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‘Burden of Responsibility’ 32 Michael Arad, M Arch 99, has been on a whirlwind journey since his “Reflecting Absence” was chosen over 5,200 other entries as the winner of the World Trade Center memorial Zoo Anew design competition. Arad made a brief visit to Atlanta and Zoo Atlanta once was ranked as one of the worst in the coun- stopped by the College of Architecture to talk to students. try. Now it’s one of the best — thanks in part to two photo- genic pandas, groundbreaking research, a Georgia Tech psy- 24 chology professor and an alumnus hired to lead the pack. 42 Atom by Atom The director of Georgia Tech’s Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology says the engineering of materials and sub- Stress Busters stances at their molecular level will trigger the “new industri- One alumnus relaxes by blasting off in a fighter plane. al revolution.” Another forgets her troubles by creating stained glass art. Georgia Tech alumni combat job stress with a myriad of activi- ties, from whitewater canoeing to racing, gardening to yoga and barnstorming to needlepointing.

Cover: Zoo Atlanta president and CEO Dennis Kelly holds Blue, an indigo snake. Photo by Gary Meek This page: Larry Huang relieves stress by racing his Georgia Tech car, No. 39 Crawford Manufactured Daytona Prototype. Read how some Tech alumni deal with stress in a fea- ture beginning on page 42.

Spring 2004 • GEORGIA TECH 3 Departments Alumni Magazine

Joseph P. Irwin, IM 80, Publisher

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Editorial Advisory Board

C. Meade Sutterfield, EE 72 Vice President/Communications Georgia Tech Alumni Association Board of Trustees Executive Committee Private equity investor

J. Gary Sowell, IE 73 Alumni Association Board of Trustees Retired director BellSouth Technology Group page 15 Robert T. “Bob” Harty 7 Feedback Executive Director 11 Tech Notes Institute Communications & Public Affairs Wonderful Friend John D. Toon Ivan Allen Prize Goes to Sam Nunn Manager Anonymous Donor Creates $15 million Challenge Georgia Tech Research News and Innovations Attract Alumni Publications Office It’s Alive! Tech On Board Strip Club Born Again Bobby Jones: Golfer and Gentleman Advertising ‘Play Your Own Game’ Julie Schnelle 62 Faculty Profile (404) 894-0766 Hans Klein: Who Makes the Rules? E-mail: [email protected] 64 Photo Finish Into the Wild Blue Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine (ISSN: 1061-9747) is published quarterly (Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter) for Roll Call contributors by the Georgia Tech Alumni Association, Alumni/Faculty House, 225 North Avenue NW, Atlanta, GA 30332- 0175. Georgia Tech Alumni Association allocates $10 from a contribution toward a year’s subscription to its magazine. Periodical postage paid at Atlanta,GA., and additional mailing offices. © 2004 Georgia Tech Alumni Association Main Number (404) 894-2391

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Sea Lab Endangered As an avid scuba diver, I Innovating to Survive read with great interest your article “Under the Sea,” Winter uch has been said and written about 2004, GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI Mthe issue of white-collar jobs being MAGAZINE. So it was with great transferred offshore — especially in technol- dismay that I read a recent Web ogy. Indeed there are no posting that the undersea labo- easy answers. It’s a ratory — the only one in the tremendous challenge world — may be closed due to for the United States and budget cuts. other developed The University of North economies. Is this what Carolina at Wilmington man- globalization is all ages the underwater research about? lab named Aquarius, a 400- Alan Greenspan square-foot capsule moored 63 recently said, “We can erect walls to foreign trade and even discour- feet below the surface off of send four astronauts to test age job-displacing innovation. The pace of Key Largo, Fla., and the federal new communication methods competition would surely slow and tensions government pays for a portion and exercise equipment for might appear to ease — but only for a short of its operation. long-duration space travel. while. Our standard of living would soon begin Financing for the National Aquarius was built in 1986 to stagnate and perhaps even decline as a Oceanic and Atmospheric and has been refurbished twice consequence. Time and again through our his- Administration undersea since. The fact that the lab has tory, we have discovered that attempting mere- research arm has been flat for been in the Florida Keys for so ly to preserve the comfortable features of the years. This fiscal year the long makes it even more valu- present — rather than reaching for new levels National Undersea Research able as a research site, as it Program saw its budget fall of prosperity — is a sure path to stagnation.” from $13.5 million to $12 mil- He’s right about protectionism and its ultimate lion. The current budget pro- consequences. posal recommends cutting an You can also argue that we’ve been bene- additional $1 million. ficiaries of offshoring by foreign companies. The university gets about Just within the auto industry, three examples $1.3 million to manage the come to mind: the BMW plant in Greer, S.C., lab, which primarily covers the Mercedes plant in Vance, Ala., and the operating and maintenance Toyota plant in San Antonio. Looking at other costs. Researchers, institu- industries yields examples of economic benefit tions and grants cover most to the United States and examples of the of the mission expenses — opposite. There are no easy answers. like those incurred by Mark Hay We Welcome Letters The one thing that will enable us to navi- and his group featured in your The ALUMNI MAGAZINE gate these waters successfully is our ability to article. welcomes letters. Please innovate. To survive we have to adapt — to Not only is Aquarius a include your full name, thrive we have to innovate. That’s what the resource for marine biologists address and telephone United States is all about and that’s what and other researchers, NASA number. Letters may be Georgia Tech is all about. astronauts have trained at the edited for clarity, space The Georgia Tech Alumni Association is lab for several years to help and content. about helping you thrive as well — whether it’s them prepare for the rigors of • Mail correspondence to: career support or networking opportunities or if space travel, sometimes Georgia Tech you’d like to give your time and expertise. spending a week or longer in Alumni Publications utter isolation below the sea. 190 North Ave. NW The intense isolation in a very Atlanta, GA 30313 inhospitable yet simultaneously • Fax: (404) 385-4637 beautiful environment is an • E-mail: [email protected] excellent analogue to outer tech.edu Joseph P. Irwin space. This summer NASA will Vice President and Executive Director

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passes a nearly two decade erance for other people’s long data record that is tastes in music. It exposed unparalleled anywhere else me to a broad range of dif- in the world. The research ferent cultural and arts fields that’s done there has a that I would have not other- national and international wise experienced in an impact. Aquarius allows engineering curriculum. researchers to do in a few I am happy that I can days what could otherwise now support Tech and take several weeks. WREK. I will send a check Aquarius cannot oper- to the WREK Momentum ate without federal support. Fund and hope other alumni We need continued funding will also. of this unique resource. Juan J. Florensa, CE 79 Jud Ready, MatE 94, Sarasota, Fla. MS MetE 97, PhD 00 Adjunct professor and Super Snafu research engineer II I enjoy the news cover- Georgia Tech age on National Public Research Institute Radio, but during its cover- age of Super Tuesday on WREK Experience March 3, it created a I read with super snafu. In a interest and piece by Adam pleasant sur- Hochberg about prise about the Super WREK radio’s Tuesday move to new results, he studios. As a mentioned that Georgia Tech a candidate was student in the late speaking at “Georgia 1970s, I worked at WREK Tech University.” Of course, producing two music shows. there is no such university, When I started working which I let NPR know. there in 1977, the studios I promptly received a were located on the top floor reply from Mr. Hochberg: of the Electrical Engineering “Thanks for the note, building. We relocated and sorry about the slight to shortly afterward to what Georgia Tech. I was travel- was called at the time the ing with the [John] Edwards Georgia Tech Research campaign and Atlanta was Institute Building. our eighth city in three days Back then we were (and our fourth college cam- ecstatic regarding our new pus), so I got confused on “digs” and thought that it the official name. Still, could not get any better there’s no excuse for me not than that. Even though those knowing where I am! facilities were quite large for “I enjoyed the visit to a student radio station, I can Georgia Tech. The new con- Contact Kate Pientka, Event Coordinator see the need for new, mod- ference center on campus is at the Georgia Tech Alumni Association ern and more visible facili- the nicest I’ve seen any- for more information on booking the ties. where. I won’t make the Alumni House Event Space. Working at WREK same mistake again.” [email protected] or taught me many things Dan Walther, IE 67 404.894.7085 including teamwork and tol- Huntsville, Ala.

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Stanley Leary ‘Wonderful Friend’ Tech ‘reluctantly’ drops DuPree name from management college

lumnus Tom DuPree’s name has “Circumstances reluctantly have Abeen removed from Georgia led us to the decision to remove the Tech’s College of Management after DuPree name from the college,” Tech he acknowledged it is unlikely he will President Wayne Clough says. be able to fulfill a $25 million pledge DuPree is “a wonderful friend on schedule. and alumnus who made an incredibly Thomas E. DuPree Jr., IM 74, generous pledge” to endow the col- who made millions in the restaurant lege, Clough says. DuPree has paid business, had attempted to share his $5.7 million toward the $25 million wealth with Georgia Tech and then pledge. lost it. He made a $5 million gift in “We retain the utmost respect for 1994 for the DuPree Center for Tom DuPree and all of his remarkable Entrepreneurship and New Ventures. accomplishments and many philan- In 1996, he pledged another $20 mil- thropic activities,” Clough says. “To lion that resulted in the management honor his legacy to date, Georgia Tech college being named for him. will establish a scholarship program DuPree founded Madison, Ga.- in his name for students from his based Avado Brands and built the home county to attend Georgia Tech.” Despite good intentions, Tom DuPree’s nation’s largest franchise of Clough says the decision was company fell on hard times. Tech has Applebee’s. But the company fell on taken after “recognizing the reality of established a scholarship in his name. hard times and last November the circumstances Georgia Tech faces. DuPree was removed as chairman Our ultimate goal is to ensure that the DuPree will remain a valued member and chief executive officer. In college has the resources needed to of our Georgia Tech family, and his February, the company filed for educate the technologically astute advice and assistance will help us Chapter 11 bankruptcy. business leaders of the future. Tom reach our high aspirations.” Anonymous Donor Creates $15 million Challenge

n anonymous donor has made a $15 million chal- Because the donor wants to remain anonymous, Alenge gift to accelerate private support for the participants whose gifts receive matching funds will College of Management. The donor will match gifts to get facility-naming recognition for the full amount — the Georgia Tech Foundation designated for the college their gifts combined with the dollar-for-dollar match. and unrestricted in their use. Gifts and pledges started The challenge means that a 75-seat tiered classroom by Oct. 1, 2003, and fulfilled by June 30, 2007, will qual- that previously required a $250,000 commitment will be ify for the one-to-one matching dollars. named for $125,000. The College of Management build- “This generous challenge commitment offers us ing itself could be named for $7.5 million rather than the opportunity, with the help of others who will match the full $15 million. the gift, to complete the funding of our dramatic new Terry Blum, dean of the College of Management, management building at Technology Square,” President says, “Our alumni have been very successful in the Wayne Clough says. world of business, and many of them have the means “Closure on this obligation will place our College to make generous personal commitments. I believe they of Management in position to focus its future efforts will meet this challenge head-on and push us over the toward shaping technology-related programs that will top in our effort to complete funding of our state-of- distinguish us from the rest of the pack,” Clough says. the-art new building.” “The possibilities that lie ahead for this college are For more information about the challenge grant, remarkable and taking advantage of them will quickly contact Philip D. Spessard, director of development for bring its reputation in line with that of our outstanding the college, at (404) 385-1418 or by e-mail at philip.spes- College of Engineering.” [email protected].

Spring 2004 • GEORGIA TECH 11 TechNotes Ivan Allen Prize Goes to Sam Nunn Initiative, a charitable organization Remember working to reduce the global threats from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. When? He also chairs the board of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington group seeking practical ways to deal with the threat of international terrorism. He entered politics in 1968 as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives. He served in the U.S. Senate for 24 years, from 1972 until 1996, and is retired from the law firm King & Spalding. Nunn served as chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. He also served on the ormer Sen. Sam Nunn, who heads Intelligence and Small Business com- Ftwo Washington, D.C., think tanks mittees. on national security and policy, His legislative achievements received the Ivan Allen Prize for include the landmark Department of 75 Years of Progress and Service at the Ivan Allen Defense Reorganization Act, drafted History and Tradition College Founder’s Day celebration in with the late Sen. Barry Goldwater, March. and the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Nunn, Cls 60, is a distinguished Threat Reduction Program, which pro- Back issues of the professor in the Sam Nunn School of vides assistance to Russia and the for- 75th Anniversary International Affairs at Georgia Tech mer Soviet republics for securing and named in his honor. The college destroying their excess nuclear, biolog- edition of the observed Founder’s Day in conjunc- ical and chemical weapons. Georgia Tech Alumni tion with the Sam Nunn Bank of Nunn entered Tech in 1956 and Magazine. America Policy Forum, which won the freshman cake race. Although explored the implications of “Bio- he was only 5 feet 11 inches tall, he Terrorism Preparedness: The earned a spot on the Yellow Jacket bas- Includes highlights from the Imperative for a Public-Private ketball traveling squad his sophomore first issue in March 1923 Partnership.” year. After his junior year, he trans- through the Spring 1998. Nunn is co-chair and chief execu- ferred to Emory University, where he tive officer of the Nuclear Threat earned his law degree. Limited quantities of one of our most popular issues are avail- able at $5 each. What’s the Buzz? Contact Julie Schnelle (404) 894-0766 You’ll get all of the latest news about Julie.schnelle Georgia Tech fast in @alumni.gatech.edu BUZZwords Make checks payable to: Receive your monthly alumni electronic Georgia Tech Alumni Assn. newsletter free. Send your e-mail address to: 190 North Ave. [email protected] Atlanta, GA 30313 and we’ll keep you in the know!

