NEWS BRIEFS

IN THIS ISSUEStaff Member Supporting Son in Pyeongchang Games | 3

Performance Review Deadlines Coming Soon | 3

Two Major Construction Projects Start This Month | 4

February 5, 2018

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Flu Season in Full SwingFaculty and staff can receive flu shots on Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Stamps Health Services Pharmacy. Vaccines are free with Blue Cross Blue Shield insurance and $25 for those with Kaiser.

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W-2s Ready for Tax PrepEmployees are now able to review and download their 2017 W-2 Wage and Tax Statements from TechWorks. Human Resources began mailing printed statements in January to those employees who have not consented to receive W-2s electronically. Learn more at:

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KRISTEN BAILEY INSTITUTE COMMUNICATIONS

Though much of the Library’s physical collection is now housed at the Library Service Center off campus, it’s still a central service point for a range of resources available to faculty, staff, and students — and there are some that you may not be aware of.

Many of these resources can be accessed with a Georgia Tech login from the comfort of your desk, whether you are reading for pleasure, catching up on current events, or testing new technology.

Here are just a few things you have access to — all of which are free:

Magazines: The Library’s subscription to Flipster lets users read current issues of Wired, Inc., Popular Science, and more.

E-books: Overdrive offers access to e-book checkouts in various formats, including Kindle.

Research Guides: The Library’s knowledgeable staff puts together guides on special topics. Two recent ones that may be of interest are the 2017 solar eclipse and the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Films on Demand: Supplement your Netflix subscription with documentaries from acclaimed sources including PBS, HBO, Ken Burns, and NOVA.

ProQuest: Read full-text articles from an array of news sources, including many that

Beyond Books

see LIBRARY, page 3

TRESHEA WADEHUMAN RESOURCES

What does a new Georgia Tech employee need to know? Departmental goals and expectations are a great place to start. Where to find lunch and how to collect wages are also important subjects to cover. But that’s just the beginning of a successful career.

“To thrive in our community, new hires must be prepared to exercise sound ethical judgment, act with civility in the workplace, and take individual respon-sibility for the Institute’s policies and legal obligations,” said Travis Waugh, instructional technologist for Human Resources. “These are among the core expectations of all Georgia Tech employees, and they are just as vital to the Institute’s long-term success as any professional skill or competency.”

To ensure these needs are met, last

fall, Human Resources introduced a New Hire Learning and Compliance program for all onboarding employees.

This new program merges the Institute’s legal training mandates, employment policies, and timely topics impacting higher education into a single, convenient format that new hires can access and complete online. The full program takes approximately six hours to complete and covers:

• Ethical decision-making.• Workplace conduct.

• Title IX and anti-harassment.• Cybersecurity.• Conflicts of interest.• The Georgia Tech Policy Library —

including the process by which new policies are written, reviewed, and implemented.

All new employees are automatically enrolled within their first week and receive an email with instructions on

Learning, Compliance Program in Place for New Hires

see HIRES, page 4

7 Library Resources That Aren’t Books or Journals

RENAY SAN MIGUEL COLLEGE OF SCIENCES

When she was growing up, Rena Ingram was fascinated by TV detective dramas, especially CSI. Yet she didn’t want to be a cop. For Ingram, it was the science behind the sleuthing – the gathering of evidence, the lab work that helped nail the bad guys – that got her attention.

“I had a keen interest in those types of shows,” she says, “especially when I took chemistry in high school.”

Ingram and chemistry proved to be a successful mixture, one that she thought would include a résumé-boosting Ph.D. at Georgia Tech. Once at Tech, however, she faced a mystery of her own: Why was she so unhappy? Is this level of stress normal? If she gave up, what would her family and friends think?

Counselors in the Office of Graduate Studies say what Ingram experienced is common among graduate students. “They may feel they are failing even though they are simply taking a different path,” says career development advisor Robbie Ouzts.

