All the latest news from Emory University.http://shared.web.emory.edu.xmlhttp://shared.web.emory.edu.xmlSat, 07 Nov 2009 21:10:41 -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 professor of Hebrew and Middle Eastern Studies Shalom Goldman seeks to illuminate the Ten Commandments in the context of the Old and New Testaments, the Qur'an, Hollywood and the Supreme Court. http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/11/ten-commandments-illuminated-by-emory-professor.htmlThu, 05 Nov 2009 10:00:00 -0500http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/11/ten-commandments-illuminated-by-emory-professor.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.htmlTo recognize the 30th anniversary of the publication of Flannery O'Connor's letters in Sally Fitzgerald's book "The Habit of Being," Emory Libraries is hosting "Habits of Being: Flannery O'Connor and Sally Fitzgerald," a program of special events scheduled Thursday, Nov. 5.http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/habit-of-being-celebration-at-emory.htmlWed, 04 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/habit-of-being-celebration-at-emory.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.htmlEmory University's Michael C. Carlos Museum has been awarded a five-year, $500,000 grant through the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to link art conservation with the teaching of science at the university. http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/11/art-conservation-science-education-funded-at-emorys-carlos-museum.htmlTue, 03 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/11/art-conservation-science-education-funded-at-emorys-carlos-museum.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.htmlSix renowned individuals will be honored for achievements in their fields during the James Weldon Johnson Medal ceremony hosted by Emory University's James Weldon Johnson Institute on Wednesday, Nov. 4 at the Carter Center. http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/emory-to-award-james-weldon-johnson-medals .htmlFri, 30 Oct 2009 17:00:00 -0400http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/emory-to-award-james-weldon-johnson-medals .htmlWhen Atlanta voters head to the polls Nov. 3 to elect a new mayor, their choice will either extend and endorse the tradition of African American mayors in the city, or it will establish a new era of racial politics in the city, says Emory political scientist Michael Leo Owens, an expert on urban and municipal politics. http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/atlanta-mayors-race.htmlFri, 30 Oct 2009 11:00:00 -0400http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/atlanta-mayors-race.htmlA group of experts will gather in Atlanta on Thursday, Nov. 5 to discuss caring for a person with Alzheimer's disease.http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/public-seminar-for-alzheimers-caregivers.htmlFri, 30 Oct 2009 01:00:00 -0400http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/public-seminar-for-alzheimers-caregivers.htmlUnited Methodist Bishop William H. Willimon will give a public lecture titled "Emerging Evangelicals Among Postmoderns: A Blessing and a Warning" at Emory University's Candler School of Theology at 6 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 12. http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/bishop-willimon-to-speak-at-emory-on-emerging-evangelicals.htmlThu, 29 Oct 2009 13:00:00 -0400http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/bishop-willimon-to-speak-at-emory-on-emerging-evangelicals.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.htmlPregnant women are at particularly high risk of serious disease and death after flu infection, and healthcare providers should encourage them to be vaccinated, say a team of vaccine and public health researchers. http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/vaccines-safe-in-pregnancy.htmlThu, 29 Oct 2009 01:00:00 -0400http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/vaccines-safe-in-pregnancy.html