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Four doctoral students win early career awards with Larry O’Hara Fellowships

April 15, 2020

Research opportunities that opened up to Georgia Tech students during their undergraduate years expand significantly when students continue their work as graduate or doctoral students.

Georgia Tech College of Sciences encourages that work with the annual presentation of Larry S. O’Hara Graduate Fellowships, given to outstanding doctoral students who are scheduled to graduate in the calendar year following their nominations.

This year four students were chosen as the winners of the O’Hara Graduate Fellowships:

Yuchen He

Mathematics

Advisor: Sung Ha Kang

Research Area: Lattice Indentification and Separation

Suttipong (Jay) Suttapitugsakul

Chemistry

Advisor: Ronghu Wu

Research Area: Analysis of glycoproteins on the cell surface

Deborah Ferguson

Physics

Advisor: Deirdre Shoemaker

Research Area: Binary coalescences as probes of strong-field gravity

Hyeonsoo (Harris) Jeong

Biology

Advisor: Soojin Yi

Research Area: Genomic landscape of methylation islands in hymenopteran insects

Congratulations to the O’Hara Fellowship winners!

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