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EVENTS
- February 19, 2007
Connect with Tech
- February 20, 2007
In celebration of Black History Month
African Societies in Development: Critical Challenges and Successes
Ferst Room, 7th floor of the Library
11:00-12:30pm
SPP Professional Development Seminar
Polishing Your Resume: What to Say and Not to Say in Your Curriculum Vitae
DM Smith, Room 303
3:00-4:00pm
HTS Panel Discussion on Slavery and Justice
Student Success Center, Press Room 1, floor 2R
4:00-5:30pm
- February 22, 2007
WST Learning Community Event
WST Lrn C Open House
Stein House, 4th Street A Apts Study Lounge
6:00-7:00pm
- February 23-28, 2007
DramaTech presents
Assassins
DramaTech
8:00-10:00pm
- February 24, 2007
Community Poetry Workshop
Workshop with Anthony Kellman
Wesley New Media Center, Skiles Room 10
10:00am-4:00pm
- February 27, 2007
Sparks Forum on Ethics and Engineering
Ethics and Engineering Education
Professor Louis Bucciarelli of MIT
Student Success Center
President's Suite B
4:00-6:00pm
WST Learning Community Event
Project-Based Learning with Anette Kolmos
Clary Theatre, Bill Moore Student Success Center
4:00-5:00pm
- February 28-March 3, 2007
AWP Bookfair Exhibit
Atlanta Hilton
- February 28, 2007
Innovations in Economic Development Forum
Technology Corridors Revisited
Thomas Ballard, Director, Economic Development and Partnerships
Centergy Building @Tech Square, Hodges Conference Room, Third Floor
3:30-4:30pm
WST Learning Community Event
WST Lrn C Open House
Stein House, 4th Street A Apts Study Lounge
6:00-7:00pm
- March 1, 2007
Globalization, Innovation, and Development
Jonah Levy, University of California, Berkeley
The State after Statism: The Changing Economic Role of the State in the Age of Liberalization
Student Center, Room 319
11:00-12:00pm
WST Learning Community Event
Mary Childers, Politics of Memoir
Piedmont Room, Student Center
4:00-5:00pm
Chinese Film Festival
The World
Bill Moore Student Success Center, Clary Theatre
7:00-9:00pm
- March 4-5, 2007
Connect with Tech
- March 6, 2007
SPP Professional Development Seminar
Presentations at Professional Meetings: When? Why? How?
DM Smith, Room 303
3:00-4:00pm
- March 8, 2007
Chinese Film Festival
The Wedding Banquet
Bill Moore Student Success Center, Clary Theatre
7:00-9:00pm
- March 10, 2007
Community Poetry Workshop
Workshop with Thomas Lux
Wesley New Media Center, Skiles Room 10
10:00am-4:00pm
- March 15, 2007
Ivan Allen College Founder's Day
Biltmore Hotel
12:00-1:30pm
Poetry @ Tech
Thomas Lux introduces Emerging Poets
Clary Theatre, Success Center
4:30-6:30pm
Ivan Allen College Website
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Couch to Give Allen Prize Address at Founder's Day
The
Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at Georgia Tech announces that Dr.
Carol A. Couch, director of the Environmental Protection Division (EPD)
within the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, will give the Allen
Prize Address at the College's annual Founder's Day luncheon on March
15 at 1 p.m. at The Biltmore in midtown Atlanta. Dr. Couch's address,
“The Challenges of Georgia's Changing Landscape,” is open to the
public. “We are pleased that Dr. Couch, a leader and proponent
of environmental policy in Georgia and a Georgia Tech alumna, will help
us celebrate the legacy of Charles and Lessie Smithgall, this year's
recipients of the Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Progress and Service,” says
Sue V. Rosser, dean of the Ivan Allen College. “The Smithgalls' love of
the environment shows in their many gifts to the state of Georgia,
Georgia Tech and other Georgia institutions so it is fitting that Dr.
Couch will speak about the changing landscape in Georgia.”
Couch,
the first woman to lead EPD in its 35-year history, was appointed by
Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue and the Board of Natural Resources in
October 2003. As director, she is responsible for an 850-person agency
that implements and enforces 26 state and four federal laws designed to
protect, conserve and restore Georgia's environmental resources.
