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Forefront

This Wednesday: Course Design for Flexibility and Choice

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Providing students with choice in how they accumulate and demonstrate knowledge, skills, and points throughout the semester can help increase motivation, interest, and connection to the material. It is a student-centered practice that is supported by principles from Universal Design, inclusive pedagogy, and motivation research. It provides structured flexibility giving students time to interact with the material at the pace they need. Come hear how faculty have implemented this approach in their own courses and what the results were!

The panelists participated in the Course Design for Flexibility and Choice workshop last year and implemented their course design this past fall and spring.

If you are considering participating in the Course Design for Flexibility and Choice Workshop this May (register here), this is a great opportunity to learn more about this approach.

WHEN
Wednesday, March 20th 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

WHERE
Woodruff Library Classroom 217 (Center for AI Learning) OR Zoom

WHO
Wes Longhofer
, Goizueta Foundation Term Associate Professor of Organization & Management; Executive Academic Director, Business and Society Institute, Goizueta Business School

LisaMarie Wands, associate professor, clinical track, School of Nursing

Erica Davis, assistant professor, School of Nursing

Yun Kim, director of undergraduate research, associate teaching professor, Program in Linguistics, Emory College

 

From Excellence to Eminence

Kim Receives Top Prize in 2024 Association of Asian American Studies Book Awards

The Association of Asian American Studies recently awarded Associate Professor of American Religious History Helen Jin Kim’s book Race for Revival: How Cold War South Korea Shaped the American Evangelical Empire (Oxford University Press) its prize for "Outstanding Achievement in History," the top award in the history category of the 2024 AAAS Book Awards.

In Race for Revival, Helen Jin Kim traces not only the rise of Christianity in South Korea as a response to the Cold War, but also how this rise revived evangelical crusades in the U.S. More than mimicking their imperial progenitors like BIlly Graham, Korean protestant leaders had their own aspirations in the new world order. This remarkable and meticulous study is only possible through diligent archival research and oral histories conducted over two continents and in two languages. The intermingling religious histories of the U.S. and Korea forecast the rise of Christian Right from the Reagan era to this day and add an important layer of heterogeneity to our conception of Asian America.

Heard on Campus

Prioritizing People

We also need to update the way that we understand who has a claim on protection. Whether applied to children or to adults, our current statutory definition of refugees--and this applies to the UN definition, as well--prioritizes people fleeing from formal political political persecution, which has both age and gender discrimination built into it because statistically, those who are most involved in "formal politics" are adult literate men. It also fails to take into account the multiple and intertwined ways that political, economic, social, and environmental factors interact to cause people to flee across borders in fear of their lives. Economic precarity and political instability tend to come hand in hand, right? It is a false dichotomy to imagine that you can separate them out.

--Anita Casavantes Bradford, University of California, Irvine, during the Race and Difference Colloquium Series lecture "The Geopolitics of Child Immigration in U.S. History," hosted by the James Weldon Johnson Institute on March 4, 2024

Resources for Faculty

Emory Library LibGuides

LibGuides provide research assistance, subject guides, and useful resources compiled by librarians. The Emory Libraries have guides on many subjects, topics, and courses, some of which are highly specialized. Use the research guides to discover recommended resources for your field, to learn strategies for conducting research, or to get help with a particular course assignment.

The research guides are created and curated by expert librarians and staff at the Emory Libraries. To learn more about the guides and other instructional tools and resources offered by the library, visit the Instruction program page. if you would like to request a course guide be created for your class, contact your subject librarian directly.

For more information, please visit this link.

 

New to the Faculty

Zahra A. Barandouzi, Assistant Professor, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing

Zahra A. Barandouzi is an assistant professor at the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University and a member of the Winship Cancer Institute. Her research interests focus on patient-reported outcomes, cancer symptom science and management, omics science, and health disparities. Barandouzi is currently investigating how the interaction of multilevel social determinants of health with the gut-brain axis contributes to developing and maintaining psychoneurological symptoms in cancer survivors. The results of her work will provide an essential foundation for designing precise interventions using AI to relieve symptoms in the cancer population. Barandouzi's mission as a cancer researcher is to uncover novel insights to reduce disparities in cancer outcomes.

