Funding the university in changing economic times
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Op-ed pieces contributed by Emory faculty have been showing up frequently in diverse media outlets.
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Funding the university in changing economic times
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Investing to claim Emory's identity
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Emory's operating budget and institutional priorities
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Working toward a more efficient and effective university
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By Operating Unit, FY 2012-13
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Dean and Professor of Christianity and World Politics, Candler School of Theology
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Dean and Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law, Emory Law School
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Need-blind admission, student quality, and diversity in Emory College
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Direct and indirect returns for the university and society
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A faculty counselor's experience serving the Investment Committee of the Emory Board of Trustees
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Who makes the university? The answer isn't as obvious as it seems
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Endnotes
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Gary Laderman, Chair of the Department of religion, published an essay in the Huffington post about the possible sacredness of baseball in our society.
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Todd Schlenke, an evolutionary geneticist at Emory, told NPR that not only do fruit flies baby-proof their children with alcohol, but when given a choice they¿ll pick the right proof ¿ about 3 percent.
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It stands to reason that entrepreneurs with experience behind them are more likely to succeed in new business ventures. But that bit of common wisdom doesn¿t hold true for social entrepreneurs, according to Emory researcher Peter Roberts.
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The Winter 2013 supplementary electronic edition of the Academic Exchange, enhanced with multimedia and interactive content, is now available on the Apple iBookstore. This edition contains four essays from the Fall 2012 print issue that now include videos, interactive maps, and more.
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An impressive list of 130 titles written or edited by Emory faculty was published in 2012 and celebrated at an annual event on February 4, 2013.
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During a recent interview on the NPR show Tell Me More, Andra Gillespie, associate professor of political science discussed what some have called the hip-hop generation of politicians, such as President Obama and Cory Booker, the mayor of Newark, NJ.
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In honor of Founder's Week, the first week of February 2013, Emory University will celebrate an array of recent faculty accomplishments with several events planned for Monday, February 4, and Tuesday, February 8.
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Emory researchers have discovered that many adults with an elevated need for sleep have a substance in their cerebrospinal fluid that acts like a sleeping pill and leads to a condition called primary hypersomnia (also referred to as hypersomonolence).
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According to a recent article on WebMD, child psychologist Lara Honos-Webb asserts in her book, The Gift of ADHD, that children with ADHD have special ¿gifts¿ and abilities. But Ann Abramowitz, Emory professor of psychology, disagrees.
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Emory visiting economics professor Daniel Levy investigates why Coke cost only a nickel for 70 years.
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The massive, open question of online learning
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When my journey as a distance-learning faculty member began in 2001, I had been teaching for nine years in continuing education and the traditional MPH program at Rollins. That year, I began teaching for the Career MPH program, Rollins¿s distance-based MPH for working professionals, and found myself in unfamiliar territory.
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Perspectives from a New Librarian
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Where learning happens
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Placemaking for learning in a twenty-first-century library
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"You'll see learning become more of a continuum between the dorm space, the common living space, and the classrooms. There will be a growing emphasis on human interaction. Otherwise, why be on campus?"
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"There are lots of spaces where we can create laboratories for students to extend what they learn in the classroom outside of the classroom, whether it's through leadership opportunities, service and civic engagement, fraternity and sorority life, career exploration."
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Expanding the classroom one tablet at a time
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The iPad has been called a ¿transformative technology,¿ which means it has the potential to fundamentally change the way we work, learn, communicate, and even live. So when the Emory Center for Interactive Teaching¿s Chris Fearrington approached me last year about using the iPad2 as a teaching tool in my Journalism 301: Advanced News Writing and Reporting class, I was both intrigued and skeptical about how this 9" by 7" tablet could enhance my teaching and advance student learning.
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Summary for RSS Feeds
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Community engaged learning
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During spring 2010 and 2011, I moved my English 389R memoirs classroom from the Oxford campus into Metro State Prison, a maximum security facility in Atlanta, where I taught twelve Oxford sophomores and twelve incarcerated women. Teaching in this unusual space taught me the patience of Job. A total institution, the prison segregates and regiments. Everyone who participates in this system is utterly controlled by it.
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Do students in sustainability-themed dorms stay environmentally responsible?
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The lessons we don't ask for
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The lessons we don't ask for
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Introducing a new AE YouTube feature: The AE Interviews. The Fall 2012 issue of the Academic Exchange examines how and where conceptualizations of university "learning and teaching spaces" are changing. Traditional, conventional models of student learning are being transformed by digital resources, distance education, and new ways of thinking about the experience of campus life for students. In this interview with Steve Everett, professor of music and director of Emory's Center for Faculty Development and Excellence, AE editor Allison Adams talks about Emory's relationship with Coursera and what it might mean for faculty.
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A study published in the journal Pediatrics, and covered by numerous news outlets, concludes that preteen girls who receive the vaccine against human papilloma virus (HPV) are no more likely than unvaccinated girls to get pregnant, develop sexually transmitted infections, or seek counseling about birth control. According to the study, whose lead author Robert Bednarczyk, an epidemiologist at Emory and a clinical investigator with the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research-Southeast, HPV vaccination in the recommended ages was not associated with increased sexual activity¿related outcome rates.
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In recent months, a number of books written Emory faculty have been reviewed in prominent national publications.
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This week, AE assistant editor and English graduate student Roopika Risam unwittingly found herself in the middle of a heated conversation among academics on Twitter about the ethics and etiquette of live-tweeting 140-character messages from conferences.
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In a recent op-ed published on the Bloomberg View, Dorothy Brown, a professor of tax law at Emory Law School, delved into the back and forth between Democrats and Republicans over Mitt Romney¿s tax records.
