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“‘I Had To Be On’: A Look into the Career of the Corps’ First Female Marine Ground Combat Battalion Commander
June 23, 2020
LtCol. Michelle Macander, an alumna of the Nunn School and NROTC at Georgia Tech, was featured in “‘I had to be on’: A look into the career of the Corps’ first female Marine ground combat battalion commander” featured in Military Times, June 23.
Excerpt:
So one of the first things Macander did when she first stepped foot on the Georgia Tech campus was walk over to Navy ROTC and ask what she needed to do to become a Marine.
A week later she was in a uniform and starting a path that sent her on numerous combat tours, introduced her to her wife, and gave her the opportunity to mentor and train the next generation of Marine officers.
That fateful day also led Macander to make history: She became the first woman to command a Marine Corps ground combat battalion in 2018 when she took over as battalion commander for the 1st Combat Engineer Battalion, 1st Marine Division.
Read full article on Military Times
Published in: Military Times
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Revenge of the Suburbs
June 19, 2020
Ian Bogost, professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication wrote the article "Revenge of the Suburbs" for The Atlantic. The article was published June 19 as part of the publications “Uncharted: a series about the world we’re leaving behind, and the one being remade by the pandemic." Bogost writes that suburbia was never as bad as anyone said it was. Now it’s looking even better."
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During previous economic calamities, the government altered housing policy, establishing the Federal Housing Administration in 1934 to regulate mortgages after the banking crisis. After World War II, the FHA encouraged commercial mass development to ease the housing crisis, and after the 2008 recession, the federal government bailed out mortgage banks, mitigated some foreclosures, and introduced homebuyer tax incentives. All of these efforts affirmed the ongoing reign of single-family, suburban-style homes. It’s too early to know if a similar federal intervention for the coronavirus recession might arrive. If it does, there’s no reason to believe that aid would suddenly underwrite dense, modern urbanism. American life has been suburban for a century, and it’s a mistake to see suburbia as an historical aberration waiting to collapse.
Read full article in The Atlantic
Published in: The Atlantic
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Ian Bogost: How Can the Tech Industry Change for the Better?
June 19, 2020
Ian Bogost, professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, appeared on the Keen On Podcast to discuss change in the tech industry.
Excerpt:
Andrew Keen: What’s really angering people now in Silicon Valley? Is it really just Zuckerberg and Facebook’s unwillingness to tell the truth about social media, or is there something deeper and more profound?
Ian Bogost: Yeah, these are small. These are like papercuts. This is definitely a death by a thousand papercuts situation for many tech workers who are bothered by the way that their industry or their specific organizations are behaving. For them, I don’t think it’s about one thing and it’s certainly not about the latest thing. It’s rather the failure of this promise that the tech industry had offered them, which was that they were going to change the world for the better.
Listen to the podcast episode.
Published in: Keen On Podcast
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The Urgent Need for a National Biosecurity Initiative
June 18, 2020
Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, a distinguished professor of the practice in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and senior fellow in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, has co-authored “The Urgent Need for a National Biosecurity Initiative.” The Belfer Center article was written with John MacWilliams, a senior fellow at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy.
Read an excerpt:
Biological threats know no boundaries. The world needs the United States to provide leadership now to create and deploy a global biosecurity initiative modeled on the type of national and global network that we already use to protect the US and our allies from the threats of nuclear, radiological, and chemical attacks by nation states or terrorists: sophisticated sensors, intelligence gathering, highly-trained and ever-ready emergency response teams, and, urgently, technologies and methods to mitigate such threats. And if the United States doesn’t play this role, it will be the net loser too.
Read the article on the Belfer Center.
Published in: Belfer Center
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Mayor Bottoms Appoints Members to Use of Force Advisory Council
June 14, 2020
Joycelyn Wilson, assistant professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, was named to Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms’ use-of-force advisory board, the Atlanta Daily World reported.
Read the story on the Atlanta Daily World website
Published in: Atlanta Daily World
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Atlanta Mayor Creates 'Use of Force' Council
June 9, 2020
Joycelyn Wilson, assistant professor of Hip Hop studies and digital humanities in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, was named a member of the Use of Force Advisory Council created by Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms. CBS46 News, June 9, 2020.
