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• Ivan Allen College Brings Growing Healthcare Economics and Policy Expertise to Health Systems Conference

  November 28, 2023

  Several Ivan Allen College faculty members showed off the College's growing expertise in health economics and policy at a recent conference.

  

• Omar Asensio Talks About His Work, Visiting Fellowship at Harvard Business School, and More

  November 21, 2023

  Georgia Tech Associate Professor Omar Asensio was awarded a Business in Global Society (BiGS) Visiting Fellowship at Harvard Business School, where he was interviewed about his research, his plans for the fellowship, and other topics. Asensio leads the Data Science and Policy Lab at Georgia Tech.

  

• Center for Advanced Communications Policy Receives Advocates for Accessibility Award

  November 20, 2023

  The Center for Advanced Communications Policy (CACP) was one of five Georgia Tech organizations to receive Georgia Tech’s Advocates for Accessibility award. Maureen Linden, who holds a joint appointment with the Ivan Allen College’s School of Public Policy in the CACP and with the College of Design as executive director of the Center for Inclusive Design and Innovation, received individual recognition as an Advocate for Accessibility.

  

• Residential Solar Power Saves Less Energy Than Expected

  November 20, 2023

  This paradox is called the solar rebound effect: the ratio of the increase in energy consumption to the amount that is generated by the solar panels. In new research out of the Georgia Institute of Technology, Matthew Oliver, an associate professor in the School of Economics, presented this argument for how the economics of solar power really work, in “Tipping the Scale: Why Utility-Scale Solar Avoids a Solar Rebound and What It Means for U.S. Solar Policy,” published in The Electricity Journal.

  

• If ‘New Media’ Isn’t New Anymore… What’s Next?

  November 17, 2023

  The term “new media” refers to any media that’s digital, such as a TV show, a blog, or an online newspaper.  

  However, "even though it's in the title of my professorship, the phrase is old and isn't that commonly used anymore," says Jay Bolter, professor and Wesley Chair of New Media at Georgia Tech's School of Literature, Media, and Communication. "The reason for that is because it has a shelf life. That is to say, what's new media today isn't new media tomorrow, or at least won't be in five years or ten years, given the pace of change in digital technology." 

  So, if it isn't called new media anymore, what are Georgia Tech students learning? 

  

• ‘Absolutely Transformative’ Gift Expands Pathways to Policy Program in D.C.

  November 14, 2023

  A significant gift will allow for School of Public Policy students in sustainability studies to join the GTDC: Pathways to Policy Program.

  

• Georgia Tech Digital Media Graduate Students Showcase Sustainability Artwork

  November 8, 2023

  Graduate Students in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication were among other artists whose work was featured in the Extension of Community exhibit on campus.

  

• How The Posthuman Helps Us Respond to a Changing World

  November 7, 2023

  The posthuman, or posthumanism, asks what the world could look like if humans weren't the central characters. Applying that question to literature and media can help us learn how to achieve better futures — and avoid worse ones.

  

• How the Pandemic is Shaping U.S. Security Policy

  November 7, 2023

  In the wake of the pandemic, the U.S. is changing its national security policy.

  

• Premier Public Policy Conference to Feature a Strong Ivan Allen College Presence

  November 7, 2023

  More than two dozen Ivan Allen faculty members and Ph.D. students from three Schools will present papers, serve as panelists or panel chairs, or organize discussions.

  

• Nunn School Launches Diplomats-in-Residence Program

  November 7, 2023

  The diplomats will teach courses, including one on case studies in diplomacy and a mini-mester course on soft power and diplomacy.

  

• Michael Jordan Famously Didn’t Talk About Race — That Doesn’t Mean It Didn’t Shape His Career

  November 6, 2023

  A new book by sports historian Johnny Smith deconstructs what he sees as one of the most ubiquitous myths around Michael Jordan: that the basketball superstar transcended race.

  

• Three Ivan Allen College Faculty Members Named Brook Byers Fellows

  November 2, 2023

  The three new fellows join four other Ivan Allen College faculty previously appointed as fellows.

  

• Husbands Fealing Honored as ‘Academic Leader and Champion of Diversity in STEM Fields’

  October 31, 2023

  The dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts is the 2023 recipient of the American Economic Association's Carolyn Shaw Bell Award.

  

• Georgia Tech Celebrates the Launch of GTDC in Washington, D.C.

  October 25, 2023

  Students, alumni, Georga Tech leaders, and political luminaries gathered in Washington to celebrate the program’s launch.

  

• Two Ivan Allen College Students Chosen for 2023 Millennium Fellowship

  October 25, 2023

  Adaiba Nwasike and Sydney Wheeler, students in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, were among 22 Georgia Tech students selected for the 2023 Class of the Millennium Fellowship.

  

• Ecohorror: Learning From Mutant Monsters and Killer Plants

  October 18, 2023

  Since Godzilla crawled out of the ocean in 1954, a monstrous consequence of the atomic age, ecohorror has given modern audiences an imaginative way to grapple not only with our primal fear of nature — but also with our complicated feelings about humanity’s impact on the environment.

  This subgenre of horror, in which people face the wrath of nature and its emissaries, has never been more popular — driven in large measure by climate change anxiety and showcase titles such as the hit video game and HBO series The Last of Us.

  

• Georgia Tech Experts Shed Light on Israel-Hamas War

  October 17, 2023

  As the war unfolds, Tech experts offer their thoughts on what happened, what comes next, and how the U.S. will be involved.

  

• AI: Am I...Being Replaced?

  October 16, 2023

  In 2023, artificial intelligence is busy. It crafts blog posts, designs advertisements, answers customer service complaints, and even completes homework assignments. And those are just a few of its newer skills — it’s been reviewing resumes, manufacturing automobiles, suggesting songs, recommending products, and surveilling human faces and bodies for years.

  These activities have long required human minds and, in many cases, eyes, ears, mouths, or hands. Now, it seems reasonable for people to ask, “Am I being replaced?”

  

• Korean Esports Pioneer Visual Language for the Gaming Industry

  October 16, 2023

  Keung Yoon Bae, an assistant professor of Korean Studies at the School of Modern Languages, explores how the Korean esports industry is one of the first to confront the challenge of describing physical performance in a digital medium.

  

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