For three-plus decades, Tech’s tennis coaches have been inseparable—on the court and off Over the past 12 years, Kenny Thorne, IE 89, and Bryan Shelton, IE 90, have coached Tech’s men’s and women’s tennis teams, respectively. They have built a tennis program into one of the best in the nation. The teams have claimed multiple [...]
Astronaut Sandra Magnus, PhD CerE 96, offers a first-person perspective on NASA’s final space shuttle flight.
On Nov. 17, 1911, the first issue of The Technique student newspaper was published. There have been many student-run publications at Tech over the years, but The Technique (its tagline still “The South’s Liveliest College Newspaper”) is the most enduring. To mark its centennial, we combed through the archives and picked out eight memorable covers. To view [...]
Dean Alford’s curriculum vitae features a wealth of experience in the energy industry, a variety of roles in government, positions with a broad swath of charitable and civic organizations and several committee postings at Georgia Tech, from which he received an electrical engineering degree in 1976. To that list, Alford recently added one more item: [...]
David Zweighaft, IM 84, has been featured on MSNBC’s Your Business while giving accounting advice to business owners. Zweighaft, the managing partner of DSZ Forensic Accounting and Consulting Services and adjunct professor of forensic accounting at New York University, is a CPA and certified fraud examiner. Here, he shares his 10 most important accounting tips [...]
For his 77th birthday, John Burson enjoyed a low-key celebration with some coworkers. The surprise is not that Burson, ChE 55, MS Met 63, PhD ChE 64, is still working beyond retirement age, it’s the location where he was working: a combat emergency room in Kabul, Afghanistan. This is the fourth deployment since 2005 for [...]
In the Delta Sigma Phi fraternity in the late 1980s, Tony Bedard was known as the resident comics nerd. He painted comics characters on the door and walls of his room and kept stacks of comic books on hand. After earning his management degree in 1989, Bedard pursued his creative passion and has established himself [...]
Students walking to and from class on Georgia Tech’s campus might not realize that they’re traversing ground that once was a Civil War battlefield. After the fall of Vicksburg, the Union Army — under the direction of general William Sherman — set its sights on cities farther south, including Atlanta, and eventually destroyed much of [...]
In September, the Atlantic Coast Conference accepted applications from the Pittsburgh and Syracuse to join the ACC. With the additions, the conference will include 14 teams and stretch across the entire East Coast. After the announcement, Tech athletic director Dan Radakovich spoke at a press conference about the expansion. What was the timeline of the [...]
Michael Arad stood on the roof of his Lower East Side apartment and watched as the world fell apart. It was the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. Arad was 32, an architect working for New York City’s Housing Authority, two years removed from earning a master’s degree at Georgia Tech. People were saying a plane [...]
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