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Rich DeMillo, executive director of Georgia Tech’s Center for 21st Century Universities (C21U) will step down from the role, effective June 30, and return to a faculty position.

Kaye Husbands Fealing, professor and chair of the School of Public Policy, has been named the next dean and Ivan Allen Jr. Chair of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at Georgia Tech, effective June 1.

Four finalists have been chosen in the Georgia Tech Library dean search. As part of the final selection process, each candidate will visit campus and present an open seminar addressing their vision for the research library of the 21st century at Georgia Tech.

Jeanne H. Balsam, secretary of the faculty and principal research associate at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), has announced her intention to retire.

Four Georgia Institute of Technology faculty members have been elected as new members of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Marilyn Brown, Thomas Kurfess, Susan Margulies, and Alexander Shapiro join 83 other new NAE members for 2020 when they are formally inducted during a ceremony at the academy’s annual meeting on Oct. 4 in Washington, D.C.

Georgia Tech has joined MIT and 10 other international universities as founding members of the Digital Credentials Consortium, a collaborative, intercollegiate research and design group focused on the creation of verifiable digital credentials.

Georgia Tech Provost Rafael L. Bras will step down approximately Sept. 1, following a decade as the Institute’s chief academic officer. Bras will remain at Georgia Tech as a professor.