All the latest news from Emory University.http://shared.web.emory.edu.xmlhttp://shared.web.emory.edu.xmlSat, 07 Nov 2009 05:27:03 -0500Cascade Server"We are all apes," is the central message of "Hominid," a new play featured at Emory Nov. 12-22. The evolution-themed work is a collaboration of playwrights' imaginations and Emory primatologist Frans de Waal's research.http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/11/new-play-apes-human-life-chimp-politics.htmlFri, 06 Nov 2009 16:00:00 -0500http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/11/new-play-apes-human-life-chimp-politics.htmlEmory University's Woodruff Health Sciences Center will host a book signing for Sanjay Gupta, MD, assistant professor of neurosurgery, Emory School of Medicine, and CNN's top medical journalist. http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/11/sanjay-gupta-book-signing-short.htmlWed, 04 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/11/sanjay-gupta-book-signing-short.htmlEmory University School of Nursing researchers have received a four-year, $1.2 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to examine how pregnant farmworkers perceive their risks for certain environmental and occupational hazards.http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/11/pregnant-farmworkers-occupational-risks.htmlWed, 04 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/11/pregnant-farmworkers-occupational-risks.htmlJudson C. "Jake" Ward 33C 36G, dean of alumni, passed away Sunday morning. He was 97 years old.http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/11/dr-judson-c-jake-ward-1912-2009-2.htmlTue, 03 Nov 2009 10:00:00 -0500http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/11/dr-judson-c-jake-ward-1912-2009-2.htmlTwenty-five years ago neuroscientist Donald Stein, PhD, began to suspect that women's brains differed from men's when it came to recovering from traumatic brain injuries.http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/progesterone-more-than-a-sex-hormone.htmlMon, 02 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/progesterone-more-than-a-sex-hormone.htmlEmory University will host Sudanese refugee Valentino Achak Deng for a public forum on Nov. 12. The event, open to the public and members of the refugee community, will feature a keynote address by Deng, volunteer opportunities with the refugee community and an organizational fair with refugee agencies in the Atlanta area. http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/11/refugee-deng-hosted-emory.htmlMon, 02 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/11/refugee-deng-hosted-emory.htmlEmory University's Office of International Affairs will host its annual International Awards Night on Nov. 16 to honor two individuals who have helped make Emory a more international university.http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/emory-honors-international-work.htmlThu, 29 Oct 2009 01:00:00 -0400http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/emory-honors-international-work.htmlIn a study funded by U.S. Air Force and Navy, Emory University researchers will use magnetic resonance imaging to assess activity in the brain when sacred values are perceived as being attacked or diminished.http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/moral-outrage-in-creation-of-political-conflict.htmlWed, 28 Oct 2009 17:00:00 -0400http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/moral-outrage-in-creation-of-political-conflict.htmlThis year The Scientist magazine's readers ranked Emory University as the 5th Best Place to Work in Academia in the United States. The ranking was based on a survey of more than 2,350 life scientists with a permanent position in an academic, hospital, government or research organization.http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/the-scientist-magazine-ranks-emory-5th-best-place-to-work.htmlWed, 28 Oct 2009 09:00:00 -0400http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/the-scientist-magazine-ranks-emory-5th-best-place-to-work.htmlEmory Creativity Conversation series will feature former President and University Distinguished Professor Jimmy Carter on Tuesday, Nov. 10 in Emerson Concert Hall, Schwartz Center for Performing Arts. http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/creativity-conversation-with-president-carter.htmlTue, 27 Oct 2009 01:00:00 -0400http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/creativity-conversation-with-president-carter.htmlHistoric video and audio interviews, photos, presentations and government papers that document the intense battle to eradicate smallpox are now available online to researchers and the public alike.http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/global-health-chronicles-smallpox.htmlTue, 27 Oct 2009 01:00:00 -0400http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/global-health-chronicles-smallpox.htmlReligion Dispatches (www.religiondispatches.org), the online religion magazine based at Emory University, has received a grant of $870,000 from the Ford Foundation for its operations over the next three years. http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/religion-magazine-gets-major-grant.htmlTue, 27 Oct 2009 01:00:00 -0400http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/religion-magazine-gets-major-grant.htmlEmory University scientists have earned 12 NIH Challenge Grants and Six Grand Opportunity (GO) awards from American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (stimulus) funding.http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/nih-emory-challenge-and-go-grants.htmlMon, 26 Oct 2009 01:00:00 -0400http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/nih-emory-challenge-and-go-grants.htmlNancy Lowe goes to church more often than most. All she has to do is step outdoors, where she finds the sacred in nature. During breaks from her job as a lead research specialist in biology, you might see her sketching a leaf or a bug somewhere on campus.http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/exploring-darwins-theory-in-art.htmlSun, 25 Oct 2009 16:00:00 -0400http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/exploring-darwins-theory-in-art.htmlLaMar S. McGinnis Jr., MD, FACS, clinical professor of surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, was installed this week as president of the American College of Surgeons (ACS). He was officially sworn-in for a yearlong term during the group's annual meeting in Chicago. http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/mcginnis-as-president-acs.htmlFri, 23 Oct 2009 01:00:00 -0400http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/mcginnis-as-president-acs.html