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• 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.

  

• 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. 

  

• 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.

  

• 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). 

  

• Millions of Children Exposed to Opioid Misuse at Home, New Georgia Tech Study Reveals

  August 21, 2019

  Fewer children are living with opioid abusers, but the number of kids living with heroin users continues to rise, according to a new study from Lindsey Bullinger in the School of Public Policy and her co-author Coady Wing at Indiana University.

  

• John Krige Offered Francis Bacon Award in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology

  August 21, 2019

  John Krige, Kranzberg professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of History and Sociology (HSOC), was recently awarded Caltech's prestigious Francis Bacon Award in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology.

  

• Georgia Tech, Georgia State University to Offer Classes in Hindi, Portuguese

  August 19, 2019

  Students at Georgia State University and the Georgia Institute of Technology can now enroll in elementary Hindi and Portuguese, widely spoken but rarely taught languages used in two of the world’s top 10 economies.

  

• Asensio Delivers Keynote at GM IT Innovation Center

  August 15, 2019

  Omar Asensio, delivered a keynote address at the GM IT Georgia Innovation Center’s Geek Week kickoff event.

  

• Nunn School Student Receives the Gen Larry D. Welch Deterrence Writing Award

  August 12, 2019

  The United States Strategic Command has selected Geoffrey Brown, a Sam Nunn School of International Affairs master’s student, as the Gen Larry D. Welch Deterrence Writing Award recipient for his article entitled, "India's Deterrence Goldilocks Dilemma in South Asia."

  

• AI 'Performers' Take Center Stage and Get Creative with People in Public Spaces

  August 12, 2019

  Digital Media professor Brian Magerko's team are seeking to improve “artificial intelligence literacy” and give people opportunities to engage directly with AI systems in order to understand the potential and capabilities of the technology.

  

• Voting Security Paper Accepted At National Association of Secretaries of State Conference

  August 9, 2019

  In the paper, CACP researchers say the United States should develop strong, voluntary national standards for the design, assessment, and management of voting systems that address cybersecurity concerns as part of a broader multilevel integrity, security, and threat-reduction strategy.

  

• Congratulations to Rebecca Watts Hull

  August 9, 2019

  Rebecca Watts Hull, who earned her PhD in HSOC this past year, has accepted a full-time position in the Center for Serve-Learn-Sustain.

  

• Congratulations to Brian Jirout

  August 9, 2019

  Brian Jirout, a recent HSOC PhD graduate, has accepted a position as Boeing's new Archivist and Historian.

  

• Professor Khapaeva Publishes New Book: Man-Eating Monsters, Anthropocentrism and Popular Culture

  August 8, 2019

  A continuation of the Emerald Studies in Death and Culture series

  

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