GT Army War College Alum and Nunn School Prof Brief on Preventing WMD Proliferation
Former Georgia Tech Army War College Fellow, U.S. Army Colonel Lonnie Carlson and Nunn School Associate Professor Margaret E. Kosal jointly presented to the defense community on Preventing WMD Proliferation...
New "teach-outs" pay homage to U-M's game-changing Vietnam-era "teach-ins"
On March 24th, 1965 at 8:00 PM, about 3,500 faculty and students at the University of Michigan launched the first ever “teach in,” despite bomb threats and condemnation by the Michigan state legislature and governor. For twelve hours, participants attended lectures, debates, and performances to protest the War in Vietnam. Along the way, they established a model that would be replicated at over 120 campuses across the United States before the end of the war......
Nunn School Professor Mariel Borowitz Quoted in Christian Science Monitor on SpaceX Launch
By breaking the monopoly, the launch became something of a coup for both SpaceX and private space companies in general. Governmental organizations like NASA are increasingly turning to private companies for tasks ranging from satellite deployment to human transportation into space, blurring the line between public and private space missions. While NASA has worked with commercial companies before, the degree of responsibility given to private companies like SpaceX has risen considerably in recent years, according to Mariel Borowitz, a technology and space policy specialist and associate professor at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology. By breaking the monopoly, the launch became something of a coup for both SpaceX and private space companies in general. Governmental organizations like NASA are increasingly turning to private companies for tasks ranging from satellite deployment to human transportation into space, blurring the line between public and private space missions. While NASA has worked with commercial companies before, the degree of responsibility given to private companies like SpaceX has risen considerably in recent years, according to Mariel Borowitz, a technology and space policy specialist and associate professor at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology....
Humphrey School of Public Affairs Names New Associate Dean
The Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota has appointed Carissa Slotterback, associate professor in the school’s Urban and Regional Planning area, to the role of associate dean effective June 12. Slotterback has been a member of the Humphrey School faculty for 13 years. She succeeds Laura Bloomberg, who has held the associate dean position for four years and will transition to the role of dean when Eric Schwartz steps down next month....
Paths to public service
GPS hosted ambitious, diverse students for the inaugural Public Service Weekend at UC San Diego...
Nunn School: Interns Work with Margaret Kosal to Investigate Emerging and Next-Generation Technologies
Working with Nunn School Associate Professor Margaret E Kosal and post-doc, Dr. Jon Huang, the two APS students investigated how emerging and next-generation technologies are playing a role in national defense and in a Third Offset Strategy for deterrence....
Laura Bloomberg Named Dean of Humphrey School of Public Affairs
Laura Bloomberg has served as associate dean and principal academic officer for the University of Minnesota's Humphrey School of Public Affairs since 2013. She succeeds Eric Schwartz, who is stepping down in June to assume the presidency of Refugees International, a global refugee protection organization in Washington, DC....
Professor McClennen goes viral in Vox video on satire, the media, and Trump
Penn State School of International Affairs professor Sophia McClennen went viral earlier this month, racking up millions of views in what is now Vox’s most successful video ever....
Nunn School Professor Fei-Ling Wang's New Publication
Sam Nunn School of International Affairs Professor Fei-Ling Wang recently published a chapter entitled “Between the Bomb and the United States: China Faces the Nuclear North Korea”...
Senator Tammy Duckworth (ESIA MA ’92) to deliver GW commencement address in May
Combat veteran, Purple Heart recipient and U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) will deliver GW's commencement address before an audience of 25,000 graduates, friends and family members on May 21 on the National Mall. The Elliott School alumna said she looks forward to encouraging graduates to “go out and make a difference in the world.”...