{"536051":{"#nid":"536051","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Kosal Appointed Co-Editor-in-Chief of \u2018Politics and the Life Sciences\u2019 Journal","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMargaret E. Kosal, professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, has been appointed co-editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed, scholarly journal \u003Cem\u003EPolitics and the Life Sciences\u003C\/em\u003E (PLS) which is published by Cambridge University Press. Kosal\u2019s appointment begins in 2017.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEstablished in 1980, PLS reaches a global network of interdisciplinary scholars. PLS publishes on an \u201cexceptionally broad range\u201d of topics including \u201cevolutionary and laboratory insights into political behavior such as political violence, group conflict to war, terrorism, and torture; political analysis of life-sciences research, health policy, environmental policy, and biosecurity policy; and philosophical analysis of life-sciences problems, such as bioethical controversies.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKosal brings to bear expertise in biotechnology, emerging technology, national security, nonproliferation, arms control, biosecurity, terrorism, and\u0026nbsp;foreign and defense policy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe journal\u2019s \u201ctypical contributors include political scientists and political behaviorists; biosecurity and international-security experts; life scientists, clinicians, health-policy scholars, and bioethicists; moral and evolutionary philosophers; environmental scientists and ecological economists; political-behavioral and environmental historians; science-policy scholars and historians of science; and legal scholars.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPLS was founded in 1980 by the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences (APLS), which is an American Political Science Association (APSA) Section and an American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) Member Society.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMargaret E. Kosal, professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, has been appointed co-editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed, scholarly journal\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EPolitics and the Life Sciences\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;(PLS) which is published by Cambridge University Press.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Nunn School professor Margaret E. Kosal has been appointed co-editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed, scholarly journal Politics and the Life Sciences (PLS) which is published by Cambridge University Press."}],"uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2016-05-12 17:51:51","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:21:39","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-05-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-05-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"454171":{"id":"454171","type":"image","title":"Margaret E. Kosal","body":null,"created":"1449256319","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:11:59","changed":"1567697599","gmt_changed":"2019-09-05 15:33:19","alt":"A portrait photo of Margaret Kosal, associate professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs","file":{"fid":"203429","name":"margaret_e._kosal.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/margaret_e._kosal_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/margaret_e._kosal_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":104687,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/margaret_e._kosal_0.jpg?itok=vC5a2n-c"}}},"media_ids":["454171"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/","title":"Ivan Allen College"},{"url":"http:\/\/inta.gatech.edu\/","title":"Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.politicsandthelifesciences.org\/","title":"Politics and the Life Sciences Journal"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"3730","name":"editor"},{"id":"3230","name":"journal"},{"id":"4034","name":"margaret kosal"},{"id":"10536","name":"Nunn School"},{"id":"172028","name":"PLS"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERebecca Keane\u003Cbr \/\u003EDirector of Communications\u003Cbr \/\u003E404.894.1720\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}