Barandouzi has broad experience teaching courses such as "Maternal and Child Health" and "Methods of Research in Medical Sciences" to nursing students and nursing staff working at bedsides. Also, during her graduate program and postdoctoral training, she worked as a teaching assistant for clinical simulation and mentored undergraduate students to prepare abstracts and papers. Her teaching interests focus on research methods, oncology nursing, evidence-based practice, and women’s health. Barandouzi's teaching philosophy centers around active learning. This includes engaging students in the learning process using research-based learning methods and encouraging them to participate, collaborate, and think critically to prepare nursing students for real-world challenges where interactive and adaptive problem-solving is essential.

Events This Week

Monday, March 18

At 11:30 a.m. in The Luce Center/Room 130/825 Houston Mill Road/Atlanta, GA 30329 and via Zoom, the Emeritus College Lunch Colloquiums presents Cynthia Patterson, professor emerita of Greek history, who will speak on "Ambition Gone Awry? The Michael C. Carlos Museum and the Antiquities Market." For more information, please contact Dianne M. Becht (dianne.becht@emory.edu).

At noon in R809 R. Randall Rollins Building, the GCDTR Seminar Series presents Alka Kanaya, professor of medicine, epidemiology and biostatistics, (University of California, San Fransisco, Department of Medicine). For more information and to register, please visit the events calendar.

At noon in Jones Room in the Woodruff Library Building, the James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference (JWJI) Colloquium presents Joycelyn Wilson, assistant professor, hip hop studies and digital humanities, Georgia Tech. The title of this lecture is "The Sacred Universe of Hip Hop: Reflections on a Middle Age Phenomenon." For more information and to register, please visit the JWJI events calendar.

At 1:00 p.m. in HSRB II Room N457 and via Zoom, the Center for Childhood Infections and Vaccines Seminar Series will feature Brian Zanoni, associate professor, Departments of Medicine and Pediatric Infectious Diseases, who will speak on "Overcoming Challenges To Retention In Care For Adolescents Living With HIV In South Africa." For more information, please visit this Children's Healthcare of America webpage.

At 4:00 p.m. via Zoom, Emory Libraries (Woodruff Library) will offer a Zotero Workshop. For more information and to sign up, please visit this webpage.

At 7:00 p.m. at Oxford College Humanities 202, Oxford presents a lecture by Emory alumnus and attorney Michael Kenny, who will speak on "High Stakes Litigation, Storytelling, and the Humanities." For more information, please visit this link.

Tuesday, March 19

All day in Rollins Auditorium and Cafe, Health Sciences Research Building, the Emory Pediatric+Winship Flow Cytometry Core Presents Cytek Days. The topic of this Day 1 session is "Basic Principles." For more information, please visit the pediatrics events calendar.

At 7:00 a.m. online, Human Resources presents Healthy Kaiser Permanente Well-being 101 Emory. For more information, please visit the events calendar.

At 11:00 a.m. via Zoom, Teaching and Learning Technologies presents New Question Types in New Quizzes in Canvas. For more information and to sign up, please visit this webpage.

At 11:00 a.m. in McDonough Field, the Emory Farmers Market will take place. For more information, please visit this Sustainability webpage.

At 12:30 p.m. in Egleston Classroom 5 and Zoom, the Advances in Research (AiR) Conference will feature Kristopher Knight (molecular and systems pharmacology) and Emily Sullivan (molecular and systems pharmacology). The titles of their respective talks are "Development of a Novel L-Asparaginase with Enhanced Properties Using Ancestral Sequence Reconstruction" and "Utilizing Galectin-9 Blockade to Improve CAR T-cell Efficacy in AML." For more information and to RSVP, please visit this link.

At 1:00 p.m. in Anthropology Building room 206, the anthropology department presents "Photography Between Art and Anthropology," a public conversation with Sasha Tycko and Jason Francisco discussing the exhibition Ways of the Atlanta Forest currently on view in the Anthropology building. For more information, please visit this link.

At 2:30 p.m. in Math and Science Center E300, the Physics Department Colloquium presents Xiaoming Mao (University of Michigan), who will speak on "Geometric Frustration, Self-assembly, Mechanics, and Pathways to Complexity." For more information, please visit the events calendar.

At 3:00 p.m. in Claudia Nance Rollins Building room 1051, the Infectious Diseases Across Scales Seminar Series will feature Jacobus de Roode, Samuel C. Dobbs Professor of Biology. For more information, please visit this link.

At 7:00 p.m. in White Hall room 208, the Center for Ethics will host Ethics at the Movies: At the Ready. For more information and to register, please visit the events calendar.

