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Selected Academic Highlights
May 2001 - December 2001

Prepared by the Emory University Office of Institutional Planning and Research
Issue No. 6, December 2001

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National and International Recognition

This fall, both the university as a whole and specific faculty members received accolades for contributions to their fields of study. Faculty projects won major funding commitments from the Turner Foundation, Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, and Jane Fonda, among others. William Foege, Presidential Distinguished Professor of International Health in the School of Public Health, received national and international attention for winning the Lasker Award, "America's Nobel." Other important institutional and faculty awards are described below.

Institutional Recognition:

• Emory University won the U.S. Small Business Administration's Award of Distinction; Emory is the first educational institution to receive this award, which recognizes large federal contractors with exceptional small business subcontracting programs.
  
  
• Emory is one of nine universities named as "Hot Schools" by the Kaplan/Newsweek special August publication "How to Get Into College."
  
  
• Emory Hospital has been selected as one of three sites in the United States to receive a new combination scanner to diagnose cancer. Created by GE Medical Systems, the machine is the first proven technology that can help doctors answer critical heath questions with just one exam.
  
  
• Emory's Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing was ranked 20th in the nation in research funding from the National Institute of Health/ National Institute of Nursing Research. This is a dramatic rise from 34th place 18 months ago.
  
  
• The Department of Medicine received a commitment from the Marcus Foundation for $4.5 million to support work in vascular medicine. Of the award, $2 million will be used to endow the Marcus Chair in Vascular Medicine, and the remaining $2.5 million will establish the Marcus Vascular Research Fund to encourage research in vascular disease and the development of novel medical treatment.
  
  
• Woodruff Library has been awarded a $120,000 grant from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation to provide online access to major Irish literary archives at Emory and Boston College, two primary repositories of Irish literature in the United States. The library will digitize collection descriptions from the two schools and develop a searching interface that will allow scholars to find appropriate materials quickly.
  
  
• Pitts Theological Library is collaborating with Duke and Vanderbilt divinity libraries on a preservation microfilm project involving materials related to the influence of Methodism on Southern United States society. The library's English and American Hymnody Collection totals more than 16,000 pieces and has been named by the Library of Congress as one of America's two finest research collections for this area.
  
  
• The Emory Center for Injury Control, directed by Arthur Kellermann, Acting Chief and Professor of Emergency Medicine in the Department of Surgery at the School of Medicine, was named research partner for the Atlanta Strategic Approaches to Community Safety Initiative, a Department of Justice funded effort to reduce gun violence in the city of Atlanta.
  
  
• The Carlos Museum's collection of Egyptian mummies, unveiled at the October 6th opening of the exhibit, Ancient Egypt, Nubia and the Near East, gained international recognition. In a six-page cover story, the magazine Archaeology highlighted Emory's exhibit in the September/ October issue. One of the more mysterious finds is an unwrapped body that some scholars suggest may be Ramesses I, the "lost pharaoh". This well-preserved mummy will be displayed in spring 2003 in a special exhibition, "Science, Scholarship and the Lost Pharaoh."
  
  
• The Jane Fonda Center at Emory, funded through a $2 million gift from the actress to the School of Medicine, officially opened this summer. The goal of the new center is to advance scientific knowledge both locally and globally about infancy, childhood and adolescence, and to disseminate new information and strategies for healthy transitions to adulthood. In addition, Fonda's gift will endow the Marion Howard Chair in Adolescent Reproductive Health in the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, named for a School of Medicine faculty member widely recognized for developing innovative sexuality-education programs for adolescents.
  

Faculty Recognition:

• William Foege, Presidential Distinguished Professor of International Health in the School of Public Health, on September 21st received the Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service in Support of Medical Research and Health Sciences . The prestigious award acknowledges Professor Foege's work in eradicating smallpox and preventing river blindness. Often called "America's Nobels," because 59 of the recipients have subsequently won the Nobel Prize, the Laskers are the nation's most distinguished honor for outstanding contributions to basic and clinical medical research.
  
  
• Douglas C. Wallace, Robert Woodruff Professor of Molecular Genetics, was honored by the Metropolitan Life Foundation with its highest award for medical research. Chosen for his pioneering work on the causes of Alzheimer's disease, Dr. Wallace earned a research grant of $200,000 as well as a $50,000 personal prize.
  
