Tech chosen to participate in Solar Decathalon
With solar-powered houses offering paths to renewable energy, the Department of Energy’s biennial Solar Decathlon competition is generating multidisciplinary activity within teams in 16 different...
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Music technology degree approved
On Jan. 19, Tech announced the approval of its new Bachelor of Science in Music Technology by the Board of Regents. The new program is...
Parrish awarded the 2016 Ivan Allen Jr. Prize
The students, faculty, and staff of Tech will gather on Feb. 18 to honor the winner of the 2016 Ivan Allen Jr. Prize of Social...
Sustainability courses open
At the start of this semester, the Serve-Learn-Sustain program introduced its first set of courses available for general students. This program is actually Tech’s third...
Famous groundhog visits Tech during Carnivale
General Beauregard Lee, Georgia’s resident groundhog with a talent for weather prognostication, visited Tech during its annual Campus Services Carnivale on Feb. 2. Lee, who...
Wellness Director now on campus
Tech’s newly-formed Center for Community Health and Wellbeing welcomed its first Director on Dec. 7 of last year. Suzy Harrington, with expertise in healthcare business...
Tech scientists build playground for robots
The playground is a piece of childhood nostalgia, evoking in many the urge to abandon adulthood and to return to the carefree days of climbing...
Legislative hearing questions OSI process
President G.P. “Bud” Peterson spoke before a subcommittee of the Georgia House Appropriations Committee on Jan. 25 in contribution to a conversation about due process...
Preliminary injunction denied for student expelled for rape
Recent skepticism from the student body about the Office of Student Integrity’s (OSI) investigation process has brought to light the case of “John Doe B,”...
Board of Regents overturns student expulsion
On Monday, Jan. 4, 2016, “John Doe A” and Tech were notified that the discretionary review committee of the Board of Regents (BOR) of the...
SGA passes bill on Student Center funding
A referendum on funding for the Student Center’s “Re(in)novation” effort was approved by both the Graduate Student Senate and Undergraduate House of Representatives on Jan....
Tech becomes certified ‘buzz’-friendly campus
The Tech Urban Honey Bee Project is one of the most innovative and unique programs of its kind in the U.S. Headed by Jennifer Leavey,...
Safety moratorium issued on hoverboards
Under the recommendation of Tech’s safety and legal officials, a temporary campus moratorium has been placed on the self-balancing scooters commonly known as hoverboards. First...
New Pre-Health advisor appointed to C2D2
The Center for Career Discovery and Development (C2D2) recently announced the addition of new pre-health advisor, Francisco Castelan. Castelan is replacing Andrea Clark who left...
Pickren acquitted of computer trespassing
The Tech student responsible for a hacking incident on the University of Georgia’s (UGA) master calendar in Nov. 2014 has officially been acquitted after undergoing...
Records broken in retention rate
This year, Tech’s first-year retention rate reached a record high number of 97 percent. The statistic has steadily increased in the last two decades; in...
Coral reef work integral in professor’s award
On Nov. 7, Teasley Professor Mark Hay, Ph.D., received the Lowell Thomas Award from the Explorer’s Club. Hay, a professor in Tech’s School of Biology,...
$900,000 grant awarded for ultra-cold research
Recently, the United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research awarded a grant worth $900,000 to a number of researchers at Tech. The grant is...