The Institute for Information Security & Privacy invites students of any major, any year to bring cybersecurity research ideas to Fall ’16 Demo Day.

Benjamin D.B. Klein will join Senior Associate Chair Mary Ann Weitnauer to coordinate the activities necessary to maintain the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc. (ABET) accreditation for the Georgia Tech School of ECE.

ECE Postdoctoral Research Fellow Junwen Zhang has been named as a 2016 Paul Baran Young Scholar Award recipient by the Marconi Society.

Electrical engineering maintained its fourth place position from last year, while computer engineering remained strong at sixth place.

The Georgia Institute of Technology remained the 7th best public institution in the nation and moved up to 34 in the Best Colleges overall ranking by U.S. News & World Report.

When Patricia Ford, Miss Georgia and a Georgia Tech alumna, competed for the Miss America title on September 11, she outshined the competition, thanks to her computer-coded shoes.

MIT and Georgia Tech researchers are designing an imaging system that can read closed books.

Cybersecurity, robotics, wearable computers, virtual reality and space travel are among the topics faculty, students, and alumni will address during the convention, which is expected to draw more than 70,000 attendees over the Labor Day weekend.

Students should take these into account when attending the Career Fair this fall.

The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) not only provides students with information on enriching their academic career through research, but also aims to introduce Georgia Tech students to the resources and organizations on campus availabl