  
• Larry Vogler, Director of Pediatric Rheumatology and Immunology, will direct a $1 million study funded by the Turner Foundation. The gift will fund research about lupus, a poorly understood autoimmune disorder, and investigate how the disease affects children and teens. The Turner Foundation funding, to be given over a five-year period, will help establish lupus research conducted by the Division of Pediatric Rheumatology and Immunology.
  
  
• Delores Aldridge, Grace Towns Hamilton Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, received the National Council for Black Studies Leadership Award for 2001.
  
  
• Gordon Newby, Executive Director of the Institute of Comparative and International Studies and Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, will lead a two year project supported by a Title VI grant from the U. S. Department of Education for the Institute of Comparative and International Studies (ICIS). Mahmoud al-Batal, Director of ICIS and Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, and Jeff Reznick, Assistant Director of ICIS and Adjunct Professor of History, will help direct the grant, which supports bringing international components into the curriculum. The Department of Middle Eastern Studies has also been awarded a Title VI grant from the U. S. Department of Education designating the Department an Undergraduate National Resource Center.
  
  
• Annette Frauman, Associate Professor of Nursing, received this year's Charles R. Hatcher Jr. Award for Excellence in Public Health. Professor Frauman established the graduate program in public health nursing leadership last year and helped win a federal contract to pilot and evaluate an educational program for the state's public health nurses. In addition, the American Nephrology Nurses' Association honored Professor Frauman with its highest award for service and established a scholarship in her name for education in nephrology nursing.
  
  
• Michael Rich, Associate Professor of Political Science, received a $600,000 grant from the Kenneth Cole Foundation to support his work as Director of the Office of University -Community Partnerships; OUCP helps community groups, organizations and agencies access help and support from Emory faculty, staff, and students.
  
  
• Nanette Wenger, Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology at the School of Medicine and Chief of Cardiology at Grady Memorial Hospital, won the Atlanta Women in Law and Medicine's Shining Star Award for her contributions to cardiology and women's health issues. She is also the first recipient of the Council on Clinical Cardiology's Women in Cardiology Mentoring Award. Professor Wenger has been named to the Scientific Advisory Board of WomenHeart, a 20-member panel of prominent American physicians and nurses who provide policy direction and scientific expertise to the organization.
  
  
• Kathy Parker, Associate Professor of Nursing, received the top research award, Nurse Researcher of the Year, at the spring annual meeting of the American Nephrology Nurses Association; the award recognized her nearly 30 years of clinical study involving dialysis patients. Professor Parker also received $694,215 in funding from the National Institute for Nursing Research for Symptoms, Symptom Interactions and Health Outcomes. She became one of four nurses in the nation to pass the rigorous sleep medicine certification exam.
  
  
• Elizabeth Capezuti, Independence Foundation-Wesley Woods Chair in Gerontological Nursing, was recognized for her pioneering work in patient safety through several key national appointments: the National Task Force on Patient Fall Prevention of the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Steering Committee of The Hospital Bed and Vulnerable Patients Issues Workgroup of the Food and Drug Administration, and the Vice-Chairmanship of the Medicine and Law Committee of the American Bar Association.
  
  
• Claire Sterk, Professor and Chair of Behavioral Science and Health Education, Rollins School of Public Health, received special recognition from the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services for her contributions to the prevention of HIV/AIDS in minority communities; she also won an Independent Scientist Award from the National Institutes of Health (National Institute on Drug Abuse).
  
  
• Ronald Schuchard, Goodrich C. White Professor of English, won the South Atlantic Modern Language Association's annual SAMLA Studies Award for literary criticism for his 1999 book Eliot's Dark Angel: Intersections of Life and Art. The award is given annually to the best scholarly book published in English by a member of SAMLA. He was the featured speaker at the Fleur Cowles Flair Symposium on the future of research libraries at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, in November. Professor Schuchard's address, "Excavating the Imagination: Archival Scholars and the Digital Revolution," will be published in a special issue of Libraries and Culture.
  
