Alumni Magazine - Summer 2008 - (Page 9) you’re spending billions to refurbish a city you should at least invest in buildings that have long-term utility. That’s why the legacy of the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta isn’t any of the athletic buildings but a major new park and housing for athletes that became new dormitories for Georgia Tech. — Phil Goldberger writing in The New Yorker magazine Suddenly, what was once a suburban place has an opportunity to be developed in a much more urban way — higher densities, more of a mix of uses, more of a sense of a main street or a town center. And frankly, there is a growing market for that. — Ellen Dunham-Jones director of the architecture program, about mid-1960s developments such as Executive Park in Atlanta, which started off as office space in the suburbs, in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution ” If I was to make a list of my heroes in chemistry, I would never name myself and I would never think that somebody else would either, so when I saw this, I was tickled pink. — Philip Jessop of Queen’s University, whose research team, which includes Georgia Tech’s Charles Eckert and Charles Liotta, developed a “green” chemical for separating water and oil that was hailed by Canadian Chemical News as one of the top 20 chemical discoveries, in the Kingston Whig-Standard, Ontario, Canada ” Get used to it. Identity formation is a key part of what kids go through and these sites offer that opportunity, as well as all the other things — like interacting with peers and working toward goals — that kids like to do. We’re going to see it more and more. — Amy Bruckman College of Computing associate professor, who studies how children interact with computers, in The New York Times ” We got rid of our core curriculum and replaced it with a curriculum called Threads, thinking that we were being very innovative and students would respond. Well, the good news is the students responded; we had a 40 percent increase in enrollments the first year that we introduced this. The bad news is we had a 40 percent increase the first year that we introduced it. — Richard A. DeMillo dean of the College of Computing, in the Chronicle of Higher Education ” We can’t compare to men’s basketball and it’s going to be a matter of time before we outdraw men’s basketball. Our players have seen a tremendous growth of support. — MaChelle Joseph Georgia Tech women’s basketball coach, in Atlanta magazine The visit has been used to rub shoulders rather than ruffle feathers. — Wang Fei-Ling professor of international affairs, discussing the motivation behind China’s President Hu Jintao’s visit to Japan, on TheWallStreetJournal.com ” Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine • Summer 2008 9 http://TheWallStreetJournal.com
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