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The Myth of John James Audubon
July 31, 2020
“The Myth of John James Audubon” by Gregory Nobles (HSOC Emeritus) was featured in Audubon, July 31.
"The National Audubon Society’s namesake looms large, like his celebrated bird paintings. But he also enslaved people and held white supremacist views, reflecting ethical failings that it is time to bring to the fore."
Published in: Audubon
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How Covid-19 Could Give Kim Jong Un A Doomsday Weapon
July 28, 2020
Margaret E. Kosal, associate professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, was cited in “How Covid-19 Could Give Kim Jong Un A Doomsday Weapon,” a Politico article.
Excerpt:
Another possible goal: profit. Margaret Kosal, a professor at Georgia Tech’s Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, points to North Korea’s history of creating counterfeit medications to sell in developing countries—medicines that generally look similar to the real thing but don’t necessarily work. The North Koreans “are some of the best at counterfeiting drugs,” she says. “They were some of the first producers of fake Viagra.”
Published in: Politico
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So Much for the Decentralized Internet: A recent Twitter hack probably didn’t scare you. Here’s why it should.
July 26, 2020
Digital Media Professor Ian Bogost wrote "So Much for the Decentralized Internet: A recent Twitter hack probably didn’t scare you. Here’s why it should" for The Atlantic, July 26, 2020.
Excerpt:
The hack makes Twitter look incompetent, and at a bad time; its advertising revenues are falling, and the company is scrambling to respond. It also underscores the impoverished cybersecurity at tech firms, which provide some employees with nearly limitless control over user accounts and data—as many as 1,000 Twitter employees reportedly had access to the internal tools that were compromised. But the stakes are higher, too. Though much smaller than Facebook in terms of its sheer number of users, Twitter is where real-time information gets published online, especially on news and politics, from a small number of power users. That makes the service’s vulnerability particularly worrisome; it has become an infrastructure for live information.
Published in: The Atlantic
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The Age of Strategic Instability: How Novel Technologies Disrupt the Nuclear Balance
July 21, 2020
Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, former U.S. Department of Energy deputy secretary and now distinguished professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, wrote the piece in Foreign Affairs titled, “The Age of Strategic Instability: How Novel Technologies Disrupt the Nuclear Balance.”
Find an excerpt:
After several decades of rules, agreements, norms, and human relationships fostering prudent behavior and shrinking nuclear arsenals—from the Cold War peak of more than 70,000 warheads, each side now retains between 6,000 and 6,500—arms control is being undermined and abandoned.
The full article can be accessed on Foreign Affairs website.
Published in: Foreign Affairs
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Karens would like to speak to the manager about this whole ‘Karen’ thing
July 19, 2020
André Brock (LMC) was quoted in “Karens would like to speak to the manager about this whole ‘Karen’ thing.” NJ.com (*by subscription), July 19.
Read: Karens would like to speak to the manager about this whole ‘Karen’ thing
Published in: NJ.com
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Economist Tells Gwinnett Chamber that Covid-19-related Downturn Is 'a Recession by Design'
July 18, 2020
A talk by Alfie Meek (ECON 1991)(EI2) to the Gwinnett Chamber was reported in “Economist Tells Gwinnett Chamber that Covid-19-related Downturn Is 'a Recession by Design.'” Gwinnett Daily Post, July 18, 2020.
Excerpt:
The economy will not come back quickly or easily from the impact created by the COVID-19 novel coronavirus pandemic, according to the head of the Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute's Center for Economic Development Services.
The center's director, Alfie Meek, provided a mid-year economic update to the Gwinnett Chamber of Wednesday. His speech served as somewhat of a preview of what the pandemic could do to the economy.
Meek said a realistic scenario is that the U.S. will have "effective control" of the virus and partially effective policy interventions, but he added regional resurgences of COVID-19 would occur.
Published in: Gwinnett Daily Post
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A Pandemic amid a World War: When Over There Came Over Here.
July 16, 2020
Johnny Smith, associate professor in the School of History and Sociology was interviewed about his book War Fever: Boston, Baseball, and America in the Shadow of the Great War (Basic, 2020) for “A Pandemic amid a World War: When Over There Came Over Here. World Magazine, July 16, 2020.