With the help of Tech services and programs, including counseling from mentors, Ingram refocused her goals. Instead of staying for a Ph.D., she opted to graduate from Tech last May with a Master of Science in Chemistry and embark on a different career path.

Ingram is now at Marietta High School, taking part in a collaborative teaching program made possible by a $30,000 Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowship. She’s still in graduate school – at Kennesaw State University, where she’s pursuing a Master of Arts in Teaching, Secondary Chemistry. She’s getting a chance to try her own methods of engaging students, such as using sports-themed games to teach them about the periodic table.

Those students have helped her smile again. “It’s been great. Those kids are my babies,” she says with a laugh.

A Change of Scenery — and HeartIngram believes the seed for

wanting to be a teacher was planted by her chemistry instructors at her

Augusta, Georgia, high school and at Fort Valley State University, where she received her bachelor of science in Chemistry in 2014.

“My teachers made it fun and interesting, and that’s what made me want to pursue chemistry,” she says. After college, however, she set aside any plans of teaching. Instead, she moved to Atlanta and applied to Georgia Tech’s doctoral program, mostly because of Tech’s reputation. Naysayers also provided motivation.

“People were saying, ‘Georgia Tech’s too hard. You’re not going to get in,’” she recalls. “But when people hear that someone went to Georgia Tech, they say, ‘Wow, you graduated from Tech?’ The name alone holds so

When a Change of Heart Reveals a New Career Path

Rena Ingram came to Georgia Tech to pursue a Ph.D. but found her calling in a high school classroom.

Photos courtesy of Rena Ingram

see HEART, page 2

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HEALTH AND WELLNESS

Feb. 7 Human Resources hosts a Be Well session on Caring for Aging Parents

from noon to 1 p.m. in the Peachtree Room, Student Center. RSVP at: ohr.gatech.edu/bewell

Feb. 10 The Campus Recreation Center hosts a Caving Adventure Trip and a Mountain Biking Adventure Day Trip. Learn more and sign up at: c.gatech.edu/adv

Feb. 15 Human Resources hosts the Summer Camp Expo from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Student Center Ballroom. ohr.gatech.edu/bewell

Through March 12 Fit to Thrive is a six-week series focused on skills related to nutrition, physical activity, mindfulness, and stress management. healthinitiatives.gatech.edu/thrive

SEMINARS AND LECTURES

Feb. 7 The IMPACT Speaker Series hosts Nadia Bilchik, president of Greater Impact Communication, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in the LeCraw Auditorium, Scheller College of Business. scheller.gatech.edu/impact

Feb. 12 Join the Center for European and Transatlantic Studies in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at 12:20 p.m. as it hosts Boris Ruge, deputy chief of mission at the German Embassy in Washington, D.C. Ruge will discuss A European Perspective

on the Middle East. cets.gatech.edu

Feb. 15 Guest speaker Kate Marvel, Columbia University, will discuss Can

Climate Sensitivity be Constrained

by Current Observations? from 11 to 11:50 a.m. in Room L1205, Ford Environmental Science and Technology Building. eas.gatech.edu

Feb. 19 A Sports, Society, and Technology lecture will focus on Sports and the

Black Freedom Struggle: The Legacy

of 1968 at 4:30 p.m. in the Clary Theatre, Student Success Center. hsoc.gatech.edu/sports

MARY ALICE ALLEN INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION

The Office of International Education (OIE) is issuing a call for applications from academic faculty members to cultivate the next genera-tion of study abroad faculty leaders and program directors who serve undergraduate and graduate students.

OIE is looking for faculty members to create faculty-led study abroad programs that will be academically relevant and of interest to Georgia Tech students.

OIE’s mission is to foster and provide international opportuni-ties to all Georgia Tech students. To that end, OIE hopes to identify key areas for potential growth by

fostering support for a cohort of faculty members who will develop new programs or replace senior faculty as they advance to new projects or retire.

Rather than compete with existing study abroad options, this program seeks to create new opportunities for groups currently underserved, such as:

• African-American, Hispanic, and other underrepresented student populations.