Couch
chairs the Water Council, a coordinating committee charged with
overseeing the development of a comprehensive statewide water plan. She
also serves on the Board of Directors of the Clean Air Campaign and is
on the Board of Trustees of the Livable Communities Coalition.
Before
joining EPD, Couch was a member of the United States Geological Survey
(USGS), leading nationally distributed, multi-disciplinary teams of
engineers, hydrologists, chemists and biologists in the design, conduct
and reporting of water resource investigations. She also served as
southeastern regional biologist in the southeastern region, and as
hydrologist in the Georgia District of the USGS Water Resources
Division.
Couch received her Ph.D. in ecology from
the University of Georgia, her master's degree from the University of
South Carolina and a bachelor's degree from the Georgia Institute of
Technology. Her graduate studies focused on the ecology of coastal
rivers and estuaries.
She was born in
Nuremberg, Germany and settled in Columbus, Georgia upon her father's
retirement from the U.S. Army. Her love of nature grew from fishing and
hunting with her father in Georgia's beautiful and diverse outdoors.
Couch is an avid hiker, landscape painter, sometime golfer and is
currently writing a series of travel essays.
At the
Founder's Day celebration, the Ivan Allen College will honor the
recipients of the 2007 Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Progress and
Service—Charles and Lessie Smithgall. Previous recipients of the Ivan
Allen Jr. Prize for Progress and Service include Jesse Hill Jr.,
Atlanta businessman and civil rights leader (2006); Will Wright,
co-founder of Maxis and original designer of SimCity and The Sims
computer games (2005); former Senator Sam Nunn, co-chairman and chief
executive officer of the Nuclear Threat Initiative (2004); Molly Ivins,
nationally syndicated columnist (2003); Jimmy Carter, former U.S.
President and Georgia Governor (2002); and Zell Miller, former U.S.
Senator and Georgia Governor (2001).
More details about Founder's Day celebration and the Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Progress and Service are available online at http://www.foundersday.iac.gatech.edu/index.html.
For information on attending the 2007 Ivan Allen College Founder's Day
award ceremony, please contact Carol Silvers at 404.894.9539, or
on-line at carol.silvers@iac.gatech.edu. |
North Korean Diplomats Visit Sam Nunn School's CISTP
The
Sam Nunn School of International Affairs (INTA) and the Center for
International Strategy, Technology, and Policy (CISTP) hosted two
high-ranking North Korean diplomats last December for a series of
confidential informal diplomatic events. While on campus, the North
Korean officials met with two INTA classes to hear their proposals
concerning the current nuclear crisis on the Korean Peninsula, and to
review and critique US policy toward the Democratic People's Republic
of Korea. |
Rosser Serves as Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer
Dean Sue Rosser has been selected as a 2007-2008 Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer. She will present her findings of her book, The Science Glass Ceiling: Academic Women Scientists and their Struggle to Succeed,
and discuss "Transforming Institutions through ADVANCE". This series
features presentations by outstanding academics at the leading edge of
science. The Sigma Xi lectures are supported by Sigma Xi members, with
additional support from the American Meteorological Society, the
National Academy of Engineering, and the Society for Risk Analysis. |
Writing Association Comes to Atlanta
The
Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) annual conference,
which is free and open to the public, will take place this year at the
Atlanta Hilton, March 2-3, and beginning at 8:30 pm. The conference
will host more than 250 literary events, featuring dozens of
internationally renowned literary figures, Pulitzer Prize winners, and
National Book Award recipients, including John Barth, Kaye Gibbons,
Coleman Barks, and members of the Academy of American Poets. The
mission of AWP, founded in 1967, is to foster literary talent and
achievement, to advance the art of writing as essential to a good
education, and to serve the makers, teachers, students, and readers of
contemporary writing. |
Living Games World III Set for March 29th
This year marks the third instantiation of Living Game Worlds Symposium, Playing with Reality,
which will take place on March 29th at Technology Square Research
Building. Presented by the School of Literature, Communication, and
Culture and the Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center (GVU),
this annual event explores emerging questions in design and theory in
the production and critique of video games. This year, the symposium
will focus on games that take on real-world topics and address some of
the potential risks and pitfalls inherent in merging play with reality. |
Pearson Appears in NOVA Program
Dr.
