Infrastructure: Energy, Water, and Food<\/h3>\n\n- Chair: <\/strong>Alexander Smith (Public Policy)<\/li>\n
- Jenna McGrath (Public Policy) \u2013 Terrorist Attacks on the United State\u2019s Energy Infrastructure: 1970-2014<\/em><\/li>\n
- Jonah Bea-Taylor (History and Sociology) – Masking vulnerability: How the Corps of Engineers Reduced Flooding in Miami and Houston<\/em><\/li>\n
- Rebecca Watts Hull (History and Sociology) – Campus Commitments to Local, Sustainable Food Procurement: Trends, Benefits, Challenges, and Opportunities<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Public Health and Society<\/h3>\n\n- Chair: <\/strong>Alice Clifton (History and Sociology)<\/li>\n
- *Renee Shelby (History and Sociology) – Whose Rape Kit? Aims, Realities, and Justice<\/em> (Third Prize)<\/li>\n
- Tongyang Yang (Economics) – Does Ethnicity Matter for Food Choices? An Empirical Analysis of Asian Immigrant Time Use<\/em><\/li>\n
- Xincheng Shen (History and Sociology) – City of Gold: A History of Human Waste Management in Shanghai 1850-1949<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Cities: Development and Preservation<\/h3>\n\n- Chair:<\/strong> Mariam Asad (Literature, Media, and Communication)<\/li>\n
- Johann Weber (Public Policy) – Bicycle Policy Entrepreneurs: Exploring the Role of Leadership in Affecting Policy Change at the Municipal Level<\/em><\/li>\n
- Firaz Peer (Literature, Media, and Communication) – Zillow Fever\u2014Data Aggregates and the Crisis of Context in the Housing Market<\/em><\/li>\n
- Gene Kansas (Literature, Media, and Communication) – Preserving the World<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Business, Technology, and Innovation<\/h3>\n\n- Chair: <\/strong>Sandjar Kozubaev (Literature, Media, and Communication)<\/li>\n
- Yeong Jae Kim (Public Policy) – Clean Disruption: the Impact of Incandescent Light Bulb Standard<\/em><\/li>\n
- Michael Vogel (Literature, Media, and Communication) – Independent Game Development in Japan<\/em><\/li>\n
- *Yin Li (Public Policy) – Using web mining to understand Triple Helix innovation partnership at micro level: application to US green manufacturing sectors<\/em> (Second Prize)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Global Knowledge Circulation<\/h3>\n\n- Chair:<\/strong> Brian Jirout (History and Sociology)<\/li>\n
- Christopher Zakroff (History and Sociology) – Bypassing Turbulence: Soviet Acoustic Science and the Technopolitics of the Jet Age <\/em><\/li>\n
- *Sooa Lee (History and Sociology) – A Multi-dimensional Approach to (South) Korean International Research Collaboration<\/em> (Third Prize)<\/li>\n
- *Mario Bianchini (History and Sociology) – Human Economics: Germany, Economists, and the Cold War<\/em> (Third Prize)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Social Dimensions of Economic Development<\/h3>\n\n- Chair: <\/strong>Caroline Appleton (Public Policy)<\/li>\n
- Yunxin Fan (Economics) – Labor Shortage, Technology Advancement, and Change on International Trade Patterns<\/em><\/li>\n
- Emily Gibson (History and Sociology) – \u201cDans tous les ciels:\u201d Air France and French Colonial Development in West Africa, 1948-1960<\/em><\/li>\n
- Wenman Liu (Public Policy) – See the Trees for Forest: Analyzing bundles of resource rights and gross forest change in developing world<\/em><\/li>\n
- *Jon Schmid\u00a0 (International Affairs) The Rahul Pathak (Public Policy) [i] – Anatomy of Collaboration in International Development Management: Comparative Insights from Nigeria and Ghana<\/em> (First Prize)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Computing and Games<\/h3>\n\n- Chair: <\/strong>Albith Delgado (Literature, Media, and Communication)<\/li>\n
- Devin Wilson (Literature, Media, and Communication) – Games and Rosenblatt’s Efferent-Aesthetic Continuum<\/em><\/li>\n
- Kera Allen (History and Sociology) –\u00a0 \u201cI was supposed to make things pretty\u201d: A Study of Workplace Culture for Women in the Computing and Information Technology Workforce<\/em><\/li>\n
- Rachel Miles (Literature, Media, and Communication) – GameBridge: A convergence point for narrative media<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
* Prize winner<\/p>\n
[i] Paper Only<\/p>\n
Read\u00a0abstracts of\u00a0prize winners<\/a><\/p>\n
\nSee what some of the presenters from\u00a0the 2016 Ivan Allen College Paper Conference had to say:<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t![\"\"](\"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/files\/2016\/10\/IMG_0229_crop-150x150.jpg\")
<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\u201cI want people to learn about different forms of storytelling and ways you can tell stories across different media. I looked at Game of Thrones and how you can tell that story, which is a TV show and a book, in a game.\u201d \u2013 Rachel Miles (Literature, Media, and Communication)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t![\"\"](\"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/files\/2016\/10\/IMG_0241_crop-150x150.jpg\")
