During its 2008 annual meeting, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) will present two awards for extraordinary impacts on the engineering profession. NAE's Founders Award will be given to Robert M. Nerem, who has made important contributions to the field of bioengineering. G. Wayne Clough will receive the Arthur M. Bueche Award for leadership in science, technology, and engineering policy. The awards will be presented at a ceremony on Sunday, Oct. 5.

The Georgia Tech Alumni Association celebrates its 100th anniversary with the "Buzz Around Town" outdoor art project.

Young people across the nation are getting involved in the political process this election season, but one Georgia Tech student is getting a close look at the election process from press row.

Initially only a shared vision of a place where women at Tech would be able to have resources and a sense of community on campus, the Women's Resource Center celebrates its 10th anniversary in October.

Georgia Tech students learned first-hand the dangers that occur when a fire breaks out in a dorm room. The Institute's fire safety unit recently burned a model dorm room built by Georgia Tech's woodshop with materials donated by The Home Depot, to demonstrate how quickly a fire can spread and the importance of working smoke alarms and sprinklers.

Georgia Institute of Technology Economics Professor Thomas D. Boston testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census and National Archives during a scheduled hearing on September 24, 2008.

The Sustainable Endowment Institute has awarded Georgia Tech a "B" overall on its 2009 College Sustainability Report Card of 300 leading schools. Up from a "C" given last year, the grade moves Tech into the Campus Sustainability Leader category.

The American Political Science Association has awarded Assistant Professor Dan Breznitz the 2008 Don K. Price Award for Best Book in Science and Technology Politics for his book, "Innovation and the State: Political Choice and Strategies for Growth in Israel, Taiwan and Ireland."

According to the Department of Facilities Landscape Manager Hyacinth Ide, a 2004-2005 report tallied more than 5,000 trees on campus. Ide and Facilities foreman George Roberts say that during the last couple of years, probably close to 1,000 more have been planted.

Georgia Tech students are showing their game day spirit this fall by doing more than showing up to cheer on the Yellow Jackets.

Four-time Space Shuttle astronaut Robert Crippen is scheduled to present Georgia Tech senior Jenna Campbell with a $10,000 scholarship from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation (ASF) during a public presentation and ceremony, Tuesday, September 16 at 3:00 p.m. in the Ferst Center for the Arts, Georgia Tech campus.

A year and half after the 9/11 Commission's call for "maximum effort" against Weapons of Mass Destuction (WMD) terrorism, the government's performance has been graded a 'C' by Dr. Margaret E. Kosal, Asst. Prof at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs within the Ivan Allen College, and a lead author of the "WMD Terror Report Card."

Hispanic Business Magazine ranks the Georgia Institute of Technology the top engineering graduate school for 2008.

Georgia Tech College of Management will dedicate its new Acuity Brands Plaza at 7:30 p.m. on Monday September 8 in front of the business school's building at 800 West Peachtree Street.

Cancer research is taking center stage tonight in a unique joint initiative of ABC, CBS and NBC called "Stand Up To Cancer" that will air simultaneously on all three networks on Friday, September 5, at 8 pm.

Georgia Tech's total undergraduate and graduate enrollment has topped 19,300 for the first time. Approximately, 13,000 undergraduates and more than 6,400 graduate students are enrolled for the fall semester.

Consumers increasingly rely on recommendations in online forums, such as Amazon.com and Angieslist.com, when deciding which products and services to buy. But, in most cases, they've never met the posters of these reviews.

With more employees working in teams, it's critical for companies to find ways to enable these teams be more creative in their work.

Georgia Tech Communications & Marketing staff struck "Tech gold" when it cast a stellar student-athlete with the Ramblin' Wreck in the Institute's annual public service announcement (PSA). Senior volleyball player Stephanie Robbins, an Industrial and Systems Engineering major, stars alongside the Ramblin' Wreck in the television spot that will air during football and basketball broadcasts this year.

