Articles By: GTalumni

  • Letters — November/December 2010

    Mrs. Heisman Picked Atlanta Seems to me I read, in a much earlier edition of our magazine, that Heisman left Tech and coached at Auburn for some time before going to New York. The explanation given [in 125 Pieces of Tech History] was that he had to leave Atlanta as part of a divorce settlement more

  • Brock Family Gift Paves Way for Indoor Practice Facility

    Georgia Tech’s football program will have an indoor practice facility, thanks to a commitment from Mary R. and John F. Brock III, ChE 70, MS ChE 71. An 80,000-square-foot facility will be built on the current site of Rose Bowl Field, Tech’s current practice facility off of Fowler Street. The cost of the facility is more

  • More Thrills Promised in New Basketball Pavilion

    At the completion of the 2010-11 men’s and women’s basketball seasons, the Alexander Memorial Coliseum will be completely replaced with one significant and highly visible exception: Those characteristic steel girders that have defined the “Thriller Dome” for so many years. A new building on the northeast corner of the Georgia Tech campus, anticipated to cost about $45 million, will be built around the girders. more
  • Nature Through the Eyes of an Engineer

    Kelvin Kuo, ChBE 10, shares pictures from his summer travels, which boosted his skills as a photographer and raised his awareness of the beauty of nature. more
  • Commerce Secretary Visits Tech, Names Peterson to Panel

    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 more