| Vol.
7 No. 3
December 2004/January 2005
For
Its Own Sake
When knowledge isn't
for sale
How
you package and promote your knowledge is equally as important as
how to produce world-class knowledge. Jagdish
Sheth, Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Marketing
I
don’t think the basic researcher has an obligation to apply
what he or she discovers.
Marshall
Duke, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Psychology
The
Negative Benefits of Historical Study
On not applying the lessons of the past
Patrick
Allitt, Professor of History
Teaching
the Teachers
Reinventing
graduate and postdoctoral education
Pat
Marsteller, Senior Lecturer in Biology and Director of
the Emory College Center for Science Education
Further
reading
Poetry
Happens
The power and popularization of an ancient art at Emory
Endnotes
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The
burden of the uninsured
It’s now widely reported and understood that more than
$40 million Americans lack health insurance and that this number
has not been reduced significantly in good economic times. In fact,
since January [2004] an additional two million people have lost
coverage, bringing the current number to 45 million. Whenever I
speak on this issue to general audiences, several findings still
seem to be startling to them: that there’s a link between
uninsurance and premature death; we estimate 18,000 premature deaths
annually because the uninsured receive about half the medical care
than the insured. We have solid evidence that the uninsured suffer
from poorer health. Audiences are also surprised to hear that 80
percent of Americans who lack insurance do their jobs; they’re
not just slackers not working, or they live in families where someone
works. More than 80 percent of uninsured children and adults live
in working families. In most cases a worker holds a job that doesn’t
offer health insurance. Sometimes subsidized coverage may be offered,
but the worker can’t afford it. Whole families are placed
in financial risk if even one member lacks insurance. Also the uninsured
are charged more when they seek care because they don’t have
an insurance company to negotiate special rates. And even those
with insurance are at risk if they live in an area with a large
uninsured population because health care institutions are overwhelmed
financially by the uninsured burden.
—Mary Sue Coleman, President of the University of Michigan,
speaking on “The Consequences of Uninsurance,” sponsored
by the Woodruff Health Sciences Center, October 25, 2004
An essential art
I think that as long as we use words to describe our own existence
to one another, to ourselves, then poetry will remain an essential
art. It remains, even in the twenty-first century—in the day
of ipods, emails, and cell phones—the most concise, memorable,
and expressive way we have of using words. And I do think even
in this electronic era, when the written word now competes with
a variety of other media, that poetry, which predates written language,
remains startlingly contemporary for us and becomes one of the genuine
and potent ways that we link ourselves to the past.
—Dana Gioia, poet, critic, and chairman of the National Endowment
of the Arts, speaking during a celebration of the gift to Emory
of the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library, September 9, 2004 |