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Susan H. Frost |
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· In September 1996 President William M. Chace and the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees appointed Provost Billy E. Frye as University Chancellor. As chancellor, Frye will serve as an adviser to the trustees, president, and university officers, but no longer carry administrative duties. Frye came to Emory from the University of Michigan in 1986 to serve as Emory's graduate dean and vice president for research, and became provost in 1988. He also served as Emory's interim president in 1994-95. Frye was instrumental in Emory's transformation from a well regarded regional institution to an internationally recognized research university. Among the highlights of his tenure as provost was the publication of Choices & Responsibility: Shaping Emory's Future, adopted in 1996 as a "value platform" to help guide Emory's development. The report identifies five major issues--the balance between teaching and research, building a stronger community, encouraging interdisciplinary scholarship, keeping pace with infrastructure needs, and assessing Emory's external relationships--that emerged from 1993-94 planning discussions among faculty. Frye was given the university's 1997 Thomas Jefferson Award, which recognizes a member of the faculty or administration who represents the ideals and virtues that animated Jefferson himself. · Rebecca S. Chopp was named interim provost in January 1997. Chopp, assuming her new duties in June, has been the dean of faculty and academic affairs of Candler School of Theology as well as the chair of the University Commission on Teaching. She holds the Charles Howard Candler Chair of Theology and has served as president of the American Academy of Religion Southeast Association. Chopp received her Ph.D. in Theological Studies from University of Chicago Divinity School. · Michael M. E. Johns was named the executive vice president for health affairs, director of the Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center, and chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Emory Healthcare (formerly EUSHC) in July 1996. Johns came to Emory from Johns Hopkins, where he was dean of the school of medicine and vice president for medical affairs. A cancer surgeon, Johns brings to Emory a strong interest in discovery-driven health care and cross-disciplinary studies in the health sciences. · Dennis Liotta, professor and chair of the Department of Chemistry, was named vice president for research in April 1996. Among the many awards accorded to Liotta are the Emory Williams Distinguished Teaching Award, an Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist fellowship, and an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation fellowship. Liotta has also held positions with the National Institutes of Health, the American Chemical Society, and the American Cancer Society. · Among those joining Emory's Board of Trustees are Robert E. Chappell, Jr.; Margaret C. Dickson; Matthew L. Gold; Thelma Wyatt Cummings Moore; John F. Morgan; and George D. Overend. The Board of Trustees also elected four resident bishops: G. Lindsey Davis; Cornelius L. Henderson; Robert E. Fannin; and Marshall L. Meadors, Jr. · In spring 1995 Emory became the first Georgia institution admitted to the Association of American Universities (AAU), a group of sixty national universities with especially strong research and graduate education programs. Three-fourths of the current member universities must agree before they invite a new member to join the association. AAU develops national policy positions on academic issues such as research and graduate education and provides a forum for the discussion of academic institutional issues. · President Chace and Provost Frye created the University Commission on Teaching in February 1996. They charged the 25 faculty of the commission to examine and assess the current state of teaching and the teaching environment at Emory. The commission, headed by Rebecca Chopp of the Candler School of Theology and Walter Reed of Emory College, will release its report in Fall 1997. · In 1996 the university established a $250,000 Teaching Fund to support faculty in their efforts to improve their teaching. As a condition of their support, the 23 faculty awarded money from the fund will share with Emory colleagues what they learn about teaching as they develop their projects. · During 1996-97, the University Program and Budget Committee allocated a portion of the growth in the Woodruff endowment income to two university-wide efforts: increasing the number of Woodruff Professorships and providing matching funds to units undergoing classroom renovations. Both investments are designed to strengthen the quality of Emory's intellectual community. · In April 1997 Provost Frye announced several measures to expand Emory's commitment to global programs of teaching, research, and service. Awards from the University Fund for Internationalization will support research, teaching, language training, travel and study abroad programs, and new area studies programs. The Claus M. Halle Institute for Global Learning, to be established in Fall 1997 with a gift from Mr. and Mrs. Claus M. Halle, will promote international culture on campus. The Halle Distinguished Professor will lead a faculty development seminar in international research and teaching. · New initiatives to strengthen and broaden Emory's international presence will build on the current activities of faculty and students. During the 1995-96 year, 36 faculty representing seven global regions taught at Emory; more than 500 researchers from 16 nations were working at Emory. A total of 500 international students attended Emory in 1995-96, over 100 of them undergraduates. Emory College offers area studies programs for Latin America, Africa, Europe, the Near East, and Asia. · Emory's graduate and professional schools participate in a wide range of international projects. For example, 60 percent of Goizueta Business School faculty research, consult or teach in the international arena. The Law School has a faculty exchange program with Dresden University in Germany, a visiting professors program with the Institute of State and Law in Moscow, and informal exchange agreements for both students and faculty with the Central European University in Budapest. The Nursing School has partnership programs with Foo-Yin college in Taiwan and with the Ministry of Health in Ethiopia. The Medical School has exchange programs with the independent nation of Georgia and with universities in Japan, France, and China. Faculty of the Rollins School of Public Health's Program Against Micronutrient Malnutrition, which has alumni in 42 countries, have provided planning and programming assistance in Zambia, South Africa, China, Eritrea, the Philippines, Thailand, Morocco, Nepal, Guatemala, and Indonesia. · Emory hosted athletes, officials, and press members for the 1996 Olympic Games. Specifically, Emory provided accommodations for 1,181 Olympic competition officials; 300 members of the print media from 81 countries; 150 press chiefs, photo chiefs, and information managers; 90 language service trainees; and more than 500 staff and volunteers of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games. Athletes housed at Emory included the gold medal-winning U.S. women's gymnastics team. · Emory served as the training site for Olympic athletes competing in swimming, synchronized swimming, water polo, baseball, rhythmic gymnastics, and field athletics. Emory's Cox Hall was turned into a press subcenter for the Games, providing media representatives with access to cable television, daily schedules and results, a phone and fax network, and language services. · Emory sports facilities served as venues for the 1996 Paralympic Games. In addition to the Paralympic athletes who competed at Emory, 300 people were housed in Harris Hall for the Paralympic Congress, an academically oriented conference. · U.S. President Bill Clinton and Vice President A1 Gore presided over a regional economic summit held in Emory's Cannon Chapel in March 1995. The summit addressed four major topics: issues in the regional economy, strains on the working family, innovations in education and training, and investing in sustained growth and job creation. A crowd of 4,000 from Emory and Atlanta joined Clinton at a rally held in Woodruff P.E. Center. · His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama, exiled spiritual and temporal leader of the people of Tibet, visited Emory's campus in September 1995. In his address to Emory students, His Holiness urged members of the audience to live in peace and to help free Tibet from the rule of China. · Emory was the site of the November 1995 Atlanta debut of the world-renowned mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoll, whose performance inspired several curtain calls. Other highlights of the 1995-96 and 1996-97 seasons of the Concert Series at Emory were Anne-Sophie Mutter, violinist; Voices of Light, an oratorio accompanying the 1928 silent film The Passion of Joan of Arc; and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, directed by Hugh Wolff. Popular ongoing concert events at Emory included pianist Jeffrey Siegel's "Keyboard Conversations" and the Emory Chamber Music Society's Brahms concerts (by fall of 1997 they will have played all chamber music written by Brahms). · Among the speakers who visited Emory recently are Jean Baudrillard, Julian Bond, Gwendolyn Brooks, Dinesh D'Souza, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Ernest Gaines, Clifford Geertz, Jesse Jackson, Derek Mahon, N. Scott Momaday, Kathleen Norris, Derek Walcott, and Torsten Wiesel. · Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Emory President William Chace observed the first Palestinian elections in January 1996. Their participation in the elections extended the international presence of Emory and The Carter Center. · In May 1996 a group that included President Chace and Vice President for Institutional Advancement William H. Fox traveled to Asia to seek opportunities for educational