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• Kaye Husbands Fealing Elected NAPA Fellow; Keynotes AAAS Fellowship Program

  September 18, 2019

  The National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) recently announced that Georgia Institute of Technology School of Public Policy Chair Kaye Husbands Fealing was among 51 leaders in the field of public administration to be selected for the 2019 Class of Academy Fellows.

  

• School of Economics Students Present Posters at Georgia Transportation Conference

  September 17, 2019

  Two School of Economics students presented posters at a Georgia transportation expo, an event more typically associated with engineering students.

  

• Class Notes: Literature and Medicine

  September 16, 2019

  Literature and medicine might seem like separate worlds with little in common. But Narin Hassan, Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, is interested in exploring their intersection.

  

• Smart Devices Need to Get Smarter to Help Save Energy, Georgia Tech Professor Says in ‘Nature Energy’ Article

  September 16, 2019

  With forecasts calling for the installation of billions more connected smart devices in coming years, the need is ever more acute for ways to encourage energy conservation and address consumer misperceptions about power use, School of Public Policy Asssitant Professor Omar Isaac Asensio writes in Nature Energy.

  

• Georgia Tech Hosts NSF-funded Workshop on Computing and Ethics

  September 12, 2019

  With an increasing number of stories in the news about privacy violations on the Internet, identity theft, and algorithmic bias, ethical concerns related to computing-based education, research, and practice are growing and intensifying. To help address such concerns, a workshop funded by the National Science Foundation was hosted on the Georgia Tech campus on August 29 and August 30, 2019. 

  

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• School of Economics Emphasizes STEM Footing with New Degree Classification

  September 10, 2019

  Degrees earned in the Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Economics now count as STEM degrees, a classification that highlights the rigorous analytical nature of the school’s offerings and points to where new Chair Laura O. Taylor wants to take the program.

  

• Oliver Publishes Research on Market Effects of Renewable Energy Penetration

  September 9, 2019

  A study by SOE associate professor Matthew E. Oliver and former SOE faculty member Erik Johnson has been published in the September 2019 issue of The Energy Journal, the flagship journal of the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE).

  

• An 'Interdisciplinary Ecosystem'

  September 9, 2019

  Two Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts teams move into the Coda building to continue their innovative research using data analytics to solve problems in health care, energy, and more.

  

• Georgia Tech Climbs to Top 5 Among Public Universities in U.S. News Rankings, Engineering Programs Remain Among Nation’s Best

  September 9, 2019

  Georgia Institute of Technology continues to rank among the top public universities in the nation.

  

• Bahamas Disaster Relief Drive

  September 6, 2019

  The Sam Nunn School of International Affairs in collaboration with the School of Economics, School of History and Sociology, School of Literature, Media, and Communications, School of Modern Languages, School of Public Policy, Ivan Allen College and the Police Department at Georgia Tech will be collecting items for the Bahamas.

  

• Georgia Tech Poet Ilya Kaminsky Awarded Prestigious Academy of American Poets Fellowship

  September 5, 2019

  Dr. Ilya Kaminsky, the Bourne Chair in Poetry and director of Poetry @ Tech, was awarded the prestigious Academy of American Poets Fellowship. The Award places him in the company of such giants of American poetry as Robert Frost, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Tracy K. Smith who are past recipients of the Fellowship.

  

• The Poetry of Waffles

  September 5, 2019

  The friendly yellow Waffle House sign has been a source of comfort and artistic inspiration for Karen Head through the years. Recently, Head was appointed as the official Waffle House Poet Laureate — she even has the nametag to prove it. This fall, she’s fulfilling her new role by driving across the state of Georgia and sharing her passion for poetry and arts with high school students in far-flung counties, telling them about her own circuitous path to a meaningful career, and convincing them that they should go to college.

  

• Firefighters Have Mixed Response to Wearable Tech for Emergency Work

  September 4, 2019

  A new study from Georgia Tech Digital Media faculty and students shows how advanced computing tech worn by firefighters impacts the nature of work for emergency responders, and how front-line firefighters and their commanders view its usefulness.

  

• A Message from Interim Dean John Tone

  August 28, 2019

  John Tone, professor of history, takes the reins as interim dean during the national search for a new dean of Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.

  

• 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.

  

• Dean Searches Begin for Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, Library

  August 27, 2019

  Provost Rafael L. Bras has convened two separate search committees tasked with selecting new deans for the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts and the Georgia Tech Library.

  

• 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. 

  

• 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). 

  

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