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The Academic Exchange now has a YouTube channel
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Higher global temperatures may spur more violent crime, according to a theoretical model posited by Robert Agnew, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Sociology. His study, ¿Dire forecast: A theoretical model of the impact of climate change on crime,¿ appeared in the February 2012 issue of journal Theoretical Criminology.
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A study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition concluded that the number of U.S. children who drink sugar-free beverages has doubled in the past decade. The study was co-authored by Miriam B. Vos, assistant professor of pediatrics at Emory.
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When it comes to protecting endangered species, the power of the people is key, according to an analysis of the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA) co-authored by Berry Brosi, assistant professor of environmental studies at Emory.
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A Matisse painting worth an estimated $3 million was recovered by FBI agents ten years after it was stolen. The 1925 painting, ¿Odalisque in Red Pants,¿ had been swapped for a fake at a Venezuelan museum, according to ABC News. An Emory art historian was featured in the report with his observations that the forgery was quite clever.
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Maximilian Aue, a longtime German studies professor who founded the acclaimed Emory in Vienna study abroad program, died Aug. 6 from injuries sustained during a vehicular accident.
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In a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed column, Paul Rubin, a professor of economics, asserts that the Obama administration has been hostile to business, despite the President¿s words to the contrary.
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In a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed column, Paul Rubin, a professor of economics, asserts that the Obama administration has been hostile to business, despite the President¿s words to the contrary.
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Emory political scientist Drew Linzer is part of a team that suggests that anti-Americanism in the Islamic world is fueled largely by internecine conflicts among Islamic political factions rather than individual attitudes towards American culture, policies and diplomacy.
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According to new research by the International Healthcare Acoustics Research Team, certain hospital sounds, including electronic alarms, telephones, and conversations, can wake people up even at relatively low levels. The results point to ways hospitals can focus on mitigating the most disruptive noises. Jeremy Ackerman of the Emory¿s School of Medicine in Atlanta is a member of the research team.
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The diversion of Georgia tax funds from the state treasury has significantly harmed public school students in the state, according to an opinion piece in the Atlanta Journal Constitution co-authored by Hank Klibanoff, James M. Cox Jr. Professor of Journalism at Emory
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On Tuesday, July 17, 2012, at 7 p.m., a new Emory voicemail and fax system will go live.
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Every fall, hundreds of millions of monarch butterflies living in eastern North America fly up to 1,500 miles to the volcanic forests of Mexico to spend the winter, while monarchs west of the Rocky Mountains fly to the California coast. How do the insects learn these particular routes and why do they stick to them? An analysis led by Emory biologists finds that the two groups of monarchs are genetically mixed.
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Every fall, hundreds of millions of monarch butterflies living in eastern North America fly up to 1,500 miles to the volcanic forests of Mexico to spend the winter, while monarchs west of the Rocky Mountains fly to the California coast. How do the insects learn these particular routes and why do they stick to them? An analysis led by Emory biologists finds that the two groups of monarchs are genetically mixed.
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A recent article in The Chronicle of Higher Education reflected on Professor Byrd's legacy and the impact his death has had his department, his colleagues and students, and the University.
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A recent article in The Chronicle of Higher Education reflected on Professor Byrd's legacy and the impact his death has had his department, his colleagues and students, and the University.
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What¿s your dog really thinking? To get a glimpse of canine cognition, Emory researchers have developed a technique to scan the brains of alert dogs and explore the minds of the oldest domesticated species. The technique uses harmless functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), the same tool used to look into the human brain.
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The liberal arts, graduate education, and evolving academic infrastructures
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The challenge of the liberal arts and the changing face of the ILA
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Discovery and partnering the liberal arts and medical science
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Discovery and partnering the liberal arts and medical science
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A collaborative model of the liberal arts between the biology department and library at Oxford College
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"The critics of the liberal arts are getting more vocal simply because of the economy and because of a marketplace where people who have jobs to offer want more specialized experience at the front end."
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"I think Emory has a real opportunity to use the SACS reaccreditation review as a stimulus for redefining and rethinking the importance of a liberal arts education for American youth and Emory graduates today."
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The library, the Digital Scholarship Commons, and new tools for research and teaching
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The liberal arts and the shape of tomorrow¿s academy
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Integrating business and the liberal arts
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An integral component of health professions¿ education
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An integral component of health professions¿ education
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Smear Tactics in the Early Republic, Reconsidering Problems, Language and the Brain
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Kevin Young, Atticus Haygood Professor of Creative Writing and English, composed and read his version of the news in verse on the National Public Radio show All Things Considered. Young¿s appearance was a continuation of a project called NewsPoet, in which a poet spends a few hours in the NPR newsroom listening to reports of the day¿s events, then reflects his experience in poetry at the end of the day.
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Robert A. Schapiro, a leading constitutional law scholar and former clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, has been appointed dean and Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Emory University School of Law, effective May 3, 2012.
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Two members of the Emory School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry, Andrew H. Miller and Daniel F. Drake, were part of a team who conducted a study showing that patients with chronic fatigue syndrome have decreased activation of an area of the brain known as the basal ganglia in response to reward.
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Two members of the Emory School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry, Andrew H. Miller and Daniel F. Drake, were part of a team who conducted a study showing that patients with chronic fatigue syndrome have decreased activation of an area of the brain known as the basal ganglia in response to reward.
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Two members of the Emory School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry, Andrew H. Miller and Daniel F. Drake, were part of a team who conducted a study showing that patients with chronic fatigue syndrome have decreased activation of an area of the brain known as the basal ganglia in response to reward.
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The liberal arts in times of transformation.
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