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The Toastmasters chapter at Georgia Tech — known as Techmasters — gives the campus community an outlet for improving public speaking skills, enjoying those of others, and sharing in the process of becoming better communicators.

Scout Schultz, an undergraduate student, died on campus Saturday. Schultz was shot during an incident with campus police.

Boils the size of sand dollars, acid-like facial wounds, death by maiming of liver and spleen. Leishmania parasites inflict suffering around the world that is the stuff of parables, and they're the second-deadliest parasites after malaria. Global warming is slowly pushing them north toward the United States. Can a new experimental vaccine someday stop them? The vaccine has worked in humanized mice, as detailed in a new study.

A question-and-answer session with Michael Staab, an aerospace engineering student who controls the Cassini spacecraft that is orbiting Saturn.