Engineers at Georgia Tech have used skin cells to create artificial bones that mimic the ability of natural bone to blend into other tissues such as tendons or ligaments. The artificial bones provide for better integration with the body and handle weight more successfully.

Mostafa El-Sayed, Regents Professor in Georgia Tech's School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has just been awarded the 2007 Medal of Science, the nation's highest honor in the field.

The Georgia Tech Aerial Robotics (GTAR) team finished first in the 2008 International Aerial Robotics Competition at the McKenna Soldier Battle Lab facility in Fort Benning, Georgia.

Georgia Tech ranks seventh nationally among public universities for undergraduates in the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings. Tech has been among the top ten public universities for a decade.

With help from Georgia Tech lean manufacturing specialists, an Atlanta manufacturer of circuit boards improved its bottom line by reducing lead times, work-in-progress, overtime costs and electricity bills.

The National Wildlife Federation (NWF) has recognized the Georgia Institute of Technology as an exemplary campus as part of their initiative, "Campus Environment 2008: A National Report Card on Sustainability in Higher Education - Trends and New Developments in Leadership, Academics and Operations."

Biodegradable polymers called polyketals and their derivatives may improve treatment for such inflammatory illnesses as acute liver failure and inflammatory bowel disease by delivering drugs, proteins and enzymes to disease locations in the body.

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology's Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering have developed a computer software system that allows flexible design of facility models, including various clinical models created by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The system is designed to help federal, state and local first responders design and test more efficient plans and policies for dealing with health care emergencies.

Bruce Stiftel was awarded the 2008 Jay Chatterjee Award for Distinguished Service to Planning Education by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP). The honor recognizes an individual whose exceptional service, actions and leadership have had a lasting and positive impact on ACSP and its member schools.

In an Aug. 12 meeting on the Georgia Tech campus, the 20-member search committee received orders for its national search to replace former President G. Wayne Clough.

Lily Lu, a graduate student in the Building Construction Program, has formed the Emerging Green Builders group in conjunction with the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) Atlanta Regional Chapter.

The National Science Foundation has awarded funding to the Georgia Institute of Technology's H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the Texas A&M Health Science Center (HSC) School of Rural Public Health to establish the Center for Health Organization Transformation (CHOT).

The Architecture Program at Georgia Tech will celebrate a century of architectural education with a series of events throughout the 2008-2009 academic year.

Construction project manager Steven Johnson and utilities analyst Susan Wardrope work to keep feral cats on campus at a sustainable level, all while preventing more from moving in.

U. S. Transportation Secretary Mary E. Peters toured Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) labs and questioned researchers on the latest technology that addresses transportation issues.

Gilda Barabino, a professor in the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Emory University and Georgia Tech, has accepted a cabinet-level position as the Institute's inaugural vice provost for Academic Diversity.

Georgia Tech is one of eleven universities to receive a top score of 99 for green efforts from Princeton Review. The "Green Honor Roll" included six public universities and five private schools.

Each summer many Georgia Tech students opt to study and work abroad to enhance their skills and expand their global outlook. A few students were excited to meet the Prime Minister of Ireland and Pres. George Bush during their travels and work assignments.

The Georgia Tech College of Architecture today named Dr. Bruce Stiftel, FAICP, the seventh director of its City and Regional Planning Program.

The North Avenue Apartments will soon undergo brick repair and replacement work that will take six to eight months to complete.

Scientists at Georgia Tech have developed a potential new treatment against cancer that attaches magnetic nanoparticles to cancer cells, allowing them to be captured and carried out of the body. The treatment, which has been tested in the laboratory and will now be looked at in survival studies, is detailed online in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

College of Architecture alumni are encouraged to grant permission to make theses and dissertations publicly available.

An endowed lecture was established by alumni, faculty and friends in honor of Professor Douglas C. Allen in appreciation for his long-time dedication to the College of Architecture as a teacher, colleague and leader.

An airport terminal design from Georgia Institute of Technology was awarded top prize in the 2007-08 New Visions of Security: Re-life of a DFW Airport Terminal International Student Design Competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate and administered by Association of Collegiate School of Architecture (ACSA).