12 GEORGIA TECH • Spring 2004 TechNotes North Avenue Gary Meek Almanac Z.L. Wang, right, makes a point as, left to right, Clough, Hay and Merkle listen. 75 Years Ago Development of Rose Bowl Field, a 10-acre tract that included a grandstand, three baseball diamonds and two gridirons, was started in May 1929 and completed in September. It was so named because the project was large- ly financed from funds received in Tech’s Jan. 1 Rose Bowl Innovations Attract Alumni victory. 50 Years Ago bout half of the sand at the made in the context of his presentation In the spring of Aworld’s tropical beaches has been about ways aquatic organisms interact 1954, D.M. “processed” through the digestive via chemical signals. The larger goal of Smith, the tracts of parrot fish, according to Mark his research is to halt the rapid deterio- leg- Hay, the Linda and Harry Teasely ration of coral reefs and foster the con- endary chair in environmental biology at ditions necessary for them to thrive. head of Georgia Tech. The fish consume reefs Wang’s specialty — nanotechnolo- mathe- and other hard substrate, which is gy, the engineering of materials at the matics, ground up and quickly passed molecular or atomic levels — holds and D.P. through their systems. promise not only in the development Savant, former “It’s kind of like if buffalo came of ultrasmall devices, but given the dean of engineering and for- through a McDonald’s and ate the quantum mechanics involved at the mer director of electrical engi- whole parking lot in order to get the nano scale, entirely new materials can neering, both retired. Smith grease out of it,” he joked. be made with unusual and beneficial recalled in the alumni maga- Hay shared his observations at a properties. A professor of materials zine when, in an effort to speed February forum “Georgia Tech: engineering, Wang is the director of

up registration, students were NeilMcGahee Innovating Here and Now,” sponsored the Center for Nanoscience and routed directly to their depart- by the Georgia Tech Alumni Nanotechnology. ments. As registration was Association at the Hotel and Credited with helping invent about to close, one student Conference Center. More than 450 Internet data encryption, Ralph came back. “What do you alumni and friends attended the event. Merkle, professor of computing and want?” Smith asked. “Another Georgia Tech faculty members director of the Tech Information deal,” the student replied. “I including Hay, Z.L. Wang, Ralph Security Center, expressed concern for met all them professors and to Merkle, Andres Garcia and Marie the explosive rise in computer vandal- tell you the truth, I don’t like the Thursby discussed innovative research ism. looks of none of them.” initiatives that include nanotechnolo- Andres Garcia, assistant professor gy, tissue engineering, marine biology, in the School of Mechanical 25 Years Ago commercializing technology and the Engineering, said the idea behind tis- The U.S. Department of the ubiquitous computer. sue engineering is to “replace, repair, Interior listed 10 acres of In his introductory remarks, maintain or enhance function through Georgia Tech’s “old campus” President Wayne Clough noted that he the use of living cells, other natural on the National Register of was sharing the dais with “some of the biological materials or both” in the Historic Places. The old cam- greatest scholars in the world.” development of tissue substitutes. pus is bounded by North “Their work is helping to drive Marie Thursby walked forum Avenue, Techwood Drive, Third Georgia Tech’s growing reputation as a attendees through her Technological Street and Cherry Street and center of innovation and a source of Innovation: Generating Economic includes the J.S. Coon building new ideas that change the world for Results program, designed to instill and the Rockefeller YMCA the better, and we are privileged to students with a full understanding of building, now the have them on our faculty,” he said. the range of business issues associated Alumni/Faculty House. Hay’s parrot fish comments were with technology commercialization.

Spring 2004 • GEORGIA TECH 13 TechNotes Tech On Board ‘It’s Alive!’ Next-generation Internet rail solely for research rankenstein has eorgia Tech and a consortium of universities are form- lurched his way into F ing alliances to tap thousands of miles of dark fiber the Georgia Tech Library G cable — a fiber-optic cable that is not carrying a signal — and Information Center, buried by telecommunications companies at the height of but there’s no need to the Internet boom. pull out the pitchforks The universities, research agencies and leading-edge and torches. He’s there technology companies already have leased more than to teach. 10,000 miles of surplus dark fiber-optic cable from “Frankenstein: telecommunications firms and are preparing to initiate Penetrating the National LambdaRail, a high-speed, next-generation net- Secrets of Nature” is on work dedicated solely to research. display in the library’s Neely Gallery through Ron Hutchins, chief technology officer and associate April 30 and examines the transformation of Mary vice provost for research and technology at Tech, and Shelley’s creature from a literary figure into a cultural Brian Savory, director of the Southern Light Rail project, phenomenon — and how the monster relates to the briefed the Georgia Senate Higher Education Committee debate over ethics and the pursuit of science. about the project in March. “The exhibition addresses issues such as cloning “The purpose of the NLR is to access, exchange and and genetic engineering, which raise difficult ques- process huge quantities of scientific and research data to tions about the nature of human identity,” says Kirk this consortium which will allow breakthroughs in Henderson, the library’s records coordinator. “The research and development in biotechnology, advanced story of Frankenstein, as myth and as metaphor, can communications and nanotechnology, the focal areas of help the public articulate and examine these fears.” the Georgia Research Alliance,” Hutchins says. The free exhibit is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The state’s six research universities — Georgia Tech, Monday through Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. Georgia State University, Clark Atlanta University, the Medical College of Georgia, Emory University and the University of Georgia — have been invited to join the regional network initiative that will connect to the Georgia Tech Alumni Association presents National LambdaRail from a node at Tech. Savory says the most pressing matter is forming strategic alliances with companies that have access to dark Alumnae fiber cable, placed at the height of the Internet boom when many companies overestimated the demand. Not long ago, this equipment was very expensive, but today’s Networking Events equipment is affordable and much easier to maintain. Women on Wednesdays In March, the link between Pittsburgh and Chicago went live and by early June the link between Atlanta, Breakfast speaker series created Raleigh, N.C., and Washington, D.C., should be activated. by alumnae for alumnae

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For more information, speaker updates and to register, visit us online at www.gtalumni.org/women The $80 million proposed optical network will link universities in about a dozen cities via a 10 gigabit-per-second connection.

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Chris Smith is an associate pastor How can you at the Christian Church Buckhead, double or even triple your which is housed contribution to Georgia Tech? in the former Gold Just follow these 2 simple steps. Club building. 1. Contact your HR department to get a matching gift form. 2. Mail your matching gift form to the address below. We’ll take it from there, thank you for your support! If you or your spouse work for a company that matches gifts, ask your HR department for a matching gift form. (Some retired employees are eligible to have their gifts matched as well). Mail the completed form to the address below. If you have questions, please contact:

Debra Thompson Strip Club Born Again Manager, Matching Gifts 190 North Avenue, NW By Maria M. Lameiras then we realized it was not Atlanta, GA 30313-0175 such a far-fetched idea,” 404-894-0759 or 1-800-GTALUMS [email protected] lumni Kim King and says Smith. After giving AChris Smith are some thought to the public Matching Gift Companies relations potential, Smith 3M Company KPMG Peat, Marwick, Mitchell orchestrating an arrange- Abbott Laboratories Law Companies ment to ensure that the for- and pastor Dan Garrett met Accenture Lockheed Martin Agilent Technologies Macromedia mer home of an Atlanta with King and secured a Air Products & Chemicals MeadWestvaco Corporation Albany International Merck & Co. strip club dances to a very temporary lease on the Albemarle Corporation Merrill Lynch building. Alcoa Microsoft different tune. Altria Group Monsanto “He understood what American Electric Power Motorola In February, the American Express NCR Christian Church we were trying to do,” says American Standard, Inc. Norfolk Southern AOL Time Warner Northern Telecom Buckhead, where Smith is Smith. “There has been a Ashland Oil Northern Trust Co. Atlanta Gas Light Company Novartis an associate minister, began lot of interest in the church AT&T Olin and, to my knowledge, Bank of America Oxford Industries services in the former Gold Bechtel PepsiCo, Inc. there has not been any neg- BellSouth Philips Electronics Club building at Piedmont Black & Decker Philips Medical Systems Road and Lindbergh Drive. ative feedback.” Boeing Philip Morris USA BP Phillips Petroleum Kim King Associates — At the first Sunday Burlington Industries PPG Industries Carolina Power & Light Printpack owned by King, IM 68 — service, there were equal ChevronTexaco Corporation Procter & Gamble numbers of the faithful and Chrysler/Huntsville Electronics Prudential Insurance and Gwinnett Partners own Coats American Rayonier the property and are leas- the curious, Smith says. Coca-Cola Company Raytheon Conoco Reynolds Metals ing the building to the non- “The first week we had Cooper Industries RJR Nabisco CSX Rohm & Haas denominational congrega- an initial surge of people — Darden Restaurants Rockwell Deloitte & Touche Sara Lee tion until they demolish the some interested in the Delta Air Lines Scientific-Atlanta church, others who wanted Dow Chemical Sentry Life Group Foundation building to raise an upscale Duke Energy Corporation Shell Oil 300-condominium tower. to see what it looked like. Eaton Corporation Siemens Eli Lilly & Co. Southern Co. Services The business partners In week two, there were not Equitable Life Southern Nuclear Operating Co. Ernst & Young Sonat bought the 1.5-acre proper- quite as many people, but ExxonMobil Springs Industries Florida Power & Light Square D ty from the U.S. govern- we have grown every week Fluor Daniel SunTrust Bank since then,” he says. “A lot FMC Technologies Telcordia Technologies ment and an Augusta, Ga., Ford Motor Company Teledyne Brown Engineering family trust last year for of people from the area General Electric Texas Instruments General Motors Textron Systems Division $5.25 million. have also stopped by to say Georgia-Pacific Trane Company Georgia Power Company TRW Smith, Mgt 99, says the they appreciate what we Goodyear United Technologies Guidant Corporation Unocoal church was looking for a are doing.“ Gulf Power Company UPS home in the Buckhead area The strip club was Halliburton Company Verizon Harris Corporation Vulcan of Atlanta when the idea to closed by federal authori- Hewlett-Packard Wachovia Home Depot Walt Disney Co. locate in the former Gold ties in 2001 after its former Honeywell Weyerhaeuser Hughes Aircraft Company Xerox Club surfaced. owner, Steve Kaplan, plead- IBM Yahoo Intel “To be honest, it was ed guilty to racketeering International Paper kind of a joke at first, but charges. Johnson Controls Johnson & Johnson Kimberly-Clark Corporation

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Bobby Jones: Golfer and Gentleman

he life of the legendary Bobby “Bobby Jones — Stroke of Genius,” which Jones was a devoted family man, friend TJones, ME 22, is the subject of a new chronicles Jones’ great feats on the golf and lawyer who was struck down in his feature film, “Bobby Jones — Stroke of course. To this day, he is the only amateur prime by a debilitating illness. Genius,” opening nationwide in April golfer to win the Grand Slam, all four Sportswriter Grantland Rice once and starring Jim Caviezel, in the spot- majors in one season. From 1923 to 1930, wrote, “Bobby Jones is not one in a million light recently for his portrayal of Jesus in Jones won 13 major championships. He persons. I should say he is one in 10 mil- Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the stunned the world by retiring at age 28. lion — or perhaps one in 50 million.” Christ.” Jones was known to be fiercely com- Jones died in 1971. He is buried in The cast and crew traveled from petitive, a man with a fiery temper and a Atlanta’s historic Oakland Cemetery, where Chateau Elan northeast of Atlanta to the salty tongue. Despite that, he is remem- fans still pay tribute to him by leaving golf noble St. Andrews in Scotland while filming bered as a true gentleman. Off the links, balls on his grave.

16 GEORGIA TECH • Spring 2004 TechNotes Guy D’Alema Courtesy of East Lake Country Club ‘Play Your Own Game’ Bobby Jones was both mentor and friend to Tommy Barnes By Kimberly Link-Wills

obby Jones played his last round of golf in July 1948. On the course with him at BEast Lake Country Club was Tommy Barnes, IM 38. “I met Bobby Jones in 1931. I was given an Reviewing the scorecard after Bobby Jones’ final honorary membership at East Lake and he was round of golf are, left to right, Robert Ingram, out there all the time. He had just won the Tommy Barnes, Jones and Henry Lindener. Grand Slam. We became real close friends,” Throughout the 1930s and ’40s, Barnes Barnes says. “He was one of the nicest people I and Jones golfed together at least once a ever met. He helped me a lot with my game. I month. Barnes still remembers the advice went on to win some big tournaments after I Jones gave him. “He said, ‘Play one shot at a met him.” time, don’t try to play your opponent, play Actually, Barnes, who was inducted into your own game.’” Tech’s Hall of Fame in 1960, won a lot of tour- Barnes did not know that the round in naments. He was the Southern Interscholastic 1948 would be the last he would play with champion in 1934 and ’38, the Southern States Jones, who was being crippled by Four-Ball champion in 1940, ’41 and ’46, the syringomyelia. Georgia State Amateur champion in 1941 and “He didn’t say anything to me that day the Southeastern PGA Open champ in 1946. about it. My goodness, he shot a 72 that last He won regional tournaments too numerous to round,” Barnes says. “I ran into him down- list. town the next morning and he told me he’d Barnes was inducted into the Georgia had some numbness in his legs and his arms. State Hall of Fame in 1981 and the Southern “That same week he went into the hospi- Golf Association Hall of Fame in 1988. The tal. I went over to see him and there was a ‘no Georgia State Golf Association annually pres- admittance’ sign on his door. I turned around ents the Tommy Barnes Award to the overall and started walking back up the hall and saw player of the year. his dad. His dad told me he was heavily sedat- The Southern Golf Association credits ed. I said, ‘I’ll come back later,’ and he said, Barnes with preserving the East Lake Country ‘No, go on in, he’d like to see you, Tommy.’ I Club. “He orchestrated a move among friends didn’t stay long. He had a patch on his neck. I of Bobby Jones to buy the club from the guess that’s where they operated on him. Atlanta Athletic Club in 1967 when the ACC “He never played another round of golf. I was moving north of Atlanta to Duluth. Had it don’t think he hit but one or two balls after not been for his determination to preserve this that. It was terrible. He wasn’t but 46 years shrine to the great Bobby Jones, the East Lake old. He was playing some of the best golf he Country Club might not be around today for ever played. He was a plus-4 handicap at the golf historians to enjoy,” the Hall of Fame time,” Barnes says. induction announcement reads. “I admired him more as a man than a Like Jones, Barnes never turned pro. golfer because of the way he lived his life. He “There wasn’t any money in it when I played,” lived an exemplary life. He was a great per- he says. son,” Barnes says. But Barnes remained competitive until “He was the best competitor I ever played May 2002, when he broke his back in a car against. I tell you what, when you teed off you accident. These days he’s only able to “putt a had better try to get the best shot because he bit.” was gonna try and beat you.” GT