<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\u201cI\u2019m looking at aircraft noise pollution in a global context. In particular, this paper is looking into whether the Soviet Union, which was a major aircraft producer, cared at all about the problem about aircraft noise. I looked at some sources that people haven\u2019t really looked at before and found that they did, a little bit at least.\u201d \u2013 Christopher Zakroff (History and Sociology) \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t![\"\"](\"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/files\/2016\/10\/IMG_0262_crop-150x150.jpg\")
<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\u201cI\u2019m trying to understand why there\u2019s so much variation in the level of implementation of bicycle infrastructure across municipalities in the U.S. I looked at a bunch of different factors that are going on, and I\u2019m trying to characterize whether it\u2019s because of significant influences of leadership or other factors, levels of support, and those sorts of variables.\u201d \u2013 Johann Weber (Public Policy) \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t![\"\"](\"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/files\/2016\/10\/IMG_0253_crop-150x150.jpg\")
<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\u201cI\u2019m working on the social and cultural barriers for international research collaboration between Korean scientists and other scientists.\u201d \u2013 Sooa Lee (History and Sociology)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t![\"\"](\"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/files\/2016\/10\/IMG_0236_crop-150x150.jpg\")
<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\u201c\u2018Preserving the World\u2019 is about the impact and importance of storytelling and what effects it can have on strengthening community.\u201d \u2013 Gene Kansas (Literature, Media, and Communication)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t![\"\"](\"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/files\/2016\/10\/IMG_0282_crop-150x150.jpg\")
<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\u201cMy paper is about masking vulnerability. It is about flooding in low-line areas. I have three cases, Miami, Houston, and Tampa Bay, and we\u2019re looking at the infrastructure put in place to protect those cities from flooding and then the consequences of that infrastructure.\u201d \u2013 Jonah Bea-Taylor (History and Sociology) \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t![\"\"](\"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/files\/2016\/10\/IMG_0271_crop-150x150.jpg\")
<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\u201cMy paper is about Japanese independent game development and the social implications of the tools and technologies people use to make video games.\u201d \u2013 Michael Vogel (Literature, Media, and Communication)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Graduate students enrolled in Ivan Allen College Liberal Arts graduate courses submitted abstracts by December 6th, 2015 to present papers at the IAC graduate student conference. Presentations were\u00a0scheduled as 10 minute papers on panels or 9 minute roundtable presentations during the conference on Friday, January 29th, 2016, 10am-5pm, in Room 102 of the Stephen C. … Continue reading “2016 Graduate Conference”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":657,"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Public Health and Society<\/h3>\n\n- Chair: <\/strong>Alice Clifton (History and Sociology)<\/li>\n
- *Renee Shelby (History and Sociology) – Whose Rape Kit? Aims, Realities, and Justice<\/em> (Third Prize)<\/li>\n
- Tongyang Yang (Economics) – Does Ethnicity Matter for Food Choices? An Empirical Analysis of Asian Immigrant Time Use<\/em><\/li>\n
- Xincheng Shen (History and Sociology) – City of Gold: A History of Human Waste Management in Shanghai 1850-1949<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Cities: Development and Preservation<\/h3>\n\n- Chair:<\/strong> Mariam Asad (Literature, Media, and Communication)<\/li>\n
- Johann Weber (Public Policy) – Bicycle Policy Entrepreneurs: Exploring the Role of Leadership in Affecting Policy Change at the Municipal Level<\/em><\/li>\n
- Firaz Peer (Literature, Media, and Communication) – Zillow Fever\u2014Data Aggregates and the Crisis of Context in the Housing Market<\/em><\/li>\n
- Gene Kansas (Literature, Media, and Communication) – Preserving the World<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Business, Technology, and Innovation<\/h3>\n\n- Chair: <\/strong>Sandjar Kozubaev (Literature, Media, and Communication)<\/li>\n
- Yeong Jae Kim (Public Policy) – Clean Disruption: the Impact of Incandescent Light Bulb Standard<\/em><\/li>\n
- Michael Vogel (Literature, Media, and Communication) – Independent Game Development in Japan<\/em><\/li>\n
- *Yin Li (Public Policy) – Using web mining to understand Triple Helix innovation partnership at micro level: application to US green manufacturing sectors<\/em> (Second Prize)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Global Knowledge Circulation<\/h3>\n\n- Chair:<\/strong> Brian Jirout (History and Sociology)<\/li>\n
- Christopher Zakroff (History and Sociology) – Bypassing Turbulence: Soviet Acoustic Science and the Technopolitics of the Jet Age <\/em><\/li>\n
