Recent News
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School of Public Policy Graduate Program Ranked in Top 20% by U.S. News & World Report
March 17, 2020
U.S. News & World Report has ranked the Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Public Policy’s graduate program among the top 20% in the country for 2021.In its most recent rankings, released March 17, the magazine placed the School’s overall graduate program 45th of the 275 programs it ranked.
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Faculty Development Mentor Program Aims to Foster Interdisciplinary Connections
February 26, 2020
The Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at Georgia Tech has continued to grow in size and influence, and a new faculty development program designed to encourage mentorship and collaboration across disciplines could create even more exciting scholarship.
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Julia Melkers Publishes Article on Participation in the "Virtual Classroom"
February 26, 2020
Julia Melkers, associate professor in the School of Public Policy, has published the article "Lurking and participation in the virtual classroom: The effects of gender, race, and age among graduate students in computer science," in the journal Computers and Education.
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Strategic Plan Draft Available for Review, Application Period Open for Phase Two Working Groups
February 20, 2020
Thousands of people focused on the future of Georgia Tech by helping us complete phase one — visioning and drafting — of Georgia Tech’s strategic planning process. Now, the process moves into the goal-setting phase that will include an opportunity for review and input from the Georgia Tech community.
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Should California Invest Another $5.5 Billion Into Stem Cell Research?
February 18, 2020
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Marilyn Brown Elected to National Academy of Engineering
February 11, 2020
Marilyn Brown, an international leader in clean energy policy and Regents Professor and Brook Byers Professor in Sustainable Systems in the School of Public Policy, has been elected to the prestigious National Academy of EngineeringNAE).
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Who Should Control the Internet's .Org Addresses?
February 5, 2020
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Ivan Allen College Students Win JUMP into STEM Competition for Second Straight Year
February 3, 2020
A group of Georgia Institute of Technology undergraduate students that included two from the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts won the JUMP into STEM finalist competition on Jan. 31, 2020 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
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Mark Zachary Taylor's Book "The Politics of Innovation" Translated Into Chinese
January 30, 2020
The Politics of Innovation, a book by School of Public Policy Associate Professor Mark Zachary Taylor, has been translated into Chinese.
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STEM Diversity Scholarships Subject of Husbands Fealing Grant
January 30, 2020
Kaye Husbands Fealing, chair of the School of Public Policy, has received a $223,049 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to perform the first comprehensive study of its premier program to increase diversity among doctoral students in STEM fields.
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2020 Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Graduate Paper Competition Winners Announced
January 28, 2020
The student author of a paper examining sexism’s impact in women’s health research, as well as other authors of papers on cyber warfare, postharvest loss and technology development were honored Tuesday Jan. 30 as winners of the 2020 Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Graduate Paper Competition.
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Mary Frank Fox Elected AAAS Section Chair
January 28, 2020
Mary Frank Fox, ADVANCE Professor in the School of Public Policy, has been elected Chair of the Social, Economic and Political Sciences Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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John Walsh Study Ranks Among the 100 Most-Discussed Research Papers of 2019
January 3, 2020
More than 2.7 million research outputs were tracked in 2019 by Altmetric. Ranking among the Top 100 most-discussed research papers of the year was a study by Georgia Tech School of Public Policy Professor John Walsh and his co-authors.
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‘Phantom buzzing’ is creeping out smartphone, smartwatch users
December 20, 2019
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Is Your Phone or Watch Constantly Buzzing? It Could Be in Your Head
December 19, 2019
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Georgia Tech Energy Policy Researcher Writes About ‘Green New Deal’ in ‘Scientific American’
December 17, 2019
Georgia Institute of Technology Regents’ Professor Marilyn Brown has written an article for Scientific American analyzing the employment impact of the proposed “Green New Deal” climate change plan.
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Would A Green New Deal Add Or Kill Jobs?
December 17, 2019
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Ending crowdfunding campaigns for unproven treatment a good start, Georgia Tech bioethicist says
December 11, 2019
Georgia Institute of Technology bioethicist Aaron Levine said there is merit in a proposal from researchers at two universities calling on crowdfunding platforms to stop accepting campaigns for unproven medical treatments. But Levine said the proposal could be tough to implement.
