News Briefs

President’s Update Highlights Tech’s Impact

April 29, 2013 - The President’s Update, now available online, provides a high-level overview of Georgia Tech’s impact, as well as research, innovation, student, faculty, and staff accomplishments.

Finals Week Requires Additional Safety Measures

April 29, 2013 - Students are asked to take extra care with their safety when on campus late at night during finals week.

A Conversation Among Presidents

Georgia Tech team finalist in BP competition

April 19, 2013 - A Georgia Tech team is a U.S. finalist in an international student competition run by BP. The Ultimate Field Trip, aimed at science and engineering undergraduate and graduate students, challenges participants to solve a real-world energy issue.

Recent Tragedies Underscore Importance of Reporting Concerns

April 19, 2013 - In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing and the overnight death of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) police officer, security is top of mind for campus security officials across the country.

Students, Industry Converge to Showcase New Technologies

April 16, 2013 - Students create new platforms and technologies in the Institute for People and Technology's Convergence Innovation Competition.

Math-Computing Double-Major Wins Coveted Goldwater

Engineers at Play: Students Tackle Gaming Gauntlet in a Semester

April 10, 2013 - Students created video games in the course of a semester through VGDev, an extracurricular game development group.

Tickets Available for Former U.S. Secs. of Defense Event at Ferst Center

April 5, 2013 - On Tuesday, April 23, the Georgia Tech community is invited to participate in a unique and candid conversation among those who have been central to shaping the United States military strategy over the past 40 years. 

Elections Open for Student Government Leadership

April 4, 2013 - Undergraduate and graduate students run for president, vice president, and House positions.

Traffic Flow to Be Impacted by Activities On, Around Campus This Week

Georgia Tech Adds Robotics Research Component to Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering Program

March 27, 2013 - Ayanna Howard has been awarded a NSF REU Site: Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering (SURE) continuing grant for her proposal to add a robotics component to Georgia Tech’s SURE program.

Collaborative Health Information Technology Program Launches

March 20, 2013 - Classes got underway March 4 at Gwinnett Tech in Lawrenceville for the newly-launched Health Information Technology (HIT) certificate program, a part of the HIT education partnership between the Georgia Institute of Technology and Gwinnett Technical College.

Azad Naeemi Wins NSF CAREER Award

March 18, 2013 - ECE Assistant Professor Azad Naeemi has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his research project entitled "Physical Models and Experimental Validation for High-Frequency Multilayer Graphene Interconnects."

Army ROTC Offers Two-Year Academic Scholarships

March 12, 2013 - The Army ROTC program is now accepting applicants to its program who can earn a two-year academic scholarship.

Medical and Biological Engineering Group Names Bellamkonda President-Elect

March 10, 2013 - The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has named Ravi Bellamkonda as the organization’s president-elect. He will begin his term as president in 2014.

Georgia Tech Programs Place Eighth in World University Rankings

March 10, 2013 - The Georgia Institute of Technology garnered the No. 8 spot on the 2012 list of the top 100 world universities in engineering/technology and computer sciences, according to Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU).

Alan Wagner Receives Air Force Young Investigator Program Award for Social Robotics Work

February 20, 2013 - Wagner, who works in GTRI’s Aerospace, Transportation and Advanced Systems Laboratory (ATAS), is one of 40 recipients of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Program (AFOSR YIP) award for his proposal “Trust and Trustworthiness in Human-Robot Interaction: A Formal Conceptualization.” 

Industrial Engineering Student Named 2013 New Face of Engineering

February 20, 2013 - Mallory Soldner, a Ph.D. student in the Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering, was selected as the Institute of Industrial Engineers representative for the 2013 New Faces of Engineering, a program that honors promising young engineers who are contributing greatly to society, thus promoting the image of engineering globally.

Undergraduate Research Journal Accepting Submissions through March 1

February 14, 2013 - The Tower publishes peer-reviewed research from all majors of study.

Georgia Tech Alumni Elected to National Academy of Engineering

February 8, 2013 - The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced this week that aerospace engineering alumnus James O. Ellis, ('70), and civil engineering alumnus John R. Huff, ('68), have been elected to the prestigious organization.