EMORY UNIVERSITY The Executive Committee of the Emory Board of Trustees approved the appointment of Rebecca Chopp as provost and executive vice president for academic affairs, effective May 1, 1998. Chopp replaces Billy E. Frye, who served as provost from 1988 until his appointment as chancellor of the university in 1997. Chopp had served as interim provost and vice president since June 1997. Chopp joined the Emory faculty in 1985 and was named Charles Howard Candler Professor of Theology at the Candler School of Theology in January 1996. She served as dean of faculty and academic affairs at Candler from 1993 to 1997 and chaired the university’s Commission on Teaching from January 1996 to September 1997. Six new members have joined Emory’s Board of Trustees since 1997. Ellen Agnor Bailey and J. Neal Purcell were elected as alumni trustees for six-year terms. J. David Allen, A.W. Dahlberg, M. Douglas Ivester, and Rabbi Alvin Sugarman were appointed to serve out terms of former board members. The University Commission on Teaching, created in February 1996 by President William Chace and former Provost Billy Frye, officially wrapped up its work with the September 1997 publication of its report, Teaching at Emory. The commission, headed by Provost Rebecca Chopp (Theology) and Walter Reed (English), recommended that Emory find ways to assess and discuss teaching and make excellent teaching a priority within the university. A new body, the University Advisory Council on Teaching, has been appointed to chart a continued course of excellence for pedagogy at Emory. Emory University, with the University of Georgia and the Georgia Institute of Technology, held the third annual Sam Nunn NationsBank Policy Forum in March 1999. The forum is designed to gather students, scholars, and civic leaders to discuss the civil and moral ties that hold communities together. Keynote speakers who addressed this year’s topic, "Leadership, Values and Ethics: Educating Global Citizens for a New Millennium," included Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Senator Bill Bradley, and Secretary for Health and Human Services Donna Shalala. His All Holiness Bartholomew, ecumenical patriarch of the Orthodox Christian Church and spiritual leader of some 300 million Orthodox Christians, received the Emory President’s Medal from William Chace on Oct. 31, 1997. Representative John Lewis, of Georgia’s 5th Congressional District, received the Emory President’s Medal on February 28, 1999 for his role in the Civil Rights movement. They are the third and fourth recipients, following the 14th Dalai Lama and President Carlos Menem of Argentina. Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich was chosen as Emory’s 154th commencement speaker. Now University and Maurice B. Hexter Professor of Social and Economic Policy at Brandeis University, Reich led the U. S. Department of Labor during the first Clinton administration. His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso—the exiled spiritual and secular leader of 6 million Tibetan Buddhists—gave the address for the 1998 commencement ceremonies. Among the speakers who have visited Emory recently are U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright; U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno; former Georgia state legislator and longtime civil rights activist Julian Bond; Holocaust scholar Elie Wiesel, winner of the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize; feminist theorist and professor of law and ethics Margaret Nussbaum; Nobel Laureate Harold Varmus, director of the National Institutes of Health; business leader Rupert Murdoch; media mogul Ted Turner; jazz musician Wynton Marsalis; distinguished scholars of African American studies Michel and Geneviève Fabre; and writers A. S. Byatt, Grace Paley, Reynolds Price, and Alice Walker. On November 18, 1998, President of the University William Chace and President of the Student Government Association Chuck Divine, accompanied by the "esteemed" William M. Dooley, took the floor of the business school auditorium for Emory’s State of the University Address, the first-ever broadcast live on EmoryVision and Webcast. As of fall 1998, the university has a full-time faculty of 2,002 and a student body of 11,353 from 49 states and 105 nations. At the 1999 commencement ceremony, Emory conferred 3,184 degrees including 132 Ph.D.s. Former Georgia governor Zell Miller joined the faculty as a Presidential Distinguished Fellow in History and Political Science in January 1999. Miller previously taught at Emory during the late 1970s. During his three-year appointment, Miller will teach a small undergraduate seminar each spring on politics in the South, deliver an annual public lecture, and occasionally meet with graduate students writing dissertations in Emory’s Mellon Southern Studies Program. Johnetta Cole, former president of Spelman College, joined the faculty at Emory in September 1998. Cole, named a Presidential Distinguished Professor by President William Chace in September 1996, works with the anthropology, women's studies, and African American studies departments. Several faculty members were named to distinguished appointments to honor their contributions to Emory’s academic community. David Edwards (Psychology) and Lee Pederson (English) were named Charles Howard Candler Professors. Micheal Giles (Political Science) and Ronald Schuchard were named Goodrich C. White Professors. Kim Wallen (Psychology) and Carol Worthman (Anthropology) were named Samuel Candler Dobbs Professors. Michael Davis (Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences) was named Robert Woodruff Professor. Paul Plotsky (Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences) was named SmithKline Beecham Professor. A number of faculty awards were bestowed at the 1999 commencement ceremonies. Don E. Saliers (Theology) received the University Scholar/Teacher Award The Emory Williams Awards for Distinguished Teaching for 1999 went to Niall Slater (Classics), Ronald J. Gould (Math and Computer Science), Hashem Dezhbakhsh (Economics), and Charles R. Foster (Religion and Education). The George P. Cuttino Award for Excellence in Faculty Mentoring was awarded to Ronald C. Johnson (Chemistry). The Thomas Jefferson Award, given to a faculty member or administrative officer in recognition of significant service to the university through personal activities, influence, and leadership, was received by Harvey E. Klehr (Political Science). In 1998, these awards were received by: George Jones (Biology); Benjamin Hary (Middle Eastern Studies), Myron Kaufman (Chemistry), Tom Walker (Political Science), and Marianne Sharbo-DeHaan (Nursing); Peter Dowell, associate dean of Emory College and associate professor of English; and Robert DeHaan (Cell Biology). Recipients of the third annual Awards for Excellence in Teaching include Frank Pajares (Educational Studies), Catherine Nickerson (English and American Studies), and Patrick Allitt (History); the 1998 awards were given to Preetha Ram (Chemistry), Thomas Lancaster (Political Science), and Tim McDonough (Theater Studies). Since 1987, Emory has more than tripled sponsored research funding, increasing from $54 million (FY87) to $164.9 million (FY98). Of this total, federal agencies supplied 70 percent, the corporate sector provided 11 percent, and private foundations granted 9 percent. $154.4 million, or 94 percent of the total, went to the Woodruff Health Sciences Center with the School of Medicine receiving approximately 68 percent, Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center garnering 12 percent, and the Rollins School of Public Health cornering 12 percent. The university-wide Claus M. Halle Institute for Global Learning was established in October 1997. Made possible by a generous donation from Claus and Marianne Halle, the Institute promotes scholarship and learning in international subjects by bringing distinguished international visitors to campus, arranging faculty and visiting expert-scholar discussion forums on academic and public policy issues, and facilitating faculty research abroad. The first Halle Distinguished Professor, Thomas F. Remington (Political Science), organized and led a faculty development seminar that studied changing national identities and the evolution of political institutions in Europe in the context of global change. Participants were chosen from several schools and disciplines. The seminar, which included a series of meetings in the spring, summer research in Europe, and a concluding conference the following fall, will be an annual affair that focuses on different research themes each year. The Claus M. Halle Institute named Yukio Okamoto as its first Distinguished Fellow in a program designed to bring an eminent international figure to campus for intensive interaction with faculty, students, and staff. Okamoto, a prominent Japanese business and public policy consultant, has served as special advisor for Okinawan affairs to the Japanese prime minister and as special assistant to the minister of science and technology. Working with the International Affairs Council’s University Fund for Internationalization subcommittee, the Office of International Affairs awarded $500,000 to 72 projects during the 1997-98 academic year. The Fund was established to provide support for projects, which further the goal of making Emory an international institution of research, learning, and service. The intention is to provide seed money for new and innovative ideas rather than provide budget support. In the spring of 1998, Emory unveiled its new campus master plan, designed by the Baltimore firm Ayers/Saint/Gross, to guide campus development through the next 50 years. Following the guiding principles and conceptual designs of this comprehensive plan, future landscape renovations will seek to unclog pedestrian traffic and remove much of the asphalt at the core of campus; create more green spaces for a more collegial campus feel; reincorporate water into the landscape through fountains, reflection pools, and streams; and gradually introduce buildings to frame open spaces rather than fill them. Phase I of the effort to transform Emory into a walking campus was completed during the summer of 1998. The area of Asbury Circle behind Candler Library, between Pierce Drive and Emory Hospital, was replaced with brickwork and landscaping suitable only for pedestrians and service vehicles. Phase II of the project, which will include creating a pedestrian walkway between the Dobbs University Center, Alabama Hall, and the Anatomy and Physiology buildings, will most likely commence in the summer of 1999. After Ayers/Saint/Gross completed the master plan for the university, some eight major buildings with an approximate total cost of $243 million are expected to be constructed by 2001. The plans include: a new building connecting White Hall and the Atwood Chemistry Center and another building across the street from White Hall to create a