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By Van Jensen on November 7, 2011
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 [...]
Posted in Student Life, Tech Topics, Vol. 87, No. 7
By Van Jensen on November 7, 2011
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 [...]
Posted in Tech Topics, Vol. 87, No. 7
By Van Jensen on November 7, 2011
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 [...]
Posted in Office Space, Tech Topics, Vol. 87, No. 7
By Van Jensen on November 7, 2011
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 [...]
Posted in Tech Topics, Ten Questions, Vol. 87, No. 7
By Rachael Maddux on November 7, 2011
Earlier this year, the Georgia Tech Research Institute’s Cyber Technology and Information Security Laboratory was tapped by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to head up a five-year, $10 million initiative to investigate and identify open-source security models and technologies to be used in support of the United States’ national cybersecurity efforts. Led by GTRI, [...]
Posted in Excerpt, Tech Topics, Vol. 87, No. 7
By Van Jensen on August 18, 2011
Cheerleaders are thought to be pretty and enthusiastic but somewhat vapid. Scientists are thought to be brilliant and hard working but socially clueless. Oil and water, in other words. But Wendy Brown proves that the two callings aren’t mutually exclusive. She has danced on the Georgia Dome sidelines as a Falcons cheerleader and earned renown [...]
Posted in Student Life, Tech Topics, Vol. 87, No. 6
By Van Jensen on August 18, 2011
As a PhD student, Beth Mynatt developed an auditory interface that allowed blind people to work with computers. Since then, Mynatt, MS ICS 89, PhD CS 95, has helped the Institute become a leader in human-computer interaction. A professor in the School of Interactive Computing, she recently added a new title: executive director of IPaT, [...]
Posted in Tech Topics, Ten Questions, Vol. 87, No. 6
By Rachael Maddux on August 18, 2011
Story by Rachael Maddux Photos by James K. Holder II Most people react to the mention of parasites with disgust — a wrinkled nose, a disdainful frown. But not assistant professor of biology Meghan Duffy. When conversation turns to Daphnia, the planktonic water fleas she began researching while an undergrad at Cornell, her eyes sparkle [...]
Posted in Excerpt, Office Space, Tech Topics, Vol. 87, No. 6
By Rachael Maddux on August 18, 2011
By Rachael Maddux Last September, Georgia Tech launched its 25-year Strategic Plan, “Designing the Future.” And less than a year later, many of its elements are already in play. In late May, President G. P. “Bud” Peterson addressed a meeting of the Alumni Association Board of Trustees to offer a status update on the plan, [...]
Posted in Excerpt, Tech Topics, Vol. 87, No. 6
By Alumni Publications on August 18, 2011
Jane Chumley Ammons has stepped in as chair of the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, making her the first female school chair in the College of Engineering’s history. Ammons is no stranger to shattering glass ceilings, as she became the first woman to earn a PhD from the School of Industrial [...]
Posted in Tech Topics, Vol. 87, No. 6
The 2011 Vol. 87, No. 7 digital edition of the Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine is now available. 
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