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search speakersFor more information about the speakers visit http://www.gatech.edu/faculty-staff/ Academic/Campus Speakers Sports Speakers Request a Speaker Online Form Academic/Campus Tom Akins Director of Cooperative Division Biography 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 Biography 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 Dean Rich DeMillo Dean of Engineering Biography Addressable topics 1. Defining the new face of computing and impacts our lives in healthcare, entertainment, and communication 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 Biography 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 Ingrid Hayes Director of Admissions Addressable topics 1. Snapshots of Tech Students - Today and Tomorrow 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 Biography 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 Biography 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 Dennis Kelly President & CEO of Zoo Atlanta Addressable topics 1. Zoo Atlanta & Georgia Tech: How Tech Faculty, Alumni and Students saved the Zoo 2. Georgia Tech and Animal Conservation/Research Dr. Charles Liotta Vice Provost for Research and Dean of Graduate Studies Addressable topics 1. Research: A Never-Ending Feast William Long Biography 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 Terry Maple Director of the Center for Conservation and Behavior Director Emeritus, Zoo Atlanta Addressable topics 1. What Willie B. Revealed to His Psychologist 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 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 Provost and Professor College of Sciences 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 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 Jeffery Swanagan Executive Director, Georgia Aquarium Addressable topics 1. The Georgia Aquarium: An Inside Look 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 Biography Addressable topics 1. 21st Century Medicine: The Cutting Edge of Cancer Treatment and Predictive Health 2. The Joint Georgia Tech and Emory biomedical program 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 Sports For athletic speakers contact Gary Lanier, GT Athletic Association, at glanier@at.gtaa.gatech.edu |