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• Singh Keynotes Georgia Autism Conference

  May 26, 2016

  Jennifer Singh, assistant professor in the Ivan Allen College School of History and Sociology, was a keynote speaker for the Autism Conference and Expo of Georgia held April 14 - 15, 2016, in Peachtree City, Georgia. Singh led the State of Research conversation for the conference and was on a panel with Cathy Rice, director of the Emory Autism Center, to discuss research priorities and future directions for autism spectrum disorder. 

  

• Georgia Tech to Host Cybersecurity Program for Executives

  May 25, 2016

  On July 25 - 29, Georgia Tech will welcome senior executives from industry and government for an intensive four-day program on cybersecurity risks.

  

• Fealing and Walsh Present at the National Academies

  May 23, 2016

  Public Policy professors Kaye Husbands Fealing and John Walsh presented at National Academies events in May.

  

• Spring and All: The Mirror Phase and a Modernist Imagination

  May 19, 2016

  This excerpt from an essay by Associate Professor Blake Leland “applies a psychoanalytic framework to William Carlos Williams’ critical mid-life attempt, in “Spring and All,” to express to himself and for himself his own urgent notion of poetic Imagination. The essay proposes that the qualities Williams attributes to genuine manifestations of the poetic imagination have their psychical foundations in the mirror phase of primary narcissism. Poem XXII, also known as “The Red Wheelbarrow,” is presented as the exemplary case.”

  

• Two Ivan Allen College Students Awarded Fulbright Scholarships

  May 18, 2016

  Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts students Anne Lashinsky and Dillon Roseen are among five Georgia Tech Fulbright grant recipients for the upcoming academic year.

  

• Kosal Appointed Co-Editor-in-Chief of ‘Politics and the Life Sciences’ Journal

  May 12, 2016

  Margaret E. Kosal, professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, has been appointed co-editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed, scholarly journal Politics and the Life Sciences (PLS) which is published by Cambridge University Press.

  

• Secretary of Defense Commemorates 25th Anniversary of Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program

  May 9, 2016

  The U.S. Department of Defense commemorated the 25th anniversary of the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) legislation in a special program at the Pentagon on May 9, 2016. With Sam Nunn and Dick Lugar present, Defense Secretary Ash Carter presented the inaugural Nunn-Lugar Trailblazer Awards and dedicated a key Pentagon conference room to the two former senators. The ceremony was followed by a panel discussion among Secretary Carter, and Senators Nunn and Lugar.

   

  

• GT to Host North American Society for Sport History Conference

  May 6, 2016

  The North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) will hold its annual convention at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center in Atlanta Georgia, from May 27-May 30, 2016.

  

• You’ll Never Dance Alone with This Artificial Intelligence Project

  April 28, 2016

  LuminAI allows people to get move with a computer-controlled dancer, which “watches” the person and improvises its own moves based on prior experiences. When the human responds, the computerized figure reacts again, creating an impromptu dance couple based on artificial intelligence.

  

• Nair-Reichert Completes Fulbright Specialist Grant Work at Warsaw School of Economics

  April 28, 2016

  Economics professor Usha Nair-Reichert was awarded a Fulbright specialist's award during the academic year 2015-16. This prestigious award enabled her to visit the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH), one of the premier institution in the field of economics in Poland, and collaborate with the World Economy Research Institute (WERI) in program development and research. 

  

• Sam Nunn and Bill Perry Discuss Strategies to Prevent Nuclear Warfare

  April 28, 2016

  On April 26, the Ivan Allen College Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech, in collaboration with the University of Georgia’s distinguished Charter Lecture Series, co-hosted a remote video viewing of Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe in an Age of Nuclear Terrorism: A Conversation with Bill Perry and Sam Nunn with the Georgia Tech Chapter of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management (INMM).

  

• HSOC Student Emily Gibson Awarded Pre-doctoral Guggenheim Fellowship

  April 28, 2016

  Emily Gibson has been awarded the highly competitive 9-month pre-doctoral Guggenheim Fellowship at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. for 2016-2017. Gibson has also been accepted as a 2016 summer intern at the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM).

  

• Public Policy Seniors Present Projects at Capstone Design Expo

  April 27, 2016

  Five seniors from the Ivan Allen College School of Public Policy showcased projects at Georgia Tech’s Spring 2016 Capstone Design Expo on April 26.

  

• HSOC Symposium Explores Metropolitan Inequality

  April 27, 2016

  The Ivan Allen College School of History and Sociology at Georgia Tech hosted a symposium on metropolitan inequality in America entitled “Metropolitan Inequalities in a Globalizing Age: Inequalities and Opportunities” on April 22 at the Wardlaw Center. 

  

• Sherie M. Randolph joins HSOC as an Associate Professor of African American History

  April 27, 2016

  Sherie Randolph will be joining the HSOC staff as an Associate Professor of African American History this year.

  

• Allen Hyde joins HSOC as an Assistant Professor of Sociology

  April 25, 2016

  Allen Hyde joins HSOC as an Assistant Professor of Sociology

  

• Jenny Leigh Smith Receives Carnegie Fellowship

  April 25, 2016

  Jenny Leigh Smith, assistant professor in the School of History and Sociology, received a two year fellowship with the Carnegie Fellows Program that will support research, travel, and writing time for her to work on a book about the history of twentieth century famines.

  

• The Pitfalls and Potholes of the Self-driving Revolution

  April 22, 2016

  Vivek Ghosal, professor in the School of Economics, believes that once the autonomous vehicle revolution becomes established, the economic world that underpins wheeled transport will never be the same.

  

• Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Students Awards and Scholarships

  April 22, 2016

  Outstanding students were recognized this month with awards and scholarships from the Institute, College, and Schools.

  

• Talk on US-India Relations by Consul General of India

  April 22, 2016

  On March 31, the Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy (CISTP), along with the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) hosted Mr. Nagesh Singh, the Consul General of India stationed in Atlanta, Georgia. 

  

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