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National & International Faculty
Recognition, Fall 2000
Emory's faculty are recognized worldwide for their scholarship. Not only
are they the recipients of prestigious awards and appointments, but also
their work receives positive review in both scholarly and popular publications.
Below you will find a few recent examples of the recognition Emory faculty
members have received in the past year on both national and international
levels.
- Michael Bellesiles, Associate
Professor of History, has received laudatory front-page reviews in The
New York Times Book Review, The Chronicle Review, and The New York Review
of Books for his latest book, Arming America: The Origins of National
Gun Culture (Knopf, 2000). In addition, Professor Bellesiles was
featured recently on National Public Radio's "Fresh Air."
- Sidney Perkowitz, Charles Howard
Candler Professor of Physics, has also received national attention and
numerous positive reviews for his book Universal Foam: From Cappuccino
to the Cosmos (Walker & Co, 2000).
- Emory's Violence Studies Program,
led by Robert Agnew, Professor of Sociology, and Michael Bellesiles,
has been nationally recognized by periodicals such as The Chronicle
of Higher Education for its interdisciplinary engagement with social
problems and student attitudes. In the program, undergraduates study
the causes and consequences of violence from the perspectives of disciplines
such as history, sociology, biology, literature, and music.
- Ronald Schuchard, well-known
Yeats scholar and Goodrich C. White Professor of English, recently completed
a three-year term as director of the Yeats International Summer School
in Sligo, Ireland. Recognized last month by The Chronicle of Higher
Education, the Yeats International Summer School convenes every August
for intensive two-week training that draws both internationally renowned
scholars and students.
- James W. Flannery, Professor
of Performing Arts at Emory University and Director of the W.B. Yeats
Foundation, was named one of the "Top 100 Irish Americans"
by Irish-America magazine for his work as scholar-artist in the field
of Irish studies. His recording, "Dear Harp of My Country: The
Irish Melodies of Thomas Moore" was featured in a recent Irish
national radio program on the history of Irish music.
- Leroy Davis, Associate Professor
of History and African American Studies, received the 1999 Lillian Smith
Book Award for A Clashing of the Soul (U of Georgia P, 1998), a biography
of John Hope, pioneer of black higher education in America.
- Matthew Bernstein, Associate Professor
of Film Studies and the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts, was
awarded the 1999 Franklin M. Garrett Award by the Atlanta Historical
Society in recognition of his article, "Selnick's March: Hollywood
Comes to Atlanta for 'Gone with the Wind,'" which was published
in Atlanta History during the summer of 1999.
- Claire E. Sterk, Professor and
Chair of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, is part of a nationally
recognized group of scholars focusing on the lives of drug-dependent
women. Professor Sterk interviewed nearly 150 female crack-cocaine users
in Atlanta for her book, Fast Lives: Women Who Use Crack Cocaine
(Temple UP, 1999).
- Claire E. Sterk was a member of
the team that investigated the syphilis outbreak in Rockdale County.
At the time of the outbreak, she was assisting the Georgia Department
of Public Health to integrate Fulton and DeKalb counties' sexually transmitted
disease, HIV and tuberculosis programs. Professor Sterk was later interviewed
on her research for PBS's Frontline special, "The Lost Children
of Rockdale County," which aired in October 1999.
- Michael J. Kuhar, Professor of
Neuropharmacology has been recognized (The Chronicle of Higher Education,
April 21, 2000) for his role in the national effort to develop pharmaceuticals
designed specifically to treat addictions.
- Alexander Hicks, Professor of
Sociology, received the 2000 Luebbert Award from the Comparative Politics
Section of the American Political Science Association for the best book
on comparative politics published in 1998-99. Hicks's book, entitled
Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism: A Century of Income Security
Politics (Cornell UP, 1999), describes and explains income security
programs in affluent and democratic capitalist nations.
- Presidential Distinguished Professor Johnnetta
Cole was awarded the prestigious Radcliffe Medal in June,
joining the ranks of U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno, author Alice
Walker, and Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham. Each year the
Radcliffe College Alumnae Association awards the medal to a woman whose
achievements have significantly influenced society.
- Xuefei (Ha) Jin, Professor in
the Program of Creative Writing, won both the 1999 National Book Award
for Fiction and the Pen/Faulkner Award for Waiting (Pantheon
Books, 1999). The novel was also a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
- Deborah Lipstadt, Dorot Professor
of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies, successfully defended a libel
suit in England brought against her by David Irving, an Holocaust revisionist.
This lawsuit has brought international attention to the issue of Holocaust
denial through venues such as the PBS television series NOVA.
- Professor of Law Frank J. Vandall's
theory of design defect in products liability was cited by the Kansas
Supreme Court in the case of Delany v. Deere & Co. An article in
the Atlanta Journal Constitution referred to Professor Vandall as "one
of the nation's top civil litigation analysts."
- Abdullahi An-Na'im, Charles Howard
Candler Professor of Law, received the 1999 Dr. J.P. van Praagrijs Award
from the Dutch Ethical Humanist Society on December 12, 1999.
- Harold J. Berman, Robert W. Woodruff
Professor of Law, was named Doctor, honoris causa, in Moscow by the
Russian Academy of Sciences Law University, May 2000.
- Associate Professor of Law William Buzbee's
article, "Urban Sprawl, Federalism, and the Problem of Institutional
Complexity" (originally published in Fordham Law Review, 1999)
was selected as one of last year's best ten articles on land use or
environmental law. As a result, this article will be republished in
a collection of those best articles in Land Use and Environment Law
Review (2000).
- Johan van der Vyver, I.T. Cohen
Professor of International Law and Human Rights, was named "Distinguished
International Scholar" by Potchefstroom University for Christian
Higher Education in South Africa. Professor van der Vyver was also the
subject of festschrift in In Koers, which is Potchefstroom University's
official journal. The festschrift contains essays by former students
and present and former colleagues commenting on Professor van der Vyver's
scholarly impact.
