Around Campus

Though situated smack in the middle of a major metropolitan area, the 400 acres of Georgia Tech’s campus house a bevy of wildlife, from the ordinary (squirrels!) to the unexpected (fancy chickens?). Here’s a closer look at some of the most commonly sighted creatures, from the humans that know them best—campus groundskeepers and safety officers. more

Nine years ago, Joseph Mendelson was settling into life as a freshly tenured professor of biology at Utah State University. But then Zoo Atlanta called and made him an offer he couldn’t refuse: a hybrid research/conservation/teaching position linking the resources of the zoo with the brainpower of Georgia Tech. Now the zoo’s director of herpetological more

Coral reefs are some of the most diverse and irreplaceable ecosystems on the planet, and at times the woes they face seem too big to fight: climate change, pollution, ocean acidification, overfishing and more. But Georgia Tech’s Mark Hay has spent the past four decades studying how interactions between seaweed, fish and coral shape the more

Georgia Tech’s residence hall pet policy is fairly reasonable and cut-and-dry: Citing health, sanitation and noise concerns, it specifies that “pets of any type may not be kept in the residential areas with the exception of fish in the proper aquarium facilities.” But some students just can’t resist a furry face. We caught up with more