PP sweeps GT student government awards.
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ichard Barke received Georgia Tech's 2008 Outstanding Service Award. Full Story

ress coverage on the Wireless Emergency Communications project that Helena Mitchell has been heading up appeared in the March 30 – April 5, “Sunday Paper.” View Full Article

eorgia Persons has won the 2008 Anna Julia Cooper Outstanding Teaching Award given by NCOBPS - the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. Full Story

esearchers at Georgia Tech’s Wireless Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center received good news last month during testing of their Wireless Emergency Communications (WEC) project. Results indicate that 94 percent of blind and visually impaired test subjects found WEC to be a significant improvement over their current methods of receiving emergency alerts. Full Story

ennifer Clark, Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy, has just released her newest book Remaking Regional Economies: Power, Labor, and Firm Strategies in The Knowledge Economy. Full Story

heryl Leggon, Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy has been named named an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) fellow for 2007. Cheryl was recognized for advancing understanding in underrepresentation - primarily where gender, ethnicity and race intersect - and for showcasing academic career pathways in science and technology.

he School of Public Policy hosted the second Atlanta S&T Policy conference in the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center, October 19-20, 2007. Over 150 attendees from around the country and the world gathered to present and discuss their latest research on the challenges and opportunities for innovation in the changing global economy. National and regional innovation systems, innovative clusters, global collaboration, networks and knowledge flows, creative environments, graduate education and career pathways were all examined. The conference is a biennial event and the next one is planned for fall 2009. View Conference Site

arilyn A. Brown, Professor in the School of Public Policy is now a Nobel Laureate! Marilyn was part of Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 was awarded jointly to Al Gore and the IPCC. Full Story

he Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) announced today that it has selected the GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY as the research partner for the 2007 State of the Industry: Technology in Georgia Report. Specifically, they will be working with Susan Cozzens (School of Public Policy) and Jan Youtie (Enterprise Innovation Institute), who will be providing the raw data and some of the analysis that will be used to comprise the report. Full Story

ecent research into the environmental fate of carbon nanotubes has underscored what until now has been a little-discussed aspect of nanotechnology – its potential societal implications. To evaluate those implications and inform the resulting public policy debate, researchers at Georgia Tech have joined with colleagues at six other U.S. institutions to form the Center for Nanotechnology in Society. Full Story

arilyn A. Brown, Professor in the School of Public Policy, has released her newest book Energy and American Society-Thirteen Myths. There was an book signing on March 13, 2007. Full Story

tudies Assess Foreign Water and Sanitation Needs: Researchers Work to Meet International Goal Full Story

ryan Norton received Georgia Tech's 2006 Distinguished Professor award for his achievements in the classroom and as a researcher. Full Story

ryan G. Norton, Professor of Philosophy, School of Public Policy, has just released his newest book Sustainability: A Philosophy of Adaptive Ecosystem Management. A book signing was held in his honor at the Engineer's Bookstore on November 9, 2005. Full Story

oberta Berry, Associate Professor and Director, Law, Science & Technology Program in Public Policy, discussed issues surrounding genetic engineering and genetic information on the Georgia Public Broadcasting Georgia Weekly show. The air dates were November 6 and November 8. Berry appeared in the first half of the show. The show should air again during December or January.

ans Klein, Associate Professor, Public Policy attended the U.N. World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) on November 13-16, in Tunis, North Africa. Klein's address argued that use of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) can clarify the debates over Internet governance. Full Story

uring halftime at the Homecoming football game on October 29, Saira Amir, an undergraduate Public Policy major, was named Ms. Georgia Tech. Among many other activities and accomplishments, Amir is Executive Vice President of the GT Student Government Association and active in the Georgia Tech Orchestra. About Saira

he prestigious 2005 APPAM Ph.D. Dissertation Award was won by a recent graduate of SPP, Asim Zia. Bryan Norton supervised his thesis, which was entitled "Cooperative and Non-Cooperative Decision Behaviors in Response to the Inspection and Maintenance Program in the Atlanta Airshed." Full Story