• Graduate students (outside of the Scheller College of Business).

• Scheller College of Business undergraduate students.

• Student-athletes.• Programs in developing

countries and emerging economic markets.

• Locations not currently served by existing faculty-led study abroad programs.

Members of the program cohort will receive funding to be used toward conference participation and program planning. Faculty participants will also receive mentorship from a current faculty-led study abroad program director. Those selected for the program cohort will need approval from their academic unit, should anticipate dedicating five to 10 hours of work per

month, and commit to submit-ting a faculty-led study abroad program proposal for the 2018-19 academic year.

Applications for the program are now open and will be accepted through Wednesday, Feb. 28. To review criteria and submit an application, visit c.gatech.edu/oiefac. Learn more about international education at oie.gatech.edu.

Faculty Invited to Create New Study Abroad Programs

Graduate students pose in Hungary during a practicum designed specifically for those pursuing a master’s in business administration.

Photo by Justin Kammerer

much weight.”When she started at Tech, she believed that

five years of work toward a Ph.D. would allow her to apply for a good crime-solving job with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Soon her doubts started. She knew that teaching was an option after getting a Ph.D., but was it something she should pursue immediately?

Her advisor, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry Professor and Chair M.G. Finn, knew something was wrong.

“He sat me in his office one day and said, ‘You’re not happy here,’” Ingram recalls. “I thought, are you another person telling me I can’t do this? I was not receiving the message he was trying to send. I basically told him that I’d get it done; don’t worry about it.”

Tears, Acceptance, and a Different Destination

“Second thoughts are the product of an active mind,” Finn says. “It’s often difficult to balance the desire to change with the need to persevere, but that’s where mentors can help. Ultimately, of course, it’s the student’s decision.”

Ingram made that difficult decision after her first qualifying examination. The panel members could tell that she didn’t want to be there, Ingram recalls. “They said I presented really well, but the work I put into my project could have been better. Their focus was in telling me that I wasn’t happy.

“Of course that put a damper on my parade,” she says. “So we talked, they left the room, I cried for a minute, and then I walked into M.G.’s office and said I want to be a teacher.”

Finn was delighted. A career in chemistry, he says, “doesn’t have to be research. We need great high school teachers too.”

Finn believes it’s his job to give students the benefit of his experience and perspective when they are deciding what they want to do. “I try never to talk about finding what students are

naturally good at,” Finn says, “because this implies that everyone has something they’re preordained to do, if only we can discover it. Instead, I try to help students find what they want to work hard at.”

A Ph.D. is not for everyone, just as an academic career is not the only option for someone with a Ph.D. “Students can decide they do not like research, or find that the Ph.D. path is not what they thought it would be,” Ouzts says. “Students may find that the industry job market is much better than the academic job market.”

Ouzts says graduate students can experience a range of emotions when second thoughts happen. “I assure the student they are just choosing a different path – not a wrong path, just a different one,” she says.

She encourages students to write down their reasons for deciding to leave a program. She also recommends creating an elevator pitch, a

30-second summary, for their new direction.

Comfortable in the ClassroomIngram may still try for a Ph.D., but in

education, not chemistry. In the meantime, she wants to have the same impact on her students that her chemistry teachers had on her. She’ll have plenty of chances to do that; as part of her $30,000 Wilson Foundation Fellowship, Ingram has committed to teaching science classes in underserved Georgia schools for three years.

Any worries about what friends and family might think about her change in Ph.D. plans dissolved with her mother’s encouraging words, Ingram recalls. “She said, ‘You just have to do what makes you happy. I’m proud of you regardless.’”

The same attitude informs Ingram’s advice to graduate students who find themselves reconsidering their career goals: “Follow your heart. Listen to the voice in the back of your head. If something is telling you to go for it, then go for it, even if it’s not the same plan that you had.”

