Tech student helps land mars rover
On Feb. 18, the world watched as NASA’s Perseverance Rover successfully landed on Mars, a mission made possible by a current Tech student. Breanna Ivey,...
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Sketchy honor society solicits random Tech students
Last month, part of the Tech student body was flattered upon receiving an email from the National Society of Leadership and Success recruiting them to...
Virtual shadow day to welcome liberal arts students
This year, the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts is adapting to the new normal of virtual environments. Even though prospective students remain unable to...
Night at the Aquarium proceeds swimmingly
Like most student experiences in the past 11 months, the annual GT Night at the Aquarium looked a little different this year. The event, hosted...
Timely ACC Unity Week promotes equality
Feb. 20 marked the beginning of the winter ACC Unity Week, lasting until February 28. This week’s activities coincide with the final week of Black...
Options abound for Jackets to swarm abroad
Tech’s summer study abroad programs have had to alter their traditional structure to balance students’ scholarship and safety with the continuing threat of the COVID-19...
In-person tutoring makes a return to Clough
On Feb. 8, the Institute officially returned to in-person tutoring through Tutoring and Academic Support, a unit of Office of Undergraduate Education. With the apparent...
Tech and Emory students hack covid
In late January, Tech and Emory jointly hosted a virtual hackathon to bring students together to design technological solutions to make returning to work and...
Tech grads’ app helps users quit drinking
Two Tech grads recently released Reframe, an app to help people struggling with alcohol addictions, that started as a project in Tech’s CREATE-X program. Ziyi...
Celebrating 200,000 surveillance tests
The Tech community reached a milestone on Jan. 29, surpassing 200,000 individual COVID-19 asymptomatic surveillance tests since the program began. The surveillance testing program, developed...
Plans for future course modes rely on vaccines
The Tech administration seems optimistic that online classes will not become the new normal as it currently plans to open its campus to more in-person...
An inside look at the Residence Hall Association
As the second-largest student organization on campus, the Residence Hall Association (RHA) affects a large proportion of the student body, but what is it and...
Expired elevator inspections raise concerns
Next time you go to use an elevator on Tech’s campus you might want to take the stairs instead. An astounding number of elevators on...
Library steps up efforts to enforce mask policy
The Institute’s library system has recently decided to begin enforcing its COVID-19 mask wearing policy inside all library facilities, including Crosland Tower, Price Gilbert Memorial...
Tech professor appointed to Biden’s staff
Before Biden was officially inaugurated as 46th president of the United States, he appointed Tech professor Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall as the White House homeland security adviser....
Dr. Raheem Beyah appointed new COE Dean
On Jan. 15, Dr. Raheem Beyah officially began his duties as the new dean of Tech’s College of Engineering (COE). Prior to his appointment as...
Capitol Hill violence shows the partisan divide at Tech
On Jan. 6 the United States Capitol building was stormed by supporters of President Trump, in an event that highlighted partisan disagreements across the nation,...
Tech begins vaccinating campus community
Early last week, Tech received its first allotment of COVID-19 vaccines and began vaccinating campus community members, signifying the start of Tech’s local eradication of...