As the close of the academic year approaches, many Georgia Tech students are celebrating with honors and awards from a wide variety of organizations in recognition of their academic prowess. 

• Muhannad Bakir , Hyung Suk (James) Yang, and Chaoqi Zhang earned IEE Transactions on Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology Best Paper Award in the Advanced Packaging Technologies category. 
• Brandie Banner, a civil and environmental engineering major, was named Engineering Student of the Year by the Georgia Society of Professional Engineers.
• Alice Grossman, a graduate student in civil and environmental engineering, was named a 2015 Eno Center for Transportation Fellow.
• Timothy Kassis, a graduate student in bioengineering, earned a Chih Foundation Graduate Student Research Publication Award.
• Xin Li, a graduate student in electrical and computer engineering, received the Best Paper Award at the Photoptics 2015 conference.
• Nelson Lourenco, a graduate student in electrical and computer engineering, earned a 2015 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society Graduate Scholarship.
• Travis Meyer, a graduate student in biomedical engineering, and Gregory Richards, a graduate student in physics, were selected to attend the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting this summer in Lindau, Germany.
• Rob Parrish, a graduate student in chemistry, earned a Chih Foundation Graduate Student Research Publication Award.
• Corinna Slater, a civil and environmental engineering major, earned the Joe T. Laboon Award for excellence as a co-op student.