  
• William Mitch, E. Garland Herndon Professor of Medicine, received the David M. Hume Award, the National Kidney Foundation's highest award, for significant scientific advances in the fields of nephrology and urology.
  
  
• Natasha Trethewey, Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, received a 2001 Lillian Smith Award in poetry from the Southern Regional Council for her book, Domestic Work, which contains free verse, sonnets and traditional ballads. The three Lillian Smith Awards are a part of the Southern Regional Council's three-day "Igniting a Passion for Justice: Strategies for Change" event held this year from Sept. 20-22 in Atlanta. The Lillian Smith Book Awards have been presented annually by the Southern Regional Council for 33 years.
  
  
• James Eckman, Professor and Director of the Sickle Center at the Winship Cancer Institute, and the center he directs, The Georgia Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center at Grady Memorial Hospital, received top honors in the 2000 Innovations in Health Care: American Association of Physician Assistants/Physician Assistants Foundation/Pfizer Recognition Program. As the nation's only 24-hour comprehensive acute care center for sickle cell patients, the center uses a team of Physician's Assistants and Nurse Practitioners as front-line caregivers.
  
  
• Donna Carson, Instructor of Pediatrics and Director of My House, received a $100,000 "Use Your Life Award" from the Angel Network of the Oprah Winfrey Show. The award honors the extraordinary work of My House, a facility that provides care for up to eleven "border babies": babies born with drug addictions or other medical conditions who require special care and often remain in the hospital without a home.
  
  
• Kathy Miner, Associate Dean for Applied Public Health, received the 2001 Distinguished Career Award from the Public Health Education and Health Promotion section of the American Public Health Association. Professor Miner also served as President of the Council for Education in Public Health, the accrediting agency for schools and programs in public health. Dr. Miner was given the Distinguished Career Award by the Public Health Education and Health Promotion Section of the American Public Health Association in recognition of her leadership.
  
  
• Margo A. Bagley, Assistant Professor of Law, was selected to be one of two 2001 Teaching Fellows at the Center for Advanced Study and Research on Intellectual Property (CASRIP) Summer Institute at the University of Washington School of Law.

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Academic Research and Teaching

Emory increased sponsored research by 14 percent this fall, as faculty members led major studies and opened new centers. Emory was chosen as one of only 15 national sites for a new Center for Research on Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) in Neuro-degenerative Diseases, and The Emory Vaccine Center was one of three national vaccine centers to receive funding from the UCLA Foundation for HIV vaccine development. An Islam and Human Rights Fellowship Program received funding in the Law school this fall. More accomplishments in research and teaching are listed below.

Funded Research and Facilities:

• Emory University continued to receive more sponsored research funding in fiscal year 2001, increasing research efforts by 14 percent to $247.9 million. In the past five years, the value of sponsored research rose 57 percent at Emory, making it one of the fastest-growing research universities in the country. This amounts to 3,502 more gifts and some $205 million more than last year.
  
  
• The Candler School of Theology was awarded a grant from the Lilly Endowment, Inc. in the amount of $160,000 for a study of the long term impact of the Youth Theology Institute held every summer at Candler.
  
  
• The Rollins School of Public Health attracted 44 mid-career health professionals to enroll in the Career Masters in Public Health Program, featuring distance learning through the internet with on-campus instructional sessions. The school will become the home of the Training and Technical Assistance Consortium (TTAC), an organization jointly funded ($15.5 million over three years) by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Legacy Foundation, and the American Cancer Society. Its mission is to provide technical assistance and support for states receiving tobacco settlement funds and applying them to reduce tobacco use.
  
  
• The Donna and Marvin Schwartz Center for Performing Arts received a $750,000 challenge grant from the Kresge Foundation. The Center is scheduled to open in the fall of 2002 and will provide the first central teaching and performance space for Emory's music, theater, and dance programs.
  
  
• Christian Larsen, Professor of Surgery, and Thomas Pearson, Professor of Surgery, both at the Medical School, received a $500,000 grant from The Livingston Foundation, Inc. The grant will support the professors' work at the Islet Cell Transplant Program at the Emory Transplant Center.
  
