In brief: campus news and notes

Goodman offers testimony

International Affairs and Computing Professor Seymour (Sy) Goodman testified April 1 before the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities of the House Armed Services Committee.

Goodman, James Lewis of the Center for Strategic & International Studies and Franklin Kramer, distinguished research fellow at the Center for Technology and National Security Policy, answered questions on the subject of “Holistic Approaches to Cybersecurity Enabling Network Centric Operations.”

Goodman also serves as chair of the National Research Council Committee on Improving Cybersecurity Research in the United States. For more information, visit www.cc.gatech.edu, www.inta.gatech.edu and http://armedservices.house.gov.

Allen to receive award

The American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) has awarded Associate Chair for Student Initiatives and Executive Assistant to the President Sue Ann Bidstrup Allen in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering the Sharon Keillor Award for Women in Engineering Education, which honors outstanding women engineering educators. The award includes an honorarium of $2,000 and a plaque, to be awarded at the ASEE conference in June.

Ratliff on advisory committee

The National Science Foundation (NSF) invited Donald Ratliff, UPS and Regents’ Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, to serve on the advisory committee for the Office of Polar Programs (OPP).

The committee will advise the director of the OPP in polar research programs and policy, offering guidance on how the office can best serve and promote research and education, as well as increase workforce diversity and set investment priorities.

Ratliff, who also serves as executive director of the Georgia Tech Supply Chain & Logistics Institute, will serve from May 29 through May 2011.

NCAA certifies Institute

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) announced last week that Georgia Tech was one of 35 institutions granted athletics certification.
The NCAA Division I Committee on Athletics Certification works to ensure integrity in collegiate athletics programs. The process includes a review of governance and commitment to rules compliance, academic integrity, equity and student-athlete well-being. For more information, visit www.ncaa.org.

Tech places third

Students from 10 universities demonstrated their product design and entrepreneurial skills at the April 5 National Idea-to-Product Competition for Social Entrepreneurship, held at Georgia Tech. The Institute’s entry, a tongue-drive system that can be used to access a computer, operate a powered wheelchair or control the user’s environment, placed third in the competition.

Other winners included the University of Sheffield with its first-place recycling project and the Illinois Institute of Technology with its second-place project designed to assist blind and visually impaired athletes.