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As reported at the Emory News Center:

A scholar and student affairs leader whose interests include immigration, race and ethnicity, will become the new head of campus life at Emory University.

Ajay Nair, senior associate vice provost for student affairs at the University of Pennsylvania, will shoulder a broad portfolio of responsibilities ranging from intercollegiate athletics and the Greek experience to student health services and residence life when he becomes Emory’s next senior vice president and dean of Campus Life, effective July 16. 

He succeeds John Ford, a former Cornell University administrator who served at Emory for 11 years.

In his new position as Emory’s chief student advocate for nearly 13,000 undergraduate and graduate students, Nair will provide leadership and strategic direction in cultivating an ethically engaged community consistent with Emory’s vision.

Emory President James W. Wagner says that Nair exemplifies the type of leader and university citizen that the university strives to develop.  

“We seek to create an intellectually, culturally and socially vibrant environment for our students that teaches and supports holistic well-being, ethical leadership, community engagement, and global citizenship so our students can contribute to positive transformation in the local community and beyond,” says Wagner.

“Ajay’s commitment to Emory’s vision and values, and his demonstrated success in applying these attributes to his career in student life leadership, makes him a perfect partner in helping Emory to provide a robust living and learning environment for our diverse student community.” 

“I feel honored and privileged to join the Emory family,” says Nair.  “From the first moment I met colleagues and students at Emory, I knew I was among the very best and brightest in the world. Emory’s strong commitment to campus life and academic excellence presents a tremendous opportunity for me to help students reach their fullest potential.”

Nair has served as senior associate vice provost for student affairs at Penn since 2008.  Nair also is a faculty fellow in Rodin College House where he lives among 800 undergraduate and graduate students to strengthen the connections between residential life and the intellectual life of the university.   He has taught regularly in the Graduate School of Education and the Asian American Studies Program at Penn. 

At Penn, Nair helped to found the campus-wide Student Affairs Leadership Team, enhanced student support and response systems, forged academic and student affairs collaborations, strengthened Open Expression policies and practice, helped to implement a student affairs assessment program, and worked collaboratively to create a development and alumni relations program for the University Life Division.

Nair previously was associate dean of student affairs at Columbia University and also has held positions at Penn State University and the University of Virginia. During his tenure in higher education, Nair has served in a variety of capacities as faculty member, student affairs administrator and academic administrator. He was selected from an extremely rich national pool of more than 100 candidates in a search assisted by Storbeck/Pimentel & Associates.

Nair’s research interests include quality assurance in educational systems, service learning and civic engagement, and second-generation Asian American identity.  His co-edited book, “Desi Rap: Hip-Hop in South Asian America,” focuses on the complexities of second-generation South Asian American identity.  Nair’s current book project focuses on multiculturalism in higher education. 

Also joining the Emory family will be Nair’s wife, Paayal Nair, a school psychologist, and their two children, Krishna and Rani. 

The Leadership & Service Awards is a ceremony and reception that celebrates the outstanding achievements of those undergraduate and graduate student leaders and organizations within the Emory University community. This year the awards ceremony was coordinated collaboratively by the Office of Student Leadership & Service, College Council, Student Government Association, and the Graduate Student Government Association. Below is the complete list of award recipients as well as the Who’s Who Among Students in American College and Universities

Humanitarian Award: Timothy Puetz, Asad Abdulla, Colleen Laurence, Mary Fernandez, Stephen Ratner, Jordan Stein, and Brian Davis

Trailblazer Award: Lynn Hargrow and Gaybrielle Moore

Outstanding Entertainment/Social Program of the Year: The Interfaith Art Gala – Hillel and Muslim Student Association

College Council Treasurer of the Year: Hamad Hamad

College Council President of the Year: Asad Abdulla

Campus Life Emerging Leader: Yonathan Tadesse

Campus Life Graduate Student Leader of the Year: Diana Martha Louis

Campus Life Outstanding Undergraduate Student of the Year:  Cathryn Morette

Outstanding Diversity/Multicultural Program of the Year: Fashion Forward’s Trashion Show

