NewsLetter January 2006



EVENTS January 12-15, 2006 FOCUS 2006 Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center January 16, 2006 Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Campus Closed January 17, 2006 INTA Faculty Candidate Talk Dr. Martin Edwards, Assistant Professor Texas Tech University - Implementation Uncertainty and the Design of IMF Conditionality Habersham Building, Room G-17 11:00 - 12:00pm January 19, 2006 2006 WST Distinguished Lecturer - Dr. Yu Xie, Otis Dudley Duncan Professor of Sociology and Statistics, The University of Michigan Women, Family, and Pathways of Science/ Engineering Careers Clary Theatre, Success Center 4:00 - 5:00pm January 21-22 Ramblin' Wreck Mock Trial Tournament College of Management Saturday - 10:00-2:30pm Sunday - 9:00-1:00pm January 23, 2006 Southeastern Roundtable on Defense (SEROD) presents Dr. Gary Samore - Iran's Nuclear Weapons Program Wardlaw Building, 177 North Avenue 11:45 a.m. January 24, 2006 INTA Faculty Candidate Talk Anthony Pezzola, PhD Candidate from University of Washington Sub National Constituency Interest and The Formation of Trade Policy: How political institutions interact with local interests to influence national policymaker Habersham Building, Room G-17 11:00 - 12:00pm SCHAS Seminar Melissa Fay Greene, National Book Award finalist presents "The Art of Nonfiction Storytelling" Emory University, Major Room, History Department Building 5:00 - 6:30pm January 25, 2006 WST Learning Community Event - Jeannette Yen, Biology Please RSVP for WST dinners and lunches to WST graduate partner Jareesa Tucker. January 30, 2006 Economics Seminar Series Ray Riezman, University of Iowa - INTA Conference Room, Room 136, Habersham Building 12:00 - 1:15pm February 2, 2006 The H. Bruce McEver Poetry Reading featuring Chard deNiord, Kurtis Lamkin, and Bruce McEver Bill Moore Student Success Center, Clary Theater 4:30 pm - Free and open to the public February 3, 2006 IAC - ADVANCE Grants Workshop Wardlaw Center, Gordy Room, 177 North Avenue, Atlanta, GA 11:00 - 2:30pm February 9, 2006 SPP Seminar Series Doug Noonan will be present a paper entitled: "Air Quality, Travel Mode, and Forecasts: An Exploratory Analysis of Atlanta" DM Smith, Room 303 11:00-12:00pm February 10-11 DramaTech presents Proof by David Auburn DramaTech February 15-18 DramaTech presents Proof by David Auburn DramaTech E-Letter Archives Faculty Quotes Faculty/Staff Resources Gazette Ivan Allen College Website
	Ivan Allen College Founder's Day Set for March 15 Sue V. Rosser, Dean of Ivan Allen College, has announced that the College will host it's annual Founder's Day on Wednesday, March 15. Each year, Ivan Allen College pauses to remember its founder, the late Ivan Allen Jr., former Atlanta mayor and alumnus of Georgia Tech, on the occasion of his birthday at a formal luncheon. In addition to honoring Mayor Allen, the College also presents the Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Progress and Service, which is awarded to a son or daughter of Georgia who, over the course of a career, has made an outstanding contribution to a profession or field related to one of the disciplines of the College. In addition, the College presents the Ivan Allen Jr. Legacy Award to the faculty member, student, and alumnus who best exemplify the spirit of civic leadership personified by Mayor Allen. The winner of the 2006 Allen Prize and a full schedule of the Day's events will be announced in the February E-Letter.
	Ivan Allen College Sponsors Essay Contest and On-Line Teacher Guide In December, Ivan Allen College announced its sponsorship of the Ivan Allen Jr. Civic Responsibility Essay Contest. All entries must be emailed or postmarked February 1, 2006, a cash prize of $500 each will be awarded for the best junior and senior essay submitted. Essay winners will be announced and will read their winning entries at Founder's Day on March 15. In addition to the essay contest, the College has created an on-line Teacher's Guide to help teachers promote civic leadership with their students. The Teacher's Guide includes the Georgia Performance Standards in addition to activities that correspond to different levels of K-12 education.