  
• The Emory Vaccine Center received $1.17 million from the UCLA Foundation as its share of the $4.1 million raised to support HIV vaccine development at three vaccine centers nationwide.
  
  

• Deborah Lipstadt, Dorot Professor and Director of Emory's Institute for Jewish Studies, accepted support to Emory from The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation. In October, the Foundation offered a $5,000,000 challenge grant to support the Institute for Jewish Studies.

• Mahlon DeLong, Chairman of the Department of Neurology, is principal investigator for the new Center for Research on Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) in Neuro-degenerative Diseases. The center, one of only 15 CAM Centers in the United States, will receive $5.7 million from the National Institute of Health's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) and will study promising interventions that complement traditional medical approaches to the study of
  neurodegenerative disorders, such as Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease. Professor DeLong also received the American Geriatrics Society's Henderson State-of-the-art Award for contributing to a better understanding of health-care problems for older adults.

• Harriet Robinson, Chief of the Division of Microbiology and Immunology at Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center, received a three-year, $885,000 subcontract grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for her ongoing research to develop a DNA-based vaccine for measles. The grant is the first substantial funding for Robinson's measles vaccine program, which is being conducted in collaboration with Diane Griffin of Johns Hopkins University and Paul Rota of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Business Week Online interviewed Professor Robinson for her ideas on the importance of vaccines during national crisis, and The Associated Press covered Robinson's work on an AIDS vaccine.

• Ralph DiClemente, Professor of Behavioral Science, was awarded a five-year grant for more than $3 million from the National Institute of Health to study the effects of exposure to internet sexual content on adolescent sexual health.

• Eric Ottesen, Research Professor at the Department of International Health, has been appointed director of a new project sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, "Building Momentum for the Elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis." The project, through the leadership of Anne Haddix, Associate Professor at the Department of International Health, is the result of a partnership between The Rollins School of Public Health and organizations including the Center for Disease Control, the Carter Center, the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, the World Health Organization, and several non-governmental agencies. Professor Ottesen, perhaps the foremost scientist in lymphatic filarisasis, comes to Emory from the World Health Organization.
  
  Research and Teaching:

• Marla Luskin, Professor of Cell Biology at the School of Medicine, led a study that was the first to show the presence of numerous new neurons in certain regions of the brain. As The Journal of Neuroscience reports, the results suggest that the adult brain may be able to replace neurons lost from injury or disease.
  
  
• David Gowler, Associate Professor of Religion and Director of the Pierce Program in Religion, was selected to participate in the Halle Institute's trip to India in January. Professor Gowler was also elected a member of the preeminent international Society of New Testament Scholars and participated in a Journey of Reconciliation trip to Ireland.
  
  
• Jerrold Vitek, Associate Professor of Neurology, is the principal investigator of Emory's contribution to a multi-site international study successfully treating patients with advanced stages of Parkinson's disease. Emory was selected as one of 18 institutions to study the effects of a treatment called deep-brain stimulation (DBS) on Parkinson's patients. The complete findings of the trial appeared in the September 27th issue of The New England Journal of Medicine.
  
  
• Larry J. Young, Affiliate Scientist of Psychiatry at the Medical School, has, with his team of scientists, succeeded in increasing bonding behavior in monogamous male prairie voles. Professor Young and his group increased the bonding by transferring a receptor gene into a particular region of the brain. This is the first study to demonstrate that complex social behaviors, such as social attachment, can be facilitated by this form of gene transfer. The research is reported in the September 15th issue of the Journal of Neuroscience.
  
  
• Sandra Helmers, Associate Professor of Neurology at the School of Medicine, is principal investigator for a new study to prevent seizures in children. The Journal of Child Neurology reported the results, which show that an implantable device, called the vagus nerve stimulator (VNS), can help reduce seizure frequency and improve quality of life in children with treatment-resistant epilepsy.
  
  
• Nadine Kaslow, Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and chief psychologist at Grady Health System, is principal investigator of a study called Adolescent Depression Empowerment. The goal of the study, in its third year, is to find therapies to help African-American females between the ages of 12 and 16 years who have a history of physical and/or sexual abuse. Jeana Griffith, Associate Professor with the School of Medicine, is working with Dr. Kaslow on the study.
  
