Articles By: Rachael Maddux

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

Mark Samuelian, IE 85, learned to play chess when he was five years old. His parents pushed him towards the game—it’s a national pastime in Armenia, where they grew up—and by 16 he was ranked as a national chess master. When he was playing competitively, his coach encouraged him to keep away from games of more

Imagine it: thousands of long-haired rafters, armed with beer and more, floating downstream on homemade crafts, while hundreds of thousands more gawked from the riverbanks. One weekend every summer for much of the 1970s, this was the scene on the Chattahoochee River, just north of Atlanta. It all started in 1969, when Tech student Larry more

The theme of the new edition of the Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine is “The Secret Life of Ideas”—so it seems appropriate to offer a glimpse into the “secret life” of the issue’s cover. It all started back in February, when Alumni Magazine editor-in-chief Van Jensen and I were planning out the next issue’s feature stories and more