Articles By: Van Jensen

Growing up, Ed Bolian, PP 08, loved the Cannonball Run movies, starring Burt Reynolds as a mechanic angling to win a cross-country car race. When Bolian learned about the real-life attempts to set the speed record, he decided that one day he’d make a go himself. In 2009, Bolian started planning his attempt at what’s more

The venomous sidewinder rattlesnake has always been able to kill you—but now it could help save you, too. It’s just one of the unlikely species inspiring Institute researchers to improve lives, animal and human alike. Despite the many famous animals that populate the annals of Georgia Tech lore—Sideways, Stumpy’s bear, the St. Bernards of Lambda more

For years, Amelia Gambino has been focused on Yellow Jackets. As the assistant vice president of news and campus communications, she oversaw the effort to spread the good word about Georgia Tech. But when Gambino is off campus, she’s focused on bees. An avid apiarist, Gambino has served on the board of directors for the more

The stories people tell about John Marshall make him sound like a modern-day Paul Bunyan. As a youth, they say, he quit the Boy Scouts because he thought the group gave out badges too readily, which chafed his competitive spirit. As a student at Tech, he worked seven co-ops while managing the six-figure-revenue lawn care more