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• Iraqi Troops Gain Major Victory Over ISIS

  December 31, 2015

  “Iraqi Troops Gain Major Victory Over ISIS” interviewed Lawrence Rubin, assistant professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, about how the takeover of Ramadi, Iraq, could affect the Islamic State's recruiting and geographic presence.. KQED, December 29, 2015. 

  
  

  Published in: KQED (NPR)

  

• Book Offers Smart, Engaging Videogame Commentary

  December 17, 2015

  “Book Offers Smart, Engaging Videogame Commentary” concluded a review of Ian Bogost’s new book “How to Talk About Video Games.”Boston Globe, December 17.

   

  The conversation about video games is blossoming right now. It’s a million conversations, really, touching upon everything from arcane design philosophies to games’ political messages to the never-ending debates about free speech. It can all be a bit overwhelming. But if you want an engaging, enjoyable tour of the video game commentary in 2015 conducted by a smart and entertaining writer, you’d be hard-pressed to do much better than “How to Talk About Videogames,” a new book by Ian Bogost. A game designer and professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Bogost writes regularly about the business and art of video games for wide variety of outlets, including The Atlantic, where he’s a contributing editor.

  The conversation about video games is blossoming right now. It’s a million conversations, really, touching upon everything from arcane design philosophies to games’ political messages to the never-ending debates about free speech. It can all be a bit overwhelming. But if you want an engaging, enjoyable tour of the video game commentary in 2015 conducted by a smart and entertaining writer, you’d be hard-pressed to do much better than “How to Talk About Videogames,” a new book by Ian Bogost. A game designer and professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Bogost writes regularly about the business and art of video games for wide variety of outlets, including The Atlantic, where he’s a contributing editor.
  

   

  Published in: Boston Globe

• Atlanta Financial Experts Weigh in on Fed's Decision to Raise Interest Rates

  December 16, 2015

  “Atlanta Financial Experts Weigh in on Fed's Decision to Raise Interest Rates” quoted David Laband, professor of economics. Atlanta Business Chronicle, December 16. 

  “It finally happened — the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates for the first time since June 2006. And while while many of Atlanta's top financial experts were split about the Fed's September decision to not raise interest rates, so far it seems most give the Fed's Dec. 16 decision to raise the target range for the federal funds rate to 0.25 to 0.5 percent a "thumbs up.”… THUMBS DOWN Professor David N. Laband, chair of Georgia Tech's School of Economics: "I give a thumbs down on the FED's decision to raise the interest rate for the same reasons I gave a thumbs up on the decision last month not to raise the interest rate. There is little evidence that our extended period of 'easy money' has resulted in a worrisome inflationary regime. At the same time, there continues to be ample evidence that the post-2008 economic recovery has been, and remains, less-than-robust. Raising rates at this time can only compromise the pace and/or extent of our economic recovery, such as it is. Relatedly, it will further strengthen the U.S. dollar relative to other currencies, which will hurt U.S. exporters.”
  

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  Published in: Atlanta Business Chronicle

  

• Can China Keep Its New Promise to City Migrants?

  December 16, 2015

  CityLab's “Can China Keep Its New Promise to City Migrants? ”quoted Nunn School Professor Fei-Ling Wang.

  China is currently home to the largest migration in human history, with hundreds of millions of people moving from rural areas into cities in search of a better life. That “better” life, however, has proven hard to grasp—especially when a lack of residency status in those cities means migrants can’t access public services like health care and education. But the government’s latest move may finally provide some relief to the more than 250 million migrants across the country… The new policy is a compromise between migrants and permanent residents, who have pushed back in the past on sharing their city’s resources with “outsiders,” says Fei-Ling Wang, an expert on the history of China’s hukou system at the Georgia Institute of Technology. “Essentially, it’s a fairness issue,” he tells CityLab. “Those ‘outsiders’ are actually the wealth creators for cities. They work very hard and put in a lot of effort and they don't take much.” In that sense, he adds, they live much like undocumented immigrants in the U.S.

  Published in: CityLab

  

• Most Climate Change Damage Will Happen Before The Two-Degrees Warming Threshold

  December 12, 2015

  “Most Climate Change Damage Will Happen Before The Two-Degrees Warming Threshold” featured a new study by economics professor Juan Moreno-Cruz and colleagues. Newsweek,  December 12.

  "Most discourse regarding climate change is based around a simple premise: The more the Earth warms, the greater the damage done to the planet. But in new paper published in Nature Geoscience, a team of researchers found that presupposition is fundamentally flawed. The reality, they write, is more ominous."
  

  Published in: Newsweek

  

• Middle Class Mentality

  December 11, 2015

  School of Economics Assistant Professor Tibor Besedes Was a Guest on GPB Radio's "On Second Thought"

  On Friday, December 11th, Assistant Professor Tibor Besedes was interviewed on Georgia Public Broadcasting's "On Second Thought." The discussion centered on what "middle class" means for Atlantans. Most individuals in the metro-Atlanta area identify themselves as being in the middle class, even if they do not make the money necessary to be classified as such. Professor Besedes weighed in on this issue from a behavioral point of view.

  To listen to the full show, please click here.

  Published in: Georgia Public Television

  

• Weather Forecasting: Cubesats Promise To Fill Weather Data Gap

  December 11, 2015

  “Weather Forecasting:Cubesats Promise To Fill Weather Data Gap” featured comments by the Nunn School’s Mariel Borowitz. Science, December 11.

  The massive weather satellites that plumb the atmosphere are facing a swarm of tiny competitors. Data from shoebox-sized private satellites, exploiting a new technique for probing the atmosphere, could significantly reduce forecast errors, researchers say. But national weather agencies, used to generating their own data, have so far been reluctant customers. At a workshop this week, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) hoped to address some of the stumbling blocks.

