HTS @ Georgia Tech

Fantastic Event Tonight! Hip Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:38:00 +0000

Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes

with filmmaker and anti-violence educator Byron Hurt

Thursday, January 26 at 7 p.m.

Student Center Ballroom

Byron Hurt is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, a published writer, and an anti-sexist activist. His most recent documentary, Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. This documentary is a riveting examination of masculinity, sexism, and homophobia in Hip-Hop culture. Delivering a self-described “loving critique” of rap music, director Byron Hurt—a star quarterback in college, longtime Hip-Hop fan, and now gender violence prevention educator—pays tribute to the power and creativity of Hip-Hop while challenging the rap music industry to take responsibility for glamorizing destructive stereotypes of manhood in general and perpetuating negative myths about African American males in particular. Critically acclaimed for its fearless engagement with issues of race and racism, gender violence, and the corporate exploitation of youth culture, this prophetic film is as entertaining as it is educational, as bold as the bravado it exposes.

Fraternity Men Against Violence Training

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:41:00 +0000

Fraternity Men Against Violence Training

Date: Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Time: 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm.
Location: ISyE Executive Classroom
Program Participants: 1 to 2 men from IFC fraternities.

This training to IFC fraternity men is an overview of sexual violence and an introduction to responding to victims/survivors. It will cover sexual violence in our society, gender roles and rape myths. It is an opportunity for fraternity men on the Georgia Tech campus to become active allies in the work of preventing sexual violence against women. VOICE T- shirts will be given to those who complete the four hour training. To Register go to http://www.voice.gatech.edu/plugins/rsvp/ and enter your name and shirt size.

Food will be provided.

Librarian Office Hours

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:47:00 +0000

Bruce Henson will have weekly office hours in the Old Civil Engineering Building on Thursday January 26 from 11 - 1 in the Graduate Reading Room (ground floor). He will be available to assist with any research and information needs you have.

If these hours are not convenient for you please email or call him to set-up an appointment to meet individually.

Speaker Series: Alondra Nelson

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:45:00 +0000

The School of History, Technology, and Society is pleased to announce our Black History Month Speaker: Dr. Alondra Nelson. She is associate professor of sociology at Columbia University, where she also holds an appointment in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. She is coeditor of Technicolor: Race, Technology, and Everyday Life and Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision between DNA, Race, and History. Dr. Nelson will present a talk based upon her new book Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination. Her talk will address the legacy of the Black Panther Party’s commitment to community health care, a central aspect of its fight for social justice. She argues that the Party’s focus on health care was practical and ideological and that their understanding of health as a basic human right and its engagement with the social implications of genetics anticipated current debates about the politics of health and race.Additional information on the book can be found at www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/body-and-soul.

The talk will take place on the 1st of February at 4pm in the Neely Room of the Georgia Tech Library.

Kindles and iPads Now Available at the Library

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:42:00 +0000

Kindle E-readers and Apple iPads are now available for checkout from the Georgia Tech Library.

The Kindles are 3G powered, Wi-Fi enabled, and available for a two-week loan period. The iPad 2’s are Wi-Fi enabled and available for 48-hour loan. Currently, there are five of each device available for checkout from the Library Service Desk. Library staff designed a quick-start guide for those who are unfamiliar with these devices.

The growing popularity of e-readers and tablet computers sparked a trend among academic libraries to start mobile device loan programs. Ellis added that feedback from students, faculty, and staff will influence the purchase of more Kindles and iPads in the future.

Library staff also plans to gather feedback from users to determine whether the devices are used primarily for leisure or academic purposes, and to solicit suggestions for e-book and app store purchases. A number of productivity apps and e-books are already installed on each device.

Users can also sign-in to their personal Amazon and iTunes accounts to download content. Please note that users are responsible for any content they download. Upon return, each device will be wiped clean of all user-downloaded content and returned to their original state.

To offer suggestions for iPad 2 apps, email gadgets@library.gatech.edu and for Kindle e-book suggestions email pop@library.gatech.edu.

SAA Spring Kick-off Celebration

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:37:00 +0000

Pop In - Win Prizes, Hook-up A Friend, Learn How to Connect with Alumni

Thursday, January 26, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Student Center Commons, Stage and Piedmont Room
Open to all students – bring your friends!

All students that drop by to see what SAA is all about can pop a balloon for a chance to win one of these prizes!
- 1 of 2 Barnes and Noble Nooks
- 1 of 250 $5 Gift Cards from places like Starbucks and Barnes and Nobles
- 1 of 10 Professional Photos with the Wreck

SAA members will be onsite to answer questions about the popular Mentor Jackets and Dinner Jackets programs. Sign-ups for first year and second year membership will be taken on-site...or you can sign-up today online!

