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Digital scans dust off 19th-century books
The Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library’s digitization efforts have put yellowbacks — the cheap, sensational British novels of yesteryear— into readers’ hands today.

Investing in graduate education
Emory leaders are part of an evolving national conversation on how to increase participation in U.S. graduate degree programs to fuel innovation and global competitiveness.

MARBL gets poet’s papers
Celebrated Irish poet Eamon Grennan’s papers join MARBL’s world-renowned Irish literary collection.

Applying science to the schoolyard
The Oxford Institute for Environmental Education leaves K-12 teachers brimming with ideas for how to use nature as a laboratory for hands-on science.

Car fire response was team effort
A coordinated response resolved a car fire in the Starvine Parking Deck June 14.

New tool streamlines employee training history
A new central Learning Management System is being developed to track an employee’s training, replacing the multiple processes currently used by units and divisions with one central system.

Campaign Emory: Alumnus funds intramural program
New York investment expert Michael Kaminsky ’89C has made a $1 million gift to the intramural athletics program for improvements to intramural fields and facilities and an endowment for the program.

Take Note
• Finding Cliff? There’s an app for that
• Urban design guidelines noted
• HERS leadership nominees sought

Discovery

Babies grasp numbers, space and time
Even before they learn to speak, babies are organizing information about numbers, space and time in more complex ways than previously realized, an Emory-led study finds.

Med students get Spanish immersion
A language immersion trip to Puerto Rico helps medical students hone their Spanish-speaking skills and raises their cultural sensitivity.

States at Regional Risk looks at Andes politics
A South American conference was the latest milestone in a project addressing the causes and remedies of state instability and civil rights in four world regions.

Book | Report podcast: Found in translation
Religion professor Laurie Patton talks about what it was like to translate “The Bhagavad Gita,” and a new essay collection inspired by her mentor.

EScienceCommons blog: What’s in your city stream?
Environmental Studies finds sewage overflows boost West Nile virus risk.

Goizueta gives Falcons a leadership playbook
Goizueta Business School helped prepare football players for roles in business, philanthropy and everyday life at the first Atlanta Falcons Leadership and Business Summit.

Birthday gala for health sciences pioneer
The 80th birthday of former head of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Charles R. Hatcher Jr. and his legacy of leadership and pioneering surgery will be celebrated June 28.

Celebrating 25 years of urban debate in Atlanta
An inaugural benefit dinner of the Glenn Pelham Foundation celebrated 25 years of urban debate in Atlanta.

Advance Notice
• Summer concerts on the lawn
• Learn about resources for work-life issues
• LGBTQ group forms for faculty, staff

Former high court justice joins trustees
Former Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears has been elected to Emory’s Board of Trustees as an alumni trustee during the trustees’ annual June meeting.

Sanfilippo shifts roles; Caughman is interim
Emory’s health affairs leader Fred Sanfilippo is stepping down from his executive duties to pursue his interest in personalized health care; S. Wright Caughman will serve as interim head.

Arts staff are the players behind the scenes
Meet the staff who work behind the scenes to make Emory’s arts programs possible.

Young filmmaker scores internship at Cannes
Rising senior Malcolm Campbell spent two weeks interning at the Cannes Film Festival on the French Riviera, plus more student filmmaker news.

Acclaim
Honored this issue are:
•Rudolph P. Byrd
•Liz Chilla, Wendy Cromwell and Tim Hussey
•Max Cooper
•Natasha Trethewey