The Fulbright Program named Professor Arthur J. Ragauskas the first recipient of the newly created Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Alternative Energy Technology, located at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden.

The Atlanta City Council recently issued a proclamation to recognize students and faculty at the Georgia Tech College of Architecture for assistance in the master planning process for Atlanta's historic Old Fourth Ward.

Architecture students Blake Burton and Tristan Hall won a $20,000 prize for their proposal to update the American Airlines terminal at Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas airport. Their professor, Harris Dimitropoulos,will also receive $8,000.

Rising Popularity of Made-to-Order Building Products Calls for Shift in Categorization

The Georgia Water Resource Management Institute (GWRI) and the University of Pretoria Water Institute (UPWI) have launched of a Master of Science in Water Resources Management degree. The new joint degree program is being offered through the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Pretoria in South Africa.

Researchers have shown that a new class of ultraviolet photodiode could help meet the U.S. military's pressing requirement for compact, reliable and cost-effective sensors to detect anthrax and other bioterrorism agents in the air.

Scientists at Georgia Tech have found supporting evidence for a theory they first created in the 1990s, that many of the components that make up our genes are the result of an arms race between the coding and the non-coding parts of the genome.

Georgia Tech's ongoing commitment to campus sustainability received validation last month when the Christopher W. Klaus Advanced Computing Building (KACB), home to the College of Computing and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was awarded a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold certification.

A new computer-based method of analyzing cellular activity has correctly predicted the anti-tumour activity of several molecules. Research published today in BioMed Central's open access journal, Molecular Cancer, describes 'CoMet' - a tool that studies the integrated machinery of the cell and predicts those components that will have an effect on cancer.

The School of Applied Physiology at the Georgia Institute of Technology will begin a new program in Prosthetics and Orthotics this fall aimed at bringing medical, engineering and life science professionals together. The training grant, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and Georgia Tech, will fund three fellowships per year for five years.

Following a national search, Georgia Tech has named Catherine Murray-Rust to the position of dean of Libraries. She will succeed Richard Meyer, who previously announced in December his intention to retire. She is scheduled to start August 15.

Erik Axdahl, an aerospace engineering graduate student at the Georgia Institute of Technology, recently traveled to Washington, D.C. as part of the Citizens for Space Exploration (CSE)initiative.

Bolstered by supportive policies and public research dollars, the United Kingdom, Israel, China, Singapore and Australia are producing unusually large shares of human embryonic stem cell research. While states like California and New York are picking up more research funding in the U.S.

The Georgia Institute of Technology has been selected as one of 17 teams chosen by the U.S. Department of Energy, General Motors and Natural Resources Canada to participate in EcoCAR: The NeXt Challenge, a collegiate vehicle engineering competition set to begin in the Fall of 2008.

Students in Kim Cobb's spring semester Honors Program course -- Energy, the Environment and Society -- were challenged to find ways to reduce carbon emissions on both a personal and larger scale. The winning team traveled to Washington D.C. to meet with staff members from Georgia's Congressional delegation.

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have created specially designed robots called SnoMotes to traverse potentially dangerous ice environments. The SnoMotes work as a team, autonomously collaborating among themselves to gather data that could give scientists a better understanding of the important dynamics that influence the stability of ice sheets.

With the approval of the FY09 budget for the state of Georgia, $10 million will be allocated for the Innovative Learning Resource Center and $6 million has garnered approval for the Hinman Building renovation.

Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a narrowband filter mosaic that will expand the uses and functionality of multispectral imaging-a technology that enables subsurface characterization.

Georgia Tech has selected Alan Balfour as dean of the College of Architecture, filling the position left by the late Thomas D. Galloway, who died suddenly inMarch 2007. Balfour joins the Institute July 1.

During the May 15 awards luncheon, the Institute received the Governor's Award for the largest increase in contributions and the Governor's Cup for an organization with 1,001 to 9,000 employees.

