This year's Homer Rice Award Winner is Alice Clifton. Congratulations!
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Graduate Studies and Pre-Graduate and Pre-Professional Advising (C2D2) will host the first-ever Georgia Tech Graduate Fair, Thursday, 5 April 2016, 11-1, in the Student Center Ballroom. This fair will showcase opportunities in Georgia Tech's many graduate programs and will include break-out sessions to discuss application processes, personal statements, and the graduate student experience. This fair will focus on GT programs and students, but the information will be useful for students considering other graduate schools, too. Graduate programs must register by March 4 to table at this event: http://www.grad.gatech.edu/grad-school-fair.
Sponsored by: Georgia Tech program in Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy
Apply for a Summer Internship with the Program in Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy
Dates: June 1, 2016 through August 9, 2016 (10 weeks)
Location: Technology Square, Atlanta
Stipend: $6,000
Eligibility: Open to graduate students in all disciplines in Georgia public universities
Suggested General Themes for Projects
Strategic or emerging technologies (such as nanotechnologies)
Sustainability, green technologies, and low-carbon development strategies
Research commercialization or technology entrepreneurship
Universities and technology
Regional innovation systems
Knowledge and creativity measurement
Scientific and technological human capital
Industrial modernization, technology deployment and utilization for economic development
Diversity and innovation
Facility reuse and redevelopment
Economic modeling
Innovation in recessionary times
Technology deployment and utilization for economic development
Technology entrepreneurship
Go to www.stip.gatech.edu for details on applying for this internship or contact Lynn Willingham, Enterprise Innovation Institute (lynn.willingham@innovate.gatech.edu).
Deadline is February 29, 2016
Sustainability, green technologies, and low-carbon development strategies
Research commercialization or technology entrepreneurship
Universities and technology
Regional innovation systems
Knowledge and creativity measurement
Scientific and technological human capital
Industrial modernization, technology deployment and utilization for economic development
Diversity and innovation
Facility reuse and redevelopment
Economic modeling
Innovation in recessionary times
Technology deployment and utilization for economic development
Technology entrepreneurship
Go to www.stip.gatech.edu for details on applying for this internship or contact Lynn Willingham, Enterprise Innovation Institute (lynn.willingham@innovate.gatech.edu).
Deadline is February 29, 2016
For more information, please visit http://leadership.gatech.edu
On Friday, January 29th from 8:30AM – 6:00PM, the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts will host the 4th annual CRIDC Graduate Student Conference. The GT community and guests are invited to attend. The event is organized by the IAC Graduate Student Advisory Board and includes presentations from graduate students in Ivan Allen College.
Location: Stephen C. Hall Building, Room 102
For additional information, contact HSTS graduate student Jonah Bea-Taylor at jgbt3@gatech.edu
Click here for more schedule details.
Location: Stephen C. Hall Building, Room 102
For additional information, contact HSTS graduate student Jonah Bea-Taylor at jgbt3@gatech.edu
Click here for more schedule details.
The program is selective and, quite unusually among MA programs, we offer two years of full-funding. Students get an extensive training in teaching and can take advantage of our wide-ranging intellectual community including opportunities offered by the Humanities Center and the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies. Additionally there are opportunities available through interdisciplinary programs such as American Studies and Women’s Studies, as well as our overseas language programs and acclaimed humanities departments.
The program has a strong track-record of placing students in top-tier PhD programs should they want to continue in that direction. However, we have recently re-designed our MA to include a "module" system which allows MA students to expand their professional skill sets for preparation across a wide variety of academic and professional fields. Along with a traditional history track we offer:
- Geographic Information Systems: Classes and Training in GIS, Python Programming, Aerial Photo Interpretation, Techniques in Landscape Ecology
- Gerontology: courses in Logic of Inquiry, Qualitative Research, Organizations & the Aging Enterprise, Policy & Politics of Aging, Quantitative Methods & Statistics
- Interactive Media Studies: Courses Digital Development Methods, Visual Rhetoric, elective studies in Interactive Media
- Self-Designed Module: options include an additional History Colloquium, an additional History Elective, Independent Study
HSOC PhD Student Rebecca Watts Hull Examines Campus Sustainability Food Sourcing
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During her time as a 2015 Georgia Innovation Intern, Rebecca Watts Hull explored how sustainability initiatives are influencing food purchasing on Georgia’s college campuses.
Hull, a doctoral student in the School of History and Sociology, investigated the impacts of the growing emphasis on “buy local” campaigns, and she used national and state data on campus food purchasing to predict the economic development benefits for Georgia of more aggressive local and sustainable food procurement goals. In addition, she investigated ways that universities, state government agencies, county and municipal governments, and nonprofit organizations can expand these benefits for Georgia farmers.
“Growing student demand for and institutional commitment to sustainability practices on college campuses in Georgia has created pressure for increased transparency in food sourcing,” Hull said. “That pressure already has led to student education about the sources of foods served in the dining halls at some institutions and has prompted several produce distributors to identify and market products from regional farms.”
