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• Faculty Development Mentor Program Aims to Foster Interdisciplinary Connections

  February 26, 2020

  The Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at Georgia Tech has continued to grow in size and influence, and a new faculty development program designed to encourage mentorship and collaboration across disciplines could create even more exciting scholarship.

   

  

• Nunn School Faculty, Students, Talk Policy with Nation’s First Space Force Chief

  February 25, 2020

  The nation’s first Chief of Space Operations talked policy with students and faculty in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs during a Feb. 24 visit that also included tours of aerospace engineering labs, a visit to GTRI, and a speech at the Kendeda Building.

  

• Nunn and Breedlove Support Statement by the Euro-Atlantic Security Leadership Group (EASLG)

  February 20, 2020

  One of the pressing issues facing European nations is how to react to and engage with Russia on the current security situation in the former Soviet Union states. In response to these challenges and pressing issues, the Euro-Atlantic Security Leadership Group (EASLG) proposed essential steps to be taken in regard to safeguarding humanitarian, economic, and political concerns in the Euro-Atlantic region.

  

• Strategic Plan Draft Available for Review, Application Period Open for Phase Two Working Groups

  February 20, 2020

  Thousands of people focused on the future of Georgia Tech by helping us complete phase one — visioning and drafting — of Georgia Tech’s strategic planning process. Now, the process moves into the goal-setting phase that will include an opportunity for review and input from the Georgia Tech community.

  

• The Nunn School is Offering New Career Resource Information

  February 19, 2020

  The career services office in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs has started offering alumni employment resource information through Microsoft Sway. The bi-monthly service, which is posted to the Sam Nunn alumni group on Linkedin, began after Stephanie Jackson received many inquiries from graduating students about remaining on the listserv for the Weekly Digest, a weekly career-oriented newsletter sent to students.

  

• Two Nunn School Students Honored with Ivan Allen Legacy Awards

  February 19, 2020

  Abigail Burke, an Economics and International Affairs student in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and School of Economics, and Rana Shabb, a doctoral candidate in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, have been named the 2020 Ivan Allen College Legacy Award recipients. 

  

• Marilyn Brown Elected to National Academy of Engineering

  February 11, 2020

  Marilyn Brown, an international leader in clean energy policy and Regents Professor and Brook Byers Professor in Sustainable Systems in the School of Public Policy, has been elected to the prestigious National Academy of EngineeringNAE).

  

• Margaret Kosal Speaks on the Impact of AI on Nuclear Governance at CSCAP Discussions in Singapore

  February 10, 2020

  Margaret Kosal, assistant professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, participated last week in Track 1.5/2 meeting of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP).

  

• 2020 Ivan Allen Jr. Prize Honors Hamilton Holmes, Charlayne Hunter-Gault

  February 5, 2020

  This year's recipients integrated the University of Georgia and set the stage for desegregation in all of the state's public universities.

  

• Atlanta Global Studies Center Co-hosts “The Future of Atlanta’s Global Workforce”

  February 5, 2020

  The Atlanta Global Studies Center (AGSC), in collaboration with the Greater Atlanta Coalition for Global Education and Research (GAcGEAR), SAGE and the Mayor’s Office of Atlanta, hosted “The Future of Atlanta’s Global Workforce” event on February 3rd.

  

• AGSC Symposium track receives United Nations University Award for SDG 4 – Quality Education

  February 3, 2020

  AGSC Symposium track receives United Nations University Award for SDG 4 – Quality Education.The track organized as part of the inaugural Atlanta Global Studies Symposium in April 2019 by the RCE Greater Atlanta, a regional sustainability network and a strategic partner of the AGSC, is awarded Honorable Mention.

  

• Ivan Allen College Students Win JUMP into STEM Competition for Second Straight Year

  February 3, 2020

  A group of Georgia Institute of Technology undergraduate students that included two from the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts won the JUMP into STEM finalist competition on Jan. 31, 2020 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

  

• STEM Diversity Scholarships Subject of Husbands Fealing Grant

  January 30, 2020

  Kaye Husbands Fealing, chair of the School of Public Policy, has received a $223,049 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to perform the first comprehensive study of its premier program to increase diversity among doctoral students in STEM fields.

  

• Mark Zachary Taylor's Book "The Politics of Innovation" Translated Into Chinese

  January 30, 2020

  The Politics of Innovation, a book by School of Public Policy Associate Professor Mark Zachary Taylor, has been translated into Chinese. 

  

• Death Studies Scholar Khapaeva’s ‘Celebration of Death’ Gains New Notice

  January 30, 2020

  Associate Professor Dina Khapaeva’s 2017 book The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture has been noted by a Russian-book writer for Forbes’ Russian-language edition as one of the country’s most anticipated books of 2020.

  

• Kallin Invited to Present at the Elfriede Jelinek Symposium, University of Salzburg

  January 30, 2020

  German professor speaks in Austria on research surrounding undertones of fairy tales.

  

• Abigail Vaughn Joins the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs as an Assistant Professor

  January 29, 2020

  The Sam Nunn School of International Affairs is excited to announce that Abigail Vaughn will join our faculty in fall 2020 as an assistant professor.

  

• Besedes Publishes Research on Multilateral Environmental Agreements

  January 29, 2020

  The International Tax and Public Finance journal has accepted for publication a new paper by Tibor Besedes, an associate professor in the School of Economics, which examines the economic determinants of multilateral environmental agreements. The paper was co-authored with Erik P. Johnson, a former faculty member in SOE, and Xinping Tian, a Ph.D. alumnus of SOE.  

  

• Mary Frank Fox Elected AAAS Section Chair

  January 28, 2020

  Mary Frank Fox, ADVANCE Professor in the School of Public Policy, has been elected Chair of the Social, Economic and Political Sciences Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

  

• 2020 Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Graduate Paper Competition Winners Announced

  January 28, 2020

  The student author of a paper examining sexism’s impact in women’s health research, as well as other authors of papers on cyber warfare, postharvest loss and technology development were honored Tuesday Jan. 30 as winners of the 2020 Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Graduate Paper Competition.

  

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