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INTA Undergrads Present Research
Atlanta (March 16, 2010) — Two International Affairs undergraduates, Edward “Ted” Danowitz and Katherine Lange, are presenting finding of independent research they conducted under supervision of Prof Margaret E. Kosal at Georgia Tech’s 5th Annual Undergrad Research Symposium.
Ted Danowitz will be speaking on “Nanotechnology Development and the Chinese Military". His research explored the rhetoric and institutional capabilities of the People’s Liberation Army to realize potential military applications of nanotechnology.
Katie Lange will be presenting a poster on the findings of her work on “Deterring Bioterrorism". Using the 2004 outbreak of polio in the northern Nigerian state of Kano, her work considers the empirical correlations between infectious disease control and 4th wave deterrence theories for limiting the risk of biological terrorism.
The Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the nation's premier research universities. Ranked seventh among U.S. News & World Report's top public universities, Georgia Tech's more than 20,000 students are enrolled in its Colleges of Architecture, Computing, Engineering, Liberal Arts, Management and Sciences. Tech is among the nation's top producers of women and minority engineers. The Institute offers research opportunities to both undergraduate and graduate students and is home to more than 100 interdisciplinary units plus the Georgia Tech Research Institute.