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‘Burden of Responsibility’ Michael Arad is creating one of America’s most important memorials

By John Dunn

he horror of 9/11, the tremendous sense of loss and voids in the river. Although the flow of water was continu- the devastating void left in the ruins of the twin tow- ous, the voids “could never be filled, could never be forgot- T ers of the World Trade Center drove Michael Arad to ten.” react as an architect. After building a model of the Hudson River memorial, “I was very influenced personally by what happened on Arad says he “put it aside and forgot about it for a year or September 11,” says Arad, M Arch 99, who lives in New York so” — until the design competition for a memorial was City and saw the second tower hit by the commercial jet announced. plane. “I felt a need to address it in some way, to relate to it Arad was at home on Sept. 11, 2001, when he heard on as an architect. I thought about an the radio that one of the towers had idea for a memorial fairly early on Gary Meek been hit by a plane. — a few months after the event.” “I thought, like so many other Arad’s design, “Reflecting people, that this was a freak accident Absence,” was selected for the involving a small plane,” Arad World Trade Center memorial in remembers. “I went and peeked out January over 5,201 entries from 63 of the window from my bedroom and countries. saw smoke rising through the tower. I Arad, 34, was on campus went up to the roof of my apartment March 22 when he spoke to a class building and saw the second tower of architecture students that filled get hit by an airplane. It was a very the room and spilled into the hall- difficult thing to see.” way. He attempted to phone his wife, “Not that long ago, Michael was sitting where you are,” Melanie Fitzpatrick, CP 97, who worked downtown. “I Doug Allen, associate dean of Tech’s College of Architecture, couldn’t get her on the phone, so I went downtown to find told the students. her. It’s not far from where we live. People were streaming In a soft-spoken voice, Arad gave a slide presentation uptown. I found her and we were walking back home. We and reviewed the process that led to the Lower Manhattan were on Fulton Street by the East River when the first tower Development Corp. jury awarding him the commission to came down. I didn’t realize it at the time because where we build one of the nation’s most important memorials. were, you couldn’t see the tower. Arad’s original concept was to create a memorial in the “All of a sudden people started running around and Hudson River “that would make very present and visible the there was a big cloud of smoke. We were by the Williamsburg absence of something,” he says. The idea was to carve two Bridge by the time the second tower fell,” Arad says.

20 GEORGIA TECH • Spring 2004 Images reproduced with permission: Lower Manhattan Development Corporation “There were many people streaming over the bridges, Dbox walking — everyone in their work clothes. It was very strange to come back home after a couple of hours and the towers were gone from the skyline.” In the aftermath of the horrific loss of life and the devas- tation, Arad says New Yorkers reached out to each other. Arad is the son of Moshe Arad, who was the Israeli ambassa- dor to the United States during the Reagan Administration. He grew up in Israel, the United States and Mexico, but since 9/11 he no longer feels like a stranger in New York, he has a sense of belonging. “The way people came together after September 11 was really moving and beautiful, the sense of community in peo- ple helping each other and finding a way of dealing with the grief. I remember going to a couple of vigils. It wasn’t organ- ized that we’d have a vigil at 12 o’clock. It was just going on everywhere at the same time. “There were huge posters that people put up of missing people. There were candles everywhere. People would con- gregate at parks and on street corners,” Arad says. “I live downtown in the East Village. In the week after the attack, it was cut off from all traffic. It was very quiet and people were walking about. There was no traffic at all and the smoke was still there. It was an incredible experience.” When the memorial competition was announced, Arad revisited his Hudson River design model, which he had to change significantly because the memorial would be built on the World Trade Center site, bounded by West, Greenwich, Fulton and Liberty streets. Master planner Daniel Libeskind had proposed a memo- rial site be developed below the plaza level. “I felt that the master plan that he had suggested would be problematic for the site because it depressed the whole site and severed it from the city,” Arad says. The design Arad presented was a street-level plaza that “would stitch it back into the neighborhood in a way that allowed it to be a contin- ued part of the city.” Arad was working for the New York City Housing Authority when he submitted his design in June 2003. His wife gave birth to their first son, Nathaniel, in August, and in November, he learned that he was one of eight finalists for the memorial design. The jury encouraged Arad to work with a landscape architect to enhance the plaza and he chose Californian Peter Walker. The 13-member memorial jury of architects, artists and government officials proclaimed Arad’s design the winner on Jan. 6. Maya Lin, who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, was on the jury. Arad’s design brought the site up to street level and carved the footprints of the twin towers in two 30-foot-deep sunken reflecting pools, an emphasis intended to make the absence present — an unforgettable void. Arad says he considers the victims’ families the most important constituency. He met with them the day before he publicly presented his revised design on Jan. 14. The redesign features bands of stone paving and irregular trees surround- ing the two sunken pools.

22 GEORGIA TECH • Spring 2004 Awad Architectural Models Eloquent Void Allows Absence to Speak

An excerpt from the Jan. 13 statement of the World Trade Center Memorial Jury for the winning design.

e have taken the time we needed to make our final Wchoice from among the 5,201 submissions from 63 different countries. Of all the designs submitted, we have found that “Reflecting Absence” by Michael Arad, in con- cert with landscape architect Peter Walker, fulfills most eloquently the daunting — but absolutely necessary — demands of this memorial. In its powerful, yet simple articulation of the foot- prints of the twin towers, “Reflecting Absence” has made the voids left by the destruction the primary symbols of rest at the base of the void, directly beneath an opening to our loss. By allowing absence to speak for itself, the the sky above. designers have made the power of these empty footprints While the footprints remain empty, however, the sur- the memorial. At its core, this memorial is anchored rounding plaza’s design has evolved to include beautiful deeply in the actual events it commemorates — connect- groves of trees, traditional affirmations of life and rebirth. ing us to the towers’ destruction, and more important, to These trees, like memory itself, demand the care and nur- all the lives lost on that day. turing of those who visit and tend them. They remember In our descent to the level below the street, down into life with living forms, and serve as living representations the outlines left by the lost towers, we find that absence is of the destruction and renewal of life in their own annual made palpable in the sight and sound of thin sheets of cycles. water falling into reflecting pools, each with a further void The result is a memorial that expresses both the incal- at its center. We view the sky, now sharply outlined by the culable loss of life and its consoling regeneration. Not only perimeter of the voids, through this veil of falling water. does this memorial creatively address its mandate to pre- At bedrock of the north tower’s footprint, loved ones will serve the footprints, recognize individual victims, and pro- be able to mourn privately, in a chamber with a large stone vide access to bedrock, it also seamlessly reconnects this vessel containing unidentified remains of victims that will site to the fabric of its urban community.

The view from the top of the plaza will look down and cies who are working at odds against one another. It’s a hard water will fall down and flow into the void. A memorial thing to do,” Allen says. gallery will be underground and contain the names of the Arad received a bachelor’s degree in government from victims of the attack to be inscribed and listed randomly. Dartmouth College, before earning his graduate degree at Rescue workers and firefighters will be identified by insignia. Tech. Visitors will stand behind a wall of falling water and the “Tech is where I received my architectural education and gallery will convey a sense of intimacy as well as that of a the skills that I have developed here are the ones that are still shelter. helping me,” Arad says. Building the memorial is “an enormous burden of When he learned he was one of the eight nominees, responsibility,” Arad says. “So many people have high and Arad says he was given two months to prepare material for different expectations for what this memorial will do and can the jury presentation. do. Trying to maintain the integrity of the design as I imag- “Originally, I presented only one board. When I present- ined it is going to take a tremendous effort.” ed to the jury for the second round, there were five boards Arad says he has called on Allen, his former architecture and two models. In a way it was like an intense studio. Like professor, for ideas and suggestions. any studio sort of exercise, you have a deadline and you try “It’s unlike any other experience,” Allen says of the to get everything you can done in as frugal an amount of memorial. “It’s difficult because you don’t have a single time as possible.” Arad quips, “The lack of sleep I got here client — you have multiple clients and multiple vested inter- paved the way.” ests. You can take any memorial anywhere on any town He is modest about the celebrity status gained from win- square in any city of the United States and multiply it times a ning the commission to build the memorial and the task thousand. And that’s what he’s going through. ahead. “You’re often times trying to satisfy different constituen- “It’s still architecture,” he says. GT

Spring 2004 • GEORGIA TECH 23 Gary Meek atom by

atomnanotechnology is changing the world

By Gary Goettling

anotechnology offers scientists access to a surreal mini-uni- verse where reality and imagi- nation are intertwined, and vir- tually anything seems possible. nNano, from the Greek for dwarf, means one-billionth. A human hair, for example, measures 50,000 nanometers in diameter; a strand of DNA is about two nanometers wide. Hence, nanotechnology — under 100 nanome- ters is the accepted threshold — involves the engineering of materials and substances at their molecular or atomic levels.

24 GEORGIA TECH • Spring 2004 Z.L Wang, director of Georgia Tech’s Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and a professor of materials science, holds precursor materials for nanometer-scale structures known as nanobelts. Wang says the future of nanotechnology is the “new industrial revolution.” may work as a semiconductor or sensor at the nanometer level. Another example: Platinum melts Nicole Cappello at 1,772 degrees Celsius, but on the nano level its melting point drops to about 600 degrees Celsius. Techniques for working at this unimaginably tiny scale enable scientists to improve a par- ticular material by altering its atomic structure — moving indi- vidual atoms around like Lego blocks to create completely new structures with beneficial new qualities. The power of nanotech- nology is that the finished, full- scale product retains the charac- teristics engineered at the nano level. “Phenomena at the nanome- ter scale are likely to be a com- pletely new world,” Wang says. “Properties of matter at the nanoscale may not be predictable from those observed at larger scales. Important changes in Georgia Tech is the only institution in the Southeast with advanced clean room facilities need- behavior are caused not only by ed for experiments in nanotechnology, microelectronics, medicine and other fields. Tech’s new continuous modification of char- Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Center, a 160,000-square-foot facility funded by a donor’s acteristics with diminishing size, $36 million gift and $45 million pledge from the state, will quadruple the Institute’s clean room but also by the emergence of total- capacity and be available for other academic institutions and private industry. ly new phenomena.” The possibilities of nanotech- anotechnology could affect virtually every nology have been discussed for many years. In 1959, physi- manufactured product, energy production cist Richard Feynman speculated, “What would happen if we and a host of medical applications ranging could arrange atoms one by one the way we want them?” from diagnostics to tissue and bone replace- The shift from theory to practical application depended ments, according to Zhong Lin Wang, a upon the development of an array of microscopy techniques nGeorgia Tech professor of materials science and adjunct pro- that allow researchers to see at the nanoscale — and even fessor of chemistry. He also heads Tech’s Center for beyond, says Wang. Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and its Electron “You can use the tip of an atomic-force microscope to Microscopy Center. put the proper atom where you want it,” he cites as an exam- “The most important and strongest drive for nanotech- ple. “Techniques such as this provide us with eyes and hands nology comes from microsystem-based industry,” says Wang, to manipulate nanoscale objects, which we could not do 20 who holds a half dozen nanotechnology-related patents. years ago.” “When silicon technology reaches its limit in feature size in The capability of Tech’s Nanoscience and about five years, there will be a desperate need for nanotech- Nanotechnology Center will increase substantially in the nology to keep up the technological momentum laid down months ahead, thanks to a $36 million windfall from a pri- by microelectronics and optoelectronics.” vate donor announced this past October. The ability to construct objects on a nanoscale is expect- “We will have a new facility for nanotechnology and ed to lead to the development of tiny but fully functional state-of-the-art equipment,” says Wang. “This will boost our machines — even sophisticated computers smaller than a effort to a new stage.” human cell. The state is expected to contribute an additional $45 mil- But nanotechnology is more than simply the next fron- lion toward construction of the 160,000-square-foot nanotech tier in miniaturization. The properties of materials change home, the largest in the Southeast. The new building will dramatically the farther one moves down the nanoscale, quadruple Georgia Tech’s clean room capacity and be avail- revealing an entirely new mini-universe of qualitative able for use by other academic institutions as well as private changes. For instance, a material that conducts electricity industry.

