Evaluation of the Sloan Minority Ph.D. Program in Science and Engineering
PI: Kaye Husbands Fealing (PubPol)
Sponsor: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Funding: $233,049
Foundational Work in the Study of Student Migration: Post Secondary Data
PI: Julia Melkers (PubPol)
Sponsor: Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation
Funding: $212,260
Developing and Testing Multi-Dimensional Measures of Efficacy for Adults
PI: Julia Melkers (PubPol)
Sponsor: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Funding: $150,000
Ivan Allen Archive Project
PI: Todd Michney (HSOC)
Sponsor: National Endowment for the Humanities
Funding: $99,991
Ricoh Accessibility and Usability Support Program - IBM 2020
PI: Brad Fain (CACP)
Sponsor: Ricoh USA Inc.
Funding: $27,000
Cyber GT Korea Online
PI: Yongtaek Kim (ModLangs)
Sponsor: Atlanta Korean Education Center
Funding: $5,000
What Does Georgia Tech Think?
Selected Press for Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts
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Lawrence Rubin (Nunn School) was interviewed about the killing of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani on the program "Global Watch." CGTN, January 7.
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Interviews Underway with Finalists for Dean Position
An intensive schedule of interviews is underway with three candidates for the position of dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts. The process includes open seminar presentations by each finalist, two of which are external applicants. Kaye Husband Fealing (above center) is chair of the College's School of Public Policy. A recording of Dr. Thies' seminar is available on the Dean Search website. The next candidate seminar and interviews take place on Monday, Feb. 3 and 4. See details on website.
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Mary Frank Fox Elected AAAS Section Chair
Mary Frank Fox, ADVANCE Professor in the School of Public Policy, has been elected chair of the Social, Economic and Political Sciences Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Read more
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Anna Stenport Speaks on Global Learning, Career Education in Liberal Arts, and the Atlanta Factor at AAAC&U Meeting
Anna Westerstahl Stenport, co-director of the Atlanta Global Studies Center and chair of the School of Modern Languages, presented at the annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) on Jan. 24. Read more
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Bourne Chair in Poetry Ilya Kaminsky Wins National Jewish Book Award
Ilya Kaminsky, the Bourne Chair in Poetry at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has won the 2019 National Jewish Book Award in poetry for his book, Deaf Republic. Read more
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Abigail Vaughn Joins Sam Nunn School of International Affairs as an Assistant Professor
Vaughn’s research interests are in international political economy with an emphasis on financial statecraft, comparative financial institutions, and emerging market economies. Read more
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STEM Diversity Scholarships Subject of Kaye Husbands Fealing's $223,049 Sloan Grant
Kaye Husbands Fealing, chair of the School of Public Policy, has received a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to perform the first comprehensive study of its premier program to increase diversity among doctoral students in STEM fields. Read more
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Death Studies Scholar Dina Khapaeva’s ‘Celebration of Death’ Gains New Notice
School of Modern Languages Professor Dina Khapaeva’s 2017 book The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture has been noted by a Russian-book writer for Forbes’ Russian-language edition as one of the country’s most anticipated books of 2020. Read more
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Mark Zachary Taylor's Book "The Politics of Innovation" Translated Into Chinese
Taylor's book, published in 2016 by Oxford University Press, flips the prevailing wisdom that institutions shape the development and innovation of science and technology, instead focusing on the role of politics. Read more
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Todd Michney Receives Nearly $100,000 NEH Grant for Ivan Allen Archive Project
The Ivan Allen Archive Project initiated by Assistant Professor Todd Michney through the College's Digital Integrative Liberal Arts Center (DILAC) has received a two-year, $99,991 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to fund the integration of large-scale text processing and data visualization capabilities into the open-source Omeka platform.
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Economics Doctoral Student Anthony Harding Co-Authors Paper on Solar Geoengineering in ‘Nature Communications’
Solar geoengineering—the intentional reflection of sunlight away from the Earth’s surface—may reduce income inequality among countries, according to a new paper co-authored by School of Economics Ph.D. student Anthony Harding. Read more
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2020 Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Graduate Paper Competition Winners Announced
The student author of a paper examining sexism’s impact in women’s health research, as well as other authors of papers on cyber warfare, postharvest loss and technology development, were honored Tuesday, Jan. 30 as winners of the 2020 Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Graduate Paper Competition.
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Leadership and Multifaith Program and Library Bring Resident Artist to Clough
Artist Abhishek Singh set up shop in the Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons Jan. 16 as part of a weeklong residency. Singh painted for about five hours, working on multiple forms of the elephant-headed god Ganesha in conjunction with the exhibit Transcendent Deities of India: The Everyday Occurrence of the Divine, on display at Emory University’s Michael C. Carlos Museum. Singh’s residency was sponsored by the Georgia Tech Library and the Leadership and Multi-Faith Program (LAMP), a partnership between the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts and Emory’s Candler School of Theology.
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