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Research

New Sponsor Funding


“Bridging Local Participation and Local Representation: Tools and Techniques for Supporting Community Engagement at the Urban Scale”
PI: Christopher Le Dantec
Sponsor:  National Science Foundation
Funding:  $499,924


“Collaborative Research: Examining the Design and Use of Internet of Things Technology in Public Life”
PI: Carl DiSalvo (with Daniela K. Rosner)
Sponsor:  National Science Foundation
Funding:  $248,674


“Symposium on the Science of Broadening Participation”
PI: Kaye Husbands Fealing
Sponsor:  National Science Foundation
Funding:  $84,030



What Does Georgia Tech Think?

Selected Press for Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts

The Car That Killed Glamour by Ian Bogost (LMC) was published in The Atlantic on September 29.

“The Roundtable: The Rise of eSports and Gaming” featured Will Hankinson, M.S. Digital Media alumnus, on WXIA-TV's Atlanta Tech Edge on September 26.

“What’s With All the Movie Mathematicians? quoted T. Hugh Crawford (LMC) in Popular Science on September 22.

“Analysis: Syrian Conflict Worsens as Outside States Raise Involvement” quoted Lawrence Rubin (Nunn School) in The Jerusalem Post on September 11.

No One Cares That You Quit Your Job by Ian Bogost (LMC) was published in The Atlantic on September 9.

What the Kim Davis Case Tells Us about America’s Long Middle Ages” by Richard Utz (LMC) was published on Medievalists.net on September 8.

“Cybersecurity’s Human Factor:  Lessons from the Pentagon” by James A. “Sandy” Winnefeld (Nunn School) was published in the Harvard Business Review on September 8.

American Spring: On Roots and Place and in Memory by Blake Leland (LMC) was published in SaportaReport on September 7.

Egypt Quietly Warms Relations with Syra in Fight Against ISIS quoted Lawrence Rubin (Nunn School) in The Jerusalem Post on August 30.

There Are No Perfect Nuclear Dealswrote Sam Nunn (Nunn School) in an op-ed piece for Politico on August 30.

Small Manufacturers Key to Building a Nation of Makers quoted Jennifer Clark (SPP) in the Chattanooga Times Free Press on August 29.

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NEWS

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Join Us for Homecoming October 23-24!

It’s the biggest game of the year and we invite Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts to celebrate together!

Homecoming Alumni Mimosa Brunch - Saturday, October 24 
Ivan Allen alumni, friends, faculty, staff, and graduate students are invited to gather on the porch of the Old Civil Engineering Building from 10 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (right after the Ramblin’ Wreck Parade!). Great food, super prizes!

Graduate Student and Graduate Alumni Reception - Friday, October 23
Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.

School of Economics Alumni Reception - Friday, October 23
Georgian Terrace, 6:30 p.m. (for econ alums only!)

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Top Stories

Center for Urban Innovation Has Key Role Representing Georgia Tech in New 25-City MetroLab Network

The Georgia Institute of Technology, City of Atlanta, and Georgia State University are the founding members of the new MetroLab Network, as announced at the White House Smart Cities Forum on September 14, 2015. The goal is to research, develop, and deploy new technologies to address challenges in the nation’s urban areas.

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Internet Governance Project Comes to the School of Public Policy

The Internet Governance Project (IGP) is now part of the Ivan Allen College School of Public Policy. A leading source of analysis of global Internet policy and Internet resource management, the project comes with the recruitment of Milton Mueller, who departs from the Syracuse School of Information Studies to join the School. 

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AAAS CEO Urges Policy Researchers to Restore Evidence-Based Decision Making

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Ghosal Appointed as Inaugural Inman Professor in Economics

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Ivan Allen College Economics Degree Ranked #4 by College Choice

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Jarrod Hayes in Spotlight for New Book, Insights on Iran Deal

Nunn School Assistant Professor Jarrod Hayes has a new book, Constructing National Security: Relations with India and China (Cambridge University Press) and discussed his research in a recent interview

Hayes opinion on the Iran nuclear deal was featured in the academic blog Duck of Minerva. Hayes also participated in the faculty panel discussing the deal.

Features

Digital Media Student Gene Kansas Guides Historic Collaboration

By combining his expertise in storytelling, technology, and real estate, M.S. Digital Media candidate Gene Kansas led an extraordinary collaboration of Georgia Tech alumni to save a Sweet Auburn landmark. Kansas renovated the building to meet the needs of modern business, but honored the building's heritage as a premier jazz club and former home to the Atlanta Daily World.

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Gordon Kingsley Tests Ways to Draw New Benefits from Public-Private Collaboration

Public-private partnerships build bridges, roads, and many other large-scale public infrastructure projects in Georgia. They also produce another valuable asset — knowledge. Gordon Kingsley, associate professor in the School of Public Policy, has spent the past few years working with the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) researching ways the department can capture and retain this knowledge.

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Science Fiction at Georgia Tech

The Importance of Science Fiction

The September issue of the Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine explored the fascinating reciprocal relationship between science fiction and science and technology and featured faculty and programs in our School of Literature, Media, and Communication. Several of those articles are included in this issue. We begin with commentary by writer Jason Ellis (STC, now LMC, 2006). 

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Putting the Literary in Sci-Fi

Literature Professor and author Kathleen Ann Goonan shares her sci-fi secrets. 

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A Minor for Major Geeks

Starting this year, Tech students may now officially pursue a minor in Science Fiction Studies. Though the subject may be inherently fictional, professor and director of undergraduate programs in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication Lisa Yaszek will tell you that science fiction is not wholly divorced from reality. Thanks to the freedom of imagination, ideas in science fiction often lead to big developments in real-world science and technology.

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Faculty Distinctions

Sam Nunn Featured in Georgia Trend for Bipartisan Leadership

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Susan Cozzens and Mary Frank Fox Recognized by American Sociological Association

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Jack McRee: Storytelling through Film

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