26 GEORGIA TECH • Spring 2004 Gary Meek

Only three years old, the nan- otech center involves about 70 faculty and is involved in organizing con- ferences and workshops and interacting with private industry and university peers. Its education activi- ties include creation of graduate and under- graduate courses in nanotechnology leading to a certifi- cate in the field. On the research side, the center helps faculty Georgia Tech researcher Robert Dickson, pictured above with teams prepare proposals to secure multimillion dollar grants. doctoral student Tae-Hee Lee, has developed a new type of Wang is convinced that Tech will soon be recognized nanometer-scale optoelectronic device that performs addition and other complex logic operations. among the top tier of nanotech research universities in the country. “Georgia Tech’s engineering programs are among ment of nanometer-scale optoelectronic devices that perform the strongest in the country. The university is engineering- complex logic operations that could provide the foundation oriented with a lot of infrastructure already in place which for development of molecular-scale computing. This technol- makes it possible to conduct nanotechnology research. More ogy, developed by Robert Dickson at the School in Chemistry important, over the past few years Georgia Tech has hired a and Biochemistry, is based on the utilization of individual lot of outstanding people in this area.” electroluminescent silver nanoclusters. Instead of electrical Nanotech-related research at Tech is multidisciplinary current, the device’s output will be light. and cuts across many schools and colleges. Areas of focus Professors James Gole and Andrei Fedorov from the include bioelectronics, microelectromechanical systems, sen- schools of physics and mechanical engineering, respectively, sors, nanophotonics, bioelectronics, molecular diagnostics have developed a novel photocatalytic microreactor for use in and drug delivery. water disinfection processes. The researchers utilize a porous In his lab, Wang has developed “oxide nanobelt” struc- silicon nanostructure with micron-size pores and clusters of tures with potential applications in sensors and transducers. silica or titania nanospheres up to 30 nanometers in diameter, The semiconducting, structurally uniform, single-crystalline alone or impregnated with a noble metal. Preliminary results nanobelts could be useful for in-situ, real-time and remote indicate performance superior to that of conventional bulk detection of molecules, cancer cells or proteins. The nanobelts catalysts. may also be applied in the fabrication of nanoscale electronic In health care, nanotechnology may hold the key to early and optoelectronic devices. detection, clinical diagnosis and treatment of a number of Other attention-grabbing research includes the develop- diseases, particularly cancer. “You can use the tip of an atomic-force microscope to put the proper atom where you want it.Techniques such as this provide us with eyes and hands to manipulate nanoscale objects.” — Z.L.Wang

Spring 2004 • GEORGIA TECH 27 “Biomedical nanotechnology is leading to major advances in molecular diagnostics, therapeutics, molec- ular biology and bioengineering,” says Shuming Nie, a professor in the joint Georgia Tech-Emory University School of Biomedical Engineering and director of Cancer Nanotechnology at Emory’s Winship Cancer Institute. Nie, a bioanalytical and biomaterials chemist by training, has developed a novel technology to aid his cancer-fighting research. The technique employs micron- sized polystyrene beads packed with zinc sulfide-capped cadmium selenide nanocrystals or “quantum dots.” The semiconductor dots are fluorescent and can be synthesized in different colors merely by changing their size, according to Nie. Varying the number and size of the quantum dots embedded in each microbead gives the bead a unique optical signature. In addition, these microstruc- tures can quickly identify and analyze a particular compound in a complex mixture — in effect, serving as a tiny chemical labo- ratory. When biological macromolecules such as antibodies are joined to the beads and injected into tissue, the beads attach to the molecule they have been encoded to detect. A color image of the sample displays clusters of different color dots, each corresponding to a particular gene or protein. Cancer cells have certain characteristics or markers. After targeting and labeling these markers with color- coded quantum dots, Nie’s computer converts the optical information into biological data. He then knows which mark- ers are and are not present as well as their distribution over the surface of a cell. He also knows when enough markers converge to indicate cancer. The technique allows simultaneous analysis of the mark- ers in clinical tissue specimens and also detects the tiniest molecular abnormalities — a tremendous step forward for early cancer detection. Further, nanoprobes using quantum dots that are chemically bound to particular genes and pro- Quantum dots, nanometer-sized semiconductors, embedded teins can monitor the effectiveness of drug therapy, or pre- in microbeads give each bead a unique optical signature. cisely deliver controlled amounts of drugs into tumor cells. Biomolecules with highly luminescent quantum dots have Besides cancer, Nie says medical applications for unique optical properties, creating a superior substitute for nanoparticles focus on cardiovascular disease and neurode- organic dyes. The beads attach to the molecule they have been encoded to identify and may hold the key to the early generative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s. detection of cancer and other diseases. “I see great potential in using nanotechnology for cell and tissue engineering,” he adds. “Georgia Tech is very strong in tissue engineering, so it’s only logical that we bring these research areas together.” Worldwide, considerable nanotech research is aimed at improving the performance of everyday consumer goods ranging from automobile tires to cosmetics to paint. A few nanotech products are already in the marketplace, notably garments that shed liquids effortlessly. Unlike tradi-

28 GEORGIA TECH • Spring 2004 tional stain resistance, which is applied to the fabric and eventually washes out, the new nanoengineered material has stain-fighting polymers bonded within the molecular structure of the garment itself. Stain resistance then becomes as much an integral property of the fabric as its feel or tex- ture. Further development could lead to body armor with the lighter weight and feel of a sweatshirt or “smart” clothing that becomes waterproof when touched by rain and responds to temperature changes by becoming more porous in hot weather and denser in the cold. Some nanotech development efforts appear to come straight out of science fiction, such as a computer memory device that uses the positions of individual atoms to represent bits of data. “Assemblers” could be the ulti- mate nanotech devices. At present, Shuming Nie works with micron-sized polystyrene beads packed with quantum dots. building nanoengineered structures on a large scale is excruciatingly slow even with processes such launched in Atlanta, organized by the law firm of Arnall as molecular beam epitaxy, which may be described as spray Golden Gregory LLP, which includes an intellectual-property painting with atoms. Assemblers would draw materials from practice for nanotech developments; the Georgia Tech their surroundings and create duplicates of themselves or, Research Corp.; the accounting firm of Deloitte & Touche; working in concert, fabricate whatever material or structure and the Office of Science and Technology of the Georgia they’re designed to produce. Living cells are examples of Department of Industry, Trade and Tourism, the alliance’s ini- nature’s “assemblers.” tial activities center on education and communication. Nanoengineered composite materials stronger and “We want to raise the profile of nanotechnology among lighter than steel could open up tremendous possibilities in the different constituent groups and get them talking to one manufacturing. The best known of this new generation of another about it,” says Jeff Stewart, president of the alliance materials are carbon nanotubes — ultrasmall sheets of carbon and chair of Arnall Golden’s nanotechnology practice. He atoms arranged in a hexagonal pattern. The sheets are identifies the constituencies as universities, laboratories, wrapped into tube-shaped strings with diameters ranging emerging companies, large corporations with nanotech initia- from four-tenths of a nanometer to 100 nanometers. Carbon tives, public and private sources of financing, state and feder- nanotubes can be stronger than diamonds, yet twisted, flat- al programs, and economic and legal advisers. tened and bent into circles without breaking. Nanotubes are “There are pockets of activity going on, but there’s not a superb conductors of electricity and heat and can act as semi- lot of communication among them. If we can raise the profile conductors. of nanotechnology and educate the people in Georgia about The bad news, at least for now, is that the material is far what it can mean to our state economically, I think we’ll see too expensive — several hundred dollars a gram — to find increased activity, yield and investment in that area,” he says. widespread application. But that will certainly change with One Atlanta firm, nGimat Co., manufactures a variety of time and further research. nanoengineered materials, including thin-film coatings and Nanotechnology’s far-reaching and lucrative potential powders for industrial applications and components for sen- for product development and the improvement of existing sors and wireless devices. The properties of a material actual- products has prompted Georgia to seek a leadership position ly change within the nanoscale realm — often quite dramati- in the emerging nanotech space. cally and usefully, according to CEO and founder Andrew This past fall the Georgia Nanotechnology Alliance was Hunt, PhD Cere 93. “I see great potential in using nanotechnology for cell and tissue engineer- ing. Georgia Tech is very strong in tissue engineering, so it’s only logical that we bring these research areas together.” — Shuming Nie

Spring 2004 • GEORGIA TECH 29 Atlanta’s nGimat Co. founder and CEO Andrew Hunt holds numerous patents in the field of nanotechnology. Hunt says the properties of a material often change dramatically and usefully within the nanoscale realm.

“When you get below 50 nanometers the properties ganic molecules that impart a rock-like stability that will begin to have measurable change,” Hunt says. “We see a lot never fade. of applications where you get the real benefit at sub-20 “We’ve demonstrated the brightly colored stable nano- nanometers.” materials and are working with two or three companies that How those changing properties provide opportunities are very interested in bringing that to large-scale applica- for product improvement may be seen in the fuel cell cata- tions,” Hunt says. “Another hot area is for metal nanoparti- lysts produced by nGimat. Typically, catalysts rely on plat- cles in various media to enable printable conductive lines of inum group metals for operational efficiency, but Hunt’s smaller size and also for lead-free, low-temperature-based nanoengineered product is inherently more effective. solder.” “You can use alternatives to, say, platinum, so you can Hunt points out that nGimat also works with a number use much less expensive materials. One must have a practical of companies as well as Georgia Tech researchers to identify way to make the nanomaterials or else you do not get the and develop nanoengineered solutions for new business cost benefit.” needs. In addition, nanoengineered materials could eliminate Companies such as nGimat are relatively few; the com- theGary Meektrade-off between efficiency and operating temperature mercialization of nanotech products is still dependent upon — one of the main obstacles to widespread commercializa- research at corporate and university labs. tion of solid oxide fuel cells. Intellectual property created at Georgia Tech is adminis- Hunt founded the company 10 years ago as tered by the Georgia Tech Research Corp., where enthusiasm MicroCoating Technologies to engage in nanotech research for nanotechnology runs high. and development. He holds numerous patents in the field, “Nanotechnology is so broad right now, it touches just including additional trade secrets to the Nanomiser unit and about all areas of research,” says Rosibel Ochoa, assistant NanoSpray process, which produce nanostructures as both director of the Office of Technology Licensing. “A lot of peo- thin films and nanopowders. The company name was ple are very interested in this field.” changed in March to reflect its nanotech focus — 90 percent When Georgia Tech’s new nanotechnology facility is of its products are nano-sized material or thicknesses. built, Ochoa expects to see a marked increase in commercial One of nGimat’s most recent innovations is a pigment possibilities from the field. for use in printer ink nanoengineered with transparent inor- Among the more than 20 inventions in nanotechnology

30 GEORGIA TECH • Spring 2004 Caroline Joe developed by Georgia Tech researchers over the past two years, Ochoa’s office has assembled several portfolios of intellectu- al property reflecting inventions that could help nanotechnology realize its potential in areas such as compos- ites, catalysts and gas sensors for the detection of chemical and bio- logical substances. In catalysis, for example, nanoparticles are relatively well-established, so further scientific advances in that area are likely to reach com- mercialization sooner than innovations in some of the more esoteric applications, Ochoa points out. One reason, she explains, is that the technol- ogy is still quite new. Plus, many of the tools for han- dling, producing and manip- ulating nanoengineered materials are themselves still in the development phase. “You have to start from scratch and make the different kinds of tools that are required,” Ochoa says. Predicting the impact of new technology is always risky business. Yet there seems little doubt that the very nature of nanotechnology will pre- cipitate important changes — the only question is its timetable. The nanotech future was described in a March 2000 National Science Foundation report: “Nanotechnology will fundamentally transform sci- ence, technology and society. In 10 to 20 years, a signif- icant proportion of industrial production, health care practice and environmental management will be changed by the new technology. Economic growth, personal opportuni- ties, sustainable development and environmental preserva- tion will be affected.” Wang is a little less restrained in his assessment of nan- otechnology’s future, which he calls a “new industrial revolu- tion.” “Nanotechnology will fundamentally restructure the Nanorings, complete circles formed by a spontaneous self-coiling process, could serve as nanometer-scale technologies currently used for manufacturing, medicine, sensors, resonators and transducers. They could also defense, energy production, environmental management, be used for studying piezoelectric effects and other transportation, communication, computation and education,” phenomena at the small scale. he says. GT “If we can raise the profile of nanotechnology and educate the people in Georgia about what it can mean to our state economically, I think we’ll see increased activity, yield and investment in that area.” — Jeff Stewart

Spring 2004 • GEORGIA TECH 31 Caesar, a 27-year-old gorilla, hails from the Los Angeles Zoo, where he was born by Caesarian section. Caesar made his public debut at Zoo Atlanta in March. Courtesy of Zoo Atlanta Courtesy ZOO

Zoo Atlantaanew is building on Old Favorites, New Attractions

By Kimberly Link-Wills Kelly points out the reptile house, a structure built in the 1960s that has been updated once and is scheduled for anoth- er refurbishment within the next five years. ennis Kelly calls out to zoo workers and ques- “We’ve got some really rare species in there. We’re tions preschoolers about their favorite animals as breeding a Guatemalan beaded lizard. There are between 15 he makes his way around the Grant Park and 20 left on the planet and we have responsibility for six of Dgrounds rattling off the names of endangered species, dates them. If we and the San Diego Zoo don’t breed them, they’re of monkey births and the numbers of animals in each exhibit. going to go extinct,” he says. “For a 115-year-old zoo, we still feel like we’re pretty Kelly gets his hands on Blue, a 15-year-old indigo snake young. We’ve got great plans for the next 10 years to rebuild that weighs more than 6 pounds. He holds up the snake as a the zoo again. We’re going to increase the emphasis on small grandmother videotapes and her grandchild gawks. He tells mammals. We’re also going to focus on Georgia and the the child that the snake can be found in the wild right here in Southeast,” says Kelly, ME 76, the Zoo Atlanta president and Georgia. The child, about 2, doesn’t seem thrilled with the CEO. “We’re going to go from 200 species to 300 over a 10- information. year period. About 20 percent of our species are endangered. “We have one male and two female indigo snakes, which Half of the 20 percent we’re actually breeding for their sur- are indigenous to Georgia,” Kelly says. “We’re working with vival as part of a worldwide protection plan. the Department of Natural Resources to try and bring that “We have one of the best reptile collections in the world. snake back. It’s on the verge of being an endangered species We obviously have one of the best gorilla and orangutan col- and is just a gorgeous snake.” lections. The African drill monkey is a great success of ours. Kelly has not found his small audience appreciative of We are the only zoo in America that is successfully breeding the snake and moves on to the children’s zoo, which is cur- the drill, which is probably the most endangered primate in rently being revamped. When the new and improved Orkin the world at the moment,” says Kelly. Children’s Zoo debuts May 1, it will offer an up-close look at On Nov. 30, the zoo welcomed a male Bornean orang- five red kangaroos shipped in from Kansas City. The kanga- utan, the second orangutan birth in less than a year and a roos will not be for petting, but zoo visitors will be able to get half, bringing the zoo’s population to 12, the largest in North within about four feet of the marsupials. America. One of Kelly’s favorite spots in the zoo overlooks the

