Tag: Georgia Tech
Posted inLatest News
Black Nativity starts Christmas holiday season with message of love
Harlem Renaissance writer Langston Hughes originally wrote the 1961 off-Broadway musical. By Allison Joyner Holiday gospel musical Black Nativity comes back to Atlanta with a modern twist on the classic Christmas Story. Director Robert John Conner portrays the story of Jesus Christ’s birth from a Black cultural perspective. With limited showings available, theatergoers need to […]
Posted inLatest News
Days before Russia blew up satellite, Georgia Tech partnered with U.S. Space Force
Four days before Russia’s successful test of its anti-satellite missile, on Monday, Georgia Tech announced a partnership with the U.S. Space Force to collaborate on aerospace research.
Posted inLatest News
Atlanta projects, volunteers honored with Georgia Trust’s historic preservation awards
Three Atlanta projects and two local volunteers are among the honorees of the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation’s annual awards.
Posted inColumns
Atlanta’s Ovarian Cancer Institute breaking new ground on early detection, treatment
It’s one of those cruel realities. By the time most women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer, it’s often too late to cure.
Posted inColumns
Three women named to lead schools in Georgia Tech’s College of Design
The three women who this summer take office as chairs of three schools at Georgia Tech’s College of Design continue both a tradition of academic excellence and the growing role of women in fields that once had been the domains of men, according to the dean of the college.
Posted inLatest News
Atlanta’s 10th Street Bridge: City advancing plans to create a multi-modal route
The task of retooling the 10th Street Bridge into a multi-modal route over the Downtown Connector is taking an important step forward. The process of acquiring land for the project is beginning.
Posted inLatest News
Georgia Tech’s Kendeda Building certified as a ‘Living Building’
By Maria Saporta It’s official. The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design is one of the greenest buildings in the world. Georgia Tech announced on Earth Day that the Kendeda Building on its campus has earned the “Living Building Challenge” certification version 3.1) for being “net positive” with its use of energy and water. In […]
Posted inColumns
Community Improvement Districts could tap Internet of Things to expand services
After fostering more than $6 billion in development in metro Atlanta, the question of “what’s next” for the region’s community improvement districts is one subject of a new evaluation of CIDs that was released as their funding faces an uncertain future.
Posted inColumns
Partnerships are Atlanta’s greatest tool for change
By Guest Columnist SAGDRINA JALAL, senior director of Community Innovation at the Center for Civic Innovation, with JENNIFER HIRSCH and DORI PAP, of the Georgia Institute of Technology
Black women are pioneers of social innovation, and their long history of working to create community – even when exhausted, even while being ignored, even as credit goes to others – should be recognized. For the Center for Civic Innovation (CCI) and for Georgia Tech’s Center for Sustain-Learn-Serve (SLS) and Institute for Leadership and Social Impact (ILSI), a shared belief in the importance of supporting innovation led by Black women provides a rare example of how large institutions can propel the work of community leaders forward by playing supportive, rather than leading, roles.
Posted inLatest News
Georgia Tech earns top credit rating despite headwinds facing higher ed sector
Georgia Tech has received the top tier credit rating on an upcoming bond issue despite challenges facing the nation’s higher education sector as the pandemic remakes the college experience.
Posted inLatest News
Emory’s Dr. Carlos del Rio: ‘We failed in our pandemic response’
One of Georgia’s leading scientists – Dr. Carlos del Rio – declared the nation had failed in how it responded to the Coronavirus pandemic.
Posted inLatest News
Dr. Anthony Fauci: ‘Stick with the truth, maintain your integrity’
Dr. Anthony Fauci was awarded Georgia Tech’s Ivan Allen Jr. Prize in Social Courage Monday for all the contributions he’s made throughout his career, but especially during the past year as the country faced the COVID-19 pandemic.
Posted inLatest News
Atlanta Science Festival begins Saturday with talk on COVID vaccine in Black communities
The Atlanta Science Festival that begins Saturday and runs for two weeks offers three events on the COVID-19 vaccine that could be helpful to both youngsters and adults. The first vaccine presentation is Saturday morning.
Posted inLatest News
Dr. Anthony Fauci to receive Georgia Tech’s 2021 Ivan Allen Jr. Prize
In a testament to the importance of public health, Georgia Tech will award its prestigious Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Social Courage to Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, one of the nation’s leading infectious disease experts who is now serving as President Joe Biden’s chief medical advisor.
Posted inColumns
Georgia Tech President Ángel Cabrera: ‘Science Works Y’all’
It was a fortuitous for Atlanta when Ángel Cabrera picked Georgia Tech to persue his doctorate as a Fulbright Scholar in 1991. As a Spanish scholar and engineer, Cabrera had his pick of any of the top engineering schools in the country.
Posted inStories of Atlanta
The last of his kind
Two men sit down for a conversation. As a result, one of the men, and influential industrialist and newspaper owner, commits his political support to the other man. This is enough to get the other man elected to the Georgia House of Representatives, where, according to the plan they hatched during their conversation, the new […]
Posted inLatest News
McCamish Foundation invests in Parkinson’s research at Georgia Tech and Emory
Parkinson’s disease is personal for the McCamish Foundation. Henry “Hank” McCamish Jr. – an insurance executive, entrepreneur and philanthropist – died of Parkinson’s in 2013.
Posted inLatest News
Georgia Tech wins national award for teaching students to address sustainability, social justice
Georgia Tech’s Serve-Learn-Sustain program received a first place award Thursday from the national campus sustainability association, AASHE, for its approach to teaching students methods to solve problems involving environmental sustainability and social justice.
