Abstract for "Restoring John Marshall's Missing Monument"
John Marshall, the fourth Chief Justice of the United States, is revered as the “Great Chief Justice.” During his thirty-four years as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1801-1835), he was instrumental in assuring America’s recognition of the judiciary as a third and coequal branch of government.
In 1882, Congress authorized a monument to John Marshall, consisting of two elements: (1) a statue; and (2) an outdoor public location in Washington, D.C. in which to place the statue. This national monument to John Marshall was completed in 1884 when a statue of John Marshall was formally erected outside of the West Front of the United States Capitol Grounds. Marshall’s Monument remained in existence until 1981 when Marshall’s statue was relocated to the basement of the U.S. Supreme Court building to make way for President Reagan’s inauguration ceremonies.
This paper argues that Congress should restore the national monument to John Marshall by rededicating the existing John Marshall Park, a derelict park located between the Canadian Embassy and the United State Court of Appeals for the Washington D.C. Circuit that contains a replica of the original John Marshall statue, as the John Marshall Memorial Park.
Explore the conceptual plan from 2007 and the conceptual plan from 2009.
About Ryan Rowberry
Ryan Rowberry is an Assistant Professor at the Georgia State University College of Law. As a member of the Center for the Comparative Study of Metropolitan Growth, he teaches Property Law, Environmental Law, and Legal History. Professor Rowberry's research concentrates on the historical development of property and natural resources law. He also examines legal issues facing Coptic Christians in Egypt. His most recent article, A Brief History of Coptic Personal Status Law, was published by the Berkeley Journal of Middle Eastern and Islamic Law in 2010.
Professor Rowberry graduated from Harvard Law School, where he was an Islamic Legal Studies Fellow, a Cravath International Fellow, and received the Irving Oberman Award in Legal History. Following graduation, he practiced environmental and natural resources law at Hogan Lovells in Washington, DC. Immediately prior to joining the College of Law, Professor Rowberry was a Supreme Court Fellow, during which he collaborated with foreign judges and academics on judicial independence and rule-of-law matters.
Before attending law school, Professor Rowberry worked as a historian and an educator. He transcribed and collated all extant medieval manuscripts for three of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. He also taught 7th grade at a charter school and lectured in English and History at Peking University in Beijing, China. He holds a B.A. in English from Brigham Young University and was selected as a Rhodes Scholar. At Oxford University he earned a M.Sc. in Comparative Education Policy and a M.St. in Medieval British History.
]]>Whether writing a research paper for a class, preparing a conference presentation, or beginning a thesis or dissertation, a literature review plays a crucial part in the end product. So what is a literature review? This class answers that question and then demystifies the literature review process by carefully outlining it step-by-step. Tips will be included on identifying, evaluating, and organizing information.
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]]>Presentations do not need to be about a completed project, but do need to emphasize why the research is important in easy-to-understand terms.
Dr. Pete Ludovice will serve as emcee for the event, and Dr. Doug Flamming will present as a representative of the School of History, Technology and Society and the Student Activities Board for Undergraduate Research (SABUR).
Food will be provided and prizes will be given to the best presentation as decided by the audience.
Approximately 10 presentations will be chosen for this event; apply to present at gttower.org/urk.
]]>Lecture with Jean D. Reed, "Challenges of Emerging Technologies for Defense".
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Colonel Jean D. Reed, US Army (retired), came to the National Defense University's Center for Technology and National Security Policy in October 2010, following a distinguished career of almost fifty years combined military and civilian government service, including serving as Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Chemical Biological Defense and Chemical Demilitarization (DATSD(CBD/CD)). Prior to his appointment as DATSD (CBD/CD) in 2005, Reed served for 15 years as a professional staff member of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Armed Services (HASC), where he had principal responsibility for staff oversight of Navy research and development, Defense-wide science and technology, chemical-biological defense, and chemical weapons demilitarization programs. Reed's military career included 30 years progressive experience in a succession of line and staff positions of increasing responsibility, including field artillery battery command, Army Materiel Command, two combat tours in Vietnam as an advisor and brigade operations and intelligence officer, US Field Artillery School combat developments, nuclear-capable field artillery battalion command, deputy commander of a nuclear-capable corps artillery in Germany, major research and development laboratory command, and two tours on the Department of the Army General Staff.
This event is being funded through the GT FIRE program on "Educating a Biotechnology Policy & Security Workforce" for the development of new educational approaches at the intersection of biotechnology, policy, and security. Program co-led by Assistant Professor Margaret E. Kosal (INTA) and Prof Rob Butera (EE).
