IN BRIEF
Hughes Program offers
interdisciplinary seminars for undergraduates
The Hughes Program in Biology is offering an interdisciplinary science
seminar
for undergraduates. The primary purpose is to attract students to science
careers by exciting them about scientific discovery and research, helping
them
visualize connections between disciplines and letting them see the
diversity of
career paths, methodological approaches to questions, and personalities.
Remaining spring semester seminars include: Feb. 21, "Paleontology: An
Interdisciplinary Science if There Ever Was One" with Tony Martin,
Geosciences;
and Feb. 28, "New Anti-AIDS Therapies" with Dennis Liotta, Chemistry. The
seminars will be held from 4:15-5:15 p.m. in 308 Dental Building. For
more
information, call 727-4272.
Credit Union offers preferred checking
The Emory Credit Union has announced that it is now offering preferred
checking. Benefits include: first order of checks free; no application
fee on
future loans; ATM access at CIRRUS machines worldwide; no monthly service
charge with direct deposit; no charge for ATM withdrawals with a car loan
or
lease, home equity loan, or VISA or Mastercard from the Credit Union; and
no
minimum balance. For more information, call 329-6415.
Emory to host undergraduate sociology symposium
Emory will co-host with the University of Georgia the annual Southeastern
Undergraduate Sociology Symposium Feb. 27-28. The event brings together
students from all over the Southeast to present research papers in a
professional format.
Keynote speaker for the symposium is Jill Quadagno, a faculty member at
Florida State University. She will discuss "Lessons on Welfare Reform
From the
War on Poverty" after a 6:30 p.m. banquet in Winship Ballroom on Feb.
27.
Nancy Ammerman, associate professor of sociology of religion at Emory,
will
discuss "Congregations in Changing American Cities" at 4:45 p.m. in
Harland
Cinema on Feb. 28.
Student presentations will be held in Cox Hall and Dobbs Center all day
on
Feb. 28. For further information, contact John Boli at 727-7509 or e-mail
to
jboli@soc.emory.edu.
Telephone prefix for The Emory Clinic to change
Because of The Emory Clinic's rapid expansion, the telephone prefix for
Clinic
numbers soon will change to 778. Until the change officially takes place
on
March 1, callers may reach Clinic numbers by using the old or new prefix.
After
March 1, callers dialing a Clinic number using a 248 or 728 prefix will
hear a
recording advising them of the new prefix. The main number for the Clinic
will
be 778-5000. The Clinic's five-digit internal numbers will not change.
In addition to office numbers, the change will affect some of the phone
lines
operated by Teleservices, including Emory HealthConnection (778-7744).
The
Clinic's telephone prefix change follows Emory Hospital's change from 727
to
712 in January.
Clinic, System of Health Care offices move to Decatur
Decatur Plaza, located at 101 West Ponce de Leon Ave., is the new address
of
most administrative and other nonmedical offices of The Emory Clinic and
the
Emory University System of Health Care (EUSHC). The move began last
summer and
will continue over the next several months.