Outstanding Service/Volunteer Program of the Year: Lillian Carter Center for Global Health and Responsibility

Outstanding Student Organization of the Year (more than 40 members): Muslim Student Association

Outstanding Student Organization of the Year (less than 40 members): Active Minds

Heart of Emory University: Chelsey Carter

Advisor of the Year: Lauren Bernstein

Emory College Hall of Fame: Lindsey Bomnin, Elizabeth Cappello, Stephen Ratner, and Dana Toy

Who’s Who Among American Colleges and Universities

Emory College: Lindsey Bomnin, Paul Choi, Anne Culpepper, Simon Mettler, Jaclyn Rosenzweig, Elizabeth Cappello, Ian Cohen, Kirsten Cooper, Bianca Copello, John Culnan, Evan Dunn, Reina Factor, Max Goldman, Kari Leibowitz, Brianna Mack, Adam McCall, Sara Radmard, Stephen Ratner, Anna Ross, Mitchell Rostad, Nabiha Saklayen, Madhavi Seth, Jordan Stein, Nihar Thadani, Dana Toy, Jennifer Aronoff, Tara Brooks, Elizabeth Cassidy, Yan Chen, Crystal Gayle, Mary Fernandez, Stephanie Spangler, and  Willian Eye 

Emory School of Law: Justin Barton, Katherine Blakey, Natalie Dana, Daniel Englander, Merriam Mikhail, and Daniel Reach

Emory University School of Medicine: Kirsten Davidson, Kelly LeFevere, Jennifer Madden, Nina Arora, Christopher Corso, Danielle Friedman, Jennifer Spicer, and Jennifer Zora

Emory Goizueta Business School (BBA): Asad Abdulla, Dorothy Abrams, Aaron Brooks, Seth Green, Ali Jooma, Imran Manji, Corey Moore, Alexa Payton, Natalie Schonefeld, Matthew Wiegel, Shaun Kalnasy, Katherine Grape, Matthew Long, Allison Farr, and  Ben Mullenix

Emory Goizueta Business School (MBA): Ryan Doyle Payton Jason

Rollins School of Public Health: Frederic Grant IV, Carrie McNeil,  Alvin Tran, Danika Barry, Priya Kekre, and Alex Liber

Chandler School of Theology: Peggy Craig, Sarah Hedgis, and  Whitney Pierce

Emory School of Nursing: Delma Gomez-Adisa (MNS),Scott Nguy (MSN), Khala Woodruff (BSN), Jamie Tinker (BSN), Kimberly Hanks (BSN), Kenan Preston (BSN), and Christina Harwell (BSN)

Established in 1983, the Delores P. Aldridge Excellence Awards recognize achievements by outstanding students and faculty from underrepresented racial or cultural backgrounds. The awards are named for Grace Towns Hamilton Professor of Sociology and African American Studies Delores P. Aldridge, the first female African-American faculty member at Emory, who founded the African American and African Studies Program in 1971.

Undergraduate students nominate other students or themselves as well as faculty for the awards. The winners are then selected by a committee comprised of administrators from the Office of Multicultural Programs & Services (OMPS) and other Campus Life groups.  

The winners for this year’s awards are:  

College freshmen Akshay Goswami and Calvin Li – First-Year Excellence Awards

College junior Uma Chidambaram, College sophomore Stephanie Yates, and College seniors Paul Choi and Dana Toy – Leadership & Service to a Diverse Community Awards

College sophomore Dohyun Ahn and College senior Bianca Copello – Community Building, Diversity, and Intergroup Relations Awards

College senior Jessica Probst – Diversity Research Award

Associate Director of Engaged Learning for the Office of University-Community Partnerships (OUCP), Maureen Sweatman – Staff Excellence in Mentoring Award

To read more about the awards, read “Aldridge Awards Honors 10 Students, Faculty.”

