![David M. Countryman (left) with surgery resident Kevin Tyler David M. Countryman (left) with surgery resident Kevin Tyler](https://biosciences.gatech.edu/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/countryman.jpg?itok=yka3Eo4e)
Advice to Students: Focus on finding balance among the different areas of your lives
![Annalisa Bracco Annalisa Bracco](https://biosciences.gatech.edu/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/annalisa.bracco.jpg?itok=68hsKjly)
Applications for inaugural class are due Dec. 8, 2016.
![Mary Beth Brown Mary Beth Brown](https://biosciences.gatech.edu/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/brown.jpg?itok=o2fYKy4U)
Mary Beth Brown came to Georgia Tech to do research in Applied Physiology. She attended the School of Applied Physiology and received a Ph.D. in 2009. The school is now the School of Biological Sciences after a reorganization in July 2016.
![Biological Sciences researcher Will Ratcliff in his lab Biological Sciences researcher Will Ratcliff in his lab](https://biosciences.gatech.edu/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/will.ratcliff.lab_.scaled.jpg?itok=2lXpf45Z)
Funding can focus science on the long game; just ask Will Ratcliff, freshly named a Packard Fellow.