• “I love Georgia Tech dearly and always will. I am passionate about teaching, and it will be a pleasure to return to the classroom, as well as to my research.” After seven years, Scheller College of Business Dean Steve Salbu announces that he won’t seek a third term after his current one expires next June. [Newsroom]
• Georgia Tech sophomores Anders Albertson and Ollie Schniederjans and junior Bo Andrews have been named to the 2013 All-East Region team Tuesday by the Golf Coaches Association of America. [RamblinWreck.com]
• And Georgia Tech juniors Daniel Palka and Zane Evans were named to the 2013 Louisville Slugger All-America Team, which was chosen by the staff of Collegiate Baseball newspaper. [RamblinWreck.com]
• ”I had a working knowledge of my own rights, but it wasn’t until I arrived in Zambia for a seven month Fulbright Fellows project that I was made aware of the many issues facing women in Africa and globally—and that’s when I decided to help build an app.” Joy Buolamwini, CS 12, on the work her Fulbright Scholarship is supporting in Zambia. [Women2.com]
• Bloomberg Businessweek has named Tech’s Scheller College of Business as one of the best undergraduate business schools for operations management. [Businessweek.com]
• A new type of paper developed by Tech researchers “could be used as the foundation for a new generation of inexpensive biomedical diagnostics in which liquid samples would flow along patterns printed on the paper using special hydrophobic ink and an ordinary desktop printer.” [NewsRoom]
Above: Georgia Tech professor Dennis Hess and graduate research assistant Lester Li observe oxygen plasma treatment that exposes the cellulose nanofibrils on their superamphiphobic paper samples. Photo by Gary Meek.
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