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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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The ICLAST interdisciplinary research discussion series is designed to encourage research collaborations and to disseminate research to faculty, post-doctoral fellows, and graduate and undergraduate students across the College and campus. Panelists from different Georgia Tech units present their research on a common topic linking the liberal arts, sciences, and technology. A 30-minute general discussion will follow. Please RSVP to attend using the link below.
Bernice L. Hausman is Professor of English and the Edward S. Diggs Professor in the Humanities at Virginia Tech, where she has taught since the fall of 1995. She is also Professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine in Roanoke. She is the author of Changing Sex: Transsexualism, Technology, and the Idea of Gender (1995), Mother's Milk: Breastfeeding Controversies in American Culture (2003), and Viral Mothers: Breastfeeding in the Age of HIV/AIDS (2011), as well as coeditor of Beyond Health, Beyond Choice: Breastfeeding Constraints and Realities (2012). Professor Hausman teaches courses in medical humanities, medical rhetoric, theories of the body, feminist and literary theory, and women’s literature. She is a faculty affiliate in the Women's and Gender Studies program, the Science and Technology Studies graduate program, and the ASPECT graduate program, and was the founding coordinator and faculty advisor for the university minor in Medicine and Society. She currently leads the Vaccination Research Group.