VIGRE

New International Grad Students

  back row: Guido Kempel, David Jimenez, Cathy Jacobson, Adem Cakmak, Hua Xu,                                                                                                            
front row: Selin Caliskan, Eliana Traldi, Sujin Ahn, Sang-Ho Shim. 
Not pictured:  Xiaozhou Zhou.     
  

International Graduate students are vital to the Graduate program in Math, as they are to most Math departments. This year, the new international grad students went through an extensive introduction to Math, Georgia Tech and life in Atlanta. The students, whose names and faces are above, come from Korea, China, Turkey, Columbia and Argentina, among other places.

These students will also receive extensive training in English and teaching duties by Cathy Jacobson, a specialist in teaching english as a forgein language. Cathy is n the center of the picture.

She, with Rena Brakebill, and Klara Grodinsky, lead the TA Development Seminar, required of all first time Math TAs. This program is at the forefront of TA training at Georgia Tech. Posted by lacey at August 19, 2003 06:13 PM