Tag: Georgia Tech

The Georgia Tech Green is one of 14 stations that 280 members of the Georgia Tech Campus Cats club maintain, servicing about 50 community cats. With an app created by computer science students to record and share observations, they track the cats’ whereabouts and coordinate veterinary care and daily feedings.

Atlanta native Jonathan Fitch has managed his Type 1 diabetes for 15 years successfully, including during his time as an undergrad majoring in computer science at Georgia Tech—except for one fateful night. An all-nighter before finals stressed his body out a little too much, which made his body insulin resistant. He had a seizure and ended up in the emergency room. It was scary, but the incident sparked a business idea.

The researchers used insulin as a model because it’s a highly sought-after and expensive drug with lots of well-established analysis methods, but the application could potentially be much wider. “Our expectation is that this kind of pill is generally useful, and that a whole variety of different drugs, including GLP-1s, could be delivered using it,” says Mark Prausnitz, PhD, Regents Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Tech.

There’s a glow emanating from the windows of Georgia Institute of Technology’s Hinman Research Building, and it’s cast by a collection of unusual geometric lamps. If you’re there at the right time, you might catch Sam Thurman using a 3D printer to create one based on his custom design script. Such 3D printers are typically used for industrial prototypes, says Thurman, a student at Georgia Tech’s Master of Science in Urban Design program, who also holds a master’s degree in architecture from the school. “But a few people are pushing them into the realm of high-concept sculptural art the way I am.”

“The official MARTA app was pretty rough,” Chad Etzel says of the On the Go app. A former Apple engineer, Etzel found all the data he needed online and began tinkering with an app that would provide more accurate, user-friendly information about MARTA’s buses and trains. A few days later, he had his prototype, which he named Terminus.

After the pandemic, many people chose to reevaluate their relationship to alcohol. Reframe, a neuroscience- and psychiatry-based app, was launched in 2020 to help people cut back or quit drinking altogether. The startup was founded by Vedant Pradeep and Ziyi Gao, two Georgia Tech graduates who realized there was no middle ground to help those who didn’t have a clinical problem with alcohol but wanted to change their habits.

Christopher Eubanks, who grew up playing on the courts of the South Fulton Tennis Center, announced himself at Wimbledon in 2023. His string of upset wins was impressive, but the reckless abandonment he played with, plus the shock on his face after every win, made him a crowd favorite. His run ended in the quarterfinals, the furthest an American man had gone at the tournament since 2017, and his ranking jumped to number 29 in the world, a career high. But since that summer on grass, Eubanks hasn’t been back on tennis’s biggest stages.

Since 1893, “Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate” is the term that has been used to describe the legendary college football rivalry between the Georgia Bulldogs and the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. Combined, the teams have won eight total national championships, four each. Currently, Georgia holds a 71-41-5 advantage in the all-time series, with wins in the last six games.

Football legend Bill Curry played championship ball for Vince Lombardi in the NFL and was head coach at Georgia State and Alabama. His greatest legacy is as an unlikely champion of civil rights.

You can learn a lot from local radio. Wherever I travel, I make a point of listening to nearby stations; when I relocated to Atlanta, it was the radio that taught me about my new city. One afternoon, escaping Buckhead in bumper-to-bumper traffic and fed up with Top 40 radio (How many personal-injury lawyers are out there, really? I wondered), I turned the dial and discovered my favorite gem of them all: WREK (91.1), Georgia Tech’s student-run radio station.