exchange and establish closer ties with the university's alumni in Japan, Korea, and Hong Kong. The group was hosted by Ambassador James T. Laney in Korea and by Ambassador Walter F. Mondale in Tokyo, where they were joined by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. · As of Fall 1996 the university has a student body of 11,270 and a full-time faculty of 2,060. At the Spring 1997 commencement ceremony, Emory conferred 3,251 degrees (148 of them Ph.D.s) to students from 46 states and 80 foreign nations. · Among the faculty to join Emory University as presidential appointees are Spelman College President Johnnetta Cole, Nobel laureate and playwright Wole Soyinka, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Garrow. Professor Cole will join the Emory College departments of anthropology, women's studies, and African and African-American studies in Fall 1998. Wole Soyinka was named Robert W. Woodruff Professor of the Arts in September 1996. The Nigerian writer has held faculty appointments at Yale, Cornell, Cambridge, and Harvard. David Garrow, in residence at the law school, is a legal historian whose work has investigated the civil rights movement and the debates surrounding abortion and the right to die. · A number of Emory faculty were appointed to distinguished professorships in 1996 and 1997. William H. Foege (International Health) was named Presidential Distinguished Professor; named as Robert W. Woodruff Professors were James Gustafson (Religion) and Wole Soyinka (African American Studies); and Harvey Klehr (Political Science and History) was named Mellon Professor. Rebecca S. Chopp (Theology), Frances Smith Foster (English and Women's Studies), Barry D. Shur (Anatomy and Cell Biology), and Frans de Waal (Psychology) were named Charles Howard Candler Professors. V. S. Sunderam (Math and Computer Science) was named Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor. Four faculty members were appointed to new chairs that honor former Emory president Goodrich C. White: Martine Watson Brownley (English), Craig L. Hill (Chemistry), Robert Pastor (Political Science), and George H. Jones (Biology). Loren F. Ghiglione (ILA) was named James M. Cox, Jr. Professor of Journalism. Douglas C. Morris (Medicine) was named J. Willis Hurst Professor of Medicine. In Ophthalmology, Geoffrey Broocker was named Walthour-DeLaPierre Professor, Reay H. Brown was named Pamela H. Firman Professor, and Nancy J. Newman was named Cyrus H. Stoner Associate Professor. In Surgery, Sam Dixon Graham was named Louis McDonald Orr Professor; Robert A. Guyton was named Charles Ross Hatcher, Jr., Professor; and Robert Boulware Smith III was named John E. Skandalakis Professor. · A number of faculty awards were bestowed at the Spring 1997 commencement ceremony. Elaine Walker (Psychology and Psychiatry) won the University Scholar/Teacher Award; recipients of the Emory Williams Award for Distinguished Teaching were Deborah Lipstadt (Religion), Ronald Calabrese (Biology), Kenneth Stein (History and Political Science), and Richard Freer (Law); and Keiji Morokuma (Chemistry) won the Albert E. Levy Science Faculty Research Award. Thomas Flynn (Philosophy) won the first George P. Cuttino Award for Excellence in Faculty Mentoring. In 1996 Marshall Duke (Psychology), Robert McCauley (Philosophy), and William Size (Geology) won Emory Williams Teaching Awards and Merle Black (Political Science) was given the University Scholar/Teacher Award. · Since 1994 Emory has added or renovated about 1.4 million gross square feet of space, and another 830,000 gross square feet of construction is in progress. The Callaway Center, which includes the former Physics and Humanities Buildings and is named for Ely Reeves Callaway, Sr. and Loula Walker Callaway, opened in Fall 1996. A gift from alumnus Ely R. Callaway, Jr. made possible the $8.6-million renovation and construction. Construction of the Hugh F. MacMillan Law Library was completed in 1996, nearly doubling the size of the old law library. Other new buildings since 1994 include the Biochemistry Connector (23,500 square feet), the Grace Crum Rollins Public Health Building (140,000 square feet),the North Decatur Building (126,000 square feet), the Emory Conference Center Hotel (182,400 square feet), the West Wing of the Woodruff Memorial Research Building (139,000 square feet), the fifth and sixth floors of the Emory Clinic Building B (40,000 square feet), and the Mason Transplant House (20,000 square feet). · Major construction on campus includes the new Roberto C. Goizueta Business School building, the Center for Library and Information Resources, the Burlington Road Building, and the 1525 Clifton Road Building. Construction will be completed in 1997 on a new 119,000-square-foot, $26 million building for the Goizueta Business School. Construction is underway on a four-story, 65,000-square-foot, $23 million addition between Woodruff and Candler libraries. When completed in 1998, the library addition will house the technological infrastructure for Emory's electronic library. The five-story 1525 Clifton Road Building will house the M. B. Seretean Center for Health Promotion as well as facilities for the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory Hospital, and The Emory Clinic. The Burlington Road Building is undergoing a $5 million renovation, which will convert its interior into classrooms, practice rooms, and offices for the Department of Music and the Concerts Division. Upcoming construction projects on and around campus include the Arts Center, Hope Lodge, and a new building for Scholars Press. · Students and faculty began using the new Studio Arts Building in January 1996. The new building is equipped with studios for painting, sculpture, video production, photography, and pottery. · On April 30, 1997, Emory's endowment had a market value of nearly $4 billion. Based on the latest national ranking of endowments from a June 1996 study conducted by the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO), Emory ranked 6th in the nation. Since the date of the NACUBO survey, total market value has risen 33 percent. · Funds for sponsored research reached a record $146 million in 1996, including $98 million in federal obligations. Sponsored research funds in 1996 increased by 9 percent over totals from the previous year, making it the fourth consecutive year over the $100 million mark. Of the total, $132.8 million or 91 percent were in the Woodruff Health Sciences Center. Grants to the medical school accounted for almost $99 million (68 percent), Rollins School of Public Health $18.1 million (12 percent), Yerkes Primate Center $14.3 million (10 percent), and Emory College $12.7 million (9 percent). · In September 1996 the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation, Inc., the Joseph B. Whitehead Foundation, and the Lettie Pate Evans Foundation established the Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Fund, which will provide at least $3 million per year to the Woodruff Health Sciences Center. The fund, which was established by setting aside Coca-Cola stock, is one of the largest foundation grants ever given to a university. Based on data from 1994 and 1995, the Foundation Center's Chronicle of Philanthropy ranked Emory as the number two leading recipient of foundation grants. · For the fiscal year ending in August 1996, Emory received $64.4 million in gifts. This figure includes gifts of $11 million from individuals, $32.2 million from organizations, and $14.4 million from trusts and bequests. The $72.76 million in gifts that Emory received in 1995 was the highest amount since the year of the $105 million Woodruff gift in 1980. · The Office of Governmental and Community Affairs, established in October 1995, represents Emory at the federal, state, and local levels. The office acts in matters that are directly related to health care, research, and education as well as state and local issues affecting Emory's hospitals and relationships with the community. Staff members form coalitions with institutions and organizations with interests in common with Emory, such as The Science Coalition, National Coalition on Health Care, Georgia Alliance for Community Hospitals, and the Tax Commission of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. · Emory's 16,500 employees make it one of the five largest private employers in the 18-county Atlanta metropolitan area and the largest private employer in DeKalb County. · Together with Emory Hospital and Crawford Long Hospitals, Emory University human resources implemented the Emory Employment Re.Engineering Project, enabling the 25,000 applicants who seek employment at Emory to match their individual skills with all the jobs which require those skills. · As of May 1997 the Association of Emory Alumni represents approximately 74,000 alumni from all 50 states and 119 nations. Emory has graduated one U.S. vice president, one U.S. Supreme Court justice, six U.S. senators, 22 members of the House of Representatives, five Pulitzer Prize winners, 16 Rhodes scholars, and 32 bishops of the United Methodist Church. · In 1996 U.S. News & World Report ranked Emory 19th of national universities. Rankings are determined by academic reputation as judged by peer institutions, student selectivity, faculty support, financial resources, and alumni satisfaction. Emory ranked 10th on a 1996 list of best values in higher education. · U.S. News & World Report (March 1997) ranked the Rollins School of Public Health 9th in the nation, the Goizueta Business School 23rd, the Emory Law School 27th, and the School of Medicine 19th. Emory University Hospital ranked among the top ten hospitals in cardiology for the seventh consecutive year and also ranked high in ophthalmology and urology. The March 1997 rankings of law schools published by U.S. News have been called into question by the American Bar Association, the Association of American Law Schools, and the Law School Admission Council. The three groups cite concerns about both error (a transposition of two columns of numbers, which affected 33 of the school rankings) and inadequacy of the ranking process, which fails to recognize differences of goals among law schools.
