{"692938":{"#nid":"692938","#data":{"type":"news","title":"AI \u0026 Society Events to Examine Real-World Trade Offs Behind AI","body":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EArtificial intelligence may operate in the digital world, but it leaves a massive and very real physical and societal footprint. What does AI\u2019s rapid growth mean for the future of humanity? How can it be steered towards a more prosperous future for all?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts will host a series of four events, the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/ai-society\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EAI \u0026amp; Society Series\u003C\/a\u003E, to bring together scholars, practitioners, industry leaders, and the Georgia Tech community to explore some of the most consequential questions surrounding artificial intelligence and their potential solutions. Through the interdisciplinary lens of the liberal arts, the series will examine AI\u0027s physical infrastructure, its influence on research and discovery, its evolving role in human relationships, and its impact on creativity and creative industries.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cConsidering technology from a humanistic perspective has never been more necessary,\u201d said Amanda Murdie, dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts. \u201cAI has so much potential to be positive and transformational, but we should prioritize understanding and mitigating the challenges it creates in its wake.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe next event in the series will be \u201c\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/events\/item\/692376\/academic-research-future-discovery\u0022\u003EAI and Academic Research: The Future of Discovery\u003C\/a\u003E\u201d on Nov. 4 at 6:30 - 9 p.m. in the Georgia Tech Hotel \u0026amp; Conference Center \u2013 Grand Ballrooms. The panel will explore how artificial intelligence is transforming the landscape of higher education and scholarly inquiry.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPanelists include Sebastian Porsdam Mann, Assistant Professor, CeBIL, University of Copenhagen; Sarah H. Salter, Director of the Writing Program \u0026amp; Professor of Pedagogy, Emory University; and Dan Reiter, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Political Science, Emory University.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sebastian-porsdam-mann-8b5092b1\/\u0022\u003EPorsdam Mann\u003C\/a\u003E is an assistant professor at the University of Copenhagen\u2019s Center for Advanced Studies in Bioscience Innovation Law. With training spanning philosophy, neuroscience, applied ethics, and international human rights law, his research examines how emerging technologies can advance scientific progress while navigating ethical and regulatory challenges. His work has directly explored generative AI in academic writing and idea generation, as well as AI\u0027s potential role in the future of academic peer review, positioning him to address both the opportunities and risks AI creates throughout the research process.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/writingprogram.emory.edu\/people\/bios\/Salter-Sarah.html\u0022\u003ESalter\u003C\/a\u003E is a teaching professor and director of the writing program at Emory University whose research focuses on American literature, periodical studies, collaboration, and digital humanities. Her scholarship has included interdisciplinary work using machine-learning methods to analyze the visual structures of historical newspapers, combining literary study, library science, and computational approaches. Her perspective brings an important humanities dimension to the conversation about how computational tools and AI are changing research methods, scholarly interpretation, writing, and knowledge production.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/polisci.emory.edu\/people\/biography\/reiter-dan.html\u0022\u003EReiter\u003C\/a\u003E is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Political Science at Emory University. His scholarly interests include interstate conflict, gender and international relations, civil-military relations, alliances, military effectiveness, public opinion and foreign policy, war termination, and others. He earned his B.A. in political science from Northwestern University in 1989, his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan in 1994, and was a post-doctoral fellow at the John M. Olin Institute at Harvard University from 1994-1995. In 2002, he was given the Karl Deutsch Award from the International Studies Association, presented annually to a scholar under age 40 or within ten years of having received the Ph.D. \u201cwho is judged to have made (through a body of publications) the most significant contribution to the study of International Relations and Peace Research.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUpcoming events in the AI \u0026amp; Society Series include:\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAI, Human Empathy, and Relationships: Is AI a Better Partner?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EWednesday, Feb. 10, 2027 | 6:30 \u2013 9 p.m.\u003Cbr\u003EHistoric Academy of Medicine\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAI and Creativity: Creative Industries in Flux\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EWednesday, April 14, 2027 | 6:30\u20139 p.m.\u003Cbr\u003EWalter G. 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Bourne Chair in Poetry at Georgia Tech, has been \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nationalbook.org\/2026-national-book-award-finalists-announced\/\u0022\u003Enamed a finalist\u003C\/a\u003E for a National Book Award for Poetry, one of the nation\u2019s top literary prizes, for her book of poems, \u003Cem\u003ETree of Knowledge.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith the nod, Chang becomes one of just 180 poets named finalist for the prestigious prize since its reinstatement by the National Book Foundation in 1991.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u0027s such an honor to have \u003Cem\u003ETree of Knowledge\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Eselected as a finalist for the National Book Awards,\u201d Chang said. \u201cMy book \u003Cem\u003EOBIT\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Ewas longlisted in 2020 during the pandemic, so it will be nice to celebrate in person in New York with all the other finalists.