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• Coming Full Circle: Scott Brown

  July 30, 2018

  “‘Don’t you know Alasdair Young? You should apply.’ Admittedly, I was a little bit miffed that Alasdair hadn’t sent me the job ad himself,” said Scott Brown, jokingly describing how he found out about the postdoctoral job position in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs from a former colleague. 

  

• School of History and Sociology Hiring an Assistant or Associate Professor of Sociology

  July 27, 2018

  Applications are now being accepted for the position, which begins August 2019.

  

• Woo and Kwon Each Receive Young Scholars Award in South Korea

  July 11, 2018

  Seokkyun Woo and Seokbeom Kwon, Ph.D. students in the School of Public Policy both received the Young Scholars Award 2018 from the International Schumpeter Society at the society’s biennial conference in Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, from July 2 - 4.

  

• School of Public Policy Faculty Host Fourth Meeting of the Consortium for Socially Relevant Philosophy of/in Science and Engineering

  July 11, 2018

  June 4 - 6, faculty members from the Georgia Tech School of Public Policy facilitated the fourth annual international conference for the Consortium for Socially Relevant Philosophy of/in Science and Engineering.

  

• Sam Nunn School of International Affairs Scholars Preview NATO, Trump-Putin Summits

  July 9, 2018

  Three faculty members from the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs offer a preview of the upcoming NATO summit and meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

  

• EU Study Abroad Students Weigh in on the President's Upcoming Meetings with NATO and Putin

  July 9, 2018

  Fresh from briefings by NATO officials during their EU Study Abroad, Georgia Tech students offer perspectives on President Trump’s upcoming meetings with NATO leaders and Russian President Vladmir Putin.

  

• Kumar Presents Research in Hong Kong and California

  July 3, 2018

  Neha Kumar, assistant professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs presented a paper at the ACM DIS (Designing Interactive Systems) 2018 conference in Hong Kong. She also co-organized and presented a paper at the first annual ACM COMPASS (Computing and Sustainable Society) 2018 conference in Menlo Park, California.

  

• Taylor Presents Research in Boston and Washington D.C.

  July 3, 2018

  Zachary Taylor, associate professor in the School of Public Policy presented a keynote on the politics of innovation at an Innovation Growth Lab event on June 13 in Boston. On June 21, Taylor presented his research based on his book at an Information Technology and Innovation Foundation event in Washington, D.C.

  

• Gerona Presents Research in Évora, Portugal

  July 2, 2018

  On May 25, 2018, Carla Gerona, associate professor in the Georgia Tech School of History and Sociology presented a paper “Creating and Mining Data: Late-Eighteenth Century East Texas Census Records” at Centro Interdiciplinar de História, Culturas e Sociedades, University of Évora, Portugal

  

• Renowned International Poet Named to Bourne Poetry Chair at Georgia Tech

  July 1, 2018

  Renowned international poet Ilya Kaminsky will join Georgia Tech August 1, 2018, as the Margaret T. and Henry C. Bourne Jr. Chair in Poetry. Professor Kaminsky will join the faculty of the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, as well as become the new director of the Poetry@Tech Program.

  

• Georgia Tech’s Marilyn Brown Leads on New Electric Vehicle Report

  June 29, 2018

  A new U.S. Department of Energy study led by Marilyn Brown of the Georgia Institute of Technology finds that programs to allow electric vehicles to pump electricity back into the power grid in times of peak demand or crisis could help secure the power system and make owners a little money, too.

  

• Alumnus Graham Goldberg Awarded Law Fellowship

  June 28, 2018

  Graham Goldberg, alumnus of the Georgia Tech School of Public Policy, was awarded a fellowship by the University of Georgia School of Law to pursue a judicial clerkship for summer 2018. He will clerk with DeKalb County State Court Judge Michael J. “Mike” Jacobs.

  

• Ivan Allen Researchers to Collaborate on Energy Project in India

  June 28, 2018

  Usha Nair-Reichert from the School of Economics and Anjali Thomas Bohlken from the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs will study consumer attitudes towards energy-sector initiiatives in India. The research is part of a Center for Strategic and International Studies initiative and is funded by the Georgia Institute of Technology's Strategic Energy Institute.

  

• Do Not Get Distracted by Georgia’s New Cell Phone Law, Georgia Tech Professor Urges

  June 26, 2018

  While undoubtedly a step forward, Georgia’s new handheld driving law could end up actually encouraging drivers to engage in dangerously distracting behavior behind the wheel, according to a Georgia Institute of Technology professor who has studied the issue for more than a decade.

  

• LuminAI Shows Off its Moves at San Francisco Art+Tech Festival

  June 21, 2018

  The Adaptive Digital Media Lab, or ADAM Lab, recently took its LuminAI interactive dance art installation to the Art+Tech Festival in San Francisco, where it was well received.

  

• Ivan Allen College Dean’s Offices Relocated to Savant Building

  June 20, 2018

  The Office of the Dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts has relocated to the newly renovated first floor of the Savant Building at 631 Cherry Street, Atlanta, 30332. The dean’s office previously was located in the Habersham Building at 781 Marietta Street.

  

• School of History and Sociology Hiring a Postdoctoral Fellow in Sports Studies

  June 19, 2018

  Applications are now being taken for a postdoc in the Sports, Society, and Technology Program.

  

• Blackburn Presents Research at Columbia University

  June 18, 2018

  On May 17, School of Economics Ph.D. student Christopher Blackburn presented a paper at the Northeast Workshop on Energy Policy and Environmental Economics at Columbia University. 

  

• Omar Asensio Selected for Class of 1969 Teaching Fellows Program

  June 14, 2018

  Omar Isaac Asensio, assistant professor in the Georgia Tech School of Public Policy, was recently selected to join the upcoming Class of 1969 Teaching Fellows Program.  The Teaching Fellows experience is designed to gather together an interdisciplinary group of assistant professors for pedagogically focused support and professional development. 

  

• Omar Asensio Works with City of Albany on Smart Communities Challenge

  June 14, 2018

  Omar Isaac Asensio, assistant professor in the Georgia Tech School of Public Policy, was recently selected to work on one of four projects for the Georgia Smart Communities Challenge.

  

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