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• CommLab Staff Receive Tutor of the Year Awards from Southeastern Writing Center Association

  January 16, 2019

  Leah Misemer and Keely Mruk, two staff members from the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Naugle Communication Center (CommLab), recently received tutor of the year awards from the Southeastern Writing Center Association (SWCA).

  

• Kaye Husbands Fealing Appointed to Journal of Science Policy and Governance Board

  January 16, 2019

  Kaye Husbands Fealing, chair of the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Public Policy, was recently appointed to the 2019-2020 Journal of Science Policy and Governance (JSPG) Board of Directors.

  

• Keely Mruk Wins 2019 Southeastern Writing Center Undergraduate Peer Tutor of the Year Award

  January 14, 2019

  Congratulations to Keely on winning this competitive award!

  

• History Undergraduate's Article Published in 'Physics in Perspective'

  January 14, 2019

  Andrew Zhang, a double major in Physics and History, Technology, and Society (HTS), is the first author on the article “Four Facts Everyone Ought to Know about Science: The Two-Culture Concerns of Philip W. Anderson,” published in the Physics in Perspective journal. The article was written with Georgia Insitute of Technology School of Physics Professor Andrew Zangwill, and can be found here.

  

• Spotlight on Georgia Tech at the Modern Language Association Convention

  January 11, 2019

  Georgia Tech's new Graduate Programs were featured at the Programs Showcase of the annual Convention of the Modern Language Association, held this year in Chicago, IL, January 3-6, 2019.

  

• Renee Shelby Publishes Article in Theoretical Criminology

  January 9, 2019

  Renee Shelby, a Ph.D. student in the Georgia Institute of Technology School of History and Sociology (HSOC), recently published a journal article in Theoretical Criminology about the US Vitullo® Kit, arguing that the kit emerged as a strategic feminist and positivist criminological intervention.

  

• Kumar Receives the Serve-Learn-Sustain Excellence in Teaching Student Choice Award

  January 7, 2019

  Neha Kumar, assistant professor in the Sam Nunn School, was selected as one of the Serve-Learn-Sustain (SLS) Excellence in Teaching Student Choice Award.

  

• Goodman Invited to Attend Two Atlanta Conferences

  January 7, 2019

  Seymour Goodman was an invited attendee at two recent Atlanta conferences: “Business Continuity and Resiliency Summit,” and “Special Event Planning” 

  

• Center for European and Transatlantic Studies Hosts Trade Delegation

  January 7, 2019

  The Center for European and Transatlantic Studies hosted a public event for a delegation of trade officials from 11 member states led by Austria’s Ambassador to the US – Wolfgang Waldner. 

• John Krige Edits New Book on Transnational Movement of Knowledge

  January 7, 2019

   By concentrating on the conditions that allow for knowledge movement, these essays explore travel and exchange in face-to-face encounters and show how border-crossings mobilize extensive bureaucratic technologies.

  

• Brad Fain Named Executive Director of Center for Advanced Communications Policy

  January 2, 2019

  Brad Fain, principal research scientist at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) and at the Center for Advanced Communications Policy (CACP), has been appointed as executive director of CACP. The appointment was announced on January 2, 2019 by Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Dean Jacqueline Royster.

  

• Study Finds Dramatic Growth in Numbers of “Supporting Scientists” on Research Teams

  January 2, 2019

  As university research has become more complex and interdisciplinary, laboratory teams have grown in size, with increasing numbers of specialists in such areas such as statistical analysis, electron microscopy or mass spectrometry. According to a new study, these supporting scientists often do their work outside the traditional tenure track and may never obtain permanent positions as professors.

  

• Science Fiction Day Recommendations from Georgia Tech's Science Fiction Faculty

  December 31, 2018

  Science fiction faculty in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication offer suggestions for Science Fiction Day, Jan. 2.

  

• Film by DM Alumna Ayoka Chenzira Selected for National Film Registry

  December 19, 2018

  A film by Ayoka “Ayo” Chenzira, an alumna of the Literature, Media, and Communication PhD program in Digital Media (2014) has been placed on the National Film Registry. Chenzira’s Hair Piece: A Film for Nappy-Headed People was selected along with 24 other films for 2018, including Orson Welles The Lady from Shanghai and Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park. The Registry “showcases the range and diversity of American film heritage to increase awareness for its preservation.”

   

  

• Danny Boston to Retire After 33 Years at Georgia Tech

  December 19, 2018

  Thomas “Danny” Boston joined the Georgia Institute of Technology as an associate professor more than 33 years ago in 1985. He left a position as chair of the economics department at Clark Atlanta University to join the Georgia Tech economics department when it was “a mere service program tucked away in the School of Industrial Management.” Once here, he contributed to the program’s evolution to the fully-fledged school that we know today.

  

• Accenture Security to Invest $500,000 in Georgia Tech's OMS Cybersecurity Program

  December 18, 2018

  Accenture becomes the first corporate donor to invest in Georgia Tech's Online Master of Science in Cybersecurity. The investment will support the creation of the program while providing professional experiences through internships, full-time employment opportunities, and client project support.

  

• DM Alumna Nettrice Gaskins Joins LMC Advisory Board

  December 18, 2018

  Alumnus Nettrice Gaskins has joined the Advisory Board for the School of Literature, Media, and Communications (LMC). Gaskins received a PhD in LMC’s Digital Media program in 2014.

  

• CACP’s Founding Director to Step Down after 21 Transformative Years

  December 18, 2018

  Regents Researcher Helena Mitchell is stepping down from her role as the executive director of the Center for Advanced Communications Policy, but will remain as principal investigator for the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center for Wireless Technologies until 2021.

  

• The Art and Science of ‘Technology’

  December 18, 2018

  Eric Schatzberg, professor and chair in the School of History and Sociology, has spent more than a decade researching the history of the concept of technology, and argues we need to change how we think about the concept.

  

• Lawrence Rubin on How a Year at the Department of Defense Shaped His Worldview

  December 14, 2018

  Lawrence Rubin, associate professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, said the year he spent working at the Department of Defense as part of a Council on Foreign Relations Fellowship sponsored by the Stanton Foundation helped give him insight that will help inform his teaching and scholarship.

  

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