Excerpt:
You mention the parade on Sept. 3 through Boston, when officials didn’t know how bad it was. I’m astounded that on Sept. 28 Philadelphia officials refused to cancel a parade of 200,000 people—and a lot of them died the next week. In general, how did officials at that time react, compared to now? One of the major failures of the Woodrow Wilson administration was not communicating with people, being transparent. They were well aware that this epidemic was developing, but President Wilson said nothing. The surgeon general basically said this is an ordinary flu, no reason to be alarmed. But in fall 2018 many football games were canceled. The war had forced Major League Baseball to finish the regular season by Labor Day and complete the World Series by Sept. 15. If the World Series had been in October in Boston like it normally would have been, they would have had to cancel it, because the city was under a closure order.
Published in: World Magazine
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Rural Georgia's Cady Bag Business Gets $5M Investment
July 10, 2020
Alfie Meek (ECON 1991) was quoted in “Rural Georgia's Cady Bag Business Gets $5M Investment.” Metro Atlanta CEO, July 10.
Excerpt:
“I’ve been doing economic development work here in Georgia for 25 years. Access to capital has always been a struggle for rural areas of the state,” said Georgia Tech Economist Alfie Meek, Ph.D. “Programs like GARJA work and they have a proven track record of success in getting much needed capital to rural areas.”
Meek’s recent analysis of five companies that made investments in 33 Georgia businesses in connection with the GARJA program, found that these investments were directly responsible for the creation or retention of more than 1,000 jobs across rural Georgia.
Published in: Metro Atlanta CEO
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HBCUs Losing Black Students
July 10, 2020
Willie Pearson, professor in the School of History and Sociology, was quoted in the article “HBCUs Losing Black Students” in Science & Enterprise July 10, 2020.
Excerpt:
Despite the positives achieved by HBCUs in science and engineering, the rates of STEM graduates at HBCUs have fallen “quite dramatically” in recent years, said Willie Pearson, a professor of sociology in the School of History, Technology, and Society at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He looks at STEM studies at HBCUs. And he said the percentage of science bachelor’s degrees awarded to Blacks from HBCUs has been flat or declining, depending on the area of study, for the last several years.
Published in: Science & Enterprise
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Tips To Start Composting From A Climate Scientist’s Personal Journey
July 5, 2020
Marilyn Brown, professor and interim chair of the School of Public Policy was quoted in the July 5 article "Tips To Start Composting From A Climate Scientist’s Personal Journey" in Forbes.
Excerpt:
The Drawdown Georgia initiative and its sponsor draw inspiration from eco-visionary businessman Ray Anderson. The Ray C. Anderson Foundation’s Drawdown Georgia website says, “Brighten the corner where you are” - for us, that means helping to lead the State of Georgia on a path to carbon neutrality via strategies that strengthen the state’s economy and improve the quality of life for all Georgians.” Professor Marilyn Brown, Regents Professor and Brook Byers Professor of Sustainable Systems in Georgia Tech’s School of Public Policy, said in a press release, “We are developing a platform of solutions for addressing the climate crisis in Georgia in ways that are achievable, impactful, and economically appealing,” Brown is the the principal investigator on the multi-institution project
Published in: Forbes
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How Race and Racism Shaped Growth and Cityhood in North Metro Atlanta
July 3, 2020
Ronald Bayor, emeritus professor in the School of History and Sociology, was quoted and his book referenced in “How Race and Racism Shaped Growth and Cityhood in North Metro Atlanta” in Reporter Newspapers, July 3.
Excerpt:
According to some Atlanta historians, they won’t have far to look for subject matter. Racism, the historians say, was a driving force in making the communities majority-White and affluent, in the annexation and cityhood movements that raised them to prominence, and in the lingering segregation that they help to embody in the metro area’s housing patterns, schools and economic development.
“I don’t think anything’s changed for the suburban areas. They resisted integration back then… The whole area’s still segregated,” said Ronald Bayor, a retired professor of history and sociology at Georgia Tech and author of “Race and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century Atlanta.”