- *Sooa Lee (History and Sociology) – A Multi-dimensional Approach to (South) Korean International Research Collaboration<\/em> (Third Prize)<\/li>\n
- *Mario Bianchini (History and Sociology) – Human Economics: Germany, Economists, and the Cold War<\/em> (Third Prize)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Social Dimensions of Economic Development<\/h3>\n\n- Chair: <\/strong>Caroline Appleton (Public Policy)<\/li>\n
- Yunxin Fan (Economics) – Labor Shortage, Technology Advancement, and Change on International Trade Patterns<\/em><\/li>\n
- Emily Gibson (History and Sociology) – \u201cDans tous les ciels:\u201d Air France and French Colonial Development in West Africa, 1948-1960<\/em><\/li>\n
- Wenman Liu (Public Policy) – See the Trees for Forest: Analyzing bundles of resource rights and gross forest change in developing world<\/em><\/li>\n
- *Jon Schmid\u00a0 (International Affairs) The Rahul Pathak (Public Policy) [i] – Anatomy of Collaboration in International Development Management: Comparative Insights from Nigeria and Ghana<\/em> (First Prize)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Computing and Games<\/h3>\n\n- Chair: <\/strong>Albith Delgado (Literature, Media, and Communication)<\/li>\n
- Devin Wilson (Literature, Media, and Communication) – Games and Rosenblatt’s Efferent-Aesthetic Continuum<\/em><\/li>\n
- Kera Allen (History and Sociology) –\u00a0 \u201cI was supposed to make things pretty\u201d: A Study of Workplace Culture for Women in the Computing and Information Technology Workforce<\/em><\/li>\n
- Rachel Miles (Literature, Media, and Communication) – GameBridge: A convergence point for narrative media<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
* Prize winner<\/p>\n
[i] Paper Only<\/p>\n
Read\u00a0abstracts of\u00a0prize winners<\/a><\/p>\n
\nSee what some of the presenters from\u00a0the 2016 Ivan Allen College Paper Conference had to say:<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\u201cI want people to learn about different forms of storytelling and ways you can tell stories across different media. I looked at Game of Thrones and how you can tell that story, which is a TV show and a book, in a game.\u201d \u2013 Rachel Miles (Literature, Media, and Communication)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\u201cI\u2019m looking at aircraft noise pollution in a global context. In particular, this paper is looking into whether the Soviet Union, which was a major aircraft producer, cared at all about the problem about aircraft noise. I looked at some sources that people haven\u2019t really looked at before and found that they did, a little bit at least.\u201d \u2013 Christopher Zakroff (History and Sociology) \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\u201cI\u2019m trying to understand why there\u2019s so much variation in the level of implementation of bicycle infrastructure across municipalities in the U.S. I looked at a bunch of different factors that are going on, and I\u2019m trying to characterize whether it\u2019s because of significant influences of leadership or other factors, levels of support, and those sorts of variables.\u201d \u2013 Johann Weber (Public Policy) \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\u201cI\u2019m working on the social and cultural barriers for international research collaboration between Korean scientists and other scientists.\u201d \u2013 Sooa Lee (History and Sociology)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\u201c\u2018Preserving the World\u2019 is about the impact and importance of storytelling and what effects it can have on strengthening community.\u201d \u2013 Gene Kansas (Literature, Media, and Communication)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\u201cMy paper is about masking vulnerability. It is about flooding in low-line areas. I have three cases, Miami, Houston, and Tampa Bay, and we\u2019re looking at the infrastructure put in place to protect those cities from flooding and then the consequences of that infrastructure.\u201d \u2013 Jonah Bea-Taylor (History and Sociology) \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\u201cMy paper is about Japanese independent game development and the social implications of the tools and technologies people use to make video games.\u201d \u2013 Michael Vogel (Literature, Media, and Communication)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Graduate students enrolled in Ivan Allen College Liberal Arts graduate courses submitted abstracts by December 6th, 2015 to present papers at the IAC graduate student conference. Presentations were\u00a0scheduled as 10 minute papers on panels or 9 minute roundtable presentations during the conference on Friday, January 29th, 2016, 10am-5pm, in Room 102 of the Stephen C. … Continue reading “2016 Graduate Conference”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":657,"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Cities: Development and Preservation<\/h3>\n\n- Chair:<\/strong> Mariam Asad (Literature, Media, and Communication)<\/li>\n
- Johann Weber (Public Policy) – Bicycle Policy Entrepreneurs: Exploring the Role of Leadership in Affecting Policy Change at the Municipal Level<\/em><\/li>\n
