By Kimberly Link-Wills on August 25, 2010
Mireille Murad may be the only owner and operator of a modeling agency that Georgia Tech has ever produced.
“It’s like being a mommy to everybody and really impacting their lives. Some of the girls call me Coach,” says the 26-year-old Murad of her role at Atlanta-based Element Model Management.
“Discovered at the mall,” Murad, Psy 07, [...]
Posted in Burdell & Friends, Excerpt, Sept/Oct 2010
By Kimberly Link-Wills on August 25, 2010
In introducing the 25-year strategic plan, President G. P. “Bud” Peterson says great universities do not respond to changes. They anticipate change and shape the future.
Posted in Features, Sept/Oct 2010
By Kimberly Link-Wills on August 25, 2010
President G. P. “Bud” Peterson and his wife, Val, covered 1,000 miles and made some 25 stops as they traveled the state of Georgia from north to south over the course of five days in mid-July.
Alumni and friends welcomed the Petersons in such places as Big Canoe, Young Harris, Lake Burton, Athens, Watkinsville, Greensboro, Perry, [...]
Posted in Alumni House, Sept/Oct 2010
By Kimberly Link-Wills on August 25, 2010
The Oscar- and Emmy-nominated actress Debbie Reynolds opens the Ferst Center for the Arts season at Georgia Tech on Sept. 11 with her variety show, an evening of music and comedy that will include her impressions of Barbra Streisand and Katharine Hepburn and songs from Singin’ in the Rain and The Unsinkable Molly Brown. At [...]
Posted in Excerpt, Sept/Oct 2010, Tech Topics, Ten Questions
By Kimberly Link-Wills on June 28, 2010
By Marilyn Somers and Kimberly Link-Wills
Alan Poindexter’s enrollment at Georgia Tech was part of his planned trajectory into the sky.
“I had always wanted to be a Navy pilot. I knew that one of the ways to become a Navy pilot was through the ROTC program,” said Poindexter, AE 86, who followed his future wife to [...]
Posted in July/August 2010
By Kimberly Link-Wills on June 28, 2010
Among the Ramblin’ Wrecks at the Johnson Space Center in Houston are these 78 — including three astronauts, three married couples and four students. See the guide below.
1. Dave Link 2. Jessica Calhoun 3. Pete Cyr 4. Johanna Pineiro 5. Heidi Brewer 6. Kelly Rodriguez 7. Sarah Graybeal Ruiz 8. Myra (Dawson) Smith 10. Krista [...]
Posted in July/August 2010
By Kimberly Link-Wills on June 28, 2010
Alumni working at the Marshall Space Flight Center are, standing left to right, Carl Lester, ChE 78, assistant chief, nonmetallic materials branch; Corky Clinton, AE 73, MS AE 76, PhD AE 82; Jared Dervan, ME 04, MS ME 05, flight systems design engineer; Mickey White, AE 68; Melanie Dervan, ChE 04; Greg Schunk, ME 83; [...]
Posted in July/August 2010
By Kimberly Link-Wills on June 28, 2010
Alan Alemany, ME 07; Derrick Bailey, AE 07; Arthur Beller, EE 68; Ellen Proper Brown, ISyE 85; Terence Burke, ME 82; Michael Canicatti, EE 90; Janine Captain, PhD Chem 05, and husband James Captain, MS Chem 01; Robbie Coffman, AE 04; Jon Cowart, AE 83; Taylor Dacko, aerospace engineering co-op student; Joe Dant, AE 05; [...]
Posted in July/August 2010
By Kimberly Link-Wills on June 28, 2010
In a video commemorating the School of Psychology’s 50th anniversary, former chair Anderson Smith cracked that the program had been treated with “benign respect” for half a century.
Associate professor Jim Roberts was charged with chairing the anniversary committee. He said it was no easy task to gather information on the school, which has been housed [...]
Posted in Excerpt, July/August 2010, Tech Topics
By Kimberly Link-Wills on June 28, 2010
Jan Davis walks among us as a commoner, yet this woman is a member of one of the most elite leagues on the planet. Only about 500 human beings have flown in Earth’s orbit. Davis was the first female Tech grad to do so. And she’s done it three times.
More than 10 years after her [...]
Posted in July/August 2010
The September/October 2010 digital edition of the Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine is now available. 
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