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“The gravity of this Advisory Council’s actions and recommendations—and their potential to fundamentally transform the relationship between law enforcement officials and those they serve—cannot be understated,” said Mayor Bottoms. “Thank you to every member for their partnership and commitment to bettering the Atlanta community. With peoples’ very lives at stake, I look forward to their recommendations and assistance in implementing needed reforms to the City’s Use of Force policies.”
Published in: CBS46 News
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Nuclear deterrence today
June 8, 2020
Jessica Cox, a Sam Nunn Nunn School of International Affairs alumna who serves as the director of Nuclear Policy at NATO, wrote “Nuclear deterrence today” on NATO Review.
Read an excerpt:
At the height of the Cold War, the United States deployed approximately 7,300 nuclear weapons in Europe providing extended deterrence and security guarantees to NATO Allies. Today, the number of US nuclear weapons deployed in Europe in support of NATO has been reduced by 90 per cent since the end of the Cold War. Between 1991 and 1993 alone, the United States removed around 3,000 nuclear weapons from Europe. Between 2000 and 2010, the United States continued to reduce the number of nuclear weapons deployed in Europe and consolidated them at fewer bases. That limited posture remains the same to this day.
Read the piece on the NATO Review.
Published in: NATO Review
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China Unveils Plan to Make Hainan a Free Trade Hub like Hong Kong, Singapore as Risks of U.S. Decoupling Loom
June 2, 2020
Fei-Ling Wang, professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, was quoted in the article, "China Unveils Plan to Make Hainan a Free Trade Hub like Hong Kong, Singapore as Risks of U.S. Decoupling Loom" published in the South China Morning Post on June 2, 2020. An expert in regional security challenges focusing on the U.S. and China, Wang is the author of seven books including his most recent, The China Order: Centralia, World Empire, and the Nature of Chinese Power (Suny Press, 2017).
Excerpt:
Wang believes that the chance that Hainan will become another Hong Kong or another Hawaii is “very slim, if any at all.”
The key restriction, as usual, is political: there can be only so much ‘freedom’ of anything under the omnipresent party that has to control everything.
“Hainan cannot copy the critical advantages of Hong Kong without a fundamental political transformation [of China]: A well-established rule of law that protects property rights; individual freedoms; enforcement of contracts; and a good relationship with the West and the US in particular. The rest is just add-ons,” Wang said.
Published in: South China Morning Post
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How Karen became a meme, and what real-life Karens think about it
May 30, 2020
André L. Brock, associate professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, was quoted in the article "How Karen Became a Meme, and What Real-life Karens Think about It" on CNN.com May 30, 2020. His scholarship includes published articles on racial representations in videogames, black women and weblogs, whiteness, blackness, and digital technoculture, as well as groundbreaking research on Black Twitter.
"It's always about the gaze," Brock explained. "And the desire to control what's in the gaze."
In other words? It's about a desire by some white women to exert control over black folks -- just as it was during slave times, just as it was in 1992 and just as it persists today, he said.
Names like Karen, or Becky? It's an act of resistance by Black folks, Brock said. It puts a name to the behavior and acts as a way to gain solidarity over an injustice, maybe laugh about it and go about your day.
Published in: CNN.com
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These Volunteers Are Filling in Missing Pieces of the World Map, and Helping Humanity at the Same Time
May 26, 2020
Mariel Borowitz, assistant professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, was quoted in the article "These volunteers are filling in missing pieces of the world map, and helping humanity at the same time" in the May 26, 2020 issue of Popular Science. The article highlights a Wikimedia of cartography that is pulling data from satellites to calculate snow depths for skiers, assist emergency responders, and more.
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Borowitz has questions, though, about how privacy protections will evolve. “I can imagine when you have ubiquitous data, your ability to track individuals or specific individual movements increases,” she says. The rub for watching the whole world change is that you are part of that world.
Published in: Popular Science
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COVID-19 makes ‘Think Globally, Act Locally’ more than a check-box exercise
May 24, 2020
Anna Stenport, Chair and Professor of the School of Modern Languages and co-Director of the Atlanta Global Studies Center, and Sebnem Ozkan, Associate Director of the Atlanta Global Studies Center, were featured in the Saporta Report for their article "COVID-19 makes ‘Think Globally, Act Locally’ more than a check-box exercise."