- Firaz Peer (Literature, Media, and Communication) – Zillow Fever\u2014Data Aggregates and the Crisis of Context in the Housing Market<\/em><\/li>\n
- Gene Kansas (Literature, Media, and Communication) – Preserving the World<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Business, Technology, and Innovation<\/h3>\n\n- Chair: <\/strong>Sandjar Kozubaev (Literature, Media, and Communication)<\/li>\n
- Yeong Jae Kim (Public Policy) – Clean Disruption: the Impact of Incandescent Light Bulb Standard<\/em><\/li>\n
- Michael Vogel (Literature, Media, and Communication) – Independent Game Development in Japan<\/em><\/li>\n
- *Yin Li (Public Policy) – Using web mining to understand Triple Helix innovation partnership at micro level: application to US green manufacturing sectors<\/em> (Second Prize)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Global Knowledge Circulation<\/h3>\n\n- Chair:<\/strong> Brian Jirout (History and Sociology)<\/li>\n
- Christopher Zakroff (History and Sociology) – Bypassing Turbulence: Soviet Acoustic Science and the Technopolitics of the Jet Age <\/em><\/li>\n
- *Sooa Lee (History and Sociology) – A Multi-dimensional Approach to (South) Korean International Research Collaboration<\/em> (Third Prize)<\/li>\n
- *Mario Bianchini (History and Sociology) – Human Economics: Germany, Economists, and the Cold War<\/em> (Third Prize)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Social Dimensions of Economic Development<\/h3>\n\n- Chair: <\/strong>Caroline Appleton (Public Policy)<\/li>\n
- Yunxin Fan (Economics) – Labor Shortage, Technology Advancement, and Change on International Trade Patterns<\/em><\/li>\n
- Emily Gibson (History and Sociology) – \u201cDans tous les ciels:\u201d Air France and French Colonial Development in West Africa, 1948-1960<\/em><\/li>\n
- Wenman Liu (Public Policy) – See the Trees for Forest: Analyzing bundles of resource rights and gross forest change in developing world<\/em><\/li>\n
- *Jon Schmid\u00a0 (International Affairs) The Rahul Pathak (Public Policy) [i] – Anatomy of Collaboration in International Development Management: Comparative Insights from Nigeria and Ghana<\/em> (First Prize)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Computing and Games<\/h3>\n\n- Chair: <\/strong>Albith Delgado (Literature, Media, and Communication)<\/li>\n
- Devin Wilson (Literature, Media, and Communication) – Games and Rosenblatt’s Efferent-Aesthetic Continuum<\/em><\/li>\n
- Kera Allen (History and Sociology) –\u00a0 \u201cI was supposed to make things pretty\u201d: A Study of Workplace Culture for Women in the Computing and Information Technology Workforce<\/em><\/li>\n
- Rachel Miles (Literature, Media, and Communication) – GameBridge: A convergence point for narrative media<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
* Prize winner<\/p>\n
[i] Paper Only<\/p>\n
Read\u00a0abstracts of\u00a0prize winners<\/a><\/p>\n
\nSee what some of the presenters from\u00a0the 2016 Ivan Allen College Paper Conference had to say:<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\u201cI want people to learn about different forms of storytelling and ways you can tell stories across different media. I looked at Game of Thrones and how you can tell that story, which is a TV show and a book, in a game.\u201d \u2013 Rachel Miles (Literature, Media, and Communication)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\u201cI\u2019m looking at aircraft noise pollution in a global context. In particular, this paper is looking into whether the Soviet Union, which was a major aircraft producer, cared at all about the problem about aircraft noise. I looked at some sources that people haven\u2019t really looked at before and found that they did, a little bit at least.\u201d \u2013 Christopher Zakroff (History and Sociology) \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\u201cI\u2019m trying to understand why there\u2019s so much variation in the level of implementation of bicycle infrastructure across municipalities in the U.S. I looked at a bunch of different factors that are going on, and I\u2019m trying to characterize whether it\u2019s because of significant influences of leadership or other factors, levels of support, and those sorts of variables.\u201d \u2013 Johann Weber (Public Policy) \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\u201cI\u2019m working on the social and cultural barriers for international research collaboration between Korean scientists and other scientists.\u201d \u2013 Sooa Lee (History and Sociology)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\u201c\u2018Preserving the World\u2019 is about the impact and importance of storytelling and what effects it can have on strengthening community.\u201d \u2013 Gene Kansas (Literature, Media, and Communication)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\u201cMy paper is about masking vulnerability. It is about flooding in low-line areas. I have three cases, Miami, Houston, and Tampa Bay, and we\u2019re looking at the infrastructure put in place to protect those cities from flooding and then the consequences of that infrastructure.\u201d \u2013 Jonah Bea-Taylor (History and Sociology) \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\u201cMy paper is about Japanese independent game development and the social implications of the tools and technologies people use to make video games.