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IAC CRIDC Paper Conference
10:05: Opening Remarks: Rebecca Hull, IAC Graduate Student Advisory Board Member
10:10-10:55am: Energy and Sustainability Chair: Alexander Smith (SPP)
Rebecca Hull (HSTS), “Pathways to Change: Explaining Campus Sustainability Movements at Three Georgia Universities”
Yeong Jae Kim (SPP),"The effectiveness of ENERGY STAR on product innovation"
11:00 am-noon: Climate Mitigation and Adaptation Chair: Chris Zakroff (HSTS)
Benjamin Staver (SPP), “Business Models for Utilities of the Future: Emerging Trends in the Southeast”
Jonah Bea-Taylor (HSTS), “Urban infrastructure, climate change, and expert communities in coastal US cities”
Supraja Sudharsan (Nunn) “Participation of the Global South in Transnational Climate Governance: Who Benefits?”
Noon-12:55 pm: Lunch
12:55-1:55pm: Technology and Society Chair: Gene Kansas (Digital Media)
Eric Van Holm (SPP), “Is the World of Crowdfunding Flat?
Jean Chu (DM/LMC), “Designing Tangible Interfaces to Support Expression and Sensemaking in Interactive Narratives”
Michael Madaio (DM/LMC), “The Automation of Personalized Learning: An Exploration of the Risks and Possibilities of Adaptive Learning Systems”
2-3 pm: Geographic Data and Methods Chair: Jiayao Ni (Economics)
Jenna McGrath (SPP), “Hydraulic Fracturing Activity Explored Through County Demographics in Texas”
Jonathan Law (ECON), “Master's Examining Residential Location Patterns by Income and Occupation in Atlanta, GA”
Jon Schmid, Chris Blackburn (Nunn), "An Exploration of the Volatility of Technological Productivity"
3-3:10pm: Afternoon break
3:10-4:20 pm: Security and History Chair: Joe Lupton (HSTS)
Alice Clifton (HSTS), “When All Other Means Have Broken Down: Messenger Pigeons in the US Military”
Christopher Zakroff (HSTS), “A Flattering Coincidence? Technological Espionage and the SST Race”
Hyoung Joon An (HSTS), “S. Korea’s Missile Development and the Diplomatic Relation with the U.S.,
1958-1978”
Philip Baxter (Nunn), “The False Hope of Nuclear Forensics?: Why Forensics won’t Matter in Times of Crisis”
4:20-5:20pm: Social and Cultural Aspects of Technology Chair: Alice Clifton (HSTS)
Soo A Lee (HSTS), “The meaning of international collaborative research for the Korean materials and mechanical scientists and its influence on the scientific globalization in Korea”
Emily Gibson (HSTS), “Gender, Service, and the Emotional Labor of ‘Selling’ Commercial Aviation: Pan American Airways and Air France, 1930-1950”
Devin Wilson (DM/LMC), “Animal Liberation Themes in 1991's Sonic the Hedgehog”
5:20-6pm: Reception
