Recent News
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Georgia Tech Poet Ilya Kaminsky Wins National Jewish Book Award
January 17, 2020
Ilya Kaminsky, the Bourne Chair in Poetry in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, has won the 2019 National Jewish Book Award in poetry for his book, Deaf Republic.
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Ivan Allen College Archive Project Receives Nearly $100,000 from NEH
January 15, 2020
The Ivan Allen Archive Project at the Georgia Institute of Technology has received a two-year, $99,991 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to fund the integration of large-scale text processing and data visualization capabilities into the open-source Omeka platform.
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Celebrating Science Fiction Writer Isaac Asimov’s Influence at Georgia Tech
December 31, 2019
Jan. 2 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of influential science fiction author Isaac Asimov, whose hard-science approach to his craft sparked the imaginations of countless writers and scientists. In recent years, Asimov’s birthday has also become known as “Science Fiction Day.” In celebration of this centennial, we are taking a look at how Asimov influenced Georgia Institute of Technology faculty and students, and also offer a selection of Asimov-themed reading suggestions for Science Fiction Day.
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The Force of 'Star Wars': The Staying Power of a Sci-Fi Icon Explained
December 20, 2019
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Contest merges music, coding to lure students to computer science
December 17, 2019
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A ‘Star Wars’ actor sparked a conversation about gender fluidity. Women have been using sci-fi to explore gender and sexuality for centuries.
December 8, 2019
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Georgia Tech’s EarSketch Partners with Amazon, Ciara, to Teach Students Coding Through Music
November 21, 2019
Amazon is teaming up with EarSketch, co-led by Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Professor Brian Magerko, and singer/songwriter Ciara for the latest phase of the Amazon Future Engineer program.
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llya Kaminsky is One of the World's Top Poets, and He Teaches at Georgia Tech
November 20, 2019
Ilya Kaminsky, the Margaret T. and Henry C. Bourne, Jr. Chair in Poetry, has been on the faculty of the Georgia Institute of Technology for a little over a year now. In that time, he’s published a highly-acclaimed volume of poems, received the prestigious Academy of American Poets Fellowship, and now is a finalist for a National Book Award, one of the top literary prizes in the United States.
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Southern Reading List: Karen Head
November 20, 2019
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Reading Nam June Paik
November 11, 2019
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Bill Gates's Fortune Isn't Going Anywhere
November 11, 2019
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Interview with Ilya Kaminsky
November 11, 2019
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Where Does the Concept of Time Travel Come From?
November 4, 2019
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‘ASTOUNDING ELEMENTS’ Caps Georgia Tech’s Periodic Table Festivities
October 31, 2019
The Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts’ School of Literature, Media, and Communication (LMC) has partnered with the College of Sciences and the Georgia Tech Library to narrate how elements, both real and fictional, have figured into millennia of human storytelling.
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Faculty from King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi Explore Humanities at Georgia Tech
October 23, 2019
The presence and role of the humanities and social sciences at a technical institute is not only a topic discussed among faculty at North American universities. Recently, eleven guests from King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT) in Thailand visited Georgia Tech to discuss the intersection of humanities and technology.
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Restoring Data's Sense of Place
October 23, 2019
Assistant Professor Yanni Loukissas brings an architect's sense of place to data, arguing that "data aren't placeless."