At 7:00 p.m. at Oxford College Greer Forum, the 2024 Dana Greene Distinguished Lecture presents Kevin M. Kruse, professor of history and director of the Center for Collaborative History, Princeton University, who will speak on "Seeking Justice: The Civil Rights Movement And The Federal Government." For more information, please contact Jennifer Brown (jennifer.beatrice.brown@emory.edu).

Wednesday, March 20

All day in Rollins Auditorium and Cafem], Health Sciences Research Building, the Emory Pediatric+Winship Flow Cytometry Core Presents Cytek Days. The topic of this Day 2 session is "Advanced Applications." For more information, please visit the pediatrics events calendar.

At 8:00 a.m. in Egleston Classroom 5 and via Zoom, the Jay E. Berkelhamer Pediatric Research Grand Rounds will feature Marlene Rabinovitch, Dwight and Vera Dunlevie Professor of Pediatric Cardiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, who will speak on "Pursuing a Cure for Pulmonary Hypertension." For more information and to register, please visit this webpage.

At noon via Zoom, the Emory SCORE Women's Health Research Lecture Series will feature Farida Sohrabji, Director, Women's Health in Neuroscience Program, Texas A&M University, who will speak on "Sex Differences in the Efficacy of Preclinical Stroke Therapies: A Tale of Three MicroRNAs". For more information and to register, please visit this link.

At noon online, Human Resources presents How to Keep the Temperature Down in Families. For more information and to register, please visit this webpage.

At noon in White Hall room 208, the Center for Ethics presents the Ready to Leave Your Mark Mural Project. For more information, please visit the events calendar.

At 1:00 p.m. ECDS presents an Intro to 3D Studio Max (Part 1 of 2) workshop. For more information and to sign up, please visit this link.

At 1:00 p.m. in Brooks Commons in Cannon Chapel and via Zoom, the Candler School of Theology presents a panel discussion on Earth, Pandemics, Gender, and Religion. For more information and to register, please visit this link.

At 1:00 p.m. online, Human Resources presents a Health Education Series webinar on Plant Based Meal Planning. For more information, please visit the events calendar.

At 1:00 p.m. in the Psychology Building, the Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture Lunch will focus on "Virtual Spaces and Issues of Identity" featuring Tanine Allison (Film & Media Studies, Emory), Jinsook Kim (Film & Media Studies, Emory), and Josh Rubin (Anthropology, Bates College). For more information and to register, please visit this webpage.

At 2:30 p.m. in Woodruff Library Room 217 and via Zoom, the Center for Faculty Development and Excellence will host a Faculty Panel on Designing Your Course for Flexibility and Choice Using Points-based Grading. For more information and to sign up, please visit this link.

At 4:00 p.m. via Zoom, the Contemplative Science Seminar presents Brendan Ozawa-de Silva, Emory Center for Contemplative Science and Compassion-Based Ethics, who will speak on "Rethinking Empathy through Social Embodiment." For more information and to register, please visit this webpage.

At 4:00 p.m. in WBRB 400 Cell Biology Seminar Room, Kristy Welshhans, assistant professor of biological sciences, University of South Carolina, will speak on "Axonal Protein Synthesis in Neurodevelopment and Down Syndrome." For more information, please visit the events calendar.

At 5:30 p.m. in Ackerman Hall, the Carlos Museum will host the Nowruz Spring Festival. For more information and to join the waitlist, please visit the events calendar.

At 5:30 p.m. in White Hall 112, Joseph Torigian (American University) will discuss "Sino-Russian Relations in Historic Context." For more information, please visit this webpage.

At 7:30 p.m. in White Hall 208, the Emory Cinematheque: From HAL to Her: AI in Film presents Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982/2007 [The Final Cut]). For more information, please visit this Film and Media webpage.

Thursday, March 21

All day in Rollins Auditorium and Cafe, Health Sciences Research Building, the Emory Pediatric+Winship Flow Cytometry Core Presents Cytek Days. The topic of this Day 3 session is "Instrument Time with the Flow Core and Cytek Team." For more information, please visit the pediatrics events calendar.

At 7:00 a.m. in Emory Decatur Hospital's Bailey Auditorium, Human Resources presents the Decatur Hospital Well-being Expo. For more information, please contact Healthy Emory (healthyemory@emory.edu).

At 10:30 a.m. online, the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University presents the Canopy Forum Virtual Conference: The Roles of Law, Religion, and Housing Through the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. For more information and to register, please visit this link.

