (HTS 2006) has become a tennis pro since graduating, playing in USTA pro circuit tournaments and planning to participate in the U.S. Open and other tournaments in Mexico and Australia.
Alex West (CM 2006) is the founder and main advocate of WonderRoots, a non-profit organization that helps local artists and asks them to give back to the community through service.
Thomas Earnest (INTA 2007) has studied in Cairo, traveled to Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria, and plans to spend a year in Tunisia on a Fulbright scholarship to study the economics development there.
Way to go, Ivan Allen College students!
Continuing a run of success that began with his tie for 13th at last spring’s Atlantic Coast Conference Championship, golfer David Dragoo (ECON) posted the best finish of his career last weekend, a tie for seventh place at the Carpet Capital Collegiate in Rocky Face, Ga.
He is now set to go on to the playoffs, where David says, “I look forward to getting back out there and competing with my teammates on our quest to win another ACC title and NCAA championship.”
Way to go David!!
IAC students Ben Porter (INTA), Amechi Okoh (PUBP) and Kristie Champlin (PUBP) were interviewed for a CNN filming of “The League of First-Time Voters” that aired on September 15th during the show American Morning. The group discussed the upcoming election and specifically how impactful it will be for first-time voters.
Click the link to watch the interview and check out what your fellow students have to say about McCain v. Obama in 2008!
Tyler Coon (IAML) was featured in the newspaper Creative Loafing’s College Guide. He gave the paper a “Day in the Life” story, including his work at Georgia Tech and his favorite nighttime spots in Atlanta.
Along with students from universities across Georgia and, more specifically, Atlanta, Tyler helped showcase “the anatomy” of our city and what the magazine “dissected”:
“In the head, we found academic resources; in the ears, music; in the arms and legs, clubs and nightlife; in the heart, volunteer opportunities; in the hands, arts and extracurricular activities; in the stomach, restaurants and coffee shops; in the naughty bits, health and sex ed; and in the feet, exploration.”
Kudos to Tyler for representing Georgia Tech and the Ivan Allen College!!
Two former members of the Yellow Jackets track team, Chaunte Howard (ECON 2008) and Fatmata Fofanah (INTA 2007), will be competing for gold in the Summer Olympic Games, which will be held August 8-24 in Beijing.
During the track and field finals from August 15-24, Howard will try to improve upon her first place Team USA trial time, while Fofanah will run the 100-meter hurdles for Guinea. From across Georgia Tech, seven current and former athletes will be vying for gold in Beijing.
Congratulations to this year’s IAC students who received PURA awards!
Naihobe Gonzalez (ECON) will be researching the topic “Geopolitical Differences in Falling Returns to Education in Venezuela: Reform or Oil?”, and Gabrielle Sirow (ECON) will be studying “Modeling the Effect of US Farm Policy on Immigration Patterns” both with Professor Ruth Uwaifo. While HTS major Carrie Freshour will be researching “‘Silent Tsunami’: How IMF/WB Policies Created and Perpetuated the Global Food Crisis” with Professor Bill Winders.
Good luck, students!
Congratulations to Nick Wellkamp (PUBP major) and Aaron Fowler (PUBP MS major) for being elected Undergraduate and Graduate President of the Student Government Association 2008-2009!
Many Kudos and Congratulations to all the Ivan Allen College students who received awards today at the Student Honors Luncheon. The definitions of all these awards would take up tons of space, so I am just listing the award name, student, and their major.
All-American Amanda McDowell (Economics and International Affairs major) completed her run through the NCAA Singles Championships by capturing a straight-set win over Baylor’s Zuzana Zemenova in the finals to become the first Yellow Jacket tennis player to earn an individual national championship.
Way to go Amanda!
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