April 10, 2000
Volume 52, No. 28

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CAMPUS NEWS Construction projects on track for summer Fowler encourages Emory women U.S. News rankings II First Person: Herzog's green thumb Emory Profile: Building community the green way Library Update: Stacks blooming--and bursting President's Commission on the Status of Minorities Emory, Georgia Tech offer Ph.D. in biomed engineering International Affairs: Creekmore will leave an international legacy Honorary degrees 2000 University Senate Chace named to Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors President Bill Chace has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. Chace also serves on the boards of The Carter Center, the Georgia Research Alliance and SunTrust Bank. New time, attendance system in the works for nonexempt employees By the end of this calendar year a new automated system will be in use to track the time of all nonexempt employees. The system will enter phase 1 this summer, and will eventually eliminate paper timesheets. Employees will use the telephone to clock in and out and supervisors will be able to check time electronically. The system has already been successfully rolled out at Emory and Crawford Long hospitals. The goal for full implementation is Dec. 31.

SCHOLARSHIP & RESEARCH Cook outlines good, bad of 1970s Hollywood Study compares rape psychotherapy treatments Stay informed with EmoryWire EmoryWire is a weekly e-mail newsletter produced by the Office of University Communications. The service provides subscribers with on- and off-campus breaking news that affects the University, updates on campus issues, and major local, national and international media coverage of the University. To subscribe to EmoryWire, send a message to listserv@listserv. emory.edu. Leave the subject field blank. In the message field, input: Subscribe EmoryWire FirstName LastName (i.e., Subscribe EmoryWire John Smith). If your e-mail includes a signature footer (typically your name and address) at the bottom of the message, please delete it from the subscription request message. EmoryWire is online at www.emory.edu/EmoryWire. Jin named Young J. Allen professor Emory author and English professor Xuefei Jin will be honored with a professorship named after Young J. Allen, an 1858 Emory graduate and the first Methodist missionary to China. Allen remained there until his death in 1907. Jin, who writes under the name Ha Jin, will be recognized as Emory College's first Young J. Allen Professor of English and Creative Writing at his April 12 reading at Oxford. The professorship is only one of two recent honors to be bestowed upon Jin. Last week, his book Waiting won the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the largest annual juried prize for fiction in the United States.