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Campus ResourcesRobbie Ouzts, a licensed counselor and

career coach, encourages students having second thoughts about graduate studies to speak with their advisor or principal investigator. They can also seek counseling and other information through these Georgia Tech units:

• Office of Graduate Studies grad.gatech.edu

• The Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Faculty Development c.gatech.edu/vpgefd

• Center for Career Discovery and Development career.gatech.edu

Ingram outside of her classroom at Marietta High School.

Photo courtesy of Rena Ingram

EVENTS

For a more comprehensive listing of events, or to add your own, visit calendar.gatech.edu.

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ARTS AND CULTURE

Feb. 8, 9, 10 DramaTech Theatre presents Constellations at 8 p.m. at DramaTech Theatre (back corner of Ferst Center for the Arts). dramatech.org

WORKSHOPS AND TRAINING

Feb. 19 Organizers and managers of programs that work with minors on and off campus are encouraged to attend an online information session to clarify policies, legal requirements, and how to register a program. The session takes place via WebEx from noon to 1 p.m. c.gatech.edu/youth

MISCELLANEOUS

Feb. 6 President G.P. “Bud” Peterson and Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Rafael L. Bras host Conversation with Campus:

Search Process and Profile of the

Next Executive Vice President for

Research, at 11 a.m. in Room 152, Clough Commons. c.gatech.edu/evpr

Feb. 7 The Scheller College of Business hosts an info session for its Executive and Evening MBA programs from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in Room 200, Scheller College of Business. scheller.gatech.edu/mba

Feb. 8 The Graduate Student Government Association hosts the Career, Research, and Innovation Development Conference (CRIDC) from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Student Center and Ferst Center for the Arts. sga.gatech.edu/g/cridc-2018

Feb. 8 Men’s Basketball hosts Duke University from 6 to 8 p.m. at McCamish Pavilion. ramblinwreck.com

Feb. 8 Women’s Basketball hosts Boston College from 7 to 9 p.m. at McCamish Pavilion. ramblinwreck.com

Feb. 9, 23 The Robotarium hosts an open house from 2 to 3 p.m., Room 261, Van Leer Building. www.robotarium.gatech.edu

Angela Rye to Deliver Black History Month LectureDr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said that “the arc

of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of King’s assassination and the subsequent founding of the African American Student Union at Georgia Tech. Moreover, 2018 witnesses a breakthrough in the struggle for gender equity and equality through the #MeToo movement as the “Silence Breakers” were named TIME’s 2017 Person of the Year.

During Georgia Tech’s Fifth Annual Black History Month Lecture, Giving Voice to Justice for 50 Years, Angela Rye, principal and CEO of IMPACT Strategies, political commentator for CNN, and political analyst for NPR, will discuss the recent controversies of sexual harassment, the unmasking of male privilege, and the impact of the #MeToo movement.

The lecture will take place Wednesday, Feb. 7, at 3 p.m. in the Student Center Ballroom. RSVP to attend at c.gatech.edu/bhmlecture.

would normally require a paid subscrip-tion, such as The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, or The Washington Post. Note that the reading experience may not always be as user-friendly as the publica-tion’s full website or print edition.

Gadgets: Students, faculty, and staff can check out Kindles, iPads, Go Pros, DSLR cameras, and more through the Gadgets program.

Archives: If it’s Georgia Tech you want

to learn more about, the online archives are a trove of historic photos and documents — as is SMARTech.

Learn more about the Library and its resources at library.gatech.edu, or follow the Library on Twitter (GTLibrary), Facebook (GeorgiaTechLibrary), or Instagram (GTLibrary).

For links to these online resources, visit c.gatech.edu/libresources. You’ll need to be logged in to your Georgia Tech account first.

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BETHANY SCHUSTER HUMAN RESOURCES

Supervisors of staff members have less than one month remaining to complete annual employee evaluations and submit them to their Human Resources business partner or representative.

Employees should consult their supervisors or unit HR staff for unit-specific deadlines. Performance management applies to all full-time and part-time staff. (Note: These instructions do not apply to employees of GTRI or EI2.)

