Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts

During an October 19th roundtable event at the Federal Reserve Bank in Atlanta emphasizing new research on the economic outlook for Latin America, Kirk Bowman forecasted a cautious outlook for sustainable growth in Brazil.

The Georgia Institute of Technology and Shepherd Center have been awarded a $4.75 million, five-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) for research and development of wireless technologies aimed at enhancing the lives of people with disabilities. The grant supports the continuation of a decade of innovative research and engineering at the Wireless Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center (RERC), a collaboration between Shepherd Center and Georgia Tech.

A new report by the Center for Advanced Communications Policy (CACP) in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts shows that a networked economy and new digital media technology have transformed the employment landscape for adults with disabilities, especially for those under the age of 30.

Santanu Dey's research is in the area of non convex optimization, and in particular mixed integer linear and nonlinear programming. His research is partly motivated by applications of non convex and discrete optimization arising in areas such as economics, computer vision, logistics and petroleum industry. Santanu Dey worked as a research fellow at the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) of the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium. He joined the faculty of the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering as an assistant professor on July 1, 2009.

Today the citizens of Liberia will elect a president, eight years after the end of its civil war, with the specter of violence still hanging overhead. But what if social media, Professor Michael Best (The Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and Interactive Computing) is asking, could identify and even help prevent dangerous situations from occurring?

The year ahead will feature new and increasingly sophisticated means to capture and exploit user data, as well as escalating battles over the control of online information that threatens to compromise content and erode public trust and privacy. Those were the findings announced by the Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC) and the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) in today's release of the Georgia Tech Emerging Cyber Threats Report for 2012. The report was released at the annual Georgia Tech Cyber Security Summit, a gathering of industry and academic leaders who have distinguished themselves in the field of cyber security.

Bill Winders, Associate Professor of Sociology in the School of History, Technology, and Society, has won two prestigious awards for publications on food politics.

A new report by the Center for Advanced Communications Policy (CACP) in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts shows that a networked economy and new digital media technology have transformed the employment landscape for adults with disabilities, especially for those under the age of 30.

EarSketch, a new NSF-funded project in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, will try to encourage African American high schoolers to learn computer science by teaching them to write computer code for remixing hip hop music. 

Marilyn Brown, Professor in the School of Public Policy, is a member of the panel of climate change experts who delivered their final report to Congress on May 9th affirming "strong evidence on climate change" and urging "strong federal policies that establish coherent national goals and incentives, and that promote strong U.S. engagement in international-level response efforts."

"Run of the Red Queen: Government, Innovation, Globalization, and Economic Growth in China" - a recent book by Associate Professor Dan Breznitz and MSIA Student Michael Murphree - praised and recognized through various news sources.

Jason Landrum (INTA PhD Student) publishes in Deep Sea Research, "Basin-scale distributions of stable nitrogen isotopes in the subtropical North Atlantic Ocean: Contribution of diazotroph nitrogen to particulate organic matter and mesozooplankton."