- John Witte, Jr., Jonas Robitscher
Professor of Law, won the Abraham Kuyper Prize for Excellence in Theology
and Public Life from Princeton in 1999.
- Emory University's School of Nursing
is among forty national sites for the Women's Health Initiative (WHI),
the largest study ever undertaken to improve the health of older women.
Launched by the National Institutes of Health in 1991, the 15-year study
of 162,000 women looks at ways to prevent coronary heart disease, breast
and colon cancer, and fractures from osteoporosis in older women of
all races and socioeconomic backgrounds.
- The Georgia Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center
under the direction of James R. Eckman, Professor of Hematology/Oncology
in the Winship Cancer Institute, was awarded the Distinguished Safety
Net Clinician Award by the National Association of Public Hospitals
in recognition of the clinical research conducted in the Center.
- Louis Elsas, II, Professor of
Pediatrics and Biochemistry and Director of the Division of Medical
Genetics, was honored with the 2000 Claude Moore Fuess Award from the
Phillips Academy. The award recognizes distinguished contributions to
public service and lifelong work in science and education.
- Charles Nemeroff, Professor and
Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, received the
2000 William C. Menninger Memorial Award from the American College of
Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine for distinguished contributions
to the science of mental health.
- Kay Vydareny, Associate Professor
of Radiology, received the Marie Curie Award from the American Association
of Women in Radiology for her work to advance the status of women in
radiology.
- Sharon Weiss, Professor of Pathology,
was named to the Society of Scholars Distinguished Alumnae of Johns
Hopkins University.
- Amita Manatunga, Associate Professor
of Biostatistics, was awarded Best Invited Paper for the Section on
Teaching Statistics in the Health Sciences at the American Statistical
Association.
- Reynaldo Martorell, Robert W.
Woodruff Professor of International Nutrition, was selected for the
E.V. McCollum International Lectureship, presented in Guatemala in association
with the 50th anniversary of INCAP.
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National & International Faculty
Recognition, Spring 2001
Emory's faculty members continue to receive recognition for their work
as outstanding teachers, researchers, and members of the academic community.
National and international news services often feature Emory professors
and researchers as experts on television and radio programs as well as
newspaper articles. So many faculty members received recognition this
spring; below some of the most outstanding examples are listed. For a
more comprehensive list of Emory professors recognized nationally and
internationally, please see individual department updates and press releases.
Faculty members who received honors from national and international organizations
this spring include Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Cultural Theory
and Russian Literature Mikhail Epstein, who received this year's Liberty
Prize for excellence in Russian American studies, as well as Professor
S. Wright Caughman, who gained international recognition for his innovative
work in Dermatology. National newspapers highlighted Emory's Goizetta
Business School as well as the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical
Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University.
- William E. Gruber, Professor of
English, received the 2001 Katherine Bakeless Nason Nonfiction Prize
from the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference for On All Sides Nowhere,
a Houghton Mifflin Mariner Original Paperback scheduled for publication
in spring 2002.
- Scott O. Lilienfeld, Assistant
Professor of Psychology, and his co-authors, published a study entitled
"The Scientific Status of Projective Technique" in the Journal
of Psychological Sciences in the Public Interest, questioning the validity
of the Rorschach inkblot personality test. The New York Times covered
this study in February.
- Mikhail Epstein, Samuel Candler
Dobbs Professor of Cultural Theory and Russian Literature, earned the
Liberty Prize for his contributions to Russian-American culture. The
award is presented annually to two outstanding Russian cultural figures
living in America.
- S. Wright Caughman, M.D., Professor
and Chair of Dermatology, received the Joseph von Plenck award from
the Austrian Society of Dermatology for outstanding research and advances
in dermatology.
- The 2001 Oxford Institute for Environmental Education at Oxford College,
led by Eloise Carter, Oxford Professor
of Biology and Steve Baker, Oxford
Associate Professor of Biology, earned the title "Educator of the
Year" from the Georgia Wildlife Federation. Professor Carter and
Professor Baker continue to receive grants from Georgia Power and the
Eisenhower Foundation in support of the Oxford Institute for Environmental
Education.
- Emory University's Institute for African Studies was one of nine university
programs awarded funding through the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Sawyer
Seminar program. Professor Donald L. Donham
wrote Emory's proposal, "Contending with Conflict: A Comparative
and Historical Approach to three African Cases" on the program's
behalf.
- Clark V. Poling, Professor of
Art History, won the 2001 Woodford B. Baker Award for Museum Service.
- David Wright, M.D., Assistant
Professor of Emergency Medicine, received one of three nationwide Young
Investigators Awards from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.
- Donald Davis, M.D., Ph.D., Professor
of Medicine, and Jonathan Masor,
M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, were named outstanding primary
care physicians in the United States by Town & Country magazine.
- Thomas Aaberg, Sr., M.D., Chair,
Department of Ophthalmology, received the Hermann Wacker Prize, the
highest honor awarded by the Club Jules Gonin, an international retinal
foundation.
- William Casarella, M.D., Chair
of the Department of Radiology and Executive Associate Dean for Clinical
Affairs, received the Gold Medal of the Society of Cardiovascular and
Interventional Radiology for a lifetime of achievement in the field.
- The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical
Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University was ranked
sixth in a survey of the nation's Bioengineering and Biomedical Departments
by the U. S. News and World Report in January, 2001.
- Emory's Masters in Business Administration
Program was ranked in the top 30 full-time MBA Programs in
the nation, according to a special report in a September issue of Business
Week.
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Academic Research and Teaching,
Fall 2000
Emory faculty are fine scholars and teachers, contributing to the university's
reputation as an excellent research institution. This excellence is evident
in the number of teaching awards faculty members earn, the significant
grants researchers obtain, and the important collections and documents
the institution acquires.
