New Council Concerns

The latest issue of Council Concerns is now available. This issue, published after the April 2013 meeting of the Faculty Council, features information about

* Faculty Council Passes a Resolution to Accept President's Apology and State Firm Support
* University Policy on Email Searches
* Connecting Faculty and Campus Life

This issue concludes the 2012-13 volume of Council Concerns. Publication will resume after the September 2013 meeting of the Faculty Council.

Supported by the Center for Faculty Development and Excellence and the Office of the Provost, Council Concerns is published after each meeting of the Faculty Council.

Council Concerns is available at blogs.emory.edu/emoryfacultycouncil.

Natasha Trethewey Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences

U.S. Poet Laureate and Emory University faculty member Natasha Trethewey has been named a 2013 member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious honorary societies and a center for independent policy research. "Natasha Trethewey is among the nation's foremost contemporary voices in poetry," says Emory Provost Claire Sterk. "She also is a deeply dedicated and gifted teacher, helping scores of Emory students understand the creative process and the meaning of poetry and its relation to our lives and history." Trethewey, who is Robert W. Woodruff Professor of English and Creative Writing and director of the Creative Writing Program at Emory, is serving as 19th U.S. Poet Laureate, and is in residence through May 2013 at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Her term coincides with the 75th anniversary of the library's Poetry and Literature Center. To read more from Emory News Center, please click here.

He Started Marching

Dr. King didn't start the Civil Rights Movement. He didn't tell Rosa Parks not to go to the back of the bus. He didn't tell Fannie Lou Hamer, eighth-grade graduate, to fight for the right for black folks to be able to register and vote. . . . But she's out there fighting. She knew something was wrong with that pattern, all these tricks that kept us from voting.. . . . A lot of things were going on that Dr. King had absolutely nothing to do with. That's not to take anything away from him or to diminish what he gave, because we needed what he brought to the scene. I've got pages of things that were going on, like the Little Rock nine. Somebody talked about James Meredith as though Dr. King told him to have his march against fear in Mississippi. He didn't tell him that. As a matter of fact, people that were on our field staff were saying, Oh, James Meredith is going to do that stupid thing and start marching across Mississippi against fear? But he did, and we didn't have a thing to do with it. But if that brother decided he was going to have a march against fear, God bless him. And he started marching. He started marching against fear in Mississippi, and you know the rest of the story. They shot him.

—Dorothy Cotton, former director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (1960-1968), and former vice president for field operations at the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, from her talk on February 21, 2013, sponsored by African American Studies and others

CFCP Teaching Mini Grants and Faculty Fellows

The Center for Community Partnerships (CFCP) is pleased to announce calls for proposals for teaching mini grants for the fall 2013 semester and for the 2013-2014 Community Partnerships Faculty Fellows Program.

Mini grants: http://cfcp.emory.edu/our_work/engaged_learning/mg_index.html#minigrants

Faculty Fellows: http://cfcp.emory.edu/our_work/engaged_learning/faculty_fellows.html

The deadline for both programs is May 17. For more information, please contact Vialla Hartfield-Mendez, Director of Engaged Learning, Center for Community Partnerships at vhartfi@emory.edu.

Shonna McBride, Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology

Emory welcomes Shonna McBride, assistant professor of microbiology and immunology. McBride received her PhD from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in 2005. She trained as a postdoctoral fellow at the Schepens Eye Research Institute of Harvard Medical School from 2005 to 2008 and at the Tufts University School of Medicine. At Emory her work will continue on elucidating the mechanisms by which the bacterium Clostridium difficile (C. dif) evades the host immune defenses and becomes resistant to antibiotics. Her work has been published in the Journal of Bacteriology, Microbiology, Infection and Immunity, Molecular Microbiology and PLOS One.

Monday, April 29

The School of Public Health presents “Break the Cycle 8: Break the Cycle of Environmental Health Disparities,” featuring student project presentations and a keynote by Michael Rudolph, University of Witwatersrand (South Africa) and Arthur McCabe, development manager for the city of Lawrence, Massachusetts. This event will take place from 8:30 am to 5:00pm. For more information, please visit
www.pediatrics.emory.edu.

The James Weldon Johnson Institute presents "Bands to Make You Dance: The Social Politics of African American Music in the 1970s," a talk by Scot Brown, professor of history and African American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. This event will take place at 4:00pm in Candler Library, Room 207D. For more information, please contact Tyrone Forman at tforman@emory.edu.

