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• Fixing FIFA Won't Be Easy

  June 16, 2015

  With the rise of issues in soccer politics, Kirk Bowman, professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, has been kept quite busy following the drama. Recently, he wrote an editorial for the Georgia Tech Amplifier. Read his editorial below.

  

• GPB Premieres Documentary about Georgia Tech Alum Ivan Allen, Jr.

  June 12, 2015

  The original documentary Ivan Allen, Jr.- A Different Road premieres throughout the month of June on Georgia Public Broadcasting. Produced by Living Stories, the film creates a multifaceted portrait of Allen during his eight year service as mayor of Atlanta during the critical transitional years between 1962 and 1970. As the only elected leader from the South to testify in Congress in favor of civil rights legislation in 1963, Allen differentiated Atlanta from the rest of the segregated South.

  

• ROTC Stinger Battalion's Gurry Named Distinguished Honor Graduate from Air Assault School

  June 8, 2015

  Fifteen cadets from the Stinger Battalion, Georgia Tech's Army ROTC housed within the Ivan Allen College, traveled to Fort Campbell, Kentucky, this May to take part in the U.S. Army’s Air Assault School. The 10-day course is designed to prepare soldiers for missions that call for the use of multipurpose transportation and assault helicopters.

  

• Social Media Dialogue Predicts Election Outcome

  June 4, 2015

  The advent of social media opened the doors to a wealth of possibility. Specifically, in the world of politics, social media allows the public to engage in dialogue with politicians. In a study conducted through the Nunn School of International Affairs and the School of Interactive Commputing, Michael L. Best and Amanda Meng determined that social media platforms can determine the results of an election.

  

• Economics Hosts a Series of Alumni Events throughout the Summer

  June 2, 2015

  Chair of Economics David N. Laband and Assistant Professor Juan Moreno-Cruz hosted an Economics alumni dinner at the Strand Hotel Bistro on May 20 in New York City. On May 29, the School of Economics hosted an alumni event in Atlanta.

  

• Public Policy Alumna Testifies before House Subcommittee

  June 2, 2015

  Elizabeth Noll, energy advocate at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and Public Policy alumna, testified before the House Of Representatives Energy and Power Subcommittee on April 30, 2015.

  

• Activist Films Bring Light to Human Trafficking in Atlanta

  June 1, 2015

  LMC undergraduate student Jack McRee and video production coordinator John Thornton are seeking to bring light to this issues of human trafficking through the affordance of film, portraying personal narratives of those affected and providing a call to action.

  

• 'Ministers at War' Named Book of the Month by BBC History Magazine

  May 19, 2015

  Jonathan Schneer’s book Ministers at War: Winston Churchill and his War Cabinet (Basic Books, 2015), was named Book of the Month by BBC History Magazine just one month after its March release in the U.K.

  

• Smith Awarded Henry Wallace Prize for Best Book in Agricultural History

  May 18, 2015

  Jenny Leigh Smith, assistant professor in the School of History, Technology, and Society, was named a recipient of the Henry Wallace Award for her book Works in Progress: Plans and Realities on Soviet Farms, 1930-1963 (Yale University Press, 2014).

  

• Students Demonstrate Excellence in Research, Academics

  May 13, 2015

  Congratulations to all of our student award recipients for the 2014-2015 academic year! Every year our students demonstrate how driven, passionate, and talented they are in their respective fields of study.

  

• Georgia Tech Hosts 30th Annual INCS Conference

  May 13, 2015

  Approximately 40 students, faculty, alumni, and researchers from the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts participated in The Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies (INCS) annual conference April 16-19, hosted by Georgia Tech.

  

• Spurlocks Ongoing Generosity Enables Semester Abroad

  May 11, 2015

  Gail and Barry Spurlock (ME 1965) presented a check for $50,000 to Professor Bettina Cothran for the Spurlock Study Abroad Scholarship Endowment Fund.

  

• $50,000 Continues Joel V. O'Neal Endowment Fund in Economics

  May 11, 2015

  A new $50,000 commitment continues to support the Joel V. O’Neal Endowment Fund in the School of Economics.

  

• Bankoff inducted into the Morehouse Collegium of Scholars

  May 11, 2015

  Joe Bankoff, chair of the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, gave the opening remarks at the Peace Building Conference, sponsored by Atlantic Institute an Morehouse College on April 9

  

• New Georgia Tech NROTC Scholarship Honors George Henderson Sr.

  May 8, 2015

  A new scholarship for the Navy Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (NROTC) at Georgia Tech honors George Robert Henderson, Sr., a veteran of the United States Navy and native of Newnan, Georgia. Inaugural recipients of the scholarship are undergraduate students Rebekah Day and Anthony Guidera.

  

• Seminar Room Dedicated to Melvin Kranzberg

  May 8, 2015

  Through the generous support of the B & B Stern Foundation, the Melvin Kranzberg Seminar Room has been established in the Old Civil Engineering Building (Old CE), home of the School of History, Technology, and Society (HTS).

  

• Poultry Salmonella Project Wins Capstone Expo Policy Category

  May 8, 2015

  Farmaceuticals, a senior design project addressing salmonella incidence in humans through poultry feed and sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), took the top honor in the public policy category during the Spring 2015 Capstone Design Expo held Thursday, April 23, in McCamish Pavilion.

  

• Macrakis Awarded Wilson Center Fellowship

  May 6, 2015

  Kristie Macrakis, professor in the School of History, Technology, and Society, has been named a recipient of a prestigious fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. She and 18 other recipients were selected, through a rigorous process including three separate review panels, out of a highly competitive pool of more than 300 applicants.

  

• Powering Up: Valerie Thomas Featured in Georgia Tech Research Horizons

  April 27, 2015

  New materials and technologies aren't the only ways to address energy storage challenges. Valerie Thomas (Public Policy) notes that power management, an aspect that doesn't often get much attention, has the potential to greatly impact the way we apppproach power use and storage. Thomas is studying how a high adoption rate for electric vehicles would affect the cost of various sources of electricity. Among the findings: Controlling when vehicles are charged could reduce the cost of electricity for the entire power system

  

• Kosal and Smith Recognized for Outstanding Teaching

  April 20, 2015

  Two assistant professors in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, Margaret E. Kosal (Nunn School) and John Matthew Smith (HTS), were awarded the 2015 CETL/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award at the annual Faculty and Staff Honors Luncheon on April 17, 2015.

  

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