- Ivan Karp, National Endowment for
the Humanities Professor of Liberal Arts, and Corrine Kratz, Associate
Professor of Anthropology and African Studies, received a grant from
the Rockefeller Foundation to support their project "Institutions
of Public Culture: A Collaborative Cape Town-Atlanta Program."
- Eloise Carter, Professor of Biology,
and Steve Baker, Associate Professor of Biology, received grants from
Georgia Power and Eisenhower Foundation in support of the Oxford Institute
for Environmental Education at Oxford College.
- Patricia Clark, Assistant Professor
of Adult and Elder Health in the School of Nursing, received funding
from the National Institute of Nursing Research for her work entitled
"Family Function, Stroke Recovery, and Caregiver Outcomes."
- A group of Emory University faculty from several schools, including
the College, Law, Oxford, and Public Health, participated in a study
trip to Germany sponsored by the Halle Institute
for Global Learning. During the trip, faculty met with and learned
from German officials in banking, politics, education, government, and
the media.
- The Goizueta Business School sponsored,
with BellSouth Corporation, a survey about Internet use in America.
Results of the survey, which were reported nationwide, indicate that
48 percent of Americans have access to the Internet.
- The Special Collections Department of the Robert W. Woodruff Library
has received from collectors James Allen
and John Littlefield a group of photographs
on the theme of lynching in America. Over the past year, the photos
have been on exhibit at museums and galleries around the country; they
are also the subject of a recently published book, Without Sanctuary:
Lynching Photography in America (Twin Palms, 2000), edited by James
Allen.
- Thomas Remington, Claus M. Halle Professor
of Political Science, organized the Halle Conference, held in May at
the Central European University in Budapest. Scholars from Emory, Paris,
Brussels, Budapest, and Dublin presented papers on topics ranging from
democratization and the rights of ethnic groups to the cost of cleaning
up the environment.
- The Beck Center has recently added
the 182 CD ROMs of Siku Quanshu to its collection. The Siku Quanshu,
or Complete Library in Four Branches of Literature, is the most comprehensive
collection of Chinese scholarship from antiquity to the 18th century.
- Several faculty from the Department of Medicine received the Golden
Apple Award for excellence in teaching: Dr.
James Eckman and Dr. Neil Winawer
at Grady Hospital; Dr. Ken Leeper at
Crawford Long Hospital; Dr. J. Willis Hurst
at Emory Hospital; and Dr. Carlos Agudelo
at the VA Hospital. Dr. Nanette Wenger
is the inaugural recipient of the Kokko Award for excellence in teaching.
- Gretchen Schulz, Associate Professor
of Humanities at Oxford College, was one of eight faculty members chosen
to participate in the Summer Symposium of the Governor's Teaching Fellow
Program that was held at the University of Georgia.
- Reza Saadein, Associate Professor of
Chemistry at Oxford College, received the Phi Theta Kappa Teaching Award.
- Lucas Carpenter, Charles Howard Candler
Professor of English at Oxford College, was recently awarded a Fulbright
grant to lecture in American literature at the Katholieke Universtiteit
Leuven in Belgium. Carpenter, the first Oxford faculty member to receive
a Fulbright, joined the approximately 200 U.S. award winners who traveled
abroad for the 1999-00 academic year through the Fulbright program.
- The Ford Foundation granted over $700,000 to support the projects
of Bruce Knauft, Professor of Anthropology
and Director of the Vernacular Modernities Program; Fleda
Jackson, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology;
Johnnetta Cole, Presidential Distinguished Professor of Anthropology,
and Frances Smith Foster, Director of
the Institute for Women's Studies and Charles Howard Candler Professor
of Women's Studies; and Abdullahi An-Na'im,
Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law.
- Patricia Owen-Smith, Associate Professor
of Psychology, became a Carnegie Foundation Fellow and received Oxford
College's first Williams Teaching Award.
- Margo Bagley, Assistant Professor of
Law, was selected by representatives of the Oracle Corporation, Lyon
& Lyon and the Dean Dinwoody Center for Intellectual Property of
the George Washington University Law School to receive a writing grant
and present a paper at a symposium on "E-Commerce and E-Quivalence:
Defining the Proper Scope of Internet Patents" held at George Washington
University Law School.
- In September 1999, Morgan Cloud, Charles
Howard Candler Professor of Law, delivered a lecture series entitled,
"On Corporate Crime in an International Economy" at the Constitutional
and Legal Policy Institute, an academic institute in Budapest, Hungary,
to an audience of law professors and legal scholars from Central and
Eastern Europe.
- Polly J. Price, Associate Professor
of Law, was selected as one of ten scholars to participate in the Stanford
/ Yale Junior Faculty Forum to present "Alien Land Restrictions
in the American Common Law: Exploring the Relative Autonomy Paradigm,"
which will be published in the American Journal of Legal History.
- The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has approved a grant of $3.6 million
to Emory to establish a center on rituals and myths in working families.
The Emory Center for Myth and Ritual in American Life (the MARIAL center)
is led Bradd Shore, Distinguished Teaching
Professor in the Department of Anthropology. Since 1995, the Sloan Foundation
has established prestigious research and teaching centers on dual income
middle-class families at four other institutions: Cornell University,
the University of California, Berkeley, The University of Chicago, and
the University of Michigan.
- Patricia Clark and Christi
Deaton, Assistant Professors in the School of Nursing, are postdoctoral
fellows in gerontology at Emory's Wesley Woods Center. The fellowships
are funded by a grant from the Woodruff Foundation to strengthen interdisciplinary
research in nursing gerontology.