Seniors Anne Culpepper, Daniel Kolb, Claire Pavlak and Paul Weinstein of the Emory University Swimming and Diving Team have each been awarded one of the prestigious NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships, based on their achievements both in and out of the pool during their time with the program.

Each of the four winners will receive a one-time $7,500 scholarship, to be used for postgraduate study within three years. Emory's four winners were the most by any NCAA school during the winter season.

Emory has now been awarded 74 postgraduate scholarships over the school's history, and 57 since 2000, more than any other NCAA institution except Stanford University. Emory's swimming and diving team has seen 33 of its members win the scholarship, including 16 winners over the last six years. Since 2000, the men's and women's swimming and diving programs have garnered 29 NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships.

Read more about the scholarships and the accomplishments of Culpepper, Kolb, Pavlak, and Weinstein here.

Three seniors have been inducted into the Dobbs Society, the highest award a member of the residential community may receive at Emory. This year’s inductees are Kristin Bielling, Jennifer Butler, and Tess Wilkins. Bearing the same name of our first residence hall on the Atlanta campus of Emory University, built in 1916, the Dobbs Society recognizes exemplary residential leaders who leave a positive impact on the residential community through significant contributions and service throughout their tenure at Emory. Nominated by members of the Emory community and selected by a panel of past Dobbs Society inductees, members of the Dobbs Society will have left Emory a better place for their involvement in the same vein as the building’s namesake, Samuel Candler Dobbs.

Kristin Bielling whole-heartedly dedicated herself to each position she held in Residence Life. Known for her significant impact on the daily lives of her residents, she approached issues with compassion, logic, fundamental fairness, and her unique brand of humor. Having served as a Sophomore Advisor and a two-year Resident Advisor, she emotionally supported both second-year and first-year residents by offering late night pizza, going above the call of duty to help her residents manage serious emotional issues, and advise both her residents and fellow staff members on how to make the most of their residence hall experiences. Outside of Residence Life, Kristin served as a Peer Advisor, an Emory Advisor, and an English language tutor for Project Shine.  However, most intensively, she served the student body as the Attorney General of the Student Government Association for two years. She taught her peers the necessary processes and procedures outlined in the SGA Constitution. Kristin’s spirit, commitment, and dedication to the residential experience certainly leave a positive lasting impression. 

Jennifer Butler’s residents, peers, and supervisors look to her for everything from identifying health and safety concerns to planning and executing exemplary programs for first-year students. She has served as a Sophomore Advisor, two-term Resident Advisor, and as a member of the residential staff for the Pre-College Program. A Renaissance woman at heart, she complements her residential involvement with her engagement as a lab assistant, participates with All Mixed Up and Club Tennis, and works as a student assistant in Athletics and Recreation. A Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology major known for her quiet grace and wise words, her peers look to her for advice, and many administrators rely on her calm presence to help on long days.

Living on the second floor of Hopkins Hall as a first-year student, Tess Wilkins ran and won the election for President of Complex Hall.  Using her Texan charm and outstanding work ethic, she became RHA Special Events Chair in her second year and RHA President her junior year. In her junior year, she also became a Resident Advisor.  In her fourth year, Tess served not only as a Senior Resident Advisor but also oversaw Dooley’s Bowl, the yearlong community-building competition where first-year residence halls compete for points.  A member of the Gamma Phi Beta Sorority and an intern for both the Miller-Ward Alumni House and the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Central and South Texas, she certainly contributed outside of Residence Life. However, she always set high standards for herself and others to build community using the residence halls as a platform.

Past recipients include:

The Center for Women and the Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Life at Emory University are seeking graduate, undergraduate, or professional students interested in gaining group facilitation experience through queer discussion groups offered during the 2012-2013 academic year. This is a wonderful opportunity for students to gain facilitation experience that can help you be a better teacher, mentor, organizer, and leader.

