Writing Support in Spring 2024: Register Today

Build a Sustainable Writing Practice for the Spring 2024 Semester with CFDE Writing Support.

The Center for Faculty Development and Excellence invites all faculty to participate in a spring 2024 semester-long program of remote and in-person writing support structures. Registrants may choose from four options:

1. Writing Discussion Groups – participants read and discuss one another’s work, via Zoom or in-person

2. Writing Time Together Groups – participants gather in-person for writing time together

3. Sit Down and Write with the CFDE– twice weekly virtual (and in-person in the CFDE Faculty Writing Room) one-hour group writing sessions and accountability on Tuesdays and Fridays 11 am, via Facebook or Slack

4. Writing Coach Message Service – twice weekly emails with practical writing tips and support, plus one optional individual 30-minute writing coaching session during the semester

The writing groups will convene in January 2024 and conclude the first week of May.

The deadline to register is Thursday, December 14, 2023. For more information and to register, please visit this link.

Nursing School Receives $1.7 Million for Research in Women’s Health, Intersectionality Using Data Science

The National Institute of Nursing Research has awarded a $1.7 million grant to Emory University Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing faculty for research training in women's health and intersectionality using data science and health information technology.

The grant was awarded to associate professor Rasheeta Chandler and professor Vicki Hertzberg, who also serves as a director of the school’s Center for Data Science. The five-year, T32 Research Project grant will prepare nurse scientists to employ data science and health information technology to improve women’s health while considering the intersectionality of multiple social determinants of health.

The program will train pre-doctoral and post-doctoral nursing scientists within interdisciplinary teams and build on the strengths of the School of Nursing’s currently funded research studies, faculty expertise, and supporting infrastructure.

For more information about the award, please visit this Emory News Center webpage.

Making the Archives Come Alive

I think it’s an important thing about the archives – these people come here, they place their papers here, and if you don’t form a relationship with a person themselves, often it’s with a family member, or a close friend. Or a descendant. One of the things I find fascinating about working in archives, working in museums, is when you do this kind of work, these relationships are real. They last for years, for decades. And it’s through those relationships that you learn about the people. So you can always read the archives, you can always engage with the materials, but in the end it’s that person-to-person connection that really makes them come alive.

--Clint Fluker, Senior Director of Culture, Community, and Partner Engagement for Emory Libraries and the Michael C. Carlos Museum, during a “Creativity Conversation” with Rosemary Magee, on October 20, 2023

Read the Chronicle of Higher Education Through Emory’s Site License

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2. Click on the "Sign Up" link to create a free account using your institutional email address. You also have the option to sign up for The Chronicle’s free email newsletters during the registration process.

3. Activate your account by confirming your email address in the "The Chronicle: Confirm your email address" email.

Andrew Jennings, Associate Professor of Law, School of Law

Andrew Jennings, who joined the faculty in 2023, teaches corporate law, securities regulation, and white-collar crime. His research interests focus on corporate governance and compliance, securities regulation, and white-collar crime.

Jennings was previously an assistant professor at Brooklyn Law School, a lecturer in law and teaching fellow for the Corporate Governance and Practice program at Stanford Law School, and a scholar in residence at Duke Law School. He served as a law clerk to the Honorable Helene N. White of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He previously practiced law at Cravath, Swaine and Moore LLP, where he handled mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance matters, and at Sullivan and Cromwell LLP, where he practiced in criminal defense and investigations and civil litigation.

Jennings’s scholarship has been featured in the Duke Law Journal, Brigham Young University Law Review, Journal of Corporation Law, Yale Journal on Regulation, and Maryland Law Review, among other publications. He earned degrees from Hampden-Sydney College and Duke University School of Law, where he concurrently earned a master’s degree in economics while serving as executive editor of the Duke Law Journal. In addition to his scholarship and teaching, Jennings has served as an expert witness in business-related litigation and is the creator and host of the Business Scholarship Podcast, which features interviews with legal, accounting, finance, and other scholars.

Monday, December 4

At 11:30 a.m. in The Luce Center Room 130 and via Zoom, the Emeritus College Lunch Colloquium welcomes Robert Gaynes, infectious disease physician. This title of this talk is "The Discovery of HIV: New Insights on the 40th Anniversary of the Breakthrough." For more information and to register, please visit this Emeritus College webpage.

At noon via Zoom, the Benefits and Worklife Department presents a webinar on Anxious Children: What Really Helps. For more information and to register, please visit this link.

At 1:00 p.m. in the Health Sciences Research Building, the 7th Annual Center for Childhood Infections and Vaccines (CCIV) Symposium will feature keynote speakers are Theresa Alenghat (Cincinnati Children’s Hospital) and Paul G. Thomas (St. Jude Children’s Hospital). For more information about the symposium and to register, please visit this link.

At 1:00 p.m. in PAIS 561, the Quantitative Theory and Methods Speaker Series presents "Mixed Effects Models for Skeptics" with Peter Hoff, professor of statistical Sscience (Duke University). For more information, please visit this webpage.

