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Georgia Tech Study: Bicycling Has $496 Million Impact in Georgia

August 27, 2021

Shatakshee Dhongde, associate professor in the School of Economics, was quoted in the article "Georgia Tech Study: Bicycling Has $496 Million Impact in Georgia," published Aug. 27, 2021, in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

An excerpt:

Shatakshee Dhongde, an associate professor of economics, conducted the study for the Georgia Department of Transportation. She examined five years of sales and employment records for more than 700 businesses, the construction and maintenance costs of more than 80 biking trails and the budgets and other information for more than 60 events and 30 bicycling organizations.

“People are going to need this information if they want to justify any type of investments or improvements in the bicycle infrastructure in Georgia, so there is definitely a need to conduct a rigorous impact analysis for any new project,” Dhongde said in a press release announcing the study. You can read the report here.

Published in: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Global Space Economy Swells in Spite of the Pandemic

August 24, 2021

Mariel Borowitz, associate professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, was quoted in "Global Space Economy Swells in Spite of the Pandemic," published Aug. 23 in Space News.

The article discussed spending on military and civilian space programs in 2020.

An excerpt:

Employment in the space sector was relatively stable in 2020. There were additional spacecraft manufacturing jobs, while space telecommunications employment decreased.

The changes were “relatively steady across the year,” said Mariel Borowitz, associate professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Sam Nunn School of International Affairs. “So, not so much pandemic-related as larger trends that were already happening.”

Published in: Space News
40 Funny And Weird Moments From The ’80s And ’90s News That Got Shared By This Twitter Page

August 23, 2021

Regents Professor Lisa Yaszek of the School of Literature, Media, and Communication was quoted by Bored Panda in an article about a Twitter page dedicated to stills from 1980s era broadcast news programs.

Yaskek discussed how the current nostalgia for 1980s analog news imagery reflects contemporary anxieties about the authenticity of reporting in an age of digital manipulation.

An excerpt:

“There are two main differences between current news screen grabs and those from the 1980s. First and foremost, current news screen grabs have much higher resolution rates: people and places are presented in clear detail with seemingly little inappropriate color shifting or pixilation,” she said.

“Second, the graphic design framing these images and presenting key information has become much more sophisticated as well. Subtitles that fade into the background or cover the people being filmed are replaced by small but easy-to-read ones that are placed in ways that complement rather than impede the visual narrative, while stock images are replaced by customized ones that match the verbal narrative presented in the story at hand.”

According to the professor, taken together, these differences demonstrate how greatly our visual recording and designing technologies have changed in the past 40 years. Moreover, they provide us with “ever greater control over the way we shape and share images—and ever greater anxiety about what people might do with that kind of control.”

Published in: Bored Panda
Southern Women in Hip-Hop Are Having a Moment

August 23, 2021

Joycelyn Wilson, assistant professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, was quoted in the article "Southern Women in Hip-Hop Are Having a Moment," published Aug. 19, 2021, in Atlanta Magazine.

The article discusses the recent success of female hip hop artists, especially artists from Atlanta, and the reasons for it.

An excerpt:

There’s finally room for more than one woman—and more than one type of woman— on the lineup. From the introspective rhymes of Kodie Shane to the soulful poetics of Yani Mo, these artists are creating music for generations of young women to see themselves and their experiences in the same way Missy Elliott and Da Brat made songs that still make us turn up the volume today.

“We’re in a world now where women’s voices are being elevated in a way that’s unprecedented,” says Wilson. And women are using their reach to drive the conversation forward.

Published in: Atlanta Magazine
Historian: Savannah's and Cuyler-Brownville's peculiar place in the history of redlining

August 17, 2021

Todd Michney, assistant professor in the School of History and Sociology, published an op-ed titled "Historian: Savannah's and Cuyler-Brownville's Peculiar Place in the History of Redlining" in the Savannah Morning News.

In it, Michney explores an anomaly he discovered during his redlining research in Savannah: "the only known Black neighborhood in the country that HOLC evaluators, working in the depths of the Great Depression, did not downgrade on the basis of race."