Spring 2004 • GEORGIA TECH 33 gorilla habitat. He notes that many of the 23 gorillas — a col- of the highest in the country. The cost of admission has risen lection only second in size to the Bronx Zoo — are either steadily over the last decade to $16.50 for adults and $11.50 young or old. for children. In comparison, admission is free at the National “We expect we’ll see several of our gorillas pass away Zoo in Washington, D.C., and at Lincoln Park Zoo in over the next four or five years,” Kelly says, adding that Zoo Chicago. The San Diego Zoo, which has 800 species on 100 Atlanta’s care of the gorillas has enabled them to live to a acres, charges $19.50 for adults and $11.75 for kids. ripe old age, like Willie B., who died at age 41. “I’m trying to figure out ways that we can be a zoo for “Willie B. was unique, but Ivan is pretty special too. He all Atlantans,” says Kelly, who launched an online coupon was rescued from a shopping Gary Meek offering $5 off admission last center in Tacoma, Washington. summer. He has been with this family for The Atlanta Business a long time. He’s one of our old- Chronicle reported that zoo est silverbacks,” he says. attendance in fiscal year 2002 Like Willie B., Ivan lived in was 695,373, down from 1 mil- solitary confinement for 27 lion in 2001 and 1.2 million in years. Ivan, now pushing 40, 2000, when visitors flocked to arrived in Atlanta in 1994. Grant Park to see the new pan- Kelly is excited about das. Caesar, a 500-pound gorilla “All city-owned zoos other delivered from the Los Angeles than Zoo Atlanta are generally Zoo via FedEx Express. Caesar funded by the public. Zoo has just come out of a six-month Atlanta gets no support from quarantine to protect against the any government and has not transmission of hepatitis B. for over 13 years. We do strug- “Caesar was born at the gle with the gap between what Los Angeles Zoo, the first goril- we charge and what it takes to la in history, we believe, to be Courtesy of Zoo Atlanta run a great zoo. But we can do born by Caesarian section,” a great job because of the sup- Kelly says. “We’re hoping he port of great companies and takes over Willie B.’s family. great individuals,” Kelly says. Caesar is 27 years old, the prime Zoo Atlanta is calling the age for a gorilla. He has not annual Beastly Feast, this year bred before. Part of it was he set for May 15, the “South’s was a little overweight. He actu- most successful black tie gala,” ally couldn’t perform. But he’s with a goal of topping the $1 lost about 100 pounds and we million fund-raising mark for hope he’s ready to be a father.” the seventh consecutive year. Ask a silly question about a “I’m real anxious to put gorilla diet and Kelly fires back more money and effort into with a good-humored answer. conservation and research “You wanna go on the gorilla that’s making a difference right diet? Here’s the gorilla diet: here in the southeast United First, it’s all fruits and vegeta- States while continuing our bles. Second, they make you efforts in places like China and One of Zoo Atlanta’s most popular exhibits is the $4.5 mil- take off all your clothes and live lion Ford African Rain Forest, a naturalistic habitat that is Africa,” Kelly says. in a glass-walled room for six home to 23 gorillas, a collection second in size only to the He does not see the aquari- months and they throw your Bronx Zoo. Five red kangaroos from Kansas City are the um currently under construc- food on the floor. You will lose a latest arrivals at the 115-year-old zoo. tion in Atlanta as competition. lot of weight.” “I think the Georgia Aquarium is going to be a great, Kelly moves the conversation back on track and shows great thing for Atlanta. We see the aquarium as an opportuni- off a new clinic for gorillas and orangutans that looks much ty to collaborate on a whole range of issues. We both have the like a hospital emergency room. same mission elements: education, conservation and a great, “Some of the best success in breeding gorillas in captivi- fun family experience,” Kelly says. ty has taken place at Zoo Atlanta. If anybody can do it, we “Both of us have the vision that if we do our jobs well, can.” species and their environments will be protected for future Kelly does worry about Zoo Atlanta’s ticket prices, some generations.”

34 GEORGIA TECH • Spring 2004 It was Maple who freed Willie B. from his cell in 1988 to live out his life in a $4.5 million naturalistic habitat with his PandasWorst propel Zoo toAtlanta toFirst research forefront own kind. After living alone for 27 years, Willie B. adapted and thrived, siring seven offspring — five of which remain at Zoo Atlanta — before his death in February 2000 at age 41. oo Atlanta owes its start to a bankrupt circus and a It was Maple who negotiated an agreement with the generous Atlanta businessman. On March 28, 1889, Chinese government that brought Zoo Atlanta’s current most . lumber dealer George Caroline Joe famous occupants — the pan- V.Z Gress and railroad contractor das Lun Lun and Yang Yang Thomas J. James bought the trav- — to their new home on Nov. eling circus at an auction at the 5, 1999. Fulton County Courthouse for Officially, the giant pan- $4,485. das are on loan for 10 years. James wanted the circus The zoo hopes the relationship wagons and railroad cars for his will last much longer. In business. Gress offered the ani- exchange for the pandas, Zoo mals — which the Grant Park Atlanta is giving the People’s Conservancy says included a Republic of China $1 million hyena, four lions, a black bear, a annually for scientific study jaguar, an elk, a Mexican hog, and conservation efforts. Only two deer, a gazelle, a camel, two about 1,000 pandas remain in monkeys and two serpents — to the wild as man has the city of Atlanta. Gress also encroached upon China’s shelled out the money for con- bamboo forests. struction of a brick building to Maple often said his goal house the animals in Grant Park. was to make Zoo Atlanta “the Gress’ generosity to the city world’s first truly scientific would continue. In 1893, he and zoo” and called the $7 million Charles Northern bought the panda enclosure with its 16 Cyclorama’s “Battle of Atlanta” video cameras monitoring painting. While the Cyclorama every move an instrument of has always captivated visitors, education. Zoo Atlanta hasn’t always been Maple has since returned the greatest show on Earth. to Tech to direct the new Although one of the oldest in the Center for Conservation and country, the zoo was not one of Behavior. But the pandas have the most beloved. In fact, by the remained in the spotlight — 1970s, Zoo Atlanta was ranked as and not just because they are one of the worst in the nation. Its photogenic and only three silverback gorilla, Willie B., lan- other zoos in the nation have guished in a cage, perhaps driv- them. Zoo Atlanta and its pan- en mad by boredom with only a das are at the forefront of sci- tire swing and a television for Tech alumni behind the scenes at the zoo include, top entific research. entertainment. photo, multimedia assistant Adam Thompson, STC 02; Watching over Lun Lun The zoo’s turnaround is by membership coordinator Kelli Sherrill, Mgt 00, above left; and Yang Yang is Rebecca now a story familiar to the Tech and Web graphics designer Rebecca Scheel, ID 02. Snyder, MS Psych 96, PhD 00, community, for it was a psychology professor named Terry one of the world’s foremost authorities on panda behavior. Maple who, during his 17-year reign as CEO and president, She has studied Lun Lun, the female born on Aug. 25, 1997, built its reputation as a world-class institution and leading and Yang Yang almost from birth. facility on naturalistic enclosures and animal research. Snyder was the first Georgia Tech graduate student to go

Maple often said his goal was to make Zoo Atlanta “the world’s first truly scientific zoo.” Zoo Atlanta and its pandas are at the forefront of research.

Spring 2004 • GEORGIA TECH 35 Rebecca Snyder, MS Psych 96, PhD 00, upper right, one of the world’s foremost authorities on panda behavior, observes Yang Yang. to China to study pandas, according to Yang Yang, the male, was born on Sept. males and females to communicate Maple, who has called her the pioneer 9, 1997. Yang Yang was his mother’s with each other. The nursery is where who broke the ground and laid the first cub and Snyder watched as the the research base staff conducts the foundation. baby began vocalizing and his mother, breeding introductions in the spring,” “Rebecca is at the forefront of Ya Ya, looked at him in a surprised way. says Snyder, now the curator of giant panda science. She really established a Then Ya Ya smelled him, picked him up panda research and management at presence in China for us. I call it ‘intel- and began cradling him. Zoo Atlanta. lectual capital’ that Georgia Tech helped Of the money sent to China thus Research at Zoo Atlanta and in to develop and the zoo now has within far, $400,000 went toward construction China has included reproductive it to continue,” Maple says. of a panda nursery. A price tag can’t be behavior, maternal behavior, develop- Snyder says she enrolled at Tech put on the scientific contributions Zoo mental behavior, positive reinforcement specifically for the opportunity to work Atlanta has made. training, cognition and enclosure with Maple and because of the “We contributed to the design and design and use. Several pandas at the Institute’s close ties with Zoo Atlanta. provided ideas for enrichment items in Chengdu Research Base have been kept She was in Chengdu, where the the nursery, climbing structures for together with their mothers for more zoo now maintains an apartment, when example, and we made it easier for than a year, which comes closer to the

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discoveries about the relationship deliver a tiny bundle of joy — the size between giant panda mothers and cubs. of a stick of butter — late this summer. It is a unique relationship because a cub The giant panda keepers at Zoo typically grows up with its mother as Atlanta have been training Lun Lun to its only social companion. Mothers undergo ultrasound testing. But make a big investment in their cubs and because a panda fetus is so very small, captive pandas spend a significant it won’t be visible even by ultrasound amount of time playing with their until just a few weeks before birth. cubs,” Snyder says. Lun Lun was expected to be fertile “We have found that when a cub for only a couple of days in late March. has both its mother and a sibling as But no one will know if she’s actually play partners, the cub will spend more expecting until summer. All female time playing with its mother. In other pandas that are reproductively mature carnivores, young animals mainly play show signs of pregnancy. with their siblings. “Some females that experience “We have also found that young what we call pseudo pregnancy, a false males spend more time play fighting pregnancy, will actually show nesting and engage in rougher play than young behavior and the same hormonal females. This might prepare males for changes as a pregnant female,” Snyder competition for mates in adulthood,” says. she says. Kelly and Snyder had hoped a Dennis Kelly, ME 76, who succeed- pregnancy would be achieved the old- ed Maple as zoo president and CEO, fashioned way. But Lun Lun was artifi- says the Chinese are interested in main- cially inseminated after Yang Yang taining a strong relationship with Zoo failed to pick up the mating signals. Atlanta because of Snyder’s work The zoo staff had already prepared to “Dr. Snyder is probably the leading try to collect semen from Yang Yang or expert on panda behavior, particularly obtain it from the San Diego Zoo. maternal behavior, in the world,” Kelly Maple says a panda birth in says. Atlanta would be “huge” for the zoo. Snyder does believe Lun Lun and “Number One, it just peaks inter- Yang Yang recognize her. “But I am not est. The more people who are interested a very important figure in their lives and visiting the stronger the zoo will be because I rarely feed them and I don’t financially and the more it will be able train them. They have a much closer to do in the area of conservation,” bond with the keepers,” she says. “All Maple says. of our interactions with the pandas are “At the same time, it also focuses through a barrier.” attention on the scientific work that time they’d spend together in the wild, Snyder hopes to remain involved we’re doing with the pandas. The rather than the six months they tradi- in panda research for the duration of whole purpose of our program is to bet- tionally have been given in captivity to her career. ter understand the way pandas are increase captive birth rates. “My hope is that people appreciate socialized, the way they develop and Chinese scientists have also turned and respect the giant panda as one of that requires babies in order to be able to baby swapping. Pandas give birth to millions of fascinating, beautiful and to study that process. twins more than 50 percent of the time, irreplaceable living beings that share “We have a lot of baby pandas that but the mothers usually reject one cub. this planet,” Snyder says. “I care deeply we’re following in China, but this pair In the Chengdu nursery, one cub is put about their future and want to encour- in Atlanta will allow everybody to have with the mother. After nursing and nur- age others to care about it too.” a window on this study that we’re turing, the cub is switched for its twin. At Zoo Atlanta in early March, engaged in,” Maple says. “And I think The mother rears two offspring while Snyder was carefully monitoring Lun it’s going to be a lot of fun for the peo- only caring for one at a time. Lun for signs of breeding behaviors. ple who support the zoo and for the “We have made some interesting There are huge hopes that she can zoo staff themselves.” “My hope is that people appreciate and respect the giant panda as one of millions of fascinating, beautiful and irreplaceable living beings.”

