Articles By: Rachael Maddux

  • Tech Student Talks Cake-Baking, Small-Business-Owning with Bloomberg Businessweek

    Tech Student Talks Cake-Baking, Small-Business-Owning with Bloomberg Businessweek

    In the August 2011 issue of the Alumni Magazine, we introduced you to Georgia Tech’s Class of 2015, including Christine Proctor, a freshman business administration major from Atlanta. Proctor came to Tech with some entrepreneurial experience under her belt: Christine’s Cakes, the one-woman cake baking-and-decorating business she founded at age 14. But if you expected more

  • Watch 900 New Alumni Sing the Georgia Tech Fight Song

    Watch 900 New Alumni Sing the Georgia Tech Fight Song

    On Saturday, before the mortarboards were tossed and the balloons dropped at Tech’s 2013 Spring Commencement, the gathered crowd of 900 or so graduates joined in for a rousing rendition of the school fight song. Sympathetic Vibrations, an all-male campus a capella group, led the singing. Watch below—and congrats, again, to all new Georgia Tech more

  • Tech Professor Offers Updates on the Institute’s MOOCs

    Tech Professor Offers Updates on the Institute’s MOOCs

    Karen Head, assistant professor in the school of Literature, Media and Communication and director of Tech’s Communication Center, has been offering periodic updates on the Institute’s foray into the brave new world of massive open online courses (known as MOOCs) at The Chronicle of Higher Education‘s Wired Campus blog. In her most recent post, Head (above) more

  • Highland Bakery Opens in old Junior’s Grill Spot

    Highland Bakery Opens in old Junior’s Grill Spot

    Anyone who hung around Tech campus between the 1940s and the 1990s remembers Junior’s Grill, home of North Avenue’s finest chicken fingers and burger baskets. And anyone who’s hung around campus since Junior’s closed in 2011 knows that the restaurant’s old location on the backside of Tech Tower has been sitting eerily empty for too more

  • BLiNQ Blows Up

    BLiNQ Blows Up

    In August 2012, the Gannett Company came calling for BLiNQ Media, a social media engagement company that has managed 600 campaigns for the world’s leading brands since its 2008 founding. The acquisition came a little more than a year after BLiNQ graduated among the 2011 class of Georgia Tech’s Advanced Technology Development Center, and BLiNQ more