Recent HSOC News

Current News and Events

• SST Program Featured in GT Daily Digest

  

  February 12, 2019

  The Sports, Society, and Technology Program was featured in the Daily Digest on February 12th, in an article titled "Not Just a Game."

• John Krige Publishes Op-Ed in Fortune

  

  February 12, 2019

  In this op-ed, John Krige discusses the competition between China and the US for high-tech supremacy.

• Black Feminist Think Tank: Spring 2019 Speakers Series

  

  February 4, 2019

  The Black Feminist Think Tank presents this colloquium series on Power and Citizenship.

• Keely Mruk Wins 2019 Southeastern Writing Center Undergraduate Peer Tutor of the Year Award

  

  January 14, 2019

  Congratulations to Keely on winning this competitive award!

• Andrew Zhang Publishes Article in Physics in Perspective Journal

  

  January 14, 2019

  Andrew Zhang, HTS/Physics undergraduate, is the first author on the article "Four Facts Everyone Ought to Know about Science: The Two-Culture Concerns of Philip W. Anderson."

• Renee Shelby Publishes Article in Theoretical Criminology

  

  January 7, 2019

  Renee Shelby, and HSTS PhD student, recently had her article titled, "Whose rape kit? Stabilizing the Vitullo® Kit through positivist criminology and protocol feminism" published in the journal Theoretical Criminology.

• John Krige Edits New Book on Transnational Movement of Knowledge

  

  January 7, 2019

   By concentrating on the conditions that allow for knowledge movement, these essays explore travel and exchange in face-to-face encounters and show how border-crossings mobilize extensive bureaucratic technologies.

• Allen Hyde Publishes Research on Labor Unions and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

  

  December 10, 2018

  Innovative work ties labor union density and pollution emissions.

• McEver Program Turns a Page with Appointment of Steven Usselman

  

  November 27, 2018

  Steven Usselman, the new H. Bruce McEver Professor of Engineering and the Liberal Arts, is assembling an advisory group from Georgia Tech’s engineering programs and working to expand his engineering in history course to be more accessible to many more students. Eventually he wants to develop a minor in engineering and the liberal arts.

• Allen Hyde Awarded Climate Change Research Grant

  

  November 26, 2018

  Allen Hyde and Jenny McGuire (EAS) received a grant from the Climate Change Fellows program at Georgia Tech to research climate resilience from different social-ecological system perspectives.