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ETree of Knowledge\u003C\/em\u003E emerged from Chang\u2019s contemplation of the felling of a tree across from her house in Los Angeles, where she was living at the time. It became, as \u003Cem\u003EMother Jones\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Esaid, \u201ca meditation on abstract art, mortality, language, home, and history.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt spiraled out to me writing about trees in paintings that I was thinking about, and then to the expulsion of Chinese people from Eureka, California, in the 1800s,\u201d Chang said. \u201cI also included art that I made from historical photographs of Chinese people in Eureka, so the book threads the personal, the political, the historical, and the environmental.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe book features not only Chang\u2019s writing, but also her visual art. The collection incorporates original embroidered photo collages created by Chang using 19th-century archival images.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChang holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in East Asian Studies from the University of Michigan, a master\u2019s degree in East Asian Studies from Harvard, an MBA from Stanford University and an MFA from Warren Wilson College.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHer previous collection of poetry, \u003Cem\u003EWith My Back to the World\u003C\/em\u003E, earned the prestigious Forward Prize for Best Collection, while her 2020 book \u003Cem\u003EOBIT\u003C\/em\u003E received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. OBIT was also named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Griffin International Poetry Prize.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShe also is a Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of the Chowdhury International Prize in Literature.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to her endowed chair, Chang teaches in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/lmc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Literature, Media, and Communication \u003C\/a\u003Eand serves as the director of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/poetry.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EPoetry@Tech\u003C\/a\u003E, leading one of the nation\u2019s premier poetry centers and reading series. Through the work of Poetry@Tech, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, Georgia Tech students across engineering, science, and the humanities learn the value of poetry as craft, literature, and personal expression.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChang is the second Bourne Chair at Georgia Tech to be named a finalist for the prize. Her predecessor, Ilya Kaminsky, was named a finalist in 2019.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe winners will be announced Nov. 18 in New York.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EChang was nominated for her collection of poems, \u0027Tree of Knowledge.\u0027\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Chang was nominated for her collection of poems, \u0027Tree of Knowledge.\u0027"}],"uid":"34600","created_gmt":"2026-10-07 14:39:53","changed_gmt":"2026-10-26 12:48:24","author":"mpearson34","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-10-07T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-10-07T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"681374":{"id":"681374","type":"image","title":"RS3443_Victoria-Chang-by-Pat-Cray_lpr.jpg","body":"\u003Cp\u003EVictoria Chang, the Margaret T. and Henry C. 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YouTube\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We\u0027re really proud to host this Spatial Scholarship Field School \u2014 to spend a couple of days together thinking about what it means to take space and place more seriously as part of the scholarship we do,\u0022 said Yanni Loukissas, an associate professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/lmc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/a\u003E (LMC) and director of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/media-arts.gatech.edu\/center\u0022\u003EIMA\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECo-led by LMC Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/40abaa84-d467-517c-b604-d2f77da94bf0\u0022\u003ERichmond Wong\u003C\/a\u003E, the event challenged scholars to evaluate how local neighborhoods respond to emerging technologies like self-driving cars and data centers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe invited participants to walk around with 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Riggs is a 2026 Ph.D. Digital Media graduate who now works as an assistant professor at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis activity asked participants to focus on critical and interpretive approaches to bio and environmental data, situating themselves within campus environments,\u201d Riggs said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStephen Yang, a doctoral candidate at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, said the event advanced his thinking on how people experience built environments.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI\u2019m grateful for the thought-provoking conversations that pushed me to think hard about the taken-for-granted ways built environments are organized,\u201d Yang said. \u201cI left the Field School with many new ideas that I\u2019ll continue to ruminate on.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIMA is a collaboration between the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/library.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ELibrary\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Center for Interdisciplinary Media Arts at Georgia Tech recently hosted doctoral students and early-career scholars from around the country for a workshop on spatial scholarship.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Center for Interdisciplinary Media Arts at Georgia Tech recently hosted doctoral students and early-career scholars from around the country for a workshop on spatial scholarship."