Read it here: "Historian: Savannah's and Cuyler-Brownville's Peculiar Place in the History of Redlining"

Published in: Savannah Morning News
Georgia Climate Conference This Week Will Highlight Risks And Solutions

August 13, 2021

School of Public Policy Regents Professor Marilyn Brown, lead author on a recently published article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on the potential to reduce Georgia's carbon footprint, was quoted in "Georgia Climate Conference This Week Will Highlight Risks And Solutions," published Aug. 10, 2021, by WABE.

The article discusses plans for the Georgia Climate Conference, which comes amid recent warnings about global warming. The article quoted Brown discussing Drawdown Georgia, an effort to develop a carbon reduction framework for the state, and the findings of her recent paper, written with colleagues at Georgia Tech, the University of Georgia, and Emory University.

An excerpt:

“I’m particularly bullish with the impact of large-scale solar because it’s a very big driver,” said Marilyn Brown, a public policy professor at Georgia Tech and lead author on the paper, which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Solar combined with electric vehicles make for an even bigger impact, she said. And there would be positive public health outcomes, too.

“If you invest in EVs, and you don’t clean the grid, you actually may not make any difference. With a clean grid, though, it’s a profound impact. And it’s an immediate impact,” she said.

Published in: WABE
Conspiracy, Complaining and Cooking

August 9, 2021

Nassim Parvin, associate professor of Digital Media in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, published the article "Conspiracy, Complaining and Cooking," on August 6, 2021, in Inside Higher Ed.

The article focused on post-Ph.D. life.

Published in: Inside Higher Ed
Drawdown Georgia Shows 50% Reduction in Carbon Emissions Possible by 2030

August 4, 2021

The Drawdown Georgia research team, headed by Marilyn Brown, Regents' and Brook Byers Professor of Sustainable Systems in the School of Public Policy, was featured in "Drawdown Georgia Shows 50% Reduction in Carbon Emissions Possible by 2030," published August 2, 2021, in SaportaReport.

The article focuses on how Georgia could curb carbon emissions by 50% in 2030, compared to 2005 levels, if the state adopted 20 solutions previously identified by Drawdown Georgia scientists.

“Georgia can show the rest of the country how to scale key regional solutions that reduce carbon footprints in a way that is also friendly to the economy. These solutions also advance the public health, as well as equity in under-resourced communities," Brown said.

Published in: SaportaReport
A People’s History of Black Twitter - Parts I, II, and III

August 2, 2021

Andre Brock, associate professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communications, was featured in "A People’s History of Black Twitter," a three-part series, published July 2021, in WIRED.

WIRED defined the series as exploring "Black Twitter's complex, ongoing legacy."

Brock's role in the series was attributed to his authoring of Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures.

Published in: WIRED
Opinion: New Findings on Redlining Detail Roots of Racist Housing Policies

August 2, 2021

Todd Michney, assistant professor in the School of History and Sociology, was quoted in "Opinion: New Findings on Redlining Detail Roots of Racist Housing Policies," published July 30, 2021, in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The article focused heavily on Michney's work on the history of redlining in political and educational contexts.

Published in: AJC
Georgia Experts Offer Path To Lower Emissions

July 29, 2021

Marilyn Brown, Regents' and Brook Byers Professor of Sustainable Systems in the School of Public Policy, was quoted in "Georgia Experts Offer Path To Lower Emissions," published July 28, 2021, in POLITICO Pro.

The article examines a new study which Brown co-authored to analyze Drawdown Georgia and carbon emission reduction targets in the state of Georgia.

“Georgia can show the rest of the country how to scale key regional solutions that reduce carbon footprints in a way that is also friendly to the economy. These solutions also advance the public health, as well as equity in under-resourced communities,” she added.

Published in: POLITICO Pro
In Our Own Words: Ilya Kaminsky, Bourne Chair in Poetry at Georgia Tech

July 28, 2021

Ilya Kaminsky, professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, was featured in "In Our Own Words: Ilya Kaminsky, Bourne Chair in Poetry at Georgia Tech," published on July 22, 2021, in ArtsATL.

In the article, Kaminsky reflects on how his native country, Ukraine, is at war, and how the artists there are impacted by tragedy.