Following is some guidance for those who have not already completed their evaluations:

Employees: Take time to complete a self-assessment and submit it to your manager before you meet. Self-assessments help ensure your priorities are included during your evaluation.

Managers: Consider reviewing the One-on-One Performance Coaching Guide and other resources related to having effective conversations found at ohr.gatech.edu.

Deadline: Feb. 16 is the deadline for supervisors to complete all annual evaluation conversations and provide a signed copy of the evaluation to the depart-ment HR contact, representative, or business partner. Some departments may use a different deadline — check with your business partner or representative.

The performance evaluation and goal-setting processes remain a critical focus for Georgia Tech as the Institute provides employees the opportunity to grow both personally and professionally. Learn more about the performance evaluation and goal-setting processes at ohr.gatech.edu/performance.

Annual Performance Reviews Underway

KRISTEN BAILEY INSTITUTE COMMUNICATIONS

Sandra Kinney spent years watching her son Chris compete in track and field events. Now, being a supportive mom requires a slightly longer trip — to Pyeongchang, South Korea, in much colder temperatures.

It was just a few weeks ago that Chris found out he’d be representing the U.S. as part of the men’s national bobsled team at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games — yes, bobsled. The 29-year-old’s Olympic aspirations began when he attended the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, and he has been a competitive athlete for years, but it wasn’t until his mid-20s that he got in a bobsled.

“He was working in Japan and called to tell me he was going to quit his job and try to be an Olympic bobsledder,” Kinney said. “I thought it was crazy.”

Over the past three years, though, Chris has made it work. He was made the first scholarship bobsled athlete at East Tennessee State University, which is home to an Olympic training site for USA Bobsled & Skeleton. He’s pursuing an MBA in international business.

Along the way, they both have made friends around the world. Kinney will travel to Pyeongchang with her sister and a German friend she met at a World Nationals event. The friend has been like a second mom to Chris during long stints training in Europe.

“It’s a neat community,” said Kinney, senior director in Institutional Research and Planning, “Even other countries are all so supportive of one another.”

Chris has found support among the broader athletic community as well. He’s even trained on campus with Tech student-athletes when he’s in town. Kinney also finds that when Chris is in town, she often hosts other bobsledders from around the world. The group can be challenging to feed, as they consume somewhere between 12,000 to 15,000 calories a day to maintain their weight while training.

South Korea will be the sixth country where Kinney has seen her son compete in bobsledding. The Olympic committee provides families of athletes with a guidebook to help them know what they’ll experience at the games. Kinney doesn’t expect to see much of Chris during the 10-day trip, but is excited for the moment when he competes.

“So many athletes give so much to get there and don’t make it,” she said. In addition to bobsled, she’ll also see speedskating and figure skating events.

Chris is on one of three four-man sleds that will race for the U.S. team on Saturday, Feb. 24 — the last event before the closing ceremony. He’s also an alternate for the two-man bobsled on Monday, Feb. 19.

For those who want to spot Chris during the Pyeongchang games, his mom advises to look for his legs.

“He always wears tall socks — one with stars, and one with stripes.”

Staffer’s Son Headed to Pyeongchang

Sandra Kinney (left), her son Chris, and her sister at the North America’s Cup in Lake Placid, New York, on Jan. 14. The event was the final qualifier for the 2018 Winter Olympics. Chris earned a gold and silver medal and the event.

Photo courtesy of Sandra Kinney

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Researchers in the School of Interactive Computing and Institute for People and Technology seeking parents of children ages 1 to 5 for a study using an e-book to track development. Learn more at c.gatech.edu/ebookstudy.

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KRISTEN BAILEY INSTITUTE COMMUNICATIONS

During the next two years, the Northwest sector of campus is going to see a dramatic transformation.

This month, work will begin on the Campus Safety Building, the new home for the Georgia Tech Police Department that will take shape at the corner of Hemphill Avenue and 10th Street.

