"If you’ve been around Athens long enough to remember when the original 5&10 opened 13 years ago, you might recall the almost magical singularity of the place. In those days, young chef Hugh Acheson’s fluffy unibrow looked a little like…
At the 2013 Ocean Exchange in Savannah, this year's $100,000 Gulfstream Navigator Award was given to WITT Energy Harvesting Transmission Collecting Power from All Sea Motion by WITT Limited. The device takes natural energy, which is produced by the movement…
The Voyles siblings - Chair and CEO Valery Voyles, with VPs Bill and Ben Voyles - receiving their award for the Voyles Automative Group of Marietta, winner of the Large Business category of the 2013 Family Business Awards, at the…
Innovative academic programs revolutionized the KSU profile and continue to do so. The President’s Emerging Global Scholars (PEGS) offers myriad educational and cultural opportunities to high-achieving students like Katherine Street, a junior from Woodstock and president of the Student Government…
Georgia Trend writers Ben Young and Jerry Grillo toured Southern Company's Plant Vogtle recently near Waynesboro to see the progress of construction of two new nuclear reactors. The photos show the magnitude of what surrounds the actual reactor, shown in…
Some illuminating observations on education emerged at (co)lab, a Leadership Atlanta/Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce/City of Atlanta/Atlanta Regional Commission "Collaborative Leadership Summit" held at Woodruff Arts Center in Atlanta Sept. 22-23, 2013. Dr. Bud Peterson, president of Georgia Institute of…
The Atlanta Botanical Gardens International Mosaiculture of Montreal exhibit, which concluded in October, was enjoyed by many. We hope you had a chance to see it as well.
Water and power – not just hydropower but how power generation uses water – was discussed recently at the Georgia Solar Energy Association Solar Summit at Georgia Tech Research Institute in Atlanta. “The drought has reduced our amount of hydroelectric…
Atlanta's High Museum of Art swelled with visitors recently and eager to glimpse the Vermeer's “Girl With The Pearl Earring” as well as the final weekend of “Drawing Inside The Perimeter,” a knockout showcase of Georgia artists including Kojo Griffin,…
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