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Research

New Sponsor Funding

Economic Impact Analysis of GDOT’s Short Line Railroads
Co-PIs: Patrick McCarthy in Economics with Laurie Garrow in Civil and Environmental Engineering
Sponsor: Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT)
Funding: $115,000

The Use of Chemical Weapons in Warfare: Insights from Archives and Battlefields 
Co-PIs: Lawrence Rubin in International Affairs
Sponsor: Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA
Funding: $72,002


 

New Books by Faculty

Fact and Fiction in Global Energy Policy by Benjamin Sovacool (University of Sussex), Marilyn Brown (PubP), and Scott Valentine (City University of Hong Kong). Johns Hopkins University Press (2016).

What Does Georgia Tech Think?

Selected Press for Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts

Jackie Robinson vs. Malcolm X: How Two Civil Rights Icons Waged a Public, Ideological Feud through Op-eds and Public Speeches. This segment of the new series “The Undefeated” was inspired by John M. Smith’s book Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X and quoted Smith (HSOC). ESPN, May 25.

Why You Should Never Email a Social Security Number quoted Milton Mueller (PUBP). TIME (Fortune, MSN), May 23. 

Had LSD Never Been Discovered Over 75 Years Ago, Music History Would Be Entirely Different interviewed Philip Auslander (LMC), Music.Mic, May 20.

Let’s Get Digital: Free Computer Lab Brings Internet Access to Atlanta’s Westside showcased this initiative of the Ivan Allen College Westside Communities Alliance. GPB, May 18.

The Robot Uprising Has Begun featured the LuminAI co-creative artificial intelligence project led by Brian Magerko (LMC-DM). WSB-TV, May 17.

Virtual reality’s new frontier: peacekeeping, Iraq War therapy, and digital paradises quotes LMC Professor Janet Murray. Vox, May 10.

Forget Taking Over the World. All this AI Wants to Do Is Dance featured LMC professor Brian Magerko’s virtual artificial intelligence project. LiveScience, May 5.

The Virtual Figure in this Dance Dome Will Groove with You featured LMC professor Brian Magerko’s artificial intelligence project. Futurity, May 2.

Plant Washington Misses Construction Start Deadline quoted Marilyn Brown (SPP). The Telegraph, May 1.

Futureshock: How the Technological Environment Is Rewiring Our Brains quoted Robert Rosenberger (SPP). The Herald Scotland, May 1.

Featured Blog Posts

A Reaction to “Technology and the Future of Cities”: Uneven Development and Expertise in the ‘Smart City’ by Taylor Shelton and Jennifer Clark (PubPol) posted April 11, 2016 on the Center for Urban Innovation blog. Retweeted by Métropolitiques.eu 

Ivan Allen Jr. and the Roots of Modern Atlanta written by Todd Michney (HSOC). Center for Urban Innovation blog, May 2.

Celebrating “Boethius of the North” was highlighted in several blog posts this month by LMC Professor and Chair Richard Utz.

Events

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May 25, 2016
Doing Sport History in the Digital Present Workshop
May 27, 2016
Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Info Session and Tour
2:00 pm
May 27, 2016 - May 30, 2016
Georgia Tech to Host 2016 North American Society for Sport History Conference
6:30 pm
May 31, 2016
Innovations in Sport for Development and Peace Research Symposium
8:30 am
June 24, 2016
DramaTech presents Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
8:00 pm
June 25, 2016
DramaTech presents Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
8:00 pm
June 30, 2016
DramaTech presents Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
8:00 pm
July 1, 2016
DramaTech presents Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
8:00 pm
July 2, 2016
DramaTech presents Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
8:00 pm

NEWS

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Commencement 2016

Congrats to all the Ivan Allen College students who graduated May 6 - 7 including newly-hooded Ph.D.s in Public Policy pictured above (l - r), Dr. Sanjay Arora, Dr. Johann Weber, and Dr. Xiaojing Sun, with Georgia Tech Vice Provost and Public Policy Professor Susan Cozzens. 

GLOBAL IMPACT AND ENGAGEMENT

Georgia Tech Students Will Participate in State Department Diplomacy Lab

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Fealing and Walsh Present at the National Academies

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Georgia Tech to Host Cybersecurity Program for Executives

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Kosal Appointed Co-Editor-in-Chief of ‘Politics and the Life Sciences’ Journal

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REGIONAL AND LOCAL IMPACT

Singh Keynotes Georgia Autism Conference

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FEATURED FACULTY WORK

Spring and All: The Mirror Phase and a Modernist Imagination

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ALUMNI FOCUS

Get Your Game On June 24: Ivan Allen Alumni Night at the Braves!

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More 2016 Ivan Allen Alumni Events

Alumna Profile – Whitney Owen (IA 2003), Director of Health Care Management, LMI

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STUDENT FOCUS

Ivan Allen Students Receive Fulbright Scholarships

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Summer Study Abroad Programs Are Underway!

Pictured above is a student discussion taking place on the River Kwai in Thailand. The Southeast Asia Study Abroad led by Nunn School International Affairs Professor Katya Weber is one of many summer abroad programs in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.

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More about Study Abroad

JUST FOR FUN

New York Times Crossword Clue Features Sam Nunn School of International Affairs

We loved clue #48 from the May 9 The New York Times crossword puzzle: “Sam for whom Georgia Tech's School of International Affairs is named.” We are proud that the influential former senator from Georgia is a distinguished professor in the College. The School marks its 20th anniversary this year. The Bank of America Sam Nunn Policy Forum is coming up in September. 

Read about the Nunn School

Newsletter on Summer Hiatus

The Ivan Allen College Newsletter will be on hiatus in June and July, returning in August as we move into the Fall semester. Have a great summer!

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