Already a member of SAA? Hook up your friends with SAA!
Any SAA member who brings a friend will receive a "I hooked up my friend with SAA" t-shirt if their friend joins the Student Alumni Association. Share your experiences in SAA, and tell your friends about programs like Dinner Jackets and Mentor Jackets that connect students with some of Tech's over 130,000 alumni.

Dr. Bier Interviewed

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:33:00 +0000

HTS' own Dr. Laura Bier was recently interviewed about women and the Egyptian revolution for the e-newsletter of the organization peaceXpeace. The organization, in their own words is "where women’s voices are connected and amplified through our E-media and the Peace X Peace Community, a global network of peace builders in over 100 countries. We provide perspectives, analysis, tools, and resources on women’s power to build peace. We advocate for women as the most direct and powerful way to create cultures of peace around the world."

The interview can be read here.

February Book Club Selection Announced

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:30:00 +0000

The Office of Diversity Programs and the Women's Resource Center Book Club Announces their next selection:

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Friday, February 24, 2012 12-1 PM
Women's Resource Center
Discussion led by Stephanie Ray, Associate Dean of Students/Director, Diversity Programs

For years the medical and scientific communities conversed about the miraculous He-La cells. However, few thought about the real origin of the cells. After all, the cells came from a human being, right? What was her name? Did she have a family? The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a true story that parallels the Tuskegee Experiment. The story is about Henrietta Lacks, a poor Black women who was treated at the historic John's Hopkins Hospital for ovarian cancer. Without her knowledge her cells were harvested for scientific research. The cells were in such high demand a factory was built in Tuskegee, Alabama. He-La cells have traveled around the world and to the moon. Many diseases have been cured because this woman's cells were able to live outside her body. How could she not know? How could her family not know? How could we not know? Where is the justice?

Update: Talk on Fundamentalism in Christianity and Islam, 1/26

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:25:00 +0000

Make sure to attend this talk by Dr. Harvey Cox on one of the most important issues of our time, religious fundamentalism. Thursday, 1/26 at 11.00 AM in the Neely Room (Library).

Dr. Eban Goodstein Talk

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:24:00 +0000

The School of Public Policy presents:

Leadership, Careers, & Sustainability
Finding a Job to Change the Future

Dr. Eban Goodstein
Director, Bard Center for Environmental Policy

Tuesday, January 31st at 7:30 pm
DM Smith Rm. 105, Georgia Institute of Technology

Dr. Eban Goodstein is an environmental economist and Director of the Bard Center for Environmental Policy and the new Bard MBA in Sustainability. Goodstein directs two national educational initiatives on global warming: C2C Fellows and the National Climate Seminar. In recent years, he has coordinated climate education events at over 2500 colleges, universities, high schools and other institutions across the country. Goodstein has authored many books, including the college textbook, Economics and the Environment.

Library Trial: Rotunda Collections

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:18:00 +0000

Rotunda Collections
Rotunda publications offer scholars and students at all levels an invaluable source of primary and secondary materials by and about some of the most enduring figures in history and the humanities. Rotunda publications are available individually or as part of these collections.

Date: 1.18.2012 - 2.18.2012
URL: http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/
Username: E-GL-4027
Password: JvbV3AKb

American Century

Presidential Recordings of Lyndon Johnson Digital Edition

American Founding Era

The Adams Papers Digital Edition
The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution
The Papers of Alexander Hamilton Digital Edition
The Dolley Madison Digital Edition [standalone edition with special features]
The Dolley Madison Digital Edition [document content only]
The Papers of James Madison Digital Edition
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson Digital Edition
The Papers of George Washington Digital Edition
Founders Early Access [open to all users]

19th-Century Literature and Culture

Clotel, or The President’s Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States
Emily Dickinson’s Correspondences: A Born-Digital Textual Inquiry
Herman Melville’s “Typee”: A Fluid-Text Edition
Journal of Emily Shore
The Letters of Christina Rossetti
The Letters of Matthew Arnold

Bring Great Students to HTS- Volunteer for Shadow Day!

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:13:00 +0000

Shadow Day is the most important recruiting event for the Ivan Allen College, and we need your help to for it to be successful! Volunteer now to help out with Shadow Day. For more info on what Shadow Day is all about, visit shadowday.iac.gatech.edu. To volunteer, click on the Google doc here.

