Data-driven Discovery in the Social and Behavioral Sciences and Humanities

Marshall Scott Poole is David L. Swanson Professor of Communication, Director of the Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (I-CHASS), and Senior Research Scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Application at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Visiting Professor of Organization and Communication Studies at Vrije University, Amsterdam, Netherlands.  Scott received his Ph.D in 1980 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Scott has taught at the University of Illinois, the University of Minnesota, and Texas A&M University.

"I Am Trayvon Martin: Hoodies Up—How One Case Changed a Nation and Ignited the World."

The University of Georgia Institute for African American Studies will present "I Am Trayvon Martin: Hoodies Up—How One Case Changed a Nation and Ignited the World." The lecture by UGA alumna and civil rights advocate Jasmine Rand will be Sept. 10 at 5 p.m. in the UGA Chapel.

Founder of Rand Law LLC and an adjunct professor at the University of Miami School of Law, Rand is a practicing attorney and international legal analyst known for her representation of the Martin family. She is the attorney of record for the family of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.