· Steven E. Sanderson will become vice president for arts and sciences and dean of Emory College in July 1997. Since 1979 Sanderson has taught in and chaired the University of Florida's Department of Political Science, where he won the 1992 Blue Key Distinguished Faculty Award and a University Teacher of the Year Award. · Donald Stein was named dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and vice provost for graduate studies in 1995. Stein came to Emory from Rutgers University, where he was dean of the graduate school and associate provost for research. An active researcher in the area of brain injury recovery, Stein was also appointed professor of psychology and neurology. · In February 1997 Emory College faculty approved a revision of its general education requirements. The result of a process that formally began in 1994, the approved requirements focus on the study of national, regional, and global culture and history as well as emphasize the importance of taking smaller classes led by regular faculty. Students will also be required to take courses in writing, quantitative methods, a second language, and physical education. Required courses will expose them to methodologies in the humanities, social, and natural sciences, including the interpretation of texts and study of the arts. · Emory College established a Center for Teaching and Curriculum to provide the kind of support for teaching that has traditionally been reserved for research. Under the direction of Professor Walter Reed (English), the center is concentrating its early efforts on supporting faculty initiatives in Theory-Praxis Learning, in course development support for the new curricular proposal, and in working toward more meaningful and systematic methods for evaluating teaching. · Many Emory College faculty received national awards and grants. Peter Brown (Anthropology) and Dwight Duffus, Jennifer Schultens, V. S. Sunderam, and Shanshuang Yang (all of Mathematics) received grants from the National Science Foundation. National Institutes of Health grants were awarded to Bruce Levin and George Jones (both of Biology). Susan Socolow (History) and Allen Tullos (ILA) received awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Frank Manley (English) was awarded a 1995 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. · Robert Detweiler of the Institute of Liberal Arts was elected president of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) in 1995. The AAR, based at Emory, has more than 7,500 members who teach in 1,$00 colleges and universities in North America. · Michael Tomasello (Psychology) won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1997 for his work on "The Phylogenetic and Ontogenetic Origins of Human Cultural Learning." Corinne Kratz (Anthropology) and Stephen White (Histow) received John Guggenheim Fellowships in 1996. Other noteworthy grants awarded to Emory faculty are from the American Philosophical Society (won by Michael Belleslies of History); the Virginia Humanities Foundation (Barbara Ladd of English); the Mellon Foundation (John Sitter of English); and the W.T. Grant Foundation (Carol Wortham of Anthropology). · Two Emory faculty members were among the winners of the Georgia Governor's Award for Exemplary Achievement in the Humanities: James Gustafson (Religion) in 1997 and Delores Aldridge (Sociology) in 1996. · Dwight Andrews (Music) has been named artistic director for the 1998 Atlanta-based National Black Arts Festival, which showcases the work of artists in music, dance, theater, film, folk arts, visual art, performance art, and literature. · Several Arts and Sciences faculty won fellowships that entailed visiting positions at other universities. Frans de Waal (Psychology) worked in Europe on a C. F. von Siemens Fellowship; Bracht Branham (Classics) became a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton; Frances Smith Foster (English and Women's Studies) taught at University of Leiden as the Wait Whitman Professor of American Literature; and Dan T. Carter (History) went to Cambridge University as Pitt Professor of History. · Emory College added four new programs to its courses of study: Asian Studies, Linguistics, Journalism, and Behavioral and Neuroscience. The Asian Studies Program, directed by Professor Paul Courtright (Religion), will draw from 45 members of Emory's faculty to teach aspects of West and South Asian studies. The Program in Linguistics, directed by Professor Benjamin Hary (Near Eastern and Judaic Languages and Literatures), consists of six core and twenty affiliated faculty. The Journalism program was initiated by a $1.35 million grant from the James M. Cox, Jr. Foundation to fund an endowed professorship dedicated to teaching journalism. In August 1996 Loren F. Ghiglione was named the first James M. Cox, Jr. Professor in Journalism. Sustained by faculty in the departments of Biology, Psychology, and Anthropology, and supported by faculty in the Medical School, the new program in Behavioral and Neuroscience is expected to account for as many as one hundred majors in Emory College before the end of its first full year. · The Graduate Division of Religion was ranked fifth in the nation among research-doctorate programs in religion by the National Research Council in 1996. The Department of French Language and Literature was ranked fifteenth in this study. The four-year study based its findings on such factors as the scholarly quality of faculty, reputation, publications, and length of time to graduation. · A recent report on research productivity published in the official newsletter of the American Sociological Association ranked Emory's sociology department 21st out of 300 graduate programs. The report based its rankings on the total number of publications from 1991 to 1995 in the top three journals of sociology. · The Graduate School supports four journals: New Vico Studies (Donald Verene, editor); Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology (Robert Paul, editor); Medical Anthropology (Peter Brown, editor); and The Journal of the History of Philosophy (Rudolph Makreel, editor). · Professor Carlos Rojas, a novelist, literary critic, and recipient of four of the most prestigious prizes awarded to Spanish writers, was the featured speaker of a symposium in his honor. He retired in spring 1996. · In the 1996-97 season, Theater Emory presented works that included Nineteen Ninety-Four, a play written by Robert W. Woodruff Professor of the Arts Wole Soyinka, and several Renaissance works performed on an Elizabethan stage which was recreated inside the Mary Gray Munroe Theater. Playwrights Wendy Wasserstein and Megan Terry attended performances of their works by Theater Emory (Uncommon Women and Others and Approaching Simone ). · Emory College created the Center for International Programs Abroad in 1995. Under the direction of Professor Howard Rollins (Psychology), the center is designed to develop new options for academic year study abroad.
