The Georgia Tech Police Department (GTPD), in collaboration with the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) and the National Weather Service (NWS), participated this week in the Severe Weather Awareness Week. From Feb. 1 through Feb. 6, the GTPD’s Office of Emergency Preparedness offered demonstrations and classes aimed to prepare students and faculty for the potential and possibility of severe weather in the Atlanta area.

The Student Government Association’s (SGA) Planning and Development committee held its first fall campus safety walk on Nov. 12, following the upsurge in crime both in and around campus over the last few months.

Three students were hospitalized Thursday evening after an unintended chemical reaction took place at the College of Computing at 801 Ferst Drive. The unplanned reaction occurred in the basement of the building near the freshmen Chemistry labs. The graduate students were preparing chemicals for undergraduate experiments when potassium thiocyanate and nitric acid were inadvertently mixed to form nitrogen dioxide—a toxic gas.