"Addressing the Socioeconomic and Distributional Effects of Open Data Policies: Evidence from the U.S. Landsat Program."
PI: Mariel Borowitz (Nunn School)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Funding: $131,024
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Georgia Tech Introduces Long-Term Initiative to Advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
On Sept. 10, President Ángel Cabrera introduced to campus an initiative advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Modern Languages Chair Stenport moderated the event's virtual panel of distinguished guests from Brookings, Harvard, Spellman, and iShares ETF.
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College Provides Key Expertise to New School of Cybersecurity and Privacy; Programs Ranked #1 by U.S. News
Drawing on their strengths in cybersecurity policy and national security studies the School of Public Policy and the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs place the College in a prominent role in the newly launched School of Cybersecurity and Privacy in the College of Computing and also in Georgia Tech being ranked as the No. 1 Best College for Cybersecurity undergraduate programs.
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Five Metro Atlanta Colleges and Universities Join Forces to Launch New Global Research and Education Collaborative
The Atlanta Global Research and Education Collaborative (AGREC) will help connect the region's international assets through "global at home" projects. AGREC is an initiative of the Modern Languages-led Atlanta Global Studies Center (AGSC), a partnership with Georgia State.
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International Search Underway for Chair of the School of Public Policy
Dean Kaye Husbands Fealing announced Sept. 18 that an international search will take place for the next chair of Georgia Tech’s School of Public Policy.
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Bullinger Explores Covid-19’s Impact on Children, Domestic Violence; A Second Paper Examines Link Between Medicaid Expansions, Child Support Payments
Closures and home sheltering under the Covid-19 pandemic has led to an increase in child abuse and neglect and domestic violence — often in families with no history of such problems, according to new research Assistant Professor Lindsey Bullinger of the School of Public Policy. Bullinger also had a second paper published this month examining the link between Medicaid expansions under the Affordable Care Act and child support payments.
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LMC Faculty Turn to Podcasting as a Teaching Tool During the Pandemic
For LMC faculty Philip Auslander and Melissa Foulger the challenge of virtual classes had the extra layer of trying to teach performance classes. Read more
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Students Play Key Role in Global Covid-19 ‘Game Jam’
The Digital Integrative Liberal Arts Center has released two video games teaching Covid-19 safety, the epidemiological model that powers them, and an explanatory video to benefit developers for one of the world's most influential independent game festivals. Read more
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LMC Writing and Communication Program and HCI Master's Student Named Georgia Tech Diversity Champions
The award to WCP reflects the committment of Rebecca Burnett, who led the program through July 2020, and 40 faculty and Brittain Fellows. Also in LMC, Nandita Gupta, a master's student in Human-Computer Interaction in the Graduate Program in Digital Media was named as Student Diversity Champion. Thirteen faculty, staff, and students in the College were celebrated as Faces of Inclusive Excellence.
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Economist Seung Hoon Lee Explains the World Trade Organization's Response to Export Subsidies
In their forthcoming paper in the Journal of International Economics, Assistant Professor Seung Hoon Lee and co-author Kyle Bagwell of Stanford provide a new rationale for why the World Trade Organization (WTO) bans direct export subsidies. Read more
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David Muchlinski Uses Machine Learning in Search for Ways to Predict Political Violence
Muchlinski, an assistant professor in Georgia Tech’s Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, is pioneering the use of convolutional neural network to analyze social media posts and predict violence with the hope of promoting peace and stability. Read more
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Winnefeld Joins Federal Advisory Board of SpiderOak Mission Systems
Admiral James A. "Sandy" Winnefeld in the Nunn School has joined the Federal Advisory Board of SpiderOak Mission Systems, a "provider of cryptographically-secure communication and collaboration products" that works with government and military clients. Read more
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Shatakshee Dhongde Elected to International Association of Research in Income and Wealth (IARIW)
An associate professor of Economics, Dhongde is now a member of one of the oldest and most highly reputed associations in the field. Read more
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LMC's Nassim Parvin Receives STS Infrastructure Award
Associate Professor Parvin was honored by the Society for Social Studies of Science for her role as a lead editor and other work on the journal Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, and Technoscience. Read more
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Karen Head Named Fulton County Poet Laureate
Head, associate chair and associate professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, has been named the inaugural Fulton County Poet Laureate, a position created by the Fulton County Arts Council. Read more
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Ozkan and Shemyakina Named to Leading Women@Tech Cohort
Sebnem Özkan (AGSC) and Olga Shemyakina (Economics) have been named to the 2020-21 cohort of Leading Women@Tech, an Institute-level program that seeks to "engage women leaders who are in assistant/associate director-level positions and above at the Institute." Read more
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Faculty Selected as Provost's Teaching and Learning Fellows and as Class of 1969 Teaching Fellows
Ten faculty Ivan Allen College faculty members, were chosen for the campus-wide programs as Provost's Teaching and Learning Fellows, and as Class of 1969 Teaching Fellows. Read more
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Check Out the Latest Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Career Roundup
Yes! Career and job opportunities, information sessions, and other information for our humanities and social sciences students are still taking place. Find out the latest here.
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LMC Student Kathryn Higinbotham Co-Authors Guest Piece in AJC
LMC student Kathryn Higinbotham co-authored a piece for Maureen Downey's "Get Schooled" column about her experience as a teaching assistant with an English literature class for adults who were previously incarcerated and found challenge, passion, and mutual support. She credited Brittain Fellows and other Georgia Tech faculty for the success of the class with Common Good Atlanta including Dr. Ruth Yow, Dr. Jonathan Shelley, Dr. Bianca Batti, and Dr. Julia Tigner. Read more
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IAML Alumna Annie Eaton Highlights the Importance of Language Skills in her Career
LMC alumna Annie Eaton, the CEO of Futurus, an Atlanta-based immersive technologies software development company, reflected on her experiences in the School of Modern Languages and her career in the technology industry.
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Third year Ph.D. Student Attends UC Berkeley Program in Environmental and Energy Economics
Vikrant Kamble, a third-year Ph.D. student in the School of Economics, was one of 10 participants from a national pool of applicants. Read more
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Economics' Dante Christmas Elected to ASPIRE Cohort
Congratulations to Dante Christmas, assistant to the chair of the School of Economics, for being selected to Georgia Tech HR's 2020 ASPIRE: Cultivating a Leadership Mindset cohort. Christmas was selected from more than 130 applicants for one of the 45 spots. Read more about ASPIRE, a four-month blended learning experience. Read more
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