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• Flowers Receives 2017 Association for Public Policy and Management Ph.D. Dissertation Award

  September 18, 2017

  Mallory Flowers, a doctoral student in Georgia Tech’s School of Public Policy, recently received the 2017 Association for Public Policy and Management (APPAM) Ph.D. Dissertation Award. The School of Public Policy is a unit in the Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts. She will be honored at the Presidential Address and Awards Ceremony in downtown Chicago on November 3. For her work, Flowers will receive a $1,500 cash award and publication of an abstract in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. 

  

• Birchfield’s Students Witness EU President Juncker’s Address to Parliament

  September 15, 2017

  On September 13 in Strasbourg, students enrolled in INTA221, a course on the European Union (EU) taught at Georgia Tech Lorraine by Center for European and Transatlantic Studies co-director professor Vicki Birchfield and Sonia Serafin, attended a session in parliament, witnessing the EU Commission President Juncker’s address his vision for Europe’s future.

   

  

• Students Can Win Up to $125,000 for Cybersecurity Research or Commercialization

  September 13, 2017

  All students are invited to compete in the Institute for Information Security & Privacy’s Cybersecurity Demo Day — newly expanded for 2017 - 2018 to offer up to $125,000 in prizes.

  

• Clark and Lodato Unlock City Data

  September 13, 2017

  Jennifer Clark, associate professor, and Thomas Lodato, postdoctoral fellow, both in the Georgia Tech School of Public Policy Center for Urban and Innovation, are unlocking city data to examine aging or obsolete legacy systems that house budget and spending data for the City of Atlanta, digitizing the data, and migrating it to a more sustainable system. 

  

• New Inter-Campus Seminar Series on ‘The Practice of Democracy’

  September 11, 2017

  Faculty, students, and staff are invited to participate in the inaugural session of a new inter-campus seminar that colleagues from a number of higher educational institutions in Atlanta are launching on the question of democracy — past and present.

  

• Scott Wins Third Place in ACM Design of Communication Research Competition

  September 8, 2017

  Lexie Scott, a third-year LMC major recently placed 3rd in the Special Interest Group on the Design of Communication (SIGDOC) undergraduate student research competition held in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

  

• HCI Digital Media Student Receives Distinction at 2017 Society for Social Studies Meeting

  September 6, 2017

   On August 30 - September 2, 2017, at the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) – the premier annual meeting in the interdisciplinary field of Science, Technology, and Society (STS) – Human-Computer Interaction-Digital Media student Lorina Navarro won distinction for her provocative interactive narrative “Our Driverless Futures: Speculating Moral Dilemmas of Self-Driving Cars.”

  

• Sung Receives the European Policy for Intellectual Property (EPIP) Best Paper Award

  September 6, 2017

  Elie Sung, a doctoral student at Georgia Tech, recently received the European Policy for Intellectual Property (EPIP) Best Student Paper Award at the EPIP 2017 conference that took place in the University of Bordeaux’s Pey-Berland site in France.

  

• John Krige Appointed Distinguished Visiting Fellow

  September 5, 2017

  John Krige has been appointed a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Green College, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

  

• Digital Media Graduate Student Lands Job at Capital One

  September 1, 2017

  Dan Singer, an alumnus of from the Graduate Program in Digital Media in at Georgia Tech’s Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, now works for Capital One as a user experience designer at the company’s headquarters in McLean, Virginia. 

   

   

  

• Dr. John Krige Organizes Workshop

  August 29, 2017

  John Krige, along with Axel Jansen (German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.) and Jessica Wang (Department of History, University of British Columbia), is organizing a workshop in Vancouver on the theme ‘Empires of Knowledge.’

  

• Ivan Allen College Student Named Foley Scholar Finalist

  August 28, 2017

  Tom Jenkins, a doctoral student in the Digital Media program is a finalist for the Foley Scholarship and GVU (Graphics, Visualisation, and Usability) Distinguished Master’s Student Award. He is advised by Carl DiSalvo, associate professor in the Digital Media Program in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication.  

  

• Three Distinguished Visiting Scholars Appointed in School of Economics

  August 25, 2017

  The Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at Georgia Tech is pleased to announce three visiting scholars in the School of Economics for the 2017 – 2018 academic year. The appointees are Georgia Tech economics alumnus Danny R. Hughes of the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute, Juan Rubio-Amierez from Emory University, and Raymond Riezman from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

  

• Allen Hyde’s Forthcoming Article in ‘Social Currents’ and Faculty Development Grant

  August 24, 2017

  Allen Hyde, assistant professor of history and sociology, has a forthcoming article in the Southern Sociological Society flagship journal Social Currents analyzing the impacts of financialization on income inequality and redistribution, which served as inspiration for his dissertation completed in 2016.

  

• Brown Receives American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy Champion of Energy Efficiency in Industry Award

  August 23, 2017

  On August 18, Marilyn Brown, professor in the School of Public Policy was awarded  the Champion of Energy Efficiency in Industry Awards by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE).

  

• Eclipse Reflections from the Experts

  August 22, 2017

  Atlanta experienced 97 percent coverage during Monday’s solar eclipse. But as seasoned eclipse chasers warned, “close is not close enough.” That’s why many of Georgia Tech’s planetary researchers, and others, travelled away from campus to visit the narrow path of totality throughout the country. We asked them what they saw and felt during the celestial event.

  

• Oliver Selected for CTL and SLS Fellows Programs for 2017-18

  August 22, 2017

  Matthew E. Oliver has been selected for CTL and SLS Fellows Programs for 2017-18.

  

• McDonald Co-Edits Special Journal Issue “Doing Sport History in the Digital Present”

  August 21, 2017

  Mary McDonald, Ph.D., recently co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Sport History, “Doing Sport History in the Digital Present” (Vol. 44, No. 2, Summer 2017). This is among the first collections to address theories, issues, and methods related to sport history in relationship to digital scholarship.

  

• Stulberg and Kosal Participate in U.S. STRATCOM Deterrence and Reassurance Symposium

  August 18, 2017

  On July 26 and 27, Nunn School Professor Adam Stulberg and Associate Professor Margaret Kosal participated in the 2017 U.S. STRATCOM Deterrence and Reassurance Symposium in Omaha, Nebraska.

   

  

• Eclipses as Special Effects in Storytelling

  August 16, 2017

  Total solar eclipses are dramatic phenomena in real life, and they’ve inspired writers and other artists over the years to use them in their storytelling. Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Professor Lisa Yaszek gives her take on famous uses of solar eclipses in popular culture.

  

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