Tau Bates Named Among USA Today’s ‘Women of the Year’

Col. Nicole Aunapu Mann, MD G ’99, was honored as one of the national USA TODAY's 2023 Women of the Year, which celebrates women who have left a notable mark on their communities and throughout the nation. As NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 mission commander, she was the agency's first Native American woman in space. Mann is...

Remembering Dr. Henry Petroski

TBP is saddened to share that Henry Petroski, P.E., Ph.D., NY X '63, professor of engineering at Duke University, prolific author, and a valued contributor to The Bent of Tau Beta Pi magazine for many years, passed away on 6/14/2023, at the age of 81. An esteemed professor of civil and environmental engineering at Duke...

Tau Beta Pi Recognizes Members During National Volunteer Month April 2023

National Volunteer Month is observed every April, and it serves as a time to recognize and celebrate the contributions of volunteers who give their time and energy to serve others. In 1974, President Richard Nixon signed an executive order establishing National Volunteer Week, which was later expanded to National Volunteer Month by President George H.W....

A Piece of the Moon, MS Alpha’s New Record, and Academic All-America Men’s Swimming

Fifty-one years ago, John W. Young, GA A ’52, walked and drove on the moon as the commander of the Apollo 16 mission. He and his crew returned to Earth with 209 pounds of lunar samples, with one of them now being on display at Georgia Tech's Price Gilbert Library, thanks to his family. Young...

Bent-O-Rama!

Imagine having an interactive map of the location of every Tau Beta Pi Bent monument across the country with photos and information about the chapters they belong to! Paul H. Kimpel, DE A ’70, and Neal T. Bussett, CA Xi ’09, came up with the idea of Bent-O-Rama during a visit in 2018 to UC...

Tau Bates Named Academic All-American

In early December, three Tau Bates were among 124 college athletes selected by the College Sports Communicators (CSC) to join the 2022-23 Academic All-America Soccer Team. Comprised of four teams (NCAA I, II, & III and NAIA divisions), the CSC Academic All-America program began in 1952 and has honored more than 38,000 student-athletes in sports...

Tau Bate Honored with 2022 Dougherty Award

Martin, pictured on right. Photo courtesy of University of Tennessee During the University of Tennessee Tickle College of Engineering spring faculty and staff awards dinner, Professor Emeritus H. Lee Martin, TN A ’78, Ph.D., P.E., was recognized by the college with the highest honor an alumnus can receive, the Nathan W. Dougherty Award. Martin obtained...

“Worthwhile Change Takes Time” – Tau Bate, Single Mother of Three Shares in her 2022 Commencement Address

There is no denying that obtaining a degree can be a long and arduous journey regardless of one's situation in life. With engineering curriculum being one of the most difficult to succeed in, it can be especially challenging if you are a nontraditional student with a family to support and responsibilities outside of maintaining your...

Ten Tau Bates named as 2022-23 Astronaut Scholars

In 1984, six of the surviving Mercury 7 Astronauts (Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Walter Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Deke Slayton), the widow of Virgil 'Gus' Grissom, IA Alpha ’50; William Douglas, M.D. (Project Mercury flight surgeon), and Henri Landwirth (businessman and friend) founded the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation (ASF). Its mission was to ensure...

Fellows Spotlight: Raymond Turrisi

For Tau Bate Raymond L. Turrisi, RI B ’22, pursuing the field of engineering required a lot of thought and consideration. He was the first in his family to attend college and wanted to be sure that he made the most of that opportunity. He selected the University of Rhode Island (URI) because it had...