MAY 2009 • VOL 11 • NO 6 This issue is available as a .pdf.
Keeping the Spark The challenges of staying creative over an academic career New! Podcasts: The Challenges of Staying Creative: Stories from Emory The Center for Faculty Development and Excellence “When people are willing to get ‘off track,’ that is when I see them at their most creative. When they stop worrying about traditional modes of recognition, they tend to be far more spontaneous.” “I‘m quite happy to work on a project for a number of years and have it simply not realize itself . . . because I know there are other things that will come to fruition.” “Having a community of scholars you relate to is important to creativity and important to grooming people to be creative thinkers.” Show Up and Get to Work Time, solitude, and creative breakthroughs On Becoming a Scientist-Advocate Creative new possibilities for approaching and teaching science Crazy Thinking How the most creative ideas get generated and selected Endnotes
Keeping the Spark The challenges of staying creative over an academic career
New! Podcasts: The Challenges of Staying Creative: Stories from Emory
The Center for Faculty Development and Excellence
“When people are willing to get ‘off track,’ that is when I see them at their most creative. When they stop worrying about traditional modes of recognition, they tend to be far more spontaneous.”
“I‘m quite happy to work on a project for a number of years and have it simply not realize itself . . . because I know there are other things that will come to fruition.”
“Having a community of scholars you relate to is important to creativity and important to grooming people to be creative thinkers.”
Show Up and Get to Work Time, solitude, and creative breakthroughs
On Becoming a Scientist-Advocate Creative new possibilities for approaching and teaching science
Crazy Thinking How the most creative ideas get generated and selected
Endnotes
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The Strategic Plan for Emory: Updates and Highlights
Strategic Plan to Set Five-Year Course September 2009 The Center for Ethics June 2009 Updating the Strategic Plan May 2009
Strategic Plan to Set Five-Year Course September 2009
The Center for Ethics June 2009
Updating the Strategic Plan May 2009
Voices in This Issue
Russel Coff, Business Roberto Franzosi, Sociology Sander Gilman, ILA Lori Marino, Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology Katherine Mitchell,Visual Arts Laurie Patton, Religion and Center for Faculty Development and Excellence Jill Perry-Smith, Business Barbara Stoll, Pediatrics
On Becoming a Scientist-Advocate