]]>Our presenters represent two regions that have been affected by coal power production. Donna Branham is a community organizer in Mingo County, West Virginia. Her husband and her father were coal miners. After seeing the environmental and economic effects of strip-mining in her community, she decided to take action.
Seth Gunning and Jennette Gayer are environmental advocates from the Sierra Club Beyond Coal Campaign and Environment Georgia, respectively. Both are well-respected in their field. Seth is a Georgia resident who has been an active participant in the conversation around energy policy in the state. He is a graduate of Valdosta State University. Jennette coordinates policy development, research, and legislative advocacy and organizes around a number of issues to bring cleaner air, water, and open spaces in Georgia. She is a graduate of the College of William and Mary. The two will discuss how coal burning power plants have evolved into a main power source in Georgia, and how the economy and the environment have been impacted.
The third speaker is Dr. Marilyn Brown of the Georgia Tech School of Public Policy. During her prior career at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, she held various leadership positions managing annual research budgets of $50 to $130 million, focused on energy efficiency, renewable energy, electric grid, and energy engineering projects. While at ORNL, she was also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Tennessee. Her research focuses on the design and impact of policies aimed at accelerating the development and deployment of sustainable energy technologies. Dr. Brown will discuss how the future of energy is changing and the benefits of moving beyond coal.
After the event, we will have a reception with refreshments. Here, you’ll be able to continue the conversation and find more information from our partner groups.
]]>The College ofArchitecture in partnership with the Georgia Tech Library and Archives hoststhis monthly research series held on the last Thursday of each monthduring the academic year. In each Forum, a CoA faculty member, research scientist, student, orcolleague talks about his/her research. The purpose of the series is toprovide an informal forum for members of the Georgia Tech community to presenttheir work, explore ideas, and identify opportunities for collaboration. Thetalks are free and open to the public, in theArchitecture Library from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm.
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Negroponte asserted in "The Architecture Machine" that computers are first used to accommodate existing processes before they radically transform them. The transition from drawing to modeling paradigms in AEC can be seen in a similar light. Where modeling was once seen as a way toward more accurate drafted results, it now catalyzes dramatic changes in the roles, work processes, obligations and relationships between the participants in the building process. This talk will examine how technology has wrought these changes, and what they might have in store for practitioners in the future, with particular attention to the central role of model-based representation in the rapidly changing building environment.
Phillip G. Bernstein is a Vice President at Autodesk, a leading provider of software for the architecture, engineering and construction industry. A practicing architect with twenty five years of experience, he leads Industry Strategy and Relations for the AEC Division where he is responsible for setting the company’s future vision and strategy for technology serving the building industry. Phil was formerly with Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects where he managed many of the firm’s most complex commissions. Phil teaches Professional Practice at the Yale School of Architecture where he received both his B.A. and his M.Arch. He is co-editor ofBuilding (In) The Future: Recasting Labor in Architecture published in 2010. He is a Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council and former Chair of the AIA National Contract Documents Committee.
]]>He has lectured and acted as a guest critic at numerous international institutions, including The Royal College of Art and the Architectural Association in London England, The Angewandte Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna, Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, the University of Houston in Texas and the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SciArc) in Los Angeles, among many others. Since 2001, he was appointed as an Assistant Professor of Architectural Design in Germany. Among other schools, he taught for more than six years at the RWTH Aachen, one of Germany's leading universities. Since 2009, he is appointed as a guest professor for architectural design at the Technical University Munich.
Educated in Germany, the US and England, sponsored by a Fulbright scholarship and a DAAD grand, Mark Mückenheim received his Master of Architecture from Parsons School of Design, New York and his Graduate Diploma in Architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London.
Before establishing his own architecture practice in 2001, he worked and collaborated with different architecture firms in Germany, USA and England. During this time, he gained extensive professional experience through working on a number of projects, among them the celebrated Kunsthaus in Graz (with SpacelabUK Peter Cook & Colin Fournier - London) and Scott Free, a film production company in Los Angeles for the directors Ridley and Tony Scott (with Barton Myers and Associates - Los Angeles).
Mark Mückenheims diverse portfolio ranges from concrete architectural projects of different scales and complexity to "speculations" – architectural visions that cross the boundaries of the field, informing the design potential of his office. He received the highly regarded German Young Architect's Design Award, Förderpreis NRW and the MACEF Design Award in Milan and was listed among the "top 10 under 40" German architects by the interactive architecture magazine NIB in Rome. His projects have been featured in various international books and journals, recent publications include participation in the books "Architectural Model - lead to design" and "Mobile Architecture" by DAMDI Architecture Publishing Co. Korea, "Future Architecture" a book publication by Linksbooks Barcelona and "Concept Architecture" by Rihan, Hong Kong. His work has also gained a wide reputation through a number of exhibitions in Germany and abroad most recently the house of architecture in Lille – France, the German Architecture center in Berlin and the 12th Architecture Biennale in Venice.
