Vol. 90, No. 1

  • 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

  • Passing Grade

    Passing Grade

    In 2011, when Brian Gregory was hired as Georgia Tech’s men’s basketball coach, he inherited a team that had just suffered its third losing season in four years. But the coach’s most pressing issue had nothing to do with the team’s on-court performance: Poor scores on the NCAA’s annual academic progress rate were threatening to more

  • Gearing Up for a Cannonball Run

    Gearing Up for a Cannonball Run

    Growing up, Ed Bolian, PP 08, loved the Cannonball Run movies, starring Burt Reynolds as a mechanic angling to win a cross-country car race. When Bolian learned about the real-life attempts to set the speed record, he decided that one day he’d make a go himself. In 2009, Bolian started planning his attempt at what’s more

  • A Field Guide to 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

  • Reef Madness

    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