Oxford to hold Visitation Days
Oxford College will hold four Visitation Days for prospective students
this
academic year on Oct. 21, Nov. 18, Jan. 20 and Feb. 24. Workshops will
highlight Oxford's academic programs, leadership opportunities and campus
life.
Faculty and staff whose children are interested in attending Oxford are
invited
to attend. For more information, call 727-4390.
Bookstore to host reading by writer Mary Hood
Mary Hood, known for her critically acclaimed short stories, will be on
campus
Thursday, Sept. 28, to read from her first novel, Familiar Heat,
which
has just been published by Alfred A. Knopf.
Hood's short stories have been featured in The Georgia Review,
The
Ohio Review and The Kenyon Review. Her first collection,
How Far
She Went, received the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction and
the
Southern Review/ Louisiana State University Short Fiction Award. Her
second
collection of stories, And Venus Is Blue, won the Townsend Award
and the
Lillian Smith Award. This winter Hood will be writer-in-residence at the
University of Mississippi.
Hood's reading will be held in the Emory Bookstore in Dobbs Center at
5:30
p.m., followed by a reception and book signing. The event is sponsored by
the
Friends of the Emory Libraries and the bookstore. For more information
call
727-4885.
Proposals sought for pilot research in suicide
Emory has received an Institutional Research Grant from the American
Suicide
Foundation to provide funds for pilot research in suicide. Each grant
will
provide the researcher with up to $8,000 per year. Any faculty member
interested in doing a proposal should fill out an application, not more
than
three pages in length, including specific aims, a description of the
research
methods, and a justification of requested funds. Application deadlines
are Nov.
1, 1995, and March 1, 1996. All applications will be reviewed by an
institutional review committee comprised of several selected Emory
faculty
members. Applications should be addressed to Charles B. Nemeroff,
Department of
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine. For more
information
call 727-8382.