As Interim Director of the Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) Program, Yolande's responsibilities include overseeing the RCR Academic Policy for Doctoral Students and the RCR Academic Policy for Master’s Thesis Students, teaching RCR courses for graduate students, and hosting RCR workshops.

Yolande is also a Principal Research Scientist & Electron Microscopy Coordinator in the Institute for Materials at Georgia Tech. She has over 20 years experience in electron microscopy, including both SEM and TEM, and has trained thousands of operators. Ms. Berta has a Master’s degree in Science from the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Master’s degree in Biology from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.

Her diverse background has ideally positioned her to work with students from all disciplines on campus. Ms. Berta has more 15 peer-reviewed publications and has given over 15 professional presentations.