By GTalumni on August 25, 2010
Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, who hosted an innovation forum at Georgia Tech in July, named President G. P. “Bud” Peterson to the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
The council is tasked with developing policies that foster entrepreneurship and identifying new ways to take great ideas from the lab to the marketplace to drive economic [...]
Posted in Sept/Oct 2010, Tech Topics
By GTalumni on August 25, 2010
Book Discussion
Thanks for creating the most-read school publication in our home. We oldies, the kids and grandkids always find something of interest. For example, the July/August issue included the 101 Books Tech Alums Should Read Before They Lay Dying. The article actually started a lively discussion on the subject of reading lists and got several [...]
Posted in Letters, Sept/Oct 2010
By GTalumni on August 24, 2010
As Georgia Tech marks its 125th anniversary in October, we pay tribute to the Institute with photographs of campus landmarks, colorful characters and priceless artifacts.
Posted in Features, Sept/Oct 2010
By GTalumni on July 27, 2010
To signify his time at Georgia Tech, Trezevant Holmes decided to make himself a class ring. The Institute didn’t yet offer class rings, as that was in 1894.
“One-hundred and sixteen years later, it makes its way back home,” said Russell Holmes as he handed the ring to Tech President G. P. “Bud” Peterson in a [...]
Posted in Alumni News Blog
By GTalumni on July 1, 2010
The University System of Georgia’s Board of Regents recently recognized two Georgia Tech faculty members for their outstanding work. Scott Bair, a principal research engineer in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, was named a Regents’ researcher; Robin Thomas, a professor in the School of Mathematics, was named a Regents’ professor.
Bair, who received his [...]
Posted in Alumni News Blog
By GTalumni on June 28, 2010
By G. P. “Bud” Peterson
Our space program, once the envy of every nation on Earth, has been showing its age of late. Its ambitions, though laudable, are starting to appear a little outdated. Technologies that once dazzled the masses now seem almost everyday and routine. Visions of new planetary terrain, once the fodder of science [...]
Posted in July/August 2010
By GTalumni on June 28, 2010
Georgia Department of Economic Development commissioner Ken Stewart becomes Tech’s senior adviser for industry strategy in July.
“Ken brings an outstanding record of experience in new business development and the expansion of existing ones,” President G. P. “Bud” Peterson said. “His insight and experience will be vital as Georgia Tech pursues the vision of becoming an [...]
Posted in Alumni News Blog
By GTalumni on June 24, 2010
By J. Paul Oxer
In the summer of 1970, I read an article in the Atlanta Constitution about draft legislation in both the Georgia and Florida assemblies to provide funding for 4-foot-wide bicycle lanes on key routes. Georgia’s then-Gov. Lester Maddox was well known for his support of cycling and for his press stunt of riding [...]
Posted in Excerpt, In Retrospect, July/August 2010
By GTalumni on June 24, 2010
Friendships Built at Burge
I really enjoyed your article about the Burge Apartments. It brought back a lot of memories, especially about professor J.H. Henika.
I entered Georgia Tech after World War II in the industrial option of mechanical engineering and had Uncle Heinie’s wood shop just before he retired. His mind was still razor sharp, but [...]
Posted in July/August 2010, Letters
By GTalumni on June 16, 2010
Faculty, alumni, staff and students share the 101 books all Institute graduates should read.
Posted in Features, July/August 2010
The September/October 2010 digital edition of the Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine is now available. 
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