Georgia Institute of Technology School of Public Policy

Current News and Events

• Docotrate Student Elie Sung Wins Prominent Award

  June 23, 2017
  PhD candidate Elie Sung represents GT Public Policy strongly at recent event

• GT MSPP Students Meet With Polish President

  
  June 23, 2017
  Two Master's in Public Policy students recently led the way in a significant policy scholarship program in Poland.

• Anmol Soni Helps Brief Military On Disruptive Technology For National Security

  
  June 9, 2017
  Public Policy doctorate student Anmol Soni recently assisted in a prominent presentation on national security.

• Mueller Discusses New Book At Noteworthy D.C. Panel

  
  June 9, 2017
  Professor Milton Mueller visited Washington, D.C. to discuss his new book, which covers the evolution of cyber security in America.

• Horsley Applies SPP Background Towards Water Works Founding

  
  May 22, 2017
  A company founded by Georgia Tech students is pioneering a new model for helping rural communities in developing countries maintain — and sustain — water security.

• Cybersecurity and Global Public Policy: Hans Klein Discusses Policy Implications of the WannaCry Attack

  
  May 16, 2017

  In an assessment of the WannaCry cybersecurity attack, Georgia Tech School of Public Policy Professor Hans Klein writes that, “While the specific details of the WannaCry virus are important, the real story is in the big picture. WannaCry is just one event in a larger trend: the conflict between globalization and national governments. Preventing such attacks in the future may involve developing global public policies and global governance institutions that go beyond the nation-state.”

• Georgia Tech Mock Trial Places Second in Division, Fourth Overall at The American Mock Trial Association National Championship

  
  May 8, 2017
  Over the weekend of April 21-23, 2017, the Georgia Tech Mock Trial (GTMT) team competed in the 33rd American Mock Trial Association (AMTA) National Championship Tournament.

• Cozzens to Retire After 19 Years at Tech

  
  May 1, 2017

  After 19 years of service to Tech, Cozzens, vice provost for Graduate Education and Faculty Development (VPGEFD), will retire on June 30.

• Aaron Levine Wins the SGA Graduate Faculty of the Year Award

  
  April 29, 2017
  Aaron Levine won the SGA Graduate Faculty of the Year Award at the SGA Graduate Awards Banquet.

• Mary Frank Fox Wins Ivan Allen College Distinguished Faculty Researcher Award

  
  April 27, 2017
  The Distinguished Faculty Researcher Award recognizes top performing senior faculty who have a distinguished record of publications and a current project with equal potential. The 2017 awardee is Public Policy Professor Mary Frank Fox.

• Georgia campaigns keep up pressure ahead of runoff vote

  
  April 25, 2017

• Council of Canadian Academies Releases New Report on Subnational Science Policy

  
  April 19, 2017
  To inform ongoing work relating to provincial science policy, the Alberta Government asked the Council of Canadian Academies to convene an expert workshop to identify key considerations for science policies relevant to subnational jurisdictions.

• Richard Barke Quoted in "Dems Look for Trump Rebuke in Georgia Special Election"

  
  April 18, 2017

• Former White House Science Policymaker Kei Koizumi Shares Experiences at Tech

  
  April 15, 2017
  Kei Koizumi, who spent most of the past eight years working under former President Barack Obama, visited the School of Public Policy and spoke with the Georgia Tech community on Thursday, March 30.

• Austin Dickson Receives Distinguished Alumni Award

  
  April 15, 2017
  Dickson was named the recipient of the School of Public Policy’s award at the Distinguished Alumni Awards ceremony hosted by the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.

• SPP Speaker Series - Ahjond Garmestani Adaptive Governance of Urban Social-ecological Systems

  
  April 10, 2017
  This Thursday (April 13, 2017) at 3pm we will welcome Ahjond Garmestani to campus to discuss his work as a research scientist at the US Environmental Protection Agency.

• Four Public Policy Students Receive OMED Tower Awards

  
  April 7, 2017
  On Thursday, April 6, 2017 the 23rd Annual Tower Awards were hosted by OMED:Educational Services at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center.

• Student Highlight | Audra Murphey

  
  April 7, 2017
  In addition to getting involved with research, Audra is a member of the Student Advisory Board - Ivan Allen College of Liberal Artsand a recipient of the Federal Jackets Fellowship.

• Autism and Social Policy

  
  April 7, 2017
  Sociological research of autism seeks to understand the study and treatment of the disease in its social, cultural, and political context.

• John Walsh Quoted in New York Times Article

  
  April 7, 2017
  John Walsh was recently quoted in a New York Times article on patents and inventors ages.

• Jennifer Clark Elected to Prestigious National Committee

  
  April 6, 2017
  Longtime School of Public Policy professor earned an elite honor within the academic community earlier this year, as she was elected to the Nominating Committee for the nationally-known American Association of Geographers (AAG).