Physical Science Center, a Performing Arts Center nestled between Fishburne Parking deck and the Goizueta Business School, the completion of the Yerkes Center addition, a new nursing school building, a cancer center building, and the Whitehead Research Building. In August of 1998, Emory purchased the 42-acre site of the Georgia Mental Health Institute on Briarcliff Road, located one mile from campus. Emory co-developed the facility with the state of Georgia more than 30 years ago and has administered programs on the property since then. Tentatively called "Emory West," the site will house a new multidisciplinary biotechnology center developed in conjunction with Georgia Tech in addition to providing space for a variety of academic, educational, research, and scientific activities. In keeping with the state’s original commitment that the property be used for services to benefit Georgians as well as Emory's education, research, and service missions, plans for the facility include the application of research and teaching to the problems of Atlanta and the nation. Emory University is implementing PeopleSoft, a business information online system comprised of the human resource management system (HRMS), general ledger, accounts payable, and budgeting modules. This project has replaced the legacy mainframe system used by Emory University, Emory Hospital, and Crawford Long Hospital with an integrated, state-of-the-art system. Emory is also one of the charter schools for PeopleSoft’s Student Information System module, scheduled for complete implementation in 2000. Employing 15,491 people, Emory is one of the five largest private employers in the 18-county Atlanta metropolitan area and the largest employer in DeKalb County. Crawford Long Hospital celebrated its 90th birthday in October 1998. The university received $84.9 million in contributions between September 1, 1997, and August 31, 1998, an annual total exceeded only during the years when Emory received a $105 million gift (1980) and a $295 million gift (1997). This year Emory received donations totaling $12.8 million from individuals, $28.7 million from foundations and corporations, and $35 million from trusts and bequests. The $84.9 million total also includes $8.3 million in donative gift awards that were processed by the Office of Sponsored Programs. The number of total gifts was up 8.7 percent to 29,172. During the five years of The Emory Campaign and the subsequent year of 1996, deans, directors, and members of the senior staff made contributions totaling nearly $900,000. Emory University lost two administrative leaders in 1999. Bobby Williams ’57C, vice president for business, retired after 41 years of service to the university. Williams became vice president in 1989 and has since been involved in facilities management, planning and construction, real estate, parking, traffic and security, purchasing and stores, and other activities related to the business management of the university. Senior Vice President Joe Crooks, who came to the university in 1981 and was the first person at Emory to be elevated to the rank of senior vice president, died in January. Crooks had also served as general counsel since 1982. The Earle B. and Stephanie S. Blomeyer Health Fitness Center opened in the 1525 Clifton Road building. The center, which houses fitness equipment and offers training and fitness classes, was designed by human resources to serve Emory faculty and staff, patients, and members of the surrounding community, which includes the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Cancer Society. Following former Governor Zell Miller’s mandate that all state agencies participate in an ozone-reduction plan from May 1 through September 30, Emory University became one of the handful of private firms and organizations to volunteer to join the effort to reduce haze caused by gasoline engines. Emory’s "Hazy Days" program includes a three-pronged approach to cutting harmful emissions by stressing commuting options such as car and van pooling, flexible work hours and telecommuting, and other environmentally friendly measures on campus. A new recycling center, complete with a conveyor system and baler to do the processing, opened in late April on Peavine Creek Drive at Candler Field. The 24-hour center greatly increases the university’s capacity for receiving recyclables and will help generate income from processing them. Top ARTS AND SCIENCES 1,347 students comprised Emory College’s Class of 2002, one of the largest classes in Emory’s history. Approximately 400 students enrolled through early decision, the largest ever. The average SAT score rose to 1360. There were 3,113 applications to degree programs in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences for the 1998-99 academic year, with 1,502 new students enrolled. In its 1998 annual college quality rankings, U.S. News & World Report ranked Emory University 16th in the national university category. Emory has been on the Top 25 list since 1992 and is the only Georgia university ever to appear on the list. Emory also ranked 28th among national universities on the 1998 list of best values in higher education. In addition, the magazine ranked the Ph.D. program in history 25th. Several faculty members received prestigious national fellowships. Thomas Flynn (Philosophy) was invited to spend the year at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Frank Pajares (Educational Studies) received a Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship. Four faculty members from the history department received travel grants for 1998-99. Michael Bellesiles received a grant from Stanford Humanities; Tom Chaffin won a postdoctoral fellowship from the Andrew Mellon Foundation; Margot Finn won an NEH fellowship to Newberry Library in Chicago; and Sharon Strocchia received two grants, one from the American Council of Learned Scholars and another to the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. A number of professors from the Emory College faculty received national recognition of their scholarship. Robert Paul (ILA) was awarded the L. Bryce Boyer Prize of the Society of Psychological Anthropology for his book Moses and Civilization. Suzanne Guerlac’s (French and Italian) book Literary Polemics: Bataille, Sartre, Valéry, Breton won the Scaglione Prize of the Modern Language Association. Scott Lilienfeld (Psychology) received the American Psychological Association’s David Shakow Award for Early Career Contributions. Emory College created a new faculty award, the Distinguished Research Award, to recognize singular accomplishments in research. Recipients of the inaugural awards are Mikhail Epstein (Russian, Eurasian, and East Asian Languages and Cultures), Bruce Knauft (Anthropology), and Cynthia Willett (Philosophy). The three-year awards consist of a salary supplement and a $3,000 research fund provided annually to support further research. Emory students continue to do well in national competitions. A number of graduate students held externally funded fellowships for graduate study in 1997-98: Jacob Javits (1), National Science Foundation (7), Packard (2). Advanced students conducted dissertation research with support from external sources, including the National Science Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation Sub-Saharan, the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), International Research and Exchanges Board, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Wenner Gren, the Institute for International Education/Fulbright, the Leakey Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Population Council, American Cancer Society, and the Institute for the Study of World Politics. In addition, in 1997-98 several Emory students won prestigious awards for the 1998-99 academic year. Among the fellowships won in 1997-98 are Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowships (2), SSRC International Dissertation Field Research Fellowships (2), Fulbright (4), DAA Annual Grant (1), DAAD Research Grant (1), and American Association of University Women Dissertation Grants (5). Emory College began the transition to the new curriculum this year by offering freshmen the option of taking a freshman seminar, soon to be required of all freshmen entering the college. A sample of the topics covered in these seminars during the Spring 1999 semester includes: "Chemistry of Drugs and the Brain," "Slavery, Freedom, and the American Civil War," "Imagining China," and "The Philosophy of Plato." The Emory office of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers Project closed at the end of the spring semester in 1998. The Graduate School supported the office for a decade, providing resources to the undergraduate and graduate students who researched, transcribed, and verified over 1,000 documents under the supervision of project editors. Since the opening of the Emory office in 1988, some fifty student researchers contributed to the preparation of a multi-volume documentary edition of King’s speeches, sermons, letters, and other writings. Emory students worked principally on the fourth volume of the projected 14-volume series of King's papers. In 1999, the University of California Press will publish Volume IV, which covers the civil rights leader’s life during 1957-58. In cooperation with the University Fund for Internationalization, the Graduate School sponsored a competition for grants to support dissertation-related research outside the United States. Awards made in the spring semester fund the following academic year. In 1998, sixty students applied to the GSAS/UFI program; a faculty committee recommended fifteen proposals for funding. The Center for International Studies received a $50,000 grant from the Ford Foundation’s "Crossing Borders: Revitalizing Area Studies" program to support advanced training and research in comparative and area studies. Of the two initial interdisciplinary working groups, the first studied comparative industrialization and the second focused on post-colonial cultures. Each of the working groups was composed of faculty and students from both the humanities and the social sciences. A proposal for the continuation of the work done in "Crossing Borders" is currently under consideration at the Ford Foundation. In December 1998, Emory College established the Arts and Sciences Institute for Comparative and International Studies with Howard Rollins (Psychology) as its director. The institute’s mission will be to encourage students and faculty to engage in the study of things international, to encourage the addition of new faculty with international foci, and to share knowledge with the larger community. During the past year, the Center for International Programs Abroad, also directed by Rollins, has overseen the addition of a number of new study abroad programs including programs in Israel, Taiwan, South Africa, Kenya, and Prague. Emory College entered into an agreement with the Drepung Loseling Monastic Institution to