Achieving Inclusive Excellence

The ADVANCE Program at Georgia Tech welcomed three new professors on July 1: Ana “Annie” I. Antón, Nancey Green Leigh, and Mary G. McDonald.

Following a national search, Diley Hernández was selected as associate vice president for Institute Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. She began her new role on July 6.

Margulies has been chair of Coulter BME since August 2017 and will be the first biomedical engineer to lead the directorate.

Michelle Rinehart, associate dean for Academic Affairs and Outreach in Georgia Tech’s College of Design, has been appointed interim dean of the College, effective Aug. 1. Dean Steve French, who has served since 2013, will return to the faculty in the School of City and Regional Planning.

On June 18, the Office of Minority Educational Development and campus Black student organizations partnered to host Juneteenth events, which included a virtual discussion led by Associate Professor André Brock and an afternoon celebration on Tech Green.

Georgia Tech alumnus M. Brian Blake, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at George Washington University, has been named Georgia State University’s first Black president.

The Career Alliance @ Georgia Tech is a new initiative that provides traditionally underrepresented students with focused support for success in today’s competitive job market. 

On June 19, 1865 — more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation — Union General Gordon Granger issued General Order No. 3, which communicated news of the executive order to the residents of Texas and freed the remaining enslaved people in the state. This date became the official and symbolic date of freedom and became known as Juneteenth.