Is it foolish to speak of little joys that occur in the middle of tragedy? It is our humanity. Whatever we have left of it. We must not deny it to ourselves. I am a love poet, or a poet in love with the world. It is just who I am. If the world is falling apart, I have to say the truth. But I don’t stop being in love with that world.

Published in: ArtsATL
Tennessee Valley Authority Considers Replacing Coal With Gas

July 6, 2021

Marilyn Brown, Regents Professor and Brook Byers Professor of Sustainable Systems, was quoted in, "Tennessee Valley Authority Considers Replacing Coal With Gas," published July 2, 2021, in AP News.

The article explored the Tennessee Valley Authority’s plan to shut down three of its remaining five coal-fired power plants and replace the lost megawatts with energy produced from natural gas. Brown’s quote was about the role of energy efficiency in the utility transition.

Published in: AP News
Why Are We so Obsessed With UFOs? Here’s How Aliens Invaded (and Conquered) Pop Culture

June 25, 2021

Lisa Yaszek, Regents Professor of Science Fiction Studies in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, was quoted in " Why Are We so Obsessed With UFOs? Here’s How Aliens Invaded (and Conquered) Pop Culture," published June 24, 2021, in USA Today.

The article explored the reign of aliens and alien invasions in pop culture. Yaszek spoke about how UFOs and aliens have “long served as a funhouse mirror to ourselves as humans.”

Excerpt:

They represent both the familiar and the unfamiliar. When we speculate about UFOs, we’re also speculating about our hopes and fears, about our best and our worst selves and our society and even our species.

Published in: USA Today
The Second Life of Bruce’s Beach

June 17, 2021

Douglas Flamming, professor in the School of History and Sociology, was quoted in the article, “The Second Life of Bruce’s Beach,” published on June 9, 2021, in Easy Reader. The article explores the history of Bruce’s Beach, oceanfront land in Manhattan Beach, California, that was bought by a Black family – the Bruce family – in 1912, and their loss of the land through the City of Manhattan Beach’s racially motivated use of eminent domain in 1927.

Excerpt:

“Black Los Angeles, or at least its leaders and its boosters, embraced the notion of the West as a land of opportunity,” Flamming said. “Although we don’t think of LA much as the West now, it certainly was a Western city then. People talked about it as such, people praised it as such, with the idea that the West was that last best chance, an open place for opportunity.”

Published in: Easy Reader
A 'Covid Crime Wave' Is One Reason These Residents Want to Break Away From Atlanta — but Critics Say a Split Would Be Devastating for the City

June 7, 2021

Ronald Bayor, Professor Emeritus in the School of History and Sociology, was quoted in "A 'Covid Crime Wave' Is One Reason These Residents Want To Break Away From Atlanta — but Critics Say a Split Would Be Devastating for the City," published on June 7, 2021, in CNN.

The article details a renewed debate about Buckhead becoming its own city — a debate sparked by the highest crime rates Atlanta has seen in 30 years. Bayor spoke about the reasons why Buckhead was pulled into the city to begin with, in the 1950s, and how splitting from the city would affect the population.

Excerpt:

"It was pulled in to enhance the White population in the city and to create a White majority once again, so race was a very big factor in Buckhead coming in," Bayor said.

"Basically, this would be splitting along some racial lines," he said.

Published in: CNN
Exploring the Boundaries of Time Travel

May 30, 2021

Lisa Yaszek, Regents Professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, was interviewed for "Exploring the Boundaries of Time Travel," which aired May 30, 2021, on CBS News Sunday Morning.

The story discussed the historical origins of time-travel stories and whether time travel is scientifically feasible.

Excerpt:

The idea of time travel is actually as old as civiliaztion itself, and we see the very first stories in the Mahabharata, the great Indian epic, in 400 B.C.E, so they are nearly 2500 years old.

As we moved into an industrial culture, and suddenly we had trains that had to move on schedule from station to station, and ships that had to cross great bodies of water and make it into docks at cetain times, we had to make sure that humans in different parts of the world were telling time in the same waus. And I think that was really exciting. We felt like we suddenly did have a little control over time.