\u201d \u2013 Michael Vogel (Literature, Media, and Communication)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Graduate students enrolled in Ivan Allen College Liberal Arts graduate courses submitted abstracts by December 6th, 2015 to present papers at the IAC graduate student conference. Presentations were\u00a0scheduled as 10 minute papers on panels or 9 minute roundtable presentations during the conference on Friday, January 29th, 2016, 10am-5pm, in Room 102 of the Stephen C. … Continue reading “2016 Graduate Conference”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":657,"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Business, Technology, and Innovation<\/h3>\n\n- Chair: <\/strong>Sandjar Kozubaev (Literature, Media, and Communication)<\/li>\n
- Yeong Jae Kim (Public Policy) – Clean Disruption: the Impact of Incandescent Light Bulb Standard<\/em><\/li>\n
- Michael Vogel (Literature, Media, and Communication) – Independent Game Development in Japan<\/em><\/li>\n
- *Yin Li (Public Policy) – Using web mining to understand Triple Helix innovation partnership at micro level: application to US green manufacturing sectors<\/em> (Second Prize)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Global Knowledge Circulation<\/h3>\n\n- Chair:<\/strong> Brian Jirout (History and Sociology)<\/li>\n
- Christopher Zakroff (History and Sociology) – Bypassing Turbulence: Soviet Acoustic Science and the Technopolitics of the Jet Age <\/em><\/li>\n
- *Sooa Lee (History and Sociology) – A Multi-dimensional Approach to (South) Korean International Research Collaboration<\/em> (Third Prize)<\/li>\n
- *Mario Bianchini (History and Sociology) – Human Economics: Germany, Economists, and the Cold War<\/em> (Third Prize)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Social Dimensions of Economic Development<\/h3>\n\n- Chair: <\/strong>Caroline Appleton (Public Policy)<\/li>\n
- Yunxin Fan (Economics) – Labor Shortage, Technology Advancement, and Change on International Trade Patterns<\/em><\/li>\n
- Emily Gibson (History and Sociology) – \u201cDans tous les ciels:\u201d Air France and French Colonial Development in West Africa, 1948-1960<\/em><\/li>\n
- Wenman Liu (Public Policy) – See the Trees for Forest: Analyzing bundles of resource rights and gross forest change in developing world<\/em><\/li>\n
- *Jon Schmid\u00a0 (International Affairs) The Rahul Pathak (Public Policy) [i] – Anatomy of Collaboration in International Development Management: Comparative Insights from Nigeria and Ghana<\/em> (First Prize)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Computing and Games<\/h3>\n\n- Chair: <\/strong>Albith Delgado (Literature, Media, and Communication)<\/li>\n
- Devin Wilson (Literature, Media, and Communication) – Games and Rosenblatt’s Efferent-Aesthetic Continuum<\/em><\/li>\n
- Kera Allen (History and Sociology) –\u00a0 \u201cI was supposed to make things pretty\u201d: A Study of Workplace Culture for Women in the Computing and Information Technology Workforce<\/em><\/li>\n
- Rachel Miles (Literature, Media, and Communication) – GameBridge: A convergence point for narrative media<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
* Prize winner<\/p>\n
[i] Paper Only<\/p>\n
Read\u00a0abstracts of\u00a0prize winners<\/a><\/p>\n
\nSee what some of the presenters from\u00a0the 2016 Ivan Allen College Paper Conference had to say:<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\u201cI want people to learn about different forms of storytelling and ways you can tell stories across different media. I looked at Game of Thrones and how you can tell that story, which is a TV show and a book, in a game.\u201d \u2013 Rachel Miles (Literature, Media, and Communication)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\u201cI\u2019m looking at aircraft noise pollution in a global context. In particular, this paper is looking into whether the Soviet Union, which was a major aircraft producer, cared at all about the problem about aircraft noise. I looked at some sources that people haven\u2019t really looked at before and found that they did, a little bit at least.\u201d \u2013 Christopher Zakroff (History and Sociology) \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\u201cI\u2019m trying to understand why there\u2019s so much variation in the level of implementation of bicycle infrastructure across municipalities in the U.S. I looked at a bunch of different factors that are going on, and I\u2019m trying to characterize whether it\u2019s because of significant influences of leadership or other factors, levels of support, and those sorts of variables.\u201d \u2013 Johann Weber (Public Policy) \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\u201cI\u2019m working on the social and cultural barriers for international research collaboration between Korean scientists and other scientists.\u201d \u2013 Sooa Lee (History and Sociology)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\u201c\u2018Preserving the World\u2019 is about the impact and importance of storytelling and what effects it can have on strengthening community.