 |
|
 |
|
|
|
Endicott Named President of Korean University John
Endicott, Professor and Director for the Center for International
Strategy, Technology and Policy (CISTP), has been named as South
Korea's Woosong University next president and vice chancellor. He will
also serve as the vice chancellor of Solbridge International, which
specializes in international affairs and business management, in
Daejeon, South Korea. Endicott will be the first American president of
a four-year private university in South Korea. “We're building an
innovative school of business and international studies in Daejeon that
will give students a real international experience, not only in Korea
but other parts of Asia,” Endicott said. |
|
Sam Nunn School Becomes Official Member of APSIA  In
August, 2007, the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs (INTA) was
admitted to the Association of Professional Schools of International
Affairs (APSIA), the leading association of professional schools of
international affairs worldwide. "This achievement signifies the
quality and maturity of our master's degree program and membership will
bring greater recognition for the Sam Nunn School of International
Affairs, Ivan Allen College, and Georgia Institute of Technology and
improve the School's recruitment and placement of students," noted
William Long, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs Chair. APSIA
comprises 30 member schools in the United States, Asia, and Europe
dedicated to the improvement of professional education in international
affairs and the advancement of international understanding, prosperity,
peace, and security. |
|
Bowman Selected to Receive BOR Teaching Excellence Award Kirk
Bowman, Associate Professor, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs,
has been selected to receive the 2007 Board of Regents Teaching
Excellence Award. A panel of reviewers comprised of department chairs
and faculty members across the university system unanimously
recommended Bowman in recognition of his creation of an innovative
classroom environment and the critical analysis skills he develops in
his students. Bowman will be honored at a ceremony in Atlanta on March
29, 2008. |
|
Colatrella Receives Geoffrey Eichholz Teaching Award Carol
Colatrella, Professor, School of Literature, Communication, and Culture
(LCC), has received the Geoffrey Eicholz Teaching Award for excellence
in teaching core courses, one of only two faculty each to receive this
award. The Eichholz Faculty Teaching Fund provides winners with an
annual salary supplement of $5,000 for three years (2007-08, 2008-09,
2009-10). The award recognizes tenured or tenure-track professors who
have made a long-term contribution to undergraduate teaching at Georgia
Tech, and who have made undergraduate education their primary focus in
the later stages of their career. |
|
Persons Serves on the Horowitz Foundation Board of Trustees Georgia
Persons, Professor, School of Public Policy, has been named to the
Board of Trustees of the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy. The
Horowitz Foundation awards annual grants directly to individuals who
are in the early stages of their careers. Additionally, the Horowitz
Foundation provides a series of Special Awards that carry an enhanced
stipend, including the Martinus Nijhoff Award for promising research on
the implications of scientific, technological, and medical research. |
|
Modern Languages Professor Receives Grant Xiaoliang
Li, Associate Professor, School of Modern Languages, has received a
Department of Education (DOE) grant for $329,000 over the next three
years. Li's project, entitled, “Teaching Chinese for the 21st Century,”
will entail redeveloping the way Chinese courses are taught online. |
|
Studies Show Disparities of Dissemination of Benefits In an article in the May issue of EurekAlert!,
a leading science policy analyst, Susan Cozzens, Professor, School of
Public Policy and Associate Dean of Research for the Ivan Allen
College, urges greater emphasis on community participation and a
fundamental shift in the way scientific research is carried out. "The
challenge here is that economic growth is a very good thing, of course,
but it doesn't actually automatically produce the kind of society that
we want to live in. It doesn't produce all of those characteristics,"
states Cozzens, whose research has delved into the on-the-ground
impacts of frontier research over the past 150 years. Her studies, for
example, show that in the U.S. vast disparities have existed when it
comes to dissemination of benefits between rich and poor, among ethnic
groups, and between men and women. Cozzens feels interventions at an
earlier stage could substantially raise the quality of life. |
|
Pearce Appears on PBA and NPR Celia Pearce, Assistant Professor, LCC, was interviewed on Public Broadcasting Atlanta Morning Edition on July 31. The topic was ActionQuest:ATL,
an interactive game co-created by Pearce, played out on the streets and
neighborhoods of Atlanta, where the goal is not racking up the most
points or defeating evil warlords but making the world a better place
and having fun in the process. The game engages players in a series of
cooperative quests that involve taking real-world social action in
specific locations, such as identifying a need for homeless shelters or
beautifying neighborhoods with wildflowers in vacant lots. Pearce also
appeared on National Public Radio
on June 28, where she discussed the transformative experiences people
often have through their avatars, the digital image of their online
characters. |
|
Wang Comments on Food Contamination of Chinese Pet Food In
the wake of troubling reports of tainted Chinese pet food ingredients
killing and sickening thousands of dogs and cats in the United States,
China faces growing international pressure to prove that its food
exports are safe to eat. "We're now learning some of the dirty secrets
behind this fast-growing economy," says Fei-Ling Wang, Professor, Sam
Nunn School of International Affairs, in the International Herald Tribune,
May 17; "And the dirty secret is they're cutting corners in making
things." In the aftermath of the pet food scare, which may have caused
as many as 4,000 animal deaths, regulators around the world are
stepping up inspections of Chinese agricultural goods and even blocking
some imports. |
|
Goodman Comments on Internet-based Attacks in Estonia Seymour Goodman, Professor, Sam Nunn of International Affairs and College of Computing, states in the GovernmentComputer News,
August 13, that there is not enough evidence to prove that Moscow
planned or carried out an Internet attack on Estonia that left the
former Soviet state reeling for nearly three weeks. The wave of attacks
targeted a range of Estonian Web sites, from newspapers to schools and
even the Ministry of Defense. Goodman predicts conflicts in cyberspace
likely will plague nations big and small for many years to come. “This
will go on forever,” he said. "The IT community must go beyond law
enforcement to secure an increasingly vital information
infrastructure," such as the Civil Aviation Convention. |
|
Augmented Reality Set to Transform Entertainment and Education In IEEE Spectrum Online For Tech Insiders,
August 7, two Georgia Tech faculty members - Jay Bolter, Professor and
Wesley Chair of New Media Studies, School of Literature, Communication,
and Culture, and Blair MacIntyre, Associate Professor, College of
Computing - describe alternative ways to tell the tale of one Sarah K.