· The students entering Emory College in 1996 were chosen from an applicant pool topping 10,000 for the first time in Emory's history. This figure represents a 70 percent increase in applicants since 1990 and a 6 percent increase since 1995. About 44 percent of these applicants were offered admission, making it the lowest admit rate ever. · Minority students make up 26 percent of the Emory College class entering in 1996. Asian American students comprise about 14 percent of the Class of 2000, African American students about 9 percent, Hispanic students about 3 percent, and Native American students .1 percent. Women students make up 55 percent of the class. Emory College continues to draw the greatest number of its students from Southern (47 percent) and Middle Atlantic (24 percent) regions. · There were 3,798 applications to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences for the summer and fall of 1995 and spring of 1996. Women comprise over half (54 percent) of the total applicant pool, and minorities comprise 14 percent. · A number of graduate students held externally-funded fellowships and grants for 1995-96, including Howard Hughes Medical Institute (1); Jacob Javitz (7); National Science Foundation (5); Social Science Research Council (3); Wenner Gren (4); Fulbright Hays (3); IREX (International Research and Exchanges Board--2); Fulbright (1); DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service--1); the Leakey Foundation (1); National Institutes of Health (2); National Security Education Program (2); Population Council (1); and the Institute for the Study of World Politics (1). · Nancy DuBois, who received her Ph.D. in philosophy in Spring 1997, received a $10,000 Sibley Fellowship for studies in Greek during the 1995-96 academic year. · Emory College seniors continue to win prestigious grants. In 1997 Jason Brownlee, Ian Jefferson, and Hannah McLaughlin won Rotary Academic Year scholarships, and Tiffany Hood was named a Fulbright Scholar. In 1996 Anne Claxton and Laura Sawyer won Rotary Scholarships, and April Rhine won a Fulbright Award for foreign study in Italy. · In 1997 Anna Borodovsky and Benjamin Zeff won National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships. In 1996 Emory College students Amber Powers and Tal Gazitt received fellowships for graduate study from the Wexner and Dorot Foundations, respectively. Other awards given to Emory College students in recent years include Goldwater Fellowships, Rockefeller Brothers Fund Fellowships for Minorities Entering the Teaching Profession, and the Beinecke Brothers Memorial Fellowship. · The first Lucius Lamar McMullan Award, presented to a graduate of outstanding future promise, went to Joseph Kable in 1996. The 1997 Lucius Lamar McMullan Award went to Hannah McLaughlin. The recipients of the Marion Luther Brittain Award, Emory's highest service award, were Laura Sawyer (1996) and Emily Tripp (1997). · As the 1997 Bobby Jones Scholars, Megan Bern, Daniel Colman, Lan Nguyen, and Michele Santamaria will attend Emory's sister school, the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. The 1996 Bobby Jones Scholars were Holly Gregory, Christopher Nunn, Katherine Wilson, and Sarah Zeff. · Other awards given to Emory undergraduates include the Louis Sudler Prize in the arts, given to Anna Bahney and Hannah McLaughlin in 1997 and Trecarcia Yancey in 1997; The Sonny Carter Scholarship, awarded to William Harlan and Nia Sipp; and the Archelaus Drake Award, received by Kristen Mack in 1996. · In addition to winning numerous trophies in debate tournaments, Emory students in the Barkley Forum participate in the Urban Debate League. A partnership between the Barkley Forum, the Atlanta Public School System, and the Decatur City School System, the league was recently awarded $600,000 by the Open Society Institute to engage young people in debate, to offer students the opportunity to practice conflict resolution skills, to provide inner-city students with access to the experiences and advantages of debate, and to increase students' sense of community service and applied specialized knowledge.
Construction on the new five-story Roberto C. Goizueta Business School building began in January 1996. The $26 million, 119,000-square-foot building, scheduled for completion in the summer of 1997, is designed to create an interactive teaching and research environment. The number of M.B.A. applicants for the 1996-1997 school year increased by more than 14 percent over the previous year. Twenty-three percent of the student body comes from outside the U.S., including a Muskie Fellow from the former Soviet Union and a Fulbright Scholar from Vietnam. The B.B.A. student body is also becoming more internationally diverse, with students typically representing more than a dozen countries. · The number of full-time faculty at the Business School has increased by 15 percent in the past three years. · The Goizueta Business School offers the greatest number of exchange programs on a per student basis of any U.S. business school. Students can participate in programs in Austria, Chile, China, Costa Rica, England, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Korea, Mexico, The Netherlands, Russia, Spain, Singapore, and Venezuela. · The School received over $30 million in gifts over five years, including a 220 percent growth in the number of named scholarships. A new $100,000 fund for Public Relations Curriculum Development and Research was established by a gift from the Estee Lauder Company in memory of Rebecca Cheney McGreevy, an Emory alumna, member of the Board of Trustees and senior vice president of public relations for The Estee Lauder Companies,Inc. · The Executive Development Consortium has grown to 17 members, including Delta Airlines, United Parcel Service, Scientific Atlanta, Southwire, and CSC. · The Business School's Center for Business Information (CBI) is the first library in the U.S. to experiment with desktop video teleconferencing to offer reference services, training, and documentation to students in off-site locations.
· With 600 students, Candler is the largest United Methodist seminary in the world. Eighty percent of its graduates become pastors of local churches; eight Candler graduates currently serve as United Methodist bishops. · Emory's Ph.D. program in religion, ranked fifth in the nation by the National Research Council in 1996, represents a partnership between the School of Theology and the Emory College Department of Religion. Emory's program had improved the most since the last survey by the National Research Council in 1986. · Gene Tucker, Professor of Old Testament Emeritus, delivered the presidential address for the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) in 1996. SBL is one of the oldest learned societies in the U.S. and is now, with a membership of more than 7,000, the largest international organization for the study of the Bible. · The Hispanic Theological Initiative (HTI) was established at Candler in 1996 through a grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts to promote and enhance participation of Latinos and Latinas in theological research and writing. The four-year grant of $3.3 million is the largest program grant in religion ever made by The Pew Charitable Trusts. The program, administered through Candler, is ecumenical and will provide support for scholars in fully accredited institutions throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico. · In March 1996 the school hosted a national conference on Human Disability and the Service of God. The conference promoted a new level of dialogue between Christian churches and people with disabilities in order to explore and articulate a more inclusive liturgical theology and practice. The conference, led by professors Nancy Eiesland and Don Saliers, brought together more than 100 people from across the U.S. as well as several international visitors. · Recent projects at Pitts Theology Library, the second largest theological library in North America, include participation in a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to Emory University for microfilming rare library resources and a $2.3 million improvement project to renovate its heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning systems. · Phi Beta Kappa appointed Woodruff Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins Luke Johnson as one of its twelve visiting scholars for 1997-98. Visiting scholars travel to other schools to meet with undergraduates, participate in classes, and present addresses to each school's academic community. Johnson has also received extensive scholarly and media attention for his recent book, The Real Jesus: The Jesus Seminar and the Misguided Quest for the Historical Jesus.