	College and ADVANCE Conduct Joint Grants Workshop The Ivan Allen College (IAC) and the ADVANCE Grants Workshop will be held February 3, 11:00-2:30pm, Gordy Room, Wardlaw Center. The program's Welcome will be presented by IAC Dean Rosser, Shirley Williams-Kirksey, Interim Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Clark Atlanta University, and Lily D. McNair, Associate Provost of Research, Spelman College. The keynote speaker, Elizabeth Thomson, Program Director of the The Ethical, Legal and Social Implications Research Program at the National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health.Other topics to be addressed will include Funding Opportunities at the National Institutes of Health; State Contracting; Involving Undergraduates in Research; Project Management - Multiple Investigators; Project Management - Single Investigators; and Get-to-know OSP Staff - Answers to your questions.
	Nunn School Received MacArthur Grant Ivan Allen College's Sam Nunn School of International Affairs received a grant of $1.84 million over five years to fund two new tenured faculty positions and provide support to dozens of mid-career and graduate research fellowships in science and security. The grant will also fund three research initiatives on security in cyberspace, efforts to strengthen the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and the development of a public-private partnership among federal, state and local agencies to prevent bioterrorism.
	WST Distinguished Lecturer Dr. Yu Xie, Otis Dudley Duncan Professor of Sociology and Statistics at The University of Michigan, has been selected as the 2006 Distinguished Lecturer for The Center for the Study of Women, Science, and Technology (WST) at Georgia Tech. Entitled "Women, Family, and Pathways of Science/ Engineering Careers", Xie will present his talk at the Clary Theatre at 4:00pm, January 19. Xie is also a Research Professor at the Population Studies Center and the Survey Research Center of the Institute for Social Research, and a Faculty Associate at the Center for Chinese Studies. His main areas of interest are social stratification, demography, statistical methods, Chinese studies, and the sociology of science.
	Three Poets Featured at McEver Poetry Reading Poetry@Tech presents the H. Bruce McEver Poetry Reading, February 2, featuring Chard deNiord, Kurtis Lamkin, and Bruce McEver. DeNiord, associate professor of English at Providence College and director of the M.F.A. program in poetry at New England College, is the author of three books of poetry. Lamkin's newest work is a collection of poems in praise of the spiritual connection he experienced as a participant in the Million Man March and in praise of El Hajj Malik El Shabazz (Malcolm X). H. Bruce McEver, founder and former president of Berkshire Capital Corporation, is a published poet in his own right. At Tech, he has endowed both the McEver Visiting Chair in Writing and the McEver Program for Engineering and the Liberal Arts.
	Will Wright Keynotes Video Games Symposium The School of Literature, Communication and Culture (LCC) graduate program in digital media and the Graphics, Visualization and Usability Center (GVU) present "Living Game Worlds: Design Processes and the Future of Expressive Computing" on February 16. This one-day symposium features leading digital designers and design theorists exploring the process of design in emerging computational environments. Will Wright, 2005 Ivan Allen Prize winner and founder of Maxis, will be the keynote speaker, along with Dale Herigstad of Schematic. Participants from Tech include Ian Bogost, assistant professor, LCC; Jay Bolter, Wesley Chair of New Media and co-director of the Wesley Center for New Media Research and Education, LCC; Irfan Essa, associate professor, Interface Computing Division, College of Computing (CoC); Michael Mateas, assistant professor, LCC and CoC; Janet Murray, professor and director of the graduate program in digital media, LCC; Elizabeth Mynatt, associate professor, CoC and director of the GVU; Ali Mazalek, assistant professor, LCC; and Michael Nitsche, assistant professor, LCC. Additional participants include Mary Flanagan, professor of film and media, Hunter College, City University of New York; William Gaver, professor of design, Goldsmith's College, University of London; Dale Herigstad, Creative Director of Schematic; Matt Hullum, co-founder of Rooster Teeth Productions; Raph Koster, chief creative officer of Sony Online Entertainment; Blair MacIntyre, director of Augmented Environments Lab; Marcus Matthews, CEO and co-founder of Blue Heat Games; Jane Prophet, professor of visual art and new media and co-director of the Centre for Arts Research, Technology and Education, University of Westminster, London; Katie Salen, professor and director of the graduate design and technology program, Parson School of Design; and Johnny Wilson, executive vice-president of content and community for Manifesto Games.
