We are pleased to announce that 11 graduate students from across Georgia Tech have been selected as the inaugural fellows of the Interdisciplinary Health and Environment Leadership Development (IHE-LeaD) program. Fellows span the College of Sciences, the College of Engineering, and the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, and include:
- Michael Biehler, Ph.D. Candidate, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
- Stephanie Bilodeau, Ph.D. Candidate, School of Biological Sciences
- Victor Brandao, Ph.D. Student, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- Sonja Brankovic, Ph.D. Candidate, Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
- Nidhi Desai, Ph.D. Student, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
- Emtiaz Hossain Hritan, Ph.D. Student, School of Economics
- Adam Krueger, Ph.D. Student, School of Physics
- Alessandra Luna, Ph.D. Student, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
- Aaron Pfennig, Ph.D. Candidate, School of Biological Sciences
- Jelly Vanderwoude, Ph.D. Candidate, School of Biological Sciences
- Elise Li Zheng, Ph.D. Candidate, School of History and Sociology
At the IHE-LeaD launch meeting on August 18, the inaugural cohort of IHE-LeaD, as well as four faculty advisors of the program, met to discuss the program, their research, and the year ahead. Learn more about our fellows here.
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