  
• David De Lurgio, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Medical School, helped test Medtronic Inc.'s new InSync system for the Food and Drug Administration. The Los Angeles Times, Newsday, and The Associated Press interviewed Professor DeLurgio about his findings. The InSync System is a new pacemaker that helps a heart beat more normally by cardiac resynchronization.
  
  
• Mary Galinski, Assistant Professor of Medicine, along with researchers Alberto Moreno and Joseli Ferreira, led the first collaborative field study with the Brazilian Ministry of Health. The team spent four weeks this summer collecting blood samples and assessing the prevalence of malaria among people in an endemic region of the Amazon River Basin. The field study inaugurated a ten-year collaborative project to identify and characterize vaccine candidates that will ultimately pave the way for human trials of malaria vaccines.
  
  
• Paul Sternberg, Professor of Ophthalmology, was a primary investigator in a nationwide study by the National Eye Institute. The clinical trial, called the Collaborative Ocular Melanoma Study, was supported by the NEI and the National Cancer Institute, both components of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
  
  
• Frances Smith Foster, Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Women's Studies, co-edited, with William Andrews and Trudie Harris, The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature, and co-edited, with Nellie Y. McKay, a Norton Critical Edition, Harriet Jacob's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. She penned two articles: "Race, Region and the Politics of Slavery's Memory," in Holding Their Own: Perspectives on the Multi-ethnic Literatures of the United States, and "Not So Final Reflections, But a Beginning," in the October 2000 edition of PMLA.
  
  
• Jim Grimsley, Senior Writer in Residence, wrote "Jesus is Sending You This Message," a story reprinted in New Stories from the South 2001: The Year's Best, edited by Shannon Ravenel, Algonquin: New York. His one-act play "Free Market" was presented with a group of short plays at the Working Theatre of New York in June, and his fantasy novel Kirith Kirin won the Lambda Award in the science fiction/horror category. Grimsley's novella "Into Greenwood" was the cover story in Asimov's Science Fiction for September 2001.
  
  
• Geraldine Higgins, Assistant Professor of English, gave a keynote lecture and a series of seminars as Associate Director of the 42nd W.B. Yeats International Summer School in Sligo this summer. The school was opened by the poet's son, Senator Michael Yeats, and featured readings by Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin, Jamie McKendrick and George O'Brien. Professor Higgins was one of a group of prominent lecturers including the director, Bernard O'Donoghue, Helen Vendler, John Kelly, Declan Kiberd and Edna Longley.
  
  
• Lori Marino, Lecturer in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology, published her findings on dolphin capacity for mirror self-recognition in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Marino conducted the three-year study with Diana Reiss, a senior research scientist at the New York Aquarium in Brooklyn.

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Leadership Appointments and Achievements

This fall, six professors were honored with Distinguished Chair appointments. Other major appointments include Governor Barnes's seven newly appointed Distinguished Cancer Clinicians and Scientists at the Winship Cancer Center. Stuart Zola took on the directorship of Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center this fall as well.

• James Flannery was named Winship Professor of Humanities and Arts. Professor Flannery, a musician, trained singer, academic writer, recording artist, director, fundraiser, and educator, brings many talents to his work in Irish studies.
  
  
• Bruce Knauft was named Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology. Professor Knauft has authored four books and some thirty journal articles and chapters. His interests encompass a wide variety of issues in the ethnographic study of culture and power.
  
  
• Ronald Gould was named Goodrich C. White Professor. Professor Gould, currently director of graduate studies for the computer science and mathematics department, has authored many publications with heavy emphasis on the studies of graph theory and graph algorithms.
  
  
• Dana White has been named Goodrich C. White Professor. Professor White has studied Atlanta for years; he served as script writer and on-camera narrator for The Making of Modern Atlanta, an eight-part documentary series on the city's post-World War II development.
  
  
• Marion Howard was named Marion Howard Professor of Adolescent Reproductive Health. Her programs to help prevent teen pregnancy are the most widely replicated abstinence education programs in the United States. She is the first holder of a chair endowed in her name earlier this year by actress Jane Fonda.
  
