Alumni Magazine - Fall 2008 - (Page 17) increase the rankings. I believe you should make strategic decisions because you believe it’s the right thing to do to advance the missions and goals of Georgia Tech,” Schuster says. “If you’ve done that properly, then the rankings will follow. If you are in fact a leader and recognized as a leader, the rankings will follow that.” each made the list for the fifth time. Both athletes earned master’s degrees in May, Herren in health systems, Narewski in public policy. Get on the Bus The Alumni Association is partnering with Champion Sports Tours for two fall bus trips. The first travels to Clemson University, where the Jackets will face the Tigers on Oct. 18. The day includes snacks, beverages and a box lunch on the motor coach, a pregame tailgate party and reserved game tickets in the Georgia Tech section. The cost is $175. Be in Athens when head football coach Paul Johnson takes on Georgia for the first time in his Tech career. Cost of the Nov. 29 motor-coach trip is $165. The trip also includes food and drinks, a pregame tailgate party and reserved tickets in the Georgia Tech cheering section. To register for the trips, visit www.championsportstours.com/football/gtech/gtech-football.htm. More information may be obtained by telephoning 800-GT-ALUMS. Athletes Score ACC Honors Georgia Tech athletes swarmed the Atlantic Coast Conference’s latest Academic Honor Roll, with 121 Yellow Jackets earning the honor for posting GPAs above 3.0 for the entire 2007-08 academic year. That list includes four All-Americans: tennis players Amanda McDowell and Kristi Miller, above, volleyball player Ulrike Stegemann and golfer Cameron Tringale. Miller, HTS 08, was the ACC Player of the Year in women’s tennis last season and graduated in May with a 4.0 GPA. McDowell, a junior majoring in international affairs, won the NCAA singles championship last spring. Stegemann, who received her management degree in May, was an honorable mention All-American team member last fall and made the All-ACC team three times in her career. Tringale, a senior management major, has earned All-America and AllACC honors three times each. A total of 18 athletes on the list earned allconference honors last year in their respective sports. David Herren, Tech’s top cross country and distance runner, and Taylor Narewski, a sprinter, Professor El-Sayed was honored for his “seminal and creative contributions to our understanding of the electronic and optical properties of nanomaterials,” as well as for his humanitarian activities and his role in the development of scientific leaders of the future. Professor Wins Science Medal Mostafa El-Sayed, a Regents professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, was awarded the 2007 Medal of Science, the nation’s highest honor in the field, during a White House ceremony in late September. El-Sayed holds the Julius Brown chair and directs the Laser Dynamics Laboratory at Tech. He also is working with his son, Ivan, of the University of California, San Francisco, to develop cylindrical gold nanorods that can bind to cancer cells. Once the cells are bound to the gold, they scatter light, which makes them easy to detect. The Medal of Science citation credits El-Sayed “for his seminal and creative contributions to our understanding of the electronic and optical properties of nanomaterials and to their applications in nanocatalysis and nanomedicine, for his humanitarian efforts of exchange among countries and for his role in developing the scientific leadership of tomorrow.” GT Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine • Fall 2008 17 http://www.championsportstours.com/football/gtech/gtech-football.htm http://www.championsportstours.com/football/gtech/gtech-football.htm http://www.championsportstours.com/football/gtech/gtech-football.htm
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