Articles By: Rachael Maddux

Linda Ellington, Bio 82, might be Atlanta’s favorite veterinarian. She’s certainly the only one ever shut down by NATO. After years of providing top-notch care out of a beloved—but crumbling—old building, she just built her practice a state-of-the-art hospital that would make even the most skittish critter shiver with joy. But can she make it more

Nine years ago, Joseph Mendelson was settling into life as a freshly tenured professor of biology at Utah State University. But then Zoo Atlanta called and made him an offer he couldn’t refuse: a hybrid research/conservation/teaching position linking the resources of the zoo with the brainpower of Georgia Tech. Now the zoo’s director of herpetological more

Though situated smack in the middle of a major metropolitan area, the 400 acres of Georgia Tech’s campus house a bevy of wildlife, from the ordinary (squirrels!) to the unexpected (fancy chickens?). Here’s a closer look at some of the most commonly sighted creatures, from the humans that know them best—campus groundskeepers and safety officers. more

One Tuesday evening in late August, freshman Taylor Herrmann sat in front of a computer monitor, waiting for someone to pick up the phone. All around her, fellow Roll Call Phonathon staffers filled the Alumni House basement with a cacophony of mostly one-sided chatter. “Hi, I’m calling on behalf of the Georgia Tech Alumni Association more