SAE International presented Caroline Genzale, Assistant Professor, with the John Johnson Award for Outstanding Research in Diesel Engines during the SAE 2012 World Congress held in Detroit.

Dr. William B. (Bill) Harrison III, age 89, of Mobile, Alabama, died peacefully on Wednesday, July 25, 2012 from the complications of pulmonary disease.

Bill joined the faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1953 and ultimately served as the founding Director and Professor of the School of Nuclear Engineering in 1962.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program in Stem Cell Biomanufacturing announced its third class of Ph.D. student trainees. The five new graduate students come from a wide variety of disciplines including the School of Chemical and Biomolecular  Engineering, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering and George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering.

Cynthia G. Jones, MSHP '86, was been appointed as the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) new Nuclear Safety Attaché at the U.S. Mission to International Organizations in Vienna, Austria. She succeeds Mr. Mark Shaffer, who was selected as the Office of International Programs Deputy Office Director, effective 1 July 2012. The Nuclear Safety Attaché serves as the U.S. Mission’s expert on nuclear safety issues and programs and provides programmatic and policy oversight of the IAEA's safety program on behalf of the United States.

Cynthia G. Jones, MSHP '86, was been appointed as the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) new Nuclear Safety Attaché at the U.S. Mission to International Organizations in Vienna, Austria. She succeeds Mr. Mark Shaffer, who was selected as the Office of International Programs Deputy Office Director, effective 1 July 2012. The Nuclear Safety Attaché serves as the U.S. Mission’s expert on nuclear safety issues and programs and provides programmatic and policy oversight of the IAEA's safety program on behalf of the United States.

The Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (Petit Institute) awarded $50,000 to three interdisciplinary teams under its Petit Bioengineering and Bioscience Collaborative Seed Grant program, which was created to support early-stage innovative biotechnology research. Proposals were submitted by teams comprised of two Petit Institute faculty with appointments in different academic Colleges.