• Kei Koizumi - Science for Policy, and Policy for Science: Lessons Learned in the Obama White House

  
  March 29, 2017
  Kei Koizumi, Visiting Scholar at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, will talk about science and technology for policy, stressing the importance of scientific and technological advice in policymaking.

• Georgia Tech Mock Trial Advances to the National Championship Tournament for Second Straight Year

  
  March 23, 2017
  This weekend, at the Decatur Opening Round Championship Series Tournament, which was hosted by Georgia Tech Mock Trial at the DeKalb County Courthouse, Georgia Tech Mock Trial A team finished with an undefeated record of 8-0.

• SPP Alum Deitchman Publishes Book, Reflects on GT Influence

  
  March 23, 2017
  Benjamin Deitchman earned his PhD from Georgia Tech’s School of Public Policy in 2014. Now just a few years later, Deitchman has published his first book, Climate and Clean Energy Policy: State Institutions and Economic Implications.

• Georgia Tech Center for Urban Innovation Director Emphasizes Role of Research Universities in Smart Communities Innovation in Congressional Testimony

  
  March 17, 2017

  Jennifer Clark, the director of Georgia Tech’s Center for Urban Innovation, testified on Thursday, March 16, 2017, before the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection. The hearing on Smart Communities was part of the Subcommittee’s Disrupter Series which examines ways that U.S. communities are using new technology to improve the improve safety, increase efficiency, and create opportunity.  

• Flowers’ Diligence Leads Her Down Promising PhD Path

  
  March 15, 2017
  Mallory Flowers, who graduated with bachelor’s degrees in Applied Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of Alabama in 2013, is conducting her research on voluntary sustainability certifications.

• Leiden Manifesto Wins the Ziman Award of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology

  
  March 14, 2017
  Professor Diana Hicks in the School of Public Policy and co-authors published in Nature the Leiden Manifesto for research metrics offering 10 principles to guide use of metrics in research evaluation, which last year received the EASST Ziman award.

• Mallory Flowers Highlighted in APPAM Member Spotlight

  
  February 24, 2017
  APPAM honors those student and professional members who are dedicated to the public policy profession and stewards of APPAM's mission.

• SPP Chair Fealing Returns from Week of Honors and Presentations on the Road

  
  February 22, 2017
  Kaye Husbands Fealing, professor and chair in the Georgia Tech School of Public Policy, participated in a panel entitled “How to Grow a Scientist” that was held at Brown University on February 15, 2017.

• GTMT Wins Jackson Regional and Advances Two Teams to AMTA ORCS

  
  February 21, 2017
  Over the weekend, GTMT A faced off against teams from the University of Mobile, Dillard University, Millsaps College (National Championship Participant 2016), and the University of Mississippi, finishing the weekend with an undefeated record of 8-0.

• A New Industrial Revolution: Will Innovation ‘Bring Back Jobs and Growth’?

  
  February 20, 2017
  Industry and manufacturing worldwide are on the brink of a revolution, with developments in digital technologies, artificial intelligence, and advanced materials combining to herald new ways of conceiving, producing and using products and services.

• Yin Li Wins Prestigious Chinese Scholarship Council Award

  
  February 13, 2017
  Yin Li, a doctoral student with Georgia Tech’s School of Public Policy, has been awarded a scholarship in a prestigious annual award program from the Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC).

• Cyber Civil Liberties And the New Administration - Hon. Bob Barr

  
  February 8, 2017
  Bob Barr, former member of Congress and Libertarian Candidate for President, will speak about the prospects for cyber civil liberties under the administration of President Trump.

• GT Mock Trial Team Paces Way To Hot 2017 Start

  
  January 31, 2017
  The GT Mock Trial (“GTMT”) team kicked off the new calendar year by hosting the 12th Annual Ramblin’ Wreck Tournament during the weekend of January 21-22.

• Jennifer Clark Elected Chair of the American Association of Geographer’s Economic Geography Specialty Group

  
  January 15, 2017
  Jennifer Clark has been elected Chair of the American Association of Geographer’s Economic Geography Specialty Group for January 2017 to December 2018.

• Shekinah Hall awarded Stamps President's Scholarship

  
  December 6, 2016
  Shekinah Hall, a second year Public Policy major, has been awarded a prestigious walk-on Stamps President's Scholarship for the remainder of her time at Georgia Tech.

• Alumna Laura Powell to Clerk for Federal Circuit Court of Appeals Judge

  
  December 6, 2016
  Laura Powell will be clerking for Judge Gregory Sleet on the Delaware District Court and then with Judge Evan Wallach on the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, DC for 2018-2020.

• Richard Barke Selected to be in the Inaugural Group of Provost Teaching and Learning Fellows

  
  December 3, 2016
  Richard Barke has been selected to be in the Inaugural Group of Provost Teaching and Learning Fellows, part of the Center for Teaching and Learning here at Georgia Tech.