The Department of Chemistry presents "Reconfigurable 3D Superstructures from Collagen-mimicking Peptides and Label-free Cancer Cell Detection with Electric Polysilicon Chip Platform," a talk by Hiroshi Matsui, Hunter College. This event will take place at 4:00pm in Atwood 316. For more information, please contact Sarah Peterson at sarah.a.peterson@emory.edu.

The Confucius Institute at Emory presents "China Kaleidoscope, Kungfu Passion," a martial arts performance by a student troupe of the Capital Sports and Physical Education University, China. This event will take place at 7:30pm in Glenn Memorial. For more information, please contact Xuegang Ao at xuegang.ao@emory.edu.

Tuesday, April 30

Emory Libraries presents a faculty town hall to discuss the library's storage needs. This event will take place at 10:30 am in Woodruff Library, Jones Room. For more information, please contact Elizabeth McBride, libemb@emory.edu.

The School of Medicine presents "Systematic Serendipity: Applying in Vivo Quantitative HTS to Drug Repurposing," a talk by Jeff Mumm, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Cellular Biology and Anatomy, Georgia Regents University. This event will take place at noon in 5052 Rollins Research Center. For more information please contact Olga Rivera at orivera@emory.edu.

The Psychoanalytic Studies Program presents "Lacan's Drive and the Posthuman: The Example of Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake," a talk by John Johnston, professor of English and comparative literature. This event will take place at 2:00pm in Callaway Center C202. For more information, please contact Jacquelyn Aly at jaly@emory.edu.

The Department of Physics presents a talk by Thierry Emonet, professor at Yale University. This event will take place at 2:30pm in Mathematics and Science Center, E300. For more information, please visit emonet.biology.yale.edu.

The Tam Institute for Jewish Studies presents "Leo Frank and 'Our Country's National Crime'": Lynching as America's History," a talk by Hasia Diner, New York University. This event will take place at 7:00pm at the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum. For more information, please contact Tobi Ames at tames2@emory.edu.

Wednesday, May 1

The Department of Cell Biology presents “Genetic Basis of Sleep-Wake Cycles: Control of Timing and the Need to Sleep,” a seminar featuring Amita Sehgal, University of Pennsylvania. This event will take place at 4:00pm in Whitehead Biomedical Research Building, Room 400. For more information, please contact Dorothy W. Brown at dwbrow2@emory.edu.

The Emory Alumni Association presents “Wanted Dead or Alive: Rift Valley Fever Vaccines Through Reverse Genetics,” the May 2013 meeting of Vaccine Dinner Club. This event will take place at 6:00pm in Woodruff Health Sciences Center Administration Building (WHSCAB) Plaza and Auditorium. For more information, please click here.

Thursday, May 2

The Carlos Museum presents a lecture by Richard Zettler, chair of the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and associate curator-in-charge of the Penn Museum’s Near East Collections. This event will take place at 7:30pm in Carlos Museum, Reception Hall. For more information, please visit carlos.emory.edu/events.

Friday, May 3

No events today.

Saturday, May 4

No events today.

Sunday, May 5

Arts at Emory presents “The Old and the New,” a performance by the Society Chamber Orchestra and the Vega String Quartet, with violinist Tim Fain. This event will take place at 4:00pm in Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, Emerson Concert Hall. For more information, please visit arts.emory.edu.

Monday, May 6

The Emeritus College presents "The Promise of Progesterone in the Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury and Stroke," a talk by Donald G. Stein, School of Medicine. This event will take place at 11:30am in the Luce Center, Room 130. For more information, please contact Isha Edwards at isha.edwards@emory.edu.

Emory Bookstore presents a book discussion and signing with Richard Besser, author of Tell Me the Truth, Doctor: Easy-to-Understand Answers to Your Most Confusing and Critical Health Questions. This event will take place at 6:00pm at Emory Bookstore. For more information, please visit emory.bncollege.com.

The Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library presents a poetry reading with W. S. Merwin, the U.S. poet laureate from 2010. This event will take place at 6:00pm in Woodruff Library, Jones Room. For more information, please contact Julie Braun at jkbraun@emory.edu.

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

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

Monday, April 29, 2013, Volume 13, Issue 34

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