July 2024

Noura Howell (Literature, Media, and Communication) received a prestigious NSF CAREER award to study emotion AI, which infers people’s emotions from their facial expressions. She discusses the award and her project, as well as this technology’s potential and pitfalls.

Margaret E. Kosal, an associate professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, has joined a DoD-funded team that aims to develop human-centered, trustworthy AI to assist with decision-making in high-stress situations.

Georgia Tech's new GROWER VIP, led by Brian Y. An (Public Policy), is creating the country's most comprehensive real-time power outage tracker to help researchers explore the causes and effects of power outages — and how policy interventions can help strengthen grid resilience.

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"Fertility in the Heart of the Covid-19 Storm," a journal article by Daniel Dench, was published in Population Research and Policy Review.

"Growing up Amid Armed Conflict: Women's Attitudes Toward Domestic Violence," a journal article by Olga Shemyakina, was published in the Journal of Comparative Economics.

"On the Estimation of Quantile Treatment Effects Using a Semiparametric Propensity Score," a journal article by Karen X. Yan, was published in Econometric Reviews.

"Impact of Youth Education on Green Stormwater Infrastructure Recommendations to Increase Equity and Resilience in Marginalized Communities," a journal article by Allen Hyde, was published in the Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management.

"Historiography: Why Should Historians Pay More Attention to Philosophy of Technology?," an article by Eric Schatzberg, was published in Technology and Culture.

Everyday Politics and Culture in Revolutionary France, a book edited by Victoria Thompson, was published by Liverpool University Press. Thompson also contributed a chapter titled "A Perpetually Agitated Place: Politics in the Tuileries Garden, 1789 – 1792."

"Walkman Time Machine," an article by Lisa Jacobson, was published in the New Review of Film and Television Studies.

"Narrative Realism and Television," an article by Lisa Jacobson, was published in The Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms by Oxford University Press.

"Science Fiction Film, 1895 – 1950," a book chapter by Jay Telotte, was published in The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction by Routledge.

"Linguistic Encryption for Underwater Communication," an article by Gabrielle Calderon, was published in the Proceedings of the 13th Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing.

"Exploring the Speech Act of Requesting by German-English Bilinguals in Workplace Scenarios," a journal article by Hyoun-A Joo, was published in Global Business Languages.

"Rechtspopulismus (Right-Wing Populism)," a book chapter by Britta Kallin, was published in Jelinek-Handbuch by Springer.

Elements of Deterrence, a book by Jon R. Lindsay, was published by Oxford University Press.

"Embed Systemic Equity Throughout Industrial Ecology Applications: How to Address Machine Learning Unfairness and Bias," a journal article by Joe F. Bozeman III, was published in the Journal of Industrial Ecology.

"High-Dose Opioid Prescribing in Individuals With Acute Pain: Assessing the Effects of US State Opioid Policies," a journal article by Ashley C. Bradford, was published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

"The Spillover Effect of Mandatory Renewable Portfolio Standards," a journal article by Marilyn A. Brown, was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

"Anticipating the Response of Climate Solutions to a Policy Paradigm Shift: Case Study of the U.S. and the State of Georgia," a journal article by Marilyn A. Brown, Niraj Palsule, and Jeffrey Hubbs, was published in Energy Strategy Reviews.

"Quantifying Safeguards Innovations: Impacts of Innovations on International Atomic Energy Agency Safeguards Inspection Effort," a journal article by Ph.D. student Zoe N. Gastelum, was published in the Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament.

"Mastery of Assistive Technology: What Is It? How Do We Measure It?," a journal article by Salimah LaForce, was published in Assistive Technology.

"Exploring AI Smart Home Aging-in-Place: Use Cases to Empower Individuals with MCI and Their Carepartners," an article by Brenna Phelps, was published in AHFE Open Access.

"Experience Without Essentialism: On ‘Posting’ Phenomenology," a journal article by Robert Rosenberger, was published in Qualitative Research in Psychology.

Distracted: A Philosophy of Cars and Phones, a book by Robert Rosenberger, was published by the University of Minnesota Press.

"Industrial Policy Initiatives in Manufacturing: Examining Cross-Country Interventions Through an Evolutionary Typology of Technology Systems," a journal article by Philip Shapira, was published in Science and Public Policy.

"The Psychosocial Impacts of Generative AI Harms," an article by Cassidy R. Sugimoto, was published in the Proceedings of the AAAI 2024 Spring Symposium Series.

"The Howard-Harvard Effect: Institutional Reproduction of Intersectional Inequalities," an article by Cassidy R. Sugimoto, was published in the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology.

PI: Jason Borenstein (Public Policy)
Project: IPA
Amount: $162,273
Sponsor: National Science Foundation

PI: Marilyn A. Brown (Public Policy)
Project: Georgia Drawdown Phase 4
Amount: $60,000
Sponsor: Ray C. Anderson Foundation, Inc.

PI: Lindsey Bullinger (Public Policy)
Project: The Effect of School-Based Health Centers on the Medical and Behavioral Outcomes of Medicaid-Enrolled Children Exposed to Parental Opioid Use
Amount: $65,932
Sponsor: Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts (FORE), New York, NY

PI: Christopher Hayter (Public Policy)
Project: Evaluation of Advancing Research Translation at Boise State University
Amount: $242,533
Sponsor: Boise State University

PI: Allen Hyde (History and Sociology)
Project: CIVIC
Amount: $25,000
Sponsor: National Science Foundation

PI: Cassidy R. Sugimoto (Public Policy)
Project: Racial Equity Through Neighborhood Transformation
Amount: $53,000
Sponsor: Resilient Cities Network, New York, NY

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