- The Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing
recently implemented a second Master of Science program for Leadership
in Public Health Nursing. It also introduced its doctoral program last
fall in conjunction with Emory's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
- The Department of Religion received
a $21,000 grant from the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning Theology
to sponsor a two-year program in Conflict and Religion entitled, "The
Meaning and End of Religious Conflict." Events will include a faculty
seminar with Harvard University's David Little and a graduate student
conference in conjunction with the Year of Reconciliation.
- Six faculty members from Emory College have received substantial grants
for their research. These include Lanny Liebeskind,
Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Chemistry ($685,934); Craig
L. Hill, Goodrich C. White Professor of Science ($625,864); Frank
E. McDonald, Professor of Chemistry ($559,229); Edmund
P. Day, Associate Professor of Physics and Director of Undergraduate
Studies ($522,053); and John C. Lucchesi,
Chair and Asa G. Candler Professor of Biology ($507,210).
- Mike McQuaide and Bill
McKibben of Oxford College received the Mizell Award, which goes
to a faculty person who demonstrates superior performance in furthering
the education of students during the past year.
- Dr. Stephanie Sherman of the Emory
University School of Medicine received a $6 million NIH grant to lead
a group of scientists from six sites, including Emory, to research the
causes of Down syndrome.
- The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded nearly $7 million
over five years to Emory and five institutions
within the Atlanta University Center
(AUC) for an interdisciplinary postdoctoral training program. The new
program is designed to increase the quantity and quality of fellows
entering careers in the biological and biomedical sciences and of teachers
within undergraduate institutions serving minority students.
- Kathleen Adams, Associate Professor
of Health Policy and Management at the Rollins School of Public Health,
was awarded a two-year, $448,000 grant from the American Cancer Society
to study how major policy changes have affected cancer screening rates
among Americans, especially those of lower socioeconomic status. Professor
Adams will be joined by co-investigators, Kenneth Thorpe, Woodruff Chair
and Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Rollins School
of Public Health and Ned Becker, Associate Professor at Rollins.
- Fred Menger, Candler Professor of Chemistry,
has developed a viable decontamination system for deadly chemical weapons
such as mustard gas. Professor Menger uses an aqueous system via emulsion,
a solution with tiny suspended droplets that dissolves large amounts
of toxic organic substances.
- Jeffrey Mirel, Director of Educational
Studies, received a $500,000 grant renewable through 2007 from the Spencer
Foundation for his project in research training in the Division of Educational
Studies in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
- James Fowler, Candler Professor and
Director of the Ethics Center, and Kathleen
Kinlaw, Associate Director of the Ethics Center, received a $120,000
grant from the John H. and Wilhelmina D. Harland Charitable Foundation
to fund a fellow in Pediatric Ethics.
- Jacqueline Jordan Irvine, Charles Howard
Candler Professor of Urban Education, and Vanessa
Siddle-Walker, Associate Professor of Educational Studies, received
a $250,000 grant from the Spencer Foundation for their project, "Southern
Consortium for Educational Research in Urban Schools."
- William Buzbee, Associate Professor
of Law, and Julie Mayfield, Turner Environmental
Law Fellow, received $200,000 for their work in the Environmental Law
Clinic.
- Karen Worthington, Clinical Instructor
in the School of Law, was awarded $100,000 per year for an unspecified
number of years from the Community Foundation / Barton Fund to assist
her work in the Barton Child Advocacy Clinic.
- Among Emory faculty honored with university teaching awards during
1999-2000 are Walter Reed, Professor
of English and Director of the Center for Teaching and Curriculum (University
Scholar / Teacher Award) and Jacqueline Jordan
Irvine, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Urban Education (Thomas
Jefferson Award). Recipients of the Emory Williams Awards for Distinguished
Teaching are David Kleinbaum, Professor
of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health; Judith
Miller, Associate Professor of History, Emory College; Deborah
Ryan, Associate Professor of Nursing, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School
of Nursing; Michael Solomon, Associate
Professor of Spanish, Emory College; and Steven
Walton, Associate Professor of Decision and Information Analysis,
Goizueta Business School.
- Among Goizueta Business School faculty honored for their teaching
are Steve Walton, Assistant Professor
of Decision and Information Analysis, recipient of the BBA Distinguished
Educator Award; Jan Barton, Assistant
Professor of Accounting and Patrick Noonan,
Associate Professor in the Practice of Decision and Information Analysis,
recipients of the MBA Distinguished Educator Award; Rob
Kazanjian, Professor of Organization and Management, recipient
of the Evening MBA Distinguished Educator Award; and Tom
Thomas, Professor of Organization and Management, recipient of
the Marc F. Adler Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
- Emory College faculty honored by the Center for Teaching and Curriculum
for excellence in teaching include Michael Berger,
Assistant Professor of Religion; Greg Orloff,
Senior Lecturer in Biology; Evangeline Amanda
Starns, Lecturer in Biology; and Timothy
Dowd, Assistant Professor of Sociology.
- John Stone, Associate Dean of the School
of Medicine received the Eugene Papageorge Award, a monetary award honoring
Evangeline Papageorge, former dean of students.
- John Witte, Robitscher Professor of
Law and Ethics, was named the Student Bar Association's Most Distinguished
Professor.
- Rollins School of Public Health faculty recognized for outstanding
teaching include Azhar Nizam, Senior
Associate in the Department of Biostatistics, recipient of the Professor
of the Year Award; Deborah McFarland,
Associate Professor of International Health and Health Policy and Management,
recipient of the Thomas F. Sellers Jr. Award; and Mary
DeLong, Research Associate Professor in Environmental and Occupational
Health, recipient of the Special Recognition Award.
- Virginia Secor, Adjunct Professor of
Adult and Elder Health, received the Woodruff School of Nursing Teacher
Scholar Award.
