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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.
Excerpt:
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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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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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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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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Buy America Order Could Worsen Medical Supply Shortages, Economists Say
May 12, 2020
Christine Ries, professor in the School of Economics, was quoted in the segment "Buy America Order Could Worsen Medical Supply Shortages, Economists Say," in Marketplace on May 12, 2020.
A "Buy America" order from the federal government could result in shortage of certain medical goods, some economists fear, as well as raise prices. However, there are some in the field, including Ries, who see a way to make the order feasible and productive.
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But other economists, like Christine Ries, professor of economics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, would be OK with a Buy America order if it included price controls in exchange for subsidies or tax breaks.
“The company would have to certify that yes, this was Buy American and yes they were keeping the price at the same level as when China was supplying,” Ries said.
Published in: Marketplace
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University Professors Are Not Idle When Outside Of The Classroom - Especially In The Coronavirus Era
May 6, 2020
Marilyn Brown, Regents' and Brook Byers Professor in the School of Public Policy, contributed a section in "University Professors Are Not Idle When Outside Of The Classroom – Especially In The Coronavirus Era" on May 6, 2020 in Forbes.
In the article, written by Marshall Shepherd of the University of Georgia, a selection of prominent university professors offered their take on the role of higher education in the midst of a pandemic. Brown spoke to the importance of the innovation that the university setting can inspire.
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Dr. Marilyn A. Brown, Regents' and Brook Byers Professor of Sustainable Systems. School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology: Solving the crises we face as a nation - the Covid pandemic, global climate change, affordable housing, the opiod epidemic, and more - all require a strong science and education system. This is a time to strengthen our universities, not shrink them. We need to innovate our way out of these problems, drawing solutions from biology and chemistry, as well as administrative, economic, and policy sciences. Universities are the crucible of such solutions.
Published in: Forbes
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How 'Karen' Became a Coronavirus Villain
May 6, 2020
André Brock, associate professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, was quoted in the article "How 'Karen' Became a Coronavirus Villain" on May 6, 2020 in The Atlantic.
The article dissects the meaning and evolution of the label and meme of "Karens," which has taken on a new twist since the coronavirus pandemic became the dominant news story of the day. Brock, who has extensively studied communities and memes on Twitter, spoke to the current relevance and purpose of the meme.
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André Brock, an associate professor at Georgia Tech who has studied Black Twitter, says Karen memes are freshly resonant now because they allow people of color the chance to indulge in dark comedy about the way the pandemic is disproportionately affecting them. In reference to another varietal of Karen, the type of suburban liberal who uses the Nextdoor app and a Ring security camera to surveil her neighbors and monitor their behavior, he called it “deeply ironic” that white women isolating in single-family homes—whose lifestyle puts them at low risk of exposure to the virus—have been getting militant about teenagers wearing face masks or judgmental about city dwellers’ inability to execute perfect social distancing.
Published in: The Atlantic
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Endicott College: Part of the Legacy in Korea of a Former Georgia Tech Prof
April 29, 2020
John Endicott, professor emeritus in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, was interviewed in "Endicott College, Part of the Legacy in Korea of a Former Georgia Tech Prof" in Global Atlanta.
After his career at Georgia Tech, Endicott became co-president of Woosong University in Daejon, South Korea, and later became the namesake of the Endicott College of International Studies.
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While handling the administrative responsibilities, he has continued to teach. “Everybody can read the lines,” he added, “but I also need to read between the lines.” To do that, he said he had to remain in close touch with his students. “We learn from them, they learn from us.”
Published in: Global Atlanta
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New Changes to State’s Virus Data Confuse Experts, Residents Alike
April 29, 2020
Aaron Levine, associate professor in the School of Public Policy, was quoted in the article "New changes to state's virus data confuse experts, residents alike" on April 29, 2020 in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The article explores the sources and implications of discrepancies in the state's reporting of the toll of the coronavirus pandemic. Levine, who has been closely tracking the numbers of the pandemic himself, spoke to the overall messiness and potential for error implicit in the process.
Excerpt:
“I think everyone gets mistakes will be made,” said Aaron Levine, an associate professor at Georgia Tech’s school of public policy who has also been critical about how DPH presents its data.. “This is real time. There’s lots of public attention with messy data sources coming from all sorts county health departments.”
Published in: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Researchers Highlight Risks for Children in Terms of Abuse and Neglect During Pandemic
April 28, 2020
Lindsey Bullinger, assistant professor in the School of Public Policy, was mentioned in the article "Researchers Highlight Risks for Children in Terms of Abuse and Neglect During Pandemic," published April 28, 2020 in The Sector.
Bullinger, whose research has focused on child and family welfare, was part of a research group that has raised the alarm for the potential negative consequences of the coronavirus pandemic on "vulnerable" populations worldwide.
As well as the economic and health issues arising from the COVID-19 pandemic globally, the potential danger to vulnerable children who may be at higher risk of abuse and neglect has been noted by a team of researchers involved with the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC).
With families facing an unprecedented period of crisis, decision makers have a duty to help all children, but especially those already vulnerable, to survive the pandemic, at every stage. Failing to do so, APSAC said, will lead to negative consequences across the board.
An alert in relation to the issue was prepared by two University Of Connecticut (UConn) specialists in child neglect issues, Megan Feely, Assistant Professor of Social Work, and Kerri Raissian, Associate Professor of Public Policy, and their collaborators, Lindsey Bullinger, Assistant Professor of Public Policy at Georgia Tech, and Will Schneider, Assistant Professor of Social Work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. All are Doris Duke Fellows for the Promotion of Child Well-Being.
Published in: The Sector
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The US-China Cold War in Cyberspace
April 23, 2020
Milton Mueller, professor in the School of Public Policy, contributed the article "The US-China War in Cyberspace" to CircleID on April 22, 2020.