· The Emory Law and Religion Program has assumed direction of the Religion and Human Rights Project, previously housed at Human Rights Watch in New York. The project is designed to increase understanding of the relation between religion and human rights, and to develop practical resources for human rights advocates, religious communities, educators, journalists, and governments. · Emory Law School continues to develop its scholarship and programs in international law. In addition to faculty exchanges with universities in Germany and Hungary, the school invites a small number of foreign LL.M. candidates to study with its faculty. In recent years, the school has invited students from Argentina, Germany, Japan, Russia, and South Africa. · Several faculty working in the school's Law and Religion Program received notable grants. The Pew Charitable Trusts awarded a grant to a project led by Johan Van der Vyver and John Witte that explores the problem of proselytizing in emerging democracies. Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im received a grant from the Ford Foundation for a two-year project on Cultural Transformation in sub-Saharan Africa, and Michael Broyde received a grant from the Steinhardt Foundation for a project on Jewish Law and the Family. · The 70,000-square-foot Hugh MacMillan Law Library opened in Fall 1995 with state-of-the-art technology offered for law research. Along with an electronic classroom with Pentium computers, each study carrel is equipped with Ethernet lines. Construction was made possible by a $2.3 million gift from Hugh MacMillan, '34L, who died in September 1995. · A team of third-year students won every major award at the 1996 National Moot Court Competition, the biggest and most prestigious moot court competition in the nation.
· Oxford College's campus housed athletes, coaches, officials, and translators during the 1996 Olympic Games, including the team from Estonia. Oxford faculty members were also involved in the Olympics: Nell Penn carried the torch in the Paralympic Torch Relay and Jim Warburton was the head envoy for Paraguay. · The Ecological Society of America selected the Oxford Institute for Environmental Education, a teacher enhancement program, as one of the three most outstanding programs of its kind in the nation. The institute received funding from the National Science Foundation Schoolyard Ecology for Elementary Schools program and will become part of a nationwide network working to improve environmental education. · Renovation of Oxford's Fleming L. Jolley Residential Center was completed in December 1995. The center is named for the 1943 Oxford graduate who donated $1.1 million for the project. · The number of 1996 senior inquiries for Oxford is up 14 percent. A record number of campus visits translated into a record number of 800 applications, up seven percent over the previous year. This year's freshman class of 340 is larger and more selective than in previous years; with the sophomore class at 272, Fall 1996 enrollment represented an all-time high. The graduation rate for minority students, who make up 37 percent of the student body, is well above the national average. · Faculty salaries for all ranks at Oxford recently exceeded the national average for baccalaureate colleges in the nation.
ROBERT W. WOODRUFF HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER · Charles R. Hatcher, Jr., who guided the Health Science Center as it grew from an excellent regional institution into one that enjoys a national and international reputation, retired in 1996. Hatcher, who performed Georgia's first coronary bypass, was a member of the faculty for 33 years, director of the Emory Clinic for eight years, and vice president for health affairs and director of the center since 1983. He will continue to serve Emory as an adviser to the president and Woodruff Board. · In September 1996 the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation, Inc., the Joseph B. Whitehead Foundation, and the Lettie Pate Evans Foundation established the Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Fund, which will provide at least $3 million a year to the Woodruff Health Sciences Center. The fund is one of the largest foundation grants ever given to a university. · In April 1997, Emory Healthcare was approved by the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Board as the new name for the Emory University System of Health Care, the clinical component of the Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center. · The 1996 U.S. News & World Report guide to America's best hospitals ranked Emory Hospital among the top ten for cardiology, a distinction it has held for seven years. The hospital was also ranked for ophthalmology and urology and was prominent in a recent publication of Best Hospitals in America. · Several graduate programs falling under the umbrella of the Health Sciences Center ranked prominently in national studies. The physical therapy program was rated sixth nationally by U.S. News & World Report in 1996. The 1996 Gourman Report ranked Emory's graduate program in Nutrition and Health Sciences third in the nation. The Masters of Public Health program was ranked 9th in the nation in March 1997 by U.S. News & World Report. · Emory Hospital broadened its access to the larger Atlanta community with the opening of its new emergency department in the summer of 1996. The conversion of the treatment room into a full-fledged emergency department means that ambulance services can take patients to Emory for any kind of emergency care, allowing them access to the specialized medical services available at Emory. · In 1995 Emory joined with Adventist Health System/Sunbelt Health Care Corporation to create a joint venture corporation to acquire the former Smyrna Hospital in Cobb County, later that year renamed Emory-Adventist Hospital. This was the first acquisition in the Woodruff Health Sciences Center for the past 40 years. With 88 acute care beds and 12 skilled nursing beds, the hospital is staffed by 100 physicians including those from Emory Clinic. The Emory Clinic at Smyrna opened adjacent to the hospital in February 1997. · Ground was broken in September 1996 for The Emory Clinic North, the largest, most comprehensive component of The Emory Clinic outside the main clinic facility on the Emory campus. The 80,000 square foot free-standing building is expected to be fully occupied and ready for patient care later in 1997. As part of Emory's outreach into the community, The Emory Clinic now has 18 health centers throughout metropolitan Atlanta with over 100 primary care physicians and a small number of specialists who practice at some of the locations. The Emory Clinic North will house more than 20 part-time specialists in addition to primary care physicians. · The Grady HIV/AIDS Mental Health Program of Atlanta received the American Psychiatric Association's Gold Award, given each year to one program that has made an outstanding contribution to the mental health field. The Grady HIV/AIDS program is a collaborative project of the Grady Health System Infectious Disease Program and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the medical school. · The National Cancer Institute awarded researchers at the Winship Cancer Center $1.2 million over four years to establish a research program in prostate cancer. Professor of surgery Sam Graham, Jr. is the principal investigator. · Emory Eye Center completed construction of a new floor devoted to general eye care and vision rehabilitation and ophthalmic research in early 1996 after having raised $4 million to supplement an earlier National Institutes of Health (NIH) construction grant. The Georgia Research Alliance provided additional matching funds for equipment for the new molecular biology center on the new floor.
