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Of Cisterns and Streetscapes: The new, green face of Georgia Tech’s campus

By Rachael Maddux on November 7, 2011

Story by Rachael Maddux / Photos by James K. Holder II Unwitting pedestrians strolling the Tech campus over the summer may have wondered if the school was considering changing its mascot from the Yellow Jacket to the Orange Barrel. But just as students began trickling back into dorms and classrooms, the neon construction partitions faded [...]

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Tech’s Student Groups are a Cut Above

By Alumni Publications on November 7, 2011

By Alumni Magazine staff and Christina Lee Everyone knows Tech students think big. So it should be no surprise that now, more than ever, there’s a growing awareness among the student body that a Tech degree is made even more valuable by connecting to the alumni network before graduation. That’s something that the Alumni Association [...]

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A Memorial to the Unthinkable

By Van Jensen on November 7, 2011

Michael Arad stood on the roof of his Lower East Side apartment and watched as the world fell apart. It was the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. Arad was 32, an architect working for New York City’s Housing Authority, two years removed from earning a master’s degree at Georgia Tech. People were saying a plane [...]

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Yellow Jackets, Bluegrass

By Rachael Maddux on November 7, 2011

Seven Handle Circus may be one of the hottest startups to come out of the Georgia Tech community in quite some time. You can’t download its source code, and it’s not the product of countless hours spent tapping away on a laptop in the Clough Commons Starbucks. It’s no app—it’s a band. Still, the guys [...]

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‘I Play as Hard as I Work’

By Van Jensen on November 7, 2011

Dean Alford’s curriculum vitae features a wealth of experience in the energy industry, a variety of roles in government, positions with a broad swath of charitable and civic organizations and several committee postings at Georgia Tech, from which he received an electrical engineering degree in 1976. To that list, Alford recently added one more item: [...]

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Digital Warrior

By Rachael Maddux on November 7, 2011

Earlier this year, the Georgia Tech Research Institute’s Cyber Technology and Information Security Laboratory was tapped by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to head up a five-year, $10 million initiative to investigate and identify open-source security models and technologies to be used in support of the United States’ national cybersecurity efforts. Led by GTRI, [...]

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Alumni Clubs Rebranded as Alumni Networks

By Rachael Maddux on November 7, 2011

All over the country and the world, Georgia Tech alumni belong to geographic groups, bound by common locations as well as their shared connection to the Institute’s traditions and academic excellence. And beginning this summer, those groups have a new name: The organizations once known as Alumni Clubs are now Alumni Networks. “Over a year [...]

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At 98 and 84, Sisters are Yellow Jackets Stalwarts

By Van Jensen on November 4, 2011

It was half an hour before the start of the 2011 Yellow Jackets football season, and a steady crowd filed into gate nine on Bobby Dodd Stadium’s east side, ready to watch Tech take on Western Carolina. A gold Jaguar pulled up along Techwood Drive, Yellow Jackets pennants flying from the rear windows. Out stepped [...]

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Of Cisterns and Streetscapes: The new, green face of Georgia Tech’s campus

Tech’s Student Groups are a Cut Above

A Memorial to the Unthinkable

Yellow Jackets, Bluegrass

‘I Play as Hard as I Work’

Digital Warrior

Alumni Clubs Rebranded as Alumni Networks

At 98 and 84, Sisters are Yellow Jackets Stalwarts

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