"CACP graduate student Taylor Narewski honored with an ACC Student Athlete Award”
On April 16th the CACP’s Taylor Narewski was honored along with forty other Atlantic Coast Conference student athletes at a luncheon in Greensboro, North Carolina. Narewski and the other student athletes were awarded Weaver-James-Corrigan and Jim and Pat Thacker postgraduate scholarships. Each recipient of the scholarship will receive $5,000 to use towards graduate education. These scholarships are awarded to student athletes that “have performed with distinction in both the classroom and in their respective sports, while demonstrating exemplary conduct in the community (ACC Press Release).” While competing in the 400 meters with the Georgia Tech Men’s Track Team for Coach Grover Hinsdale as both an undergraduate and now as a graduate student, Taylor has chaired the Honor Advisory Council, been a member of the Student Athlete Advisory Board, and represented Georgia Tech at the ACC Student Athlete Advisory Committee. Taylor has also been involved in the community as an Atlanta Community Food Bank volunteer, a Volunteer Usher at the Fox Theatre, and a 4th grade Sunday School teacher at his local church. Taylor joined the CACP last summer as a graduate research assistant and has worked with Dr. James White and Dr. Paul Baker on a municipal outsourcing study.
www.theacc.com
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“Digital
The FCC and the Industry:
Managing Public Safety Emergency Communications
and Commercial Wireless Broadband Deployment"
“Digital
Democracy and Freedom of Speech” webconference
Presented
by: Paul M.A. Baker
Paul
M.A. Baker was one of four expert panelists at WHYY’s “Digital
Democracy and Freedom of Speech” webconference on October 9.
The conference, which is accessible online, will address questions
such as the ability of today’s digital technologies improve the average
citizen’s ability to exercise their freedom of speech, whether the US
government
has created institutional structures and a bureaucracy that encourages
or discourages open dialogue in a virtual state, and whether the
intersection of public policy and technology has created a soapbox or a
minefield
for the negotiation of freedom of speech and access to information for
people with disabilities, and the underserved, as well as “mainstream”
society. The 90-minute Digital Democracy webconference took place
on Tuesday, October 9th, from 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. EST. To learn more,
submit questions for the panelists or access the webconference, visit www.whyy.org/digitaldemocracy.
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Private Sector Telework and
Implications for Economic Development
Presented
by: Nathan Moon
Enterprise
Innovation institure and School of Public Policy Science, Technology
& Innovation Policy (STIP) Program
Paul M.A. Baker presented a paper, Accessibility in Municipal Wireless
Networks: System Implementation, Policy, and Potential Barriers for
People with Disabilities, Paul M.A. Baker, and Avonne Bell, at the ICA
Pre-conference Workshop Mobile Communication: Bringing Us Together or
Tearing Us Apart?, 57th Annual Conference of the International
Communication Association, San Francisco, California, May 24, 2007. [Word]
or [PowerPoint]
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Wireless
Technologies Reaching People with Disabilities