This week’s theme is Emory University.
Tag: Emory
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The dragon that reaches out and grabs you
It was the childhood drowning of his older sister in a river near Gloucester, Massachusetts that sparked Roger Babson’s life-long interest in finding a way to control the effects of gravity. So motivated was he, that Babson wrote an essay titled “Gravity – Our Enemy No. 1.” Speaking of his sister in the essay he […]
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Emory starting theological program for future leaders who now are in high school
At a time a third of the nation’s teenagers say they have no religious affiliation, Emory University is expanding its efforts to shape future leaders whose outlooks will be rooted in theology and faith.
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New CEO begins tenure at Emory Healthcare, which also serves Grady, Children’s hospitals
Dr. Jonathan Lewin, a radiologist with extensive connections in the realm of academic research, has started his tenure as the chief executive of Emory Healthcare, the largest healthcare system in Georgia.
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Cox Foundation provides $25 million to enhance patient-centered care in serious health situations
After emerging cancer-free from treatments for prostate cancer diagnosed in May, Jim Kennedy has provided a $25 million grant from the family foundation he oversees to Emory University to improve patient treatment and outcomes.
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Three Georgia campuses among greenest in nation: Emory, Spelman, West Georgia
Three higher ed campuses in Georgia rank among the greenest schools in the nation, according to the ninth annual rankings of colleges and universities released Tuesday by Sierra magazine.
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It’s a small world after all for an Emory physician and a Grady Hospital Medical Director
A former medical director of Georgia’s largest hospital shares a connection with one of the hospital’s well-known physicians
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When God ‘Died’ in Atlanta
This week guest contributor Gary Hauk, vice president of Emory University and a Georgia Humanities board member, tells the story of the “God is dead” controversy, a multimillion-dollar fundraising campaign, and the triumph of academic freedom.
On October 22, 1965, the Emory University board of trustees was meeting to plan a campaign to raise $25 million — the largest fund-raising effort in Georgia to that point. By coincidence, a Time magazine story in the October 22 issue focused on four young American theologians, including one from Emory’s Department of Religion named Thomas J. J. Altizer. What made these men’s thinking newsworthy was Altizer’s way of framing it: “We must recognize that the death of God is a historical event: God has died in our time, in our history, in our existence.”
In short order, this theology became known as the “death-of-God” movement.
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New park helps small city’s residents discover ‘greene’ space and forgotten son of the New South
This week guest contributor BRIAN BRODRICK, city councilman in Watkinsville and Georgia Humanities board member, calls for the memory of Atticus Haygood to be pulled from the shadow of New South spokesman Henry Grady and brought out to our public space.
The name — Atticus Greene Haygood — conjures images of To Kill a Mockingbird and old Georgia, which are both appropriate.
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Ebola research by Emory, CDC yields results as aid workers arrive for monitoring after exposure to virus
As several aid workers exposed to the Ebola virus arrive for monitoring in Atlanta, researchers from Emory University and the CDC report progress in their efforts to improve treatment of the disease.
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Field test for Ebola devised by Emory students who now seek crowdfunding
As the nation focuses on a case of Ebola in a Texas hospital, two students at Emory University are raising money to develop a test they think could identify the virus in the field.
The freshmen think they have figured out a way to test for the virus without the need for expensive machinery that’s generally available only in hospitals – too far from sick people in villages in Africa to be of practical use.
They’re secretive because of the intense competition for such a treatment. But they have posted a video on a crowdfunding site and raised more than $9,300 of the $14,500 they think they need to develop a cheap and fast detection method.
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Emory University’s contest lifts region’s role in global health arena
Teams from Dallas and Baltimore took home top honors, but in a sense Emory University and metro Atlanta were the real winners in this weekend’s International Emory Global Health Case Competition.
The event drew to Emory’s campus more than 140 top students and scholars from the U.S. and countries including Australia, Canada and Sweden. For these students, Emory was the venue to propose and debate 21st century strategies for the World Health Organization.
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As holiday cards grow rare, Randy Osborne sends daily letter with care
In the coming weeks, as Americans rush to shove hastily written holiday cards and form letters in mail boxes to friends and family members, Randy Osborne will still pen a letter a day to a stranger.
Osborne doesn’t care if his letters arrive before a day attached to a religious figure or public cause. More than a resolution, his Letter a Day Project is about connection through a nostalgic form of messaging. It is one man’s reply to a national nosedive in personal correspondence.
“I think people really want some kind of contact even if it’s from a stranger, something that takes time and attention,” said Osborne, 58, who teaches fiction and non-fiction writing at Emory University and co-founded Carapace, a monthly storytelling event at Manuel’s Tavern.
