Recent News

Current News and Events

• LMC's Professor Lisa Yaszek Guest Hosts Award Winning Horror Podcast

  

  July 16, 2018

  LMC professor Lisa Yaszek guest hosts the award-winning horror podcast Pseudopod.

• Driving Without a Smartphone

  

  July 10, 2018

• Renowned International Poet Named to Bourne Poetry Chair at Georgia Tech

  

  July 1, 2018

  Renowned international poet Ilya Kaminsky will join Georgia Tech August 1, 2018 as the Margaret T. and Henry C. Bourne Jr. Chair in Poetry. Professor Kaminsky will join the faculty of the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, as well as become the new director of the Poetry@Tech Program.

• Facebook’s Latest Problem: It Can’t Track Where Much of the Data Went

  

  June 29, 2018

• What Petty Nextdoor Posts Reveal About America

  

  June 22, 2018

• LuminAI Shows Off its Moves at San Francisco Art+Tech Festival

  

  June 21, 2018

  The Adaptive Digital Media Lab, or ADAM Lab, recently took its LuminAI interactive dance art installation to the Art+Tech Festival in San Francisco, where it was well received.

• Ivan Allen College Dean’s Offices Relocated to Savant Building

  

  June 20, 2018

  The Office of the Dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts has relocated to the newly renovated first floor of the Savant Building at 631 Cherry Street, Atlanta, 30332. The dean’s office previously was located in the Habersham Building at 781 Marietta Street.

• Ph.D. Student Eric Corbett Receives Microsoft Grant

  

  June 20, 2018

  Eric Corbett, a Ph.D. student in Digital Media in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, has received a $25,000 grant from Microsoft to help complete his dissertation on the role of trust and technology in local government.

• Apple’s Airpods Are an Omen

  

  June 18, 2018

• First-Year Students Present at 2018 Freshman Research Internship Exhibition

  

  June 1, 2018

  On Wednesday, April 1, 14 freshmen from the Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts presented their research at the College’s Freshman Research Exhibition.

• City Lights: Chef Todd Richards; “James Cameron’s Story of Science Fiction”; And More

  

  May 29, 2018

• The Curse of an Open Floor Plan

  

  May 17, 2018

• 5 organization tips for people who hate organizing

  

  May 14, 2018

• Still Raising the Bar: ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ 50 Years On

  

  May 14, 2018

  Jay Telotte, professor of film studies in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, discusses the enduring legacy of 2001: A Space Odyssey 50 years after its theatrical release in 1968.

• GATECH Prof: Looking For the Science in Sci-Fi

  

  May 11, 2018

• Dean’s DILAC Showcase Highlights 2018 Projects

  

  May 4, 2018

  The Digital Integrative Liberal Arts Center (DILAC) presented a showcase of research projects from the last year, drawing students and faculty to learn more about the work done in the lab during this academic year.

• ART+TECH Festival in San Francisco

  May 3, 2018

  Improvisational dance AI installation accepted to international arts festival

• Ivan Allen College Celebrates Faculty and Staff Achievements at Spring Luncheon

  

  May 2, 2018

  The Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Spring Faculty and Staff Recognition Luncheon was held on April 17, 2018. Dean Jacqueline Royster recognized the accomplishments of the College throughout the year, and highlighted that this is the 130th Year of Liberal Arts at Georgia Institute of Technology.

• Digital Media Student Projects Shine at Research Showcase

  

  May 2, 2018

  From an ancient Chinese fairy tale to a jailbreak set in a galaxy far, far away, graduate students in the Digital Media program of the School of Literature, Media, and Communication presented a variety of projects at the 2018 GVU Center & Digital Media Research Showcase.

• Ivan Allen College Supports Inspirational Figures Exhibit

  

  April 30, 2018

  The Inspirational Figures exhibit, produced by the Creative/Career Origination Lab (the CoLab) and sponsored by the Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, is a six-poster per-series exhibition concept that came from the notion of students helping students — supporting each other in seeing positive outcomes and finding inspiration in the midst of struggle with mental illness or other life hardships.