Vol. 88, No. 3

You can forgive Paul Griffin a sports metaphor when he describes the construction of Hank McCamish Pavilion, the new home for the Yellow Jackets basketball squads, as coming “down the stretch.” Griffin, Tech’s senior associate director of athletics, has overseen the project since its May 2011 groundbreaking. The new arena is being built on the more

The moon landing was faked. A second gunman fired from the grassy knoll. A shadowy organization secretly controls the world. These and other conspiracy theories have become entrenched as pop-culture fodder and, for a certain subset of the population, as undeniable fact. But for Robert Blaskiewicz, a Brittain post-doctoral fellow in Tech’s School of Literature, more

A few of the most exciting recent breakthroughs from faculty, students and alumni. InfoSPOT What is it? An app that overlays augmented reality visuals onto an iPad screen, mapping out the schematics and systems inside a building. Who made it? Javier Irizarry, an assistant professor in the School of Building Construction, and PhD student Masoud Gheisari. more

Bette Finn, Psy 78, doesn’t need to look hard to see her family’s legacy at Tech. The Van Leer building—designed in part by her father, the late David Finn, former professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering—sits just across Tech Green from the library, where Finn has worked since the 1980s. Fittingly, Finn more