The Atlanta Business Chronicle recently profiled Atlanta’s 100 most influential people, as selected by the editors of the paper. The list included Governor Nathan Deal, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, Muhtar Kent, chairman and CEO of The Coca-Cola Company, and Donna Hyland, president and CEO, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.
Gulf Power Company is getting a new president. Stan Connally (BSME '93 and Woodruff School Advisory Board member), a senior vice president at Georgia Power, will be the company’s 16th president, succeeding Mark Crosswhite who has been named executive vice president and chief operating officer of Southern Company, Gulf Power’s parent firm.
Andrés García, PhD, was awarded the Clemson Award for Basic Research at the 2012 World Biomaterials Congress this week in Chengdu, China. The Society for Biomaterials is a national society which promotes advances in all phases of materials research and development by encouragement of cooperative educational programs, clinical applications, and professional standards in the biomaterials field. Each year, the Society for Biomaterials solicits nominations for outstanding work for three different Clemson Award categories.
Trotter Hunt (BSME '99) was recently named to the Emerging Leaders Council for the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.
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