Autumn 2010: Campaign Chronicle

Schools and Units Digest

Campus Life

Twelve former Emory Eagles softball players have stepped up to the plate as fund-raising captains for softball stadium improvements, including the addition of covered batting cages and press box, locker room upgrades, and seating.

Candler School of Theology

Candler Associate Professor Karen D. Scheib made a gift to honor the pastors of Sun-Lin (Good Samaritan) Korean Methodist Church in Inchon, South Korea.

Emory College of Arts and Sciences

CityBridge Foundation is creating a need-based scholarship in memory of Georgia education leader Marion Luther Brittain Sr. 1886C. The scholarship is designed to enrich opportunities for promising Washington, D.C., students.

Emory Healthcare

Emory University Hospital Midtown Auxiliary and Emory University Hospital Auxiliary recently gave a combined $212,000 to their respective hospitals.

Emory Law

Through the generous support of Emory Law alumni and friends, 75 percent of first-year students in one of the largest classes ever are receiving scholarships to help offset the cost of their legal education.

Emory Libraries

Barnes & Noble Chairman Leonard Riggio and his wife, Louise, have endowed a research fellowship in Emory University’s Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library that will focus on the work and life of writer Alice Walker.

Emory School of Medicine

Kenny Higgins and his Agape Love Foundation committed $300,000 to Emory’s Center for Heart Failure Therapy. Cardiologist and Medical Director for Heart Failure and Transplantation Andrew L. Smith directed the funds to support Javed Butler’s research.

Goizueta Business School

Lin Rogers 08B is supporting Goizueta Business School’s student-run Microfinance Club with a three-year pledge.

James T. Laney School of Graduate Studies

A new translational science program gives PhD students the expertise to translate biomedical scientific discoveries into treatments to benefit human health. The program was made possible by a generous grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Michael C. Carlos Museum

Kenneth Falck 82C gives annually to support Carlos Museum acquisitions and has included the Carlos in his estate plans.

Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing

Tracey Wilds 88OX 91N, a clinical nurse specialist at the Emory Clinic, has made an adopt-a-scholar gift to support nursing students who have financial need.

Oxford College

Art Vinson 66OX 68C, vice chair of the Oxford Board of Counselors, has made a generous gift to support the fund-raising effort for a new science building on the Oxford campus.

Rollins School of Public Health

Hubert Professor and Chair of the Hubert Department of Global Health Carlos del Rio and his wife, Emory pathologist Jeannette Guarner, have established the Reynaldo Martorell Scholarship in honor of del Rio’s predecessor. Funding will support Hispanic students seeking the master of public health degree.

Yerkes National Primate Research Center

Bill Dobes 65C 69M 70MR, who chairs Campaign Emory for Yerkes, recently honored his family by making a gift to the research center. With his latest gift, he is more than halfway toward completing his Campaign Emory pledge.

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Autumn 2010

• Prelude
• Letters to the Editor

Of Note

• College Life What’s important to Robin Forman, new dean of Emory College
• Feeling Lucky A poker pro joins Emory’s most competitive freshman class
• Microbrew Meds Ancient humans drank beer laced with antibiotics
• Big Heart on Campus Bill and Carol Fox continue to support their favorite cause
• What’s Green and White and Read All Over? Hint: It’s the new bookstore
• Caughman Named Interim Director of Health Sciences Center
• University Ranked Twenty National benchmark places Goizueta at thirteen
• Vox Populi Olga Grushin 93C’s second novel, The Line, is pure poetry
• The Plot Thickens A resting place with a green twist
• New Rules Shifting course, to better prepare law students for practice
• Beautiful Words Carlos hosts first Islamic calligraphy exhibitions in the Southeast
• The Producer Walter Mirisch shares some trade secrets
• A Smoking Gun Helping China strategize to reduce tobacco harm
• Choosing Sides Right, left—or moderate?
• Double Vision Combining MRI and PET scans improves imaging
• Adults with Autism ‘Get a Life’ Emory Autism Resource Center’s program improves social skills
• Perfect Pitch Emory in the news
• Ticker Alumna honored as top poet

Features

• Lost and Found David Thon 08MPH was seven years old when he and thousands of others embarked on a nightmare trek from southern Sudan to Kenya. Years later, work with The Carter Center brought him back home.
• Breaking a Vicious Cycle Jimmy Carter is planning a send-off for the last Guinea worm on earth
• Positive Signs Even as the HIV/AIDS pandemic continues its stealthy global advance, Emory scientists are striking blows against the virus from all directions.
• Hope for an AIDS Vaccine Meet Robert Parker, who decided to volunteer at Emory’s Hope Clinic to test a new AIDS vaccine. He shares his story in this audio slideshow.
• Health Wanted In impoverished countries like Mozambique, where safe water is scarce and malaria and AIDS claim lives daily, an Emory-based global association—and a Rollins alumna—are helping to establish critical new public health systems.
• Shattering Stigma Rosalynn Carter continues her crusade to bring mental illness out of the shadows—and onto equal footing with physical ailments

Campaign Chronicle

• Emory Icon Creates A Heartfelt Legacy
• Stay Connected
• Giving Programs Get a New Focus
• Founding Dean, Spouse Support Public Health
• Fleming Family Continues Support of Oxford College
• Former Emory Resident Supports Scholarships
• Alumnus Becomes Annual Donor to Emory Law
• Schools and Units Digest

Register

• Letter from the President Thinking again about the university’s purposes
• From the EAA Emory everywhere
• The English Major Applying literature to legislating
• Alumni Ink Claiming her roots
• Coda Reflections on AIDS