Georgia Tech College of Management recognized the vision, achievement, and leadership of its alumni April 25 at the business school's Fifth Annual Awards Celebration, inducting five leaders into the Hall of Fame, Academy of Distinguished Alumni, and Council of Outstanding Young Alumni.

Georgia Tech researchers recently won the 2008 Sloan Industry Studies Best Paper Award for their holistic examination of strategies employed by pharmaceutical firms for innovating in the realm of biotechnology.

On both a personal and larger scale, students in Energy, the Environment and Society go beyond tests and essays to reduce carbon emissions on campus.

Danielle Ayan, a research scientist in the Center for Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is leading the effort to author a strategic plan for GIS in Georgia.

Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have discovered a new way that phosphorus is naturally removed from the oceans - it's stored in diatoms. The discovery opens up a new realm of research into an element that's used for reproduction, energy storage and structural materials in every organism.

Associate Vice President for Communications & Marketing James Fetig issues statement on Sklar v. Clough.

Dean Kamen, founder and president of DEKA Research and Development Corp., will deliver the address to the bachelor's and master's degree recipients at the Georgia Institute of Technology's 230th commencement ceremony at 9a.m. on Saturday, May 3, at the Georgia Dome.

Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have discovered a new climate pattern called the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation. This new pattern explains, for the first time, changes in the water that are important in helping commercial fishermen understand fluctuations in the fish stock. They're also finding that as the temperature of the Earth is warming, large fluctuations in these factors could help climatologists predict how the oceans will respond in a warmer world. The research appears in the April 30 edition of the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

Citing the critical importance of the continued growth of robotics to U.S. competitiveness, 11 universities are taking the lead in developing an integrated national strategy for robotics research. The United States is the only nation engaged in advanced robotics research that does not have such a research roadmap.

Matt Marcus, coordinator of Outdoor Recreation Georgia Tech (ORGT) in the Campus Recreation Center, is spearheading efforts to establish the Georgia Tech Leadership Challenge Course Complex.

Dr. Gisele Bennett, director of the Georgia Tech Research Institute's Electro-Optical Systems Laboratory and a professor in Georgia Tech's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, testified before the U.S. House of Representatives' Science and Technology Committee Forum in Augusta, Georgia, on April 4, 2008.

Researchers at Georgia Tech have discovered why rocket engines are occasionally destroyed by mysterious waves of sound. The new imaging techniques allow scientists to observe and understand the destructive waves.

A 14-year veteran of the Georgia Institute of Technology, Dr. Gary Schuster, who currently serves as Tech's provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs, has been named the institution's interim president, effective July 1, 2008.

The Georgia Institute of Technology today received the 2008 American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) College and University Recycling Award. AF&PA's awards program recognizes outstanding school, business, and community recycling efforts.

Dr. Seymour Goodman, chair of the National Research Council's committee on Improving Cybersercurity Research in the United States, testified before the Armed Services Committee Subcommittee on Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities on April 1.

The Georgia Institute of Technology is partnering with two leading Italian universities, the Politecnico di Torino and the University of Trento, to offer dual master's degrees in electrical and computer engineering and computer science.

Georgia Tech's graduate programs rank among the finest in the nation in the most widely read college rankings for graduate programs. U.S. News & World Report ranked Tech's College of Engineering among the elite, retaining them in the top 5, and the Computer Science Program has moved into the top 10.

Researchers at Georgia Tech and Emory University have created a robot, designed to help users with limited mobility with everyday tasks, that moves autonomously to an item selected with a green laser pointer, picks up the item and then delivers it to the user, another person or a selected location such as a table. The new robotic communication method may help robots find their way into the home sooner.

Ted Turner, media entrepreneur and philanthropist, is the recipient of the 2008 Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Progress and Service -presented by the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at Georgia Tech. In 1997 Turner bestowed a historic $1 billion to establish the United Nations Foundation. In 2003, he gave $45 million to the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a program he co-chairs with former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn. The prize will be awarded at the College's annual Founder's Day luncheon on March 31.