\u201d \u2013 Gene Kansas (Literature, Media, and Communication)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\u201cMy paper is about masking vulnerability. It is about flooding in low-line areas. I have three cases, Miami, Houston, and Tampa Bay, and we\u2019re looking at the infrastructure put in place to protect those cities from flooding and then the consequences of that infrastructure.\u201d \u2013 Jonah Bea-Taylor (History and Sociology) \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\u201cMy paper is about Japanese independent game development and the social implications of the tools and technologies people use to make video games.\u201d \u2013 Michael Vogel (Literature, Media, and Communication)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Graduate students enrolled in Ivan Allen College Liberal Arts graduate courses submitted abstracts by December 6th, 2015 to present papers at the IAC graduate student conference. Presentations were\u00a0scheduled as 10 minute papers on panels or 9 minute roundtable presentations during the conference on Friday, January 29th, 2016, 10am-5pm, in Room 102 of the Stephen C. … Continue reading “2016 Graduate Conference”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":657,"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Global Knowledge Circulation<\/h3>\n\n- Chair:<\/strong> Brian Jirout (History and Sociology)<\/li>\n
- Christopher Zakroff (History and Sociology) – Bypassing Turbulence: Soviet Acoustic Science and the Technopolitics of the Jet Age <\/em><\/li>\n
- *Sooa Lee (History and Sociology) – A Multi-dimensional Approach to (South) Korean International Research Collaboration<\/em> (Third Prize)<\/li>\n
- *Mario Bianchini (History and Sociology) – Human Economics: Germany, Economists, and the Cold War<\/em> (Third Prize)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Social Dimensions of Economic Development<\/h3>\n\n- Chair: <\/strong>Caroline Appleton (Public Policy)<\/li>\n
- Yunxin Fan (Economics) – Labor Shortage, Technology Advancement, and Change on International Trade Patterns<\/em><\/li>\n
- Emily Gibson (History and Sociology) – \u201cDans tous les ciels:\u201d Air France and French Colonial Development in West Africa, 1948-1960<\/em><\/li>\n
- Wenman Liu (Public Policy) – See the Trees for Forest: Analyzing bundles of resource rights and gross forest change in developing world<\/em><\/li>\n
- *Jon Schmid\u00a0 (International Affairs) The Rahul Pathak (Public Policy) [i] – Anatomy of Collaboration in International Development Management: Comparative Insights from Nigeria and Ghana<\/em> (First Prize)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Computing and Games<\/h3>\n\n- Chair: <\/strong>Albith Delgado (Literature, Media, and Communication)<\/li>\n
- Devin Wilson (Literature, Media, and Communication) – Games and Rosenblatt’s Efferent-Aesthetic Continuum<\/em><\/li>\n
- Kera Allen (History and Sociology) –\u00a0 \u201cI was supposed to make things pretty\u201d: A Study of Workplace Culture for Women in the Computing and Information Technology Workforce<\/em><\/li>\n
- Rachel Miles (Literature, Media, and Communication) – GameBridge: A convergence point for narrative media<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
* Prize winner<\/p>\n
[i] Paper Only<\/p>\n
Read\u00a0abstracts of\u00a0prize winners<\/a><\/p>\n
\nSee what some of the presenters from\u00a0the 2016 Ivan Allen College Paper Conference had to say:<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\u201cI want people to learn about different forms of storytelling and ways you can tell stories across different media. I looked at Game of Thrones and how you can tell that story, which is a TV show and a book, in a game.\u201d \u2013 Rachel Miles (Literature, Media, and Communication)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\u201cI\u2019m looking at aircraft noise pollution in a global context. In particular, this paper is looking into whether the Soviet Union, which was a major aircraft producer, cared at all about the problem about aircraft noise. I looked at some sources that people haven\u2019t really looked at before and found that they did, a little bit at least.\u201d \u2013 Christopher Zakroff (History and Sociology) \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\u201cI\u2019m trying to understand why there\u2019s so much variation in the level of implementation of bicycle infrastructure across municipalities in the U.S. I looked at a bunch of different factors that are going on, and I\u2019m trying to characterize whether it\u2019s because of significant influences of leadership or other factors, levels of support, and those sorts of variables.\u201d \u2013 Johann Weber (Public Policy) \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\u201cI\u2019m working on the social and cultural barriers for international research collaboration between Korean scientists and other scientists.\u201d \u2013 Sooa Lee (History and Sociology)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\u201c\u2018Preserving the World\u2019 is about the impact and importance of storytelling and what effects it can have on strengthening community.