News & Press Coverage
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November 6, 2017
Justin Kahla and Quoc Mac selected for the Petit Scholars Program 2018
Justin has been selected as a Petit Undergraduate Scholar for 2018 with Quoc serving as his Petit Mentor. Congratulations! From the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, “The Petit Undergraduate Research Scholars program is a competitive scholarship program that serves to develop the next generation of leading bioengineering and bioscience researchers by providing a comprehensive […] -
October 12, 2017
Congratulations to Lena for winning the Sloan Fellowship!
This fellowship is sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and seeks to increase the number of outstanding engineering Ph.D. graduates from under-represented populations. She was nominated by the director and faculty of Georgia Tech's University Center for Exemplary Mentoring (UCEM). Congrats! -
September 11, 2017
LSI welcomes its first postdoctoral fellow, James Bowen!
James grew up in Rochester, NY and graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in Biotechnology from SUNY Upstate Medical University in 2011. James spent the next two years as a research technician at the University of Rochester Medical Center in the laboratory of Dr. James Palis, where he studied hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell […] -
July 26, 2017
Lena Gamboa Featured in Brown Engineering Magazine
NSF Fellowship, Brown Connections Lead Marielena Gamboa Castro ’15 to Cancer Research -
June 27, 2017
Gabe Kwong Invited to Join Nation’s Brightest Young Engineers at 2017 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
Gabe Kwong, assistant professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory, is one of only 82 people selected to participate at the 2017 US Frontiers of Engineering symposium. The symposium, organized by the National Academy of Engineering, gathers what the academy calls “exceptional” engineers from 30 to 45 […] -
June 9, 2017
Justin Kahla and Jason Weis win PURA Salary Awards
Congratulations to undergraduates Justin Kahla and Jason Weis for winning President's Undergraduate Research Awards (PURA)! PURA fund student salaries to conduct undergraduate research with Georgia Tech faculty and offset travel expenses for undergraduates to present their research at professional conferences. Between two hundred and three hundred competitive awards are offered on campus each year. Read […] -
May 22, 2017
Lena Gamboa Castro named NSF Graduate Fellow
Congratulations to Lena for winning the NSF GRFP! The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines. Read more here. -
March 17, 2017
Quoc Mac awarded NSF Fellowship
Congratulations to Quoc for being named an NSF Fellow! The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines. Read more here. -
January 30, 2017
Hassan Fakhoury and Quoc Mac selected for the Petit Scholars Program 2017
Hassan has been selected as a Petit Undergraduate Scholar for 2017 with Quoc serving as his Petit Mentor. Congratulations! From the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, “The Petit Undergraduate Research Scholars program is a competitive scholarship program that serves to develop the next generation of leading bioengineering and bioscience researchers by providing a comprehensive […]