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In partnership with AT&T and online education leader Udacity, Georgia Tech’s College of Computing is offering the first professional master’s of science degree in computer science that can be earned through the “massive open online” format. All content will be delivered via the MOOC course format, with enhanced support services for students enrolled in the more

Two weeks from opening night of DramaTech’s mainstage summer show, British-accented accusations fill the Ferst Center’s Dean James E. Dull Black Box Theatre. It’s nothing personal, just the belligerent bon mots of Corpse!, a comedic murder-mystery set in 1930s London. Tech’s production of the Gerald Moon play costars Tamil Periasamy, AE 07, and Erik Arndt, more

Al Merrill was 10 years old when he decided to become a scientist. Now a professor of biology and Smithgall Institute Chair in molecular cell biology at Georgia Tech, with degrees from Virginia Tech and Cornell, he holds tight to the sense of wonder that first drove him to raise tadpoles and tinker with chemistry more

It’s 2:45 p.m. on a Thursday, and the Starbucks at Tech’s Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons is packed with students jostling for their afternoon caffeine fix. A green-shirted employee with a notepad and a headset relays orders from the snaking line to the counter with the precision of an air-traffic controller; all around, students knock back more