Illness update: norovirus is source of sickness
On Wednesday, Oct. 25, Stamps Health Services released an announcement that, with the help of the Fulton County Department of Health and Wellness (FCDH), they...
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Widespread impacts of the California wildfires
On Oct. 8, California firefighters began a lengthy battle with multiple wildfires that have since engulfed swaths of the Golden State. Recent research published by...
Tech contributes to hurricane relief
In the past weeks, members of the Tech community have begun multiple efforts to help with relief efforts for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin...
Illness sweeps through Tech after Fall Break
Beginning Friday Oct. 13, Stamps Health Services began receiving a large amount of cases of students reporting nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. On Friday alone, there...
Mayoral candidates duke it out at debate
On Wednesday, Oct. 11, the Ferst Center for the Arts at Tech’s Atlanta campus opened its doors to the top seven candidates in Atlanta’s mayoral...
A Path Forward: action team update
As part of President Peterson’s “A Path Forward – Together” initiative in response to the death of Scout Schultz over a month ago, several action...
Oculogx wins big at Atlanta startup battle
Oculogx, a startup based out of Tech, won this quarter’s Atlanta Startup Battle. The team, consisting of four students from Tech and one student from...
MARTA organizes large-scale terrorism drill
On Saturday, Sept. 30, “terrorists” took over the Midtown MARTA station. After an initial explosion, they held the station with gunfire before APD and a...
Peaceful discussion about Schultz
On Friday, Sept. 22, a gathering was held in the area between the Ferst Center and Smithgall building to discuss topics related to the death...
Deadline approaches for two-factor login
The transition to two-factor authentication for all Tech accounts is in full throttle. Students on main campus have until Oct. 16 to sign up for...
Contrary Capital establishes venture capital fund for Tech entrepreneurs
In the fall of 2016, Eric Tarczynski, a 25-year-old Northeastern University graduate, started a road trip to visit 55 of the country’s top research universities...
ATO faces suspension, appeal pending
Following an investigation conducted by the Georgia Tech Police Department and Office of Student Integrity into events that transpired in the spring semester of 2017,...
Vigil for Schultz undercut by violence
Monday night saw a vigil at the campanile to honor Scout Schultz break into rioting, eventually ending in three arrests and two police officers wounded...
NSF awards $20 million for research center
A consortium of universities, led by Tech, has been awarded nearly $20 million by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to assist in the development of...
Anonymous donor pledges $30M to Tech
The entrepreneurial programs at Tech provide students with an opportunity to test out their big ideas and have continued to grow every year since their...
Preserving contact through disaster
In a paper released earlier this year at the 2nd International Workshop on Social Sensing, Tech researchers from the Embedded Pervasive Lab proposed how to...
Tech student Scout Schultz dies following confrontation with GTPD
Shortly before midnight this past Saturday, Tech student Scout Schultz, fourth-year CompE, was fatally shot by GTPD during a confrontation. Information received by the Atlanta...
Diversity task force releases updates
Tech’s Institute of Diversity partnered with the Division of Student Life and Undergraduate Education to create the Implementation Committee, which will to carry out recommendations...