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UPCOMING CSDI EVENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

The Goizueta Foundation Scholarships and Fellowships Support Record Number of Students This Academic Year 

More Than 270 Hispanic and Latino Students Supported by The Goizueta Foundation Over the Past 15 Years

In 2002, scholarships and fellowships were created to increase and retain the number of Hispanic and Latino undergraduate and doctoral students at Georgia Tech.

“Fifteen years later, Hispanics and Latinos have become one of the fastest growing student groups at the Institute. This year, for instance, applications from Hispanic and Latino incoming freshmen increased by 7.8 percent,” said Jorge Breton, director of Institute Diversity’s Office of Hispanic Initiatives (OHI), which is part of the Center for Student Diversity and Inclusion. “The Goizueta Foundation Scholarships and Fellowships are one of several programs and initiatives at Georgia Tech that provide pathways to success for our community.”

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WST Learning Community Dinner
Monday, November 6

6 - 7:30 p.m.
Stein House, 733 Techwood Dr NW, Atlanta, GA 30318

Join Georgia Tech School of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) Professor and Goizueta Foundation Faculty Chair Rosario Gerhardt for a complimentary dinner and to learn more about her work and experience in MSE. 

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INSTITUTE NEWS

Diversity Is Only the Beginning

It’s exactly that kind of thinking [a culture of empathy and inclusion] that’s at the heart of a remarkable new initiative taking shape within Georgia Tech’s Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory. Partnering with Institute Diversity at Georgia Tech, the initiative hopes to change the ways students think before they go on to their careers.

The department announced this summer it had been awarded a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to do something unheard of in engineering education: prepare students to shape and lead teams of people who have different backgrounds and perspectives.

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OPPORTUNITIES
ADDITIONAL STUDENT EVENTS AND
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The mission of the Center for Student Diversity and Inclusion is to provide programmatic and thought leadership, expertise, and advocacy to continue to promote the Institute's diverse student initiatives, programs, and efforts that facilitate our collective goal of student diversity and inclusion.

Please contact Institute Diversity Corporate Relations Manager Atira Rochester at  atira.rochester@gatech.edu to submit announcements for the CSDI Current.

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