offer a six-week program on Tibetan culture, language, and philosophy during the summer session. The first Tibetan Studies Institute was held in summer 1998, and plans are now underway for the program to be offered again in connection with the 1999 summer session. During the 1998 summer, Emory College Dean Steven Sanderson announced the creation of the Faculty Science Council, directed by Lanny Liebeskind (Chemistry). The council will focus on the interconnections of science and society through programs of scholarship, education, and discussion. In the fall of 1998, the Program in Science and Society, an offshoot of the Faculty Science Council, was formed with Arri Eisen (Biology) as its director. This program is intended to be a model for combining undergraduate teaching, high quality research, and public service. Elements of the program include the establishment of the Nat C. Robertson Distinguished Professorship—a rotating position to be awarded to an outstanding senior scholar, funding of undergraduate research, and a public lecture on recent scientific research. A new department, Environmental Studies, was established as of January 1, 1999. Environmental Studies will absorb the present programs in Human and Natural Ecology and in Geosciences. Lance Gunderson joined the faculty of Emory in January 1999 as chair of the department. His research interests are in understanding cross-scale structure and function of ecosystems and in adaptive management, and he teaches courses on environmental assessment and management. The Theory Practice Learning Program, an associate program of the Center for Teaching and Curriculum, is now three years old and has faculty from every department of the college and from many graduate and professional programs in the university participating. Coordinated by Bobbi Patterson (Religion), the TPL program helps faculty develop pedagogical skills for teaching students to learn by integrating classroom ideas with actions in and beyond the classroom. Over 50 courses in Emory College use some form of TPL strategies. In collaboration with the Center for Ethics, TPL has organized workshops, attended by over 100 faculty members and graduate students, explaining the basic theory of experiential learning and detailing how to reorganize courses to include practices of theory. In October 1998, the Spencer Foundation awarded the Division of Educational Studies a $450,000, 3-year research training grant designed to support Ph.D. students in education. With the grant, which stipulates that 90 percent of monies must be designated for direct student support, the division will increase student stipends and provide funds for student participation in national conferences. The division anticipates that these changes will draw a wider applicant pool and increase enrollment (currently 32 students). A gift of $1.5 million from the Alonzo McDonald family has funded the McDonald Chair for the study of Jesus and culture. A search is now underway to fill this chair. In February of 1998, Theater Emory presented Robert W. Woodruff Professor of the Arts Wole Soyinka’s play The Lion and the Jewel and staged readings of his The Man Died: Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka. During the 1998-99 season, the works staged by Theater Emory included Henrik Ibsen’s play The Lady from the Sea and Brecht Cabaret: A Centennial Celebration, a showcase of a variety of short works written by Bertolt Brecht for the cabaret scene. Learning to Dance, the newest work of noted playwright and Professor of English Frank Manley, premiered in the Black Rose/Mary Gray Munroe Theater. Manley wrote the play for theater studies professors Janice Akers and Tim McDonough, who starred. That same evening, a group including McDonough, David Sloan, and Marilynne McKay staged a reading of Manley’s The Rain of Terror. Three students from the class of 1999 won Fulbright Fellowships for study abroad: Michael Kisicki, Elizabeth Potter, and Gregory Zale. In addition, several other graduating students received national grant awards: Christa Amouroux, a National Science Foundation fellowship; Stephanie Denton, a Truman Scholarship; and Monique Ramgoolie, a Public Policy and International Affairs Fellowship. The Marion Luther Brittain Service Award for 1999, Emory’s highest service award, was awarded to Cameron Welborn of the School of Law. The 1998 award went to Adam Taylor of Emory College. The 1999 Lucius Lamar McMullan Award, presented to a graduating senior of outstanding promise, went to Brant Brown. The 1998 recipient was Anjan Sahni, who also earned highest honors in political science and was recognized for highest academic achievement for his 4.0 cumulative grade point average. Other awards given to Emory undergraduates include the Louis Sudler Prize in the arts, awarded to Margaret King (1999) and Ariel Bennett (1998) and the Sonny Carter Scholarship given to Rosemary deShazo (1999) and Mary Miller (1998). As the Robert T. Jones Scholars for 1999, Andrew Dober, Lewis Satterwhite, and Anna White will attend Emory’s sister school, the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. The 1998 scholars were Justin Biel, Lakshmi Gopal, Jehangir Malegam, and Rachel Park. Emory University’s debate team won more national titles in 1997-98 than any other college or university in the history of debate. In addition to its titles, the Barkley Forum received a gift pledge of $125,000 to its endowment fund. Thus far in the 1998-99 season, the Barley Forum set a national record in winning the national debate championship: they recorded the highest number of sweepstakes points by any school in one season. In 1998, over 105,600 students inquired about admission to Emory College. Emory hosted over 6,000 prospective students (along with parents) for individual visits as well as on-campus programs, and this past year, over 4,000 students requested the Emory Video Visit. The admissions office embarked on its first international recruitment venture in the spring of 1998, visiting schools in nine countries throughout the Middle East.   Top OXFORD COLLEGE In 1998, Oxford Dean William H. Murdy announced his decision to retire. Murdy had been dean of Oxford since 1987 and came to Emory as a faculty member in 1959. During his tenure on Emory's faculty he served as chair of the biology department twice and was president of the University Senate. He was appointed Charles Howard Candler Professor of Biology shortly before his Oxford appointment. Dana Greene will become the new dean and chief executive officer of Oxford College, following the retirement of the current dean, William Murdy, at the end of the school year. Greene has served as associate provost for faculty affairs and professor of history at St. Mary's College of Maryland. With research focused on women’s history, she has written books on Maisie Ward, Evelyn Underhill, Olympia Brown, and Lucretia Mott. Student inquiries (up 3 percent), applications (up 28 percent) and enrollment (up 4 percent) set all-time records for recruitment at Oxford. Also, a record number of 350 students applied both to Emory and Oxford Colleges, and 115 were accepted by both with 36 matriculating at Oxford and 33 at Emory. Several Oxford professors received grants to support their work. Eloise Carter and Steve Baker received grants from the General Mills Foundation and from Georgia Power in support of "Oxford College Institute for Environmental Science," their summer program for K-12 teachers. Hoyt Oliver received a grant from the Templeton Foundation to develop and teach an interdisciplinary course in science and religion. The course taught in the spring included faculty from religion, biology, physics, anthropology, chemistry, and mathematics. Gretchen Schulz received a grant from the Folger Institute and an invitation to participate in a series of weekend seminars titled: "Shakespeare in an Age of Visual Culture." Homer Sharp received the annual Mizell Award for superior performance in furthering education of students. Delia Nisbet received the Phi Theta Kappa student honorary society’s teacher of the year award. Lucas Carpenter received the COE teacher of the year award, and he was awarded Oxford’s prestigious Allen Grant to do on-site research on William Wordsworth’s poetry. A 20-year master plan for Oxford, a feasibility plan for the performing arts, and a strategic plan called Oxford College 2010 were completed. Three Oxford continuees, Hildie Cohen, Melanie Marson and Wil Davenport, were among the six winners of Emory University’s Annual Humanitarian Awards which honor acts of courage, friendship and the commitment of an unusual amount of time and energy in service to others. Eleven graduating Oxford continuees received highest and high honors at the 1997 commencement. Gordon Hamrick received the award for highest academic achievement and was awarded a Woodruff Scholarship at the Emory School of Law.   Top CANDLER SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY Candler School Dean Kevin LaGree announced that he would leave Emory at the end of the 1999 school year to take the helm of Simpson College in Iowa. Since LaGree's arrival in 1991, Candler's endowment has grown sevenfold, as has the amount of support available for faculty research, travel, and teaching development. LaGree also spearheaded development of the new curriculum for master's of divinity students. Charles Foster, associate dean of faculty at the Candler School of Theology, will serve as interim dean of the school following LaGree’s departure. With over 500 students, Candler is one of thirteen United Methodist-related seminaries in the United States. 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 Emory College’s Departments of Religion and Middle Eastern Studies. Emory’s program had improved the most since the last survey by the National Research Council in 1986. Rebecca Chopp, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Systematic Theology and Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs of Emory University became president-elect of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) in 1998 at the organization’s annual meeting in Orlando, Florida. AAR is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States. Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu joined the Candler faculty as Robert W. Woodruff Visiting Professor of Theology for the 1998-99 academic year. He will remain on the faculty in the 1999-2000 academic year as the William R. Cannon Visiting Distinguished Professor and will be the first person to hold the Cannon chair. Candler received a grant of nearly $1.5 million from the Lilly Endowment to improve the quality of preparation of ministers for congregational leadership. Candler received two significant bequests, one from the estate of Bishop and former Dean William R. Cannon and the other from a trust that supported Miss Margaret Adger Pitts. Because of these gifts, Candler is able to add twelve new scholarships a year for three years for people preparing for ordained ministry. Scholarships will pay full tuition plus a $3,000 per year stipend. In collaboration with the Thomas Merton Center of Bellarmine College and the Merton Legacy Trust, the Pitts Theology Library is digitizing the working notebooks of Thomas Merton, American theologian and mystic.   