May 2024

With Commencement in the rear-view mirror, School of Public Policy grads are already fanning out across the country, equipped with their coveted Georgia Tech diplomas and years of top-notch education and opportunities, ready to help change the world.

Here's a sampling of what some of our graduates will be up to:

B.S. Public Policy

Interning at BerryDunn as a Medicaid consultant

M.S. Cybersecurity

Using the skills he learned at Georgia Tech in his job at executive director of cybersecurity risk

B.S. Public Policy

Attending law school at Georgetown University

B.S. Public Policy

Working as PEER Director of Youth Organizing and Leadership at the Education Law Center

Learn more about other Public Policy graduates and their counterparts in other Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts schools in the Ivan Allen College Commencement roundup!

The organization chose Levine, a professor in the School of Public Policy, for his contributions to biomedical research policy — including advancing understanding of how policy debates influence contentious areas of research. His work is at the intersection of ethics, policy, and biomedical research.

The School of Public Policy will teach a core course in the new minor, which includes a liberal arts track designed to give students the skills necessary to ethically and effectively use such tools in digital humanities and computational social sciences contexts.

"The most important skill I learned from IAC is critical thinking," says Xiaojing Sun, the manager of energy analytics at Meta. "Critical thinking is about problem-solving, and problem-solving is the engine of professional growth because only through solving new problems can we be stretched to learn new skills and gain new perspectives. My Ph.D. training in IAC prepared me to think critically at work and at major junctions of my personal life." Learn more about Sun and her work in her alumni profile.

School of Public Policy faculty member Omar Asensio's title was incorrectly listed in the item "Research Shows Block Grants Improve Energy Efficiency," contained in the March issue of the Public Policy Post. Asensio is an associate professor.

"Using Collaborative Governance to Regulate Sober Living Facilities: Structures and Strategies for Mitigating the Influence of Powerful Actors in Multi-Sectoral Networks," a journal article by Travis A. Whetsell, was published in Administration & Society.

"Social Responsibility and Ethics in STEM Education: The State of the Field," a chapter by Quentin Kreth and Jason Borenstein, was published in Building Inclusive Ethical Cultures in STEM by Springer.

"Responsible Innovation Scholarship: Normative, Empirical, Theoretical, and Engaged," a journal article by John P. Nelson, was published in the Journal of Responsible Innovation.

"Understanding Super-Partnerships in Scientific Collaboration: Evidence From the Field of Economics," a journal article by Cassidy R. Sugimoto, was published in the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology.

"On the Shoulders of Fallen Giants: What Do References to Retracted Research Tell Us About Citation Behaviors?," a journal article by John P. Walsh, was published in Quantitative Science Studies.

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