Spring 2004 • GEORGIA TECH 37 ZooLeader Atlanta president andof CEO Dennisthe Kelly Pack is a risk taker

tenure, annual sales grew from $60,000 oo Atlanta’s leader of the to $250 million and the customer base pack has a head for business. grew from 50,000 households in two . Dennis Kelly, ME 76, was states to more than 500,000 in seven hiredZ as president and CEO last sum- states. mer to continue the momentum initiat- Kelly had moved Green Mountain ed by former director Terry Maple. headquarters from Vermont to Texas “Terry had built such a great collec- and was commuting between Atlanta tion and the animal care staff and the and Austin when he was contacted by a veterinary staff here are so strong that headhunter. he and the board agreed that they “I thought he had the wrong per- would look for somebody who had son,” Kelly says. “But he explained that both marketing skills and could contin- Dr. Maple and the board were looking ue to build the fund-raising expertise. for somebody with a business back- Those are demonstrated skills that I ground, particularly marketing and have,” Kelly says. fund raising. What attracted me was “In my last job, as CEO of a small, the opportunity to get involved in an growing company, I was raising money Atlanta institution. I was ready to do for Green Mountain Energy, which mar- something where my skills matched the kets environmentally friendly electricity needs of the organization. What Terry to consumers. I raised almost $200 mil- and the team he built did to turn the lion in equity and debt,” Kelly says. zoo around is a huge success story. “Selling a concept is not new to me. The Building on that legacy was intriguing approach is the same here. We’re selling to me and a great challenge for me at something that’s important to the com- this stage of my career.” munity — and to the planet. We’re not Maple says he left the zoo in good asking for donations, we’re asking for hands. investments. All of our jobs here at Zoo “Dennis has the right mix of busi- Atlanta are to be good stewards of ness savvy and a clear understanding those investments.” of the vision of Zoo Atlanta. You’ve In February 2002, Fortune Small really got to know what’s possible in Business magazine profiled Kelly as one the zoo business and work very hard to of “The New Risk Takers.” keep our zoo in the leadership role. It’s Kelly was credited for taking a going to take very skillful leadership to bold step when the “utility-deregula- do that. I think he’s got everything that tion movement was flickering out.” His a leader would need in order to do plan, the article says, challenged Green that,” Maple says. Mountain’s “very underpinnings: its “He’s a winner. He knows how to staunch support of deregulation. He lead and he’s a quick study. That’s one brought forward an idea that had been thing I’ve noticed about him. He came kicking around since the company’s in there, never having run a zoo before, founding in 1997 — utility partnering. and it didn’t take him long to figure out Green Mountain could hook up with what to do and how to deal with a lot existing utilities and offer their cus- of the complicated issues of managing tomers the option of a green energy an institution of this kind. source.” “Obviously, he had very good sci- He joined Green Mountain Energy entific training from his time at Georgia in 1999 and steered the company to Tech. Then he went on to the world of become one of the leading marketers of business and has been successful. I cleaner electricity, made from wind, think the business and scientific train- solar, hydro and natural gas. During his ing is a great combination. When I

38 GEORGIA TECH • Spring 2004 Gary Meek heard he was a Georgia Tech graduate, clearly as I can what my hopes and I knew we were going to be OK,” expectations are.” Maple says. Kelly told the Zoo Atlanta staff, Kelly was born in Germany while which grows from 150 to 300 during the his father, a career military man, was peak visitor season and includes anoth- stationed there. The family moved to er 200 volunteers, that he has three Atlanta when he was 3. Kelly served goals. two years in the Army before enrolling “First and foremost is maintaining at Tech. the standard of world-class animal care. “What attracted me to Tech was Second, I wanted to quickly focus on the success of its graduates. The gradu- marketing the zoo, which we’re making ates I knew were confident and happy great progress on. The third thing I said in what they did and I felt Tech better I was going to do was continue the equipped people to be successful at a zoo’s move toward financial sustain- very early age,” he says. “The educa- ability. We’re making good progress in tion I received at Tech is one of the best that regard, but we’re not there yet.” things that I have ever done. More than He says his typical day hasn’t anything it taught me to think, taught changed that much since taking the me how to do analysis and turn analy- helm at Zoo Atlanta. sis into action.” “In some respects, it’s similar to After graduation, Kelly worked as any executive’s — dealing with finance an engineer for Procter & Gamble for and human resources and community four years before heading to Harvard relations and fund raising. The real dif- for an MBA. He worked at The Coca- ference is that when I have a meeting, Cola Co. in global and strategic market- it’s often in front of a gorilla or a goat ing from 1982 to 1999. or a monkey. And I get to handle a “Running organizations is both a snake at lunchtime. science and an art. I’ve had the good “I’m learning all the time. I think fortune at places like Coca-Cola and the great thing about a place like Zoo Green Mountain to run large and small Atlanta is everybody here, whether organizations and making people more you’ve been here a week or 30 years, is effective is something I really enjoy still learning,” Kelly says. “I feel I have doing. Corporations and nonprofits at tons more to learn. But that’s not crucial the end of the day are all about getting to what I have to do. What I have to do groups of people focused and motivat- is motivate and hire the best profession- ed, getting them resources and then als I can, get the resources they need removing barriers to success,” Kelly and get out of the way and let them do says. their jobs.” “Whenever I take over a new role, I Still, Kelly turned to a family mem- always immediately meet with the ber before accepting Zoo Atlanta’s offer. existing team. I’ve learned that it is best “I brought my 3-year-old grandson, to be brutally honest about what I hope Owen, to test the zoo. It passed with to accomplish and what my skills are flying colors, both from his perspective and what my skills are not and set as and mine.”

“Obviously, he had very good scientific training from his time at Georgia Tech. Then he went on to the world of business and has been successful. I think the business and scientific training is a great combination. When I heard he was a Georgia Tech graduate, I knew we were going to be OK.”

Spring 2004 • GEORGIA TECH 39 Caroline Joe Tech’s New Research Hub Terry Maple moves on to found, direct Center for Conservation and Behavior

erry Maple concedes that it was not easy to leave the zoo he had worked so hard to build. “I had spent 17 years there and I was a little bit surprised Thow difficult it was to make the transition. I do miss it. I miss being there. I miss working with those wonderful people and working with people in our community, but I have just taken on a different role,” Maple says. “I have so many things that I’m working on now that will benefit the zoo in the scientific arena and the educational arena and I feel like this is the best place for me at this stage of my career.” That best place is the new Center for Conservation and Behavior at Georgia Tech. The opportunity to found and direct the center lured Maple back to campus full time last year. “I am trying to find a consistent and sustainable funding source so that there can be a lot of intellectual power behind the ideas at the zoo. If you can get substantial endowments so that you can attract scientists and educators to work with the zoo on problems that are not day to day but long term, then you increase the ability of the zoo not to just manage the animals but to stay ahead of very challenging issues in con- servation and management,” he says. “We have a pretty good endowment behind us already. Terry Maple heads the new Center for Conservation and Behavior There’s a total of $3 million that has been raised,” money and says Georgia Tech is going to have a major influence on how Maple says has come from private sources to support both zoos across the country are run. the zoo and the Center for Conservation and Behavior. “Most of that money goes to support training young, bright people tools that will allow us to continue to do research. We have a who are really doing good work.” lot of ambition for this center, but I don’t want to spread all Former Tech students supported by the center include the ideas right now. I want to keep some secrets until we Tara Stoinski, PhD 00, the manager of conservation and part- have a chance to fund them. We have some big ideas, but nerships for Zoo Atlanta currently in Africa studying moun- right now the most important thing is maintaining the tain gorillas. “She’s really brilliant and doing great work. I’m momentum, providing the zoo with the intellectual resources really proud of what she’s doing,” Maple says. and the person power,” he says, stressing the word person “There’s a lot going on now, but there’s going to be a lot because the majority of his graduate students are women. more going on in the future. There’s a very, very close part- “I’ve had good luck recruiting brilliant young students. nership with the zoo, things I’ve worked my whole career to They’ve all gone on to wonderful jobs. I call them ‘professors develop,” he says. “The center is a continuation. You might in the zoo.’ There are about a dozen people out there in major call it an upgrade or an enhancement of my life career. I’ve positions in zoos around this country who are doing wonder- always done research with animals around the world and at ful work and they’re all graduates of my program,” Maple the zoo. I had students working with me all the time I was at says. the zoo. All we did here was increase the focus.” “One of the things that Georgia Tech is doing that’s very Maple is increasing the center’s focus from the renovated significant by partnering with the zoo is we’re producing tal- J.S. Coon Building in the School of Psychology, which donat- ented young professionals who are not only going to help ed him office and conference space. this zoo, they’re going to help all zoos. Georgia Tech is going “Right now I’m concentrating on endowments and the to have a major influence on how zoos are run.” GT

40 GEORGIA TECH • Spring 2004

Stress. It’s a word as common to the workplace as paycheck. And dealing with the stress of pressure-cooker jobs can be difficult. How do Georgia Tech alumni in high-pressure careers find relief? Their pursuits range from the daredevilish to the down to earth. Some are tranquil and solitary; others are grueling and competitive. They take them from the top of a Hog to soaring in the heavens. But whatever the course, these outlets have a common goal. They are all …

stress BUSTERS

each cost about $1,100. Because they take such a beating on # Adrenaline Splash the rocks, the canoes have to be replaced about every 13 It’s impossible to answer a cell phone or reply to an e-mail months. when you’re just trying to stay afloat. Kinser can’t focus on problems at the office when he’s That’s why Don Kinser, CEO and founder of EDI Ltd., loves shooting a rapid — something he does about 60 days a year on whitewater canoeing. the Chattooga River and its tributaries in Georgia and anywhere EDI is an Atlanta company specializing in technology, secu- he finds unspoiled whitewaters from Alabama to Colorado to the rity and audiovisual systems consulting and engineering. Kinser, Pacific Northwest to West Virginia. A whitewater canoeist has to ME 82, gets away from it all by getting into his specially outfitted remain focused on staying in one piece in an endurance sport whitewater canoe and racing the rapids. that’s as much a test of one’s mental strength as physical. “It’s absolutely a great stress reliever,” says Kinser. “It’s also great physical exercise,” says Kinser, who We’re not talking about a Sunday afternoon glide on a rip- acknowledges that split-second decisions and a calm pleless lake. Kinser favors Class V rapids, only the second most demeanor have helped him escape some close calls. difficult to navigate, with names the organization American He returns to the rapids again and again for those adrena- Whitewater lists as Damnation Alley, Screaming Left Turn, Big line splashes. “Going over a 35-foot waterfall is a pretty big Splat and Slaughterhouse Falls. rush.” Kinser’s canoes, outfitted with air bags and thigh straps, — Kimberly Link-Wills

Spring 2004 • GEORGIA TECH 43 Neil B. McGahee # Joy Between the Traces Bill Sanders trusts any of his trotters to carry a glass of water on its back without spilling a drop. Sanders, MS CP 66, is owner of Sandtopia Valley Farms, a 4,000-acre spread in Stevenson, Ala., home to his 55 standard- bred trotters. He trains about two dozen of them to race with sulkies behind them for harness racing. “We breed them for the trot or the pace,” says Sanders, a former football player. “They go almost as fast as thorough- breds, but what I like about it is the hands-on training. I’m too large to ride a thoroughbred, but I can train my horses myself. It is also a much more intricate training to make them go in a level gait. It’s just beautiful to watch and I was entranced by it.” A real estate developer, Sanders and his wife, Laney, own Trotters Place Inc., an Alabama-based development company. He spent 24 years in Atlanta development with the Sanbury Corp., a firm he founded and has since sold. Sanders also serves on the board of directors of the United States Trotting Association. “There are two things that are very addictive and I happen to be into both of them — real estate development and racing horses,” Sanders says. “I have a very full development sched- ule, but I spend two full days a week training these horses myself.” Sanders bought the farm while he was in Atlanta, first for his late father, Sam Sanders, who became involved in harness racing in his retirement years. # Nice and Easy Riders “I got addicted to it as well,” Sanders says. He has had some success, including Sand Squaw, the Randy Thompson, ID 75, and his wife, Jackie, dressed 2002 Ohio Horse of the Year, and Sand Vic, 2003 Kentucky head to toe in protective leather and full-face helmets, look State Champion and fourth-place finisher against some of the the part of 21st century “Easy Riders” as they rumble down best trotters in the world at The Meadowlands Racetrack in New the highway astride their Harley-Davidson motorcycles. Jersey in November. “When Jackie was pregnant with our daughter 22 years The thrill he gets from training his horses and following ago, I had four bikes, but I got rid of them when Heather was them around the country to watch them race is age-old, born,” Thompson says. “For my 50th birthday, Jackie bought Sanders says. me this Harley Heritage Softtail. We rode together for a while “There’s no experience like seeing your horse sticking its and one day I asked her if she wanted to ride behind me or head out at the front of the pack going for $100,000,” Sanders did she want her own. The next day she picked out a Harley says. Low Rider and we’ve been going ever since.” — Maria M. Lameiras Although he got out of Georgia Tech with a degree in industrial design, Thompson says he never had any urge to go to Detroit to design motor vehicles. Instead, he started working for his future father-in-law, Walter Boomershine, IM 51, who owned several automobile dealerships in Atlanta. Nine years ago Thompson bought the Honda dealership in Cartersville, Ga., and recently opened another in Rockmart, Ga. Thompson says the daily stress evaporates as soon as he cranks the Harley. “We get out and putter around with friends or go on char- ity rides,” he says. “It really relieves the stress of doing busi- ness every day — just to get out in the country and feel the wind in your face and hear that big motor rumble. Living in Cartersville, you have country roads in almost every direction. What is really nice is when Heather, a junior management stu- dent at Tech, comes up and goes riding with us. That’s cool.” — Neil B. McGahee Mindy Frazier

44 GEORGIA TECH • Spring 2004 Caroline Joe # Swatting Stress It’s the computer bugs in the middle of the night that dis- tress Kim Seijo, a systems engineer for Shaw Carpets in Cartersville, Ga. She de-stresses by swatting volleyballs. Seijo, TE 93, writes codes and programs to assist the plant associates on the production floor. “My codes might assist plant managers by scheduling pro- duction orders or reporting the overall production and perform- ance of a plant,” she says. “We operate on time lines, so we don’t always have the time needed to test codes or systems. It’s very critical to be able to test up front to avoid bugs in the sys- tem. That’s my main stress. I want users to be able to test my codes completely so I don’t have to get a call in the middle of the night that I’ve shut down their plant.” Seijo finds there’s nothing better for stress than going up and “killing” a volleyball, something she does every Monday evening in a women’s league in Kennesaw, Ga. “I played volleyball in high school and I wanted to play in college,” she says. “But I was in the co-op program and there was just no time for that. I did play some at SAC — especially the weekend tournaments.” Seijo’s league plays regulation NCAA volleyball. “We even have some former college players out there,” she says. “After a long, hard day at the office, it’s a great way to wind down.” — Neil B. McGahee