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"Now is the time for universities to renew their commitments to preparing global citizens and serving the global public good. The pandemic has made the old opposition between local and global obsolete. This heightens the importance of global learning as a core mission of higher education. This is especially true in metro Atlanta, known for its international connectivity and strength of globally oriented business and residents."
"Arguing for a more ambitious global agenda and connectivity might sound counterintuitive given the current situation – a time when social distancing is prescribed as the key to containing the virus. We contend that reinvigorating academia’s commitment to relating to the world beyond its diminishing borders cannot be more urgent. A focus on sustainable development – cultural, economic, environmental, and equitable – should undergird that commitment."
Published in: Saporta Report
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Statement from Ernest J. Moniz and Sam Nunn on U.S. Withdrawal from the Open Skies Treaty
May 22, 2020
Former Senator Sam Nunn, a distinguished professor of the practice and NTI founder and co-chair, and Ernest Montiz, a co-chair and CEO of NTI, have written a statement on U.S. Withdrawal from the Open Skies Treaty.
Find Senator Nunn and Montiz' statement on the NTI website.
Published in: NTI
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Next jobs report will come in 'well above 15%': Former Atlanta Federal Reserve president
May 21, 2020
Dennis Lockhart, a distinguished professor of the practice in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, was interviewed in "Next jobs report will come in 'well above 15%': Former Atlanta Federal Reserve president" by Fox Business.
Find the interview on Fox Business.
Published in: Fox Business
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Lessons from 1918: Old Pandemic is a Murky Guide for Sports
May 21, 2020
Johnny Smith, asssociate professor in the School of History and Sociology, was quoted in the article "Lessons from 1918: Old Pandemic is a Murky Guide for Sports" on May 21, 2020 from the Associated Press.
Smith, whose book War Fever: Boston, Baseball, and America in the Shadow of the Great War, written with Randy Roberts of Purdue University, has become especially relevant in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, spoke to how sports fans could approach the idea of large crowds at games and whether there were parallels to the 1918 influenza pandemic.
Excerpt:
“I think a lot of people will hesitate to attend sporting events as spectators until there is a proven vaccine,” Georgia Tech professor of sports history Johnny Smith said.
“I think there are parallels in what we can learn from 1918 in terms of how we respond to a pandemic,” Smith added. “The cities that were hesitant and didn’t impose closure orders as quickly had far more fatalities. I think the lesson we can draw in general from 1918 about how to respond to a pandemic is that closure orders and social distancing is effective.”
Published in: Associated Press
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6 Years After ATV Accident, Georgia Tech's Jaylend Ratliffe Nears the Finish Line
May 20, 2020
Joycelyn Wilson, assistant professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication (LMC), and LMC student Jaylend Ratliffe were featured and quoted in the article "6 years after ATV accident, Georgia Tech’s Jaylend Ratliffe nears the finish line," on May 20, 2020 in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Ratliffe, who was committed to play quarterback at Georgia Tech before an ATV accident ended his athletic career, nonetheless enrolled at the school and is set to graduate this summer with his degree from LMC. Wilson, who has taught Ratliffe, spoke to his academic dedication.
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Ratliffe continues to wrestle with his sense of self, but he is also on the precipice of completing his degree. If all goes as planned, he’ll finish his coursework at the end of July and take the first steps of his work career.
“I think that this is one story of a young man who came to one of the top engineering schools in the world and made it happen for himself,” said Joycelyn Wilson, an assistant professor whose Science, Race and Technology class Ratliffe took in the spring of 2019. “And he didn’t make it happen on the football field. He made it happen in the classroom.”
Published in: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Review: 3 Lives, 1 Story
May 17, 2020
War Fever: Boston, Baseball, and America in the Shadow of the Great War, a book by Johnny Smith, associate professor in the School of History and Sociology, and Randy Roberts of Purdue University was reviewed on May 17, 2020 in the Lincoln Journal Star.
Smith and Roberts' book has become particularly relevant as the professional sports world confronts the COVID-19 pandemic, and reviewer J. Kemper Campbell looks to the volume both as a record of a time past and a display of how a country can react in the face of multiple crises.
