{"624056":{"#nid":"624056","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Sybrina Atwaters Named Director of OMED: Educational Services","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESybrina Atwaters (BS, EE 1994; MS, HTS 2009; Ph.D. 2014) has been named director of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/omed.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EOMED: Educational Services\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs part of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/diversity.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EInstitute Diversity\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.csdi.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECenter for Student Diversity and Inclusion\u0026nbsp;(CSDI)\u003C\/a\u003E, OMED is charged with the retention and development of historically\u0026nbsp;underrepresented minority students at Georgia Tech. In the role of director, Atwaters will provide oversight and leadership of various OMED programs and initiatives such as Challenge, Edge, Focus, and Transitions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We\u0026rsquo;re looking forward to the impact Dr. Atwaters will have on student success and development at Georgia Tech,\u0026quot; said S. Gordon Moore Jr., executive director of CSDI.\u0026nbsp;\u0026quot;Her previous experiences in STEM research, sociology, and student programming will serve OMED and the larger Tech community extremely well.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAtwaters previously held roles as OMED\u0026rsquo;s assistant director of Outreach Initiatives and as outreach support for OMED\u0026rsquo;s African-American Male Initiative (AAMI), an Institute and state-supported program to provide academic resources, mentoring, and leadership training to support\u0026nbsp;the enrollment, retention, graduation, and career placement of African-American males at Tech. Simultaneously, she managed the Challenge program, OMED\u0026rsquo;s signature five-week, academic intensive summer residential program for incoming first-year students and Focus, the Institute\u0026rsquo;s graduate recruitment initiative hosted by Institute Diversity.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShe is a three-time graduate of Georgia Tech, holding a bachelor\u0026rsquo;s degree in electrical engineering and\u0026nbsp;master\u0026rsquo;s and doctorate degrees in sociology of technology and science. She also holds master\u0026rsquo;s degrees from Emory University and Georgia State University.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAtwaters brings to the role ten years of experience as a senior wireless design engineer and more than a decade of STEM diversity research and programming. Her research interests have included the intersection of sociology and technology as well as social inequality in higher education.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAtwaters has also taught Intro to Sociology and Women in Science \u0026amp; Engineering courses at Georgia Tech. She has also served on the board of the Georgia Tech Black Alumni Organization (GTBAO)\u0026nbsp;and currently serves on the Georgia Million Women Mentor and Complete College Georgia (CCG)-GT steering committees.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDuring her undergraduate and graduate studies, she was an active member with the Institute\u0026rsquo;s Xi Alpha chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc.; a member of the executive board of the Georgia Tech chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers; a member of the Black Graduate Students Association; and a President\u0026rsquo;s Fellowship recipient.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Three-time Georgia Tech graduate brings\u00a0more than a decade of STEM diversity research experience to role"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe three-time Georgia Tech graduate brings more than a decade of STEM diversity research experience to her new role.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Three-time Georgia Tech graduate Sybrina Atwaters has been named director of OMED: Educational Services."}],"uid":"34932","created_gmt":"2019-08-07 02:16:13","changed_gmt":"2019-08-07 19:34:26","author":"Courtney Hill","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-08-07T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-08-07T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"624057":{"id":"624057","type":"image","title":"Sybrina Atwaters, Ph.D.","body":null,"created":"1565144308","gmt_created":"2019-08-07 02:18:28","changed":"1565144308","gmt_changed":"2019-08-07 02:18:28","alt":"","file":{"fid":"237680","name":"OMEDAnnouncementHS2019.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/OMEDAnnouncementHS2019.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/OMEDAnnouncementHS2019.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":370783,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/OMEDAnnouncementHS2019.jpg?itok=MoAofSkJ"}}},"media_ids":["624057"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/diversity.gatech.edu\/news\/omed-educational-services-welcomes-largest-challenge-program-cohort-39-years-campus","title":"OMED: Educational Services Welcomes Largest Challenge Program Cohort in 39 Years to Campus"}],"groups":[{"id":"1313","name":"Institute Diversity"},{"id":"1307","name":"Office of Minority Education and Development (OMED)"},{"id":"322561","name":"Student Diversity Programs"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"}],"keywords":[{"id":"736","name":"diversity"},{"id":"365","name":"Research"},{"id":"10351","name":"inclusion"},{"id":"6045","name":"OMED"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECourtney Hill\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCommunications Manager,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nInstitute Diversity\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\ncourtney.hill@gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["courtney.hill@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}