Top SCHOOL OF LAW School of Law Dean Howard Hunter accepted reappointment for a third term in April 1999. Provost Rebecca Chopp offered the renewal after both internal and external committees completed a review of his tenure. Noteworthy accomplishments during Howard’s first ten years as dean include significant faculty appointments, the reduction of the student body, and the establishment of MacMillan Law Library. The Classes of 2000 and 2001 are the first classes in the history of Emory Law School comprised of more women than men. The school has completed the planned reduction in size of the student body, and classes now number approximately 210. Lee Ann DeGrazia was hired as the first Turner Fellow in conjunction with the Turner Environmental Law Clinic. The clinic, made possible through a series of grants from Atlanta’s Turner Foundation, provides a place for students and organizations to work with citizens and area groups on legal issues affecting the environment. For the third year in a row, the law school raised gifts and grants in excess of $1 million in cash receipts. Several gifts will establish scholarships funds including a fellowship program supported by donations from the Atlanta Law School Foundation and the Kessler/Eidson Scholarship named in memory of the late Kathleen Kessler ’72L, who was killed in the Miami ValuJet crash. The Kessler-Eidson Endowment will be used to fund scholarships for second- and third-year women students who have demonstrated a commitment to public service, along with interest and skill in trial advocacy. In addition, a room in the MacMillan Law Library will be named for Kessler, and a portion of the endowment will be used to fund Emory’s nationally recognized trial techniques program, which will be named the Kessler/Eidson Trial Techniques Program. The faculty adopted a required course for first year students on legal methods, one of the first major curricular revisions in a decade. The Emory Law and Religion Program continues to attract important grants in support of its activities including a commitment of $380,000 from the Ford Foundation for support of the program’s work on Islamic law and the family and a pledge of $546,350 from the Lilly Endowment for the study of the Reformation. John Witte, director of the Law and Religion Program, received the 1999 Abraham Kuyper Prize for Excellence in Reformed Theology and Public Life from Princeton Theological Seminary. Witte received the award, which carries a cash prize of $10,000, at Princeton where he gave a lecture title "God’s Joust, God’s Justice: The Revelations of Legal History." On December 31, 1998, Emory Law School received a surprise gift of $2.5 million. Middle Georgia Federal District Court Judge Hugh Lawson approved a $11 million settlement with DuPont Co. and the law firm of Alston & Bird, ending the threat of criminal prosecution for the company and its lawyers over their handling of a case involving the pesticide Benlate. In an unusual move, Judge Lawson gave from that settlement $2.5 million to each of Georgia’s four law schools: Emory, Georgia State University, Mercer University, and the University of Georgia. The remaining $1 million of the settlement will fund an annual symposium on legal ethics that will rotate among the four schools.   Top ROBERTO C. GOIZUETA BUSINESS SCHOOL President William Chace named Thomas S. Robertson the new dean of the business school beginning July 1, 1998. Robertson came from the faculty of the London Business School where he was Deputy Principal and head of the marketing department. Previously, he was a member of the faculty at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania for almost two decades, having held positions of chairman of the marketing department and associate dean for executive education. He has also been on the faculties of the business schools at UCLA and Harvard. The MBA Program had its largest class size in the program’s history in 1998 with 150 entering students, including 50 international students. The graduates in the MBA Class of 1999 were the first to spend their entire program in the school’s new building. The business school moved into a new five-story, 125,000 square foot building, equipped with state-of-the-art technology in July 1997. At the beginning of 1998, the school received two pledges of $20 million, almost doubling total endowments and bringing the school’s dedicated endowment to $65 million. The estate of Roberto C. Goizueta, former chairman and CEO of The Coca-Cola Company and the business school’s namesake, who died on October 18, 1997, pledged the first $20 million in January. The second was made in February by the Woodruff Foundation. In the fall of 1998, the school launched the Health Care Track within its Executive MBA Program to help physicians and other health care professionals deal with the growing set of business demands they face. Goizueta Business School’s programs have received top 25 rankings from a variety of sources. London’s Financial Times ranked Emory’s full-time MBA Program as 18th in the world. In U.S. News and World Report’s special issue on professional schools (March 1999) placed the full-time program 21st in the country and ranked the Executive MBA program 12th. The Executive MBA Program was also ranked in the top 20 executive programs in the nation, according to a special bi-annual report on executive education in the October 20, 1997, issue of Business Week.   Top ROBERT W. WOODRUFF HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER With trustee approval of the Health Sciences Center’s research strategic plan, the center initiated development of 500,000 square feet of new research space. This included a 325,000 square foot School of Medicine biomedical research building—the Whitehead Research Building, a 100,000 square foot nursing school building, and a 200,000 square foot cancer center building for the Winship Cancer Institute. Emory Healthcare has officially integrated The Emory Clinic, Inc., the Wesley Woods Center of Emory University, Inc., and The Emory Children’s Center. In January, members of The Emory Clinic voted to move the Clinic legally and financially under the umbrella of Emory Healthcare. In April, Wesley Woods Geriatric Hospital announced an agreement integrating components of Wesley Woods located on Clifton Road into Emory Healthcare. Called Wesley Woods Center of Emory University, Inc. (WWC), this center joined The Emory Clinic, Emory University Hospital, Crawford Long Hospital, Emory-Adventist Hospital, and the Emory Children’s Center to compose Emory Healthcare. In November, Emory Healthcare joined Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corporation to create a Limited Liability Company, since named EHCA, LLC, which is overseen by a board jointly governed by Emory Healthcare and Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corporation. The agreement includes eight Atlanta area hospitals and five surgery centers owned by Columbia/HCA and its affiliates in the Emory Healthcare system. Through the LLC, Emory is responsible for clinical management and quality assurance in the thirteen facilities, and Columbia/HCA is responsible for the management of the day-to-day operations of the facilities. U.S. News & World Report (February 1998) ranked the School of Medicine 21st and the Rollins School of Public Health 9th. Several of Emory’s health science programs also ranked in the country’s top 25 including: the physician assistant (PA) master’s program second, the master’s program in midwifery sixth, the master of physical therapy program seventh, and the adult nurse practitioner program 17th. Emory University Hospital placed in U.S. News and World Report’s America’s Best Hospitals in 12 of 16 medical specialties. The Heart Center ranked 7th in the category of cardiology. Other School of Medicine programs that made the list include: ophthalmology (14th), orthopedics (14th), neurology and neurosurgery (16th), urology (22nd), geriatrics (23rd), gynecology (26th), rheumatology (30th), gastroenterology (33rd), otolaryngology (33rd), endocrinology (37th), and cancer (40th). The National Institutes of Health (NIH) made Emory and its collaborators an official Center for AIDS Research site (CFAR) in September 1998. The designation comes with a three-year, $2.3 million grant for Emory University, the AIDS Research Consortium of Atlanta (ARCA), and their primary collaborators. The Emory/Atlanta CFAR joins five other newly designated NIH CFARS nationwide as well as 11 existing centers. Research dollars at the Woodruff Health Sciences Center increased by 7.4 percent to $154,402,442 for 1997-1998. The School of Medicine, at more than $112 million, was ranked 19th among American medical schools for federal funding. In December, the National Institutes on Disability and Rehabilitation Research awarded the School of Medicine and Shepherd Spinal Center $1.3 million to fund the Georgia Model Brain Injury System (GAMBIS). Principal investigator Anthony Stringer (Rehabilitation Medicine) and Shepherd’s Michael Jones will co-direct the research related to the causes, prevalence, and treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in Georgia. GAMBIS is one of 17 model centers for TBI in the nation. NIH has awarded physician-researchers in the School of Medicine’s Center for Transplantation a 5-year, $7.5 million interdisciplinary project grant. Transplant surgeons Christian Larsen and Thomas Pearson, along with a team of investigators, hope the grant will enable them to establish true immune tolerance in patients receiving organ transplants to create permanent long-term acceptance of donor organs. Emory faculty and clinicians were among the fifty women named Georgia Pioneers in Health Care during Women’s History Month. They include: Betty Come Blake, director of nursing at Grady; Camille Davis-Williams, clinical chief of obstetrics at Crawford Long; Luella Klein, director of Emory’s Maternal and Infant Project at Grady; Jennie P. Perryman, director of Emory’s Center for Transplantation; and Nanette Kass Wenger, professor of cardiology, chief of cardiology, and director of Cardiac Clinics at Grady. A number of Health Sciences Center faculty and alumni were among the "health care heroes" cited in the Atlanta Business Chronicle (July 24, 1998). William H. Foege (Public Health) received the award in the physician category, Ann Connor (Nursing) was named in the Allied Health Professionals category, and Mahlon DeLong (chair, Neurology) was a finalist in the Health Care Innovations category. Bernadette Leite, founder of the Kids Alive and Loved youth violence support program based in the school of public health, was nominated in the