  
• David Stephens was named Stephen W. Schwarzman Distinguished Chair in Internal Medicine. Professor Stephens is also Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases, Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, and Executive Vice Chair of the Department of Medicine.
  
  
• David Harrison was named Marcus Chair in Medicine. Professor Harrison is currently a member of the American Heart Association's Research Planning and Evaluation Committee and a fellow on the Council on Basic Cardiovascular Sciences.
  
  
• Geoffrey Bennington was named Asa Griggs Candler Professor of French. Professor Bennington has taught modern languages in Britain and America. At the University of Sussex from 1990-94 and 1995-97, he designed and implemented a new undergraduate curriculum.
  
  
• Catherine Manegold was named James M. Cox Jr. Professor of Journalism. She has worked as a reporter or correspondent for The New York Times, Newsweek and The Philadelphia Inquirer. She is a seven-time Pulitzer Prize nominee, and, while working with The New York Times, she shared a team award in 1994 for a report on the World Trade Center bombing.
  
  
• The newly named Emory Distinguished Cancer Clinicians and Scientists include Laura C. Bowman, M.D., a pediatric bone marrow transplantation specialist; Otis W. Brawley, M.D., Winship Cancer Institute associate director for cancer control and leader in cancer prevention in health disparities research; Lelund W. K. Chung, Ph.D., an expert in prostate cancer; Todd G. Kroll, M.D., Ph.D., a molecular pathologist and thyroid cancer specialist; Shuming Nie, Ph.D. (jointly appointed at Georgia Tech), a biomedical engineer using the new science of nanotechnology in the detection and treatment of cancer; H. Trent Spencer, Ph.D., an expert in the use of genetics and stem cells in childhood cancers; and Vincent W. Yang, M.D., Ph.D., a specialist in the science of colon cancer. Governor Roy Barnes has announced the appointment of these seven cancer experts at the Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University as part of the Georgia Cancer Coalition's first group of Distinguished Cancer Clinicians and Scientists. The Cancer Coalition's Distinguished Cancer Clinicians and Scientists program recruits and supports medical scientists who are researching and developing more effective cancer therapies.
  
  
• Martine Watson Brownley, Goodrich C. White Professor of English and Winship Distinguished Research Professor, has been named Director of the newly-created Center for Humanistic Inquiry (CHI). The Center, which emerged from recommendations made by Emory's Humanities Council, will create a place for senior and junior fellows, both internal and external, to come together for intellectual reflection and the exchange of ideas. Professor Brownley also delivered the 2001 keynote address, "Western Women Novelists at the Millenium" at the Gender and Equity Conference in Bangkok, Thailand.
  
  
• Joseph Skibell, Assistant Professor of English, had his play, "Our Own Dear Anton's Abandoned Story Cycle Presented by Ivan and Burkin (100 Years After They Left Their Village)" presented in Los Angeles at the Raven Playhouse in North Hollywood in September.
  
  
• Russell B. Toal, Adjunct Associate Professor of Health and Policy Management at the Rollins School of Public Health and former Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Community Health, is the new Director of the Georgia Cancer Coalition. The public/private effort seeks to combine the efforts of the state's medical schools and research hospitals with those of private organizations working to combat the disease. The coalition is one of Governor Roy Barnes's top health care initiatives.
  
  
• Scott Lilienfeld, Associate Professor of Psychology, is President-Elect of the Society for Science of Clinical Psychology, a division of the American Psychological Association.
  
  
• Patricia Davis, Professor of Radiology, became the new President of the Society of Pediatric Neuroradiology.
  
  
• Kenneth Jeff Carney, Assistant Professor and Surgeon of Urology, has been named Chief of Urology at Grady Memorial Hospital. Professor Carney, the first physician to hold the position full-time, began working at Grady this summer. His specialties include general urology, oncology, trauma and reconstructive surgery.
  
  
• Abdullahi An-Na'im, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law, has recently been named Project Director of the new Islam and Human Rights Fellowship Program at Emory, which was established through a $707,000 grant from the Ford Foundation. Africa News reported this summer that Professor An-Na'im offered his training and international law expertise to The Institute for Human Rights and Development at the organization's third pan-African training workshop on 'Procedures of the African Regional Human Rights System' in Senegambia.
  
