You can now catch up on all of Emory's stories and news through the new visually bold and engaging Emory News Center. Our new website combines content and resources from across the university into a single, easily searchable site. The News Center features topic-based RSS feeds that provide content tailored to consumer preferences. It offers an enhanced campus news focus that leverages our flagship Emory Report publication as a primary news source for faculty and staff. And the new site has a special section devoted to media-specific resources.

"The News Center provides a space for us to combine the best of Emory's news and events channels into a single, dynamic site that presents a compelling picture of Emory," says University Marketing Executive Director Jan Gleason.

Emory College of Arts and Sciences senior Christy M. Turner took a study break, clicked on an Emory blog about an old scrapbook, and found an ancestor. "It was very exciting," says Turner (at left in photo). The scrapbook, preserved by the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL), honors the late Rev. Ollie James Turner, an African American minister. The document served as the focus of a recent Turner family reunion, with relatives representing four generations gathering at MARBL.

Rare scrapbooks documenting African American life from 1890-1975 are being preserved with support from a federal grant. African American history is one of the specialties at MARBL, where students, scholars and other visitors can scan more than 800 years of archival documents.

Private philanthropy has played an essential role in funding top research priorities at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University. Private funding is free of many of the limitations inherent in public and corporate funding, and allows researchers to take more risks, explore novel insights, and experiment with promising new ideas that might not otherwise be explored.

In recognition of this important support, Winship publishes a newsletter to highlight private philanthropy and its benefits, including funding pilot grants that lead to larger research studies, accelerating the translation of research from bench to bedside, underwriting the investigation of rare but deadly cancers, and creating compassionate care programs to enhance the overall Winship patient experience.