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New GRAs, GTAs, and GAs must complete the electronic New Student Hire packet and the New Student Employee Onboarding. 
Georgia Tech’s GT6000 program, a peer-led, extended orientation course for first-year graduate students, has received the 2025 Promising Practices in Graduate and Professional Student Services Award from NASPA’s AGAPPS Knowledge Community.
Flags of the world
Buzz Buddies is a new mentorship initiative from Graduate Student Government Association (Grad SGA) aimed at helping 1st-year international graduate students to acclimate to life at Georgia Tech.
William Pavlick and Jonathan Stevenson
Welcoming William Pavlick, incoming Grad SGA president, and Jonathan Stevenson, incoming Grad SGA executive vice president.
Georgia Tech Buzzcard next to flags of the world
Georgia Tech has launched a pilot program to deliver BuzzCards to international OMSCS students, strengthening global student inclusion and connection to campus life.
2025 3MT Winners
Four graduate students named winners at the 10th annual Georgia Tech Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition, which took place on April 4.
Athena Chien
4th year Ph.D. student on research, mentorship, community, and overcoming adversity in grad school.
Three Minute Thesis (3MT) logo
Georgia Tech Announces Finalists for the 2025 Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition
2025 CRIDC poster competition winners
$40,000 in research travel grants were awarded to 20 exceptional scholars who presented their research in the 16th annual Career, Research, Innovation, and Development Conference (CRIDC) poster competition.
Left to right: Joanne Taery Kim, Meghan Meredith, and Rachel Lowy
This year, three Ph.D. students were awarded $3,000 each to pursue their research. These students demonstrated that their research, and associated publication, contributed to societal progress.