May/June 2011

Until his August 2010 retirement, Ben Zinn was the longest-tenured Regents’ professor at the Institute. But Zinn didn’t let a little thing like retirement keep him from his work. Previously the David S. Lewis Jr. Chair in the School of Aerospace Engineering, Zinn continues to conduct research at the Ben T. Zinn Combustion Laboratory. Before more

The creative power of Georgia Tech’s undergraduate students was on full display at the third annual InVenture Prize finals. Seven teams of inventors vied for the prize at the March event, which was televised live on Georgia Public Broadcasting from the Ferst Center. The teams each had three minutes to showcase their inventions before a more

Planning the meals for Georgia Tech’s multiple dining halls and supervising the array of other dining options on campus is Rimbold Bordeau, the Institute’s executive chef for the past six years. Born and raised in Port au Prince, Haiti, Bordeau specializes in the French cuisine served at his family’s restaurant. He reflected on growing up more

Within days of James Cameron’s Avatar premiering in theaters in 2009, a website devoted to teaching fans the language of the film’s alien Na’vi people had sprung up on the Internet. But before there was Na’vi, there was Klingon. For more than two decades, die-hard Star Trek fans have been studying and speaking the language more