Alumni House

  • Publisher’s Letter: Tech’s Military Tradition Leaves a Lasting Legacy

    Georgia Tech’s rich and longstanding military heritage is a legacy of both service and progress. In Bob Wallace’s great history of Tech, Dress Her in White and Gold, he talks about the beginnings of Tech’s engagement in the defense of our country. When the United States entered World War I, Georgia Tech offered its facilities more

  • Publisher’s Letter: Celebrating Man’s Best Friends

    Humans and animals have lived side by side for tens of thousands of years, but we’ve only begun to scratch the surface in understanding our fellow inhabitants of Earth. Studying the ways animals behave, move, feed, breed, create communities and interact with their environments can allow us to access deeper insights into our world—ideas applicable more

  • A Night in Phonathon

    A Night in Phonathon

    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

  • Publisher’s Letter: Protecting Our Loved Ones and Zeroes

    Digital data is ubiquitous in our lives today, and with it comes all sorts of advantages and challenges. Much of our private and commercial data now resides in the cloud, which may be more convenient, but it also means we have to be smarter about both our personal security and our national security. Georgia Tech is more

  • Homecoming 2013

    Homecoming 2013

    If you’re returning to campus Oct. 31-Nov. 2, you know you’re in for a weekend packed with food, football and friends old and new. But how to make sure you hit all the great events the Institute and the Alumni Association have planned? Never fear: We’ve created this handy checklist to keep your Homecoming weekend more