Academic/Campus Speakers
Sports Speakers
Academic/Campus
Tom Akins
Director of Cooperative Division
Addressable topics
1. International Work Experiences
2. Undergraduate Student Marketability/Career Trends
Fredda Blanchard-Fields
Professor of Psychology
College of Sciences
Biography
Addressable topics
1. Vulnerability of older adults to elder scams: Older adults judgments and decision making
2. Everyday problem solving and emotion regulation from adolescence through older adulthood
3. Emotional changes as we grow
Dr. Terry C. Blum
Director of the Institute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship, and Tedd Munchak Chair
Biography
Addressable topics
1. Beyond Technology Square: The Heart and Soul Inside the Bricks and Mortar
2. Leadership, leadership programs, preparing students for the world we want to live in
Trina Baldwin MS ME ’92
Retired Commander in Civil Engineer Corps of the US Navy
Addressable topics
1. Antarctica: What One Engineer Did for a Year
2. FEMA: What Do They Do?
Amy Bruckman
Associate Professor
College of Computing
Biography
Addressable topics
1. Online communities
2. Educational applications of the Internet
3. Social implications of the Internet
Ann Bostrom
Associate Professor
Ivan Allen College
Addressable topics
1. Jumping to Conclusions: An Overview on risk perception and influences
William Bulpitt
Senior Research Engineer
Strategic Energy Institute
Addressable topics
1. Overview of Energy Research at Georgia Tech
2. The Renewable Energy Business, and GT Research Supporting It
3. Pressures on Energy Utilities, and How They Will Cope – Next 20 Years
Rick Clark
Admissions Officer
Addressable topics
1. Georgia Tech Admissions and the profile of this year’s class
2. Information about Admissions and advice to alums who have children considering a college education
3. Training alumni to recruit for GT
Ken Cunefare
Professor, The George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
www.me.gatech.edu/ken.cunefare/
Addressable topics
1. Georgia Tech and the Future of the Automobile: Challenges and Research
Reginald DesRoaches
Associate Professor and Associate Chair
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Addressable topics
1. Georgia Tech’s Response to Hurricane Katrina
2. Natural Hazard Mitigation in the Southeastern US
3. Earthquakes
Charles A. Eckert
J. Erskine Love, Jr Institute Professor of Chemical Engineering and Physical Chemistry
College of Engineering
Biography
Addressable topics
1. The chalk dot: Creativity and science
2. Novel solvents for sustainable technology
3. Industry and university research partnerships
James Fetig
Associate VP, Communications and Marketing
Addressable topics
1. Branding and Communications Initiatives at Georgia Tech
2. What’s Next at Tech: Looking Ahead to Tech’s Future
James Foley
Steven Fleming Chair in Telecommunications
Associate Dean
College of Computing
Biography
Addressable topics
1. Computer graphics
2. Information visualization
3. Human computer interaction
4. Management of R&D
Steve French
Professor
College of Architecture
Biography
Addressable topics
1. Recovering from Hurricane Katrina
2. Applying Earthquake Risk Analysis Techniques to Land Use Planning
Aris Georgakakos
Director
Georgia Water Resources Institute
Biography
Addressable topics
1. Water Resources Planning and Management: Balancing Economic Growth and Environmental Sustainability
2. 2007 Georgia Drought: Waste Not, Want Not.
Don Giddens
Dean of the College of Engineering
Addressable topics
1. Georgia Tech – Increasing a World Leader in Technology
2. How Georgia Tech Acquired a Medical School
3. Nanotechnology
4. The Fight Against Cancer
Zenzi Griffin
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
Biography
Addressable topics
1. What speakers’ eye movements tell us about planning sentences
2. Variations in the scope of sentence planning: What do you and don’t you do just in time
Major General George Harrison
USAF (RET.)
Georgia Tech Research Institute
Biography
Addressable topics
1. Electronic warfare
2. Georgia Tech Research Institute and current research topics
3. Research and Development at Georgia Tech: Impacting the World Around Us
Tom Horton
Chief of Staff and Assistant Director
Georgia Tech Research Institute
Addressable topics
1. Research and Development at Georgia Tech: Impacting the World Around Us
2. It’s a Great Time to be a Jacket… Poets, Bricks and Teeth
Claudia H. Huff
Principal Research Associate and Fellow
Georgia Tech Research Institute
Addressable topics
1. Why Higher Education Cares about Learning in K – 1 2 and What Difference Can we Make?
2. Why “keeping kids safe online” is a Growing Problem and What Should We Do?
3. “Wirelessness” in K – 1 2: Is This Where We’re Headed?