# Solace on the Fly

When Richard Baker tires of the daily grind, he heads for the hills — and the trout streams. Baker, IM 64, a commercial real estate broker in Charlotte, N.C., is an avid fly fisherman. “Fly-fishing is a spiritual thing for me,” Baker says. “You experience the tranquility — a closeness to your maker when you’re out there. It’s completely relaxing because you can’t do it if you’re thinking about anything else. I tell that to other people and they don’t know what I’m talking about.” He is as hooked on fly-fishing as the trout he pursues. “I’m a homemade fish- erman. I like to build my own rods and tie my own flies and play with all the gadgets almost as much as I like the fishing.” Baker admits that he was a worm Nell Redmond dunker before he saw the light. that, so I gave it a try and the next thing be in some fine trout waters in the “I worked years ago with a guy and you know, I had a fly rod too.” Smokey Mountains. I practice catch and when we would go fishing he always Although Charlotte is a couple of release. I like to think I can catch them used a fly rod,” he says. “I used a spin- hours from the nearest trout stream, again, because a trout is too valuable to ner, but he consistently worked less and Baker isn’t deterred. be caught only once.” caught more fish. I got to thinking about “I can drive three hours south and — Neil B. McGahee

Spring 2004 • GEORGIA TECH 45 Atlanta Aviation Graphics # Model Engineer In 1951 at the age of 4, John B. Carter Jr. received five Lionel 027 gauge cars — a Christmas present that created a lifelong fascination with model railroad trains. “It’s a true engineer’s toy,” says Carter, IE 69, president of the Georgia Tech Foundation. “When you’re dealing with model trains, something will go wrong. It’s either mechanical or electri- cal. When it breaks, you’ve got to fix it. You’ve got maintenance and you’ve got fun.” Carter still has the original five model cars and they all operate. “I’ve kept them all these years and I’ve kept adding to them,” he says of the collection that now numbers about 70 cars. Carter has also designed an impressive scenic landscape # of track, bridges, trestles and mountains spread across three Barnstormer sheets of plywood. “It takes a month just to set up,” he says. A half dozen times a year, Pat Epps climbs into his 1974 “When you’re working with model trains, there are no single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza and flies stunts in air phones and no computers,” Carter says. “You revert back to shows. your childhood memories and you have a good time. It’s a Epps, ME 56, president and owner of Epps Aviation great release.” — John Dunn located at DeKalb-Peachtree Airport in Atlanta, has never been a spend-your-career-behind-a-desk kind of guy. Caroline Joe In 1980, Epps, accompanied by Atlanta architect and pilot Richard Taylor, M Arch 64, flew the Bonanza to the North Pole, where they “rolled” the magnetic North Pole and performed several acro- batic stunts. Epps founded the Greenland Expedition Society to find “The Lost Squadron” — six P-38 Lightnings and two B- 17 Flying Fortress bombers that were ditched in Greenland during an Arctic blizzard in 1942. Although the crew was rescued, the planes were left on the ice cap. “I spent seven summers vacationing on the glacier in Greenland,” Epps says of the adventure. He and Taylor led a team that found the squadron in 1989 and reclaimed one of the P-38s. The son of Georgia’s first aviator, Ben T. Epps, says his fascination with flying grew while in the Air Force ROTC at Georgia Tech. His first job after graduation from Tech was as a flight test engineer with Boeing, followed by a six-year tour of duty as a pilot in the Air Force. In 1965, he started Epps Aviation, which included a flight school that he sold three years ago. “I started acrobatic flying in 1975,” he says. “I do the old, classic stuff — loops and rolls.” Epps, 70, laughs that his wife of 47 years, Ann, “still tol- erates” his barnstorming exploits. Two of the main air shows he performs in are the Sun-N-Fun at Lakeland, Fla., and the OshKosh show at DeKalb-Peachtree Airport. The next show is scheduled for June 5. “I plan to do it,” he says. — John Dunn

46 GEORGIA TECH • Spring 2004 other pilots in a game of aerial laser tag. An ace pilot, Petit won # High Performance the tournament competition one year. Once a week, Pete Petit climbs into the cockpit of a CNBC television featured Petit and his company in its “Out Russian L-39 jet trainer fighter plane and blasts off to where he of the Box” program that was scheduled to air in March. The tel- can “wring it out.” The plane climbs to 16,400 feet in under five evision crew took footage of Petit flying his jet. minutes, accelerates to 435 mph and soars to 36,000 feet. “To me, flying is a matter of continuously correcting mis- “You don’t usually go sightseeing in this plane,” says Petit, takes, because that’s all that you’re doing when you’re flying — ME 62, MS EM 64. “It’s really a high-performance jet.” that’s an analogy to business. If you’re running a business, you’d Parker H. Petit is chairman, president and CEO of Matria better be continually correcting mistakes,” Petit says. Healthcare of Marietta, Ga., and has been flying for 40 years. “When I fly, I get everything off my mind except my flying. After graduating from Georgia Tech, he was a flight instructor for I’m always doing something when I’m flying in terms of trying to the U.S. Army and, as an engineer with Lockheed Martin, he do a maneuver better. You get instant feedback with flying — was the flight instructor for the company’s flying club. that’s the thing I enjoy most. It’s a mental and physical exercise A half dozen years ago, Petit flew a T-34 aircraft equipped that gives you instant feedback on what you’re doing and I with laser guns and sensors in a mock combat competition with enjoy that.” — John Dunn

Spring 2004 • GEORGIA TECH 47 # Ironman Endurance Bill Murphy began the first leg of his journey to becoming an Ironman 10 years ago. “It had a lot to do with being 29 and turning 30,” says Murphy, EE 87, MS EE 91, an engineer with Scientific Atlanta. “I felt myself getting older.” Murphy began running with a 50-year-old colleague. “He cooked my goose. That’s when I caught the running bug.” He ran in several marathons and achieved a personal goal in 1998 — running the Boston Marathon in under three hours. He also started cross training in swimming. He soon added bik- ing to the program. “One thing I’ve learned is that a triathlon is really good for people who aren’t great at one particular sport,” he says. “You can be a pretty good runner, a pretty good cyclist, a pretty good swimmer and be an excellent triathlon athlete.” Murphy began competing in international distance race events, which include swimming 1.5 kilometers, biking 40 kilo- meters and running 10 kilometers. Last November, just before turning 40, he competed in the Ironman Florida Triathlon and qualified for the world championship next October in Hawaii. “I was pleased with my race,” says Murphy, who finished sixth in his age group. Because the five faster times were by foreigners, he holds the American record for his age category at Ironman Florida. Now Murphy looks forward to Hawaii. “That’s been one of my dreams,” he says. “It’s an event I’ll be happy doing.” — John Dunn

# Marathon Man Of the 51 marathons Ray Moses Jr. has run, one stands out as extraordinary — the Rocket City Marathon on Dec. 10, 1994, when he and his wife, Alice, got married. “We ran 20 miles, got married and then ran the other six miles,” recalls Moses, AE 64, of Huntsville, Ala., a retired Boeing engineer. Moses began running 20 years ago because of hyper- tension. He is a member of the Huntsville Track Club, of which Dave Purinton, AE 90, MS AE 91, is president. “I’ve run more marathons, but he’s a lot faster,” says Moses, who, during a 40-career, worked on the space shuttle when it was called the orbitor, the Viking before it was called the Viking and “the national aerospace plane,” which never got built. He ended his career at Boeing working on the space station. After retiring he taught aerospace engineering in Sweden and astronomy in Korea. “I was in Lapland for 18 months, through two winters and one summer, and I taught in the Swedish Space Engineers Program at the Umea University branch at Kiruna, an iron- mining town on the world's northernmost railroad,” he says. “My wife and I ran all winter when we lived in Lapland. The Swedes thought we were crazy.” — John Dunn

48 GEORGIA TECH • Spring 2004 # Competitive Balance Warren Kitchens knows Ironman training can run roughshod over everything else, so when he incorporated it into his lifestyle, he let it compete with everything else. “I use Ironman and triathlon training as part of a healthy lifestyle,” says Kitchens, BC 91. “I train as much as I can, but I try to balance that with soccer games, school and the PTA. “My ‘IronWife’ and ‘IronKids’ provide incredible support and inspiration, with most of my training done at times that do not interfere with our active family schedule,” he says. Ironman training is also juggled to fit around his career as a senior manager with Ernst & Young in Atlanta. Kitchens ran cross-country and track in high school and resumed running after graduating from Tech. “I slowly got back into it — running and biking. Somewhere during the next 10 years, I worked my way up to marathons. I eventually tried this crazy Ironman thing.” He competed in the Ironman Florida in 2001, the Great Florida Iron Distance in 2002 and the Ironman Florida again in November, qualifying for the world championship in Hawaii. “There were 14 people who qualified in my age group and I was No. 12. After racing all day for nine hours and 48 minutes, I ended up qualifying by a minute and 24 seconds.” He will compete in the Ironman Triathlon World Championship in Kona, Hawaii, in October. He plans to make it a family event. “My family and I are flying out there for two weeks — hopefully my bicycle will make it.” — John Dunn

Richard Ritari # Asthmatic to Athletic When she was 7, Ashley Espy’s doctors told her parents she needed exercise to help her asthma. “They wanted me to do cardiovascular exercise to improve my breathing. Swimming is actually best, but our small town didn’t have a swim team, so I started running,” says Espy, Phys 00. She hasn’t stopped running. Espy was on the track team throughout middle and high school and was a member of Georgia Tech’s women’s track team. Now a PhD candidate in astronomy at the University of Florida, where she earned her master’s degree last spring, Espy trains with the competitive division of the Florida Track Club and completed her first marathon in December. She has also qualified for this year’s Boston Marathon. “I run every day twice a day. In the mornings I run about eight miles, then seven to 12 miles at night, depending on if I am running on my own or with the track club,” she says. “I run 20 miles every Saturday.” Espy says running serves as a mental release for her. “It really does relieve stress. Last spring while I was fin- ishing my master’s degree, there were so many things I had to do I thought I might take some time off from running, but I think it would have been worse if I had,” says Espy. “It’s some- thing I really look forward to every day. I’ve actually solved problems while running.” — Maria M. Lameiras

Spring 2004 • GEORGIA TECH 49 # To the Point

Caroline Joe Caroline Coe A. Bloomberg, one of California’s high-profile “super lawyers” and a Georgia Tech letter- man, has discovered a talent for needlepoint. Bloomberg, ME 66, an attorney with Jones Day Reavis & Progue in Los Angeles and a past president of the Georgia Tech Club in Southern California, says he stumbled into his pastime. “I was in a trial in London. I was walking from my hotel to the court- house. I went by a shop window and they had a pillow in the window with a black lab’s head on it. It looked just like the black lab that I loved dearly and that I have had for many years,” Bloomberg says. But when Bloomberg went inside to buy the pillow, it wasn’t for sale. “It turned out that it was a needlepoint shop,” Bloomberg says. “The pillow was just a sample of what you could do. I thought, ‘Well, I’ll give it a try.’” During the past half dozen years, Bloomberg has become very good at his craft. “What I have done for the last few years is a religious piece during Lent,” says Bloomberg, who is Catholic. “I’ve started one for Lent this year.” After graduating from Tech, where he lettered in swimming, he earned his juris doctor with special recognition from Loyola of Los Angeles. His area of practice is intellec- tual property in the fields of biotech- nology, pharmaceuticals and med- ical devices. He and his wife, Kathy, have two grown children and live in Pacific Palisades, Calif. Bloomberg enjoys keeping in shape working out with weights five days a week, but he finds needle- point relaxing. “It’s not as intensive a concen- tration,” he says. “You can do needlepoint and reflect on things, think about issues. I sometimes have my best ideas when I’m doing needlepoint.” — John Dunn

50 GEORGIA TECH • Spring 2004 Huang began racing seriously in 2000, competing in Sports # Stress-free Fast Lane Car Club of America amateur events. He successfully competed Larry Huang accelerated his passion for sports car racing in the Ferrari Challenge Series and took the overall champi- to a new level this year — and the vehicle he’s driving bears the onship in the 2002 Panoz Racing Series. Huang drove a No. 39 Georgia Tech logo and the school colors. Corvette in the 2003 Grand-Am Series, in which he and Hall fin- Huang, IM 73, is co-founder of Ciena Corp., an optical ished third at Barber Motorsport Park. communications company, and serves on the Georgia Tech “We decided to step up to the top level of competition — Foundation Board of Trustees. He endowed the Lawrence P. the Rolex series,” Huang says. The Georgia Tech car will com- Huang Chair in Engineering Entrepreneurship at Georgia Tech pete in the 11 races of the 2004 Grand American Rolex Sports and committed $5 million to the Huang Executive Education Car Series. Center in the College of Management. “We’ve entered into a kind of a partnership with Georgia The Georgia Tech car driven by Huang, a No. 39 Crawford Tech,” he says. “We’re using some of GT Motorsports’ mechani- Manufactured Daytona Prototype, made its debut at the Grand cal engineering students as part of our crew and we’re using Prix of Miami at Homestead-Miami Speedway on some of the business school students to help market Feb. 26 sponsored by Silverstone Racing. the car.” Huang is paired with Chris Hall, a former Joining Silverstone Racing as trackside engi- champion Formula Ford driver who is also the neers and members of the pit crew this season co-founder and operator of Silverstone Racing. are Matt Stephens, Scott Flanagan and Kevin “It was a brand new car delivered a few Bray, all members of GT Motorsports, weeks before the Homestead race, which Tech’s Formula student racing team. was the first time we actually ran the car,” When he’s out of the car watching a Huang says. “We had a good race. We fin- race, Huang says the tremendous sense ished 10th overall out of about 45 cars.” of speed “makes you stand back a lit- Among the competitors he beat was tle.” But it’s different competing in the actor and racing enthusiast Paul Newman. race. “We had a power steering system fail after “Actually, when you’re in the car about one-third of the race, so we drove the and you hit 190 like we did at Daytona, rest of the race without power steering, which you don’t get much sensation of speed.” was very, very difficult,” Huang says. — John Dunn

