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Chapa retires, is decorated by Army

                                  Col. Daniel V. Chapa Jr., ’85 business management, retired in March after 37 years of service with the U.S. Army. Daniel started his career with Tech’s ROTC Golden Eagle...

Twirling down Dixie Avenue

                              Last fall, eight Golden Girl Majorette alumnae came together to perform again at Homecoming. The ladies spent months sharing emails and twirling routines to prepare and practiced together...

Love under a magnolia

                                Justin Stacy, ’05 mechanical engineering, ’07 M.S., ’10 Ph.D., and Autumn Ayers, ’04 education, ’10 M.A. advanced studies in teaching and learning, met their freshman year and have been together...

Love on the football field

                        In 1984, Andy Rittenhouse, ‘89 mechanical engineering, was a freshman redshirt football player exhausted by three strenuous practices a day in the August heat. Things started looking up for him when...

Centennial Calendar

                              Sept. 11 to Nov. 20, 2015 Faculty will exhibit work at the Appalachian Center for Craft. Sept. 18, 2015 The downtown kick-off celebrates those who fought for public...

A stronger corps

After almost losing the ROTC Golden Eagle Battalion nearly two years ago, Tech has continued to improve the program, its facilities and the opportunities afforded to its students. Tech’s ROTC program moved...

Graduate alumni Q&A

Find out why other alumni are getting their graduate degrees from Tech JOHN ARNETT, ’01 MBA, ’95 B.S. MECHANICAL ENGINEERING WHY COME BACK TO SCHOOL? I had a...

Cody Dodd: Serving for red, white and blue

                                  When Cody Dodd tried out for the U.S. national volleyball team this summer, she swapped purple and gold for red, white and blue. But Tech’s standout...

Crawling on the same track

                              The first time Jamie Beard, ’97 mechanical engineering, ’99 M.S., ’03 Ph.D, saw Steve Canfield, he was a Tennessee Tech University undergraduate presenting at an engineering awards...

Eight alumni recognized as ‘outstanding’

                            Eight Tech graduates received their alma mater’s outstanding alumni awards last winter. Housing and design professor Jeff Plant, ’86 interior design, was honored by the College of Agriculture...