Black History Month expands diversity awareness
For the seventh year now, Tech’s African American Student Union will host its Black Leadership Conference over the Feb. 19-21 weekend, focusing on their I-Change...
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Lunar New Year celebrated by many cultures on campus
Typically, when you receive a red envelope on Feb. 14, you expect to see a Valentine’s Day card. This year, however, many people who got...
School of Arch. builds sustainable healthcare
In the past decade, conservation has become a major source of concern when facing the already complex problems posed by healthcare and human development initiatives....
GTRIC showcases student research
The 2010 Georgia Tech Research and Innovation Conference (gtRIC), formerly known as the Graduate Symposium, took place this past Tuesday, Feb. 8 at the Georgia...
Trailblazers helps students give back, get dirty
Each spring break since 2007, several dozen of Tech’s Trailblazers—including undergraduates, graduates and post-doctorates —combine outdoors exploration with environmental improvement via trips to national parks...
Tech hosts competition for aspiring engineers
Ask an engineer about their favorite childhood toy, and odds are good that LEGOs®, K’Nex© or Tinker Toys will pop up somewhere in the conversation....
CoC professor appointed new cybersecurity czar
One of the nation’s renowned computer security experts, Howard Schmidt rejoined the White House payroll as their cybersecurity coordinator, or “cyber czar.” President Obama initially...
Students weigh in on campus carry legislation
Campus weapon control is still on the radar for both the apolitical and outspoken student. At a recent interview with the Atlanta Journal Constitution (AJC),...
Biggest Loser Competition inspires healthy changes
Sometimes being a loser is a good thing. In some cases, it might actually win you a competition and a healthier lifestyle to boot. The...
Campus MovieFest brings student creations to big screen
From Jan. 14 to Jan. 20, Tech students were frantically creating, shooting, and editing movies across the campus and city. No, they were not just...
Sophomore Success Program offers support
From Freshmen Leadership Organizations to large-scale class socials, those first weeks of freshman year are chock full of class bonding and opportunity. Tech has even...
Students contribute to Haitian relief efforts
Tuesday, Jan. 12, was a horrific day in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Late that afternoon, an earthquake of magnitude 7.0 hit the city and left it in...
Costa Rican adventure
It is generally a fair assumption that after finals week Tech students want to find a way to escape from school. At the end of...
Yellow Jacket Flying Club soars through the skies
The Yellow Jacket Flying Club is perhaps the only club at Tech that casually travels the country on weekends, grills on a mile-long asphalt driveway...
OIT ramps up security success
Stephen Colbert once said, “I’ve never trusted the web. How do you hold it personally responsible? Can you put a distributed network of fiber-optic cable...
DARPA balloon spotted by GTRI
Early last month the Department of Defense decided to put up party decorations across the country in commemoration of the Internet’s 40th birthday. On Dec.5,...
ADVANCE helps promote female faculty at tech
In 1995, the National Science Foundation (NSF) selected Tech as the head institute to provide leadership in creating models to enhance gender equity in the...
Zombies give deadweek gets literal application
Last semester, Tech’s campus was struck not only by the H1N1 virus but also by the Humans vs. Zombies (HvZ) game (with common symptoms being...