All the latest news from Emory University.http://shared.web.emory.edu.xmlhttp://shared.web.emory.edu.xmlMon, 23 Nov 2009 13:31:16 -0500Cascade ServerOxford College of Emory University and Emory's Candler School of Theology have received gifts totaling more than $4.25 million from the Charles Edwin Suber Foundation.http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/11/4.25-million-in-gifts-from-oxford-college-alumnus-estate.htmlMon, 23 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/11/4.25-million-in-gifts-from-oxford-college-alumnus-estate.htmlThe Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has selected Emory University and its partner institutions, the Georgia Institute of Technology and Morehouse School of Medicine, to receive a four-year, $700,000 "Med into Grad" grant to bring clinical medicine into the graduate school curriculum.http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/11/howard-hughes-grant-connects-phd-students-to-medical-applications.htmlThu, 19 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/11/howard-hughes-grant-connects-phd-students-to-medical-applications.htmlDespite the continuing rocky economy and the change of the seasons, some things are still green and growing: "Green" jobs.http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/11/connecting-to-the-growth-of-green-jobs.htmlWed, 18 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/11/connecting-to-the-growth-of-green-jobs.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.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.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.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.htmlThe Institute of Medicine has elected Emory University and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta pediatrician and neonatal researcher, Barbara J. Stoll, MD, to its new class of 65 top national health scientists. This brings Emory's total IOM membership to 26.http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/iom-elects-school-of-medicine-faculty-member.htmlMon, 12 Oct 2009 01:00:00 -0400http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/iom-elects-school-of-medicine-faculty-member.htmlEmory chemist Tianquan "Tim" Lian, a leading expert in ultra-fast spectroscopy, electron transfer processes and quantum dots, is studying ways to convert the sun's energy into cheap and clean solutions to the global energy crisis. http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/shining-light-on-green-energy.htmlTue, 06 Oct 2009 01:00:00 -0400http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/shining-light-on-green-energy.htmlAtlanta Symphony Orchestra Music Director Robert Spano has been appointed an Emory University Distinguished Artist in Residence. He joins a prominent professoriate when he begins his appointment this spring.http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/spano-named-distinguished-artist-in-residence.htmlTue, 06 Oct 2009 01:00:00 -0400http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/spano-named-distinguished-artist-in-residence.htmlThe old wish, "If these walls could only talk," has nearly come true for Oxford College of Emory University with the publication of "Cornerstone and Grove," a history of the campus where Emory was established in 1836. Subtitled "A Portrait in Architecture and Landscape of Emory's Birthplace in Oxford, Georgia," the book was written by Erik Oliver, who is a native and current resident of the city of Oxford. http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/cornerstone-and-grove-focuses-on-oxford-campus-foundations.htmlThu, 01 Oct 2009 01:00:00 -0400http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/cornerstone-and-grove-focuses-on-oxford-campus-foundations.htmlEmory has launched a PreHealth Mentoring Office this fall, designed to provide support and guidance to undergraduates planning to go on to medical school or other advanced studies in the field of health. http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/09/mentoring-for-careers-in-health.htmlThu, 01 Oct 2009 01:00:00 -0400http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/09/mentoring-for-careers-in-health.htmlThe Urban Land Institute (ULI) Atlanta District Council has recognized Emory University for its comprehensive sustainability initiatives. The University received the institute's annual Sustainable Development Award Sept. 24 for its projects and programs in Atlanta and for its sustainable campus development principles and practices.http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/09/emory-is-sustainable-development-leader.htmlFri, 25 Sep 2009 01:00:00 -0400http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/09/emory-is-sustainable-development-leader.htmlRachel Barnhard has always wanted to help people. As a varsity soccer player in high school, she'd wrap her teammates' sore ankles, for example. "I wanted to be MacGyver," recalls the director of Emory Emergency Medical Services, "but as I got older I found that there were real ways to help people."http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/09/rachel-barnhard-on-call-for-excellence.htmlWed, 16 Sep 2009 01:00:00 -0400http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/09/rachel-barnhard-on-call-for-excellence.htmlThe number of students enrolled in global health programs in universities across the United States and Canada doubled in just three years due to a surging interest in careers to address health disparities and improve care to people living in developing countries, according to a survey released today by the Consortium of Universities for Global Health.http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/09/global-health-programs-see-spike-in-growth.htmlMon, 14 Sep 2009 01:00:00 -0400http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/09/global-health-programs-see-spike-in-growth.html