Office Space

Managing any kind of enterprise has its challenges. But try putting it afloat, then feeding and providing sleeping quarters for 3,200 of your closest colleagues—all while keeping them ready for combat or humanitarian relief missions. That’s just part of what U.S. Navy Capt. Dana R. Gordon, EE 89, does as executive officer of the U.S.S. 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

To borrow a line from Walt Whitman: Karen Head contains multitudes. The assistant professor in the School of Literature, Media and Communication is also director of the Institute’s Communication Center and a thrice-published poet—plus, she spent the past year developing, implementing and analyzing one of the first freshman composition MOOCs. For a while, she had 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