- Nadine Kaslow, Professor of Psychiatry
and Behavioral Sciences, was awarded a Health Resources and Services
Administration Primary Care Fellowship under the direction of Donna
Shalala, Secretary for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
- Kenneth Thorpe, Robert W. Woodruff
Professor of Health Policy, undertook an analysis of healthcare reform
proposals advanced by presidential candidates Bradley, Gore and Bush
that were cited by the media. He contributed to a draft of legislation
for universal health insurance to be introduced by Paul Wellstone (D-MN).
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Academic Research
and Teaching, Spring 2001
Each department issues its own publication listing major faculty accomplishments,
including important work in academic research and teaching. The list below
includes a sampling of some of the most remarkable research and teaching
honors bestowed on Emory faculty during the winter and spring. The university
recognized faculty members with annual awards for teaching and research
this year. The Crystal Apple awards recognized nine outstanding teachers,
and the Center for Teaching and Curriculum honored three faculty members.
Marshall Duke, Charles Howard Candler Professor
of Personality and Psychopathy, became the 2001 recipient of the Jefferson
Award, and other professors received major teaching and research honors
as well. Emory faculty members also gained funding for important studies,
including cancer and Parkinson's disease research. Five professors earned
Fulbright grants for a diverse group of projects ranging from research
in molecular biology to lecturing in Jamaica. From Korea to Moscow, members
of Emory's faculty contributed to international scholarship.
- The Avon Breast Cancer Crusade announced that the Emory
Winship Cancer Institute won a $5.3 million gift for research
and clinical care. Of this gift, $3.3 million will fund a new Avon research
laboratory at the Winship Cancer Institute and Grady Memorial Hospital
as well as a new comprehensive clinical center at Grady. The remaining
$2 million will fund breast cancer research by six new Avon scholars,
cancer scientists and physicians on the Emory University School of Medicine
faculty to study causes of breast cancer, potential new targets for
prevention, and improved treatment options including new genetic medicines.
Several research studies will investigate why breast cancer is unusually
aggressive in many African-American women.
- Pitts Theology Library added the 500,000th
volume to its collections this year, a milestone passed by only one
other North American theology library.
- Thomas Adamkiewicz, Assistant Professor
of Pediatrics, is the principal investigator for the Atlanta centers
participating in STOP II, a nationwide, $11 million study of optimizing
stroke prevention in children with sickle-cell anemia. Emory's School
of Medicine is among 20 sites participating in the study. Led by neurologist
Robert Adams of the Medical College
of Georgia and funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute,
the STOP II study aims to determine how long children with sickle-cell
disease should receive regular blood transfusions to minimize their
risk of stroke.
- Timothy Greenamyre, Professor of Neurology,
directed a study documenting the connections between Rotenone, an organic
pesticide widely used on homegrown fruits and vegetables, and Parkinson's
disease in rats. Nature Neuroscience, The New York Times, The Atlanta
Journal Constitution, along with other national newspapers and television
programs, reported the study.
- Carl Holladay, Professor at the Candler
School of Theology, was awarded a Henry Luce Foundation Fellowship in
Theology from the Association of Theological Schools to devote last
year to work on a theological introduction to the New Testament.
- Sarah McPhee, Assistant Professor of
Art History, received both a Millard Meiss Subvention Grant and a Kress
Foundation Grant towards the publication of her book Bernini and the
Bell Towers: Architecture and Politics at the Vatican, forthcoming from
Yale University Press.
- Claire Sterk, Professor and Chair of
Behavioral Sciences and Health Education at the Rollins School of Public
Health, is working on two projects funded by the National Institute
of Health. Project HIP, or Health Intervention Project, aims to develop
risk reduction in African American women who are crack users. Project
FAST, Female Atlanta Study, examines the generational transmission of
drug use among mothers and daughters.
- Marshall Duke, Charles Howard Candler
Professor of Personality and Psychopathy, received this year's Jefferson
Award, which honors an Emory faculty member or administrator for significant
service to the Emory community in teaching, research, university advancement,
and community service. Professor Duke is also a core faculty member
of MARIAL, the Emory Center for Myth and Ritual in American Life.
- This year's Scholar/ Teacher Award went to Art
Kellerman, Director of the Center for Injury Control and Acting
Chief and Professor of Emergency Medicine in the Department of Surgery
at the School of Medicine. Potential recipients for the Scholar/ Teacher
Award are nominated by the university's deans.
- Stephen Nowicki, Charles Howard Candler
Professor of Psychology, won this year's Cutting Award, which recognizes
one Emory professor a year for contributions to students inside and
outside of the classroom.
- The University Research Committee awarded this year's Albert E. Levy
Scientific Research Awards to Andrew Neish,
Assistant Professor of Pathology, and Krish
Sathian, Associate Professor of Neurology. Professor Neish received
the junior faculty award, and Professor Sathian won the senior faculty
award.
- Nine Emory faculty members were honored at the Crystal Apple Awards
for outstanding teaching. This year, Dalia Judovitz,
Professor and Chair of French and Italian, Annabel
Martin, Assistant Professor of Spanish, Marian
E. Dolan, Assistant Professor at the Candler School of Theology,
Amanda Starnes, Lecturer in Biology,
Irwin Hyatt, Senior Associate Dean of
Emory College, Carrie Wickham, Assistant
Professor of Political Science, Frank S. Alexander,
Professor of Law, Cyril Spann, Associate
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and James
Flannery, Professor of Performing Arts, received the awards,
presented annually by the Student Government Association and Residence
Life. Professor Wickam received the William H. Fox Award for Emerging
Excellence in Teaching and Service, and Professor Alexander received
the Laura Jones Hardman Award for Contributions to the Community.
- The Emory College Center for Teaching and Curriculum presented three
awards to honor excellence in teaching Emory undergraduate students.