MOVE Tutoring Opportunities

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:30:00 +0000

Are you interested in giving back to the Atlanta community through fun and dynamic tutoring programs? If so, please read on to learn about what MOVE's tutoring programs have to offer you!

TEACH is offering two tutoring opportunities:

Place: Henry Grady High School
Subject: Math
Days: Mon-Thurs
Time: 3:30-4:30 pm

Place: Create Your Dreams
Subjects: Calculus, chem, bio, physics, etc.
Days: Tues
Time: 5-7 pm

If you would like to join or have any questions, please e-mail Christine Kim (ckim77@gatech.edu) the times that you can tutor, the subject and place, and your transportation situation (car or no car). If you do have a car, let me know if you are comfortable with carpooling with others. We should be starting tutorials on the week of January 23 so please send in your information ASAP.

Click "Read More" for more tutoring opportunities...

Children's Restoration Network (CRN) is a new program that focuses on tutoring and mentoring homeless children living in shelters in the Atlanta area. This program offers a lot of benefits for volunteers, such as:

Great experience: It's a wonderful opportunity for tutors/mentors to interact with a wide age range of students. Volunteers build strong relationships with their students and become a positive role model for a child just by spending time with them.
Flexible schedule: Volunteers may choose the dates and times at which they would like tutor, and volunteers are only required to tutor/mentor once a week for 1.5 hours. In addition, volunteers can choose a certain age range to tutor as well as whether they would prefer one-on-one or small group tutoring.
Easy access: There are a few shelters within walking distance of Tech, so transportation would not be required for volunteers who choose those locations.

This program is a great way to give back to the community and to make a huge difference in one child's life just by showing up once a week and showing them that someone cares about their well-being!
For more info or to sign up, visit http://move.gatech.edu/tutoring/crn.php or feel free to contact Joyce Wong at jwong32@gatech.edu. Please sign up before JANUARY 24 to begin volunteering this semester.

CORE is a tutoring and mentoring program for elementary and middle school students. This program operates outside of the classroom environment and includes field trips for the students and tutors. This program volunteers at City of Refuge in the afternoon Monday through Thursday. For more information, please contact Marcus Walker at mwalker42@gatech.edu.

PIE is an opportunity to assist middle school students as they study for standardized tests. This occurs primarily in a classroom setting, but also offers 1 on 1 tutoring. For more information, please contact Stefanie Olivier at solivier6@gatech.edu.

TTP is a tutoring program that works in all subjects at Centennial Place Elementary, which is very walkable from campus. This program only requires one hour of tutoring time a week and is very flexible. For more information, please contact Kelsie Riemenschneider at kjr3@gatech.edu.

If you have any other questions regarding tutoring or MOVE, please feel free to Christina Bins, at cbins3@gatech.edu.

2012 Speaker Series: Dr. Ken Knoespel

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:01:00 +0000

This year's speaker series kicks off on Monday, January 23!

Dr. Ken Knoespel

"Science, Technology, and Surveillance in the Baltic"

January 23, 4-5:30pm

Old CE Building

Room 104

All are welcome!

Southern Teachers Fairs

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:56:00 +0000

The Southern Teachers Agency helps teachers find jobs in private/independent schools around the South.

One part of their work is to hold Job Fairs that give candidates an opportunity for face‐to‐face meetings with school administrators who are trying to fill actual vacancies.

STA provides a free service to prospective teachers with knowledgeable, professional placement counselors guiding candidates through the competitive search process. Candidates must have a Bachelor’s degree to teach in a private school, but certification is not always required.

Southern Teachers Job Fairs are open only to active STA candidates, so apply now! The deadlines to apply for candidacy are:

January 27, 2012 (Atlanta Fair)
February 17, 2012 (Washington, DC Fair)

To apply, please visit the website at www.SouthernTeachers.com and submit an online application along with your resume and cover letter.

Space History Talk

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:52:00 +0000

Roger Launius, ex-NASA Historian and now at the space history division in the National Air and Space Museum, will give a talk for AE on Tuesday, January 31 at 11am..

The venue to be announced... All are welcome.

Dr. Krige will bring him over to HTS after lunch for an hour or so. Any one who wants to meet him, please be available from about 2:00-3:30pm.

Hiring at Inflection

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:49:00 +0000

Last year, Inflection ran a program called 11411, created to hire 11 of the best and brightest graduating seniors. They ended up hiring 17 incredible graduating seniors. Now, they're running 12412 and once again hiring across the company (here is the12412 page: http://inflection.com/careers/12412.html).

