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Georgia Tech PhD Candidate Awarded Blanchard Scholarship

Georgia Tech 12.12.11

Luyi Gui, a Ph.D. student in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) at Georgia Tech, has been named the 2011 recipient of the $25,000 scholarship from the Blanchard Award for Outstanding Stewardship and Business Ethics.

The Blanchard Award is given annually to a Georgia businessman or woman who demonstrates sound business ethics. Funded by the Georgia Lottery Corporation by the Georgia Lottery, the Georgia Chamber of Commerce, and Georgia Trend, and administered by The Ledlie Group, the award promotes business support of education throughout Georgia by providing a scholarship to a graduate business student who has demonstrated exceptionally high ethical standards.

The 2011-2012 Blanchard Award was awarded posthumously to Ray Anderson, former CEO of Interface, Inc. The recipient of the award has the opportunity to select the college or university from which the scholarship recipient will be chosen. Anderson’s alma mater, Georgia Tech, was chosen on his behalf.