Dear IAC Friends,

Welcome to the upcoming Fall semester !

And welcome to our new IAC women faculty members:
-Neha Kumar (International Affairs)
-Laine Nooney (Literature, Media, and Communication

Our IAC ADVANCE website profiles women faculty - and supports networks of communication, information, and exchange. Your updated profiles are nearly complete - stay tuned for the link to the updated site as well as plans for an IAC ADVANCE Lunch/Discussion !

Dear IAC Friends,

The Georgia Tech Active Service/Modified Duties Program -developed with support of Advance- has benefited numbers of faculty members toward modified workload and flexible schedule for a period because of family commitments. 

The Program is administered by the Georgia Tech Office of Faculty Affairs: http://faculty.gatech.edu/faculty-affairs-reps/internal-resources/active-service

Please let me know if you may want to discuss (confidentially) any of these issues.

with good wishes - Mary

Dear IAC Friends,

Thank you for your updated profiles for the IAC Advance Network/Web for Women Faculty !

Please see our newly updated site at: http://www.advanceiac.gatech.edu/index.php

IAC Friends,

Our colleague, Usha Nair-Reichert (Econ) has received a Fulbright specialist award for collaboration on trade, multinational investments, and innovation at the Warsaw School of Economics, Poland.

Congratulations, Usha !

with 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.

IAC Friends,

Our colleague, Marilyn Brown (PubPol) has a new book, with Yu Wang, just published: Green Savings: How Policies and Markets Drive Energy Efficiency (Praeger Press, 2015). Her book addresses energy resource planning, emerging technologies and methods for evaluating them, and policy making.

Congratulations, Marilyn !

With all good wishes - Mary

Dear IAC Friends,

Our colleague, Jenna Jordan (INTA) is a principal investigator with Mike Salome (INTA) for an award ($485,000.) from the Carnegie Foundation to the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs. The study focuses on how break-through technologies are increasing nuclear instability, worldwide.

Congratulations, Jenna !

with all good wishes - Mary

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

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.

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