At 4:00 p.m. in Health Sciences Research Building II N100, the Center for Clinical and Translational Research presents Melanie Cree, associate professor of pediatrics-endocrinology (University of Colorado, School of Medicine). The title of this lecture is "Understanding Metabolic Disease in Adolescents with PCOS." For more information, please visit this link.

At 7:30 p.m. at Williams Hall (Oxford College), the Oxford Dance Company will present a performance. For more information, please contact Jennifer Brown (jennifer.beatrice.brown@emory.edu).

Tuesday, December 5

At 11:30 a.m. via Zoom, the Atlanta Center for Microsystems Engineered Oliver Brand Memorial Lecture Series will feature Arben Merkoçi professor and director of the Nanobioelectronics & Biosensors Group at Institut Català de Nanociencia i Nanotecnologia of Autonomous University of Barcelona, who will speak on "The Next Generation of Lateral Flow Assays: Integration of Nanomaterials." To register, please visit this link.

At noon in Center for Ethics Room 162, the Center for Ethics presents The Ethics Of..., a monthly brown bag lunch series on a wide range of topics. For more information and to register, please visit this webpage.

At 2:30 p.m. in Math and Science Center E300, the Physics Department Colloquium will host Matthieu Wyart (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland). For more information, please visit the College events calendar.

At 4:00 p.m. in Jones Room (Woodruff Library), please join the Center for Faculty Development and Excellence for the annual Feast of Words, a celebration of Emory faculty authors and editors of books published in the prior academic year. For more information, please visit this link.

At 6:00 p.m. at Switchyards Downtown Club, the Emory Arts and Social Justice Fellows Program presents an Arts and Social Justice Showcase and Community Conversation. For more information, please visit this webpage.

At 6:00 p.m. in the Schwartz Center Dance Studio, an Informal Dance Showing will take place. For more information, please visit the Arts events calendar.

Wednesday, December 6

At 10:30 a.m. via Zoom, Teaching and Learning Technologies will host a Video Production Team Drop-In. For more information and to sign up, please visit this webpage.

At noon via Zoom, the Benefits and Worklife Department will host a Parent Meet Up. For more information, please visit the events calendar.

Thursday, December 7

At 11:30 a.m. in O. Wayne Rollins Research Center Room 1052, the Biology Seminar Series will feature Sam Sober, associate professor of biology, who will speak on "New principles and experimental tools for skill learning and execution." For more information, please contact Malia Escobar (malia.escobar@emory.edu).

At noon online, the Benefits and Worklife Department presents a webinar on Preserving Your Savings for Future Generations For more information, please visit the events calendar.

At noon in Whitehead Auditorium, Matthew Gentry, professor and chair, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (College of Medicine, University of Florida), will present a lecture on "Similar Metabolic Perturbations Link Lung Cancer and Neurodegeneration." For more information, please visit this link.

At 1:00 p.m. via Zoom, the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion will host a Virtual Racial Healing Circle. For more information and to register, please visit this webpage.

At 1:00 p.m. and again at 3:00 p.m in the Jones Room or via Zoom, Emory Libraries will present Tap Into Calm - Wellness Workshop. For more information and to sign up, please visit this link.

Friday, December 8

At 9:00 a.m. in Emory Health Sciences Research Building II Conference Room N100 and via Zoom, the Pathology Department will host the Experimental Pathology Seminar Series featuring Richard Flavell, Sterling Professor of Immunobiology; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (Yale School of Medicine), who will speak on "Humanized Mice For The Study Of Human Disease." For more information, please visit the events calendar.

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

At noon at the First Presbyterian Church, the Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta will present Bach's Lunch Series—Vega Quartet: Solo! For more information, please visit the Arts events calendar.

At noon in the Health Sciences Research Building II N600 and via Zoom, the Clinical Outcomes Research and Public Health Seminar will feature Michael Edelson, City of Brookhaven GIS manager and geospatial professional, who will speak on "Expand Clinical Outcomes Research with Geospatial Tools and Technology." For more information and to register, please visit this Pediatrics webpage.

At 8:00 p.m. at the Schwartz Center, the Atlanta Master Chorale will present its holiday concert. For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit this Box Office webpage.

Saturday, December 9

At 8:00 p.m. at the Schwartz Center, the Atlanta Master Chorale will present its holiday concert. For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit this Box Office webpage.

Sunday, December 10

At 4:00 p.m. at the Schwartz Center, the Atlanta Master Chorale will present its holiday concert. For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit this Box Office webpage.

At 4:00 p.m. in Ackerman Hall (Carlos Museum), The Carlos Museum and the Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta presents a Family Concert: Santa's Favorite Chamber Music. For more information, please visit the Arts events calendar.

Monday, December 11

At 1:00 p.m. and again at 3:00 p.m in the Jones Room or via Zoom, Emory Libraries will present Tap Into Calm - Wellness Workshop. For more information and to sign up, please visit this link.

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

Monday, December 4, 2023, Volume 24, Issue 16

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