Community Outreach category, and J. Willis Hurst (Cardiology), who chaired the department of medicine for three decades, was nominated in the lifetime achievement category. Budd Terrace of Wesley Woods received Accreditation with Commendation from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations in June. This is the highest level of accreditation awarded by the joint commission. Geriatrics specialist Joseph Ouslander became co-director of a new Southeast Center for Excellence in Geriatric Medicine, which is collaborating with the University of Alabama in Birmingham to support training in geriatric medicine. The center is supported in part by a grant from the John A. Hartford Foundation. In an effort to maximize the independence of seniors and their families, Wesley Woods partnered with ten Atlanta best-practice senior service agencies to form Atlanta Senior Care, Inc. This non-profit organization establishes a network of home, medical, community, and residential services available through one phone call. Wesley Woods opened Wesley Woods of Newnan-Peachtree City in January. This retirement facility, a continuing care retirement community, offers assisted living and personal care on a 52-acre campus five miles north of Newnan. The $15 million dollar structure offers over 130 suites and apartments to residents in the west Georgia area. In September, the physicians, nurses and staff of Crawford Long Hospital’s maternal and infant services department announced that they had met their goal to reduce the Caesarean-section rate safely and effectively. In an ongoing collaborative effort with the Institute of Healthcare Improvement, the c-section rate was reduced to 16 percent. In May, Roxan Saidi, gastroenterologist at the Emory Swallowing Center, performed the first photodynamic therapy procedure in Georgia in Emory University Hospital’s Gastrointestinal Laboratory. In September, Emory Hospitals’ Golf and Tennis Challenge raised $65,000 for the Center for Rehabilitation Medicine. The only one of its kind in Georgia, the tournament pairs athletes who are physically challenged with those challenged only by the games themselves. Top SCHOOL OF MEDICINE The medical school selected 111 new first-year students from an applicant pool of 7,420. Students in the class came from 30 states and one foreign country. NIH funding for Pathology and Laboratory Medicine topped $6 million last year, moving the department to 16th from 25th in this category nationally. With a 50 percent increase in NIH funding, Radiology became 19th in the nation among radiology departments in NIH funding. The Winship Cancer Center was chosen to be part of the National Cancer Institute-funded Cancer Genetics Network, a national alliance of eight consortiums that supports research into cancer genetics and addresses the psychosocial, ethical, legal, and public health issues associated with inherited susceptibility to cancer. The NCI provided up to $6 million for the first year of this initiative. In December, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke named Emory one of three institutions (along with Massachusetts General Hospital and Johns Hopkins) to receive designation as a Parkinson’s Disease Research Center of Excellence. A total of $24 million will be awarded to the centers over the next five years. Mahlon DeLong, chair of Neurology, heads the Emory center. The Carlos and Marguerite Mason Trust provided $3.5 million to fund a new Mason Chair in Transplantation Biology, initiate the establishment of the Emory Transplantation Center, enable the medical school to recruit new investigators for the center, and fund an interdisciplinary program project. For the 1997-98 academic year, the faculty of the medical school produced 1,019 articles as first author, 1,308 articles as co-author, 49 books as primary author or editor, 20 books as secondary author or editor, and 565 book chapters. Stephen Warren (Biochemistry and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator) gained National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding with a program project grant totaling $3.7 million to further clarify the molecular basis of fragile X syndrome and expand the scope of contemporary research of the disease. The honors accorded to Emory School of Medicine faculty include the 1999 Young Investigator Award of the American Academy of Microbiology given to Athena Kourtis (Pediatrics) for her overall laboratory and clinical research. Spencer B. King, director of the Andreas Gruentzig Cardiovascular Center, was named President of the American College of Cardiology (ACC) for 1998-99. John Rock (chair, Gynecology-Obstetrics) was elected president of the Society of Gynecologic Surgeons. Peggy Duke (Anesthesiology) was named president of the Georgia Society of Anesthesiologists, the first woman to hold this position. William Casarella (chair, Radiology) assumed the presidency of the American Board of Radiology and was named president-elect of the American Roentgen Ray Society. Nanette K. Wenger was named Physician of the Year for 1998-99 by the national board of the American Heart Association. Wenger is professor of medicine (Cardiology), a consultant to Emory Heart Center and director of the Cardiac Clinics, and chief of Cardiology at Grady Memorial Hospital. In spring she was named one of the two co-principal investigators leading the RUTH (Raloxifene for The Heart) trial that will enroll some 10,000 in 25 nations. Marc Chimowitz, director of the Emory Stroke Center, was named principal investigator of a $15 million grant to evaluate warfarin vs. aspirin for secondary stroke prevention. More than 800 stroke patients will be recruited in 50 centers. Donald McCormick (Biochemistry) co-chaired a Joint FAO/WHO Expert Consultation on Human Vitamin and Mineral Requirements in Bangkok to undertake—for the first time in 25 years—a complete review and update of the current science on vitamins and minerals as they impact human nutrition, health promotion, and disease prevention. Randy Hanzlick (Pathology) was appointed medical examiner for Fulton County, marking the beginning of a formal relationship between Emory and the county, which has contracted with The Emory Clinic to provide forensic pathology services. In September the National Library of Medicine (NLM) included the Emory Eye Center’s scientific journal, Molecular Vision, in its database of scientific publications. Founded by Emory faculty in 1995, Molecular Vision is the country’s first peer-reviewed life sciences journal to publish entirely on the World Wide Web. Three divisions within the School of Medicine made the transition to department status: Urology (chair, Fray Marshall), Otolaryngology (chair, Douglas Mattox), Emergency Medicine (chair search ongoing). Among new faculty appointments was Sharon Weiss’s designation as vice chair and director of Anatomic Pathology. Weiss is president of the U.S. Academy of Pathology, chairs the WHO Committee on Histological Classification of Tumors, and received the 1997 Stuart Award from Memorial Sloan-Kettering for contributions to the field of oncology. Robert Rich is the new executive associate dean for research. Rich serves as an adviser to NIH and the Association of American Medical Colleges, and his research in T cell function has received continuous support from NIH since 1974. David Martin will direct the Winship Cancer Center’s Transgenic Mouse and GeneTargeting Facility, where researchers throughout Emory and outside the university can study mice with specific gene alterations to shed light on human cancers. In December, Andrew Yeager (Pediatrics) performed the world’s first, unrelated umbilical cord blood transplant for high-risk sickle cell anemia in the AFLAC Cancer Center of Egleston Children’s Hospital at Emory University. Roy Bakay (Neurosurgery) and colleague Phillip R. Kennedy developed a neurotrophic electrode and successfully implanted it into the brains of two patients at Emory University Hospital left paralyzed and unable to speak, one from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (known as Lou Gehrig’s disease) and one from a brainstem stroke. With the implant the patients were able to communicate using a computer. A research team led by Spencer B. King (Cardiology) was the first to receive Food and Drug Administration approval to test whether beta radiation applied to the site of clogged coronary arteries dilated by balloon angioplasty helped prevent restenosis, the renarrowing of coronary arteries. Final results of the group’s Beta Energy Restenosis Trial were presented at the 1998 American Heart Association Scientific Sessions. Among several ongoing research projects in The Winship Cancer Center of Emory University is a study that combines two cancer treatments, immunotherapy and chemotherapy, to treat patients with metastatic melanoma. The testing of this new therapy, called biochemotherapy, is part of a new nationwide study sponsored by the National Cancer Institute. Winship researchers are also conducting clinical trials of a method of drug delivery that appears to increase the effects of traditional chemotherapeutic drugs on brain cancer. Mark Gilbert, co-director of the Brain Tumor Center, helped develop the principle of a more prolonged exposure to the drug and is one of the primary investigators in this 30-site national trial. Charles Staley (Surgery) is one of a team of the center’s researchers testing a new treatment that combines four drugs to combat pancreatic cancer.   