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 [...]
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, [...]
All over the country and the world, Georgia Tech alumni belong to geographic groups, bound by common locations as well as their shared connection to the Institute’s traditions and academic excellence. And beginning this summer, those groups have a new name: The organizations once known as Alumni Clubs are now Alumni Networks. “Over a year [...]
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 [...]
Freedom of Expression Must be Maintained Diversity is generally a good thing in many areas of society when that society is itself diverse. It reflects the society in which we live. It, however, must be achieved in a democratic and impartial manner. I believe that Georgia Tech takes a fair and balanced approach in this [...]
To say that John E. Aderhold loved downtown Atlanta, as the businessman and developer’s son Tom noted to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution late this summer, seems like an understatement. Many love the bustling heart of Atlanta’s capital. But few can claim that their love of the city has played such an integral role in shaping its [...]
If he had accomplished nothing else in his professional life, Ray Christie Anderson, IE 56, would be remembered upon his Aug. 8 passing as the founder and chairman of a pioneering, flourishing carpet company. Interface, founded in 1973 on the heels of Anderson’s 14 years in the industry at Callaway Mills and Deering Milliken, became [...]
Phil McKnight, professor and chair of the School of Modern Languages in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, died unexpectedly during the Labor Day holiday. He was 69. Joining Georgia Tech as chair in August 2001, McKnight transformed the Institute’s 107-year-old modern languages curricula into one of the nation’s premier programs. Today, 21 percent [...]
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