G. Wayne Clough, the first alumnus to serve as president of the Georgia Institute of Technology, will step down from that post on July 1, 2008, to head up the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

In an innovative collaboration, the Georgia Institute of Technology, Saint Joseph's Health System and Saint Joseph's Translational Research Institute (SJTRI), a division of Saint Joseph's Health System, have signed agreements designed to move new treatments, therapies and products into clinical use with patients more rapidly.

Georgia Tech co-op student Reeve Ingle was named 2007 Student of the Year by the American Society of Engineering Education's Cooperative Education Division. He has co-oped with NASA Johnson Space Center and interned with the U.S. Department of Defense.

Researchers at Georgia Tech's Wireless Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center received good news last month during testing of their Wireless Emergency Communications (WEC) project. Results indicate that 94 percent of blind and visually impaired test subjects found WEC to be a significant improvement over their current methods of receiving emergency alerts.

Physicists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have made two important findings regarding gold on the nanoscale.

Georgia Tech students are among the finest in the nation and many of them are being nationally recognized for their scholarly honors and accolades.

Georgia Tech and Emory University researchers have created a technology based on astronomy software that provides more precise images of single molecules tagged with nanoprobes. The clearer images allow researchers to collect more detailed information about a single molecule, such as how the molecule is binding in a gene sequence, taking scientists a few steps closer to truly personalized and predictive medicine as well as more complex biomolecular structural mapping.

Dr. G. Wayne Clough, president of the Georgia Institute of Technology, today announced that Mr. Robert K. Thompson, executive vice president for Administration and Finance, will retire effective April 1.

In the final year of funding, GT SMART director Marsha Brinkley works to ensure the program's successful initiatives continue to aid and educate the community.

Dr. Seymour Goodman, Professor of International Affairs and Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology and recent chair of the National Research Council's Committee on Improving Cybersecurity Research in the U.S. addressed the AAAS Center for Science, Technology and Security Policy at the Cannon House Office Building on February 14, 2008.

Dr. Nancey Green Leigh, a professor of City and Regional Planning at the Georgia Institute of Technology's College of Architecture, testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment, February 14, 2008. Her remarks focused on the unintended consequences of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), and how brownfields affect prospects for urban revitalization.

The Colleges of Computing, Engineering, and Sciences at Georgia Tech today announced the creation of a new doctoral degree in Computational Science and Engineering.

Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a strategy to capture, store and eventually recycle carbon from vehicles. Georgia Tech researchers envision a zero emission car, and a transportation system completely free of fossil fuels.

The Colleges of Computing and Engineering at Georgia Tech announced the nation's first interdisciplinary doctoral degree in robotics to be offered at Georgia Tech. The program starts fall semester of 2008 and was developed through Georgia Tech's Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (RIM@Georgia Tech).

Georgia Tech has created the Integrative BioSystems Institute to explore new technologies and methods to collect and analyze millions of pieces of biological information in order to form a more complete picture of how life works and how the environment affects living things.

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun: Videogame Makers Should Take a Lesson from Nintendo and Market to Women.

Georgia Tech and Emory University researchers have developed a device that may allow patients to take a brief, inexpensive test that could be administered as part of a routine yearly checkup at a doctor's office to detect mild cognitive impairment - often the earliest stage of Alzheimer's.

After placing sixth world-wide in the Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon Competition, Georgia Tech's house has returned to campus and is open to the public for tours.

Georgia Tech ranks 12th among best values for public universities, according to Kiplinger's 100 Best Values in Public Colleges.

Dr. William Wepfer has been named the Eugene C. Gwaltney Jr. Chair of the School of Mechanical Engineering, effective Jan. 1.

Georgia Lieutenant Governor Casey Cagle will deliver the address to the undergraduates at the Georgia Institute of Technology's 229th commencement ceremony at 9 a.m. on Saturday, December 15 at the Alexander Memorial Coliseum.