}],"uid":"34600","created_gmt":"2026-09-10 21:10:43","changed_gmt":"2026-09-29 18:33:32","author":"mpearson34","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-09-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-09-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"681135":{"id":"681135","type":"image","title":"Spatial Scholarship Field School","body":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech Associate Professor Yanni Loukissas, right, and collaborators at the Spatial Scholarship Field School lean over a large table workspace marking up a map.\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1789074658","gmt_created":"2026-09-10 21:10:58","changed":"1789074658","gmt_changed":"2026-09-10 21:10:58","alt":"Attendees at the Spatial Scholarship Field School lean over a large table workspace marking up a map.","file":{"fid":"265495","name":"spacial-scholarship-image.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/09\/10\/spacial-scholarship-image.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/09\/10\/spacial-scholarship-image.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":994708,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/09\/10\/spacial-scholarship-image.jpg?itok=VVIeDfLd"}}},"media_ids":["681135"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:michael.pearson@iac.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EMichael Pearson\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts\u003Cbr\u003EGeorgia Tech\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"691225":{"#nid":"691225","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Brian Magerko Appointed James and Mary Wesley Chair for New Media Studies","body":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/brian-magerko\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EBrian Magerko\u003C\/a\u003E has been appointed as the James and Mary Wesley Chair for New Media Studies in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication. Magerko is a Regents\u2019 Professor of Digital Media and head of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/expressivemachinery.gatech.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EExpressive Machinery Lab\u003C\/a\u003E. He has served as director of graduate studies for the Digital Media Program for eight years and will step down from this leadership role on July 31.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe endowed chair appointment is a renewable, three-year term, starting on Aug. 1. The endowed professorship is supported by a gift from James and Mary Wesley, long-time Atlanta philanthropists. The chair conducts research and develops and teaches courses within the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/lmc.gatech.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESchool of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/a\u003E (LMC) and has recognized expertise in digital environments across media platforms.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Dr. Magerko\u0027s innovative work in cognition, coding education, and creativity makes him an ideal fit to serve as our Wesley Chair,\u201d said Amanda Murdie, dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, Regents\u2019 Professor, and Ivan Allen Jr. Chair in Liberal Arts and Technology. \u201cThis chair will help advance his groundbreaking research while also supporting his transformative leadership of LMC\u2019s Digital Media Program.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMagerko\u2019s expertise lies at the intersections of computation, cognition, and the social\/creative interactions between humans and artificial intelligence. His research explores how studying human and machine cognition can inform the creation of new human\/computer creative experiences. He has been research lead on more than $15 million of federally funded research and has authored over 100 peer-reviewed articles related to computational media, cognition, and learning.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis work has been shown at galleries and museums internationally, and he co-founded a music-based learning environment for computer science, called EarSketch, that has been used by about 2 million learners worldwide. Magerko and his work have appeared in the \u003Cem\u003ENew Yorker\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Cem\u003EUSA Today\u003C\/em\u003E, CNN, Yahoo! Finance, NPR, and other global and regional outlets.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMagerko joined Georgia Tech in 2008 as an assistant professor of digital media. He received his B.S. in Cognitive Science from Carnegie Mellon University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cDr. Magerko exemplifies our teaching and educational mission in his work on behalf of our Digital Media program,\u201d said Kelly Ritter, chair of LMC and professor of Writing and Communication. \u201cHe has built an already strong and forward-looking program into an even better one that provides pathways for students and fellow faculty to accomplish their own professional and intellectual goals.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/brian-magerko\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EBrian Magerko\u003C\/a\u003E has been appointed as the James and Mary Wesley Chair for New Media Studies in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Brian Magerko has been appointed as the James and Mary Wesley Chair for New Media Studies in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication. 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Spanish major Sonali Kaluri is a language and culture expert.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPut the two together and you have a sharply educated researcher with a passion for healthcare. Kaluri is headed to Barcelona after graduation this Spring as a Fulbright Scholar to study the health of migrant workers under\u0026nbsp;the digital platform economy. She plans to later embark on a career in medicine.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt\u2019s something she says she couldn\u2019t have done without her experiences at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cYou need to have a deep understanding of people and the systems that surround us to be able to effectively and ethically help people as a physician,\u201d said Kaluri, who attended Georgia Tech as a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/stampsps.