\u201d \u2013 Gene Kansas (Literature, Media, and Communication)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\u201cMy paper is about masking vulnerability. It is about flooding in low-line areas. I have three cases, Miami, Houston, and Tampa Bay, and we\u2019re looking at the infrastructure put in place to protect those cities from flooding and then the consequences of that infrastructure.\u201d \u2013 Jonah Bea-Taylor (History and Sociology) \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\u201cMy paper is about Japanese independent game development and the social implications of the tools and technologies people use to make video games.\u201d \u2013 Michael Vogel (Literature, Media, and Communication)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Graduate students enrolled in Ivan Allen College Liberal Arts graduate courses submitted abstracts by December 6th, 2015 to present papers at the IAC graduate student conference. Presentations were\u00a0scheduled as 10 minute papers on panels or 9 minute roundtable presentations during the conference on Friday, January 29th, 2016, 10am-5pm, in Room 102 of the Stephen C. … Continue reading “2016 Graduate Conference”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":657,"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Social Dimensions of Economic Development<\/h3>\n\n- Chair: <\/strong>Caroline Appleton (Public Policy)<\/li>\n
- Yunxin Fan (Economics) – Labor Shortage, Technology Advancement, and Change on International Trade Patterns<\/em><\/li>\n
- Emily Gibson (History and Sociology) – \u201cDans tous les ciels:\u201d Air France and French Colonial Development in West Africa, 1948-1960<\/em><\/li>\n
- Wenman Liu (Public Policy) – See the Trees for Forest: Analyzing bundles of resource rights and gross forest change in developing world<\/em><\/li>\n
- *Jon Schmid\u00a0 (International Affairs) The Rahul Pathak (Public Policy) [i] – Anatomy of Collaboration in International Development Management: Comparative Insights from Nigeria and Ghana<\/em> (First Prize)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Computing and Games<\/h3>\n\n- Chair: <\/strong>Albith Delgado (Literature, Media, and Communication)<\/li>\n
- Devin Wilson (Literature, Media, and Communication) – Games and Rosenblatt’s Efferent-Aesthetic Continuum<\/em><\/li>\n
- Kera Allen (History and Sociology) –\u00a0 \u201cI was supposed to make things pretty\u201d: A Study of Workplace Culture for Women in the Computing and Information Technology Workforce<\/em><\/li>\n
- Rachel Miles (Literature, Media, and Communication) – GameBridge: A convergence point for narrative media<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
* Prize winner<\/p>\n
[i] Paper Only<\/p>\n
Read\u00a0abstracts of\u00a0prize winners<\/a><\/p>\n
\nSee what some of the presenters from\u00a0the 2016 Ivan Allen College Paper Conference had to say:<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\u201cI want people to learn about different forms of storytelling and ways you can tell stories across different media. I looked at Game of Thrones and how you can tell that story, which is a TV show and a book, in a game.\u201d \u2013 Rachel Miles (Literature, Media, and Communication)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\u201cI\u2019m looking at aircraft noise pollution in a global context. In particular, this paper is looking into whether the Soviet Union, which was a major aircraft producer, cared at all about the problem about aircraft noise. I looked at some sources that people haven\u2019t really looked at before and found that they did, a little bit at least.\u201d \u2013 Christopher Zakroff (History and Sociology) \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\u201cI\u2019m trying to understand why there\u2019s so much variation in the level of implementation of bicycle infrastructure across municipalities in the U.S. I looked at a bunch of different factors that are going on, and I\u2019m trying to characterize whether it\u2019s because of significant influences of leadership or other factors, levels of support, and those sorts of variables.\u201d \u2013 Johann Weber (Public Policy) \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\u201cI\u2019m working on the social and cultural barriers for international research collaboration between Korean scientists and other scientists.\u201d \u2013 Sooa Lee (History and Sociology)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\u201c\u2018Preserving the World\u2019 is about the impact and importance of storytelling and what effects it can have on strengthening community.\u201d \u2013 Gene Kansas (Literature, Media, and Communication)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\u201cMy paper is about masking vulnerability. It is about flooding in low-line areas. I have three cases, Miami, Houston, and Tampa Bay, and we\u2019re looking at the infrastructure put in place to protect those cities from flooding and then the consequences of that infrastructure.\u201d \u2013 Jonah Bea-Taylor (History and Sociology) \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\u201cMy paper is about Japanese independent game development and the social implications of the tools and technologies people use to make video games.\u201d \u2013 Michael Vogel (Literature, Media, and Communication)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Graduate students enrolled in Ivan Allen College Liberal Arts graduate courses submitted abstracts by December 6th, 2015 to present papers at the IAC graduate student conference. Presentations were\u00a0scheduled as 10 minute papers on panels or 9 minute roundtable presentations during the conference on Friday, January 29th, 2016, 10am-5pm, in Room 102 of the Stephen C. … Continue reading “2016 Graduate Conference”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":657,"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Computing and Games<\/h3>\n\n- Chair: <\/strong>Albith Delgado (Literature, Media, and Communication)<\/li>\n