Spring 2004 • GEORGIA TECH 51 # Custom Cabochons Laura Knight’s hobby of creating jewelry makes money, not only for her, but also for charity. A former Savannah, Ga., disc jockey, Knight, Mgt 85, MS Pub Pol 96, has operated her own business, Knight Environmental Consultants in Athens, Ga., since 1992. Six years ago she got serious about her hobby of making jewelry and learned silversmithing skills. She works in silver, gold and beads. “One of my pieces was featured in a silent auction for Weekend for Wildlife recently and it raised $475 for the charity,” Knight says. “I’m also donating a piece to an organization for battered women.” She puts on demonstrations at shows, creating a design and cutting a cabochon, taking a rough stone to a polished piece in about five minutes. “Lapis is my favorite stone for a demo because it looks so beautiful once it’s polished,” she says. Knight is working on a doctorate at the University of Georgia, where she is studying the endangered short-nosed # A Precise Art sturgeon in the Savannah River. Catherine Bigelow was always in awe of the ornate “I’m dealing with marine science and it requires very stained glass windows she saw in church on Sundays. intense focus,” Knight says. “Making jewelry is a great way to “I loved seeing the patterns in the glass and just how relieve stress.” — John Dunn beautiful the windows were,” says Bigelow, MS CE 77, PhD

84, acting program director of airport and aircraft safety Caroline Joe research and development for the Federal Aviation Administration at the William J. Hughes Technical Center in New Jersey. Several years ago her local hardware store held a class on creating stained glass art. “I took one class, then four or five more, getting more and more advanced. I’ve been doing it ever since,” she says. She advanced from “little sun-catcher things” to creative- ly designed works of art that can take 100 hours. “I just finished a panel for my boss who retired in January and the one before that was another panel for a co-worker who retired,” she says. The panels — both of which were about 22 inches tall and 20 inches wide — were designed by Bigelow. The first was a copy of a panel in her office featuring white magnolias surrounded by frosted glass and a frame in greens and pur- ples and the other was created from a photo of golfers walk- ing on a course. “I like to give gifts that are unique and that also have a personal meaning to the person,” Bigelow says. “Actually the next thing I’m doing is for my sister. She recently constructed a new house and I’ve already got the pattern drawn for two window panels for her house.” Not everyone would be willing to work so hard on a gift, but Bigelow enjoys the challenge. “I like laying out the designs and thinking of the colors and the kinds of glass I need to get the effect I want,” she says. “I like the creativity and the detail work when I’m cutting out the pieces and getting them to fit all together. I like the manual dexterity it takes.” — Maria M. Lameiras

52 GEORGIA TECH • Spring 2004 # Botanical Bliss Ever since Harold Kaplan made a drastic career change in 1977, botany has been a delightful diversion. After an 18-year career in engineering, Kaplan, IE 54, returned to school and in 1977 earned a doctorate in botany from Oregon State University. The former director of research for Pennwalt Corp. became a university biology professor, a middle school science teacher and an agricultural consultant whose clients included Sunkist Growers. In 1992 at age 60, Kaplan retired and joined the Peace Corps. “It was the best thing I ever did,” he says of his three- year assignment in Paraguay. “It was the best job I ever had.” The Paraguay project involved planting trees. “It was reforestation. The discipline was called environmen- tal education. You get out into a village and you do what you can do. I had several squadrons of village kids putting in trees all of the time,” Kaplan says. When he returned from the Peace Corps in 1995, Kaplan settled in Redwood Valley, Calif., where his property includes acreage for the pursuit of botanical pleasures. He especially favors growing plants native to California, like the Calochorthus, a member of the lilly family that blooms only a few days every year. It is a proud accomplishment. “Calochorthus is very diffi- cult to transplant and very difficult to make happen,” he says. This spring he is putting out 105 California buckeyes from seeds he harvested last fall. “Buckeyes are easy to get started

Amy Wellnitz — you hardly need a PhD,” he says. — John Dunn Gary Meek Gary # Gospel Train Architect Bill Stanley usually has a song in his heart. It might be from a Broadway musical or an oldie, but more than likely, it’s going to be a traditional spiri- tual. Stanley, Arch 72, has been singing in church choirs since he was a boy. “When I’m feeling low, I’ll sing happy songs,” he says. “When I’m feeling particularly agitat- ed, I’ll sing slow songs.” Stanley sings bass and the songs that give him the most pleasure are Negro spiri- tuals and taking part in a four-part harmo- ny. He is a member of the choir at St. Paul’s African Methodist Episcopal Church on Pryor Road in Atlanta. He sometimes sings spiritual songs a cappella. “I find that Sunday mornings are par- ticularly good for relieving the stress of the week,” Stanley says. “I’ll go in and chime right in. “When you’re singing, you focus your attention on the music, on the tune, on the tempo, on the cadence — and on trying to get it right,” Stanley says. — John Dunn

Spring 2004 • GEORGIA TECH 53 doing tai chi in California while earning his law degree at # Here and Now Stanford University. The worst thing James Matthews can say about yoga is it Matthews practices hatha yoga three to five times a week in occasionally gives a colleague the opening to do a little good- hour-and-a-half sessions at Peachtree Yoga in Atlanta. natured ribbing. “It’s fun and it’s nice to do something fun that is also a Matthews, MgtSci 75, is vice president of finance and chief source of exercise and relaxation,” Matthews says. “One of the financial officer of the Georgia Gulf chemical company and a phrases they use in yoga is that it brings you into the moment. self-proclaimed “yoga fanatic.” Sometimes when you are thinking about what the quarterly There is a lot of misconception that yoga’s gentle stretches financials will be or about some issue you know is going to wouldn't appeal to men, Matthews says. “There are classes like come up a week or a month or six months in the future, it is that, but many are very rigorous and I feel it helps in building good to have something that is sufficiently challenging enough strength.” that you focus on what you are doing right at that moment. It Matthews was introduced to yoga in early 2002 by a col- helps you relax to think about what you are doing right now and league who knew he used to practice tai chi — a moving form not have your mind jumping from place to place.” GT of meditation and yoga derived from the martial arts. He began — Maria M. Lameiras Charlotte B. Teagle/Atlanta Journal-Constitution

54 GEORGIA TECH • Spring 2004 FacultyProfile Who Makes the Rules? Global debate grows on governing the Internet By Maria M. Lameiras

eorgia Tech public policy profes- Gsor Hans Klein likens the debate over the governance of the Internet to the U.S. Constitutional Convention. “The foundational issue in any Internet policy question is who makes the rules and through what process,” Klein says. “This is a constitutional issue, and it is playing out today for Internet policy-making. It is a global Internet and there are a lot of policy questions out there, but before you can make substantive policies that apply to everyone at a global level, you have to decide who makes those rules.” Because his area of expertise is technology as it relates to public policy, Klein’s research often lends itself to participation in policy-making. He chairs the board of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility and has become involved in the debate over who manages the Internet and Hans Klein says there aren’t many secrets whether business interests are super- anymore. “Everything you do on the Internet seding individuals’ interests. is traceable, un-erasable and surveillable.” Klein, who has been a professor at Tech since 1996, spent 2002 at the Ecole des Mines in Paris on a Chateaubriand In 1998, the Internet Corporation has yet to create transparent operating fellowship researching global democ- for Assigned Names and Numbers procedures that produce decisions seen racy and the governance of the was formed to address the allocation as fair.” Internet. of Internet resources such as IP There is also some debate over Using the example of the World addresses and domain names. domain names and whether large cor- Trade Organization, which makes the “In order to be on the Internet, porations can lay claim to certain rules for global trade, Klein says issues you need an IP address and there is words used in a domain name. of credibility need to be addressed some degree of scarcity of those. For “There are no global rules govern- when considering Internet governance. example, MIT has more IP addresses ing intellectual property. Those rules “The WTO is controversial than all of China,” Klein says. “MIT are all made at the national level, and because they make rules by getting was a part of creating the Internet and there are increasing efforts to make people behind closed doors and bar- the assignation of IP addresses was rules of property for the Internet,” gaining. Environmental and labor done very informally because at the Klein says. interests have been excluded, leading time, no one cared. But now, the stakes However, ICANN — which was to today’s debate over why some are very high for such decisions. designed to give equal voice to busi- stakeholders don’t have a voice in the ICANN has moved the Internet away ness and individual interests on the process,” Klein says. from such informal procedures, but it Internet — is now predominantly run

62 GEORGIA TECH • Spring 2004 FacultyProfile by corporations, according to Klein. by anyone. However, if the rules by get like-minded people together, and “ICANN’s creation was like the which companies are able to trade- the Internet is pretty good at doing Constitutional Convention for cyber- mark at the national level is extended that.” space,” says Klein, who was involved to the global level, that is forging new In addition to his research, Klein in designing the organization and ground in global intellectual property started the Internet and Public Policy deciding who would get a voice in it. law,” he says. Project at Tech (www.ip3.gatech.edu), a “ICANN had a lot of promise to “The whole Internet is a decentral- campus group to coordinate Internet become a legitimate rule-making body ized, free place except that you need policy-related research at Tech and to for the Internet. Its board was sup- an IP address or a domain name to get offer opportunities for discussion of posed to have 50 percent of its mem- on and to get one of those you have to those issues. It sponsors guest speak- bers elected by industry and 50 percent go to ICANN or one of their author- ers, workshops, forums and confer- elected by individual users so interests ized retail outlets. A control point ences, inviting researchers and experts would be balanced. exists for access to the Internet and from the community to campus to con- “What happened is that the busi- that point has been subjected to indus- nect the academic research community with policy-makers. There are no global rules governing intellectual property. “I think the Institute has to play a role here. Harvard is perhaps the uni- Those rules are all made at the national level, and versity best known for having speakers there are increasing efforts to make rules of property and debates on public issues, and the for the Internet. ICANN’s creation was like the Southeast needs that too. Georgia Tech, because of its location in the state capi- Constitutional Convention for cyberspace. tal and the biggest industrial center in the Southeast, has both the opportuni- ness side of the equation decided it try capture,” Klein adds. “Now the ty and the duty to offer forums on would rather not be counterbalanced. U.N. is stepping in. I’m not sure if the public issues,” Klein says. They acted quickly on the fact that it U.N. cares about user rights, but A seminar on the Patriot Act fea- was hard to define how to represent ICANN is seen as a club of a few select tured a debate between former U.S. the users.” governments and large global corpora- Rep. Bob Barr, an open critic of the leg- By 1998, industry had selected its tions and the U.N. knows you can’t islation, and Assistant U.S. Attorney board members and the body began have a global regulator controlled by a Randy Chartash, whose office is making rules that addressed business couple of governments and a subset of responsible for enforcing the act. interests, including eliminating con- businesses.” “The United States has discovered sumer representation to the board In December, Klein traveled to the the importance of surveillance,” Klein before individual Internet users could U.N. World Summit on the says. “We fought the Cold War against elect all their board members. Information Society, a gathering that countries that were so paranoid they “At that point it went from a posi- produced a “Declaration of Principles” spied on their own people because of tive experiment in global governance and a “Plan of Action” that cover hun- ‘dangerous elements.’ Now the United to a negative example of industry cap- dreds of topics as far-ranging as infra- States seems to have concluded that ture,” Klein says. “What is happening structure deployment, cultural diversi- we, too, have a society full of ‘danger- now is that there is a challenge to ty and intellectual property. ous elements’ and that the Internet is a ICANN by the United Nations because “The idea is that if there is indus- good tool for keeping track of people ICANN is not seen as a legitimate try or government capture of an organ- in our society. body. ization regulating the Internet, there is “This issue still has to play out, “ICANN’s policy to protect trade- another place available to challenge but there aren’t many secrets anymore. marks in domain names has generated that, and the little guy benefits,” Klein The Internet makes it possible, as the most controversy. This is a first says. everything goes online, to track what case of global regulation on trade- Another of Klein’s research inter- people do. marks.” ests is online democracy at the local, “Whenever anyone gets on the For example, in the United States national and global levels. Internet, they leave a lot of trails and, Apple Computer has a certain amount “I am looking at local social move- if all of that is accessible, the dividing of legal ownership of the word ments and examining how local line between what is in your head and “apple;” however, that does not neces- groups use the Internet to coordinate private and what is out in the world sarily extend to other countries, Klein and to influence public policy and disappears. Everything you do on the says. social change at the local level,” Klein Internet is traceable, un-erasable and “The rest of the world has been says. “One crucial part of democracy is surveillable and that is something to less keen to see the word apple owned freedom of association, how do you be concerned about.” GT

Spring 2004 • GEORGIA TECH 63 PhotoFinish Steve Utter

Into the Wild Blue Skydivers from the Georgia Tech Inviscid parachute team glide into formation 10,500 feet above Lake Wales, Fla. The Yellow Jackets defeated the Air Force Academy to win the collegiate championship of the United States Parachute Association national skydiving competition in December — the first nonmilitary school to win in almost a decade.

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