Work is also set to begin on The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design. In the coming weeks, site work will begin for the project that is set to rise from a surface parking lot at the corner of State Street and Ferst Drive.

Within the next six months, work will also begin at the Dalney deck and office building on Dalney Street, near the intersec-tion with Greenfield Street.

The campus community can expect some near-term construc-tion impacts. Both the Campus Safety Building and Kendeda projects will be active within the next two weeks. Fencing will be erected at the Kendeda site,

beginning Feb. 6. Site fencing will include sections of surface lots within the project boundary.

On Dalney Street, through traffic to Ferst Drive will be closed where it passes through the Kendeda project site. Major

work on the Dalney project is not expected to begin until May.

Facilities Management will share more detailed site plans and logistics in the coming weeks. For other updates and information, visit facilities.gatech.edu.

2 Major Construction Projects Get Started This Semester

Approximations of the sites for the Campus Safety Building and The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design. Construction at both projects will begin this month. Later this year, the Dalney deck and building site will be activated just south of the Centennial Research Building.

Graphic by Kristen Bailey

PÉRALTE PAUL ENTERPRISE INNOVATION INSTITUTE

Georgia Tech is offering more than 2,000 square feet of office space for a four-month period to entrepreneurs and innovators from the island of Puerto Rico, who are still reeling from the devastating effects of Hurricane Maria. The leases begin this month.

The Institute will host up to 10 companies

— roughly two people each — in Class A office space during that four-month period. The space offering is made possible via Georgia Advanced Technology Ventures Inc., a nonprofit organization and Tech affiliate.

The initiative follows a November 2017 visit to Georgia Tech by a delegation of the Echar Pa’Lante (Move Forward), a multi-sector alliance based in Puerto Rico and comprised of business and government leaders, and educators.

David Bridges, director of Georgia Tech’s Economic Development Lab (EDL), the program that hosted the delegation, said the offering follows years of work with partners on the island to develop Puerto Rico’s startup ecosystem.

“One of the most critical needs for entrepre-neurs on the island is space and reliable access to energy and telecommunications,” Bridges said. “By temporarily relocating here, they can continue operations while the situation improves in Puerto Rico. Working in Tech Square, they will have the opportunity to interact with our ecosystem and network,

which could lead to potential new business opportunities.”

EDL, a program of Georgia Tech’s economic development arm, the Enterprise Innovation Institute (EI2), assists governments, communi-ties, foundations, entrepreneurs, and small businesses in fostering value creation by applying innovative ideas, technology, and policy to initiatives focused on fostering economic growth.

The temporary space offering follows more than five years of work EDL has done in partnership with universities, private organi-zations, nonprofits, and the Puerto Rican government in building the innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem of the island.

Tech Offers Office Space to Entrepreneurs from Puerto Rico

Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Rafael L. Bras greets the Puerto Rico delegation and shares a lighthearted exchange with the group during a visit in November.

Photo by Péralte Paul

how to complete the program.Managers should allocate

time for their direct reports to complete the online program within their first 30 days. Managers are also encouraged to engage their new employees in a discussion of the program, underscoring their personal commitment to the policies and principles the program has discussed.

Human Resources revital-ized its compliance approach to demonstrate a better way to manage risk and redefine its collective expectations of how genuinely impactful a compliance training program can be. By providing newly hired employees with a solid ethics and compliance founda-tion, the New Hire Learning and Compliance program is enabling other exciting initia-tives at the Institute. For example, Georgia Tech’s annual Integrity and Compliance Campaign, which begins March 7 and ends April 6, will be streamlined this year to focus on real-life opportunities for meaningful employee learning and behavior change.

To learn more about the New Hire Learning and Compliance program, contact Travis Waugh at travis.waugh@ohr.gatech.edu.

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This story has been edited for length. Read more about how Georgia Tech is working with entrepreneurs in Puerto Rico at c.gatech.edu/puertorico.

CAMPUS SAFETY

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