What's
New
Celebration
of 2004 Emory Authors
Faculty
are invited to join us on Thursday, December 2, 2004, at 4:00 for wine
and cheese in the Druid Hills Bookstore to celebrate faculty authors
and editors of 2004 books.
November 29, 2004
Irish
Poet Kerry Hardie to Deliver Reading
Irish
poet Kerry Hardie will read from her work Tuesday evening, November
16, at 6:00 p.m., in the Jones Room of the Woodruff Library.
November 15, 2004
Virtual
Reality Training Could Reduce Medical Errors
According
to Emory researcher Christopher Cates in a recent
article in the British medical journal The Lancet,
many medical errors could be avoided by training physicians with interactive,
three-dimensional visualization technology instead of on patients.
November 5, 2004
Town
Hall on Strategic Plan
On
November 4, steering committee chairs Dr. Earl Lewis, Executive Vice
President for Academic Affairs and Provost, and Dr. Michael M.E. Johns,
Executive Vice President for Health Affairs, will report on the Strategic
Planning Processand respond to questions.
October 27, 2004
Strategic
Planning at Oxford
A
detailed Q&A with David Gowler, Pierce Professor of Religion and
member of Oxford's strategic planning committee.
October 25, 2004
Institute
of Medicine elects Emory faculty to membership
The
Institute of Medicine (IOM) has elected three Emory University faculty
members and two adjunct/clinical faculty members to its new class. This
brings Emory's total IOM membership to eighteen, including adjunct professors—an
increase from one member a decade ago.
October 18, 2004
Seeking
Emory authors of 2004 books
The
Academic Exchange, the Office of the Bookstore Liaison, and Druid Hills
Bookstore would like to host a celebration of 2004 Emory authors (or
editors) of books. We know, however, that our list of such authors is
incomplete. Please take a look at this list and let us know what's missing.
October 13, 2004
Stringer
receives rare board certification
Anthony
Stringer, director of neuropsychology in Emory’s Department of
Rehabilitation Medicine, has attained board certification in neuropsychology
from the American Board of Professional Psychology
October 6, 2004
Flannery
to be featured on "Thistle and Shamrock"
James
Flannery’s book/recording Dear Harp of My Country: The Irish
Melodies of Thomas Moore will be featured in October on National
Public Radio’s “The Thistle and Shamrock.”
October 1, 2004
Theologian
comments in New York Times on hip-hop and the church
Long-standing
antagonism has diminished to the point where the blunt rhythms are heard
more frequently during services
September 17, 2004
Presidential
Powers of Recall
President
Bush provides a case-in-point of the plasticity and imprecision of memory
of major events
September 15, 2004
The
Poetry of Memory
Poet
Natasha Trethewey explores "what gets written down and what gets
written out"
September 9, 2004
New
Associate Editor of the Academic Exchange
Steve
Frandzel joins AE staff
September 3, 2004
Psychiatry
Department Member Killed
Xiaohong
Wang, a promising researcher at the interface between immunology and
psychiatry, was killed Saturday, July 24, in a car accident in China.
July 27, 2004
Faculty
and Racism
A
professor at Colby
College discusses her efforts to form a collective of mostly white faculty
members to become better allies to students of color on her campus.
May
10, 2004
Coping
with Copyright
Highlights
from a panel discussion on copyright law and scholarship
May 4, 2004
Washington
Post Addresses Controversy about Courtright’s
Book
Emory
Professor of Religion Paul Courtright was featured in a Washington Post
article about recent attacks on scholars of Hinduism.
April 15, 2004
