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Tips To Start Composting From A Climate Scientist’s Personal Journey
July 5, 2020
Marilyn Brown, professor and interim chair of the School of Public Policy was quoted in the July 5 article "Tips To Start Composting From A Climate Scientist’s Personal Journey" in Forbes.
Excerpt:
The Drawdown Georgia initiative and its sponsor draw inspiration from eco-visionary businessman Ray Anderson. The Ray C. Anderson Foundation’s Drawdown Georgia website says, “Brighten the corner where you are” - for us, that means helping to lead the State of Georgia on a path to carbon neutrality via strategies that strengthen the state’s economy and improve the quality of life for all Georgians.” Professor Marilyn Brown, Regents Professor and Brook Byers Professor of Sustainable Systems in Georgia Tech’s School of Public Policy, said in a press release, “We are developing a platform of solutions for addressing the climate crisis in Georgia in ways that are achievable, impactful, and economically appealing,” Brown is the the principal investigator on the multi-institution project
Published in: Forbes
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Internet of Things Belong with Liberal Arts, Says Georgia Tech
July 3, 2020
Marilyn Brown, professor and interim chair in the School of Public Policy, was quoted in “Internet of Things Belong with Liberal Arts, Says Georgia Tech” in the July 3 Saporta Report.
Excerpt:
Why? Well, all kinds of devices are tracking us and talking to each other, from refrigerators to surveillance cameras to, um, smart coronavirus masks. There are a lot of potential problems with all this besides the technical.
The move will allow for a more intensive focus on the many critical social and policy issues facing the IoT field while maintaining the Center’s deep expertise in technological issues, according to Marilyn Brown, interim chair of the School of Public Policy.
Published in: Saporta Report
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How Race and Racism Shaped Growth and Cityhood in North Metro Atlanta
July 3, 2020
Ronald Bayor, emeritus professor in the School of History and Sociology, was quoted and his book referenced in “How Race and Racism Shaped Growth and Cityhood in North Metro Atlanta” in Reporter Newspapers, July 3.
Excerpt:
According to some Atlanta historians, they won’t have far to look for subject matter. Racism, the historians say, was a driving force in making the communities majority-White and affluent, in the annexation and cityhood movements that raised them to prominence, and in the lingering segregation that they help to embody in the metro area’s housing patterns, schools and economic development.
“I don’t think anything’s changed for the suburban areas. They resisted integration back then… The whole area’s still segregated,” said Ronald Bayor, a retired professor of history and sociology at Georgia Tech and author of “Race and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century Atlanta.”
Published in: Reporter News
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'The Talk' Is a Rite of Passage in Black Families. Even when the Parent Is a Police Officer
June 26, 2020
André L. Brock, associate professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, was interviewed for "'The Talk' Is a Rite of Passage in Black Families. Even when the Parent Is a Police Officer" on GPB News. 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.
Exerpt:
Today, Brock has three children of his own. His oldest son grew up in New York City, and Brock recalls talking with him about how to mitigate the effects of the city’s “stop-and-frisk” program, which disproportionally impacted Black and Brown youth.
“Having to tell him to reduce yourself to the least objectionable agent is a humiliating thing to have to tell your child,” Brock said.
Listen to the interview or read the transcript
Published in: GPB News
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Chinese Veterans of Korean War Urge Peace as Tensions with US Mount
June 25, 2020
Fei-Ling Wang, professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, was quoted in the article "Chinese Veterans of Korean War Urge Peace as Tensions with US Mount" published June 25 in India's Deccan Herald.
Excerpt:
Fei-Ling Wang, professor at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Institute of Technology, says China's rapid economic growth has "narrowed significantly" the two rivals' military gap.
“In the Western Pacific region, particularly near the Chinese Mainland, the PLA (People’s Liberation Army) has evidently acquired a substantially even – if not superior – capability versus the United States,” Wang says.
Wang argues that since 1949 China’s ruling Communist Party has viewed “American power as a mortal political threat.”
There is a “deep incompatibility and enmity” between Washington and Beijing that “has become harder to ignore or conceal” since Xi came to power in 2013.
The ongoing trade war and the Covid-19 pandemic ony revealed and highlighted that rivalry,” ways Wang.
The Cold War, during most of which China was a major opponent of the United States, seems (to have) never really ended between Beijing and Washington, and now is just being rekindled.”
Read more at: https://www.deccanherald.com/international/world-news-politics/chinese-veterans-of-korean-war-urge-peace-as-tensions-with-us-mount-853457.html
Published in: Deccan Herald
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DramaTech’s Virtual Production of ‘Boom’ Addresses Existence, Science and More
June 25, 2020
DramaTech director Melissa Foulger was interviewed for a segment of City Lights with Lois Reitzes on WABE on June 25, 2020. Foulger discussed the challenges of creating the student-run theater's new production 'Boom' virtually.
Excerpt:
The production process has been entirely virtual from casting to rehearsals to performances.
“We were all in our own homes, and we would tune in to Zoom and practice initially with reading and then we started working on blocking and then adding components of tech. And next thing you know, we got a show,” Hughes said.
Each showing is live instead of taped in advance.
“It’s very scary sometimes,” said Foulger.
Hughes explains that not having audience feedback is a challenge. The actors can only hear each other over Zoom.
“It can be a little daunting when you’re not really sure how you’re doing,” said Hughes.
One of the goals Foulger had for creating the production entirely virtually was to share their experience with other theaters.
“Now that we’ve proven that it’s possible, the idea is that hopefully we can help other people to be able to do things like this and to give the feel of being in a theatrical experience even if you’re doing it virtually,” said Foulger.
Published in: WABE
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We’re Living in the Retro-Future
June 25, 2020
Perspectives from School of Literature, Media, and Communication Professor Lisa Yaszek were quoted extensively in the article "Living in the Retro-Future" published in The Atlantic on June 25, 2020.
Excerpt:
Lisa Yaszek, a science-fiction-studies professor at Georgia Tech, notes that speculative fiction has also predicted remote learning and remote work, as well as social distancing to deter disease. Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1994 story “Solitude,” for example, “imagines a world in which people are socially isolated from one another, but the isolation leads to self-reliance,” Yaszek told me. And Leslie F. Stone’s “A Letter of the Twenty-Fourth Century,” written in 1929, “imagines a future where we’ve managed to beat disease and germs in part through medical intervention, but also in part through social distancing.” Stone “imagines the invention of the internet, and she imagines that in the future, there will be no crowds because everyone stays home. They get their school from the TV; they get their education from the TV. They do politics online,” Yaszek said. “And they’re not having electronic election problems in their future.”
Published in: The Atlantic
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‘I had to be on’: A look inside the career of the Corps’ first female Marine ground combat battalion commander
June 23, 2020
Lt. Col. Michelle Macander, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs alumna, was interviewed by the Military Times in, “‘I had to be on’: A look inside the career of the Corps’ first female Marine ground combat battalion commander.”
Published in: Military Times
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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."
Excerpt:
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.
Excerpt:
“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.
Excerpt:
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."
Excerpt:
"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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