Mueller, a renowned cybersecurity expert, analyzes the United State's recent antagonistic stance toward China and that translates to cyberspace.
Excerpt:
The US is not thinking clearly about what this means and how to react to it. It does not seem to have the wisdom to plan for long-term co-existence and complementarity with another economic giant. Instead, it interprets all indications of China's rise as a threat and indulges in the fantasy that blockades and negativity will somehow turn back the clock to 1998 when China's economy was a fraction of its current size, and the US held uncontested dominance in the ICT sector.
Internet governance is at the center of this conflict. The Internet provides the common meeting point for ICT goods and services. It is the nexus of common technical standards and some of the shared governance institutions through which China and the West interact. Telecommunication equipment, telecommunication services, and information services are the main battleground upon which the conflict is being fought. The US and China are unable to reach agreement about how their digital economies will become integrated with each other. Both sides do not trust each other's private ICT companies to participate in their markets. In the US-China conflict, the entire digital economy is being used as a hostage.
Published in: CircleID
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A Side Effect of the Covid-19 Pandemic? Reading Got a Lot Harder
April 22, 2020
Lisa Yaszek, professor in the School of Literature, Media and Communication, was quoted in the article "A Side Effect of the Covid-19 Pandemic? Reading Got a Lot Harder" in Chronicle of Higher Education on April 20, 2020.
The article explores another unfortunate consequence of the coronavirus pandemic, one that has affected even people not afflicted by the virus: The difficulty of focusing on their work. Yaszek discussed the intersection of that issue with the world of science fiction, one of the focuses of her scholarship.
Excerpt:
Lisa Yaszek is also trying to be kind to herself. These days, the last thing the professor of science-fiction studies wants to do is read more science fiction. She already feels as if she’s living through a disaster, Yaszek said. She doesn’t need the excitement of somebody else’s.
Of course, she said, some might find comfort in dystopian stories, like E.M. Forster’s “The Machine Stops,” about a world where society lives underground, reliant on a giant machine to provide its needs, and the machine breaks down. The parallels are obvious.
Lots of science fiction is inherently optimistic, said Yaszek, who teaches at the Georgia Institute of Technology. It’s about the possibility that people might put down their differences and work together. Reading those narratives can feel discomforting right now, she said, because when you’re done, you return to this imperfect world, where people are making imperfect choices.
Published in: Chronicle of Higher Education
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Patent Filings, Litigation May Shift in Economic Crisis
April 21, 2020
Alan Marco, associate professor in the School of Public Policy, was quoted in "Patent Filings, Litigation May Shift in Economic Crisis," published April 21 in Bloomberg Law.
The economic downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic could affect patent applications and the market for trademarks in ways that are still being manifested, and Marco, a former chief economist with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, spoke to the potential effect of business failures on the market.
Excerpt:
And as startups and small businesses fail, patents and other IP assets will hit the open market at bargain prices. Alan Marco, a Georgia Tech professor and former chief economist at the PTO, said there could be an unprecedented number of IP transactions in the next year. That could lead to litigation as new patent owners seek to enforce their rights.
Published in: Bloomberg Law
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Scratching the Surface: Handmade Cinema in the Digital Age
April 20, 2020
Gregory Zinman, assistant professor in the School of Literature, Media and Communication, had his book Making Images Move: Handmade Cinema and the Other Arts mentioned in the article "Scratching the Surface: Handmade Cinema in the Digital Age" in the Los Angeles Review of Books on April 17, 2020.
Zinman's book, which was published earlier this year, explores the practice of filmmakers creating expressive visual sequences by physically altering the film. In the article, author Holly Willis uses it as a gateway for exploring these aspects of filmmaking.
Excerpt:
To explore the history of handmade filmmaking in more detail, I turn to Gregory Zinman’s brand-new book Making Images Move: Handmade Cinema and the Other Arts, which echoes the title of Christopher Horak’s 1997 book, Making Images Move, an analysis of work of photographers who venture into the realm of filmmaking. Zinman, a faculty member in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology, in some ways continues Horak’s exploration of the boundaries that only ostensibly separate media forms by chronicling a rich, 100-year history of handmade moviemaking in which artists similarly trespass into other areas of creative practice.
Written with careful precision and breadth, the book opens on the extraordinary 75-minute film by Spanish filmmaker José Antonio Sistiaga titled ere erera balebu izik subua aruaren. Sistiaga could not afford to shoot and process footage to create a traditional film, so he instead spent two years — between 1968 and 1970 — painting and drawing on transparent film by hand. In some cases he painted frame by frame, and in others he crafted sequences across sections of film. The result is a dazzling explosion of color and texture which, according to Zinman, “is almost too much to process.” He writes, “Sistiaga uses cinematic spectacle to overwhelm the viewer’s senses, to bring us in and out of our minds.”
Published in: Los Angeles Review of Books
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Georgia Institute of Technology-led Study Looks at Impacts of Woody Biomass Demand
April 20, 2020
A study by Alice Favero, academic professional and associate director of graduate studies in the School of Public Policy, was mentioned in "Georgia Institute of Technology Study Looks at Impacts of Woody Biomass Demand," in Biofuels Digest on April 16, 2020.
The study evaluated the consequences of varying policy environments based on controlling carbon emissions and found that those that go beyond simple carbon taxes can promote "protection of natural forests by valuing the standing stock."
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Using the global timber model (GTM) to assess how bioenergy demand affects the forestry sector, forestland and carbon sequestration, the researchers compared timber harvesting and management in more than 200 managed and natural forest ecosystems across 16 world regions under different bioenergy demand scenarios, including a no-bioenergy demand scenario, to isolate the role of management on forest carbon stocks.
Published in: Biofuels Digest
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