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EStamps President\u0027s Scholar\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKaluri\u2019s Applied Languages and Intercultural Studies degree from the School of Modern Languages helped shape that understanding, including through classes studying Spanish literature.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cLiterature is such an important window into the lives of people different from you,\u201d Kaluri said. \u201cStudying another language\u2019s great works is an excellent way to understand the experiences of different people and build that empathy, which translates to real life for me in being able to better connect with the people I meet.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKaluri, who was fluent in her parents\u2019 languages of Telugu and Kannada before arriving at Georgia Tech, had always wanted to combine language training with her work in healthcare.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cEarly in high school and college, I would shadow doctors, and if they had a patient that couldn\u2019t speak English, I\u2019d be able to follow along with the conversation even without an interpreter using my knowledge from high school Spanish classes,\u201d Kaluri said. \u201cI figured that one day as a doctor, it would be cool to be able to talk directly to a larger number of patients without needing an interpreter and to be able to build greater rapport with patients. That was the spark for why I wanted to pursue more rigorous study of Spanish.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHer interest in medicine derives from seeing how cultural norms around gender and caregiving can shape and even sideline women\u2019s own healthcare needs.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI realized that was a big part of why I wanted to pursue medicine \u2014 to advocate for people on a deeper level, to try to bridge these gaps that I\u0027ve noticed in research, in the clinic, et cetera,\u201d Kaluri said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKelly Comfort, one of Kaluri\u2019s Spanish professors, said Kaluri\u2019s success shows what\u2019s possible with a combined STEM and liberal arts education.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSonali is the kind of student who proves that the humanities are not separate from science and medicine \u2014 they strengthen them. Her ability to think critically about culture, identity, and social systems through her ALIS major has shaped her into a more thoughtful future healthcare professional,\u201d Comfort said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cShe is not only highly skilled in pre-health and pre-medicine fields, but she is also multilingual, interculturally competent, empathetic, reflective, and prepared to improve the human condition across cultures, languages, and borders,\u201d Comfort said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBiology and Spanish major Sonali Kaluri is headed to Barcelona after graduation this Spring as a Fulbright Scholar to study the health of migrant workers under the digital platform economy.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Biology and Spanish major Sonali Kaluri is headed to Barcelona after graduation this Spring as a Fulbright Scholar to study the health of migrant workers under the digital platform economy."}],"uid":"35766","created_gmt":"2026-05-04 19:28:11","changed_gmt":"2026-05-11 19:56:47","author":"dminardi3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-05-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-05-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"680167":{"id":"680167","type":"image","title":"MERCURY--2-.jpg","body":null,"created":"1777923045","gmt_created":"2026-05-04 19:30:45","changed":"1777923045","gmt_changed":"2026-05-04 19:30:45","alt":"Sonali Kaluri","file":{"fid":"264409","name":"MERCURY--2-.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/05\/04\/MERCURY--2-.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/05\/04\/MERCURY--2-.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":166993,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/05\/04\/MERCURY--2-.jpg?itok=zvQJc3fG"}}},"media_ids":["680167"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"},{"id":"1284","name":"School of Modern Languages"}],"categories":[{"id":"193157","name":"Student Honors and Achievements"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMichael Pearson\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:michael.pearson@iac.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emichael.pearson@iac.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts\u003Cbr\u003EGeorgia Tech\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"690035":{"#nid":"690035","#data":{"type":"news","title":"LMC Students \u2018Dream Big\u2019 With Boys and Girls Clubs of America Commercial ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhen Boys and Girls Club Digital Growth Director Tiffany Simmons met with Georgia Tech students at the organization\u2019s national headquarters in January, her directive was simple: \u0022dream big.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat challenge served as the catalyst for a collaboration between the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/lmc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/a\u003E (LMC) and the Boys and Girls Clubs that has culminated in a commercial that\u2019s now slated for national distribution. The project will serve as a strong portfolio item for the students as they pursue future opportunities in film production while helping build awareness and donations for the Boys and Girls Clubs.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt was very exciting to get to work on something with such a big impact and real-life application,\u201d said Lila Parker, the project\u2019s student director. She will graduate this Spring with a degree in Literature, Media, and Communication.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EParker\u2019s vision was selected from a series of competitive pitches delivered by six students enrolled in a special topics cinematography course overseen by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/john-thornton\u0022\u003EJohn Thornton\u003C\/a\u003E, LMC\u0027s director of film and media. Students Charity Dawson, Jordan Green, Natalie Howlette, Taylor Lee, and Erica Yun comprised the crew and took on various roles to make the commercial a reality.