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]]>Stephen's talk was originally inspired by an ad that BMW ran in 2006 promising a hydrogen engine that “produces near zero emissions. Which means the exhaust produces water vapor, not carbon dioxide. So it reduces pollution and greenhouse gases and lessens our dependence on imported oil.”
This struck him as silly, and he decided that he wanted to explain why. As it turned out, it was not the only silly idea bouncing around out there, most of them referenced in a Scientific American cover article from September 2011, “How to Get All Energy from Wind, Water, and Solar Power by 2030.”
Please join us to hear Stephen explore what he sees as a deeply flawed (and dangerous) vision for sustainability, one which, although attractive to some environmentalists, simply won't work.
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Stephen Fleming is Vice President of the Enterprise Innovation Institute at Georgia Tech, responsible for economic development and entrepreneurial support. He’s a Georgia Tech graduate who was a Bell Labs physicist, a telecommunications executive, and successful venture capitalist before returning to Georgia Tech in 2005. You read more about Stephen has to say on this and other matters on his blog Academic VC.
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Please join us this Thursday to hear Dr. Subhro Guhathakurta speak on “Confronting An Uncertain Future: Planning in the Era of Climate Change and Other Global Crises.”
Director of the Center for Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Professor of Planning, Dr. Guhathakurta writes: We are living in an age of uncertainty that is unique at several levels. The current economic downturn precipitated by the U.S. subprime mortgage debacle, the potential for catastrophic climate change, the two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and more generally the war on terror, profoundly affects our ability to plan for a secure future. These unfolding events point to an immensely complex world with multiple layers of uncertain drivers and unknown "tipping points" and “Black Swans”. Now, more than ever, the most significant issues impacting cities and regions are forces outside their borders. This presentation is about confronting these challenges and finding a pathway to articulate the uncertainties through a different form of planning. Along the way I will discuss the evolving concept of sustainability and an approach to planning with hierarchical scenarios. I will also illustrate our efforts to develop some novel modeling and visualization tools to monitor and communicate sustainability indicators.
About the CoA Research Forum:
The College of Architecture in partnership with the Georgia Tech Library and Archives hosts this monthly research series held on the last Thursday of each month during the academic year. In each Forum, a CoA faculty member, research scientist, student, or colleague talks about his/her research. The purpose of the series is to provide an informal forum for members of the Georgia Tech community to present their work, explore ideas, and identify opportunities for collaboration. The talks are free and open to the public, in the Architecture Library from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm.
Upcoming COA Research Forum Events:
September 27: Sarah M. Smith, Research Scientist, Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development
October 25: “Defining Artifact and Context in Gothic Architecture: Why It’s Not So Obvious”
Laura Hollengreen, Associate Professor, School of Architecture,
November 29: “Reconfigurable CNC Molding Technologies for Non-standard Fabrication”
Tristan Al-Haddad, Assistant Professor, School of Architecture
Matthew Swarts, Research Scientist, Digital Fabrication Lab
Wenwen Zhao, Graduate Student, School of Architecture
January 31: Jason Brown, Assistant Professor, School of Architecture
February 28: Jon Sanford, Associate Professor and Director, Center for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access
About Subhro Guhathakurta:
Subhro Guhathakurta joined GeorgiaTech in 2011 as the Director of the Center for Geographic Information Systems and Professor in the School of City and Regional Planning. He was previously Associate Director of the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at Arizona State University (ASU) and among the founding faculty members of ASU’s School of Sustainability. Professor Guhathakurta was instrumental in developing the Urban Modeling and Simulation Lab in ASU’s College of Design. He also serves as the lead member of several research centers at ASU including the GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, Decision Center for a Desert City, and the project on Sustainable Urban Systems, Technologies, and Infrastructure (SUSTaIn). He is an author of 5 books and monographs and over 70 scientific papers. His article on the interface between urban modeling and planning theory was awarded the Chester Rapkin Award for the best paper (1999) in Journal of Planning Education and Research. His editorial contributions include books such as "Integrated Urban and Environmental Models: A Survey of Current Applications and Research" (Springer-Verlag, 2003) and "Visualizing Sustainable Planning" (Springer 2009). He has held visiting appointments at the Center for Urban Spatial Analysis at University College London, the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, and at the Center for Sustainable Urban and Regional Futures at the University of Queensland in Brisbane. More recently, he held the German National Science Foundation (DFG) Mercator Guestprofessorship at Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany.
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