Program Background

The queer discussion groups are weekly, hour-long groups focusing on topics related to sexual and gender identities. Groups for next year may include:

Queer Students of Color Group: This group explores ways to celebrate our identities and navigate a predominately white, hetero/gender normative campus as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, and/or intersex people of color.

Queer Women's Group: This group explores the joys and challenges of being a queer, trans, lesbian, bisexual, same-gender-loving, and/or pansexual woman at Emory.

Queer Interfaith Group: This group explores ways of integrating one's religion, spirituality, sexual identity, and gender identity.

Queer Men's Group: This group explores ways to develop and support relationships between gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, same-gender-loving, intersex, and/or pansexual men at Emory.

Two facilitators will be assigned to each group. The facilitators will be supervised by staff from the Center for Women and/or the Office of LGBT Life.

Becoming a Facilitator

Facilitators do not need to be "experts" but should have a strong interest in the group's focus, demonstrate the ability to be good listeners and facilitators, and have open minds. Facilitators are expected to attend training sessions, plan and facilitate weekly group meetings, attend weekly meetings with the group supervisors, promote and market groups, and be visible (in publications, websites, etc.) representatives from the Center of Women and Office of LGBT Life. Positions are unpaid.

• Be an undergraduate/professional/graduate student enrolled in a degree seeking program at Emory University
• Have experience in supporting and referring students
• Be available for the full 2012-2013 academic year
• Be willing and able to represent the Center for Women and Office of LGBT Life as a group facilitator in publications, websites, etc.
• Be available to commit 3-4 hours/week for the discussion group, supervision, planning, and training times including:

• Fall/spring training (1 day at the beginning of each semester/all day)
• Weekly supervision meeting (1 hour/week)
• Discussion Group planning/processing with co-facilitator (1 hour/week)
• Discussion Group (1 hour/week typically 6-7:00 p.m. or 7-8:00 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, or Thursdays)

Experience working with queer students is desired but not required.

Interested students may apply by sending a cover letter, resume, and references to Dr. Michael D. Shutt at mshutt@emory.edu.

Be sure to address the following questions in your cover letter:

• Why are you interested in facilitating one of the LGBT discussion groups?
• Describe any facilitating, teaching, coursework, mentoring, or other experiences that have contributed to your ability to facilitate the group.
• What group(s) are you interested in facilitating and why?

Applications are due by 5 pm on Tuesday, May 1st.

On Wednesday, April 25, Barnes & Noble @ Emory hosts an event celebrating the release of Love, InshAllah: The Secret Lives of American Muslim Women, published by Soft Skull Press. This groundbreaking anthology features 25 writers who sweep aside stereotypes to share their search for love and reveal what it means to be a Muslim woman in America today. Ayesha Mattu, one of the co-editors of the collection, and Aisha Saeed, one of the contributors, will speak about the intentions and purpose of the book as well as its road to publication. They will also sign copies of the book.

Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women has been featured in the New York Times, NPR, Washington Post, BBC, The Guardian, Times of India, Dawn Pakistan, and elsewhere. This is the only scheduled event for the book in Atlanta. The event starts at 7pm and is free and open to the public.

Read more about the collection here: “Lifting Veil on Love and Islam” (New York Times).

This past weekend, the Brittain Award, the highest honor given to an Emory University student, was awarded to College senior Evan Dunn. As reported in The Emory Wheel, “The Brittain Award recognizes a graduating student from any of Emory’s academic schools, including both undergraduate and graduate divisions, and the winner must demonstrate that she or he has ‘performed the most significant, meritorious, and devoted service’ to the University, according to the nomination guidelines for the award. The winner receives $5,000 in addition to the award.”

Dunn, who serves on the Honor Council and the Committee for Academic Integrity, works with the Oxford Continuee Association, hosts a radio show on WMRE, and has previously served as an orientation leader and captain. He was nominated by Meggan Arp, Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education, and selected from a pool of twenty-two candidates considered by the committee. Read more about Dunn and the Brittain Award here.