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cDuring our first meeting, Tiffany told us to dream big. That stuck with me and evolved into the concept for the ad, which I titled, \u2018Not Just a Dream,\u2019 Parker said. \u201cThe ad starts with a kid sleeping and transitions into a whimsical, dreamy sequence showing pursuits like art and athletics. It then switches to show that this is actually reality for these kids at the Boys and Girls Clubs. The message is that the club provides the resources to make these big dreams come true.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe partnership originated when Simmons sought a fresh perspective from a younger demographic to modernize the organization\u2019s creative content.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe production involved a two-day shoot, including location filming at a Boys and Girls Club venue and studio work in the Skiles Building, where students designed and constructed their own sets.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBeyond academic credit, participants gained hands-on experience in pre-production, script finalization, and equipment coordination.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp lang=\u0022EN-US\u0022\u003EThe resulting commercial will be integrated into the Boys and Girls Clubs\u2019 paid advertising on television and YouTube to drive awareness and donations. Simmons said she intends to share those metrics with the students to help bolster their resumes.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIn my twelve years of marketing, these students are by far the most advanced I have ever worked with,\u201d Simmons said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe initiative, which Simmons said she expects will become an annual partnership, highlights LMC\u0027s commitment to providing students with industry-standard opportunities that bridge the gap between the classroom and the professional media landscape, according to Thornton.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s a tremendous advantage for college graduates who are interested in pursuing film as a career to leave school with meaningful real-world examples of the kind of work they\u2019re capable of doing,\u201d he said. \u201cThese are the kinds of opportunities we\u2019re excited to offer at LMC, and we\u2019re grateful to the Boys and Girls Club for the opportunity to partner on this great project.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe School of Literature, Media, and Communication offers a concentration in media, including film, as part of the Bachelor of Science in Literature, Media, and Communication, as well as a \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/lmc.gatech.edu\/programs\/minors\/film-media-studies\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003Eminor in film and media studies\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EStudents in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication developed and filmed a commercial for the Boys and Girls Clubs of America.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Students in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication developed and filmed a commercial for the Boys and Girls Clubs of America."}],"uid":"34600","created_gmt":"2026-04-29 12:30:35","changed_gmt":"2026-04-29 12:48:12","author":"mpearson34","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-04-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-04-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"680090":{"id":"680090","type":"image","title":"lmc bgca commercial shoot","body":"\u003Cp\u003EStudent Lila Parker, operating camera, directed \u0022Not Just a Dream,\u0022 a commercial for the Boys and Girls Clubs of America.\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1777466093","gmt_created":"2026-04-29 12:34:53","changed":"1777466093","gmt_changed":"2026-04-29 12:34:53","alt":"A student operates a camera while two other students confer in the foreground.","file":{"fid":"264329","name":"Image--3-.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/04\/29\/Image--3-.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/04\/29\/Image--3-.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":168676,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/04\/29\/Image--3-.jpg?itok=SIvJwDuK"}}},"media_ids":["680090"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:michael.pearson@iac.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EMichael Pearson\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["michael.pearson@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"686803":{"#nid":"686803","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Earning a Ph.D. When Your Plate is More than Full","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFor Yuchen Zhao, who is graduating this week, the path to a Ph.D. in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/dm.lmc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EDigital Media\u003C\/a\u003E wasn\u2019t just about mastering code or theory. 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The technology is at the heart of Zhao\u2019s other startup.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EInnovating from the Inside Out\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EZhao\u2019s research moves beyond the standard handheld controllers and head-tracking used in many virtual reality and augmented reality experiences. BioVR, on the other hand, is all about how internal physiological signals such as heart rate, blood pressure, and breathing rhythm can control a virtual environment in real time.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I wanted to investigate what happens when the interaction comes from inside the body,\u0022 Zhao said. \u0022BioVR demonstrates how internal states can become meaningful, expressive input for interactive systems.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe applications of her work are myriad, from horror games that adapt to a player\u2019s fear levels to rehabilitation systems that automatically adjust difficulty based on a patient\u0027s physiological response.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EZhao credits the pressure of her personal life with sharpening her academic focus. 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