2024 Graduate Conference – Graduate Student Research Conference

Feb. 23, 2024

Session I

Emtiaz Hossain Hritan (ECON), Silencing the Rails: A Study of the Noise-Safety Trade-off in Railway Quiet Zones
Jancy Ling Liu (ECON), Powering Down and Moving On? Energy Transition, Gentrification, and Local Impacts
Thales de Oliveira Souza (SPP), Landowner rights and the pathway to Net Zero: perspectives into the CO2 pipeline project in Iowa
Sharon Rachel (HSOC), Climate Change and Intersectional Inequalities in the Southern United States

Session II

Ejaz Ahmed & Letian Cheng (SPP), How Advocacy Coalitions Affect State-level Privacy Legislation Outcomes in the US
Sakshee Bapat (SPP), Policy framework to prevent and mitigate misuse of AI for terrorism recruitment
Zhuoqi Helen Dong (INTA), Information Control and China Standard 2035
Sanghyun Han (INTA), Revisiting Industrial Policy: How Industrial Policy Signals Resolve

Session III

Daniel Aum (INTA), A Better Peace: Finding Alignment in Grand Strategy
Shi Ding (LMC), Teacher’s Perspective on Redesign of Earsketch
Michelle Manganiello (ML), Promoting Student Staff Wellness at Georgia Tech Housing and Residence Life: My Work as a Graduate Assistant and other Initiatives
Chengzhi Zhang (LMC), Fostering the Public’s Speculation Towards Large Generative Models with an Interactive Museum Installation

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)