In Brief: campus news

January 20, 2004

Postal services announces service reduction

Recent budget cuts have made it necessary for the Post Office to evaluate the service provided to the campus. According to Postal Services Manager Morris Power, while every consideration has been given to minimize the impact on each department, the Post Office is implementing a change in mail pickup and delivery service. As of Jan. 26, some departments will no longer receive service two times per day. Instead, service will be provided once per day between 12:30 p.m. and 2 p.m. A detailed delivery schedule including a list of the affected departments will be available Jan. 23.

This change in service will impact 41 departments, but further budget reductions may cause a more extensive assessment of services.

Ivan Allen College names new associate dean

	Ann Bostrom

Ann Bostrom has been appointed associate dean for research and faculty development in Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts. She is an associate professor in the School of Public Policy with primary research interests in risk perception, communication and management, and behavioral decision theory. Assuming the role previously occupied by Literature, Communication and Culture Chair Ken Knoespel, her duties as associate dean will include helping to find opportunities, provide information, and facilitate the process for faculty’s sponsored research activity, and the development of faculty research programs.

“Ivan Allen College is uniquely constituted and situated to achieve interdisciplinary research advances that reshape science and technology as well as expand the frontiers of the liberal arts,” she said. “There are top-notch researchers in the College who are doing this, but sponsored research is not as widespread a norm as it could be. I like to think of my new job as creating a research culture in the College. We can all use a little culture.”

Bostrom received her Ph.D. in public policy analysis from Carnegie Mellon University in 1990. She came to Georgia Tech as an assistant professor in 1992 and was promoted to associate professor in 1998.

Billiee Pendleton-Parker

Tech employee recognized for record of volunteer service

When President George W. Bush arrived in Atlanta last week to commemorate the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., Billiee Pendleton-Parker was there to greet him. White House officials chose Parker because of her exemplary record of volunteer service, which includes such organizations as Hands on Atlanta, Project Open Hand and TEAM Buzz. Parker works as the assistant director in the Center for Teaching and Learning coordinating faculty development programs, or as she puts it, “teaching the professors to teach.”