· Thomas J. Lawley was named dean of the School of Medicine and vice chair of Emory Healthcare in September 1996. Lawley came to Emory from the NIH in 1988 to serve as chair of the Department of Dermatology and director of the dermatology section of the Emory Clinic. Under his leadership, the dermatology faculty grew from three to eighteen, and the department went from no NIH funding to become the third highest NIH-funded dermatology department in the nation. Beginning in 1995, Lawley served as executive associate dean of the School of Medicine and then as interim dean and vice chair following the resignation of Dean Houpt. · Lawley replaces Jeffrey Houpt, who had been dean since 1988. Among the achievements that marked Houpt's tenure at Emory is its leap from 35th to 20th rank in NIH grant funding. Other significant changes in the School of Medicine's leadership include Claudia Adkison's appointment as Executive Associate Dean for Administration. · The Medical School selected 112 new first-year students from an applicant pool numbering 8,277. Thirty-eight percent of the members of the class of 2000 are women, and 38 percent are under-represented minority students, the most ever in the history of the school. Students in the class come from 26 states and two foreign countries. · Extramural funding for the School of Medicine grew nine percent in the basic science departments and 18 percent in the clinical departments over the previous year. The number of research awards to faculty increased 28 percent, from 1,166 in 1995 to 1,493 in 1996. Total research funding amounted to $98.9 million, a 13 percent increase. The medical faculty published 1,094 articles as first authors, 2,375 articles as co-authors, 74 books, and 689 book chapters in the past year. · In 1996 the Sleep Disorders Center in the Department of Neurology received three separate grants totaling $2.35 million from the NIH. Located at the Wesley Woods Geriatric Hospital, the Sleep Disorders Center is directed by Donald Bliwise. The grants will apply to studies on circadian rhythms of body temperature and sleep, motor activity during sleep in humans and animals with Parkinson's disease, and a follow-up study of health and sleep in an elderly group in northern California. · Among the awards and honors accorded to Emory School of Medicine faculty was Douglas C. Wallace's election to the National Academy of Sciences. Charles Nemeroff was named editor-in-chief of Depression and co-editor of critical reviews in NeuroNology, and Rafi Ahmed was appointed editor of Virology and of Microbial Pathogenesis. Spencer King was elected president-elect of the American College of Cardiology. R. Wayne Alexander (Medicine) and Melvin J. Konner (Anthropology, Psychiatry, and Neurology) were awarded the distinction of Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The American Heart Association elected Alexander to the board of directors and named him vice president for research. · In 1995 Emory and the Atlanta Public School system received a $5.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation to fund a hands-on science program designed to improve science and mathematics education for elementary school children. Under the direction of Robert DeHaan (Anatomy & Cell Biology), the project will involve partnerships with 15 schools in the Atlanta system, as well as Georgia State University, Clark-Atlanta University, and Morehouse, Morris Brown, and Spelman colleges. · The Robert W. Woodruff Foundation awarded AI Merrill (Biochemistry and the Nutrition and Health Sciences Center) $2 million for the project that brings Emory, the CDC, and the International Life Sciences Institute together on nutrition efforts. Biochemistry faculty who received NIH awards over $1 million each are J. David Lambeth, Stephen Warren, and Keith Wilkinson. · The NIH awarded $800,000 to Wright Caughman (Dermatology) to study gene regulation in skin cells. The Department of Dermatology is currently ranked third among similar departments for NIH funding. Other large NIH awards went to Jeffrey Conn, Michael Iuvone, and Kenneth Minneman (all of Pharmacology). · Doug Eaton (Physiology and Pediatrics) received a $4 million grant from the NIH to conduct four research projects on kidney disease over the next five years. The projects will focus on how renal cells communicate to regulate blood pressure. · Faculty in the Department of Medicine received several prestigious grants. The NIH granted over $1.3 million to Pete Lollar for his studies of clotting factors and $1.9 million to Dallas Hall for the General Clinical Research Center. The Women's Health Initiative was granted $803,000 in direct cost, and a study of kidney disease and high blood pressure in African Americans received $399,000 in an ongoing grant of more than $2 million. Laurence Harker was awarded a $680,000 training grant in academic hematology; Kathy Griendling was granted more than $1 million for her work in vascular molecular biology; and Kimberly Workowski (Infectious Diseases) was awarded $1.18 million for her work on a vaccine. · Other notable grants include one of $1.2 million to Christopher Hillyer (Pathology) for a study involving the Simian AIDS virus and a grant of $1.4 million to Robert Hunter (Pathology) for his work on tuberculosis. The National Aerospace Administration awarded Joannis Constantinidis (Radiology) a grant of over $4.3 million over four years to study microgravity tissue engineering. Raymond Dingledine and Edward Morgan (Pharmacology) each received more than $1 million in grant funding. · The National Eye Institute, NIH, awarded the Department of Ophthalmology its third five-year core grant totaling $1.1 million. Emory Eye Center is one of the few centers in the nation to receive continuing NIH core support for 15 years. This grant supports core modules in Cellular Structural Biology; Analytic Biochemistry; and Molecular Biology, Epidemiology, and Biostatistics, and will enable further research in prevention, detection, and treatment of eye diseases, including retinal, corneal, and children's eye diseases. · Ophthalmology Times, the leading professional journal for ophthalmology, ranked the Emory Eye Center as the eighth best overall eye program in the nation. The center is third in the U.S. for the number of ophthalmology trials, twelfth for amount of research grants, and eighth for NIH funding. · A $350,000 professorship established in 1997 from Research to Prevent Blindness, awarded to Judith Kapp, has enabled the Department of Ophthalmology to begin research on retinal cells transplantation, which will offer hope to those with blinding retinal diseases. · Among the new academic and research units established by the School of Medicine are the Vaccine Center, directed by Rafi Ahmed; the Center for Cellular & Molecular Signaling, directed by Douglas Eaton; and the Emory Spine Center,directed by Scott Boden. The Molecular Graphics and Modeling Center, established by the Department of Biochemistry, opened in Fall 1996. · Emory and the Georgia Institute of Technology have created a joint M.D./Ph.D. program, with a Ph.D. in bioengineering. The program acknowledges the commitment of each school to interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches in health care, and formalizes a partnership between the two programs that has been in place since the mid-1970s. · A medical team from the Department of Radiology brought state-of-the-art breast imaging equipment and expertise to the First Teaching Hospital in Xian, China. This effort gives women in Xian the opportunity to get a screening mammogram, which can detect breast cancer at its earliest stages.
NELL HODGSON WOODRUFF SCHOOL OF NURSING · The Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing celebrated the graduation of the first undergraduate class in the Nursing Education Partnership Program (NEPP) in 1996. Ninety percent of the 19 graduates, who came to Emory from Taiwan, passed the nursing licensure exam. Three Ethiopian graduate students also completed the program this year, and will return home to teach in Ethiopia's first baccalaureate nursing program. · The school further extended Emory's effort to reach across the globe by organizing a meeting among representatives from the World Health Organization, Emory, and selected African nations. The school also planned and conducted an "African Seminar" in Spring 1996 to prepare the campus for collaboration with organizations in African nations. · In addition to faculty research and clinical work that directly involves the school in the greater Atlanta community, the school sponsors an adolescent health station at Booker T. Washington High School. The station is designed to address health issues such as symptom distress management care, relationships with parents and peers, stress reduction, and self-care health promotion for students and teachers.
ROLLINS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · In 1996 James Curran, an internationally recognized expert on AIDS prevention, was named dean of the Rollins School of Public Health. Curran comes to Emory from the U.S. Public Health Service, where he was assistant surgeon general, and from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), where he was director of the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention. In 1996 he received the second annual Steve Chase Humanitarian Award and was elected a regent of the American College of Preventive Medicine and to the Executive Board of the American Public Health Association. · Former director of CDC and former executive director of The Carter Center, William H. Foege joined the faculty of the school in March 1997 in the Department of International Health as Presidential Distinguished Professor of International Health. · The number of new Masters in Public Health or Masters of Science in Public Health students in 1996 grew by 33 percent over the previous year. · The school draws its students from 39 states and 42 countries. Under-represented minorities made up 34 percent of the entering class in 1996, the highest percentage of minority students in an Emory school. · In 1996-97, 38 students completed international fellowships, for which they completed research or studied in countries including Armenia, Croatia, Nicaragua, Kenya, Bangladesh, the Sudan, Fiji, India, Bolivia, and Haiti. · The CDC Public Health Certificate Training Program, designed to provide public health officials with graduate training without interrupting employment, will enroll its first students in July 1997. Courses are interactive (half will use distance learning) and provide instruction and hands-on experience addressing contemporary public health issues. · In 1995-96 faculty in the Rollins School of Public Health received $18.1 million in new awards, which averages over $330,000 per tenure-track faculty member. This figures marks a 44 percent increase in extramural funds over the previous year. Funds awarded for direct costs increased by 38 percent and funds awarded for the support of indirect costs rose by 67 percent. · Three FIRST Awards from the NIH were given to faculty in the Rollins School of Public Health: Amita Manatunga, Laura Kettel Khan, and Paige Tolbert.
