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.

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.

The Georgia Institute of Technology and The Home Depot have joined forces to promote water conservation in four communities contiguous to the Georgia Tech campus.

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.

Distance Learning and Professional Education is accepting proposals for funding the development of educational outreach programs for the 2009 fiscal year. Eligible programs include new distance-delivered credit programs at the graduate level or transforming existing degree programs into distance-delivered or blended programs.

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.

Dr. Arthur J. Ragauskas has received a Fulbright Scholarship to Sweden. Dr. Ragauskas is in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry.

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.

New research uncovers the social dynamics of yellow jackets, which includes multiple sex partners, extreme cooperation and a caste system. Results show that multiple mating does not cause conflict within a colony, but instead creates a more successful colony. The researchers also found that certain genes are turned on or off to create the different castes.

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.

Researchers have discovered a peptide in scorpion venom that may hold the key to understanding and controlling cystic fibrosis and other secretory diseases. The novel peptide, called GaTx1, can control the movement of ions and water out of cells by interacting with a crucial chloride channel that is commonly mutated in patients with cystic fibrosis.

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

Georgia Tech researchers are developing new methods to create more connections between computer chips and external circuitry and better connections that operate at higher frequencies with less loss.

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.

In what is believed to be the first peer-reviewed human study of its kind, researchers have demonstrated that patches coated on one side with microscopic needles can facilitate transdermal delivery of clinically-relevant doses of a drug that normally cannot pass through the skin.

A rapid, non-disruptive and less expensive method to decontaminate bioterrorism hazards has been developed. Flat panels producing X-rays and ultraviolet-C light kill anthrax spores, even hidden ones, in two to three hours without lingering effects.

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

A new study of worldwide technological competitiveness suggests China may soon rival the United States as the principal driver of the world's economy - a position the U.S. has held since the end of World War II. If that happens, it will mark the first time in nearly a century that two nations have competed for leadership as equals.

A vest containing environmental sensors may help researchers better understand the causes of asthma attacks. The system can determine what children are exposed to at home, at school and outside where they play.

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.

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

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are developing unique polymers, which change shape upon heating, to open blocked arteries, probe neurons in the brain and engineer a tougher spine.

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.

Georgia Tech's fall enrollment was more than 18,000 for the first time in its history. The increased number of students can be attributed to several factors, including higher retention and an increase in the number of new graduate students

According to new research from the Georgia Institute of Technology, the swarm intelligence of honeybees can be adapted to improve the efficiency of Internet servers faced with similar challenges. A bee dance-inspired communications system developed by Georgia Tech helps Internet servers that would normally be devoted solely to one task move between tasks as needed, reducing the chances that a Web site could be overwhelmed with requests and lock out potential users and customers.

Four Georgia Tech faculty members were named American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellows for 2007. Honored for their outstanding social or scientific efforts were Judith Curry, Randall Engle, Cheryl Leggon and Rick Trebino.

The College of Computing at Georgia Tech and Chapman & Hall/CRC Press announced the launch of "Petascale Computing: Algorithms and Applications", the first published collection on petascale techniques for computational science and engineering, at the SC07 conference.

Elliot Moore, an assistant professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology's Savannah, Ga. campus, has been recognized as one of the nation's top young scientists with a Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) Award.

As the Institute continues on its ambitious plan for a "global Tech," the Office of the Provost has named School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Steve McLaughlin as its first vice provost for International Initiatives.

Georgia Tech College of Management now offers an Executive MBA in Management of Technology (EMBA-MOT) for rising professionals in tech-heavy fields.

Georgia Tech President Wayne Clough and Samuel Palmisano, the CEO of IBM, will be honored at the Council on Competitiveness annual dinner tonight for their leadership on the Council's National Innovation Initiative (NII).

Cries of "booyah" echoed through Technology Square October 18 as CNBC's Mad Money with Jim Cramer filmed in the courtyard of the Georgia Tech College of Management building.

Georgia Tech President Wayne Clough participated in a high-level working session on climate change policy in Washington, D.C., that was sponsored by the Center for the Study of the Presidency

Saying it is the best way he can contribute to Georgia Tech, School of Mechanical Engineering Professor Ray Vito has accepted the offer to become Tech's first vice provost of Graduate and Undergraduate Studies.

Georgia Tech researchers have discovered a method of predicting the behavior of light on the nanoscale during radiation heat transfer, opening the door to the design of a spectrum of new nanodevices and nanotechnologies, including solar thermal energy technologies.

The Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC), a national leader in information security research and education, today announced the release of the GTISC Emerging Cyber Threats Report for 2008.

Georgia Tech's Solar Decathlon Team is celebrating another milestone as their solar powered house heads to D.C. Students, faculty and staff from every college on campus have been working on the house for more than a year and the competition is finally around the corner.