With the help of Emory Dining, the Residence Hall Association set up their sandwich drive in the DUC, March 26-30. The purpose of the annual event is to help feed Atlanta’s homeless for the week. In past years, the week’s goal had been to break the number of sandwiches made the previous year. However, this year’s goal was to be thoughtful and purposeful about quantities and quality. Kadean Maddix, the RHA Volunteer Chair in charge of the drive, contacted area shelters and organizations to discuss what their needs were for the week. Students then made as many sandwiches that were needed for that day and delivered those quantities to each organization. In total, over 8,500 sandwiches were delivered. Area shelters and organizations that received sandwiches include Cross Roads Community Food Bank, Must Ministries, Gilgal, Atlanta Community Food Bank, Jars of Clay Outreach, Covenant House, Toco Hills Community Alliance, Atlanta Union Mission, Stand Up for Kids, Central Night Shelter, Emmaus House, Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless, Antioch Baptist Church North, and New Hope Church of God.

The Emory University women's swimming and diving team claimed its third-consecutive NCAA Title and fifth overall in the program's history, with another dominating performance during the 2012 NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Championships.

Emory has now won the NCAA Division III Women's Swimming and Diving Championship in 2005, 2006, 2010, 2011, and 2012.  This year's title marks the 13th in the history of the Emory Athletics program.  Along with the five from the swimming and diving team, women's tennis has won five, men's tennis two, and volleyball one.

The Eagles accumulated 639 points during the four days of the meet, the most ever by an Emory squad at the NCAA Championships.  The Eagles bested second-place Williams College (453 points) and third-place Denison University (420 points). Read the full article here.

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and the Office of Health Promotion has teamed up with a number of other offices and organizations across campus to provide workshops, panels, movies, and performances to raise awareness throughout the month. Here is the schedule of events:

Monday, April 2: Showing of The Line, a film on consent, with conversation facilitated by Amanda Yu, Health Educator. Open to all undergraduate students. 7:30 pm in the Oxford Student Center TV Room.

Tuesday, April 3: Graduate Students Against Violence, open to all graduate students. 6:15 pm in 1525 Clifton Rd Lobby. RSVP here.

Wednesday, April 4: Get Consent. ASAP. a special Wonderful Wednesday in Asbury Circle. 11 am – 2 pm.

Also, Wednesday, April 4: Pleasure After Sexual Assault Workshop, sponsored by the Office of Health Promotion, the Center for Women, the Alliance for Sexual Assault Prevention, and Sexual Assault Peer Advocates, part of the Center for Women's Great Sex Series. Open to all undergraduate and graduate students. 7 pm in DUC 338. RSVP here or contact Lauren at 404.727.1514.

Monday, April 9: David Coleman, The Dating Doctor (http://www.datingdoctor.com/), sponsored by the Alliance for Sexual Assault Prevention, open to all undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff. 7 pm in Harland Cinema, DUC.

Wednesday, April 11: Showing and discussion of "The Line," a film about consent (http://whereisyourline.org/), conversation facilitated by the Alliance for Sexual Assault Prevention. Open to all undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff.  7 pm in Harland Cinema, DUC.

Wednesday, April 18: Building Empowering Relationships, facilitated by Lauren Bernstein & Sue Gloor, Office of Health Promotion, part of the Center for Women at Emory’s Women’s Health & Wellness Series. Open to faculty, staff, and students. 12 pm in DUC 362.

Wednesday, April 18: Queering Enthusiastic Consent, sponsored by Emory Pride, Office of LGBT Life, and the Office of Health Promotion. 7 pm in Calloway C101.

Thursday, April 19: Sexual Assault Peer Advocacy Training Learn what to say, what not to say, and how to support sexual assault survivors at this student-facilitated training.  Open to all undergraduate and graduate students.  RSVP here. 7 pm in DUC 231E.