Dye, who lived through the Union Army's siege of Atlanta in the summer
of 1864. The conventional way is to set up a plaque that narrates how
she lost her infant son to disease and carried his body through Union
lines during an artillery exchange to reach Oakland Cemetery and bury
him there. The other way, the authors suggest, is to show her actually
doing it. As they state in their article, "You'd be in the cemetery,
just as it is today, but it would be overlaid with the sounds and
sights of long ago. A headset as comfortable and fashionable as
sunglasses would use tiny lasers to paint high-definition images on
your retina—virtual images that would blend seamlessly with those from
your surroundings." |
|
Chinese Economists Society Conference a Success
Haizheng Li, Associate Professor, School of Economics and President of
the Chinese Economists Society, organized the Chinese Economist Society
(CES) conference, "Economic Transition, Regional Growth and Sustainable
Development," in China in July. He states, “In this meeting, more than
360 scholars, government researchers and officials, graduate students,
and local business executives came to share their experiences and
opinions." The conference featured two plenary sessions, five keynote
speeches, and a total of forty-one parallel sessions, including the
Brookings-Tsinghua Roundtable and the Elsevier Authors' Workshop.
Keynote speakers included Kenneth Arrow, Nobel Laureate, Stanford
University; Gregory Chow, Princeton University; Sir James Mirrlees,
Nobel Laureate, University of Cambridge; T. Paul Schultz, Yale
University; and Dr. Yong Shang, Vice Minister, China Ministry of
Science and Technology. |
|
Breznitz Visits Ireland Discussing Turning Research into Commerce Dan
Breznitz, Assistant Professor, the Sam Nunn School of International
Affairs and the School of Public Policy, visited Ireland this past
summer as a guest of the State to meet Ireland's chief science advisor,
Patrick Cunningham. Their meeting focused on how innovation policy can
affect industry on a national basis and society as a whole. "All
countries should be concerned about their innovation policy because it
is connected to economic growth," Breznitz states. It leads to new
companies that produce jobs and wealth, but it should also have a wider
impact. "It is at least as important that through the diffusion of
technology you have a rise in productivity in all sectors [of the
economy]." While there, he also was interviewed on Good Morning Ireland, June 6, (listen to the interview); and click here for the official government description of his visit described in Enterprise Ireland, June 5. |
|
Ian Bogost on the 'Colbert Report' on Comedy Central In an appearance on August 8 on the Colbert Report on the Comedy Central Channel, Ian Bogost, Assistant Professor, LCC, talked about his new book, Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames,
and how he wants to harness interactive entertainment to do "more than
just tool around in fantasy land." Bogost also was interviewed by Mike
Schneider in Bloomberg News (July 22), discussing his book, the CNN/YouTube debates, and the various ways in which media can affect today's society.
In fact, Bogost and his company, Persuasive Games, is partnering with the New York Times (NYT) to launch an exclusive monthly series of casual Flash-based games that tackle tough political issues. Called "newsgames" or "op-ets" (opinion-entertainment), they are designed to be casual in style, play, and challenge, but complex thematically. The first NYT offering is Food Import Folly, a game which dramatizes the challenges faced by inspectors charged with ensuring the safety of our food supply. Also, in an article for Gamasutra, (June 13), Bogost comments on V-Tech Rampage, a web game that recreates the Virginia Tech massacre, created by 21 year-old Australian hobbyist animator and game developer Ryan Lambourn." In the article, Bogost poses the question, "If V-Tech Rampage offers an example of an unsophisticated, negligent take on the tragedy, what would a thoughtful, conscientious one look like? This question cannot afford to remain hypothetical any longer. So I hereby issue a challenge to the videogame industry: to create a videogame about the Virginia Tech tragedy. One worthy of reflection. One that captures the event's despair as well as much as its brutality. One that the public can respect even if it makes them uncomfortable." Bogost also appeared in Wired Magazine (June 26), discussing Fatworld, his latest web game, wherein players navigate a consumer paradise, rule their own empire of restaurants and convenience stores, and enjoy food allergies, diabetes, heart disease, and death all powered by sarcasm and social commentary. |
|
HTS Establishes New Student Awards The
School of History, Technology, and Society (HTS) has announced the
establishment of three new student awards and recipients have already
been selected for two of them. Graduate student Chris McGahey received
the Walter B. Jones Fellowship Funds award, which includes a $2000
stipend for dissertation support. Also, Kristi Miller received The
Radio Club of American Foundation Award of $1,500, which is awarded to
the best student in the History of Technology. The winner of the third
award, The Slotkin Award, will be announced within the next couple of
weeks. |
|
Dion Receives Sandell Grant Michelle
Dion, Assistant Professor, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs,
has been awarded a Sandell Grant for her proposed study, "Sources of Support for Pension Privatization: The U.S. in Comparative Perspective."
The Center for Retirement Research at Boston College sponsors the
Steven H. Sandell Grant Program for Junior Scholars in Retirement
Research on an annual basis. |
|