Articles By: Rachael Maddux

  • Nelson K. Rogers: Professor Emeritus

    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

  • Two Tech Alumni, Killed in Action, Receive Long-Delayed Arlington Burial

    Two Tech Alumni, Killed in Action, Receive Long-Delayed Arlington Burial

    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

  • Head in the Books

    Head in the Books

    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

  • New Adventures in Hi-Fi

    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

  • Art Attack

    On a sunny morning in early June, on the lawn just north of the Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons, two sweaty men in hard hats braced themselves against a floating, 3,210-pound tangle of Corten steel, easing it toward the ground. A third man, behind the wheel of the jig lift from which the mass hung by straining nylon straps, slowly more