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• 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.

  

• Stenport Speaks on Global Learning, Career Education in Liberal Arts, and the Atlanta Factor at AAC&U Meeting

  January 28, 2020

  Chair of the School of Modern Languages speaks at AAC&U conference

  

• Genevieve Onyiuke-Kennedy Wins 2020 Southeastern Writing Center Undergraduate Peer Tutor of the Year Award

  January 23, 2020

  Genevieve Onyiuke-Kennedy, a third-year undergraduate student in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, has won the 2020 Southeastern Writing Center Undergraduate Peer Tutor of the Year Award.

  

• Modern Language Faculty Publishes on East Asian Literature: Martial Arts, Cultural Legacy, and Masculinity

  January 23, 2020

  School of Modern Languages’ faculty members Paul Foster, associate professor of Chinese, and Amanda Weiss, assistant professor of Japanese, recently published articles on East Asian literature following World War II.

  

• Finalists Chosen in Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Dean Search

  January 21, 2020

  Finalists have been chosen in the Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts dean search.

  

• Georgia Tech Poet Ilya Kaminsky Wins National Jewish Book Award

  January 17, 2020

  Ilya Kaminsky, the Bourne Chair in Poetry in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, has won the 2019 National Jewish Book Award in poetry for his book, Deaf Republic.

  

• Ivan Allen College Archive Project Receives Nearly $100,000 from NEH

  January 15, 2020

  The Ivan Allen Archive Project at the Georgia Institute of Technology has received a two-year, $99,991 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to fund the integration of large-scale text processing and data visualization capabilities into the open-source Omeka platform.

  

• Georgia Tech Economics Doctoral Student Co-Authors Paper on Solar Geoengineering in ‘Nature Communications’

  January 13, 2020

  Solar geoengineering—the intentional reflection of sunlight away from the Earth’s surface—may reduce income inequality among countries, according to a new paper co-authored by a Georgia Institute of Technology School of Economics Ph.D. student who conducted his research while a visiting student at the University of California San Diego.

  

• Nunn School Study Abroad Programs are Accepting Applications

  January 13, 2020

  The Sam Nunn School of International Affairs study abroad programs in the EU, Japan, Southeast Asia, and Valencia are still accepting applications for summer 2020.

  

• Remembering James Brittain, Professor of the History of Science and Technology

  January 3, 2020

  Ivan Allen College Communications just recently learned of the passing of James E. “Jim” Brittain, who died March 8, 2018.

  

• Remembering Economics Professor Fred Tarpley

  January 3, 2020

  Fred Tarpley, who was on faculty at Georgia Tech for 36 years and retired as professor emeritus in the School of Economics in 1998, passed away November 30, 2019.

  

• John Walsh Study Ranks Among the 100 Most-Discussed Research Papers of 2019

  January 3, 2020

  More than 2.7 million research outputs were tracked in 2019 by Altmetric. Ranking among the Top 100 most-discussed research papers of the year was a study by Georgia Tech School of Public Policy Professor John Walsh and his co-authors. 

  

• Five from Ivan Allen Receive Presidents Undergraduate Research Awards (PURA)

  January 3, 2020

  Two students majoring in computational media, two in literature, media, and communication, and one in applied languages and intercultural studies were recipients of President’s Undergraduate Research Awards (PURA) this year. Ivan Allen College faculty also mentored two PURA winners from non-liberal arts disciplines on campus.

  

• Celebrating Science Fiction Writer Isaac Asimov’s Influence at Georgia Tech

  December 31, 2019

  Jan. 2 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of influential science fiction author Isaac Asimov, whose hard-science approach to his craft sparked the imaginations of countless writers and scientists. In recent years, Asimov’s birthday has also become known as “Science Fiction Day.” In celebration of this centennial, we are taking a look at how Asimov influenced Georgia Institute of Technology faculty and students, and also offer a selection of Asimov-themed reading suggestions for Science Fiction Day.

  

• Georgia Tech’s Air Force ROTC Ranked One of Nation’s Best

  December 20, 2019

  The Air Force ROTC program based at the Georgia Institute of Technology has been named one of the best in the nation by Air University, the program that oversees ROTC units.

  

• From State Department to Head of Georgia Tech Strategic Initiatives: A Conversation with Frank Neville

  December 20, 2019

  Frank Neville recently sat down with Joe Bankoff, professor of the practice in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, who recently stepped down as chair. They talked about Georgia Tech’s technologically-focused education and the need for students to learn both technical and essential skills in order to have a successful career. 

  

• Missing the Mark? Nunn School Professor Alasdair Young Assesses European Trade Policy in a Time of Anti-Globalism

  December 20, 2019

  The European Union misjudged the impact of anti-globalist populism on the politicization of  trade policy, and also missed the mark in its policy response to the furor, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs Professor Alasdair Young concludes in an analysis recently published in the Journal of European Public Policy.

  

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