The 2000 - 2001 recipients are Ray Lamb,
Lecturer of Mathematics, for Natural Sciences, Barbara
A. B. Patterson, Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion, for
Humanities, and Eugene Winograd, Professor
of Psychology, for Social Sciences.
- The following Professors won Emory Williams Awards, the university's
oldest awards for excellence in teaching: Joseph
Justice, Jr. Professor of Chemistry, Emory College, Thomas
Lancaster, Associate Professor of Political Science, Emory College,
Michael McQuaide, Professor of Sociology,
Oxford College, Jonas Shulman, Executive
Associate Dean of Students and Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine,
Darla Ura, Associate Professor, Clinical
Nursing, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Sunil
Wahal, Assistant Professor of Finance, Goizueta Business School,
and John Zupko, Assistant Professor of
Philosophy, Emory College.
- Clark W. Lemons, Oxford Associate Professor
of English, received the Fleming Outstanding Teaching Award in March.
Every year, Oxford College recognizes a tenured faculty member with
the Fleming Award for excellence in teaching.
- Charles E. Moore, M.D., Assistant Professor
of Otolaryngology, received the Nickens Faculty Award from the Association
of American Medical Colleges for his commitment to academic medicine
as a researcher, clinical practitioner, mentor, and teacher. The award
also recognizes his work addressing the educational, societal, and health
care needs of minorities.
- William A. Chamberlain, Assistant Professor
of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Director of the Emory Regional Training
Center, received a $650,000 grant for his Teen Pregnancy Reduction Innovations
Project.
- Charles Nemeroff, Reunette W. Harris
Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral
Sciences, is leading a five year study funded by the National Institute
of Mental Health at Emory's Conte Center for the Neuroscience of Mental
Disorders. The Conte Center was awarded more than 14 million dollars
for research. The study, which appeared in the Journal of the American
Medical Association, examines the connections between childhood sexual
abuse and stress in adult women.
- Five Emory University and Oxford College faculty members received
Fulbright scholar grants this year. W. Stephen
Gunter, Arthur J. Moore Associate Professor of Evangelism at
the Candler School of Theology, won a Fulbright Senior Scholar Research
Teaching Fellowship to support his teaching in The Netherlands; Professor
Gunter also received the Methodist Historical Society Award for Research.
Daniel Nahson, Assistant Professor of
Spanish at Oxford College, was awarded a Fulbright to teach Spanish
at Oxford next year. Professor David J. Bederman
of the Law School became the 2001 -- 2002 Fulbright Distinguished Chair
for Canada. He will be a resident at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University,
Toronto, this fall, and will lecture on international common resources
and comparative foreign relations law. Edna
Bay, Associate Professor in the Institute for Liberal Arts, was
awarded a Fulbright grant for lecturing and researching gender in Africa
and the cultures of post-emancipation African immigrants to 19th-century
Jamaica at the University of the West Indies in Mona, Jamaica. Don
Stein, Asa G. Candler Professor of Psychology and Emergency Medicine,
won a Fulbright for research on the molecular biology of progesterone
and its relation to recovery after brain damage.
- John L. Young Jr., Professor of Epidemiology
and Co-Director of the Georgia Center for Cancer Statistics, and Steven
Roffers, Senior Research Associate in Epidemiology, hosted the
International Steering Committee Meeting of the Middle East Cancer Consortium
at Emory in February, and conducted a short course entitled "Principles
and Practice of Cancer Registration and Control" in Seoul, Korea
in June.
- Harold J. Berman, R. W. Woodruff Professor
of Law, presented the Edward Douglass White Lectures, "The Western
Legal Tradition in a Millennial Perspective: Past and Future" and
the Brendan Brown Lecture on the impact of the Protestant Reformations
on the Western Legal Tradition. Professor Berman also lectured on world
customary law at the Conference on World Culture and Legal Systems,
Moscow, April 2001, and on law, religion, and civil society at the Moscow
School of Political Studies Conference of Regional Leaders, Golitsyno,
Russia in May of 2001.
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Leadership Appointments and Achievements,
Fall 2000
In the past year, Emory faculty members have been appointed to many
important positions, both within the University and outside of it. Some
of the most important of these are listed below.
- Anita Bernstein was named the Sam
Nunn Professor of Law. She is a nationally recognized scholar in feminist
jurisprudence and torts.
- Andrew Kull was named the Robert Thompson
Professor of Law. His work on restitution is widely cited and he has
taken a leadership role in the systematic revival of the field.
- Lucas Carpenter was named Charles
Howard Candler Professor of English, the first Oxford faculty member
to earn a prestigious Candler professorship.
- John Witte, Jr., Jonas Robitscher
Professor of Law and Ethics in the Professions, has been appointed Director
of Emory's Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Religion, a new
center funded by the Pew Memorial Trust. Professor Witte's project,
"Law, Religion and the Transformed Tradition" is also funded
by a $547,000 Lilly Endowment grant through August 2003.
- Thomas Arthur, Professor of Law, has
been appointed interim vice provost for international affairs. He will
also serve as interim director of the Claus M. Halle Institute for Global
Learning.
- Martha G. Duncan, Professor of Law,
was elected Scientific Member of the Atlanta Psychoanalytic Society.
This membership is extended to "persons of scientific standing
whose interests are in a field closely associated with psychoanalysis,
and who have made contributions in a field allied to psychoanalysis."
- Abdullahi An-Na'im is serving as Visiting
Professor at the Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World
(ISIM), Leiden University, the Netherlands, for October and November
2000, where he is teaching two courses on human rights to graduate students
from various Dutch universities.
- David J. Bederman, Professor of Law,
was elected to the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International
Law and was appointed co-chair of the American Society of International
Law Annual Meeting Program Committee.
- Morgan Cloud served as the Robert
Daniels Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa College
of Law during the spring 2000 semester. He was also recently appointed
Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law.