Inflection is a highly profitable and fast-growing consumer products tech start-up in Silicon Valley. They have over 14 billion public records in their databases, spanning nearly every imaginable facet of contemporary and historical human life. They had nearly 85 million visits to our sites in just the first 6 months of 2011.

To see their products, check out Archives.com, where they're making making family history simple and affordable. PeopleSmart.com is transforming the public records industry with innovative search and privacy controls.

If you have any questions, email Matt Sundquist at Msundquist@inflection.com and apply online here:
http://inflection.com/careers/12412.html.

Multimedia Classes for Spring 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:45:00 +0000

The walk in workshops for Multimedia offerings this semester start today. Details are also on the Library Calendar: http://www.library.gatech.edu/calendar/libclasses.php

New for this semester based on student feedback are: a crash course on CSS, Designing a logo in Illustrator CS5, and 3d modeling in Google SketchUp!

Also available are workshops in Dreamweaver, InDesign, and Photoshop.

Summer Study Abroad in Dakar Senegal

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:39:00 +0000

WHEN: July 16 - August 6, 2012
APPLY BY: February 15, 2012

This year there is a new LBAT in Dakar, Senegal the “NGO capital of the world.” The focus of the LBAT is on development and sustainability in an African context. Students may take 3 credits in FREN or HTS with possible internship and financial aid opportunities available. Students will have the opportunity to live and study in a multi-lingual environment composed of French and Wolof OR English and Wolof.

CLASS: HTS 2100: Science, Technology and Modern World with a focus on Africa.

More information at http://www.hts.gatech.edu/senegal

Or please contact:
Michael Wiedorn (ML) michael.wiedorn@modlangs.gatech.edu
Christophe Ippolito (ML) christophe.ippolito@modlangs.gatech.edu
Wenda Bauchspies (HTS) wenda.bauchspies@hts.gatech.edu

Opportunity for Outstanding Students

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:35:00 +0000

The Women’s Leadership Institute is now accepting nominations and applications for our NEW Leadership Residential Intensive Training to be held May 14-17, 2012 on the campus of Auburn University. The program offers one-on-one training with top leaders in nonprofit management, politics, education, and social media, and the keynote event is a book-signing luncheon with Fair Pay Activist, Lilly Ledbetter. The NEW Leadership Residential Training is open to all women currently enrolled in an institution of higher education. For more information or to nominate students, or to apply please visit www.auburn.edu/womensleadership.

To watch a brief video about the program please click here http://www.youtu.be/watch?v=XeC7nnQwWHQ&feature=related

SABUR Updates

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:32:00 +0000

SABUR’s (Student Activities Board for Undergraduate Research) annual Dinner with the Docs will be held on February 1st and March 14th.

Professors still to be determined.

For more info go to gtsabur.weebly.com.

The Tower Update

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:30:00 +0000

Georgia Tech’s Undergraduate Research Journal, The Tower, Volume III is hot off the press! Pick up Volume III at your local newsstand or view digitally at gttower.org/read.

In addition, The Tower article submission deadline for the Fall 2012 issue will March 1, 2012. Please consider submitting your research, synopsis, perspective, or dispatch article at gttower.org/submit. Also, The Tower is always accepting undergraduate and graduate reviewers; production staff skilled in graphic design, article layout, video editing/shooting, and web design, so apply now!

Finally, check out gttower.org for interviews with undergraduates/professors and updates!

ACC Meeting of the Minds Conference

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:28:00 +0000

The ACC Meetings of the Minds conference is an opportunity for undergraduate students to present their research in a professional setting and share their work with peers. Each member institution of the ACC is asked to send between six and eight students to the conference.

Any student interested in attending the conference and presenting their research, please submit the online form found here by January 31st. (All expenses will be covered).

This year the conference will be hosted by Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA, March 30-April 1.

President’s Undergraduate Research Award

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:25:00 +0000

Interested in being paid for your research experience?

Students may apply for salary awards of up to $1500. Applications for summer 2012 awards are due February 24th, 2012. (Travel award applications are accepted anytime up until one month before the conference.)

For additional information, including the online application visit: http://www.undergradresearch.gatech.edu/funding/pura.

Spring Symposium Call for Abstracts

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:22:00 +0000

Sharing research is as important as doing research!

Each year 150-200 GT students present their research on campus at the Annual Undergraduate Research Spring Symposium (April 10th). This is a great opportunity for students to gain valuable experience presenting in a professional setting and to collaborate and garner feedback from peers and faculty, not to mention the awarding of prizes! Submit your abstract at www.undergradresearch.gatech.edu.

Deadline for abstract submission is March 2nd, 2012.