Autumn 2007

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What’s in a name? Ask ‘Doc’ Partin

Deborah Jackson 85C has donated $250,000 to the athletic department in part as an endowment to name the athletic director’s position the Clyde Partin Sr. Director of Athletics. Clyde “Doc” Partin 50C 51G spent fifty years at Emory, inspiring generations of students as athletic director and department chair of health and physical education.

New Emory Clinic will be ‘model for patient care’

The Woodruff Health Sciences Center broke ground August 27 for a new $365 million Emory Clinic facility on Clifton Road. The clinic is expected to be completed by 2012 and will be a model of patient-centered care, said CEO John Fox. The Emory Clinic is made up of more than 900 Emory physicians and has nearly two million patient visits per year.

School of Law names distinguished alumni

The School of Law’s Distinguished Alumni Awards this year go to: Gwendolyn Keyes Fleming 93L, the first African American and first female district attorney in DeKalb County; Harry Lamon Jr. 58L, an attorney specializing in employee benefits and tax law; John Staton Jr. 63L, founder of King and Spalding’s Intellectual Property Practice Group.

Goizueta receives $10 million for new center

Goizueta Business School has received a major gift of $10 million from a private donor to establish the Emory Center for Private Equity and Hedge Funds. The center will support research and education on the important function hedge funds and private equity play in allocating financial resources and will aim to shape the public debate about this industry.

Noted biologist joins Emory College

Geneticist and educator Victor Corces joined Emory in September as chair of the Department of Biology. Corces was previously chair of the biotechnology program and director of undergraduate studies at Johns Hopkins University. A Howard Hughes Medical Institute professor, Corces has received a $1Êmillion grant to attract and inspire undergraduates.

CLL seniors program named for Osher

Emory’s Center for Lifelong Learning (CLL) received a $100,000 grant from the Bernard Osher Foundation to support continuing education programming for senior learners and retirees. The center's Academy for Retired Professionals will be renamed the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Emory. Since 1979 the CLL has provided noncredit continuing education courses to the Atlanta community.

Recruiting top students to the law

The School of Law has received a $1 million gift from C. Robert Henrikson 72L and his wife, Mary, to be used toward an endowed scholarship fund established in 2001 by the couple to recruit top students to the law school and to encourage diversity in the student body.

First SPORE grant in Georgia given to WCI

The National Cancer Institute has awarded a five-year, $12.5 million Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) grant in head and neck cancer to Winship Cancer Institute. This is the first SPORE grant ever received in the state of Georgia.

Avon $1 million furthers breast health care

Emory’s Winship Cancer Institute has received a $1 million grant from the Avon Foundation that will be directed to the Avon Foundation Comprehensive Breast Cancer Center at Grady Memorial Hospital. The grant will be used to increase awareness of the life-saving benefits of early detection.

A $50 million boost for Rollins School of Public Health

The O. Wayne Rollins Foundation and Grace Crum Rollins have pledged $50 million to the Rollins School of Public Health. The school, which ranks seventh among schools of public health in U.S. News rankings, plans to use the funds to double the size of its physical space and attract top faculty and students.