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Bill Calhoun talks with students after his spring 2018 presentation for the Hyatt Distinguished Alumni Leadership Speaker Series. Calhoun, vice chairman and executive vice president of Clark Construction, talked about the five principles that guide how he leads people and his company. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

Calhoun outlines his 5 guiding principles of leadership in spring Hyatt lecture, starting with doing the right thing and being accountable

15 February 2018

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Pensacola Beach in the Florida Panhandle, one of the areas where oil washed ashore after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in April 2010. (Photo Courtesy: Smruthi Karthikeyan)

Karthikeyan’s research uncovering a new oil-eating microbe wins top student award at Gulf oil spill conference

14 February 2018

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Cars speed along the Interstate 75/Interstate 85 Downtown Connector in Atlanta. (Photo: Rob Felt)

Coogan wins CAREER grant to build mathematical foundation for modeling and predicting traffic flow

13 February 2018

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Engineering Georgia January/February 2018 issue featuring 100 influential women to know.

Watkins, 18 other alumnae make Engineering Georgia’s 100 Influential Women list

07 February 2018

Magazine includes two other Tech faculty in inaugural look at women making a difference in state’s engineering industry

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K.P. Reddy, BCE 1994, published his first book Feb. 5. "What You Know About Startups Is Wrong" aims to set the record straight on entrepreneurship and startup culture. (Photo Courtesy: The Combine)

Reddy’s new book says what we know about startups is wrong

05 February 2018

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Four photos: Spices in Istanbul, Turkey; a silhouetted figure takes in the water and mountains in Interlaken, Switzerland; a young woman stands in front of Stonehenge in England; and a dive swims near colorful coral at the Great Barrier Reef.

New Feldman endowment offers students $1K to do something extra when they study abroad

31 January 2018

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Glaucio Paulino, Adjo Amekudzi-Kennedy, Susan Burns and Donald Webster have been named four of the most-effective teachers at Georgia Tech, according to end-of-course surveys of their students.

Students say 4 of the top teachers at Tech are civil and environmental engineering professors

22 January 2018

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Professor Arash Yavari stands in front of his packed bookcase in his Mason Building office. Yavari has embarked upon a four-year research project to lay the mathematical foundations for cloaking structures from earthquakes and other stress waves. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

Yavari’s new project will lay a mathematical foundation for cloaking structures

18 January 2018

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Alejandro Martinez collects data in Mexico after a major earthquake in September 2017. Martinez, MSCE 2012, Ph.D. 2015, was part of a team from the Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance Association that traveled to the impact zone to gather “perishable” data about the earthquake to help scientists and engineers prepare for future events. (Photo Courtesy of Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance Association via the Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine)

Documenting disaster: Group led by Tech experts gathers key data after major catastrophes to prepare for the next one

09 January 2018

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Ph.D. student Bill Jin, this year's winner of the Robert H. Kuhlman Student Scholarship from the Georgia chapter of the American Concrete Institute.

Jin wins ACI scholarship for his work on concrete sustainability

04 January 2018

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