The National Coalition Building Institute (NCBI) is offering a Prejudice Reduction and Conflict Resolution Train the Trainer Workshop on March 23-25 at Turner Conference Center. Thee Smith, associate professor of religion, is the director of NCBI Atlanta and is organizing the workshop. Miriam Jefferson, a founding associate for NCBI, will conduct the workshop in which participants will learn the steps to develop and lead prejudice reduction workshops and diversity programs. Individual registration for the three-day workshop is $300; the cost for two attendees from the same organization is $500, or $600 for three attendees. For more information, contact Smith at 688-6531.
Following the interest expressed by women faculty after the fall conference "Surviving and Thriving at Emory University," the Faculty Concerns Group of the President's Commission on the Status of Women will hold two seminars this semester: "Grants, Writing and Resources" on Tuesday, March 21, 3:30-5 p.m., in the Williams Room of the nursing school with Francine Massey, Office of Sponsored Programs, and Gretchen Schultz, Oxford College; and "Maternity Leave and Benefits" on Tuesday, April 11, 3:30-5 p.m., also in the Williams Room. For more information, call Leslie Taylor at 727-2574.
Rondo Cameron, William Rand Kenan University Professor Emeritus, will direct a colloquium for the Liberty Fund on "Liberty, Culture and Economic Growth in Latin America" from March 30 to April 2. The colloquium will take place in the Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel in downtown Atlanta and will bring together approximately 16 scholars from the United States and Latin America. Among the participants will be Rodrigo Carazo, former president of Costa Rica, and John Coatsworth of Harvard University, currently president of the American Historical Association. Atlanta participants include Robert Pastor, director for Latin American Programs of The Carter Center; Susan Socolow, Dobbs Professor of Latin American History at Emory and former vice president of the American Historical Association; Jennifer McCoy, professor of political science at Georgia State University and deputy director for Latin American Programs of The Carter Center; and David McCreery, professor of history at Georgia State. The Liberty Fund is a private operating foundation that conducts educational activities; this colloquium is part of an ongoing program of the Liberty Fund that includes publications and film production, and which has as its common aim "to encourage the exploration of human liberty and those institutional arrangements that seem to support it."
Applications are being accepted for internships in social ethics and community service through the Department of Religion's Jack Boozer and Hermann Noether Funds.
Friday, April 7, is the deadline to apply for the grants, which allow students to design their own internships. The purpose of the grants is to enable undergraduate, graduate and professional students to pursue summer or semester internships of study and active engagement with situations and problems integral to the understanding and practice of social ethics and community service.
The awards are for $1,000 per student, though exceptions may be made. Credit is not a prerequisite for the grant, though students may apply for credit. Interested students should contact David Blumenthal at 727-7545 or Bobbi Patterson at 727-6276.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has selected Emory Parking and Community Services (EPCS) as one of the recipients of its first Clean Air Vehicle Award, which is given to institutions whose fleets are operating at least five vehicles or at least 20 percent of the entire fleet on an alternative fuel.
The award was created to recognize companies that are leading the way toward clean air and energy independence by using domestic, alternative fuels and alternative-fuel vehicles. The awards were presented by DOE at a March 9 press conference at Grant Park. EPCS currently has a 14-vehicle fleet including one electric-powered van on loan from Georgia Power, three electric utility carts, and two compressed natural gas shuttles.
Emory community members are invited to form teams to participate in the eighth annual Zachary Brown Memorial Softball Classic on Saturday, April 8, at the Softball Country Club, 3500 North Decatur Road.
The event, which will benefit melanoma research at the Winship Cancer Center, honors the memory of softball enthusiast Zachary Brown, who died of melanoma at the age of 29. More than 100 teams in the Southeast will participate in the tournament, which begins at 9 a.m. Free skin cancer screenings will be available.
Individuals and teams interested in participating should contact Cheryl O'Neal at 778-5195.