Thursday, April 26: Caught in a Bad Romance, a performance by the Issues Troupe, conversation facilitated by Conrad Honicker & Sexual Assault Peer Advocates. 7 pm in Harland Cinema, DUC.

Saturday, April 28: DeKalb Rape Crisis Center 5K and 1 Mile at Agnes Scott College Gellerstedt Track & Field. Registration begins at 3 pm, with warm-up at 4:30 pm, the 1 mile at 5 pm, and the 5K at 5:30 pm This is the perfect race for runners who do not like to get up early. Family-friendly event with post-race pizza party, live music, and moonwalk. Register here.

Sponsors include the Alliance for Sexual Assault Prevention, Office of Health Promotion, Student Health & Counseling Services, Sexual Assault Peer Advocates, Center for Women at Emory, Office of Multicultural Programs & Services, Campus Life, Oxford Campus Life, Office of Student Leadership & Service, Emory Center for Injury Control, Emory Pride, Office of LGBT Life, Law Students for Reproductive Justice, Emory Reproductive Health Association, and the President’s Commission on the Status of Women.

For more information, visit http://bewellexcell.org/saam or contact Lauren Bernstein via e-mail or by calling 404.727.1514. If you have been affected by sexual violence, you have support at Emory. Call the Office of Health Promotion’s Sexual & Relationship Violence Prevention Education & Response Program at 404.727.1514.

On February 27, the Residence Hall Association honored eight Emory professors at the 13th annual Crystal Apple Awards. The awards were created to honor faculty members who go above and beyond in their search for knowledge and involvement in the Emory community. Nominated and selected by students, this year’s Crystal Apple Award winners are Christine Ristiano, senior lecturer in Italian studies, Emory College; Karla Passalacqua, lecturer in biology, Emory College; Allison Burdette, assistant professor in the practice of business law, Goizueta Business School; Kate Woeber, clinical instructor of nursing, Woodruff School of Nursing; Amy Webb Girard, assistant professor of global health, Rollins School of Public Health; Jennifer Mathews, instructor of legal writing, research, and advocacy, School of Law; Clifford Gunthel, investigator at the Center for AIDS Research, School of Medicine; Edward Queen II, director of the D. Abbott Turner Program in Ethics and Servant Leadership and coordinator of undergraduate studies at the Center for Ethics.

To read more about the awards and each of the winners, read “Students present Crystal Apples to outstanding professors” at the Emory News Center.

Dooley’s Week, the annual event that celebrates James W. Dooley, the spirit of Emory and Lord of Misrule, kicks off on Monday, March 26th and runs through Saturday, March 31st. This year’s theme is “2012: The End of the World.” The week packs in a number of exciting events that are open to the entire Emory community.

On Monday, March 26, Taste of Emory officially kicks off this week’s activities. Taking place in Asbury Circle, Taste of Emory features numerous restaurants serving up food, drinks, and good times. The event runs from 5 to 7 PM.

On Wednesday, March 28, there will be a special Dooley’s Week Wonderful Wednesday starting at 11 AM in Asbury Circle. In the evening, the Student Government Association hosts Trivia in Cox Ballroom at 8:30 PM.

On Thursday, March 29, comedian Rob Riggle will bring the laughs to Glenn Memorial at 7 PM. Many will recognize Riggle from his time on Saturday Night Live, his work on The Daily Show, and from such films as The Hangover and 21 Jump Street.

On Friday, March 30, Dooley’s Ball takes place on McDonough Field, starting at 9 PM. The ball’s theme is “Party ‘Til the World Ends,” and Swedish DJ and electronic dance music producer Alesso will be providing the soundtrack.  

Concluding the week’s events on Saturday, March 31, singer-songwriter Ben Folds performs on McDonough Field at 7 PM.

Dooley’s Week is sponsored by the Student Programming Council, Residence Hall Association, Student Government Association, Emory Alumni Association, and Woblet.