• Lindsey Ploussard Receives Federal Jackets Fellowship

  
  December 3, 2016
  Lindsey Ploussard (Public Policy, Class of 2018) was selected as a recipient of the competitive Federal Jackets Fellowship and will work for Representative John Lewis in DC during Spring 2017.

• Nudging for Good: Robots and the Ethical Appropriateness of Nurturing Empathy and Charitable Behavior

  
  November 30, 2016
  Jason Borenstein and Ronald C. Arkin have recently published their piece: Nudging for Good: Robots and the Ethical Appropriateness of Nurturing Empathy and Charitable Behavior into AI & Society.

• Robert Atkinson Discusses Innovation Priorities for the Trump Administration

  
  November 22, 2016
  On Monday, November 14, Robert Atkinson, Founder and President of the Intellectual Property and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), visited Georgia Tech to present in the School of Public Policy Speaker Series on a timely policy issue.

• Atkinson Discusses Innovation Priorities for the Trump Administration

  
  November 22, 2016
  Robert Atkinson, president of the Intellectual Property and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), discussed innovation priorities in the new administration as part of the Ivan Allen College School of Public Policy Speaker Series at Georgia Tech.

• Fealing Named Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

  
  November 21, 2016

  Kaye Husbands Fealing, chair of the Ivan Allen College Liberal Arts School of Public Policy, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). She is Georgia Tech's only addition to the 2016 AAAS fellows.

• “Innovation Priorities for the Next President” - Robert Atkinson Lecture on Monday, November 14th

  
  November 10, 2016
  November 14 from 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm.

• NTIA Chief Lawrence Strickling Speaks at Georgia Tech on New Internet Governance Policy

  
  November 2, 2016
  On October 26 the School of Public Policy’s Internet Governance Project (IGP) hosted an event honoring Assistant Secretary of Commerce Lawrence Strickling, who played a leading role in the transition of the Internet to private governance.

• GT Mock Trial Team Places First at the 10th Annual Carolina Classic Invitational at Elon University

  
  October 18, 2016
  GTMT sent two squads to compete this weekend at Elon, which had a tournament field made up of teams who all annually compete in the National Championship, including last year's national runner-up UVA, and national top 10 teams from Furman, UGA, and Duke.

• Yehyun An Wins Outstanding Poster at the Third Annual Georgia Tech Postdoctoral Research Symposium

  
  October 5, 2016
  Yehyun An, a postdoc in Dr. Kingsley and Dr. Matisoff’s team, won Outstanding Poster at Georgia Tech's Postdoctoral Research Symposium for her work: “The Factors that Affect the Environmental Review and Project Design in Transportation Projects” .

• Valerie Thomas and Suriya Arulselvan Win MIT Climate CoLab Aviation Award

  
  October 1, 2016
  Valerie Thomas, the Anderson Interface Professor of Natural Systems, and Suriya Arulselvan, MSCE 2015, have received the Judges’ Choice Award for the 2016 Aviation contest from the MIT Climate CoLab.

• Marilyn A. Brown Appointed to Geographical Sciences Committee of the National Academies

  
  October 1, 2016
  Marilyn A. Brown has been appointed to a three year term on the Geographical Sciences Committee of the National Academies.

• Mary Frank Fox Receives Gender Equity Champion Award

  
  September 17, 2016
  Fox received the Gender Equity Champion Award at the 2016 Diversity Symposium Awards Luncheon, and reflected on the path of her research and the evolution of gender in studies of science.

• Ted Cruz is Trying to Sabotage the Internet’s Governance Transition

  
  September 16, 2016

• Philip Shapira Motivates Manufacturers for a New Century

  August 26, 2016

• Trump Tower and the Question of 'Public' Space

  
  August 25, 2016

• ISPIM Innovation Management Dissertation Award Winner: You-Na Lee

  
  August 17, 2016
  You-Na Lee is the overall award winner out of 110 submissions.

• Ganz Joins School of Public Policy Faculty

  
  August 16, 2016
  Dr. Scott Ganz has joined Georgia Tech's faculty as an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy.

• European Commission Economist and Attorney Joins School of Public Policy

  
  August 16, 2016
  Dr. Garry A. Gabison joins Georgia Tech as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy, after working for three years for the European Commission.

• SPP Collaborates To Introduce A Cybersecurity Leadership Certificate

  
  August 5, 2016
  Georgia Tech's Cybersecurity Executive Program

• Cross Functional Team Produces Climate and Solar Power Cost Publication

  
  July 13, 2016
  Cross Functional Team Publication

• Cloning for Medicine: The Miracle that Wasn’t

  
  July 13, 2016
  Levine Quoted Internationally

• Carbon Reduction Challenge Winners Travel to D.C.

  
  July 4, 2016
  Congressman John Lewis Highlights an SPP Trip to D.C.

• Clean Power That Cuts Electricity Bills

  
  June 28, 2016
  Clean Power Plan Could Save Consumers Money

• Georgia Tech's Big Data Social Science Paper Is Published

  June 28, 2016