At 10:30 a.m. via Zoom, the 2023-2024 Microbiology and Immunology Seminar Series presents Steve Jameson, professor and Harry Kay Chair, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, who will speak on "I Think You Should Leave: Regulating T cell Re-circulation and Residency." For more information, please visit the events calendar.

At 11:30 a.m. in in O. Wayne Rollins Research Center 1052, the Biology Seminar Series presents Lynn Kamerlin, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Tech, who will speak on "Modulating Loop Dynamics and the Evolution of New Enzymes." For more information, please contact Malia Escobar (malia.escobar@emory.edu).

At noon in Jones Room, Woodruff Library (3rd floor), the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship and the Envisioning Baroque Rome digital humanities project will host an Envisioning Baroque Rome Digital Humanities Lunch and Learn. For more information and to RSVP, please visit this link.

At noon in Whitehead Auditorium, Janae B. Brown, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, Spelman College, will speak on "Insights into Novel Cardiac Signaling Pathways." For more information, please visit the events calendar.

At 2:00 p.m. online, Emory Libraries’ Rigor and Reproducibility Webinar Series presents Crystal Gergye, clinical veterinarian, Division of Animal Resources, who will speak on "How to Arrive Prepared : Guidelines for Successful and Reproducible Animal Research." For more information and to register, please visit this webpage.

At 2:30 p.m. at 1804 North Decatur Road, the Music at Emory and Music Department present vocalist, composer, and educator Jazzmeia Horn for a Jazz Lecture Demo. For more information, please visit the events calendar.

At 4:30 p.m. via Zoom, the Aflac Seminar Series presents Mark Applebaum (pediatrics, University of Chicago), who will speak on "Epigenetics of Neuroblastoma: From Bedside to Bench." For more information, please visit this pediatrics webpage.

At 5:00 p.m. in Rose Library Level 10 of Woodruff Library, Emory Libraries and the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry present Writing a Book on Jazz (Piano) a book launch and talk with Emory music professor, jazz pianist, and author Gary Motley; vocalist, composer, and educator Jazzmeia Horn; and WABE host Lois Reitzes. For more information, please visit this link.

At 5:30 p.m. in the Psychology and Interdisciplinary Sciences Building room 290, the classics department presents the Benario Lecture in Roman Studies featuring John F. Miller (Classics, University of Virginia), who will speak on "Ovid's Contesting Muses and a Renaissance Solution." For more information, please visit this webpage.

At 6:00 p.m. in Rita Anne Rollins Building (RARB), the JWJI Public Dialogues in Race and Difference presents "White Liberalism," featuring multiple speakers from the Emory faculty. For more information, please visit this webpage.

At 7:30 p.m. in Ackerman Hall, the Laszlo-Excalibur Lecture will be delivered by Mireille M. Lee (Vanderbilt), who will speak on "The Tanagras, Greek Dress, and Femininity." For more information and to RSVP, please visit this link.

Friday, March 22

At 9:00 a.m. in HSRBII N100 and via Zoom, the Experimental Pathology Seminar Series presents Jeremy M. Boss, professor and chair of basic sciences research, associate dean of basic science, Emory, who will speak on "Programming B Cell Differentiation." For more information, please visit the events calendar.

At 9:30 a.m. in Ackerman Hall, the Carlos Museum presents a half-day colloquium on Classical Drapery and Dress. For more information and to sign up, please visit this link.

At noon via Zoom, Teaching and Learning Technologies will offer Canvas Drop-In. For more information and to sign up, please visit this link.

Saturday, March 23

At 5:15 p.m. in Emerson Concert Hall, the Turtle Island String Quartet will present Find Your Groove, A Lecture/Demonstration. For more information, please visit the events calendar.

At 8:00 p.m. in Emerson Concert Hall, ythe Candler Concert Series will presents the Turtle Island String Quartet — Island Prayers. For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit the events calendar.

Sunday, March 24

No events currently scheduled.

Monday, March 25

At noon in Jones Room in the Woodruff Library, the James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference (JWJI) Colloquium presents Quito J. Swan, professor, Africana studies and history, The George Washington University, who will speak on "The Black Pacific: Black Internationalism and Oceania." For more information and to register, please visit the JWJI events calendar.

ThoughtWork: Emerging Knowledge and News in Emory's Intellectual Community

Monday, March 18, 2024, Volume 24, Issue 28

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