Articles By: Rachael Maddux

Nelson K. Rogers, MS IE 56, of Cartersville, Ga., on Sept. 15. Rogers served in the Navy during the Korean War. His career began at the Sea-Land Corporation, where he was vice president of operations and instrumental in building the industry’s first container ships. He taught for many years at Georgia Tech, oversaw the undergraduate more

In July 1969, James Sizemore and Howard Andre, Air Force pilots who’d met at Georgia Tech, were on the crew of a Douglas A-26 invader that crashed over Laos. In September 2013, they were finally laid to rest—side by side, with full military honors—at Arlington National Cemetery. “It’s very meaningful,” Gene Sizemore, James’s brother, told more

To borrow a line from Walt Whitman: Karen Head contains multitudes. The assistant professor in the School of Literature, Media and Communication is also director of the Institute’s Communication Center and a thrice-published poet—plus, she spent the past year developing, implementing and analyzing one of the first freshman composition MOOCs. For a while, she had more

In 1998, when Richard Guthman, IE 56, established a music competition at Georgia Tech, he likely never expected that one April night, 15 years later, he would sit in on the finals of the contest that bears his name and watch a man coax otherworldly sounds out of a gleaming brass trumpet connected to an more