Please note: This issue concludes the 2012-13 volume of ThoughtWork. Best wishes for the summer.

Ophelia DeVore Papers Come to Emory

Ophelia DeVore Mitchell, a model, businesswoman, and pioneer in the "black is beautiful" movement, has placed her papers at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL). DeVore exemplified power, pride, presence, and beauty in African American women. She started one of the first modeling agencies for black models, which helped launch the early careers of actresses Diahann Carroll and Cicely Tyson, among other celebrities. Randall K. Burkett, curator of African American Collections at MARBL, says the collection represents black pride for women. DeVore taught women how to present themselves confidently, allowing them to set and achieve higher goals for themselves and expect equal treatment and opportunities. The Ophelia DeVore Mitchell papers are unprocessed but open to researchers and the public. The collection includes correspondence, professional papers, business records, photographs, scrapbooks, audiovisual material, and other printed matter relating to the various businesses and community programs in which she was involved.

To read more from Emory News Center, please click here.

Faculty Honors and Accolades

Joel Bowman (Chemistry) is the 2013 winner of the Herschbach Prize in theory. The award is presented at the Dynamics of Molecular Collisions meeting to prominent scientists who have made seminal contributions to the field.

C. Aiden Downey (Educational Studies) is co-founder of a school that received a $1.5 million grant from the School District of Philadelphia. The Sustainability Workshop is a project-based alternative high school senior year programin Philadelphia that Downey hopes to expand the school to Atlanta. To read more about the grant, please click here.

Vinod Thourani (Medicine) received the W. Proctor Harvey, MD, Young Teacher Award from the 2013 American College of Cardiology. The award celebrates promising young members of the ACC who have distinguished themselves by dedication and skill in teaching.

The Meaning of Color

Something can be so oversaturated with meaning that we are overwhelmed. . . . I wanted to know, could we understand instances of art, not of thin, transparent idealizations or simply inert stuff, but as other, opaque — even resistant — assemblages of equipment, information, things, and flows? And moreover, could we pay attention to absent objects and materials — entities and processes normally hidden from view? . . . The disconnect between conception and realization has rarely been total — never so aloof as it first might appear. Crucial disturbances persist in the lag between thinking and making. And as that delay only grows more elastic and complex, industrial fabrication [of art] is now hardly recognizable in its breadth, plunged into a murky post-industrial backwater. It currently encompasses both the crude and the custom, both the serial production of multiples and the highly circumscribed, often absurdly expensive, one-off works of art. It is the logic of clumsy tinkering and perfect gloss, of the hand wrought and the algorithmic. It's a mode of working that stretches to unexpected artists, so widespread as to be invisible. It's a demonstration of the shifting status of materiality and object-hood, of form and forming in the present. For example, at a place like Carlson Arts [a commercial art fabricator] color is clearly not just a secondary property or an attribute, but a thing as real as pigmented powdered, or commercial chrome, lacquer, and is a presence that generates meaning in conjunction with its digital manifestation.

--Michelle Kuo, editor of ArtForum, from her talk, "Industrial Revolution: A Short History of Fabrication of the Object," April 18, 2013, sponsored by the Art History Department

Call for Applicants: Public Voices Thought Leadership Fellowship

The Center for Women is accepting applications for the 2013-2015 cohort of the Public Voices Thought Leadership Fellowship. Emory University partners with the OpEd Project to expand the range of voices heard in the public sphere. The aim of this two-year fellowship is to increase the number of women and minority scholars who are “thought leaders” in the nation’s most visible forums by teaching them how to write for and connect to major media outlets. This program is for Emory University faculty. A small number of graduate students may also be selected if space is available. Space is limited to twenty participants. To read more about the program or to apply by Friday, June 14 at 5:00pm, please click here.

Mark Rapaport, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Emory welcomes Mark Rapaport, professor of psychiatry and behavioral science. Rapaport received his MD from University of California at San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine (1982). Prior to his recruitment to Emory he was chairman and professor of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences and the Polier Endowed Chair in Schizophrenia and Related Disorders at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and vice chairman and professor in residence in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He was recruited to Emory to serve as the chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and hold the Reunette Harris Chair in Psychiatry. His research interests include psychopharmacology, immunity abnormalities in schizophrenia, the biologic genesis of anxiety disorders, bipolar disorder, and depression. His many publications have been in journals including Innovations in Clinical Neuroscience, Journal of Psychiatric Research, Neuropsychopharmacology, Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, Journal of Affective Disorders, Psychiatry, and Schizophrenia Research.

Monday, May 13

Emory University presents Commencement 2013. This event will take place at 8:00am on the Quadrangle. For more information, please visit www.emory.edu/commencement/.

Winship Cancer Institute presents "Chemical Biology and the Leading Edge of Drug Discovery," a lecture by Terry Sheppard, chief editor of Nature Chemical Biology. This event will take place at 1:00pm in Winship Cancer Institute, C5012. For more information, please contact Olga Rivera at orivera@yahoo.com.

Tuesday, May 14

The Department of Pharmacology presents "Genomics of RNA Binding Protein Networks in Neurological Disease," a talk by Gene Yeo, University of California, San Diego. This event will take place at 12:00pm in 5052 Rollins Research Center. For more information, please contact Olga Rivera at orivera@yahoo.com.

Wednesday, May 15

No events today.

Thursday, May 16

The Department of Surgery presents "Surviving Childhood Cancer: The Rest of the Story," a talk by Richard R. Ricketts, professor of surgery. This event will take place at 7:00am in Emory Hospital Auditorium. For more information, please visit www.surgery.emory.edu.

The School of Nursing presents a workshop on "Strategies for Communicating with Loved Ones with Dementia." This event will take place at 12:00pm in the School of Nursing, Room 101. For more information or to register, please click here.

Friday, May 17

The Carlos Museum presents a reception for "Medical Treasures at Emory," an exhibit featuring material from the Woodruff Health Science Center Library's historical collections. This event will take place at 5:00pm in Woodruff Health Science Center Library. For more information, please click here.

Saturday, May 18

No events today.

Sunday, May 19

No events today.

Monday, May 20

Winship Cancer Institute presents "Best in Class Anti-HCV Agents for Global HCV Eradication," a talk by Raymond Schinazi, Frances Winship Walters Professor of Pediatrics and Chemistry. This event will take place at 12:00pm in Winship Cancer Institute C-5012. For more information, please contact Olga Rivera at orivera@yahoo.com.

For more events at Emory, visit http://www.emory.edu/home/events.

ThoughtWork: Emerging Knowledge and News in Emory's Intellectual Community

Monday, May 13, 2013, Volume 13, Issue 36

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