According to her report, entitled “Campus Commitments to Local and Sustainable Food Procurement: Trends, Benefits, Challenges and Opportunities,” campus local, sustainable food initiatives in Georgia have, to date, resulted in greater procurement from commercial, conventional Georgia farms than smaller farms and ones with sustainability certifications.
Hull concludes the report by recommending that Georgia’s public colleges and universities, state governmental departments, and other stakeholders — including nonprofit organizations — extend regional economic benefits of campus local and sustainable food initiatives by implementing local buying commitments at all public institutions. She also recommends supporting infrastructure, such as food hubs, that can connect smaller and mid-sized farmers, including organic producers, with colleges and universities.
Read more about Rebecca's research and how campus sustainability initiatives can be a powerful force of change here.
Brian Jirout, who currently holds a doctoral dissertation fellowship from the National Air and Space Museum, presented a paper entitled “Civil Remote Sensing for Sale: Commercializing Landsat Image Use, 1978-1989.” The paper was part of a panel entitled “’Up in the Air’: Aerospace as Arenas for Public/Private Cooperation and Contention.”
Emily Gibson, a doctoral candidate and holder of a Dean’s Fellowship, also presented at the session. Her paper, “Air France — ‘The World’s Largest Airline’: A Commercial Firm as the Chosen Instrument of France’s Colonial Mission, 1948-1950s,” utilized archival materials she obtained while serving as a graduate assistant at Georgia Tech’s campus in Lorraine, France.
Gibson also participated in a special Presidential Roundtable entitled “The Future of SHOT: A Graduate-Led Forum.” The session was organized in part by John Krige, Georgia Tech’s Kranzberg Professor of the History of Technology, and second-year HSTS doctoral student Alice Clifton, who presided at the event.
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This networking opportunity will bring together current students, alumni/alumnae, faculty, and staff. Two recent alumnae - Glo Ross (HSOC) and Susan Robinson (DM/LMC) - will give brief remarks. Refreshments will be served!
It’s the biggest game of the year and we invite Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts to celebrate together!
Homecoming Alumni Mimosa Brunch - Saturday, October 24
Ivan Allen alumni, friends, faculty, staff, and graduate students are invited to gather on the porch of the Old Civil Engineering Building from 10 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (right after the Ramblin’ Wreck Parade!). Great food, super prizes!
Graduate Student and Graduate Alumni Reception - Friday, October 23
Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
RSVP for these events!
Graduate School Opportunities:
1. Rotary Foundation Grant Scholarship
October 19, 2015 at 7:00 PM
Student Success Center, Press Room B
Rotary offers prestigious international scholarships of $30,000 or more graduate students pursuing careers in fields that support peace and conflict resolution, disease prevention, water and sanitation, maternal and child health, basic education, and community. The application deadline is October 15, 2015. For more information about this program, visit here.
2. Law School Admissions Information Sessions
University of Pennsylvania Law
October 21, 2015 at 4:00 PM
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Columbia University Law
October 26, 2015 at 4:00 PM
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3. Emory Graduate School Fair
October 20, 2015 from 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Cox Hall Ballroom
569 Asbury Cir, Atlanta, GA 30322
Network with admissions representatives from more than 100 graduate and professional schools across the U.S. and get the inside scoop on how to become competitive for programs in your discipline! Open to anyone of any major.
4. 2015 Law School Recruitment Forum
October 23, 2015 from 12:00 PM - 7:00 PM
AmericasMart Atlanta
240 Peachtree Street NW, Atlanta 30303
The Law School Admission Council (LSAC) hosts Law School Recruitment Forums around the country to provide prospective law students with the opportunity to talk directly with representatives from law schools and to gather admission materials from schools throughout the county. These events are free. To save time at a forum, you should pre-register. You have to create a LSAC account to register (and to apply for law school).This is also an excellent way to acquire application fee waivers from law schools! Register here.
Thinking about graduate school? Attend a graduate school fair!
Click here for a list of dates and locations across the state.
Concerned about the academic job market? Thinking about nonacademic careers? Georgia Tech now offers a resource that will make your life a little easier.
“Georgia Tech faculty members are well prepared to advise students on academic careers — where we hope many doctoral students end up,” said Susan Cozzens, vice provost for Graduate Education and Faculty Development. “But the faculty have asked for help with providing advice about careers outside of universities, and Versatile PhD helps to fill that gap."
Here are a few of the reasons to check out Versatile PhD:
- Career Autobiographies: There are first-person narratives in which people tell their professional stories, complete with all the twists, turns, and surprises that shaped their careers.
- Hiring Success Stories: You'll find authentic application materials used by real humanities or social science Ph.D.’s or ABD’s getting their first nonacademic jobs.
- Archived Panel Discussions: Seven times a year, panel discussions are held on the website, featuring four to six Ph.D.s and ABDs — all working in the same nonacademic field — describing how they got in and answering questions. Careers already covered include federal government, freelance writing and editing, higher education administration, higher education consulting, and policy analysis.
You can read about her work and see photos of her research in a Tumblr post at http://iamliberalartsgt.tumblr.com/post/122004153228.