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• Omar Asensio Awarded 40 for 40 Fellowship by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management

  

  September 21, 2018

  Omar Isaac Asensio, an assistant professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Public Policy, has been awarded the 40 for 40 Fellowship by the Association for Public Policy and Management (APPAM). This 2018-exclusive program provides funding for 40 outstanding early career research professionals to attend APPAM's Fall Research Conference, which is a premier conference for attracting high-quality work on a wide variety of current and emerging policy and management issues.

• Mary Frank Fox Recognized by President Peterson

  

  September 21, 2018

  President Peterson recognized Mary Frank Fox in his Institute Address.

• Omar Asensio Works with City of Albany on Smart Communities Challenge

  

  September 7, 2018

  Omar Isaac Asensio, assistant professor in the Georgia Tech School of Public Policy, was recently selected to work on one of four projects for the Georgia Smart Communities Challenge.

• Public Policy, Robotics, and Solving the STEM Teacher Challenge

  

  September 6, 2018

  Georgia Tech's School of Public Policy is an ideal place to study tough problems, says graduate student Ed Barker. That includes the shortage of STEM teachers, which he's taking on in his studies, and with the championship robotics team he mentors.

• School of Public Policy Alumni provide advice to current students

  

  September 5, 2018

  School of Public Policy hosted an event where alumni provided students valuable tips for success.

• School of Public Policy’s Brown Analyzes New Energy Policy

  

  August 22, 2018

  The Trump administration’s replacement for the Obama-era Clean Power Plan falls short of emission reduction goals promised by that rule, but could remove an obstacle to modernization for some plants, according to Marilyn Brown, Regent’s Professor in the School of Public Policy.

• Sustainable Development and Climate Change in Italy, Summer 2018

  

  August 16, 2018

  The Georgia Tech Study Abroad Program on Sustainable Development and Climate Change in Italy offers a multi-disciplinary learning experience through a combination of in-class lectures, guest speakers and instructional field trips.

• Public Policy, Robotics and Solving the STEM Teacher Challenge

  

  August 16, 2018

  Georgia Tech's School of Public Policy is an ideal place to study tough problems, says graduate student Ed Barker. That includes the shortage of STEM teachers, which he's taking on in his studies, and with the championship robotics team he mentors.

• Georgia Tech Creates Cybersecurity Master’s Degree Online for Less Than $10,000

  

  August 8, 2018

  The OMS Cybersecurity program is designed to address a severe global workforce shortage in the field.

• Woo and Kwon Each Receive Young Scholars Award in South Korea

  

  July 11, 2018

  Seokkyun Woo and Seokbeom Kwon, Ph.D. students in the School of Public Policy both received the Young Scholars Award 2018 from the International Schumpeter Society at the society’s biennial conference in Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, from July 2 - 4.

• School of Public Policy Faculty Host Fourth Meeting of the Consortium for Socially Relevant Philosophy of/in Science and Engineering

  

  July 11, 2018

  June 4 - 6, faculty members from the Georgia Tech School of Public Policy facilitated the fourth annual international conference for the Consortium for Socially Relevant Philosophy of/in Science and Engineering.

• Georgia Tech’s Marilyn Brown Leads on New Electric Vehicle Report

  

  June 29, 2018

  A new U.S. Department of Energy study led by Marilyn Brown of the Georgia Institute of Technology finds that programs to allow electric vehicles to pump electricity back into the power grid in times of peak demand or crisis could help secure the power system and make owners a little money, too.

• Do Not Get Distracted by Georgia’s New Cell Phone Law, Georgia Tech Professor Urges

  

  June 26, 2018

  While undoubtedly a step forward, Georgia’s new handheld driving law could end up actually encouraging drivers to engage in dangerously distracting behavior behind the wheel, according to a Georgia Institute of Technology professor who has studied the issue for more than a decade.

• Ivan Allen College Dean’s Offices Relocated to Savant Building

  

  June 20, 2018

  The Office of the Dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts has relocated to the newly renovated first floor of the Savant Building at 631 Cherry Street, Atlanta, 30332. The dean’s office previously was located in the Habersham Building at 781 Marietta Street.

• Husbands Fealing Appointed to National Science Foundation Committee

  

  June 1, 2018

  Kaye Husbands Fealing, professor and chair of the Georgia Tech School of Public Policy has been appointed to the Committee on Equal Opportunities in Science and Engineering (CEOSE) of the National Science Foundation (NSF). The Committee on Equal Opportunities in Science and Engineering (CEOSE) is a congressionally mandated advisory committee to the National Science Foundation.

• Levine, Kosal, and Dhongde Selected for Emerging Leaders Program

  

  May 31, 2018

  Three faculty members from the Ivan Allen College - Aaron Levine, Margaret Kosal, and Shatakshee Dhongde - have been selected for the third cohort of the Emerging Leaders Program.

• Hacking the Human Bias in Robotics

  

  May 31, 2018

• Q&A with Mary Frank Fox: Time to Ditch the Leaky Pipeline Model

  

  May 30, 2018

• Who gets credit? Survey digs into the thorny question of authorship

  

  May 30, 2018

• AAAS Highlight's Professor Mary Frank Fox's Work

  

  May 30, 2018