  The big government systems are becoming increasingly fragile and unaffordable. Witness the $11.3 billion Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) at NOAA: It is drastically over budget and behind schedule for the planned 2017 launch of its JPSS-1 satellite, jeopardizing the flow of crucial weather data.

  Companies say they can fill the gap with data from cheap CubeSats, small satellites the size of one or several 10-centimeter cubes (Science, 10 April, p. 172). Last week, Boulder, Colorado–based PlanetiQ booked a 2016 flight for its first two weather satellites. And after the successful launch of four satellites in September, San Francisco, California–based Spire says it is in negotiations to license its data to both government and private entities. 

  Yet NOAA has been hesitant to support the satellite weather startups, says Mariel Borowitz, a space policy researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology [Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts] in Atlanta. “They have said, ‘Build it and once it's in operation, then we'll decide if we want it or not.’”

  Published in: Science

  

• Economists: Buckle Up, Climate Change Is Going to Be a Rough Ride

  December 9, 2015

  The article for Slate featured perspective by Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts economics professor Juan Moreno-Cruz.

  "With just two or three days remaining of official negotiations, the end game has arrived in the Paris climate talks… A trio of new reports released this week show that whatever happens in Paris, families and countries at the front lines of climate change will likely have their work cut out for them—and together they provide even greater urgency to the negotiations in Paris. In the first report, a group of climate scientists and economists warns that the impacts of climate change could come more quickly and more harshly than predicted, which eventually will remove some incentives to cut emissions. That’s because, once damages from effects like rising sea level reach a “saturation” point—a low-lying country like the Maldives going underwater, for example—vulnerable countries will no longer have reason to argue for restrictions on greenhouse gases because they’ll have nothing left to lose. "We have a relatively small window of opportunity in terms of economic incentives underlying the climate science," said Juan Moreno-Cruz, an economist at Georgia Tech and a co-author of the report, in a press release. "Once we pass a certain threshold, we won't be able to go back because we will lose the incentives to do so.”"

  Published in: Slate

  

• Analysis: ISIS Has Dumbed Down Islamic Radicalism

  December 8, 2015

  Lawrence Rubin, assistant professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, was quoted in an article entitled, “Analysis: ISIS has Dumbed down Islamic Radicalism .” Read the full article in The Jerusalem Post.

   

  Published in: The Jerusalem Post

  

• Why Israel Outlawed the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement

  December 6, 2015

  Lawrence Rubin, assistant professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, published an article entitled “Why Israel Outlawed the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement.” Read full article in Lawfare.

  Published in: Lawfare

  

• The Economist: Best Books of 2015

  December 5, 2015

  Ian Bogost's newest book, How to Talk about Videogames, made The Economist's “Best Books of 2015” list. Read full article on The Economist.

   

  Published in: The Economist

• The Shortcomings of Billionaire Philanthropy

  December 5, 2015

  Daniel Amsterdam, Assistant Professor of History in the School of History and Sociology in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at Georgia Tech, published an article entitled “The Shortcomings of Billionaire Philanthropy.” Read full article in The Atlantic.

  Published in: The Atlantic

  

• Stop Rebranding Months as Causes

  December 2, 2015

  Ian Bogost, professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, published an article entitled “Stop Rebranding Months as Causes.” Read full article in The Atlantic.

  Published in: The Atlantic

• Persis Ashers: Igniting the Leadership Spark in East African Women

  December 2, 2015

  The website, SheInspiresHer, recently featured a profile on Persis Ashers, a fellow for the Ivan Allen College Global Women Entrepreneurship Institute. Read full profile at SheInspiresHer.

  Published in: SheInspiresHer

  

• The Cold War Is Over, But the Spying Continues

  November 30, 2015

  Kristie Mackrakis, professor in the School of History and Sociology, published an article entitled “The Cold War Is Over, But the Spying Continues.” Read full article in Newsweek.

  Convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, who was released from a U.S. federal prison in North Carolina, leaves U.S. District court with his wife, Elaine Zeitz, in the Manhattan borough of New York, November 20. Although more spies are being freed, the enormous spy bureaucracies built during the Cold War show no sign of disappearing, writes Macrakis,

  Published in: Newsweek

  

• TVA Tries to Improve Sequoyah Nuclear Power Plant Performance

  November 26, 2015

  Marilyn Brown, professor in the School of Public Policy, was quoted in an article entitled “TVA Tries to Improve Sequoyah Nuclear Power Plant Performance.” Read full article in Times Free Press.
  

   

   

  Published in: Times Free Press

  

• GWEI Hosts 16 African Women Entrepreneurs

  November 21, 2015

  This Day Live quoted Dean Jacqueline Royster in reference to the Global Women Entrepreneurs Initiative (GWEI), which the College founded this year. Read full article in This Day Live.

   

  Published in: This Day Live

  

• The Problem With Ketchup Leather

  November 19, 2015

  Ian Bogost, professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, published an article entitled “The Problem With Ketchup Leather.” Read full article in The Atlantic.

  Published in: The Atlantic

• The Lion King Musical in VR Is an Incredible Experience

  November 18, 2015

  Some people say, “The Lion King musical in virtual reality is an incredible experience,” but associate dean and professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication Janet Murray disagrees. Read full article in Wired.

  Published in: Wired

  

• West/Russia Counter IS Terror, Propaganda With Bombs, Politics

  November 18, 2015

  Lawrence Rubin, assistant professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, was quoted in an article entitled “West/Russia Counter IS Terror, Propaganda With Bombs, Politics.” Read full article in Voice of America.

  Published in: Voice of America

  

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