Published in: CBS News
Radiologist Participation in Medicare ACO-Based Care More Than Tripled in Five Years

May 27, 2021

Danny Hughes, Professor in the School of Economics and director of the Health Economics and Analytics Lab (HEAL), was quoted in the article, "Radiologist Participation in Medicare Aco-Based Care More Than Tripled in Five Years," published on May 27, 2021, in Healthcare Purchasing News.

The article emphasized the findings of a study published in the Journal of American College of Radiology that focuses on Medicare Shared Savings Programs Accountable Care Organizations established under the Affordable Care Act. From 2013 to 2018, radiologist participation increased from 10.4% to 34.9% under these programs.

Excerpt:

“This study shows that economic incentives of value-based care are reaching beyond the patient-facing specialties such as primary care providers to specialties like radiology to whom patients are not typically attributed.”

The article also quoted Stefan Santavicca, a HEAL research associate who was a co-investigator on the study.

Excerpt:

"We believe that our work shows that MSSP ACOs are increasingly recruiting radiologists into their plans alongside other specialty care providers, potentially preparing themselves to better assume downside risk in the program while simultaneously improving care and clinical outcomes."

Published in: Healthcare Purchasing News
Meet Lisa Yaszek: Regents Professor of Science Fiction Studies

May 25, 2021

External Article: Shoutout Atlanta

Lisa Yaszek, Regents Professor of Science Fiction Studies in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, was interviewed in the article, "Meet Lisa Yaszek: Regents Professor of Science Fiction Studies," published May 18, 2021 in Shoutout Atlanta.

Excerpt:

I’m a Regents Professor at Georgia Tech, and what distinguishes me from many other scholars is my field of study: science fiction! I’m fascinated by science fiction as a “global language” that all different kinds of people use to convey their ideas about science, society, and the future across centuries, continents, and cultures. I’m particularly interested in the recovery of lost voices in science fiction history and the discovery of new ones from around the globe. Most of my research and teaching revolves around speculative art created by women, Black authors, and scientists, and I’m fortunate because I get to write books about all these wonderful artists and then share my ideas in the popular press.

Published in: Shoutout Atlanta
Technology Notebook: Why global investment firm Insight Partners is betting on Atlanta startups

May 21, 2021

Omar Asensio, assistant professor in the School of Public Policy, was mentioned in the article, "Technology Notebook: Why Global Investment Firm Insight Partners is Betting on Atlanta Startups," published May 21, 2021, in the Atlanta Business Chronicle.

Published in: Atlanta Business Chronicle

Recent Press Coverage

Georgia Tech Study: Bicycling Has $496 Million Impact in Georgia

Global Space Economy Swells in Spite of the Pandemic

40 Funny And Weird Moments From The ’80s And ’90s News That Got Shared By This Twitter Page

Southern Women in Hip-Hop Are Having a Moment

Historian: Savannah's and Cuyler-Brownville's peculiar place in the history of redlining

Georgia Climate Conference This Week Will Highlight Risks And Solutions

Conspiracy, Complaining and Cooking

Drawdown Georgia Shows 50% Reduction in Carbon Emissions Possible by 2030

A People’s History of Black Twitter - Parts I, II, and III

Opinion: New Findings on Redlining Detail Roots of Racist Housing Policies

Georgia Experts Offer Path To Lower Emissions

In Our Own Words: Ilya Kaminsky, Bourne Chair in Poetry at Georgia Tech

Tennessee Valley Authority Considers Replacing Coal With Gas

Why Are We so Obsessed With UFOs? Here’s How Aliens Invaded (and Conquered) Pop Culture

The Second Life of Bruce’s Beach

A 'Covid Crime Wave' Is One Reason These Residents Want to Break Away From Atlanta — but Critics Say a Split Would Be Devastating for the City

Exploring the Boundaries of Time Travel

Radiologist Participation in Medicare ACO-Based Care More Than Tripled in Five Years

Meet Lisa Yaszek: Regents Professor of Science Fiction Studies

Technology Notebook: Why global investment firm Insight Partners is betting on Atlanta startups

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