EMORY ALUM MAKES $250,000 DONATION TO ATHLETICS DEPARTMENT
Deborah Jackson, a 1985 graduate of Emory University has made a donation of $250,000 to the university’s athletic department. The announcement was made Saturday afternoon at the Birdies for Eagles Golf Outing held at Stone Mountain Golf Course.

The donation in part will serve as an endowment to name the athletic director’s position, the Clyde Partin Sr. Director of Athletics.  Known around Emory circles as “Doc,” Partin spent 50 years working at Emory in various capacities (1951 through 2002) including athletics director and department chair of health and physical education from 1966 through 1986. During his tenure, Emory athletics saw unprecedented growth culminating the in construction of the Woodruff PE Center that opened in 1983. From 1986 until his retirement in 2002, Partin served as a professor in physical education.

ALICE WALKER TO PLACE HER ARCHIVE AT EMORY UNIVERSITY
Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winner and internationally known Georgia-born novelist and poet, will place her archive with Emory University, Provost Earl Lewis announced. "The acquisition of the Alice Walker Archive is a major addition to Emory's collection," said Lewis. "Scholars and students from around the world will find in these papers Alice Walker: her commitment to social activism, literary genesis, personal growth and development, spirituality and self. We are delighted that she has entrusted us to share this aspect of her with the world."

EMORY GIVEN TOP MARKS IN NEW RANKINGS
Emory ranks No. 1 in the country in both gender studies/women's studies and ecology and evolutionary biology, according to a new study by Academic Analytics, which measures the nation's largest research universities in terms of faculty productivity. "Emory was one of the first universities in the country to offer a Ph.D. in women's studies, so we've always considered ourselves a leader in the field. We're glad to see that corroborated by outside data," said Bobby Paul, dean of Emory College. Paul attributed the top ranking in ecology and evolutionary biology to Emory's well-known program in population biology, ecology and evolution. "We have a unique combination of unusually good faculty in this area," Paul said.