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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.

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.

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.