- Devin Wilson (Literature, Media, and Communication) – Games and Rosenblatt’s Efferent-Aesthetic Continuum<\/em><\/li>\n
- Kera Allen (History and Sociology) –\u00a0 \u201cI was supposed to make things pretty\u201d: A Study of Workplace Culture for Women in the Computing and Information Technology Workforce<\/em><\/li>\n
- Rachel Miles (Literature, Media, and Communication) – GameBridge: A convergence point for narrative media<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
* Prize winner<\/p>\n
[i] Paper Only<\/p>\n
Read\u00a0abstracts of\u00a0prize winners<\/a><\/p>\n
\nSee what some of the presenters from\u00a0the 2016 Ivan Allen College Paper Conference had to say:<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\u201cI want people to learn about different forms of storytelling and ways you can tell stories across different media. I looked at Game of Thrones and how you can tell that story, which is a TV show and a book, in a game.\u201d \u2013 Rachel Miles (Literature, Media, and Communication)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\u201cI\u2019m looking at aircraft noise pollution in a global context. In particular, this paper is looking into whether the Soviet Union, which was a major aircraft producer, cared at all about the problem about aircraft noise. I looked at some sources that people haven\u2019t really looked at before and found that they did, a little bit at least.\u201d \u2013 Christopher Zakroff (History and Sociology) \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\u201cI\u2019m trying to understand why there\u2019s so much variation in the level of implementation of bicycle infrastructure across municipalities in the U.S. I looked at a bunch of different factors that are going on, and I\u2019m trying to characterize whether it\u2019s because of significant influences of leadership or other factors, levels of support, and those sorts of variables.\u201d \u2013 Johann Weber (Public Policy) \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\u201cI\u2019m working on the social and cultural barriers for international research collaboration between Korean scientists and other scientists.\u201d \u2013 Sooa Lee (History and Sociology)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\u201c\u2018Preserving the World\u2019 is about the impact and importance of storytelling and what effects it can have on strengthening community.\u201d \u2013 Gene Kansas (Literature, Media, and Communication)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\u201cMy paper is about masking vulnerability. It is about flooding in low-line areas. I have three cases, Miami, Houston, and Tampa Bay, and we\u2019re looking at the infrastructure put in place to protect those cities from flooding and then the consequences of that infrastructure.\u201d \u2013 Jonah Bea-Taylor (History and Sociology) \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\u201cMy paper is about Japanese independent game development and the social implications of the tools and technologies people use to make video games.\u201d \u2013 Michael Vogel (Literature, Media, and Communication)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Graduate students enrolled in Ivan Allen College Liberal Arts graduate courses submitted abstracts by December 6th, 2015 to present papers at the IAC graduate student conference. Presentations were\u00a0scheduled as 10 minute papers on panels or 9 minute roundtable presentations during the conference on Friday, January 29th, 2016, 10am-5pm, in Room 102 of the Stephen C. … Continue reading “2016 Graduate Conference”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":657,"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
* Prize winner<\/p>\n
[i] Paper Only<\/p>\n
Read\u00a0abstracts of\u00a0prize winners<\/a><\/p>\n See what some of the presenters from\u00a0the 2016 Ivan Allen College Paper Conference had to say:<\/p>\n Graduate students enrolled in Ivan Allen College Liberal Arts graduate courses submitted abstracts by December 6th, 2015 to present papers at the IAC graduate student conference. Presentations were\u00a0scheduled as 10 minute papers on panels or 9 minute roundtable presentations during the conference on Friday, January 29th, 2016, 10am-5pm, in Room 102 of the Stephen C. … Continue reading “2016 Graduate Conference”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":657,"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu\/essay-competition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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