OTT presents lecture on biotech industry
The Office of Technology Transfer (OTT) will host a brown bag luncheon featuring Charles Craig of Ernst & Young, who will give a "Biotech Industry Update 2003," Dec. 17 from noon-1 p.m. in Whitehead Auditorium.

Craig is editor and lead author of Ernst & Young's annual biotechnology reports. For the last 17 years, the firm has published three major biotech reports each year, focusing on the United States, Europe and the rest of the globe.

The event is the first of OTT's seminar series designed to serve the Emory community and promote technology commercialization.

For more information, call 404-727-7241.


Alliance Theatre play features Emory faculty
Brenda Bynum, professor emeritas of theater studies, is starring in the play The Subject Tonight Is Love, which runs through Dec. 21 at the Alliance Theatre.

The comedy-drama, written by Sandra Deer, an instructor at the Center for Lifelong Learning, is based on a three-generation relationship between a grandmother, mother and grandson, as they cope with the grandmother's struggle with Alzheimer's disease.

Bynum, a member of the theater studies faculty for 17 years, plays the stricken family matriarch, Ruby Land Parker. Dwight Andrews, associate professor of music theory, composed the play's score.

The Alliance Theatre is located in the Woodruff Arts Center at the corner of Peach-tree and 15th streets. Tickets are available at the arts center box office or at 404-733-5000, and range from $25-$31. Show times are Tuesday-Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 2:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.; and Sunday, 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

Production note
This is Emory Report's last issue of 2003. ER will next publish on Jan. 12, 2004. For more information, send e-mail to emory-report@emory.edu.