Vol. 88, No. 4

In addition to his platooning at both the center and guard positions for the Yellow Jackets football team, Nick McRae is splitting time between athletics and graduate school. McRae earned his bachelor’s in management in August—but, with a fifth season of eligibility, he decided to start working on another degree while continuing his playing career. Why did more

Architecture is often viewed as a balance between form and function. But as an architect, educator, administrator and author, Alan Balfour has shown there is more to the field; his work views architecture as the physical manifestation of a culture’s ideas. Balfour recently announced that he will step down as dean of Tech’s College of more

When the Student Alumni Association relaunched in 2010, it set an ambitious five-year goal of 3,000 members. But thanks to another big fall kickoff event, the organization is on track to blow past that number in its third year. On Sept. 6, more than 1,300 students signed up for SAA as new or returning members more

Rumsey B. “Rooster” Taylor, IE 50, of Princeton, Ky., on July 8. As a teenager, Taylor suffered from rheumatic fever, his spirits once lifted by a surprise letter from Tech athletic director and football coach W.A. Alexander, who encouraged him to overcome his illness and make a visit to Tech once he had recovered. Taylor more