- Peter Hay, L.W.C. Lamar Professor
of Law, was elected Titular Member of the International Academy of Comparative
Law. There are about 75 such members selected from the group of associate
members of which Professor Hay was a part for many years.
- Emory author Xuefei Jin, a native
of China, was recognized as Emory College's first Young J. Allen Professor
of English and Creative Writing. Young J. Allen graduated from Emory
in 1858 and was the first Methodist missionary to China.
- Maryam Alavi, John and Lucy Cook Chair
of Information Strategy and Professor of Decision and Information Analysis
at the Goizueta Business School, was elected as an Association for Information
Systems Fellow by a committee of her peers. AIS is the global professional
association of the Information Systems faculty.
- Arthur Kellermann, Chair of Emergency
Medicine, was named to the Institute of Medicine (IOM), the prestigious
organization that studies medical issues of national importance. An
expert on the prevention of firearm-related injuries and death, he serves
on the IOM Committee on Capitalizing on Social Science and Behavioral
Research.
- Robert R. Rich, Executive Associate
Dean/Research and Strategic Initiatives, was named the president-elect
of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB).
Comprising 20 societies with more than 60,000 biomedical and life scientists,
FASEB is the largest coalition of biomedical research associations in
the United States and one of the most influential scientific organizations
in the world.
- John McGowan, Professor of Epidemiology,
was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.
- Kathleen Miner, Associate Dean of
Applied Public Health, was appointed President of the Council for Education
in Public Health, the accrediting organization for schools and programs
of public health.
- Carol J.R. Hogue, Jules and Deen Terry
Professor of Maternal and Child Health, was selected as Chair of the
Maternal Child Health Council of the Association of Schools of Public
Health.
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Leadership Appointments and
Achievement, Spring 2001
This spring saw changes to Emory's administration; Rebecca Chopp began
as Dean of Yale's Divinity School in July, completing four years of service
to Emory as Provost as well as sixteen years on the Candler School of
Theology faculty. Robert Paul takes on the position of Dean of the Graduate
School of Arts and Sciences, with Gary Wihl as Associate Dean. Peter Hay
takes over as Dean of the Law School, while Howard O. Hunter leaves that
position to take on the role of interim Executive Vice President for Academic
Affairs and Provost. Major leadership appointments outside of Emory range
from Professor and Chair of Surgery, William Wood, named an Honorary Fellow
of The Royal College of Surgeons of England, to Mary Elizabeth Moore,
Professor at the Candler School of Theology, appointed President of both
the International Academy of Practical Theology and the Association for
Practical Theology.
- Rebecca Chopp leaves Emory after four
years as Provost to become the 31st Dean of the Yale Divinity School.
She will also teach and research as Yale's Titus Street Professor of
Theology and Culture. A widely published scholar in Christian Theology,
Women's Studies and the role of religion in American public life, Chopp
earned her Ph.D. from the Divinity School of the University of Chicago
in 1983. In 1985, Chopp joined Emory's Candler School of Theology. She
began serving as Dean of the faculty and academic affairs under then
- Dean of Candler School of Theology Kevin LaGree in 1993. In 1996,
Chopp was appointed as Chair of the university's Commission on Teaching,
and in 1998, she became Provost. During her four years as Emory's Provost,
she worked with faculty on teaching and research initiatives, supported
collaborative projects, and focused on promoting both collegiality and
academic excellence.
- In June, Robert Paul, Director of the
Institute of Liberal Arts and Candler Professor of Anthropology and
Interdisciplinary Studies, takes on the position of interim Dean of
Emory College. Before joining the Emory faculty in 1977, Paul served
on the faculties of the City College of New York, City University of
New York and Stanford University. He received his bachelor's degree
in history and literature from Harvard University in 1963, then earned
his master's and doctoral degrees in anthropology at the University
of Chicago in 1966 and 1970 respectively. His book "Moses and Civilization:
The Meaning Behind Freud's Myth" received the Heinz Hartman Award,
the National Jewish Book Award and the L. Bryce Boyer Prize.
- Professor of English Gary S. Wihl joined
the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences becoming the interim Dean.
Before coming to Emory, Wihl was Professor and Chair of the English
Department at McGill University, where he taught for fifteen years.
He also served as Associate Dean of Graduate Faculty at McGill from
1989 until 1996.
- Howard O. Hunter, Professor of Law,
leaves his position as Dean of the Law School to become the Interim
Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost. After earning
both undergraduate and graduate degrees from Yale, Hunter practiced
law for five years at Hagan and Hartson in Washington DC and Hansell,
Post, Brandon and Dorsey in Atlanta. In 1976, he joined Emory's faculty.
Dean Hunter's work has involved remarkable international teaching and
research opportunities: in January 1986, as visiting fellow in the law
department of Hong Kong University, he served as a consultant on constitutional
law, and a summer Fulbright in 1988 allowed him to teach and study in
Australia. Dedicated to teaching as well as administrative work and
research, Hunter continues to teach Contracts to Emory law students.
His work on legal scholarship and advocacy extends beyond the university:
Hunter was appointed late last fall to the Chief Justice's Commission
on Indigent Defense in the State of Georgia and continues to serve on
the Chief Justice's Commission on Professionalism as well as the Georgia
Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts Board of Advisors.
- Taking over from Dean Hunter, Peter Hay,
Lamar Professor of Law, will become the interim Dean of the Law School
for 2001-02. Hay also holds the chair for civil law, private international
and foreign law, and comparative law at the University of Dresden in
Germany. He received his J.D. from the University of Michigan in 1958
and served on the law faculty at the University of Illinois from 1966
to 1990 before coming to Emory in 1991.
- The Clean Air Campaign honored President
Bill Chace with its Pacesetter Award
on October 5th for his leadership in reducing traffic congestion and
improving air quality. The September cover of Georgia Trend Magazine
featured President Chace as recipient of the Clean Air Campaign award.
