180991 event 1357569708 1475892110 <![CDATA[GTRIC: Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Graduate Student Conference]]> GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CONFERENCE
IVAN ALLEN COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS PANELS

 Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Georgia Tech Student Center & Ferst Theatre

 REGISTRATION: Noon-12:45 pm, Ballroom level, Student Center

 SESSION 1: 12:45-2pm

1A: Exploring Energy Policy: Issues of Competition and Cooperation in the U.S. and Europe, Student Center 301
Benjamin Deitchman, Public Policy; Mingge Wu, Economics; Xiuli Sun, Economics

1B: The Social Aspects of Communication Technologies: Telegraph, Typewriter, Mass Media, Student Center 319
John H. Miller II, History, Technology, and Society; Xiaoning Dai, History, Technology, and Society; Jeffrey L. Hubbs, Public Policy

SESSION 2: 2:10-3:25pm

2A: Knowledge, Language, and Abstraction: How Communities Share Ideas and Information, Student Center 301
Sanjay K. Arora, Jan Youtie, Alan L. Porter, Philip Shapira, Public Policy; Samuel Zwaan, Digital Media/Literature, Media, and Communication

2B: Contested Meanings of Commercial Products: Negotiations of Use and Value, Student Center 319
Liang Yao, History,Technology, and Society; Emily K. Gibson, History, Technology, and Society; Lisa J. Borello, History, Technology, and Society

SESSION 3: 3:35-4:50pm
3A: Discourses of Knowledge, Security, and Technology: Nuclear Weapons and Remote Sensing Data, Student Center 301
Tong Zhao, International Affairs; Brian Jirout, History, Technology, and Society; Philip Baxter, International Affairs
3B: Sustainability: From Industrial Energy to Nanotechnology, Student Center 319
Gyungwon Kim, Paul Baer, Marilyn Brown, Public Policy; Jonah Bea-Taylor, History, Technology, and Society

 SESSION 4: 5-6:15pm
 4A: Social & Economic Dimensions of Transportation Technologies, Student Center 301
Peter G. Westin, History, Technology, and Society; Hyoung Joon An, History, Technology, and Society; Gregory Macfarlane, Economics and Civil Engineering

4B: Designs for Living: Social, Technical, and Aesthetic Interests, Student Center 319

Hannah Weksler, History, Technology, and Society; Sarah Fox, Digital Media/Literature, Media, and Communication; Ljilja Kascak, College of Architecture/School of Industrial Design

 AWARDS CEREMONY 7pm in Ferst Center Theatre

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]]> The Ivan Allen College Graduate Student Advisory Board has worked with the Georgia Tech Graduate Student Association to plan a conference as part of the upcoming Georgia Tech Research and Innovation Conference (GTRIC) on Tuesday, February 12, 2013 in the Student Center. The GTRIC poster display will be located in the ballroom, while the conference will run from noon to 6pm and take place in SC 301 and SC 319, third floor breakout rooms of the Student Center. In addition to viewing the posters, the Georgia Tech community is invited to attend the GTRIC graduate student presentations. At 7pm on February 12, 2013, Ivan Allen College will present prizes to the top three conference papers as part of the GTRIC awards ceremony, which will be held in the Ferst Center Theatre.

]]> Nancy Thanki, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, nthanki@gatech.edu

]]> Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts graduate students have organized panels to be presented at the 2013 Georgia Tech Research and Innovation Conference. Anyone interested in Ivan Allen College research should attend these sessions. The conference is open to the public and will be held in the Student Center on February 12, 2013. The awards ceremony will be held at 7pm that day in the Ferst Center Theatre; the top posters and papers will receive awards.

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