Excerpt:
Individuals who feel our country will be unable to conquer both the coronavirus and the economic crisis it has engendered should take heart from the tumultuous year which occurred over a century ago. The book demonstrates that our fellow citizens are capable of both walking and chewing gum at the same time and could probably learn to simultaneously crochet a doily if necessary.
By emphasizing the personalities of the book’s three protagonists, the authors have succeeded in adding a human element to their compelling narrative. Their book should make interested readers’ time pass pleasantly as our own pandemic grinds to its inevitable conclusion.
Published in: Lincoln Journal Star
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Former Atlanta Fed President on COVID-19: China, Migration and the Shape of Recovery
May 15, 2020
Dennis Lockhart, a distinguished professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, was cited in "Former Atlanta Fed President on COVID-19: China, Migration and the Shape of Recovery" by Global Atlanta. The article was based on Lockhart's presentation at the World Affairs Council.
Read an excerpt:
“The readiness of our health care system, the resilience or the robustness of our public health system, simply hasn’t stood up to the challenge we have faced in the last few weeks, and that is reflected in the numbers at least measured by infected people and deaths on a global basis. The U.S. appears to be faring worse than lots of other places that have a different system.”
Find the article on the Global Atlanta website.
Published in: Global Atlanta
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Here's What Sports Looked Like During the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic
May 15, 2020
Johnny Smith, associate professor in the School of History and Sociology, was mentioned in the article "Here's What Sports Looked Like During the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic" on May 15, 2020 on Yahoo! Sports.
Smith, along with co-author Randy Roberts of Purdue University, recently published the book War Fever: Boston, Baseball and America in the Shadow of the Great War, which has become particularly relevant as sports leagues decide how to resume operations in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Excerpt:
But that game helped spread a new strain of the virus and caused a second wave of the influenza in the United States. In August, soldiers and sailors returned home from World War I and docked in Boston. Johnny Smith, a sports history professor at Georgia Tech and co-author of the new book, “War Fever: Boston, Baseball, and America in the Shadow of the Great War, told Forbes:
“And it’s during this period when the Red Sox and Cubs are playing the World Series that these social gatherings – three games at Fenway Park, a draft registration drive, a Liberty Loan parade – all of those events and the regular interactions that people had on streetcars and in saloons and so on helped spread the virus,” Smith continued. “And Boston becomes really the epicenter of the outbreak in September of 1918.”
The 1919 MLB season started one week later than it had the year before.
Published in: Yahoo! News
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Former Atlanta Fed President on COVID-19: China, Migration and the Shape of Recovery
May 15, 2020
Dennis Lockhart, Professor of the Practice in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, was mentioned in "Former Atlanta Fed President on COVID-19: China, Migration and the Shape of Recovery," published May 15, 2020 in Global Atlanta.
Lockhart, the former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, offered his thoughts in a May 8 videoconference about the United States' stance towards China and its potential role in the global recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Speaking virtually May 8 on “The Future of a Pandemic Economy” with World Affairs Council of Atlanta President Charles Shapiro, Mr. Lockhart theorized that cooperating with China, rather painting it as a “bad guy,” might be the better course in the short term.
“I don’t think it’s necessarily in our interests to be raising tensions with China, perhaps scapegoating China about their intentions during this pandemic, given the fact that we may very well need China in a very important way: and that is in the manufacturing of vaccines when that comes about.”
Published in: Global Atlanta
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Atlanta’s Car Economy, Stalled by Coronavirus, Tries to Shift Gears
May 15, 2020
Patrick McCarthy, professor in the School of Economics, was quoted in the article "Atlanta’s Car Economy, Stalled by Coronavirus, Tries to Shift Gears," May 15, 2020 in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The article explored the myriad ways that the COVID-19 pandemic, which has stunted travel due to shelter-in-place orders, has affected businesses that deal directly or indirectly with car-based travel. McCarthy spoke to the potential implications of the shutdown and what businesses could be hit hardest.
Excerpt:
Things are slowly starting to improve, according to local business owners interviewed by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, but the prospect of a long-term economic downturn has some experts predicting the car industry will look much different once the pandemic is over.
“The firms that are going to suffer the most are the ones that were on the edge at the beginning,” said Patrick McCarthy, a Georgia Tech professor who specializes in transportation economics. “Those firms are going to have a lot of trouble coming back.”
Published in: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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