Top NELL HODGSON WOODRUFF SCHOOL OF NURSING Dyanne D. Affonso stepped down as Dean of the School of Nursing in Spring of 1998 to return to teaching and research. Associate Dean Martha Parsons served as interim dean during the 1998-99 school year. Marla Salmon has been named associate vice president for nursing science and CEO of the School of Nursing. Salmon has been a professor and dean for graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Nursing. She also served for six years as director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service’s Division of Nursing and was a member of first lady Hillary Clinton’s task force on health care in 1993. In conjunction with the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the School of Nursing announced a new nursing Ph.D. program. Sixty-four such programs exist throughout the country; Emory hopes to distinguish itself through a focus on outcomes measurement, ethical decision-making, and policy issues in this age of managed care. The second annual Innovative Faculty Scientist Award identified Marlene Walden and Christi Deaton as two promising faculty members whose research will advance knowledge in nursing and the health sciences. Walden’s research includes studying how neo-natal pain pathways are formed; Deaton’s work focuses on recovery issues for coronary artery bypass surgery and angioplasty patients. The award provides an incentive grant of $30,000 to each and carries a 50 percent release time from teaching and administrative duties. Faculty Scientist Award-winner Joyce King was selected for advanced training in cell and molecular biology at the Woods Hole (Massachusetts) Marine Biological Laboratory. King is using the training to advance her basic research into the intercellular mechanisms that tie obesity to serious illnesses such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and hypertension. Nursing school researcher Kathy Parker, working with a grant from the NIH’s Institute of Nursing Research, continued collaboration with Emory Sleep Disorders Center Director Donald Bliwise on a study looking at sleep regulation in dialysis patients. Mary Woody, former interim dean of the school and longtime director of nursing at Grady Hospital, received the American Academy of Nursing’s "Living Legend Award." She was also recognized as one of 50 "Georgia Women Pioneers in Health Care." Shortly after being recognized as one of 50 "Georgia Women Pioneers in Health Care," former Dean of the School of Nursing Ada Fort passed away on April 28, 1998, at age 83. Fort served as dean from 1950-1976. During her tenure, the present nursing school was constructed, Emory initiated the southeast’s first master’s degree program in nursing, and the first African American students enrolled in the master’s program. Gifts in memory of Betty Tigner Turner ’53N were used to create a nursing school professorship and scholarship in her name. Providing the lead gift was her husband, Dr. John S. Turner ’55M, retired director of the Division of Otolaryngology at the School of Medicine. Through a grant from the Independence Foundation, the School of Nursing launched a visiting scholars program that brought three nationally prominent nurse researchers to campus to lecture to students and consult with faculty on research issues. This year’s visiting scholars included: Dr. Carol Korenbrot from the Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco; Dr. Linda Aiken, Trustee Professor of Nursing and Sociology and Director of the Center for Health Services and Policy Research at the University of Pennsylvania; and Dr. Marie Cowan, Professor and Dean of the School of Nursing at University of California, Los Angeles. Speaking to a capacity audience in January, Sandra Thurman, the Clinton administration’s "AIDS czar," delivered the nursing school’s second annual David Jowers Lecture on AIDS and Infectious Disease. Top ROLLINS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH The applicant pool for students entering in 1998 grew 14 percent over the previous year (to 1000). New students enrolling in Fall 1998 (8 percent more than in 1997) had a higher mean Graduate Record Examination than those enrolled in the previous year. Ralph J. DiClemente joined the school’s faculty as the Charles Howard Candler Professor and chair of the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education. DiClemente’s research is in the field of HIV prevention and health promotion, currently focused on the development of interventions to lessen adolescent risk-taking. The National Institute of Mental Health funded a multisite HIV prevention trial that finished this year. At the Emory site, led by Colleen DiIorio, researchers found that people at the highest risk for HIV and AIDS will significantly modify their risky sexual behaviors in response to behavioral interventions. The Carlos and Marguerite Mason Trust awarded a grant to the school and its collaborators to address the growing public health problem of a shortage of organ donations from African Americans in Georgia. The project’s goal is to increase organ, tissue, blood, and marrow transplantation among African Americans in the state. It is a collaboration of the school, Emory’s Center for Transplantation, and community partners such as the American Red Cross and Clark Atlanta University. Through the efforts of Dirk Schroeder and Jim Setzer in the Department of International Health, the school established an international field station and teaching program in Guatemala to enable students to receive field training to complement classroom experiences. Supported during the first year by the Emory Internationalization Fund, the University Teaching Fund, the O. C. Hubert Fellowships in International Health, the Eugene J. Gangarosa Scholarship Fund, and Delta Air Lines, the program allowed masters degree students to work on public health issues in a developing country. In April of 1998, the school announced the creation of the Career MPH. Through an Internet-based program, federal, state, and local public health professionals can receive graduate training without interrupting their employment and fulfill the credit hours required for a master of public health degree from Emory through distance learning-based education. In collaboration with the School of Medicine, a new Masters of Science in Clinical Investigation Program was launched during 1998-99. The program trains medical residents, fellows, and junior faculty interested in clinical research. Jeffrey Koplan, an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Epidemiology, was named director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Previously the director of the Prudential Center for Health Care Research, Koplan has had a 22-year career in public health.   Top YERKES REGIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER In October 1998, the health science administrators celebrated the completion of the foundation for the new Vaccine Research Center on the grounds of Yerkes. The new building will house the Vaccine Center and the Yerkes Division of Microbiology and Immunology. The $13.1 million, 75,000 square-foot addition, should be completed by May 1999. In 1998, the research budget for Yerkes investigators increased by 30 percent over 1997. The Emory Integrated Preclinical/Clinical AIDS Vaccine Development Program (IPCAVD) received funding this year from the NIH. The $4.2 million award extends over five years and covers four different components of vaccine development. Chief of the Division of Microbiology and Immunology Harriet Robinson serves as the principal investigator, and project directors include Richard Compans, John Altman, and Francois Villinger. Yerkes hosted the 16th Annual Non-Human Primate AIDS Meeting this year, with many Yerkes scientists giving presentations. Nearly 260 registrants from 10 different countries attended. Dr. Neal Nathanson, M.D., Director of the Office of AIDS Research, gave the keynote presentation in which he acknowledged the significance of studying live attenuated vaccines as well as DNA vaccines. Both types of studies are ongoing at Yerkes. The chimpanzee gene discovery program began this year. The study, conducted under an agreement with the biotechnology firm GenoPlex, will focus on the functional genomics associated with aging, learning, memory, and alcohol dependency. Yerkes Regional Primate Center established the Living Links Center, devoted to the better understanding of connections between humans and apes. The center brings together scientists to examine behavior and hominoid evolution in new ways. Researchers observe the social life of chimps and use advanced techniques in genetic testing, MRI and PET imaging for neuroanatomical studies, and computer programs specially designed at Yerkes to measure learning, memory, and cognitive processes in chimps. Several new scientists joined the Yerkes Center. Jeffrey Safrit, formerly of Bristol-Myers Squibb, joined the Division of Microbiology and Immunology. Safrit studies cellular immune responses in HIV and SIV vaccine trial subject. Mark Feinberg from the National Institutes of Health, Office of AIDS Research joined the vaccine research team in SIV and HIV research and serves as associate director of Emory’s NIH-designated Center for AIDS Research and as an associate professor of medicine and microbiology and immunology. Thomas Insel and 60 other neuroscientists from Emory, Atlanta University Center, Georgia State, and Georgia Tech submitted a proposal to the National Science Foundation to create a new Center for Behavioral Neuroscience. The center represents a multidisciplinary effort to examine complex behaviors at the molecular, cellular, and systems levels in diverse species and at different stages of development. It would examine the influence of neurotransmitters on social dominance and aggression, the effect of brain hormones on social bond formation, and the neuroanatomic circuits for fear and anxiety.   Top THE CARTER CENTER Ethiopia became a food exporter for the first time at the beginning of 1997 with the assistance of The Carter Center’s Global 2000 program and its partner the Sasakawa Africa Association. Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi wrote to President Carter to express his gratitude for the center’s assistance, stating that while he has hoped to live to see Ethiopia producing enough grain to feed its people, he had never expected it to happen so soon and so fast. Nobel Prize laureate Norman Borlaug leads the center’s agriculture program. The Carter Center’s Global 2000 health program has led international efforts to eradicate Guinea worm disease (dracunculiasis) and to control River Blindness (onchocerciasis). Over 97 percent of Guinea worm cases have been eliminated. In 1998, the Center expanded the health program to tackle three additional tropical diseases: lymphatic filariasis, schistosomiasis, and trachoma. The head of the center health programs, Donald Hopkins, M.D., M.P.H., was elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1997. President Carter was awarded the United Nations Human Rights Prize on December 10, 1998, the 50th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. At the invitation of the government of the People’s Republic of China, The Carter Center has sent five delegations to observe village elections. In June and July of 1998, a Center delegation helped establish a data collection system that will improve the government's ability to conduct village elections and ultimately to standardize election procedures nationwide. A result of a landmark agreement signed in March 1998 between the Ministry of Civil Affairs and The Carter Center, the project has included visits to Atlanta from Chinese leaders. In January 1999, a team from the Center became the first outside group to observe a township election. The township is the first level of the formal Chinese government structure, a step above the village level. Former U.S. President and Mrs. Carter traveled to Nigeria in February 1999 as heads of a 60-member team to monitor the Nigerian presidential election. Gen. Colin Powell and former Niger President Mahamane Ousmane co-led the delegation, made up of representatives of The Carter Center and the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI). The delegation reported irregularities in the election process, but found no systematic evidence that the abuses were responsible for the overall outcome. The victory of Olusegun Obasanjo marked an end to military rule in favor of civilian government. Other center election-monitoring missions during 1997 and 1998 included Liberia, Jamaica, Mexico, and Venezuela. The Carter Center’s Interfaith Health Program established in January 1998 a Faith and Health Consortium to promote the development of curriculum, training programs, community partnerships, and "best practices" research linking faith and health. Coordinated by Fran Wenger at The Carter Center and funded by the John Templeton Foundation, the consortium is a partnership of five U.S. universities (Pittsburgh, St. Louis, South Carolina, California at Berkeley, and Emory). The Carter Center established a new lectureship at Emory, the Rosalynn Carter Distinguished Lecture in Mental Health Journalism. The purpose is to educate not only journalism students but also the community at large about mental health issues and how the media can help diminish the stigma that people with mental illness often face. Jack Nelson, chief Washington correspondent for the Los Angeles Times and winner of a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting about mental illness, was the keynote speaker at the inaugural lecture in September 1998. Governor Zell Miller proclaimed Oct. 22, 1977, "Carter Center Day," in recognition of the Center’s 15th Anniversary.   