- Howard Rollins, Executive Director
of the Emory College Institute for Comparative and International Studies
(ICIS) received the Marion V. Creekmore Award for Internationalization.
- Judith C. Rohrer, Associate Professor
of Art History, was named to the Honorary Board (Patronat de Honor)
of the International Year of Gaudi 2002, Project of the City of Barcelona.
The Honorary Board, made up of international Guadi scholars, oversees
the 150th celebration of the anniversary of architect Antoni Gaudi's
birth, sponsored by the City of Barcelona and the Barcelona Institut
de Cultura.
- Mary Elizabeth Moore, Professor at
the Candler School of Theology, is serving as President of both the
International Academy of Practical Theology and the Association for
Practical Theology.
- Paul Sternberg, M.D., Professor of
Ophthalmology, received the Senior Achievement Award from the American
Academy of Ophthalmology for his outstanding teaching and service to
the profession. Only eight such awards are presented each year.
- William Wood, M.D., Professor and Chair
of Surgery, was named an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons
of England for his outstanding contributions in surgery. In addition,
Dr. Wood was honored at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Meeting as the
principal investigator of one of the "ten most significant clinical
trials in breast cancer in the last century." In addition to winning
the association's crystal award, Professor Wood received $10,000 toward
a research project of his choice.
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Community Service and Awareness,
Fall 2000
One of Emory's most important goals is to reach out to the community that
surrounds the institution. Outreach happens in many ways: through lectures
and symposia, through performances and through research that has practical
consequences for the culture at large. Listed below are some recent examples
of community outreach.
- Emory's Year of Reconciliation and accompanying Reconciliation
Symposium has attracted the interest of national figures, including
Oliver Sacks, Wayne Booth, Claire Moses, Sandra Day O'Connor, David
Little, The Indigo Girls, and President Jimmy Carter. The symposium
will be followed by a set of workshops, designed to provide an opportunity
for further discussion and to explore ways to implement ideas that emerge
from the symposium.
- Surgeon General David Satcher joined
Rosalynn Carter in May to rally community
mental health organizations nationwide to take action on recommendations
in the first-ever surgeon general's report on mental health. The discussion
brought together approximately 350 health leaders, consumers, and policymakers
from throughout the state.
- Emory's Craig Hill, Goodrich C. White
Professor of Chemistry, and other researchers met to develop an environmentally
friendly papermaking technology for commercial use in a forum sponsored
by The Forest Products Laboratory.
- Emory consistently draws fine performances from nationally known
figures in their fields. The fine arts calendar for October alone includes
performances by Ursula Oppens (October
8); Allison Joseph, author of Soul Train
and In Every Seam (October 9-10); Tim Ocel
and Michael Evenden, directors of George
Bernard Shaw's Back To Methuselah (October 11-November 4); and an exhibit
of the work of Linus Pauling, two-time
winner of the Nobel Prize.
- In January 2000, Emory's Office of University-Community
Partnerships (OUCP) was created to enhance the integration of
Emory's teaching, research, and service missions with an emphasis on
serving the Greater Atlanta community. The new initiative is directed
by Michael J. Rich, Associate Professor of Political Science.
- Oxford College was selected as one
of ten colleges and universities to receive an NCAA three-year "Choices"
grant to provide educational programs on substance abuse.
- Emory College created four public
programs in which senior faculty lead discussions that allow alumni
to continue to be involved in the intellectual life of the university.
The College selected works on topics of wide and contemporary interest
and on matters of importance to the community.
- The Great Teachers Lecture Series, established in 1994, offers the
Emory community and its neighbors a chance to hear some of the University's
most interesting faculty members. Upcoming lectures include: "Bulls,
Bears & Basics: What You Should Know About the Stock Market"
by Hashem Dezhbakhsh, Associate Professor
and Co-chair, Department of Economics; and "Long Term Effects of
Trauma Early in Life on the Brain: Implications for Vulnerability to
Depression and Anxiety" by Charles Nemeroff,
Reunette W. Harris Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry
and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine.
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Community
Service and Awareness, Spring 2001
An Emory faculty member's work, whether teaching and researching in the
university or contributing to the larger community, involves service to
others. Department newsletters chronicle longer lists of faculty contributions
to community service, and below we list some of the recent notable community
centered work and research led by members of Emory's faculty. Specific
studies and awards, like Professor James Paul
Steinberg's 2000 Hemophilia of Georgia Inc. Outstanding Medical
Service Award, underscore Emory faculty members' dedication to both the
scholarly community and the larger national and international world.
- Mark Auslander, Oxford Assistant Professor
of Anthropology, and his students, working closely with local families,
mounted an exhibit on Emory's early African American history, "A
Dream Deferred: African Americans at Emory and Oxford College 1836-1968."
Approximately 150 community members, along with members of the college
faculty, staff and student body, participated in the exhibition's opening
program honoring the diverse contributions of local African American
families to Emory's history from the time of slavery.
- James Paul Steinberg, M.D., Associate
Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, received the
2000 Hemophilia of Georgia Inc. Outstanding Medical Service Award for
his work on care for AIDS patients with hemophilia.
- Jonathan W. Simons, M.D., Professor
and Chair of Hematology and Oncology and Director of the Winship Cancer
Institute, is serving on the Georgia Cancer Coalition Policy Task Force
at the request of Governor Roy Barnes. In November, Governor Barnes
inducted the Georgia Cancer Coalition, a public-private partnership
uniting Georgia's leading hospitals, universities, biotech firms, civic
groups, and nonprofit organizations to help treat and prevent cancer
in Georgians. Three cancer treatment centers in the state, including
one at Grady Hospital, will provide innovative cancer care as well as
support for major efforts in cancer detection and prevention and clinical
and basic cancer research.
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