Bonnie Heck Ferri has been named the recipient of the IEEE Education Society's 2007 Hewlett-Packard/Harriet B. Rigas Award. Ferri is a professor and the associate chair for graduate affairs in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Apollo 13 Astronaut, Captain James Lovell, will present Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) senior, Nicole Larsen with a $10,000 scholarship from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation (ASF) during a public presentation and ceremony, Wednesday, September 26 at 3pm in the Ferst Center for the Arts, Georgia Tech campus.

Using stalagmites found in two different caves in Borneo, Georgia Tech researchers found that the tropical Pacific may play a much more active role in historic climate change events than was previously thought.

Georgia Tech and Emory researchers have created a computer simulation that sheds new light on how the nervous system reinvents its communication with muscles after sensory loss. The findings could someday be used to better diagnose and rehabilitate patients with balance problems by retraining their muscles and improving overall balance.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded more than $31 million over five years -- one of the largest NIH grants in Georgia history -- to a partnership of Atlanta academic, research and healthcare institutions, including Georgia Tech, focused on accelerating the translation of laboratory discoveries into healthcare innovations for patients.

Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University have received a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to establish "The Origins Project," a center for integrated research, education and public outreach focused on the chemistry that may have led to the origin of life.

Georgia Tech President Wayne Clough is participating in a panel discussion on "Education and the Workforce: Skill Sets for the 21st Century" at a national summit on American competitiveness hosted by U. S. Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez.

Researchers from Georgia Tech and Emory University have discovered that gently shaking embryonic stem cells, similar to how an embryo is shaken in the mother's womb, improves their development and could some day even be used to control what type of cell they eventually become.

Scientists at Georgia Tech have developed a new technique for nanolithography that is extremely fast and can be used in liquids and outside of a vacuum. The technique could help make the manufacturing of nanocircuits commercially viable.

Celebrating 100 years of musical tradition, Georgia Tech's band will march in the 2008 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City. Band members will be raising money to support their trip throughout the next year.

Jean-Luc Bredas is the third most cited author for scientific papers on organic thin-film transistors over the past decade, according to Essential Science Indicators (ESI) Web site, published by Thomson Scientific.

Georgia Tech students working in the Advanced Wood Products Lab are learning lifelong skills and creating award-winning furniture.

Technology Review magazine has recognized two Georgia Tech researchers, Karen Liu and Xudong Wang, among the world's top innovators under the age of 35.

Georgia Tech and Emory University researchers are the first to create a nanoparticle capable of detecting and imaging trace amounts of hydrogen peroxide (thought to be an early indicator of many diseases) in animals. The nanoparticles could some day be used as a simple, all-purpose diagnostic tool to detect the earliest stages of any disease that involves chronic inflammation - everything from cancer and Alzheimer's to heart disease and arthritis.

Georgia Tech's Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs has named Mark Allen the new senior vice provost for Research and Innovation.

Georgia Tech ranks seventh among the nation's public universities for undergraduates - the highest ranking in the Institute's history - and is among the top ten public universities for the ninth consecutive year.

Georgia Tech Research Center Deputy Director Dr. David E. Parekh will be leaving Georgia Tech to take a high-level position with United Technologies Corp. in East Hartford, Conn. Effective September 10, Parekh will become director of the United Technologies Research Center and the company's vice president for research.

Georgia Tech's Center for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access (CATEA) is giving the disability community and aging population a new tool that helps identify new products, research and services available to them.

As catastrophic floods worsen in Bangladesh, a pilot forecasting program is being used to warn thousands of vulnerable residents in selected flood-prone regions. The forecasting system was designed by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the Georgia Institute of Technology.

The Georgia Institute of Technology has appointed Dene H. Sheheane, 38, as the Institute's director of Government Relations

About twice as many Atlantic hurricanes form each year on average than a century ago, according to a new statistical analysis of hurricanes and tropical storms in the north Atlantic. The study concludes that warmer sea surface temperatures (SSTs) and altered wind patterns associated with global climate change are fueling much of the increase.

Southern Company said today that a thorough two-year study, conducted with the Georgia Institute of Technology, has identified conditions potentially favorable for wind power generation off the coast of Georgia, but costs and regulatory concerns remain to be resolved.

Physicists at Georgia Tech have discovered a phenomenon which allows measurement of the mechanical motion of nanostructures by using the AC Josephson effect. The findings may be used to identify and characterize structural and mechanical properties of nanoparticles, including materials of biological interest.

Georgia Tech is the top producer of African-American engineering graduates in the United States, according to recently released rankings from <em>Diverse: Issues In Higher Education</em>.