Joseph B. Hughes
Chair
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Addressable topics
1. America’s Most Devastating Natural Disaster
2. Reconstruction of New Orleans: If We Build it Will They Come?
3. An Overview of the Storm’s Destruction, and Scenario Analysis on the Future of the City
Joe Irwin
President
Georgia Tech Alumni Association
Addressable topics
1. Georgia Tech and the Higher Education Landscape
Dr. Charles Liotta
Vice Provost for Research and Dean of Graduate Studies
Addressable topics
1. Research: A Never-Ending Feast
William Long
Addressable topics
1. The Global Institute: Georgia Tech International Initiatives
Dr. Pete Ludovice
Associate Professor of Chemical and Bio molecular Engineering
Biography
Addressable topics
1. Undergraduate Education at Georgia Tech – Putting the FUN in FUNDAMENTALS
Gary S. May
Chair of Electrical and Computing Engineering
Biography
Addressable topics
1. Status and outlook for the School of ECE
2. Georgia Tech: Students, Faculty, Programs & Facilities
Rosalind Meyers
Associate Vice President
Auxiliary Services
Addressable topics
1. Freshman Experience – How the first year living experience contributes to a fuller student curricular experience
2. Campus Development – New construction and renovations that contribute to a fuller student curricular experience
Jimmy Mitchell, CE ’05
LEED Manager
Addressable topics
1. LEED and Sustainable Progress in Construction
2. Building a Green Story
John Mullin
Chief Information Officer, Georgia Institute of Technology
Biography
Addressable topics
1. Information Technology at Georgia Tech – IT as an enabler of teaching and research; Georgia Tech as a national leader in innovation in IT
2. Innovations in Information Technology – National perspective
3. Georgia Tech: The Present and Future of Information Technology
Sue Rosser
Dean
Ivan Allen College
Biography
Addressable topics
1. Increasing the Intellectual and Ethnic Diversity of the Student Body through the Ivan Allen College
Steve Salbu
Dean
College of Management
Biography
Addressable topics
1. Georgia Tech’s Fast Growing Management School
Sam Shelton ME ‘61
Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering
Addressable topics
1. Alternative Energy Technology Innovation: The Coming Economic Boom
2. Energy at a Crossroads: Technology’s Response
Gary B. Schuster
Interim President
Biography
Addressable topics
1. Science in the 21st century: The promise and the challenge.
2. The revolution in biology and medicine: Brave new world?
3. If research is the answer, what is the question?
Anderson D. Smith
Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies and Academic Affairs
College of Sciences
Biography
Addressable topics
1. There are Three Major Changes with Aging: The First is Memory, but the Other Two I Forget
2. What’s Happening at Georgia Tech: Undergraduate Initiatives
Deborah Smith
Associate Vice Provost of Enrollment Services, Admissions
Addressable topics
1. The state of recruitment and admissions at Georgia Tech
2. Georgia Tech Today and Tomorrow: An Update on Student Life and Admission
Joel Sokol
Associate Professor, ISYE
Biography
Addressable topics
1. Picking the Winners: Mathematical Modeling for the NCAA Tournament
2. Voting Theory and the Major League Baseball Draft
3. How should Alliances be Structured? Achieving Fairness and Feasibility in the Airline Industry
Marilyn Somers
Director of Living History
Alumni Association
Addressable topics
1. Georgia Tech’s general history; the early days, women at Tech, the integration
2. Georgia Tech History, Traditions and Legends
3. Georgia Tech Living History Program
Miller Templeton
Director of the Office of International Education, Retired
Director of Recreation Georgia Tech, Retired
Addressable topics
1. Georgia Tech on the Appalachian Trail
William J. Todd
Director
Georgia Cancer Coalition
Addressable topics
1. 21st Century Medicine: The Cutting Edge of Cancer Treatment and Predictive Health
2. The Joint Georgia Tech and Emory biomedical program
Jimmy Trimble, MG ’91
Director of Private Banking
Addressable topics
1. Managing Your Life and Career in Difficult Times
2. The Credit Crisis: Why It Happened and What’s Next
Howard Wertheimer
Director, Capital Planning and Space Management
Addressable topics
1. Georgia Tech Campus Master Plan and Landscape Master Plan
2. Sustainability
3. Thinking Green: GT Implementing Sustainable Technology
J. Craig Wyvill
Senior Research Engineer
Georgia Tech Research Institute
State Agriculture and Food Processing Research
Addressable topics
1. The Emergence of high technology in the food processing industry
2. Food safety and intervention technologies
3. Georgia’s dynamic poultry industry and Georgia Tech’s research support of it
Chris Young
Chief of Protocol/Director of International Affairs, State of Georgia
President of Protocol, Diplomacy International
Addressable topics
1. The world really is flat – how Georgia Tech prepared me to take the world by storm
2. Georgia Tech…not just my college, by my alma mater – how to translate your love of the Institute into service, support and action
3. Ramblin’ with the new generation of Jackets – what we can learn from the students of this era and what we can do to help them succeed
For athletic speakers contact Gary Lanier, GT Athletic Association, at glanier@at.gtaa.gatech.edu
