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...
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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...
Stepping up to the plate against cancer
Tech played host to a number of celebrities this past Friday, as the Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research held its first annual Brian McCann...
Student site reflects unique Tech culture
Four students, three guys and a girl, created a website for fun and launched it during a group presentation in their Small Talk class. In...
‘Real-life Hitch’ visits Tech to give dating advice
Have you ever wondered what true love really is? Have you questioned what makes a relationship work? Or, maybe, have you ever asked yourself how...
CoC project reboots IT professionals
Operation Reboot, a project in the College of Computing, will pair laid-off IT professionals with high school teachers to give them a leg up in...
Office of Diversity holds annual Diversity Week
The Office of Diversity Programs kicked-off its annual diversity week by hosting the Power over Prejudice Summit. On Thursday and Friday the Office of Diversity...
Provost office offers link between students and administration
Gary Schuster announced on Oct. 21 that he will be stepping down from his position as executive vice president for Academic Affairs as soon as...
Tech student competes in World Cyber Games in China
Athletes from around the globe are gathered in China once more to celebrate competition and sportsmanship, with contenders from a variety of countries and vast...
Local gaming companies give students taste of design process
Atlanta is notable for being an internationally-connected hub of business, transportation and culture, with companies that span the globe based here such as Turner Broadcasting,...
Website facilitates course selection by providing virtual lectures
Each semester, Tech students use websites such as Course Critique and Pick-a-Prof to determine the quality of the professors who are teaching their classes. Many...
Home Park mugging victim shares experience
Crime on and around campus is something that most students are aware of on some level. For most, though, their experiences with crime will be...