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  • Summer 2020 Remote Learning FAQs

    May 12, 2020

    Remote Learner
    To ensure the continued health and safety of its community during the COVID-19 pandemic, Georgia Tech offers remote learning through Summer 2020.

  • Congratulations to Dr. Renee Shelby

    May 12, 2020

    Renee Shelby
    Renee successfully defended her dissertation, "Designing Justice: Sexual Violence, Technology, and Citizen-Activism." Congrats!

  • Jennifer Singh Receives DILAC Award

    May 12, 2020

    Jennifer Singh
    Jennifer Singh received a 2020 DILAC award for her project, "Visualizing Digital Autism Disparities in Metro Atlanta, Georgia."

  • Congrats Grads!

    May 4, 2020

    BS HTS c/o 2020
    Congratulations to the Class of 2020! Celebrate with these videos honoring our grads.

  • Summer Course: Intro to Social Justice

    May 4, 2020

    Summer 2020 LMC 2350
    Using Atlanta as a case study, this class will look at the economics, politics, and culture of gentrification, and explore ways we might make cities more diverse, sustainable, and inclusive.

  • Prestigious Fellowships Webinar

    May 4, 2020

    Fulbright Webinar
    Please join GT's Prestigious Fellowships Advisor Karen Mura to learn more about the Knight Hennessy Scholars, UK Prestigious Scholarships, and Fulbright programs.

  • HTS Alumna Researching Virtual Reality and Work

    May 4, 2020

    Digital Media PhD Student Alyssa Rumsey
    Companies hoping to get the most out of new virtual reality technologies must spend more time considering organizational factors, technological design, and the impact of such innovations on employees, said Alyssa Rumsey.

  • Congratulations to Ling-Ming Huang

    April 28, 2020

    Ling-Ming Huang
    Congratulations to Ling-Ming Huang, who successfully defended his PhD thesis, "The Birth of the Taipei Metro and Technological Hybridity under American Hegemony: the History of the Rail Mass Transportation in Postwar Taiwan." 

  • Rachel Dekom Receives First-Ever SAB Internship Scholarship

    April 28, 2020

    Rachel Dekom
    Rachel Dekom has been chosen by the Student Advisory Board as the recipient of the first ever Summer Internship Scholarship. This scholarship is provided by the SAB to a student from Ivan Allen who will use this money to further their summer internship.

  • Allen Hyde Publishes Article on Coronavirus Response

    April 28, 2020

    Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). Source: cdc.gov
    Allen Hyde, and his coauthor Angran Li of Zhejiang University, China, recently published a short article in a COVID-19 special online issue of Contexts Magazine, the official public journal of sociology, called "A Slow Start on an Urgent Crisis."

  • PURA Fall Deadline

    April 28, 2020

    PURA Ivan Allen College
    The Fall 2020 PURA Salary Award applications are now open. The deadline to apply is Friday, May 29, 2020.

  • Well-Being Weekly

    April 20, 2020

    Well-Being Weekly
    Health Initiatives will be offering weekly virtual programming for the last 4 weeks of the semester.

  • DILAC Virtual Showcase

    April 20, 2020

    DILAC Virtual Showcase
    Join us for an afternoon exploring all the lab’s wonderful projects from the 2019-20 academic year. Watch project videos, play with prototypes, and chat with creators. And the best part: anyone with a phone or computer can attend virtually!

  • Why GT Liberal Arts?

    April 20, 2020

    Why GT Liberal Arts
    If you have 2 minutes to spare, please share a sentence or two about why you love GTLiberalArts or chose GTLiberalArts.

  • Paid Summer Digitization Internship

    April 20, 2020

    Covid response library
    Georgia HomePLACE (a program of the Georgia Public Library Service) and the Roddenbery Public Library are currently accepting applications for a summer digitization intern.

  • Thank a Teacher

    April 19, 2020

    Thank a Teacher
    The Thank a Teacher program is a Center for Teaching and Learning initiative that allows students to show appreciation to faculty members, teaching assistants, mentors, and advisors who have made a difference in their education.

  • Online Spring Graduation

    April 19, 2020

    Commencement article
    Georgia Tech will recognize its Spring 2020 graduates with an online celebration on Friday, May 1, and an in-person ceremony on campus later this year.

  • Summer Studies 2020 in Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts

    April 16, 2020

    Summer Studies 2020

    Summer classes planned in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts are being offered so students won’t miss the opportunity to enhance their resumes and learning experiences. Both graduate and undergraduate courses will be taught online.

  • Allen Hyde Interviewed on TWiSP Podcast

    April 6, 2020

    Allen Hyde
    Allen Hyde was recently interviewed for the podcast "This Week in Sociological Perspective" by Professor Samuel Lucas at the University of California at Berkeley about his research on financialization and income inequality.

  • Updates to the GRE and Other Tests

    April 6, 2020

    To meet the needs of students who are unable to take the GRE® General Test at a test center due to public health concerns, ETS is temporarily offering a GRE General Test at home option.

  • GT Tutoring and PLUS Going Online

    March 30, 2020

    Tutoring at the Communication Center
    While in-person tutoring is not possible, tutors and PLUS leaders will be conducting online sessions via BlueJeans.

  • When Coeds Came to Georgia Tech

    March 12, 2020

    Amy Bix Lecture
    Historian Amy Bix explores the hurdles women have overcome — and still face — in engineering and STEM education.

  • IAC Summer Internship Scholarship

    March 10, 2020

    Ivan Allen Summer Scholarship
    The Ivan Allen College Student Advisory Board has decided to give a scholarship to one IAC undergraduate for summer 2020. The scholarship is in the amount of $800 and is meant to help students who may need extra funding during their summer internship.