Julian LeCraw Receives Alumni Distinguished Service Award
Julian LeCraw Sr., an Atlanta developer and businessman who served as president of the Georgia Tech Foundation during its $712 million Campaign for Georgia Tech, is the Fall 2001 recipient of the Joseph Mayo Pettit Alumni Distinguished Service Award. It is the highest award conferred by the Georgia Tech Alumni Association.
Tech Alum in Deep Water
Jeffrey Swanagan, a Georgia Tech alumnus, has been named executive director of the Georgia Aquarium, a 5 million-gallon, 250,000 square-foot behemoth planned for Atlanta's Midtown. He is currently director of the Florida Aquarium in Tampa. Swanagan's appointment was announced at a Nov. 19 news conference by Bernard Marcus, co-founder and president of Home Depot, who pledged $200 million to build and endow the aquarium.
Passing the Torch, Again
The Salt Lake City Olympic Games mark the second time mechanical engineering professor Sam Shelton has built an Olympic Torch. He built the torch for the 1996 Atlanta Games, and beginning Dec. 4 in Atlanta’s Centennial Olympic Park, his new torch will begin its 13,500-mile journey across the United States with more than 11,500 runners passing it along to Salt Lake City for the 2002 Winter Olympics.
Terrorism Will Affect Future Architecture
The image of the World Trade Center towers collapsing was burned into the American consciousness on Sept. 11, and that image may have far-reaching implications in architecture circles. Whatever changes come, Tech architecture professor Charles Rudolph expects they will be gradual, unlike the speed of airport safety legislation.
Fall 2001 Commencement First for GTREP
About 1,040 undergraduates and graduates are expected to walk in the Fall 2001 Commencement, to be held on Saturday, Dec. 15, at 9 a.m. in the Alexander Memorial Coliseum. The ceremony marks the first graduating class of the Georgia Tech Regional Education Program, with seven students expected to receive diplomas.
Tech Fills 16 Endowed Chairs During 2001
Georgia Tech has filled 16 endowed chairs this year with faculty members on the cutting edge of research and teaching. Fifteen of the chairs are among 54 pledged to the Institute by donors in the five-year Campaign for Georgia Tech that ended in December 2000, nearly tripling the number of endowed faculty chairs. Tech has a total of 87 chairs.
Register for Women's Leadership Conference
The Women's Leadership Conference will host its fifth annual conference, "Defying Definition," on Feb. 22 and 23. The Women’s Leadership Conference was organized by students to provide a means to celebrate and recognize women of the Georgia Tech community. Registration for the conference and nomination for alumni, faculty and students'awards may be found online at www.cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/wlc.
O Christmas Tree
Four Georgia Tech architecture students designed a miniature replica of Rhodes Hall, headquarters of the Atlanta Historical Society, to adorn the White House Christmas tree. Catie Newell, Chris Fender, James Fullington and Erin Mosely, members of the Institute's student chapter of the American Institute of Architects, created the 6-by-6 inch ornament from basswood.
Home for the Holidays
November was a month of thanksgiving for Capt. James A. "Sandy" Winnefeld Jr., AE 78, commander of the USS Enterprise, the Navy's largest aircraft carrier. The ship's welcome home, after an extended tour of duty in the Persian Gulf, was broadcast live on "Good Morning America." Twelve days later, country music singer Garth Brooks presented a concert from the deck of the Enterprise.
Confronting the Transplant Crisis
If you need a kidney, get in line and prepare to wait — five years, in fact, in Georgia. David Bowman, an insulin-dependent diabetic in Atlanta, couldn't wait five years. Instead, he decided to go for a long shot — a kidney and pancreas transplant — which would give him a higher priority on the organ recipient waiting list.
Short Course on High-Tech Entrepreneurship
Getting ideas from the lab to the marketplace will be the focus of "Creating a New High-Technology Venture: A Short Course for the Aspiring Entrepreneur," a series of seminars to be held Jan. 9 through 11 in the Executive Education Center at Georgia Tech's DuPree College of Management.
Jackets Close Football Regular Season at Florida State
Tech is eligible for a fifth straight bowl berth but looks to regroup following a disappointing
31-17 loss to 23rd-ranked Georgia that dropped the Jackets' record to 7-4 overall, 4-3 in the ACC.
Men's Basketball Off to Slow Start
Coach Paul Hewitt hoped his Yellow Jackets might surprise some of the naysayers
who voted Tech to finish near the bottom in the Atlantic Coast Conference preseason
polls. So far, that hasn't happened.
Tech Women Claim Tournament Title
After a sluggish start in its first-round game of the Atlanta Marriott NW Classic, the
Georgia Tech women's basketball team pounded Eastern Washington, 91-36, to claim its fourth-straight tournament crown. The Yellow Jackets jumped on top early in the game and never let up, sprinting to a 53-17 lead at the half
Jackets Earn Second Consecutive Trip to Volleyball Tourney
The Georgia Tech volleyball team (19-7) will face Louisville (25-6) on Friday in Kentucky., in the first round of the 2001 NCAA Tournament. The Jackets and Cardinals both received at-large bids and will be playing Nov. 30 in the Kentucky International Convention Center.
Volunteers Needed for Final Four
The 2002 NCAA Men's Final Four tournament — to be held at the Georgia Dome this coming spring — needs hundreds of volunteers from Georgia Tech to make it a success.
Between March 26 and April 2 volunteers will welcome and assist thousands of fans, coaches, players and reporters during March Madness.
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