Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts

Academic scholars have been largely absent from the current debate over prospects for eliminating nuclear weapons. Mainstays of teaching and research in political science and international relations programs during the Cold War, the subjects of nuclear strategy and deterrence, today, are either taken for granted or simply overlooked. Now, in the midst of increased momentum for a national and global non-proliferation agenda, Adam Stulberg has launched a project to reinvigorate scholarship on the issue: the “Program on Strategic Stability Evaluation (POSSE): Re-thinking Stability Criteria along the “Road to Zero””.

Angela Dalle Vacche, Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture and an internationally renowned film scholar has been honored with the prestigious Choice award for her book, "Diva: Defiance and Passion in Early Italian Cinema" (University of Texas Press, 2008). Choice is the official publication of the Association of College and Research Libraries in the United States and bestows the award annually in recognition of an exceptional scholarly work.

Jennifer Clark, Assistant Professor in the Ivan Allen College School of Public Policy, and co-author Susan Christopherson (City and Regional Planning, Cornell) have won the 2009 Regional Studies Association Best Book Award for their work "Remaking Regional Economies: Power, Labor, and Firm Strategies in the Knowledge Economy" (Routledge, 2008).

What happens when technology runs amok? The "Too Smart City" exhibit at The Urban Center in Manhattan offers a humorous answer. The exhibit is by David Jimison, Ph.D. candidate in the Digital Media program at the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts. The "smart bench" (at right) dumps 'loafers'. Videos of the 'smart bench' and "Too Smart City" in action accompany the story.

The President and the Provost of Georgia Tech have announced a nationwide search for a new dean of the Ivan Allen College who can lead the College to continued prominence and accomplishment. The new dean will be a successor to Dean Sue V. Rosser who departed the Ivan Allen College this summer to assume the position of Provost at San Francisco State University.

Amira Mouna, an undergrad from the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, was selected as one of the winners of the 2009 SAIC - Georgia Tech Student Paper Competition for her essay on "Analysis of Neoliberalist and Realist Perspectives of Bionanotechnology in Iran."

The Sam Nunn-Bank of America Policy forum will take place March 29, 2010. Presented by Georgia Tech’s Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, the Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy, and the Ivan Allen College, the 2010 forum will explore the challenges and opportunities for pursuing a path towards a world free of nuclear weapons.

At the advent of the millennium, the College set ambitious goals to cultivate a distinctive and influential research identity. It aligned its research profile with the Institute, focusing on human and societal aspects of engineering, science, technology, and computing. Faculty began pursuing significant external funding to support research. By all measures, it has been a decade of extraordinary growth and success.

Applications for Sam Nunn Fellows are now being accepted for the Academic Year 2010/11.

Deadline for Applications is Friday, 19 March 2010 @ 5pm.

Fox Harrell, Assistant Professor, School of Literature, Communication, and Culture has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his project "Computing for Advanced Identity Representation (AIR)." The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is the National Science Foundation's most prestigious award in support of junior faculty. Harrell's award is accompanied by a five year $535,000 grant.

Prof Kosal delivers brief on nanotechnology and chemical weapons agents at the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague, The Netherlands on November 9th.

David Jimison, Ph.D. candidate in the Digital Media program at the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, is exhibiting "Too Smart City" at The Urban Center in Manhattan. The exhibit asks the question, "what happens when technology runs amok?"

Professor Adam N. Stulberg of the Center for International Strategy, Technology & Policy at Georgia Tech and Professor William C. Potter of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) at the Monterey Institute of International Studies invite applications to participate in the newly formed Program on Strategic Stability Evaluation (POSSE). This joint initiative is generously supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York (CCNY).

POSSE seeks to promote international scholarship on issues of strategic stability under deeply reduced or eliminated nuclear arsenals. The objectives of the program are to: a) forge a global network of young scholars on strategic stability; b) increase interaction both between members of the network and between the network and policy practitioners; c) fill knowledge and methodological gaps concerning analysis of strategic stability; and d) identify the means to advance and sustain nuclear arms reductions and disarmament under changing strategic landscapes.

The Obama administration’s emphasis on research-based policy-making and human resources for science and engineering gives new import in the U.S. to the type of dialog that unfolded during the Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy Oct 2-3.

Why do Silicon Valley and Boston continue to thrive as high tech industry hubs while other promising areas stagnate? It’s a question long debated by researchers, but new findings by Dan Breznitz of the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and School of Public Policy, identify localized business connections and funding as imperatives. In a case study focusing on Atlanta, Breznitz highlights critical changes needed for that city and provides a roadmap for other regions looking to grow high tech industry.