ADVANCE News

Dean Jacqueline J. Royster was recently named one of the top five women role models in Atlanta. “For me, I’m a problem finder/problem solver type person who likes to do interesting stuff. I like to invoke that critical, creative imagination. My response [to Georgia Tech] was I would like to see that happen,” she said in the profile. Read full profile on Women@TheFrontier.

- See more at: https://iac.gatech.edu/news/item/486941

IAC Friends,

This link (below) goes to an *incredible* set of kodachromes - including women in industry during the 1940s.

Thank you to Valerie Thomas for sending these !

with regards, -Mary

Mary - I thought you might enjoy scanning through these photographs. I was fascinated by the ones of women in engineering and manufacturing. - Valerie

https://pavelkosenko.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/4x5-kodachromes

The Leading Edge Digital Publications Series

Georgia Tech Liberal Arts at Work in the World

Inspired in 2013 by the 125th anniversary of LiberalArts@Tech, the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts made our first steps toward launching a digital publications series, The Leading Edge.

IAC Friends,

Congratulations -and all good wishes- go to Betttina Cothran (ML) on the recent grant of The Halle Foundation to support scholarships for students in the School of Modern Languages to study abroad in Germany. Bettina directs the program.


With our many regards, -Mary

The HERS Institutes (training for women as academic administrators) are offered at three locations and in two residential formats.
HERS Wellesley Institute: Core curriculum delivered in cumulative, multi-weekend sessions held throughout the academic year; traditionally in October, November, and March
HERS Bryn Mawr Summer Institute: Core curriculum delivered in a concentrated, 12-day campus residency format; traditionally held in June or July

Dear IAC Friends,

Congratulations - and all good wishes- to Kaye Husbands Fealing (chair, School of Public Policy) on her recent appointments at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine: 1) the Committee on Developing Indicators for Undergraduate STEM Education, and 2) the Panel on Reengineering the Census Bureau's Annual Economic Surveys.

With our many regards, -Mary

Dear IAC Friends,

Dean Jackie Royster appears in two featured articles in Women@The Frontier:
-Reader, Writer, Talker: http://www.womenatthefrontier.org/jacqueline-jones-royster-2/
-3 Steps to Rising: http://www.womenatthefrontier.org/jacqueline-jones-royster/
These articles inspire !

With good wishes - Mary

Lena Astin, co-founder of Center for Study of Women (CSW) and influential feminist scholar, has passed away at the age of 83.

We are sad to report that Helen (Lena) S. Astin, co-founder of the UCLA-CSW and influential feminist scholar, passed away on October 27. She was a Distinguished Professor Emerita of Higher Education at UCLA and widely known for her scholarly activism and research concerning education and career development of women, leadership, and spirituality.

IAC Friends,

Our colleagues, Kyoko Masuda (ModLang) and Angela Labarca (ModLang), have a new book, co-edited with Carlee Arnett: Cognitive Linguistics and Sociocultural Theory, Mouton de Gruyter, 2015.

Congratulations, Kyoko and Angela !

With all good wishes - Mary

IAC Friends,

Please see the Brave and Bold website - and consider registering support 
for a one word change in the Rambling Wreck theme song that uses "join" 
rather than "cheer" Georgia Tech in reference to women.

The link is at:
http://www.jointhebraveandbold.gatech.edu/

With regards, -Mary

-All Georgia Tech Deans have supported this as well.