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 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 Van Jensen on April 28, 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 [...]
Posted in Excerpt, May/June 2011, Office Space, Tech Topics
By Van Jensen on February 21, 2011
Georgia Tech and science fiction are a natural fit, with the campus being a center for cutting-edge research in science and technology. No surprise then that Tech is a perfect setting for Lisa Yaszek, an associate professor and director of undergraduate studies in the School of Literature, Communication and Culture. Yaszek has devoted her career [...]
Posted in Excerpt, March/April 2011, Office Space, Tech Topics
By Van Jensen on January 3, 2011
Charlie Kemp builds robots. His office and an adjoining lab, on the second floor of a Technology Square building, are filled with functioning robots and the assorted computers and mechanical parts that accompany the task. Kemp, an assistant professor in biomedical engineering at Tech, founded the Healthcare Robotics Lab in 2007. His goal is to [...]
Posted in Excerpt, January/February 2011, Office Space, Tech Topics
By Van Jensen on October 27, 2010
Nick Feamster, an assistant professor in the School of Computer Science and leader of the Network Operations and Internet Security lab, was named one of the world’s top innovators under age 35 by Technology Review magazine. Feamster, who received undergraduate, graduate and doctoral degrees from MIT before coming to Tech, was selected for the prestigious [...]
Posted in November/December 2010, Office Space, Tech Topics
By Van Jensen on August 25, 2010
Carol Senf sticks out like a sore thumb in her own office in the Skiles Classroom Building. Senf, a professor and associate chair in the School of Literature, Communication and Culture, is friendly and dresses in warm colors. Her office, meanwhile, is something of a shrine to the macabre. Ever since Senf began researching Bram [...]
Posted in Excerpt, Office Space, September/October 2010, Tech Topics
By Van Jensen on June 28, 2010
There is an obvious leitmotif to Annalisa Bracco’s office in the Ford Environmental Science & Technology Building, beginning with the shelves of books and journals on oceanography and extending to the photos of sailing trips and painted wooden fish. Bracco, an associate professor of oceanography in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, has led [...]
Posted in July/August 2010, Office Space, Tech Topics
By Leslie Overman on May 3, 2010
College of Computing professor Jarek Rossignac discusses how he helped the artists of Disney’s The Princess and the Frog, why he’s a fan of Picasso and how he always knew he would be an engineer.
Posted in Excerpt, May/June 2010, Office Space
By Leslie Overman on February 26, 2010
The executive vice chancellor and chief academic officer for the University System of Georgia talks about her career, her upcoming book and the knickknacks scattered throughout her office.
Posted in Excerpt, March/April 2010, Office Space
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