Graduate Student Research Conference – Graduate Student Research Conference

Graduate student Zhuoqi Helen Dong (INTA) presents “Military-Civil Fusion Policies in China: Challenges an Opportunities in Space” at the 2023 Graduate Student Research Conference.

The Graduate Student Conference was hosted from 2013 – 2024. The conference is on hiatus until further notice.

For any questions or concerns, please contact Andrew McGraw, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts academic program manager, amcgraw@gatech.edu.

Contest Winners

2017 IAC Graduate Essay Awards
Kera Allen (History and Sociology) - Still some nagging parts: An Intersectional Study of the Computing and IT Workforce (First Prize-tie)

Seok Beom Kwon (Public Policy) - Strategic Patent Acquisition of Patent Assertion Entities and Defensive Patent Aggregators (First Prize-tie)

Sen Yan (Economics) - Intellectual property rights, innovation, and exports (Second Prize)

Garrett Bunyak (History and Sociology) - The Diffusion of the Microwave in U.S. Society in Social Context (Third Prize)

2016 IAC Graduate Essay Awards
Jon Schmid (International Affairs) and Rahul Pathak (Public Policy) - The Anatomy of Collaboration in International Development Management: Comparative Insights from Nigeria and Ghana (First Prize)

Yin Li (Public Policy) - Using web mining to understand Triple Helix innovation partnership at micro level: application to US green manufacturing sectors (Second Prize)

Renee Shelby (History and Sociology) - Whose Rape Kit? Aims, Realities, and Justice (Third Prize)

Sooa Lee (History and Sociology) - A Multi-dimensional Approach to (South) Korean International Research Collaboration (Third Prize)

Mario Bianchini (History and Sociology) - Human Economics: Germany, Economists, and the Cold War (Third Prize)

2015 IAC Graduate Essay Awards
Amanda Meng (International Affairs) - Investigating the Roots of Open Data’s Social Impact (First Prize)

Christopher Zakroff (History and Sociology) - A Flattering Coincidence? Technological Espionage and the SST Race (Second Prize)

Rebecca Watts Hull (History and Sociology) - Pathways to Change: Explaining Campus Sustainability Movements at Three Georgia Universities (Third Prize)

Eric Van Holm (Public Policy) - Is the World of Crowdfunding Flat? (Third Prize)

2014 IAC Graduate Essay Awards
Kelechi Uzochukwu (Public Policy) - The Effects of Neighborhood Constructs on Childhood Obesity: Understanding Racial and Spatial Disparities (First Prize)

Johann Weber (Public Policy) - Policy Analysis of Open Streets Programs as Policy Tools (Second Prize)

Gloria Ross (History and Sociology) - Mapping the Development of Atlanta's Food Deserts from 1980 to 2010 (Third Prize)

2013 IAC Graduate Essay Awards
Tong Zhao (International Affairs) - Confidence Building and Nuclear Arms Control between the U.S. and China: The Role and Limit of Epistemic Community (First Prize)

Emily K. Gibson (History and Sociology) - The Hand that Rocked the Cradle Flies the Family’s Plane Today: Feminism, Gender Roles, and the Rise of Commercial Aviation in the United States during the 1920s-30s (Second Prize)

Peter G. Westin (History and Sociology) - Sparky, the Patriot, and Turbo-Diesels: The Relevance of Failed Motorsports Innovations in the History of Technology (Third Prize)