Published in: Reporter News
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Internet of Things Belong with Liberal Arts, Says Georgia Tech
July 3, 2020
Marilyn Brown, professor and interim chair in the School of Public Policy, was quoted in “Internet of Things Belong with Liberal Arts, Says Georgia Tech” in the July 3 Saporta Report.
Excerpt:
Why? Well, all kinds of devices are tracking us and talking to each other, from refrigerators to surveillance cameras to, um, smart coronavirus masks. There are a lot of potential problems with all this besides the technical.
The move will allow for a more intensive focus on the many critical social and policy issues facing the IoT field while maintaining the Center’s deep expertise in technological issues, according to Marilyn Brown, interim chair of the School of Public Policy.
Published in: Saporta Report
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'The Talk' Is a Rite of Passage in Black Families. Even when the Parent Is a Police Officer
June 26, 2020
André L. Brock, associate professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, was interviewed for "'The Talk' Is a Rite of Passage in Black Families. Even when the Parent Is a Police Officer" on GPB News. His scholarship includes published articles on racial representations in videogames, black women and weblogs, whiteness, blackness, and digital technoculture, as well as groundbreaking research on Black Twitter.
Exerpt:
Today, Brock has three children of his own. His oldest son grew up in New York City, and Brock recalls talking with him about how to mitigate the effects of the city’s “stop-and-frisk” program, which disproportionally impacted Black and Brown youth.
“Having to tell him to reduce yourself to the least objectionable agent is a humiliating thing to have to tell your child,” Brock said.
Listen to the interview or read the transcript
Published in: GPB News
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Chinese Veterans of Korean War Urge Peace as Tensions with US Mount
June 25, 2020
Fei-Ling Wang, professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, was quoted in the article "Chinese Veterans of Korean War Urge Peace as Tensions with US Mount" published June 25 in India's Deccan Herald.
Excerpt:
Fei-Ling Wang, professor at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Institute of Technology, says China's rapid economic growth has "narrowed significantly" the two rivals' military gap.
“In the Western Pacific region, particularly near the Chinese Mainland, the PLA (People’s Liberation Army) has evidently acquired a substantially even – if not superior – capability versus the United States,” Wang says.
Wang argues that since 1949 China’s ruling Communist Party has viewed “American power as a mortal political threat.”
There is a “deep incompatibility and enmity” between Washington and Beijing that “has become harder to ignore or conceal” since Xi came to power in 2013.
The ongoing trade war and the Covid-19 pandemic ony revealed and highlighted that rivalry,” ways Wang.
The Cold War, during most of which China was a major opponent of the United States, seems (to have) never really ended between Beijing and Washington, and now is just being rekindled.”
Read more at: https://www.deccanherald.com/international/world-news-politics/chinese-veterans-of-korean-war-urge-peace-as-tensions-with-us-mount-853457.html
Published in: Deccan Herald
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We’re Living in the Retro-Future
June 25, 2020
Perspectives from School of Literature, Media, and Communication Professor Lisa Yaszek were quoted extensively in the article "Living in the Retro-Future" published in The Atlantic on June 25, 2020.
Excerpt:
Lisa Yaszek, a science-fiction-studies professor at Georgia Tech, notes that speculative fiction has also predicted remote learning and remote work, as well as social distancing to deter disease. Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1994 story “Solitude,” for example, “imagines a world in which people are socially isolated from one another, but the isolation leads to self-reliance,” Yaszek told me. And Leslie F. Stone’s “A Letter of the Twenty-Fourth Century,” written in 1929, “imagines a future where we’ve managed to beat disease and germs in part through medical intervention, but also in part through social distancing.” Stone “imagines the invention of the internet, and she imagines that in the future, there will be no crowds because everyone stays home. They get their school from the TV; they get their education from the TV. They do politics online,” Yaszek said. “And they’re not having electronic election problems in their future.”
Published in: The Atlantic
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DramaTech’s Virtual Production of ‘Boom’ Addresses Existence, Science and More
June 25, 2020
DramaTech director Melissa Foulger was interviewed for a segment of City Lights with Lois Reitzes on WABE on June 25, 2020. Foulger discussed the challenges of creating the student-run theater's new production 'Boom' virtually.