	Sam Nunn Policy Forum Commences March 27 The Sam Nunn School of International Affairs is hosting the 2006 Sam Nunn Policy Forum on March 27 at the Global Learning Center. The featured topic is "Information and Communication Networks: Economic Development, National Competiveness, and Social Justice". The forum will study the tension between the promise and peril of global information and communication technologies (ICT's) in economic development, national economic strength, and social justice. Participants will include policy, business, and technological specialists in ICT as well as scholars, foundations, and government agencies concerned with ICT's impact on development, competitiveness, and equity.
	School of Modern Languages Hosts CIBER 2006 The 2006 Centers for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) Business Language Conference is will be held April 5–8 at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Convention Center. The CIBER conference joins educators and administrators (K through post secondary) in the fields of foreign language, culture and area studies, business and management, for sessions and workshops on all aspects of internationalizing the curricula of our schools to prepare students for the global marketplace. The School of Modern Languages has focused this year's conference on improving classroom foreign language instruction, curriculum development and materials selection, increasing study abroad, internships and other enrichment opportunities for students.
	DramaTech Kicks Off New Semester of Performances DramaTech will present Proof by David Auburn (February 10-11 and February 15-18). A Tony Award winning drama, Proof is about a young woman who confronts her father's death, his legacy as a mathematical genius, and the challenge that his last problem left behind.
	Ramblin' Wreck Invitational Mock Trial Tournament Returns to Atlanta After months traveling around the country, The School of Public Policy Mock Trial program returns to present the Ramblin' Wreck Mock Trial Tournament, to be held at the Georgia Tech College of Management, January 21-22. Runner-up for the 2004-2005 National title, the Georgia Tech Mock Trial team will play host to teams from colleges and universities across the nation, including George Washington University, Emory University, Rhodes College, Howard University, Furman University, and the University of Arizona. The tournament will consist of four rounds, each to be held on Saturday, January 21, at 10:00 a.m. and 2:30 p.m., and on Sunday, January 22, at 9:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.
	Luncheon and Lecture Features Dean Rosser Dean Sue Rosser was the featured speaker at the Southeast Roundtable on Defense (SEROD), January 12. In her talk entitled "The Science Glass Ceiling: Academic Women Scientists and the Struggle to Succeed", Rosser stated that “To maintain its leadership in science and engineering in the face of increasing global competition, the United States cannot afford to lose … highly creative and well-trained women scientists and engineers. The changes in student and immigration visas … in the wake of September 11 have reduced the availability of reliable international scientists that the United States has typically used to fill its technical and scientific workforce in the past decade. Defining and removing barriers becomes critical to allow women scientists who are passionate about their work not only to survive but to thrive in academic institutions.”
	Danny Boston Speaks at Minority Business Development Roundtable Danny Boston, professor of Economics and founder of the Boston Research Group, Inc., a consulting firm, presented a paper at the Minority Business Development Roundtable forum. Entitled "Minority Entrepreneurship - An Essential Community Economic Development Strategy", Boston's address focused on assessing various initiatives to revitalize poverty-stricken areas where crumbling public housing abounds. He contends that the solution lies in both the private and public sectors, and that the residents of the poverty area must be involved in the transformation.