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Family Weekend Gives Inside Scoop |
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Parents of Georgia Tech students and prospective students get an inside glimpse of campus life during Family Weekend activities today and Saturday. In addition to seminars ranging from Greek life to a panel discussion with professors, Family Weekend offers sightseeing bus tours of Atlanta and Tech's campus, a musical production, a tailgate party and the football game against Miami.
A complete list of activities may be found at
http://gtalumni.org/site/Page/FamilyWeekend.
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Homecoming Celebration Salutes Buzz |
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Former Buzzes will be swarming back to campus to celebrate the mascot in tights' 25th birthday during Homecoming 2004. The former mascots are among the nearly 2,000 alumni expected to return to campus for Homecoming.
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Clough Receives Dual Honors |
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Georgia Tech President Wayne Clough received two major honors in September. He was nominated to the National Science Board on Sept. 23 and received a distinguished engineering alumni award from the University of California at Berkeley on Sept. 18.
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Alumnus Tyler Brown Killed in Iraq |
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Tyler Brown, a former Student Government Association president, was killed in action in Iraq on Sept. 14.
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Alumnus Leads U.S. to Bronze in Paralympics |
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Mark Zupan, CE 99, scored 15 goals to lead the U.S. quad rugby team to a 43-39 victory over Great Britain for the bronze medal at the 2004 Paralympics Games in Athens, Greece.
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Researchers Investigate Gentle Chemotherapy |
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Researchers at Georgia Tech and Purdue have developed nano-size particles that can target and kill cancer cells.
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Leadership Georgia Tech Deadline Approaches |
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The deadline to register for Leadership Georgia Tech, an annual conference designed to help every alumni club improve and excel, is Oct. 6 for the event on Oct. 28 and 29.
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Tech Square Rates Among the Best in World |
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Technology Square has been selected as a finalist in the Urban Land Institute's 2004 Awards for Excellence competition. Winners will be announced during the organization's fall meeting in New York Nov. 2-5.
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TEAM Buzz Cleans Up |
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On Oct. 23 — TEAM Buzz Day — Tech students, faculty and staff and volunteers from Georgia Tech alumni clubs around the country will spend the day participating in community service projects.
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Call for Gold & White Nominations |
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Nominations are being accepted through Nov. 5 for the Outstanding Young Alumnus and the Dean Griffin Community Service awards.
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Tuition Increase Likely |
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Georgia Tech, and 33 other institutions in the University System of Georgia, are poised to see an unprecedented midyear tuition increase this spring.
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Researchers Produce Nanometer-scale Patterns |
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Georgia Tech and Naval Research Laboratory scientists have developed an improved method for directly writing nanometer-scale patterns onto a variety of surfaces.
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Tech Team Searches for Haptics |
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Wayne J. Book calls it "playing in the dirt," but the excavations dug by him and his graduate students represent serious work.
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Tech Wins First Round of Biotech Competition |
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A team from Georgia Tech won the first round in the Biotechnology Young Entrepreneurs Scheme, a British government-sponsored academic business plan competition.
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Bearing Down on the Traveling Salesman |
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Although William Cook couldn't have helped John Kerry or George Bush with swing voters, he certainly could have designed the optimal campaign tour for them.
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Admission, Scholarship Deadline Approaches |
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The deadline for high school seniors to apply for admission to Georgia Tech and consideration for a President's Scholarship is Oct. 31.
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Architecture Program Chooses First Endowed Chair |
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Monica de Leon, an award-winning architect and principal partner in one of the nation's leading design firms has joined the College of Architecture as its newest endowed faculty member.
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Rouse Named Director of Tennenbaum Institute |
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William B. Rouse, the H. Milton and Carolyn J. Stewart chair of the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, has been named executive director of the new Tennenbaum Institute.
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Women on Wednesdays Meet |
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Women on Wednesdays, a networking program and speaker series exclusively for Georgia Tech alumnae, is hosting a discussion about compensation and career issues on Oct. 27.
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Personal Enrichment Classes Offered |
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Tech2Nite is offering evening personal enrichment classes at the Global Learning and Conference Center at Technology Square from Oct. 12 through Nov. 20.
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Sports |
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Georgia Tech football and volleyball are in full swing. Catch up on Yellow Jackets sports at
http://ramblinwreck.collegesports.com.
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