By Van Jensen on August 25, 2010
Carol Senf sticks out like a sore thumb in her own office in the Skiles Classroom Building. Senf, a professor and associate chair in the School of Literature, Communication and Culture, is friendly and dresses in warm colors. Her office, meanwhile, is something of a shrine to the macabre. Ever since Senf began researching Bram [...]
Posted in Excerpt, Office Space, Sept/Oct 2010, Tech Topics
By Van Jensen on August 25, 2010
The employees at the Salvation Army Family Store just off of the Georgia Tech campus have a big appreciation for the students who make up a large portion of their customers.
Posted in Sept/Oct 2010, Tech Topics, Within Walking Distance
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 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 Van Jensen on June 28, 2010
Late on Friday and Sunday nights, a group of mostly graduate students takes over the Campus Recreation Center pool. They mark off a 25-by-15-meter rectangle with white PVC pipe on the bottom of the pool.
A lead disk coated with plastic is dropped in the center of the makeshift field. Two co-ed teams of six players [...]
Posted in July/August 2010, Student Life, Tech Topics
By Van Jensen on June 28, 2010
On the first floor of Tech Tower is the Atlanta outpost of Georgia Tech Lorraine, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary. There, Catherine Bass manages academic programs and student affairs and Florence Stoia manages the administration and faculty affairs. Both French natives, Bass and Stoia recount the run-ins with gypsies and bulls that keep them [...]
Posted in July/August 2010, Tech Topics, Ten Questions
By Van Jensen on June 28, 2010
There is an obvious leitmotif to Annalisa Bracco’s office in the Ford Environmental Science & Technology Building, beginning with the shelves of books and journals on oceanography and extending to the photos of sailing trips and painted wooden fish. Bracco, an associate professor of oceanography in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, has led [...]
Posted in July/August 2010, Office Space, Tech Topics
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 Leslie Overman on June 28, 2010
When the Tabernacle in downtown Atlanta opened its doors in May for an event headlined by David Byrne, the music venue’s merchandise stand was stocked not with Talking Heads T-shirts and albums but with signed copies of Byrne’s book Bicycle Diaries, a collection of observations and thoughts from his travels through cities of the world [...]
Posted in July/August 2010, Tech Topics
By Van Jensen on June 28, 2010
Faculty members in the Skiles Classroom Building joke about how much trouble students have finding their offices.
Skiles, located at 686 Cherry St., is a three-story structure laid out as a rectangle. The confusion enters in because the building opens into a courtyard, and its eastern portion is disconnected from the rest of the building.
Skiles, which [...]
Posted in July/August 2010, Tech Topics, What's in a Name?
The September/October 2010 digital edition of the Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine is now available. 
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