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• POSSE Emerging Technologies and Strategic Stability Workshop

  July 6, 2016

  On June 2-4, 2016, the Program on Strategic Stability Evaluation (POSSE) hosted a workshop in Washington, D.C. that brought together promising academics from across the globe to analyze alternative theoretical frameworks and methodologies appropriate to advancing POSSE’s shift towards understanding the strategic implications of emerging technologies against the shadow of lingering but variable nuclear salience across different regions of the globe. Topics discussed during the two day workshop included Cyber, Survivability, Escalation, Arms Control, and Signaling.

  

• Clean Power Will Cut Our Electricity Bills

  June 27, 2016

  Professor Marilyn Brown releases a study examining how the Obama Administration's Clean Power Plan will cut costs for American families.

• Students Explore Southeast Asia

  June 20, 2016

  Students studying nontraditional security issues while trekking through Southeast Asia

  

• Ivan Allen Jr. Documentary Nominated for Emmy Award

  June 16, 2016

  The documentary on the life and legacy of Ivan Allen Jr. has been nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Historical Documentary

  

• Global Economic Crisis Is Focus for International Urban Innovation Conference

  June 16, 2016

  Scholars from around the world met the week of June 16, 2016 to discuss new trends in urban planning and development at a conference organized by the Georgia Tech Center for Urban Innovation directed by public policy professor Jennifer Clark.

  

• An ISIS Containment Doctrine

  June 14, 2016

  Georgia Tech Professors Lawrence Rubin, Ph.D. and Jenna Jordan, Ph.D. outline key strategies for containing ISIS.

  

• Local Writer Makes First Contribution to New Fund for 'Atlanta Review'

  June 6, 2016

  Local Writer and Poetry Scholar Dan Veach makes first contribution to fund for the Atlantic Review, a Georgia Tech publication.

  

• Brown on Committee for Historic Event in the Nuclear Industry

  June 4, 2016

  Professor Marilyn Brown chaied the TVA Nuclear Oversight Committee which oversaw the first U.S. nuclear generation of the 21st century is connected.

• Rubin Speaks at Sykes-Picot Centennial Event

  June 1, 2016

  Associate Professor of International Affairs, Lawrence Rubin, Ph.D. Speaks at Sykes-Picot Centennial Event alongside other scholars in international affairs and politics.

  

• Singh Keynotes Georgia Autism Conference

  May 26, 2016

  Jennifer Singh, assistant professor in the Ivan Allen College School of History and Sociology, was a keynote speaker for the Autism Conference and Expo of Georgia held April 14 - 15, 2016, in Peachtree City, Georgia. Singh led the State of Research conversation for the conference and was on a panel with Cathy Rice, director of the Emory Autism Center, to discuss research priorities and future directions for autism spectrum disorder. 

  

• Georgia Tech to Host Cybersecurity Program for Executives

  May 25, 2016

  On July 25 - 29, Georgia Tech will welcome senior executives from industry and government for an intensive four-day program on cybersecurity risks.

  

• Fealing and Walsh Present at the National Academies

  May 23, 2016

  Public Policy professors Kaye Husbands Fealing and John Walsh presented at National Academies events in May.

  

• Spring and All: The Mirror Phase and a Modernist Imagination

  May 19, 2016

  This excerpt from an essay by Associate Professor Blake Leland “applies a psychoanalytic framework to William Carlos Williams’ critical mid-life attempt, in “Spring and All,” to express to himself and for himself his own urgent notion of poetic Imagination. The essay proposes that the qualities Williams attributes to genuine manifestations of the poetic imagination have their psychical foundations in the mirror phase of primary narcissism. Poem XXII, also known as “The Red Wheelbarrow,” is presented as the exemplary case.”

  

• Two Ivan Allen College Students Awarded Fulbright Scholarships

  May 18, 2016

  Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts students Anne Lashinsky and Dillon Roseen are among five Georgia Tech Fulbright grant recipients for the upcoming academic year.

  

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

  May 12, 2016

  Margaret E. Kosal, professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, has been appointed co-editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed, scholarly journal Politics and the Life Sciences (PLS) which is published by Cambridge University Press.

  

• Secretary of Defense Commemorates 25th Anniversary of Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program

  May 9, 2016

  The U.S. Department of Defense commemorated the 25th anniversary of the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) legislation in a special program at the Pentagon on May 9, 2016. With Sam Nunn and Dick Lugar present, Defense Secretary Ash Carter presented the inaugural Nunn-Lugar Trailblazer Awards and dedicated a key Pentagon conference room to the two former senators. The ceremony was followed by a panel discussion among Secretary Carter, and Senators Nunn and Lugar.

   

  

• GT to Host North American Society for Sport History Conference

  May 6, 2016

  The North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) will hold its annual convention at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center in Atlanta Georgia, from May 27-May 30, 2016.

  

• You’ll Never Dance Alone with This Artificial Intelligence Project

  April 28, 2016

  LuminAI allows people to get move with a computer-controlled dancer, which “watches” the person and improvises its own moves based on prior experiences. When the human responds, the computerized figure reacts again, creating an impromptu dance couple based on artificial intelligence.

  

• Nair-Reichert Completes Fulbright Specialist Grant Work at Warsaw School of Economics

  April 28, 2016

  Economics professor Usha Nair-Reichert was awarded a Fulbright specialist's award during the academic year 2015-16. This prestigious award enabled her to visit the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH), one of the premier institution in the field of economics in Poland, and collaborate with the World Economy Research Institute (WERI) in program development and research. 

  

• Sam Nunn and Bill Perry Discuss Strategies to Prevent Nuclear Warfare

  April 28, 2016

  On April 26, the Ivan Allen College Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech, in collaboration with the University of Georgia’s distinguished Charter Lecture Series, co-hosted a remote video viewing of Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe in an Age of Nuclear Terrorism: A Conversation with Bill Perry and Sam Nunn with the Georgia Tech Chapter of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management (INMM).

  

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