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Explore campus from a new direction
A new online Sustainability Map highlights historical points of interest; walking tours and fitness trails; shopping and dining locations; bus routes; and more.

Science education gets $1.8M
For the sixth consecutive time since 1989, Emory has received a share of $70 million for undergraduate science education from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Conversations from Alice Walker’s archive
In an audio interview, Professor Rudolph P. Byrd talks about his new book with Alice Walker, and what it was like to collaborate with the Pulitzer Prize-winning author after many years of research and scholarship on her work.

Supporting tuition aid for veterans
All of Emory’s schools will participate in the Yellow Ribbon GI Education Enhancement Program, offering financial support to qualified veterans.

Campaign Emory: Glenn Church class honors Jake Ward
Members of the Emory community have donated the church papers of their longtime friend, the late Judson C. Ward Jr., to Emory’s Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library.

Partners for public health
An agreement between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health and Rollins School of Public Health will provide educational opportunities for Emory and Saudi students.

Report from: Emory Athletics
The men’s and women’s tennis teams maintained their reputations as premier Division III programs with a total of three runner-up performances at the NCAA Championships.

Discovery

Ancient fish fossil trail found
Emory paleontologist Anthony Martin was able to track the movements of an extinct fish in a long-gone lake through wavy lines and squiggles etched into a slab of limestone.

3,000th transplant marks milestone
Winship Cancer Institute and Emory University Hospital have set a new bone marrow transplant record, an accomplishment unmatched by any other facility in Georgia.

Attendance up, inspiration high at pedagogy workshop
Nearly double the numbers of participants at Oxford College’s Institute for Pedagogy in the Liberal Arts get new ideas to refresh and expand their teaching.

eScienceCommons: Exploring the human dawn
Anthropologist Dietrich Stout has a date with a skull from a newly discovered hominid.

Organ concerts blend classics and new
The 2010-2011 organ season blends some of the classic campus concerts of University Organist Timothy Albrecht with recitals by up-and-coming young organists.

Numbers rising on Bike to Work Day
While the weather conspired against Bike to Work Day on May 21, the future for the event to try out alternative transportation looks bright.

Advance Notice
• Order organic produce on campus
• A cool, sweet event at farmers market
• Sign up to take Hindu temple tour

First Person: Camille Cottrell
The associate professor of art history and studio art at Oxford College made a fortuitous discovery that led her to discover a lost masterpiece of the Surrealist Art Movement.

Soundbites
• Moving up in a down economy
• Digital potential, pitfalls explored
• Seminar focuses on neuroethics

Campus Services names new vice president
This summer Matthew Early will join Emory’s staff as the new vice president for Campus Services, succeeding Bob Hascall, who is retiring July 31.

Service projects key part of Staff Fest
Staff Fest Service Day volunteers share reports from this growing component of the annual employee celebration.

Emory Profile: Robert Agnew
This criminologist grew up in a place “where it’s easy to get interested in sociology,” and went on to develop a leading theory on the causes of crime and delinquency.

MyEmory Spotlight: Harriet Ruskin
See where this Goizueta Business School staff member gives, and why.

Acclaim
Honored this issue are:
• Frances Smith Foster
• Michael M. E. Johns
• Lloyd Parker
• Dana Sayre-Stanhope
• Betty E. Willis

New at Emory.edu

Faculty experts grade summer blockbusters in the Emory Looks at Hollywood video series.