Monthly Archives: February 2014

Publisher’s Letter: Celebrating Man’s Best Friends

Joe Irwin, IM 80

Humans and animals have lived side by side for tens of thousands of years, but we’ve only begun to scratch the surface in understanding our fellow inhabitants of Earth. Studying the ways animals behave, move, feed, breed, create communities and interact with their environments can allow us to access deeper insights into our world—ideas applicable more

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Gearing Up for a Cannonball Run

Van Jensen

Growing up, Ed Bolian, PP 08, loved the Cannonball Run movies, starring Burt Reynolds as a mechanic angling to win a cross-country car race. When Bolian learned about the real-life attempts to set the speed record, he decided that one day he’d make a go himself. In 2009, Bolian started planning his attempt at what’s more

Posted in In the World, Vol. 90, No. 1 | 1 Comment

Passing Grade

Jonathan Crowl

In 2011, when Brian Gregory was hired as Georgia Tech’s men’s basketball coach, he inherited a team that had just suffered its third losing season in four years. But the coach’s most pressing issue had nothing to do with the team’s on-court performance: Poor scores on the NCAA’s annual academic progress rate were threatening to more

Posted in On the Field, Vol. 90, No. 1 | 1 Comment

Home Sweet Dearborn

Rachael Maddux

Linda Ellington, Bio 82, might be Atlanta’s favorite veterinarian. She’s certainly the only one ever shut down by NATO. After years of providing top-notch care out of a beloved—but crumbling—old building, she just built her practice a state-of-the-art hospital that would make even the most skittish critter shiver with joy. But can she make it more

Posted in Features, Vol. 90, No. 1 | 4 Comments

The Lizard King

Rachael Maddux

Nine years ago, Joseph Mendelson was settling into life as a freshly tenured professor of biology at Utah State University. But then Zoo Atlanta called and made him an offer he couldn’t refuse: a hybrid research/conservation/teaching position linking the resources of the zoo with the brainpower of Georgia Tech. Now the zoo’s director of herpetological more

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