Georgia's First Triple Organ Transplant Performed at Emory

Emory doctors have performed the first triple organ transplant in Georgia, successfully transplanting a heart, liver, and kidney. First, Brian Kogon, surgical director of the Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program, transplanted the pateint's new heart, assisted by David Vega, director of Emory's Heart Transplant Program. Then, transplant surgeons Stuart Knechtle and Andrew Adams transplanted the liver. The following day, Knechtle transplanted her kidney. All three organs came from the same donor. "The risks for a triple organ transplant are very high for a patient with a three-system failure, and one we had never attempted before," says Kogon.

To read more from Woodruff Health Sciences Center, please click here.

Seminarians' Financial Literacy Grant

Candler School of Theology has received a $250,000 grant from the Lilly Endowment Inc. to develop a model curriculum for improving the financial literacy of its students. The Lilly Endowment awarded the grant as part of its Theological School Initiative to Address Economic Challenges Facing Future Ministers, which is designed to assist theology schools in examining financial literacy issues in order to improve the economic well being of future pastoral leaders. Candler is one of 16 schools to participate in the program.

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

Stereotypes and Social Pressure in Academe

When you remember that intellectual abilities are negatively stereotyped and you're performing at the frontier of your skills in an area where that stereotype could apply, you're under a special pressure. You could be seen in terms of that stereotype, treated in terms of that stereotype. You could be evaluated, summed up, in terms of that stereotype. And if you care about performing in this domain, your prospect of being seen that way is upsetting and distracting right there in the immediate situation, and the prospect of continuing to invest in an area where you have that kind of vulnerability is daunting, because you're going to have to live with this kind of pressure on an ongoing basis. Think about the life of a woman just about to decide if she's going to go into math and have a whole career and life in math, and have to live with this thing that she kind of experiences as extra pressure, an uncomfortableness, not-belongingness.

--Claude Steele, Dean of the School of Education, Stanford University, from his talk, "How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do," November 13, 2012, sponsored by the James Weldon Johnson Institute, the Laney Graduate School, and the Halle Institute

Provost Search Webpage

The Provost Search webpage provides the Emory community with updates and information about the university's ongoing provost search. Visit the site to learn more about the provost search, the provost leadership statement, and the search advisory committee. The search committee also invites comments from the Emory community. To submit a comment, please visit www.provostsearch.emory.edu.

Jenny Chio, Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Emory welcomes Jenny Chio, assistant professor of anthropology. Chio completed her PhD in socio-cultural anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley in 2009. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the China Research Centre at the University of Technology, Sydney. Her research interests include ethnicity, tourism, migration, rural development, and media in contemporary China. She is also an ethnographic filmmaker and has recently completed a film titled Peasant Family Happiness.

Monday, January 7

No events today.

Tuesday, January 8

Faculty Services presents an "Introduction to Blackboard" workshop. This event will take place at 10:00am in ECIT 217. For more information or to register, please click here.

The Department of Microbiology and Immunology presents "Forward Genetic Analysis of Immunity," the Goodwin and Rose Helen Breinin Lectureship in Basic Science featuring 2011 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine Bruce Beutler. This event will take place at 4:00pm in WHSCAB Auditorium. For more information, please contact Jane Lawson at jane.lawson@emory.edu.

Wednesday, January 9

Emory Alumni Association presents "Ethical Aspects and Societal Acceptability of Male HPV Vaccination," the January 2013 meeting of Vaccine Dinner Club. This event will take place at 6:00pm in WHSCAB Plaza and Auditorium. For more information, please click here.

Thursday, January 10

The Department of Surgery presents "Maximizing Patient Value in Colorectal Surgery," a talk by Patrick Sullivan, assistant 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 Faculty Staff Assistance Program presents the 2013 Healthy New You Expo. This event will take place from 9:30am to 5:00pm in Cox Hall 3rd Floor Ballroom. For more information, please visit www.fsap.emory.edu.

Faculty Services presents an "Introduction to Blackboard" workshop. This event will take place at 1:30pm in ECIT 217. For more information or to register, please click here.

Friday, January 11

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Saturday, January 12

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Sunday, January 13

No events today.

Monday, January 14

No events today.

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

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

Monday, January 7, 2013, Volume 13, Issue 18

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