Tyler “TJ” Kaplan, a fourth year undergraduate student in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts School of Public Policy, has been awarded the Eben Tisdale Public Policy Fellowship.
The fellowship consists of a $5,000 grant and a full-time, eight week public policy internship in Washington, DC with a high-tech company, firm or trade association, and weekly issues seminars hosted by Tisdale sponsors.
“I hope to gain an in depth understanding of how the lobbying process works in Washington, D.C. and establish a strong network of contacts there so that I can …

BSPP student Graham Goldberg found out just before Thanksgiving that he was selected to participate in the Georgia Tech DC Internship Program, receiving a $5,000 stipend to cover his expenses for an unpaid internship in the nation’s capital next summer. He writes that “interning in Washington this summer will truly be a life-changing experience, and I cannot wait to apply much of what I have learned through Public Policy classes at Tech to real-life policy
situations.”
The School contacted alums and other contacts in DC about Graham’s search for an internship, …

You are invited to a Symposium, “Liam’s Legacy: Food, Sustainability, and Human Rights,” hosted by the Georgia Tech Honors Program.
Date: November 18, 2011
Time: 3:30-5:30pm
Location: Clary Theater, Bill Moore Student Success Center
A networking reception will begin a 3:00pm. The symposium is free and open to the public.
Keynote Address: “Organizing for Organics: Connecting Citizenship and Sustainability,” Alice Rolls, Executive Director, Georgia Organics
Panelists:
Peggy Barlett, Professor of Anthropology, Emory University
Nell Fry, Sustainability Coordinator, Georgia Tech Dining Services
Rashid Nuri, Founder, Truly Living Well Urban Farms
William Winders, Professor of Sociology, Georgia Tech

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Nancy Galewski, who holds dual master’s degrees from Georgia Tech in Public Policy and City and Regional Planning, has been awarded a 2011 Fulbright Scholarship.
Galewski won the prestigious grant for her research proposal for developing community participation in urban service provisions in communities in Bolivia and Peru. She chose the cities of Cochabamba, Bolivia and Arequipa, Peru because both cities face similar difficulties with waste, water, and energy management, and both cities have dealt with anti-privatization demonstrations of basic urban services. Galewski will spend three months …

The Campus Community Partnership Foundation (CCPF) honored a group of Tech students, including BSPP student Stephanie Noble, with its Community Academic Service Entrepreneur (CASE) grant for their proposal of Project Redistrict.
The project’s objective is to generate public awareness of political issues related to voting districts, proposing a mathematical algorithm to automatically redistrict regions using census data. Project Redistrict, a project of Georgia Tech eDemocracy, has the long-term goal of constructing an intuitive website that redistricts areas based on parameters such as population equality, density and contiguity.
“The team worked very hard …

Four outstanding PUBP students were selected among many liberal arts applicants to serve on the inaugural class of undergraduate student Ambassadors for the Ivan Allen College.  Please join me in congratulating them!!
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At its annual banquet, the School of Public Policy presented its 2011 Undergraduate Student of the Year award to two of our finest, chosen by the faculty from a list of excellent nominees.  Liam Rattray was recognized as an excellent researcher, having won two PURA awards and a Political Economy and Research Fellowship.  He’s also the only BSPP student who is a member of the Georgia Mushroom Club and has raised private capital to develop a large-scale urban edible mushroom production system that utilizes waste coffee grounds from local cafes!
Danielle …