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  • Aaron Levine has won an NSF Career grant
  • May 2, 2012
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    Aaron Levine has won an NSF Career grant entitled: "Ethically Contentious Science and the Graduate School Experience."  The focus of the project is developing an understanding of how studying an ethically contentious field in graduate school affects students' learning, their development as scientists, and their transition to the scientific workforce.  NSF Career awards aim to integrate research and teaching.  Key research activities supported by the award include a series of ... read more
  • Marilyn Brown has been named an inaugural ambassador in DoE/MIT Women in Clean Energy Program
  • April 26, 2012
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    Professor Marilyn Brown has been named an inaugural ambassador in DoE/MIT Women in Clean Energy Program for the United States. U.S. Department of Energy and the MIT Energy Initiative have launched a Women in Clean Energy Program for United States to help implement the Clean Energy Education and Empowerment initiative or “C3E” - a program aimed at attracting more women to clean energy careers and supporting their advancement into leadership positions. The new components of the U.S. plan were ... read more
  • Valerie Thomas Attends 2012 Congressional Visits Day in Washington
  • April 26, 2012
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    Valerie Thomas, Anderson Interface Associate Professor of Natural Systems in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering and associate professor in the School of Public Policy along with Robert Knotts, Georgia Tech's Director of Federal Relations, attended the 2012 Congressional Visits Day, organized by the American Physical Society, held in Washington D. C. on April 24-25, 2012. Thomas met with members of congress and their staff to advocate for federal support of Science, ... read more
  • Weber brought to Georgia Tech the national honor of being named a Bicycle Friendly University
  • April 5, 2012
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    SPP graduate student Johann Weber brought to Georgia Institute of Technology the national honor of being named a Bicycle Friendly University by the League of American Bicyclists. “We submitted an extensive application, which was reviewed by the League of American Bicyclists, as well as local judges who are familiar with Tech, Atlanta and peer institutions,” said Johann Weber, who compiled and submitted the application as chair of Georgia Tech’s Bicycle Infrastructure Improvement Committee ... read more
  • SPP 2101 Class at the Ga Capitol
  • March 14, 2012
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    On Monday March 12, POL 2101 - State and Local Government met at the State Capitol. The class heard from senate research and press staffers and from three state senators, one of whom is a Tech alum - Senator Johnny Grant of Milledgeville. The class then toured the Capitol including Senate and House chambers

  • Michael Elliott has been appointed to the National Research Council’s Committee
  • February 15, 2012
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    Michael Elliott, Associate Professor, Schools of City and Regional Planning & Public Policy, has been appointed to the National Research Council’s Committee on Inherently Safer Chemical Processes. The committee is examining approaches used by chemical manufacturing facilities for the management of chemical process risks, especially in the use of particularly hazardous chemicals, and in the potential for replacing risky processes with inherently safer ones.

  • PhD student Sanjay Arora won a poster session award at the 2012 GTRIC
  • February 13, 2012
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    School of Public Policy PhD student Sanjay Arora won a poster session award at the 2012 Georgia Tech Research & Innovation Conference (GTRIC) on Tuesday, Feb. 7.Sanjay's poster was entitled: "Commercialization of New and Emerging Technologies: A Cross Country Comparison of Graphene Firms" looks at how small to medium sized firms working in graphene, a novel nanotechnology material, present and reveal their business strategies online. The findings suggest that firm strategy is influenced by ... read more
  • Dr. Clark Appointed to SPIE Committee
  • January 31, 2012
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    Jennifer Clark, Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy, has been appointed to the 2012 Engineering, Science & Technology Policy Committee (ESTeP) of the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE).The ESTeP promotes understanding at all levels of policy decision-making, about those issues that affect the well-being of the optical science and engineering communities worldwide. This Committee also advises the SPIE Board and other Society groups on ways to expand the ... read more
  • Dr. Levine Appointed to Institute of Medicine Committee
  • January 25, 2012
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    Aaron Levine, Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy, has been appointed to an Institute of Medicine Committee that is tasked with evaluating the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM).Specifically, the committee will assess CIRM's programs, operations, strategies, and performance since its inception in 2005. The committee held its first meeting in October 2011 and will hold four additional meetings in 2012 before producing a final report near the end of the year.... read more