YERKES REGIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER · The Yerkes Primate Center, which houses about 2,800 nonhuman primates (monkeys and apes), received $14 million in research support in the year ending August 1996. Eighty-one percent of this support came from the NIH. · Harriet Robinson, the first person to demonstrate that purified DNA can be used as a vaccine, was recently recruited from the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. Internationally known for her expertise in vaccine development for retroviruses, Robinson, in her capacity as chief of microbiology and immunology, will work in Yerkes's ongoing AIDS animal model program and emergent vaccine research program. · In studies to develop an AIDS vaccine, Frank Novembre and other Yerkes scientists have promising preliminary results showing that a mutated form of a simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) can protect monkeys against a challenge with disease-inducing viruses. Previously, the scientists found that the nef gene plays a crucial role in SIV disease development. They hypothesized that altering this region may be one approach to developing a vaccine to protect people from AIDS. · A new facility that will house the Emory Vaccine Center and the Yerkes Division of Microbiology and Immunology will be constructed at Yerkes. The new center will allow some of the nation's best immunologists and virologists, a number of them recently recruited to Emory, to work together under one roof to develop new technologies, including an AIDS vaccine. Its location at Yerkes will ensure access to the population of monkeys needed for vaccine development and use the extensive biocontainment and pathology support already in place there. · Yerkes scientist Michael J. Kuhar was named a Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) Eminent Scholar. The GRA chairs were established to increase science and technology development in Georgia. As one of the world's leading neuroscientists in the study of addiction, Kuhar identified the cellular mechanisms involved in cocaine addiction. He has also identified a number of genes whose expression is altered by chronic drug use, and is developing a new class of drug to treat cocaine abusers.
LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY · In 1996 Provost Billy Frye established the Digital Information Resources Council (DIRC) and an annual $500,000 "superfund" to support the council. Originally conceptualized with help from members of the Virtual Library Project, DIRC now operates as an independent committee to address aspects of computing and information resources on Emory's campus as a whole, from issues of access and delivery to licensing, training, and support. · Other initiatives to extend Emory's information resources in electronic venues include the Scholars Press-Emory Libraries Linked Academy Journals Project, involving the experimental publication of four electronic religious studies journals. The project is sponsored by a $250,000 grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation. Emory is also taking part in a collaborative initiative with Harvard and Yale universities to create a shared electronic resource. · Construction began in Fall 1996 on the Center for Library and Information Resources, which will link Woodruff and Candler libraries. The Center, sponsored by a $15 million gift from the Woodruff Foundation, will provide 60,000 additional square feet to the libraries, and will bring together a mix of technology specialists, librarians, workstations, and information resources. · The holdings of the university libraries total approximately 2.3 million volumes according to 1995-96 data reported to the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). In 1996 ARL ranked Emory 44th among university libraries based on the following criteria: number of volumes held, gross volumes added since the previous year, current serials, total library expenditures, and total professional and support staff. · The collection of manuscripts and papers of the late James Dickey was opened in October 1995. Among items housed in the collection are drafts of Dickey's first and most famous novel, Deliverance, drafts of short stories and poems, and correspondence between Dickey, his editors, and other poets. Dickey gave a reading from his poetry and prose as part of the celebration of the collection's opening before he died in January 1997. · In March 1997 Emory acquired the papers of Ted Hughes, England's poet laureate since 1984. The collection, which weighs about two and a half tons, includes drafts of Hughes's poetry, photographs, and correspondence between Hughes and other writers of international importance. The Hughes papers enhance the library's strong reputation for modern literature holdings. · Final connections for ResNet were completed in November 1996, giving students in Emory's resident halls access to 27 satellite networks, nine Atlanta networks, and two campus television stations. ResNet also gives student residents access to the campus computer network via a high-speed Ethernet connection. · In November 1996 Emory became the 34th charter member of Internet 2, a group of major U.S. research universities who have joined together to develop the next generation high-speed, high-capacity Internet for teaching and research. · During the 1996-97 school year, LearnLink, an electronic communication system, was used in over 440 courses in the college to facilitate discussion outside the classroom between students and professors.
· The Carter Center and Emory continued their jointly sponsored series of foreign policy seminars, focusing recently on the Sudan and the Great Lakes region of Africa. In these popular interactive events, Carter Center personnel and Emory faculty members provide background history and analysis of international issues. Audience members then join the panel of experts in proposing policy positions to address particular concerns. · The center's Board of Trustees appointments for 1997 include Emory President Emeritus James T. Laney and future Emory faculty member Johnnetta Cole. Other board members appointed in 1997 are David Hamburg, Claus Halle, and Robert Edge. · The Carter Center collaborated with the Office of International Affairs, the Emory Women's Center, and the Law School on the "Bringing Beijing Home" conference in October 1995, where panelists discussed important themes of the Fourth U.N. World Conference on Women. · In 1995 The Carter Center's Mental Health Task Force and Program received a $50,000 grant from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in support of the eleventh annual Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy. Over 200 participants--mental health organization leaders, government officials, and managed care representatives--met at The Carter Center to discuss ways that managed care can better serve the public interest. · Thirty-five international delegates representing The Carter Center's Council of Freely Elected Heads of Government observed Nicaragua's national elections in October 1996. To date, the Council has observed 15 elections in nine countries in the western hemisphere. · The Carter Center's Atlanta Project is a grass-roots effort to fight urban social problems through initiatives involving children, youth, and families. In January 1995 the Atlanta Project was taken to the national level with the launching of the America Project, which disseminates information about the Atlanta Project to other cities in an effort to increase the number and effectiveness of partnerships between the private sector and low-income communities across the country. · The Center's International Negotiation Network, a group of world leaders chaired by President Carter, works to resolve civil conflicts peacefully in areas and countries such as the Sudan, Burma, Liberia, Ethiopia, and the Korean Peninsula. Some of the Council's members are Javi¾r Perez de Cu¾llar, Shridath Ramphal, Marie Angelique Savane, Desmond Tutu, Cyrus Vance, Elie Wiesel, and Andrew Young. · The Human Rights Initiatives are an integral part of all Carter Center programs. Staff members work behind the scenes to maintain and help establish institutional protection for human rights worldwide. With the influence of President Carter and Mrs. Carter, the program has brought about the release of political prisoners and the commutation of death sentences.
