All the latest news from Emory University.http://shared.web.emory.edu.xmlhttp://shared.web.emory.edu.xmlSun, 22 Nov 2009 13:18:06 -0500Cascade ServerEmory math professor R. Parimala has received one of the highest honors in her field: Selection as a plenary speaker for the International Congress of Mathematicians. It may be a lofty honor, but Parimala remains decidedly down to earth.http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/11/her-math-adds-up-to-brilliant-career.htmlThu, 19 Nov 2009 16:00:00 -0500http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/11/her-math-adds-up-to-brilliant-career.htmlResearchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, and the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, have discovered capuchin monkeys have a capacity for social learning that allows them to create group-wide social traditions. http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/11/capuchin-monkeys-can-sustain-social-traditions.htmlWed, 18 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/11/capuchin-monkeys-can-sustain-social-traditions.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.htmlTue, 17 Nov 2009 12:00:00 -0500http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/11/sanjay-gupta-book-signing-short.htmlWhen muscle cells need repair, they use odor-detecting tools found in the nose to start the process, researchers have discovered.http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/11/investigating-muscle-repair-researchers-follow-noses.htmlMon, 16 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/11/investigating-muscle-repair-researchers-follow-noses.htmlOmer Kucuk, MD, professor of hematology and medical oncology at the Emory Winship Cancer Institute, has received the Mark Bieber Academic Award from the American College of Nutrition (ACN). http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/11/oncologist-omar-kucuk-receives-nutritition-awards.htmlMon, 16 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/11/oncologist-omar-kucuk-receives-nutritition-awards.htmlChildren's Healthcare of Atlanta has received a $30 million grant from the Joseph B. Whitehead Foundation, including $25 million to help fund a new shared research building on the Emory campus.http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/11/choa-received-30-million-grant-for-pediatric-research.htmlFri, 13 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/11/choa-received-30-million-grant-for-pediatric-research.htmlEmory University's new Psychology and Interdisciplinary Sciences Building has been certified LEED Gold by the United States Green Building Council. Emory completed construction on the 118,000 square foot building in May.http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/11/emorys-new-psychology-facility-gets-gold-rating.htmlThu, 12 Nov 2009 14:00:00 -0500http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/11/emorys-new-psychology-facility-gets-gold-rating.htmlThe fifth annual Emory/Georgia Tech Predictive Health Symposium, Dec. 14-15, will highlight the integration of biology, behavior and environment aimed at maintaining health rather than treating disease.http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/11/predictive-health-symposium-2009.htmlThu, 12 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/11/predictive-health-symposium-2009.htmlEmory University's Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing has received $8,163,298 from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for a 2 1/2-year project designed to improve maternal and newborn survival rates in rural Ethiopia. http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/11/nursing-school-receives-8-million-dollar-gates-grant.htmlWed, 11 Nov 2009 11:00:00 -0500http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/11/nursing-school-receives-8-million-dollar-gates-grant.htmlPhysicians and researchers from Emory University, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and the Georgia Institute of Technology have teamed up to develop a kidney replacement device capable of treating children.http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/11/emory-gatech-choa-team-on-kidney-replacement-devices.htmlTue, 10 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/11/emory-gatech-choa-team-on-kidney-replacement-devices.htmlStudy on compliance with national recommendations that a physician screen chest pain patients within 10 minutes of their arrival to the Emergency Department (ED).http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/11/some-chest-pain-patients-wait.htmlTue, 10 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/11/some-chest-pain-patients-wait.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.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.htmlU.S. physicians are more aggressive than their Western European counterparts when it comes to screening for and treating asymptomatic health conditions such as early stage cancer. This approach may explain why U.S. health care costs are much higher when compared to those incurred by European health care systems, according to a study published in the current issue of the journal Health Affairs. http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/11/screenings-increase-u.s.-health-costs.htmlTue, 03 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/11/screenings-increase-u.s.-health-costs.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.html