  
• Clinton Lawrence, Professor of Medicine and Medical Director of Lung Transplantation, has been nominated as the first Augustus J. McKelvey Chair in Lung Transportation Medicine. Lawrence will also direct the new Andrew McKelvey Lung Transplant Center, created in June. Mr. McKelvey, the founder and CEO of TMP Worldwide, awarded the university $20 million, his largest gift to date, to fund the center and the chair, named for his late father, a general medical practitioner.
  
  
• Anita Bernstein, Sam Nunn Professor of Law, was named Mason S. Ladd Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa College of Law for Spring 2002.
  
  
• David Bederman, Professor of Law, published three books in 2001: International Law in Antiquity (Cambridge UP), Classical Canons: Rhetoric, Classicism, and Treaty Interpretation (Ashgate), and International Law Frameworks (Foundation Press). He also co-chaired the Annual Meeting Program Committee for the American Society of Law, 2000-2001.
  
  
• Fray F. Marshall, Professor and Chair of Urology, is the new Vice President of the American Board of Urology.
  
  
• John Witte, Jr., Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law and Director of Law and Religion Program, published two books this year. He published, in Germany, Von Sakrament zum Vertag: Ehe, Recht, und Religion in der abendlandischen Tradition (Gutersloh: Chr. Kaiser, 2001) and, in this country, Law and Protestantism: the Legal Teachings of the Lutheran Reformation (Cambridge/ New York: Cambridge University Press 2002).
  
  
• Alfred Merrill, Professor of Biochemistry at the Medical School, will direct a new National Cooperative Drug Discovery Group funded by a $3.8 million award from the National Cancer Institute. A cooperative effort with the University of Georgia and Wayne State University, the program will help bridge basic scientific discoveries and the development of new anti-cancer drugs. Professor Merrill is also Vice President-elect of science policy for the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.
  
  
• James Roark, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of History, is Pitt Professor of American History at Cambridge University during the 2001-2002 academic year.
  
  
• Frank Vandall was invited to speak at the Free University of Berlin on the subject of The History of Tobacco litigation in the United States, May 30, 2001. He was elected to the office of President of Emory University Senate and Chair of the Faculty Council for 2001-2002. Professor Vandall was also selected for the Halle Institute-Emory study-trip to Germany. Emory Law Journal published his article "A Critique of the Restatement (Third) Apportionment." Professor Vandall was quoted by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Kansas in April, 2001. He was also quoted in articles in the Boston Globe tobacco settlement, the Dallas Morning News, and the American Health Line.
  
  
• Stuart Zola, Professor of Psychiatry and one of the nation's leading neuroscientists, became the new Director of the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center in September. Dr. Zola came to Emory from University of California, San Diego. Dr. Zola's work is relevant to the study of memory organization in the brain as well as issues of memory impairment associated with a range of human conditions, such as aging, Alzheimer's disease, and stroke. He will have a joint appointment as Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the Medical School and as a research career scientist at the Atlanta VA Medical Center. Professor Zola is also a well-known leader in the movement to improve the understanding of science to nonscientists.
  
  

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Community Service and Awareness: Faculty Resources in the Wake of National Tragedy

After the events of September 11th, shocked members of the public both in and out of the university sought expert opinions in the press as so much on the national and international stage seemed inexplicable. While providing forums for discussion at the university, Emory's faculty also provided national, international, and local news organizations with expert information and intellectual guidance. The responsible, informed and unbiased information offered by members of Emory's faculty nearly every day since September 11th reminds us of the academic's valuable place in the larger community. This work continues, and every day brings examples of faculty contributions to the discussion of the national and international situation. Professors in the sciences helped the public with biological warfare concerns, for example, while economists explained financial changes and Middle Eastern Studies faculty members provided insightful religious and cultural background. Law and history professors used their expertise to help the public see the events from a new perspective by placing the events in historical and legal contexts. Set out below is information on these accolades.

• David Garrow, Presidential Distinguished Professor at the Emory School of Law, published an article entitled Another Lesson From World War II Internments in the September 23rd issue of The New York Times. On October 27th, Professor Garrow discussed tensions between national security and civil liberties for The National Journal.
  
