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New Chair Named in History, Technology, and Society Professor Ronald Bayor has been named Chair of the School of History, Technology, and Society (HTS), effective July 1, 2006.
He joined the faculty in 1973 and is
a historian specializing in urban, ethnic, immigration and race relations history.
Bayor has been the recipient of several teaching awards at Georgia Tech, including the 2006 Geoffrey G. Eichholz Faculty Teaching Award. He also is the past recipient of the School of Social Science Excellence in Teaching and the Georgia Tech Outstanding Teacher Awards. Recently, Bayor received the Association for Asian American Studies 2006 Lifetime Service Award for his dedication as editor of the Journal of American Ethnic History and his support of scholars in the field of Asian American Studies.
He fills the position previously held by Dr. Willie Pearson, who returns to the HTS faculty. |
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Dean Rosser Welcomes New Faculty  At the opening Faculty Meeting on August 24, 2006, Dean Rosser introduced new chairs and staff and School Chairs introduced new faculty and staff members. This year's group of faculty is among the most diverse ever to join the College, with four of the eight being women and three with at least one degree from a university located outside the US. |
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Auslander Wins Best Book Prize for 2006 Philip Auslander, Professor, Literature, Communication, and Culture (LCC), has won the
2006 Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Award for Outstanding Book in Theatre Practice and Pedagogy for his book, Bodies in Commotion: Disability and Performance. Co-edited with
Carrie Sandahl, Associate Professor in Florida State University's School of Theatre, the book was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2005. |
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Econ Professor Says Cut Income Taxes, Not Gas Taxes As gas prices rise and Governor Sonny Perdue hears more calls for suspension of the state gas tax, Patrick McCarthy, Professor and Chair, School of Economics, says that would be a bad idea. In an article in the Daily Report, McCarthy states that there are good reasons for the gas taxes, which generate revenue for infrastructure of the state highway system. Instead he suggests implementing an income tax rebate which that could be spent on other things besides gas that would benefit the economy more. |
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ROTC Celebrates 90th Anniversary As the Georgia Tech ROTC units celebrate their 90th anniversary, it welcomes two new commanding officers. The Air Force ROTC inaugurates Georgia Tech's first female commanding officer, Colonel Sheri W. Andino, Aerospace Studies Department Head. Andino entered the Air Force in 1980 and earned her commission through the Air Force ROTC program at the University of Florida. She attended Undergraduate Navigator Training at Mather Air Force Base, California, receiving her navigator wings in July 1981.
Joining the Navy ROTC is Captain Robert Wayne Radloff, Subspecialist in Electronic Warfare and Financial Management. Radloff received his Bachelor's degree and commission via the NROTC Program from Jacksonville University, Florida, in 1979. He received his designation as a Naval Flight Officer in 1980. |
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GIT Awarded Mellon Foundation Grant The Georgia Institute of Technology has received a $282,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a study by Mark McCabe, Assistant Professor, School of Economics, that measures the impact of digitization and online availability of journals on citations. Since their introduction over a decade ago, digital technologies have transformed the way information markets operate. This research project's objective is to examine whether these new technologies have deepened and/or broadened access to the scientific literature. |
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Professor Elected Member to Royal Netherlands Academy Nancy J. Nersessian, Professor,
who holds a joint appointment in the School of Public Policy and the College of Computing, has been elected a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. With this appointment, the Academy recognizes Dr. Nersessian's outstanding scientific achievements in the area of Cognitive Science and her ongoing efforts to further the development and impact of this interdisciplinary field. |
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Focused Research Program Proposal Funded Robert Kirkman, Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy (SPP), has received $22,000 for Focused Research Program on Ethics and Technology for the second year in a row. The FRP in Ethics and Technology is an effort to improve ethics education for researchers and engineers and to assess the effectiveness of those improvements. One key project will be to develop a survey instrument for measuring the impact of ethics education on students' ability to recognize ethical issues when they arise and to respond to them thoughtfully and imaginatively. The FRP is a cross-disciplinary enterprise including faculty and staff from across the Institute. |
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Greg Nobles Appointed Director of Honor's Program Greg Nobles,
Professor, History, Technology and Society (HTS),
is the new director of the new GT Honors Program, which will welcome its first class of 108 entering students this fall, of whom 12 are IAC students. The overall composition consists of sixty men and forty-eight women, seventy Georgia residents and thirty-eight out-of-state. Their average SAT score is 1452. |
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President of Liberia Comes to Georgia Tech Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, President, Republic of Liberia, will be speaking at 10:30am on September 13, 2006 at the Global Learning & Conference Center on "The Role of Information and Communication Technologies in Liberian Development." Sirleaf is the first elected female president of an African nation. She graduated from the College of West Africa (Monrovia), receiving her BBA in Accounting at Madison Business College in Madison, Wisconsin, and a master's degree in public administration from Harvard University. She is a founding member of the International Institute for Women in Political Leadership; formerly, she was President of the Liberian Bank for Development and Investment, Senior Loan Officer of World Bank, and Vice President of Citibank. In 1988, she was also the recipient of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Freedom of Speech award and the Ralph Bunche International Leadership award. |
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| Sam Nunn Security Program's Third Annual DC Field Trip May 7-12, 2006, marked the third annual Sam Nunn Security Program field trip to Washington DC. Sam Nunn Security Fellows and faculty received multiple briefings with the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the National Nuclear Security School, the Department of Energy, the Department of Defense, the Second Line of Defense, the Military Operations on Urban Terrain, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the America's Chemical Weapons Convention, and the Army Research Laboratory. |
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Activism Goes Gaming to Increase Public Awareness Can games help society understand controversial political issues without trivializing the underlying points of view? In an article in the BBC News, Ian Bogost,
assistant professor, Literature, Communications, and Culture (LCC), believes that persuasive games are good at illustrating complex situations. Games immerse the players into real-time political crises, reaching younger audiences and academics to educate them on the whole picture of a problem. While the vast majority of the younger generations do not read the newspaper or watch the news on television, they are more apt to get their information about world issues via the internet. Internet games like Darfur is Dying and Columbine Massacre allow players to see issues from a new perspective. |
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Professor Gives Summer Commencement Address Bryan Norton, Professor, School of Public Policy (SPP), delivered the keynote address during the 225th commencement ceremony,
Friday, August 4. His address is part of the tradition for receiving the Class of 1934 Distinguished Professor Award, which Norton received
at the Faculty/Staff Honors luncheon, April 12. The award is based on Norton's distinguished career of nineteen years with Georgia Tech and his contributions as a leading scholar in environmental philosophy. |
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