CENTER FOR ETHICS IN PUBLIC POLICY AND THE PROFESSIONS · The Health Care Ethics Consortium of Georgia, which the center founded and continues to house and guide, sponsored nine regional meetings and one statewide conference on medical ethics for the 110 institutions that are members of its state network. · The center recently sponsored events on topics including cyberspace and ethics; decision making at the end of life; the professions and academia; affirmative action; service in the classroom; ethical challenges in ministry; the politics of caring; religion in America; legal ethics; deconstruction and ethics; business ethics; science, ethics and public policy; managed care; and physician-assisted suicide. · Among the speakers sponsored by the Center for Ethics for lectures and symposia were Robert Audi, professor of philosophy at the University of Nebraska; former Christian Coalition leader (and Emory Ph.D.) Ralph Reed; Robert C. Holland, former governor of the Federal Reserve System; Robert Kegan of the Harvard Graduate School of Education; and Bruce Kimball, historian of the professions at University of Rochester and Dartmouth College.
· In 1995-96 the Emory Women's Center presented 96 programs, including special programs for the celebration of Women's History Month as well as ongoing programs like "Healthy Women 2000," which features presentations on women's health issues by Emory's women healthcare professionals. · Programs sponsored or cosponsored by the center for Women's History Month 1997, whose theme was "Women Crossing Boundaries," included a keynote speech on young feminists by Rebecca Walker, exhibitions of the work of women artists, a colloquium led by Paula Giddings on intersections of race and gender, and a panel discussion on women and work. The theme of "The Physical Woman" was celebrated in Women's History Month 1996 through such events as readings by Alicia ©striker and Gwendolyn Brooks, a reception for coaches of women's athletics and women athletes, and a keynote lecture by author Naomi Wolf. In both 1996 and 1997, the center included service projects with Atlanta women's shelters as part of its work for Women's History Month. · The center's website was rated the number one women's center site by three major World Wide Web search engines in 1996. It was also rated the number one women's health information site in April 1996 by The Ireland Report, a women's health newsletter.
· Anthony G. Hirshel was named director of the Michael C. Carlos Museum in February 1997. Hirschel, who holds degrees from Yale University and the University of Michigan, comes to the Carlos Museum from the Bayly Art Museum at the University of Virginia. · The Carlos Museum and the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games collaborated on two major exhibitions for the 1996 Summer Games. Souls Grown Deep: African-American Vernacular Art of the South, presented in collaboration with the city of Atlanta, opened at a satellite facility in City Hall East. Thornton Dial: Remembering the Road opened at Emory. The exhibitions, which were funded by the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games, the Coca-Cola Company, and AT&T, earned highly favorable reviews from the Los Ange/es Times, Washington Post, Newsweek and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Other sponsors included Interface Flooring Systems, Inc., Georgia Pacific Corporation, and the Fulton County Arts Council. · Exhibitions at the Museum included the 1995 exhibition organized by the American Federation of Arts, French Oil Sketches and the Academic Tradition; the 1996 exhibition entitled Surrealist Vision and Technique: Drawings and Collages from the Pompidou Center and the Picasso Museum, which traveled to the Detroit Institute of Arts after its opening at Emory; the 1996 exhibitions Nike: Victory and Competition at the Ancient Greek Festivals, From GaudÍ to T´pies: Catalan Masters of the 20th Century and The Paris Salon: Drawings and Sculptures from Atlanta Collections; and the 1997 exhibitions Masterpieces from the Asia Society: Selections from the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection and Tears of the Moon: Ancient American Precious Metals from the Permanent Collection. · In December 1995 a portion of the newly-acquired African collection was permanently installed in the Museum. The installation serves the departments of African Studies and Art History as well as local school systems studying African culture.
· In 1996-97, 16 of Emory's 17 varsity sports teams were nationally ranked, 14 teams competed in NCAA national championships (where one team placed in the top 10), and seven Emory teams won University Athletic Association championships. Emory placed 7th in the nation among 350 Division Ill schools in the Sears Directors' Cup standings for best all-around sports program. · Emory had the only two swimming and diving teams in the nation to finish among the top 15 in team grade point average and in the top 15 at their respective NCAA Division III national championships. The Emory men's swimming team had the highest GPA, 3.43, of any team in the nation in all NCAA divisions. · In 1996-97, 14 Emory student-athletes were named athletic All-Americans, two athletes were named GTE Academic All-Americans, and one earned an NCAA postgraduate scholarship. A record high of 57 percent of student-athletes attained a GPA of 3.31 or higher in the Fall 1996 semester. · In 1996 the women's tennis team became NCAA champions, the first in Emory's history. The men's team, which hosted the NCAA nationals, finished second. Emory's baseball team received its first bid to the NCAA nationals, becoming the 17th of Emory sports to compete in an NCAA championship tournament.
· Emory has educated the presidents or former presidents of 130 colleges and universities, including the University of Chicago, Yale University, Duke University, the University of Miami, DePaul University, New York University, Davidson College, and Rhodes College. · Both the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Newt Gingrich, and the former senior U.S. Senator from Georgia, Sam Nunn, are Emory alumni. Other members of Congress who are Emory alumni are Tillie Kidd Fowler of Florida, J. Glen Browder of Alabama, and Sanford Bishop of Georgia. · Leah Sears, the only African American woman to serve as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, is one of over 90 judges who are Emory alumni. · Some of the nation's most distinguished scholars are Emory graduates. Among them are Howard R. Lamar, former acting president and Sterling Professor of American History Emeritus, Yale University; C. Vann Woodward, Pulitzer Prize winner and Sterling Professor of History Emeritus, Yale University; Harold S. Johnston, National Academy of Sciences member and professor of chemistry, the University of California, Berkeley; Eugene A. Stead, Jr., founding member of the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine and Florence McAlister Professor Emeritus, Duke University; Arnall Patz, chair of ophthalmology and director of the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute, Johns Hopkins University; Norman Giles, Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellow and Callaway Professor of Genetics, The University of Georgia; Louis Harlan, Guggenheim Fellow, Pulitzer Prize winner, and professor of history, the University of Maryland; and Catherine E. Rudder, executive director of the American Political Science Association. · Dumas Malone, the late Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Thomas Jefferson, former director of the Harvard University Press, editor-in-chief of the Dictionary of American Biography, and professor of history at the University of Virginia, was a graduate of Emory. · Hamilton Holmes, the first African-American student at Emory's medical school and one of the first two African-American students to attend the University of Georgia, died in November 1995. · Distinguished business leaders who graduated from Emory include Ely R. Callaway, Jr., founder of Callaway Golf; Jimmy Williams, chairman of SunTrust Banks; Harry Saul, founder of Queens Carpet Corporation; Kenneth Cole, founder of Kenneth Cole Shoes; and Matt Gold, chairman and COO of Precision Standard. · Distinguished members of the press and media who are Emory alumni include Jim Fain, national columnist for Cox newspapers; George Page, Emmy award-winning producer of The Mind and Nature for PBS; Ernie Harwell, longtime voice of the Detroit Tigers and member of the baseball Hall of Fame; and Claude Sitton, Pulitzer Prize-winning former editor of the Raleigh News Observer and correspondent during the civil rights movements in the South for The New York Times. · Oxford College graduate and first Benjamin E. Mays Fellow, attorney James O'Neal, founded Legal Outreach, Inc., a not-for-profit organization that teaches legal principles to eighth graders in Harlem.
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