Top CENTER FOR ETHICS IN PUBLIC POLICY AND THE PROFESSIONS The new D. Abbott Turner Ethics and Servant Leadership Program, initiated in the fall of 1998, received a pledge of $2 million. Funding from the endowment for 1998-99 will be $75,000, growing to $150,000 in 1999-2000. The program, devised during 1997, will provide the university with an interdisciplinary leadership program incorporating principles of service learning. The center augmented the clinical ethics course required for all third-year medical students by implementing an outcomes measure that combines assessment of moral reasoning and analysis with medical diagnosis. The course provides case-based discussions of ethics issues which students might encounter during rotation including: the relationship between law and ethics, end-of-life decisions, forced psychiatric evaluation and treatment, adolescent rights in health decisions, and allocation of scarce resources in organ transplantation. President William Chace invited the center to lead in shaping the Sam Nunn/NationsBank Public Policy Forum, "Leadership, Values, and Ethics: Educating Global Citizens for a New Millennium," which was hosted and led by Emory University in March 1999. This forum annually gathers academic, government, and private sector experts. Through a three-year grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the center—in conjunction with the Rollins School of Public Health—led the first year of a three-semester faculty seminar on "Health Care: Let the Market Handle It?" Fourteen Emory faculty members, two post-doctoral fellows, and five graduate students from a variety of departments convened to focus on health care and the market, examining both interdisciplinary and international perspectives. The students enrolled in "Values in Science" during the fall and spring semesters of 1997-98 and in Emory’s Summer Undergraduate Research Experience program (SURE) participated in Steve Olson’s Sci-Team Discovery simulation program. The simulation provides students with a practical introduction to the complicated issues surrounding the ethics of science research including: conflicts of interest, authorship, scientific misconduct, and scientific integrity. In July, Olsen and Pat Marsteller (Biology) took Sci-Team Discovery to the University of Missouri’s summer undergraduate research program.   Top MICHAEL C. CARLOS MUSEUM Peter Lacovara was named the museum’s first Curator of Ancient Art in May 1998. Lacovara, who holds a Ph.D. from the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, came to the Carlos Museum after seventeen years in the department of Ancient Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Eastern Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He has also taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ronni Baer was appointed the museum’s first Curator of European Art in July 1998. Baer, who holds degrees from Emory University and a Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University, was formerly the Francis W. Bunzl Curator of European Art at the High Museum in Atlanta. She has also worked at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Cooper-Hewitt Institute of Design—a branch of the Smithsonian Institution in New York City, and other museums. She has taught at Emory and the University of Georgia. In September 1998, Carlos Museum’s permanent collection of African art reopened in a newly renovated space. The current installation features work from Cameroon and Central Africa, more than half of which has never been exhibited before at the museum. In celebration of the reinstallation, the museum planned innovative programming , panel discussions, scholarly lectures, school visit programs, and a brochure on the museum’s collection of more than 900 works of African art. Through the generosity of Michael C. Carlos, the museum acquired an elegant and highly important Greek kylix (drinking cup) of ca. 500 B.C., attributed to the Painter of the Paris Gigantomachy. The exhibition The Carlos Kylix: A New Masterpiece of Archaic Greek Vase Painting opened following the cup’s installation. The Michael C. Carlos Museum’s Board of Directors, Emory University, and the people of Atlanta came together to enable the museum to acquire an important collection of ancient Egyptian antiquities. The collection consists of nine coffins and ten mummies, including what may be the only royal mummy outside of Egypt, as well as shawabtis, canopic jars, amulets and jewelry, bronze sculptures, pottery, basketry, wooden objects, and relief fragments. The museum’s attendance reached well over 100,000 in 1997-98 and again in 1998-99, a substantial increase over earlier years. The Carlos Museum has increasingly received national media coverage in the past year. The exhibitions The Buddha’s Art of Healing, and Shamans, Gods, and Mythic Beasts: Colombian Gold and Ceramics in Antiquity were featured on CNN newscasts. The Buddha’s Art of Healing also received the "End Paper" spot in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Recently, Beads, Body, and Soul: Art and Light in the Yoruba Universe was featured in a "Morning Edition" show on National Public Radio. The acquisition of the Egyptian collection of mummies and funerary art, however, brought the most media attention, with repeated coverage in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and on local television and radio stations. In addition, two exhibitions, Connections and Contradictions: Modern and Contemporary Art from Atlanta Collections and Shamans, Gods, and Mythic Beasts: Colombian Gold and Ceramics in Antiquity were named in a list of the best art shows of 1998 by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Major exhibitions at the museum in 1997-99 included: Masterpieces from the Asia Society: The Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection, The Art of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions at the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Sepphoris in Galilee: Crosscurrents of Culture, The Buddha’s Art of Healing: Tibetan Medical Paintings from Buryatia, Masterpieces of Tibetan Art from the Newark Museum and Private Collections, Connections and Contradictions: Modern and Contemporary Art from Atlanta Collections, Discovering the Historical Aida, Shamans, Gods, and Mythic Beasts: Colombian Gold and Ceramics in Antiquity; The Carlos Kylix: A New Masterpiece of Archaic Greek Vase Painting; Beads, Body, and Soul: Art and Light in the Yoruba Universe; and Master Drawings at the Worcester Art Museum. Exhibitions for the 1999-2000 season include: So Many Brilliant Talents: Art and Craft in the Age of Rubens, Half Past Autumn: The Art of Gordon Parks, and Tyranny and Transformation in Roman Portraiture.   Top LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY On April 22, 1998, Emory Libraries celebrated the dedication of the new Center for Library and Information Resources (CLAIR)—the new addition to Woodruff Library—and the renovation of 100,000 square feet in the original building. CLAIR provides 69,000 square feet in which traditional library sources and electronic information technology commingle and staff from Emory’s Information Technology Division are brought together with Woodruff Library staff to provide a state-of-the-art resource environment at Emory. CLAIR provides a number of new electronic digital resources and services for both the Library and the Information technology Division. Two new databases, JSTOR (Journal Storage) and MUSE, came online in September 1997, placing volumes of scholarly publications at the fingertips of anyone on campus or using EmoryConnect while cutting down on the need for storage space for printed volumes. Also among CLAIR’s new technology centers is the Presentation Distance Learning Room, a videoconferencing facility which serves as a link with Oxford College and other universities. Its full range of multimedia equipment provides a unique meeting space for teaching and learning. In 1998, Emory established the Music and Media Library. Temporarily located on the third floor of Candler Library, the new unit provides comprehensive services for users of the music collections, bringing together audio, video, and print resources. Once funding to complete the floor is in place, the Music and Media Library will be moved to space on the fourth floor of Woodruff Library’s new addition. With funding from a $1.5 million dollar grant from the Woodruff Foundation, Emory initiated a 3-year, joint project with Georgia Tech to explore new technologies for digitizing archival material. One of the early products of this project is the creation of a CD-ROM, recently distributed to public schools throughout Georgia, on the life of former Senator Sam Nunn. The library’s holdings in art history got a big boost when it purchased a 15,000-volume collection of Renaissance and Baroque art from the estate of Wilhelm Emil Suida, an eminent Viennese art historian known for his work on Leonardo da Vinci and Genoese painting. Woodruff Library’s Special Collections Department, through broad university funding support, acquired the archives of the Gallery Press. This purchase added to the library’s collection supporting the study of modern Irish poetry, now the finest outside of Ireland. The Gallery Press archive represents one of the most important post-World War II literary collections in Ireland. It contains correspondence with famous writers and poets, including Brian Friel, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Robert Longley, James Muldoon, and James Dickey. Woodruff Library acquired significant archival material for African American studies, including the papers of the writer