In partnership with the White House Initiative on Asian American and Pacific Islanders (WHIAAPI), the First Asian American & Pacific Islander Southeast Regional Action Summit is taking place on Friday, March 16, 2012, in Dobbs University Center at Emory University.

Advertised as a day of open dialogue between members of the community and government to create an action plan for empowering the Southeast AAPI community, the summit will feature four sessions on immigration and civil rights, health care and mental health issues, housing and foreclosures, and small business and economic issues for entrepreneurs. The sessions will be followed by a free lunch, the keynote speech, and an afternoon town hall meeting listening session, which will be available via livestream. The keynote address will be delivered by Cabinet Secretary Christopher P. Lu.

This event is sponsored by OCA-Georgia, AALAC, AARC, CPACS, Emory University Office of Multicultural Programs and Services, Emory University Office of Community and Diversity, Sodexo, Georgia Tech, and Comcast.

Registration is free. To register, click here. For more information, visit http://www.whiaapi2012sesummit.com.

The Office of Multicultural Programs and Services has announced their call for nominations for the annual Delores P. Aldridge Excellence Awards, which recognize student achievement in leadership and service; community building, diversity, and intergroup relations; and research about diversity issues.

Each nomination should include detailed information about the nominee and his/her/hir efforts in the area(s) that he/she/ze is being nominated. Examples may include but are not limited to: academic honors, awards, and other distinctions; organizational memberships and positions held; and notable achievements in the larger community. The nominee’s excellence in the area(s) of nomination should be presented in a formal letter of recommendation.

To be eligible for consideration, students must possess a minimum GPA of 3.2 or higher. Any Emory undergraduate may be nominated, and self-nominations are accepted. The deadline for nominations is March 2nd at 5:00 pm. Completed nomination packages should be submitted to OMPS, DUC 207 or to Patricia Taylor at pytaylo@emory.edu.

The recognition ceremony and reception will be taking place on Thursday, April 5th at 5:00 pm in Winship Ballroom (Dobbs University Center).

For nomination information, call 404-727-6754 or visit http://www.emory.edu/MULTICULTURAL. If you plan on attending the banquet, RSVP by March 23rd.

Bearing the name of the first residence hall built in 1916 on Emory’s Atlanta campus, the Dobbs Society serves as the highest award a member of the residential community may receive at Emory. The Dobbs Society recognizes those exemplary residential leaders leaving a positive impact on the residential community through their significant contributions and service throughout their tenure at Emory. Just as the building’s namesake Samuel Candler Dobbs left Emory a better place for his involvement, so have members of the Dobbs Society.

To submit a nomination, go to: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/dobbssociety2012. Nominations close at 5 pm on March 18, 2012.

If you have questions, contact Andy Wilson at andy.wilson@emory.edu.

Past Dobbs Society Inductees:

Corroborating the success of Barkley Forum strategic plan fundraising initiatives, records were set in Fall 2011 in the Atlanta Urban Debate League (UDL) programming by Emory debate staff, alumni, and students. Four hundred and sixty-one (461) students from 35 Georgia secondary schools participated in 3,634 rounds of tournament competition. Additionally, Emory debate staff, volunteers, and engaged scholars provided 1,318 hours of instruction in weekly after school programs to 259 students from 20 socio-economically challenged secondary schools in the metropolitan Atlanta area.

Barkley Forum staff and alumni are partnering with Columbia University and the City University of New York campuses to expand the UDL in New York, and with Vanderbilt University to support the UDL in Nashville. A Debate Across Curriculum project in the Boston UDL will provide infrastructure for professional development for secondary school teachers in Boston, Baltimore, New York, Atlanta, and Nashville. Finally, a new partnership is being brokered with the University of Nevada-Las Vegas and the local legal community to build a new UDL in Las Vegas.

Atlanta's 11Alive came out to the WoodPEC to do a story on the fourth-ranked Emory Men's Basketball Team. The team has started their season 12-0. Click here to see the video.