On March 1, 1961, President John F. Kennedy signed an executive order establishing the Peace Corps. Alumni who have volunteered over the years say the experience is life changing.
Peter Rhee, chief of trauma surgery at University Medical Center in Arizona, was a calming force after a gunman opened fire outside a grocery store.
Susan Bowman, the program manager in the School of Materials Science & Engineering, is a breast cancer survivor and a founder of a support group of more than 30 others on campus who have beaten the disease or who are undergoing treatment. She and Sarah Banks, the student committee survivorship and awareness chair, are gearing [...]
The student-organized Women’s Leadership Conference on campus in late October was packed with two days of advice on how to rise above the ordinary, the theme for the 14th annual event. First admitted to Georgia Tech in 1952, females now comprise 37 percent of the freshman class. “We have had a steady flow of high-achieving [...]
Archie Ervin has a lot of work to do. The first vice president for Institute diversity hit the ground running Jan. 3 to try to reach the goal of making his job unnecessary.
Michael Tavani, co-founder of the group-buying site Scoutmob, says ideas aren’t worth much. “Even the best idea in the world is worth about $10 because everybody has a million dollar idea. Trust me, the idea is not the part you really need. You need to execute for the next year after the idea. That’s the [...]
Women of Distinction award winners were announced during the Women’s Leadership Conference in late October. They are: Outstanding undergraduate student Candace Mitchell, a fifth-year computer science major, president of the African American Student Union and the only undergraduate student on the vice president for Institute Diversity search committee. Graduate student Laura Kitashima, EE 10, a [...]
The nearly 20 workshops offered during the Women’s Leadership Conference focused on a wide range of topics, from accountability to Zumba, goal setting to dream interpretation. Debra Shigley, an attorney and author of The Go-Getter Girl’s Guide: Get What You Want in Work and Life (and Look Great While You’re at It), led a workshop [...]
Grammy Award-winning Nashville star Kathy Mattea brings her holiday show to the Ferst Center for the Arts at Georgia Tech at 5 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 5. “I put out a Christmas record many years ago, in the early ’90s. It took me years to make it. I decided that I didn’t want to just go [...]
Through Nov. 27, RA Sushi, 1080 Peachtree St., Atlanta, is offering GT Yellow Jackets and UGA Bulldogs rolls. On game day, the rolls will be half price, $4.25 each. The winning team’s sushi roll will remain on RA Sushi’s menu through Dec. 31, and $2 from every winning roll sold during the month of December [...]
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