Raymond Andrews, as well as the papers of this remarkable family. The rich James Weldon Johnson Collection, containing the correspondence, literary manuscripts, sheet music, photographs of Johnson, an important early-twentieth-century educator, journalist, diplomat, poet, and writer, was also added. This year the Woodruff Library embarked on a major campaign for developing an African-American Collections Endowment Fund in order to build the collections and information resources in this area. This will be one of the key subject areas for enhancement. In December 1998, Paul Morris became Emory's new vice provost for Information Technology, Morris had served as the interim vice provost since January and prior to that served as chief operations officer for ITD, overseeing the division's reorganization effort, developing relationships across campus and formulating plans for several advisory boards on digital information and administrative structure. As vice provost, Morris will be responsible for the development and implementation of comprehensive information technology strategy and operations. Emory University has established the Council on Information Resources and Technology (CIRT) to develop a strategic vision for how Emory can best use new technologies to accomplish its mission. Specifically, CIRT will address how to gather, manage, and disseminate information and knowledge in the most efficient and effective ways possible. Co-chaired by Chancellor Billy Frye and Emory College Dean Steve Sanderson, CIRT will be composed of 18 members, appointed by the provost from all corners of the university, but two key council members are vice provosts Paul Morris of the Information Technology Division and Joan Gotwals of University Libraries. Emory has received a matching grant from the National Science Foundation to connect Emory researchers to the vBNS (very-high-speed Backbone Network Service), a high-performance, high-bandwidth network that provides a test-bed for next-generation networking applications and research. Funded by the Advanced Networking Infrastructure Program (ANI) of the National Science Foundation (NSF), the vBNS interconnects two NSF supercomputing centers with research institutions like Emory which are selected under NSF's High-Performance Connections program. Library staff uncovered a long-lost and forgotten frieze that hung from Candler Library’s mezzanine level more than 40 years ago. The 26 crates holding a plaster copy of Danish sculptor Bertel Thorwaldsen’s "The Triumph of Alexander" will eventually be reinstalled in a renovated Candler.   Top EMORY WOMEN'S CENTER In July 1998, the Emory Women’s Center received a $25,000 unrestricted grant from Eckerd Corporation in recognition for the center’s support of women’s initiatives on a college campus. The drugstore chain, in celebration of its 100th anniversary, distinguished Emory from among 157 university women’s centers it examined anonymously. With the funds from the Eckerd grant, the Women’s Center has established the Mary Lynn Morgan Annual Lectureship on Women in the Health Professions. The lectureship’s namesake graduated from the Atlanta-Southern Dental College (which became Emory’s School of Dentistry in 1944), was elected to Emory’s Board of Trustees in 1974 and named a trustee emerita in 1991, and continues to serve on the board’s Academic Affairs Committee. The first of the Morgan lectures will be delivered in Fall 1999. During 1997-98, the Women’s Center created Friends of the Emory Women’s Center, which garnered 143 members and nearly $10,000. Many were first-time contributors to Emory. The Nursing Nest received recognition when an article in the national publication About Women on Campus (Winter 1998) proclaimed it a model for universities across the country. The Women’s Center established the Nursing Nest in 1996-97 to provide women on campus with a private space to nurse their babies or pump their breasts while at work.   Top ATHLETICS During the 1997-98 season, 13 of Emory’s 17 sports teams competed in NCAA national championships, and four finished in the top ten including the men’s tennis, which finished fourth; women’s cross country, which placed seventh; women’s tennis, which finished as a quarterfinalist; and golf, which placed 10th. In 1998, Emory University finished 14th in the nation for best all-around athletics programs, according to the final standings of the Sears Directors’ Cup. This was the third consecutive year Emory placed in the top 15 among the more than 350 schools in NCAA Division III (seventh in 1996 and fourth in 1997). Seven Emory student-athletes during the 1997-98 season were named GTE Academic All-Americans in recognition of their excellence in academics and sport, a record number for Emory. Among those recognized was Vista Beasley, the first Emory student to make the Academic All-America team in two sports. Emory University added women’s softball as a varsity sport in the 1998-99 season. This addition brings the total number of varsity sports to 18, nine for men and nine for women. In the 1998-99 season, 12 out of Emory’s 18 varsity teams made it to the NCAA national championships. Thus far, three teams have finished in the top ten: the men’s swimming and diving team broke the conference scoring record while winning the regional championship and finished sixth at the national meet; the men’s tennis team won its 11th straight conference title and placed seventh; and the women’s soccer team, after completing the best season in the program’s history, won its first conference title and finished ninth.   Top ALUMNI/ALUMNAE The new Miller-Ward Alumni House is scheduled to be completed in the spring of 2000. Named in honor of Dean of Alumni Judson Ward ’33C-’36G and the first alumni dean H. Prentice Miller ’27C-’28G, the facility will incorporate the existing two-story, 7,500-square-foot former Scholars Press building on Houston Mill Road and will triple the available space. In addition to public areas designed for business meetings and entertaining, there will be significant archival space and a center for the Alumni Career Network. In the spring of 1998, the Committee on Traditions and Community Ties (CONTACT Emory) was formed as an outgrowth of the 1996 Alumni Leadership Conference. The group hopes to foster greater community unity by examining shared experiences. Through a community-wide survey, the committee hopes to gain a better idea of traditions already in existence as well as ideas for new traditions that could build a closer Emory community. Under the Board of Governors’ direction, the alumni association began two new programs of great significance in the past year: the development of the Alumni Career Network with a full-time director and the inaugural program of Beyond the Basics, a seminar for alumni and their high-school-aged children on the process and potential pitfalls of applying to a selective university or college. With 259 Emory alumni who have served in the Peace Corps, Emory University ranks tenth in the nation in alumni Peace Corps volunteers among colleges and universities whose undergraduate enrollment is less than five thousand. Emory is the only institution in the Southeast to make the top twenty-five in that category. The Emory Medal, designed to recognize Emory graduates, is awarded by the Leadership Development Committee of the Board of Governors for distinguished service to Emory, distinguished community or public service, or distinguished achievement in business, the arts, the professions, government, or education. Among Emory Medal honorees for 1998 are Anthony A. Alaimo ’48L, Earl Dolive ’40B, James R. Gavin III ’70PhD, Laura Jones Hardman ’67C, Barbara Brown Taylor ’73C, and Jesse L. Walker ’38C-’41M. Emory Medal Winners in 1997 include H. Jackson Brown, Jr. ’63C, Anne Elizabeth Hendrick Gaston ’55M, J. Harper Gaston ’52C-’55M, Edith Folsom Honeycutt ’39N, Ben F. Johnson, Jr. ’36C-’40L, Nancy Rankin Tarbutton ’57C, and Ben J. Tarbutton, Jr. ’49Ox-’51C. 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, Rhodes College, Dillard University, and LaGrange College. Both the former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich ’65C and the former senior U.S. Senator from Georgia Sam Nunn ’62L are Emory alumni. Other members of Congress who are Emory alumni are Georgia senator Max Cleland ’68G and House members Tillie Kidd Fowler ’64C-’67L and H. Daniel Miller ’86MBA of Florida and Sanford Bishop ’71L of Georgia. During November 1998 elections, Thurbert Baker ’79L was elected Georgia State Attorney General. Baker had served as the attorney general since July 1 after being appointed by former governor Zell Miller to fill the unexpired term of Michael Bowers. Prior to becoming attorney general, Baker practiced both civil and criminal law in the state courts of Georgia, was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives in 1988, and served as Miller’s Administration Floor Leader in the Georgia House beginning in 1993. Leah Sears ’80L, 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 ’45C, former acting president and Sterling Professor of American History Emeritus, Yale University; C. Vann Woodward ’30C, Pulitzer Prize winner and Sterling Professor of History Emeritus, Yale University; Harold S. Johnston ’41C, National Academy of Sciences member and professor of chemistry, the University of California, Berkeley; Eugene A. Stead, Jr. ’28C-’32M, founding member of the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine; Florence McAlister ’ Professor Emeritus, Duke University; Arnall Patz ’43C-’45M, chair of ophthalmology and director of the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute, Johns Hopkins University; Norman Giles ’37C, Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellow and Callaway Professor of Genetics, The University of Georgia; Louis Harlan’43C, Guggenheim Fellow, Pulitzer Prize winner, and professor of history, the University of Maryland; and Catherine E. Rudder ’69C, executive director of the American Political Science Association. Dumas Malone ’10C, 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. Distinguished business leaders who graduated from Emory include Ely R. Callaway, Jr. ’40C, founder of Callaway Golf; Jimmy Williams ’55C, former chairman of SunTrust Banks; Kenneth Cole ’76C, founder of Kenneth Cole Shoes; Matt Gold ’64C, chairman and COO of Precision Standard; Jack Stahl ’75C, president of Coca-Cola USA; and Howard Jenkins ’75C, chair and CEO of Publix Supermarkets. Distinguished members of the press and media who are Emory alumni include Michael Golden ’86EMBA, senior vice president of The New York Times; Jim Fain ’41C, national columnist for Cox newspapers; George Page ’57C, Emmy award-winning producer of The Mind and Nature for PBS; Ernie Harwell ’40C, longtime voice of the Detroit Tigers and member of the baseball Hall of Fame; and Claude Sitton ’40Ox-’49C, 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.

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