Willie Pearson Jr., Professor, School of History, Technology, and
Society, has been an advisor to the NOVA program “Forgotten Genius”, a
TV documentary about the personal and professional life of Percy
Julian, the first black chemist to become a member of the National
Academy of Sciences. The program aired originally on February 6 on
local PBS stations. Pearson, who specializes in science and technology
policy-related research on the professional development of minority
scientists and engineers, helped with many aspects of the project,
reviewing the producers' materials, critiquing proposals, serving as a
member of the program's advisory board, and on-air expert commentator. |
IAML and GEML Serve as Models for Foreign Language Study
Two
new undergraduate degree programs were singled out for praise in a
recent congressional testimony. Testifying before the House on January
25, 2007, Diane W. Birckbichler, Director, Foreign Language Center and
Chair, Department of French and Italian, The Ohio State University. She
identified the Bachelor of Science degree in Global Economics and Modern Languages (GEML) and the Bachelor of Science degree in International Affairs and Modern Languages
(IAML) as innovative undergraduate degrees, noting that these programs
"prepare graduates for the types of jobs available in both the public
and private sector." Both programs combine rigorous training in a
discipline with intensive foreign language and cultural study. |
Video Games Tackle Social and Political Issues
In an article in the International Herald Tribune, January 18, Ian Bogost, Assistant Professor, School of Literature, Communication, and Culture, along with his company, Persuasive Games,
was cited as creating "playable editorial cartoons," as he calls them —
that are packed with political messages. Among his creations is a game
that challenges users to double the price of crude oil by afflicting a
fantasy land with a series of natural disasters. Bogost is among a
growing number of designers who develop video games that focus and
comment on the world's social and political ills. "I'm not against fun.
I like to play the same video games everyone else does. But I don't
believe that video games have to be fun," Bogost said. "I think they
need to be given the opportunity to bother and disturb us." |
INTA Graduate Awarded Gates-Cambridge Scholarship
Graduating
from Georgia Tech in Spring 2006 with a degree in Applied Biology and
International Affairs (INTA), Nabil Wilf has won the Gates-Cambridge
scholarship, which is an international scholarship program to enable
outstanding graduate students from outside the United Kingdom to study
at the University of Cambridge. He is currently on a Fulbright
scholarship in Kuwait and will pursue a Ph.D. in Genetics at Cambridge.
The scholarships are awarded on the basis of a person's intellectual
ability, leadership capacity and desire to use their knowledge to
contribute to society throughout the world by providing service to
their communities and applying their talents and knowledge to improve
the lives of others along with a strong aptitude for research,
analysis, and a creative approach to defining and solving problems. |
Georgia Tech Receives Internationalization Award
Georgia
Tech is a recipient of the Senator Paul Simon Internationalization
Award for 2007. The development of the nomination proposal was a team
effort including
William Long, Chair and Professor, The Sam Nunn School of International
Affairs, and Phil McKnight, Chair and Professor, School of Modern
Languages.
This award recognizes institutions for overall excellence in
internationalization efforts as evidenced in practices, structures,
philosophies, and policies. The award will be formally announced in May
2007. |
Economics Professor Passes Away
William
Biven, 82, Professor Emeritus, School of Economics, died of pulmonary
fibrosis on January 18. During Biven's 44-year career at Georgia Tech,
he received teaching awards including Georgia Tech Outstanding Teacher
in 1966, Outstanding Professor Award for the Master's Program in
Management in 1990, and Outstanding Teaching in the College of
Management in 1997. He also found time to write a few books, including Who Killed John Maynard Keynes? in 1989 and Jimmy Carter's Economy: Policy in an Age of Limits
in 2002. Biven had a lifetime love of sports and played basketball at
St. Mary's College in Kentucky before attending St. Louis University to
earn his doctorate in economics. |
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