Excerpt:
The production process has been entirely virtual from casting to rehearsals to performances.
“We were all in our own homes, and we would tune in to Zoom and practice initially with reading and then we started working on blocking and then adding components of tech. And next thing you know, we got a show,” Hughes said.
Each showing is live instead of taped in advance.
“It’s very scary sometimes,” said Foulger.
Hughes explains that not having audience feedback is a challenge. The actors can only hear each other over Zoom.
“It can be a little daunting when you’re not really sure how you’re doing,” said Hughes.
One of the goals Foulger had for creating the production entirely virtually was to share their experience with other theaters.
“Now that we’ve proven that it’s possible, the idea is that hopefully we can help other people to be able to do things like this and to give the feel of being in a theatrical experience even if you’re doing it virtually,” said Foulger.
Published in: WABE
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‘I had to be on’: A look inside the career of the Corps’ first female Marine ground combat battalion commander
June 23, 2020
Lt. Col. Michelle Macander, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs alumna, was interviewed by the Military Times in, “‘I had to be on’: A look inside the career of the Corps’ first female Marine ground combat battalion commander.”
Published in: Military Times
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“‘I Had To Be On’: A Look into the Career of the Corps’ First Female Marine Ground Combat Battalion Commander
June 23, 2020
LtCol. Michelle Macander, an alumna of the Nunn School and NROTC at Georgia Tech, was featured in “‘I had to be on’: A look into the career of the Corps’ first female Marine ground combat battalion commander” featured in Military Times, June 23.
Excerpt:
So one of the first things Macander did when she first stepped foot on the Georgia Tech campus was walk over to Navy ROTC and ask what she needed to do to become a Marine.
A week later she was in a uniform and starting a path that sent her on numerous combat tours, introduced her to her wife, and gave her the opportunity to mentor and train the next generation of Marine officers.
That fateful day also led Macander to make history: She became the first woman to command a Marine Corps ground combat battalion in 2018 when she took over as battalion commander for the 1st Combat Engineer Battalion, 1st Marine Division.
Read full article on Military Times
Published in: Military Times
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Ian Bogost: How Can the Tech Industry Change for the Better?
June 19, 2020
Ian Bogost, professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, appeared on the Keen On Podcast to discuss change in the tech industry.
Excerpt:
Andrew Keen: What’s really angering people now in Silicon Valley? Is it really just Zuckerberg and Facebook’s unwillingness to tell the truth about social media, or is there something deeper and more profound?
Ian Bogost: Yeah, these are small. These are like papercuts. This is definitely a death by a thousand papercuts situation for many tech workers who are bothered by the way that their industry or their specific organizations are behaving. For them, I don’t think it’s about one thing and it’s certainly not about the latest thing. It’s rather the failure of this promise that the tech industry had offered them, which was that they were going to change the world for the better.
Listen to the podcast episode.
Published in: Keen On Podcast
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Revenge of the Suburbs
June 19, 2020
Ian Bogost, professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication wrote the article "Revenge of the Suburbs" for The Atlantic. The article was published June 19 as part of the publications “Uncharted: a series about the world we’re leaving behind, and the one being remade by the pandemic." Bogost writes that suburbia was never as bad as anyone said it was. Now it’s looking even better."
Excerpt:
During previous economic calamities, the government altered housing policy, establishing the Federal Housing Administration in 1934 to regulate mortgages after the banking crisis. After World War II, the FHA encouraged commercial mass development to ease the housing crisis, and after the 2008 recession, the federal government bailed out mortgage banks, mitigated some foreclosures, and introduced homebuyer tax incentives. All of these efforts affirmed the ongoing reign of single-family, suburban-style homes. It’s too early to know if a similar federal intervention for the coronavirus recession might arrive. If it does, there’s no reason to believe that aid would suddenly underwrite dense, modern urbanism. American life has been suburban for a century, and it’s a mistake to see suburbia as an historical aberration waiting to collapse.
Read full article in The Atlantic
Published in: The Atlantic
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