9/11 Events on Campus

10 Years Later: How safe are we?
MARC THIESSEN
Marc Thiessen’s 15-year national security career has taken him from Capitol Hill to the Pentagon and the West Wing, where he served on the White House Senior Staff as chief speechwriter to President George W. Bush. His interviews with Senior Bush officials and CIA officials reveal the secrets and successes behind the CIA’s enhanced interrogation techniques that provided information pivotal to ensuring our national security. How vulnerable is our nation to another terrorist attack today?

Speaker bio: Former Member of the White House Senior Staff, chief speechwriter to the President and Secretary of Defense
Author, “Courting Disaster: How the CIA Kept America Safe & How Barack Obama Is Inviting The Next Attack”
Visiting Fellow, The Hoover Institution
National Security/Public Policy Expert

Thursday, September 8 at 6:30pm
LeCraw Auditorium (College of Management 100)
Lecture open to public


9/11 Memorial Vigil
Please join the Georgia Tech Community on the evening of the 10th anniversary of the 9/11/01 attacks to honor those who lost their lives that day and those who continue to fight for our country today. This reflective vigil is open to all and if you would like to share a personal story, please contact Kristen at kgreig3@gatech.edu.
Sunday, September 11 at 8:00pm
Campanile
Open to public


These events are sponsored by the Georgia Tech College Republicans, the Office of Diversity Programs, and Young America’s Foundation.

Please join us to hear Futurist James Canton on campus Tues. Oct. 20

Please mark your calendar for:

11 am -12:30 pm

Tuesday, October 20

Ferst Center

Free admission

We are fortunate to have a well-known futurist to speak to us in conjunction with our Strategic Planning process, and we would like for you to join us. It is open to all faculty, staff and students, as well as the community.

Dr. Canton is a renowned global futurist, social scientist, keynote presenter, author and visionary business advisor. For over 30 years, he has been predicting the key trends that have shaped our world. It is only fitting that we would have him join us and we work to plan Georgia Tech's future for the next 25. He will speak for one hour and then open it up to questions and discussion.

Among Dr. Canton's books is The Extreme Future: The Top Trends that Will Reshape the World in the 21^st Century. He is CEO and Chairman of the Institute for Global Futures, a leading think tank that he founded in 1990. He has advised three White House administrations, the National Science Foundation and MIT's Media Lab, Europe. He is a frequent guest speaker of the media, and a commentator on CNN.

To find out more about Dr. Canton, you can visit his Web site: http://www.globalfuturist.com.

For more information on Georgia Tech's Strategic Planning Process, remember to visit the Strategic Vision Web site: http://www.gatech.edu/vision/ The site features some of the big ideas that have been submitted, and also provides a way for you to submit your big ideas.

I hope you can join us next Tuesday, Oct. 20 for what promises to be a very interesting and interactive event.

Steve Cross and Chet Warzynski, Strategic Planning Facilitators

Taking Charge of Your Health: New Information All Women Should Know with Dr. Sandra Fryhofer

Wednesday, January 21

7:30 – 8 a.m. – Registration & Light Breakfast
8 a.m. - 9 a.m. – Program
Georgia Tech Alumni Association

190 North Avenue, Atlanta, GA 30313
Business casual
Register online today http://gtalumni.org/pages/wow

$20 per person and $5 per student includes breakfast and handouts
Additional $5 late registration fee begins January 14

Women tend to neglect their own health and focus instead on that of their partner and their children. Its a new year – its a new you. Learn how to take care of yourself first. Join us for Taking Charge of Your Health: New Information All Women Should Know with Dr. Sandra Fryhofer.

Speaker Bio
Sandra Adamson Fryhofer, MD, MACP, FRCP has spent much of her career as an advocate for general internal medicine with a special interest in womens health issues. Dr. Fryhofer has made television appearances on NBC Today, CNN, CNN Headline News, FOX News Network, NBC Nightly News, ABC World News Tonight, CNN Streetsweep, CNN Talk Back Live, in addition to local segments on stations throughout the country. She graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelors degree in Chemical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and received her medical degree and internal medicine training from Emory University School of Medicine.

The Gender Gap in Patents: Strategies for Scientists, Institutions and Corporations to Close the Divide

10th Anniversary Keynote Lecture: Sue V. Rosser, Ph.D.

Dean, Ivan Allen CollegeWednesday, February 11, 2008

Success Center (Clary Theatre)

3:30 p.m.

In all countries, across all sectors and in all fields, the percentage of women obtaining patents is not only less than their male counterparts but it is less than the percentage ofwomen in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in these countries. Failure to patent hurts women’s career advancement and deprives society of unique and useful products and innovations, as well as possible critiques of the commercialization of science. Strategies to make patenting more female friendly will be shared for faculty, institutions and their technology transfer offices, corporations and venture capitalists, and women scientists.

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Sue V. Rosser has edited collections and written 120 journal articles and eleven books on the theoretical and applied problems of women, science, technology and women’s health. Since July 1999, she has served as Dean of Ivan Allen College, the liberal arts college at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she is also Professor of Public Policy and of History, Technology, and Society. She holds the endowed Ivan Allen Dean’s Chair of Liberal Arts and Technology.

Dean Rosser has held several grants from the National Science Foundation, including serving as co-PI from 2001- 2006 on a $3.7 million ADVANCE grant from NSF; she currently serves as PI on InTEL: Interactive Toolkit for Engineering Learning, a $900,000 NSF grant. During the fall of 1993, she was Visiting Distinguished Professor for the University of Wisconsin System Women in Science Project; during 2007-2008 she served as a Clayman Fellow at Stanford University.