ADVANCE News

Dear IAC Friends,

Our colleague, Marilyn Brown, is appointed interim chair of the School of Public Policy.

Congratulations, and all good wishes, Marilyn !

-Mary
 

Dear IAC Colleagues - and especially junior colleagues,

This is just received (9 pm) - and I seek your input.

What may be your thoughts on opt out/opt in on accommodations to the tenure timeline related to COVID?

May you respond by tomorrow/Tuesday, 12 noon.

with all good wishes - Mary

Our colleague, Kaye Husbands Fealing, is incoming Dean of Ivan Allen College.

Congratulations and all good wishes, Kaye !

-Mary

Dear IAC Friends,

Good News of our Faculty !

-Marilyn Brown (PubPolicy) has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

-Shatakshee Dhongde (Econ) was appointed as a Fellow with the Society of Economic Management.

Congratulations - and all good wishes !  -Mary
 

Dear IAC Friends,

Good News of our faculty at the start of the New Year !

    -Angela Della Vache (LMC) has a new book published on Ande Bazin's Film Theory:  Art, Science, and Religion (Oxford University Press, 2019).

    -Julia Melkers (PubPolicy) was awarded a grant from the Bill and Melina Gates Foundation for "Foundational Work in the Study of Student Migration."

Dear IAC Friends,

Good News of our colleagues !

--Natalie Khazaal (Mod Langs) was awarded a 2019 Fellowship by the American Council of Learned Societies.

--Margaret Kosal (Inta) featured her "Favorite (Chemical) Element" in a 2019 Georgia Tech Celebration of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements

--Anna Stenport (Chair, Mod Langs) received an Education Impact Award from the UN Association - Atlanta Chapter.

Congratulations - and all good wishes !

-Mary

Dear IAC Friends,

Our colleague, Kaye Husbands Fealing (chair, Public Policy), has been elected to the 2019 Class of Fellows of the National Academy of Public Administration.

Congratulations, Kaye - and all good wishes !

-Mary

Dear IAC Friends,

Your updated profiles -and those of IAC women faculty joining this semester- appear on our new IAC ADVANCE Network of Women Faculty.

We can read about our colleagues with pleasure and pride !  And the site is designed to be useful for incoming students and faculty (and those recently interviewed) as well.

Dear IAC Friends,