The Kendeda Building Awarded Highest Honor for Design and Sustainability

Spring flowers outside The Kendeda Building. Photo by Allison Carter.
Mar 03, 2022 - Atlanta, GA
The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design – the first Living Building Challenge 3.1 certified building in the Southeast – receives national American Institute of Architect’s (AIA) Honor Award for Architecture.

Culture Initiative Seeks to Strengthen Institute Values

Preliminary results from the 1,877 faculty and staff survey responses are trending positively for these four values: demonstrating that students are our top priority, striving for excellence, acting ethically, and championing innovation. 
Mar 02, 2022 - Atlanta, GA
Supporting and empowering everyone — students, faculty, staff, alumni, and affiliates — to embed the values in their daily interactions is a core objective of L.O.V.E. GT.

Georgia Tech Partners to Launch MARTA Reach Pilot Program Across Atlanta

Georgia Tech and MARTA are partnering on a 6-month pilot of a new on-demand rideshare service, connecting riders in three zones across the region to MARTA bus and rail service. This pilot is meant to test how on-demand shuttles can be used to make it easier and faster for riders to get to and from their destinations using MARTA.
Feb 28, 2022 - Atlanta, GA
New on-demand program will connect riders to stations

The Month in Photos: February 2022

Public Nights at Georgia Tech Observatory, Track and Field, and Grad Fest

A Day With an Astronaut

Shane Kimbrough (courtesy: NASA)
Feb 24, 2022 - Atlanta, GA
NASA astronaut and alumnus Shane Kimbrough will spend March 4 on campus for a series of events. 

when the whistle blows

When the Whistle Blows honors the memory of enrolled students and employees of the Institute who died during the previous year.

Week of Events Highlights Sustainable Development Goals

Celebrating the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDG) Action and Awareness Week
Feb 24, 2022 - Atlanta, GA
The campus community is invited to participate in a variety of events that increase awareness of and encourage actions that advance the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Meet Renjith Narendranathan Nair, project manager in OIT

Renjith is a project manager in the Office of Information Technology. His office, located in Coda, overlooks Midtown. (Photo by Allison Carter)
Feb 11, 2022 - Atlanta, GA
One of his current projects is collaborating with the Registrar’s Office to switch the web access system (OSCAR) from Banner 8 to Banner 9, starting with student registration.

Suman Datta Joins College of Engineering as GRA Eminent Scholar

Suman Datta, Joseph M. Pettit Chair and a Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) Eminent Scholar
Feb 10, 2022 - Atlanta, GA
Suman Datta, one of the nation’s top researchers in semiconductor and nanoelectronic device research, is joining Georgia Tech.

Mayor Andre Dickens: A Legacy Unfolding

As a Black 16-year-old growing up in Atlanta’s Adamsville community, Mayor Andre Dickens couldn’t even tell you where the Georgia Tech campus was located. That’s not what he wants for today’s local youth.

Dickens, the first in his family to attend college, is the first Black alumnus to be elected mayor — and only the second Tech alumnus to hold the position, following in the footsteps of the late Ivan Allen Jr.

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