Tech is not just an institute of higher education. Rather, it’s a cultural landmark that’s served as a launchpad for more celebrated careers and relationships. Here are just a few of the many anecdotes, which continue to resonate across the Institute’s walls today.
Renovations to the D.M. Smith Building uncovered 100-year-old signatures of Tech students. Who were they?
Sometimes, a house is more than just a roof overhead. Here are stories of places Yellow Jackets have called home for four—or more—years
After 75 years, the collective power of contributions to roll call, Tech's fund for excellence, is still making a huge difference. Read about how one of Tech's proudest traditions got rolling.
The great intrastate football rivalry between Georgia Tech and "that other school" is also the seed that sprouted several favorite fan traditions.
Whether at the YMCA building, Junior’s Grill, or a Greek life dance, students knew how to take advantage of what little free time they had.
Renowned sculptor Julian Hoke Harris left an indelible mark at his alma mater through 34 years of teaching in the School of Architecture and a vast collection of artworks that still adorn campus. Students today recognize the stunning stained-glass window in Brittain Dining Hall, as well as the 10 limestone busts of great engineers and scientists on the building's columns. But around the Arch building, Harris is known almost as well for a work that's gone missing or at least half of it has.
Apart from hosting 1974 band concerts, Georgia Tech was no doubt a magnet to a variety of stage acts, some homegrown, some politically spherical, most with novelty.
We highlight six examples from Tech's history when Yellow Jackets were on the forefront of innovation.
We highlight six examples from Tech's history when Yellow Jackets were on the forefront of innovation.
Celebrating the Past, Present, and Future
A story about love and the lengths one man would go in pursuit of an 8:00 a.m. timecard.
WHEN YOU HEAR the name Junior's Grill, what do you think of? Your answer likely depends on which decade you were on campus and patronized this beloved mainstay of the Tech community, which closed its doors and turned off its blue neon sign in 2011.
Sixty years ago this September, Ford C. Greene, Ralph A. Long Jr., and Lawrence Williams became the first Black students to enroll at Georgia Tech, making the school the first public university in the Deep South to integrate peacefully, without a court order.
How Tim Andrews graduated from Tech before the Americans With Disabilities Act.