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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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Atlanta, GA | Posted: January 19, 2018
The 36th annual SEUSS will be held Friday and Saturday, February 16th/17th at Emory University. The Symposium provides undergraduate students a unique opportunity to present their independent research in a welcoming professional meeting. Presentations in any area of sociological significance are invited.
Opening Banquet
The keynote speaker for the banquet on Friday, February 16th, 2018 will be Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University and Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Her book, Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise for For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy (2017, The New Press) has received national and international acclaim. Professor Cottom serves on dozens of academic and philanthropic boards and publishes widely on issues of inequality, work, higher education and technology. Her research on higher education, work and technological change in the new economy has been supported by the Microsoft Research Network’s Social Media Collective, the Kresge Foundation, the American Educational Research Association and the UC Davis Center for Poverty Research. Her public scholarship has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate, and The Atlantic. You can read more at www.tressiemc.com.
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