Recent News
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Noura Howell Receives NSF CAREER Award to Study Emotion AI
July 1, 2024
Georgia Tech’s Noura Howell received a prestigious NSF CAREER award to study emotion AI, which infers people’s emotions from their facial expressions. She discusses the award and her project, as well as this technology’s potential and pitfalls.
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Middle Schoolers’ Feedback Informs New Approach to AI-based Museum Exhibits
June 21, 2024
Researchers at Georgia Tech are creating accessible museum exhibits that explain artificial intelligence (AI) to middle school students, including the LuminAI interactive AI-based dance partner developed by Regents' Professor Brian Magerko.
Ph.D. students Yasmine Belghith and Atefeh Mahdavi co-led a study in a museum setting that observed how middle schoolers interact with the popular AI chatbot ChatGPT.
Belghith and Mahdavi conducted their study with nine focus groups of 24 students at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry. The team used the findings to inform their design of AI exhibits that the museum could display as early as 2025.
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Dean Search Begins for Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts
June 5, 2024
Georgia Tech will begin the search for the next dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts. The search committee, chaired by Dean of Libraries Leslie Sharp, was chosen through a nomination process and includes a mix of faculty, staff, students, and alumni from within the college, as well as other units from across campus.
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Teaching AI to Collaborate, not Merely Create, Through Dance
May 2, 2024
Georgia Tech and KSU faculty are putting a collaborative AI system they’ve developed to the ultimate test: the world’s first collaborative AI dance performance.
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LMC Professor Appears in New Hulu Documentary on ‘Black Twitter’
April 29, 2024
Brock's appearance in 'Black Twitter: A People's History' is based on a 2021 Wired series in which he also participated.
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LMC Scholar of Cognition and Creativity Named Regents’ Professor
April 25, 2024
Brian Magerko becomes the fifth active Regents' Professor in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts
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IAC Celebrates Exceptional Teaching, Research, and Service
April 25, 2024
As the 2023-24 academic year comes to a close, the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts community came together for the annual student, faculty, and staff celebration.
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Poetry@Tech Experts Celebrate the Craft and its Challenges During National Poetry Month
April 19, 2024
For Poetry@Tech's Victoria Chang and Travis Denton, instilling a deep appreciation for the challenges and joys of poetry in Georgia Tech students is all in a day’s work.
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Ivan Allen College Non-Tenure Track Academic and Research Faculty Earn Promotions
April 10, 2024
Seven Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts non-tenure track academic and research faculty members have achieved promotion to senior research scientist, senior academic professional, principal academic professional, or senior lecturer.
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Ivan Allen College to Offer AI Applications Minor in Conjunction with Engineering
April 3, 2024
Starting this summer, students at Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts will be able to earn a new minor in applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning designed to help them demonstrate their knowledge to prospective employers.
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Atlanta Global Studies Symposium to Focus on Languages of Sustainability, Global South
April 2, 2024
The Atlanta Global Studies Symposium returns April 12 with a focus on the “Languages of Sustainability and the Global South.” The event will feature a keynote lecture and live performance by Grammy award-winning musician David Sánchez.
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Alasdair Young Named Interim Associate Dean for Faculty Development
April 1, 2024
Alasdair Young, professor and Neal Family Chair in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, has been named interim associate dean for faculty development in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, effective April 1.
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Celebrate National Poetry Month with the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts
March 27, 2024
Celebrate National Poetry Month with Poetry@Tech; the School of Literature, Media, and Communication; the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts; and the Library.
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30 Years Later, Story of Freaknik Gets Told
March 20, 2024
Joycelyn Wilson, assistant professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, says the release of Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told continues to raise the profile of Atlanta’s role in hip-hop overall, not just in the South.
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Richard Utz Named Interim Dean of Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts
March 19, 2024
Richard Utz, senior associate dean and professor, has been appointed interim dean of Georgia Tech’s Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, effective April 20. Dean Husbands Fealing, who served in that role since 2020, has been appointed assistant director of the National Science Foundation Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences.
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Documentary by Ivan Allen College Faculty Explores Challenges of Autism in Communities of Color
March 18, 2024
Georgia Tech faculty members Jennifer Singh and John Thornton produced and directed a documentary film that tells the stories of six Black families raising autistic children. The film premieres at Georgia Tech on Friday, March 22.
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Ivan Allen College Faculty Earn Institute Research Awards
March 13, 2024
Two Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts faculty members have received Institute Research Awards from the Office of the Executive Vice President for Research.
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Life of a Leap Baby
February 28, 2024
Only about 5 million people worldwide — less than 0.1% of the world’s population — have been born on Feb. 29. Andy Eichel, senior managing strategy consultant in Strategic Consulting, is one of them.
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LMC's Brock to Serve on AI Network Advisory Board
February 20, 2024
Atlanta communities most vulnerable to bias and inequity in artificial intelligence (AI) are the focus of a new Atlanta-based ethics initiative being funded by a $1.3 million Mellon Foundation grant.
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Vanderbilt Professor: Humanities and STEM Can Do More Together, and Here’s How
February 14, 2024
Jay Clayton talked to students and faculty about how to integrate the humanities and social sciences into STEM research projects.