Autumn 2010: Features

Hope for an AIDS Vaccine

By Mary J. Loftus

One of many HIV-negative volunteers at Emory’s Hope Clinic in Decatur, Robert Parker shares his reasons for participating in a clinical trial of a potential HIV/AIDS vaccine.

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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