  
• Robert Pastor, Professor of International Relations and a member of former President Carter's Security Council, offered expert opinions on monitoring the United States and Canadian border and the implications of NAFTA after the attacks in The Vancouver Sun and The Ottawa Citizen. The Cox News Service interviewed Professor Pastor about options for a post-Taliban coalition in Afghanistan.
  
  
• Gordon Newby, Executive Director of the Institute of Comparative and International Studies and Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, has recently completed A Concise Encyclopedia of Islam, which is forthcoming from Oneworld Press. This fall, he also organized a university-wide information forum where Emory's leading Islamic scholars made short presentations and then answered questions about the beliefs, practices and history of Islam.
  
  
• Merle Black, Asa Candler Professor of Politics and Government, served as Vice President of the Southern Political Science Association, and offered his views and extensive knowledge to the press during this time of crisis. Both The Gannett News Service and USA Today interviewed Professor Black about American reactions to anthrax scares, and The Associated Press sought Professor Black's opinion on politics in Georgia after September 11th.
  
  
• Richard C. Martin, Professor of Islamic Studies and the History of Religion, is author or co-author of a number of books about Islam, including Defenders of Reason in Islam and Islam, A Cultural Perspective. Professor Martin chairs the Committee for the Study of Islam, a group of faculty from across the university who specialize in Islamic studies and who bring lecturers on Islamic topics to Emory. Professor Martin was interviewed by United Press International about the "suicide notes" found by the FBI in the suitcase of one of the hijackers. He also appeared on the ABC news show World News Tonight and spoke to The Washington Post about the letters.
  
  
• Members of Emory's medical faculty calmed fears during the October anthrax scare: Nicolette T. Pesik, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, discussed the problem of Cipro's availability over the internet with U. S. News and World Report. Phyllis Kosarsky, Professor of Medicine, offered her insight to The Cox News Service about the need to educate the public about anthrax danger and the drug Cipro. Sandra Fryhofer, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, explained the kinds of drugs used to treat anthrax on CNN. Howard Frumkin, Professor and Chair of Environmental and Occupational Health at the Rollins School of Public Health, spoke to The Knight Ridder Washington Bureau about the danger of anthrax to smokers. Carlos Del Rio, Associate Professor at the School of Medicine, appeared on CNN in October to discuss his work investigating the death of a New York woman by inhaled anthrax.
  
  
• Barbara Rothbaum, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, spoke to CNN's medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta about psychological responses to terrorism in the United States.
  
  
• James Curran, Dean of the Rollins School of Public Health, discussed CDC readiness for biological warfare with New York Newsday in October. In November, he spoke to American Health Line about the challenges faced by the CDC.
  
  
• Thomas Remington, C. L. Halle Professor and Chair of Political Science, appeared on CNN to answer the question, "What lessons can the United States learn from the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan?"
  
  
• Jeffrey A. Rosenwieg, Associate Dean of Goizueta Business School and economic commentator for CNN Headline News, recently published Patriotic Economics: How to Thrive While Helping America. The book offers practical advice on investing, borrowing, spending, and other actions crucial to restoring the nation's financial health. Dean Rosenwieg has appeared on CNN repeatedly about the economic impact of the terrorist threat this fall.
  
  
• Philip Brachman, Professor at the Department of International Health, has appeared as an infectious disease expert in the press almost daily since September 11th. His knowledge and background make him a valuable resource for policy makers and news agencies alike; Professor Brachman advised the Center for Disease Control after anthrax was detected in the Florida Sun worker. News organizations like CNN, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times, interviewed Professor Brachman regularly for his expertise on anthrax and biological warfare. Professor Brachman not only worked on development of the anthrax vaccine, but he also chairs two committees of the Institute of Medicine in the National Academy of Sciences. He is chair of both the Committee to Review the Department of Defense Global Emerging Infectious Surveillance and Response System Strategic Plan and the Committee to Review the CDC: Anthrax Vaccine Safety and Efficacy Program of the CDC. His work as an educator garners accolades as well; he won this year's Abraham Lilienfeld Award for teaching from the American Public Health Association.