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• Ivan Allen College Strides Boldly Ahead Under Jacqueline Royster’s Leadership 

  August 27, 2019

  Jacqueline Jones Royster, dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, concluded nine years of dynamic leadership on August 31, closing her term as the Ivan Allen Jr. Dean’s Chair in Liberal Arts and Technology. A leading scholar at the intersections of rhetorical, literacy, women’s, and cultural studies, she will remain on faculty in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication completing research and continuing also to work with undergraduate interns on her Building Memories project until she retires in August 2020. 

  

• Alliance to Save Energy Honors Public Policy Professor Marilyn Brown

  August 27, 2019

  Public Policy Professor Marilyn Brown is a recipient of the 2019 Charles H. Percy Award for Public Service presented by the Alliance to Save Energy.

  

• Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy Awarded $1.9 Million Grant from Department of Defense

  August 26, 2019

  The Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy, the policy research arm of the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech, in partnership with the Georgia Tech Research Institute and the Hague Center for Strategic Studies, has been awarded $1.910 million from the Department of Defense’s Minerva Initiative to explore great power coercion dilemmas where economics and security intersect.

  

• Ivan Allen Faculty and Students Receive GVU and IPaT Research and Engagement Grants

  August 22, 2019

  Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts faculty and students are recipients of research and engagment grants for 2019 - 2020 from Georgia Tech's GVU and Institute of People and Technology (IPaT). 

  

• John Krige Offered Francis Bacon Award in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology

  August 21, 2019

  John Krige, Kranzberg professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of History and Sociology (HSOC), was recently awarded Caltech's prestigious Francis Bacon Award in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology.

  

• Millions of Children Exposed to Opioid Misuse at Home, New Georgia Tech Study Reveals

  August 21, 2019

  Fewer children are living with opioid abusers, but the number of kids living with heroin users continues to rise, according to a new study from Lindsey Bullinger in the School of Public Policy and her co-author Coady Wing at Indiana University.

  

• Georgia Tech, Georgia State University to Offer Classes in Hindi, Portuguese

  August 19, 2019

  Students at Georgia State University and the Georgia Institute of Technology can now enroll in elementary Hindi and Portuguese, widely spoken but rarely taught languages used in two of the world’s top 10 economies.

  

• Asensio Delivers Keynote at GM IT Innovation Center

  August 15, 2019

  Omar Asensio, delivered a keynote address at the GM IT Georgia Innovation Center’s Geek Week kickoff event.

  

• Nunn School Student Receives the Gen Larry D. Welch Deterrence Writing Award

  August 12, 2019

  The United States Strategic Command has selected Geoffrey Brown, a Sam Nunn School of International Affairs master’s student, as the Gen Larry D. Welch Deterrence Writing Award recipient for his article entitled, "India's Deterrence Goldilocks Dilemma in South Asia."

  

• AI 'Performers' Take Center Stage and Get Creative with People in Public Spaces

  August 12, 2019

  Digital Media professor Brian Magerko's team are seeking to improve “artificial intelligence literacy” and give people opportunities to engage directly with AI systems in order to understand the potential and capabilities of the technology.

  

• Congratulations to Rebecca Watts Hull

  August 9, 2019

  Rebecca Watts Hull, who earned her PhD in HSOC this past year, has accepted a full-time position in the Center for Serve-Learn-Sustain.

  

• Congratulations to Brian Jirout

  August 9, 2019

  Brian Jirout, a recent HSOC PhD graduate, has accepted a position as Boeing's new Archivist and Historian.

  

• Voting Security Paper Accepted At National Association of Secretaries of State Conference

  August 9, 2019

  In the paper, CACP researchers say the United States should develop strong, voluntary national standards for the design, assessment, and management of voting systems that address cybersecurity concerns as part of a broader multilevel integrity, security, and threat-reduction strategy.

  

• Professor Khapaeva Publishes New Book: Man-Eating Monsters, Anthropocentrism and Popular Culture

  August 8, 2019

  A continuation of the Emerald Studies in Death and Culture series

  

• Reflections: As he steps down as chair of the Nunn School, Joe Bankoff looks back on 47 years involvement with Georgia Tech

  August 8, 2019

  At the end of June 2019, Joseph E. Bankoff transitioned from chair of the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs to the role of professor of the practice. The change capped seven years of leadership that, in collaboration with faculty, brought cohesion, identity, partnerships, and a stronger reputation for the School both on campus and beyond. The School has expanded Georgia Tech’s influence nationally and globally, and furthered its capacity to facilitate innovative learning, research, and scholarship.

  

• Rubin Appointed International Institute for Strategic Studies Fellow

  August 7, 2019

  Lawrence Rubin, an associate professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, was recently appointed as the Associate Fellow at International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). Rubin will be working out of its DC office focusing on the Middle East and non-proliferation issues.  

  

• The Field of Power: Reimagining Civil Society

  August 7, 2019

  Kate Pride Brown adapts existing work on the sociological concept of field theory to incorporate a “field of power” in which civil society, the state, and corporate elites each wield their own form of generalizable power: the law and money, in the case of the state and corporations.

  

• Summer Schooled on Human-Centered AI

  August 6, 2019

  The Association for Computer Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI)-sponsored summer school on Expanding the Horizons of Human-Centered AI (HCAI), which took place at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi, concluded on July 27. In the school's last four days, we journeyed through several diverse perspectives on AI, human-centeredness in AI, and the challenges and opportunities that designing for human-centered AI entails.

  

• Russian Nuclear Release Highlights Value of Technical Monitoring Say Georgia Tech Experts

  August 1, 2019

  New details about an apparent release of nuclear material in Russia in 2017 highlight the value of the technical monitoring schemes designed to detect and verify nuclear weapons-related activities globally, Georgia Institute of Technology experts said.

  

• Georgia Tech Expert Raises Concerns About Medical Crowdfunding for Advanced Cancer Therapies

  July 29, 2019

  Personalized medicines that harness the power of our own immune cells to beat back advanced cancers offer great promise, but also raise concerns about how patients will pay for these costly therapies. A new paper from the Georgia Institute of Technology shows some patients are turning to crowdfunding.

  

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