Jan 8: Spring 2025 Pre-Semester Course Prep Webinars

Register once and receive a Zoom link for the day! Attend as many sessions as you'd like.

Wednesday, January 8th, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. Session topics include 

• Student Engagement - Turn your class into a practice plan
• Use Canvas to Create and Inclusive and Accessible Learning Environment
• Poll Everywhere: Engage Students in a Class of Any Size
• Purposeful Course Design Overview

For more information and to register, please visit this webpage.

Biousse Elected to the American Ophthalmological Society

Valerie Biousse, professor in the section of neuro-ophthalmology at Emory Eye Center and in the Department of Neurology, Emory School of Medicine, has been elected to the American Ophthalmological Society, the second-oldest specialty medical society in the U.S., It elects new members through nominations from current members. Admission requires the submission of a scholarly thesis, which, upon approval, is published in the American Journal of Ophthalmology.

Biousse holds the Reunette Harris Chair of Ophthalmic Research and is the director of the neuro-ophthalmology fellowship at Emory. She is a fellow of the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society and of the French Society of Neurology and an elected member of the American Neurological Association and the American Ophthalmologic Association, and multiple other national and international societies, including the American Academies of Ophthalmology and Neurology and the French Society of Ophthalmology. She has more than 500 publications, including scientific articles, book chapters and books, and she regularly lectures throughout the world. Her current research focuses on four primary areas: (1) idiopathic intracranial hypertension, (2) the use of non-mydriatic fundus photography for the diagnosis of neuro-ophthalmic disease in various clinical settings and the applications of artificial intelligence as a diagnostic aid, (3) diagnostic errors and referral patterns in neuro-ophthalmology, and (4) ocular manifestations of cerebrovascular diseases.

Oxford College Organic Farm Celebrates 10 Years 

We do so many things here at the farm. The whole purpose is to grow good food for our campus and community and to provide an educational resource for our students. . . . Even someone who works very briefly on the farm has a better idea of what it takes to get food from a seed to your plate. On three acres, we're growing 40,000 pounds of vegetables every year, and a portion of that goes to our local food bank just right up the street.      

-- Daniel Parson, farmer and educator, Emory University Organic Farm Anniversary Celebration, October 26, 2024

Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Seeks Faculty Reviewers

Undergraduate Research Programs invites interested faculty to join the review committee for this year’s Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) application cycle. The SURE committee helps shape the future of undergraduate research at Emory University by reviewing the applications and 2-page project proposals our undergraduates hope to pursue.

Reviewers are assigned applications within their discipline and can provide welcomed feedback for the undergraduate applicants. The application review period will occur between February 4 and February 24, 2025. If you are interested in joining the committee, please complete our interest survey here.

Please email Dr. Keira Davis, kdavi56@emory.edu, for further information. 

Shayna Cordis, Assistant Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Shanya Cordis (she/her) is a first-generation Black and Indigenous (Lokono and Warrau) Guyanese American. As a sociocultural anthropologist, she specializes in African & African diaspora studies and Native American & Indigenous studies. Broadly speaking, her research focuses on indigeneity and antiblackness across the Americas and the Caribbean, black and indigenous political subjectivities and resistance, transnational black and indigenous feminisms, and black feminist geographies. Her work examines how colonial and imperial legacies mediate and form the grounds of black and indigenous unfreedoms and liberatory struggles. Her forthcoming manuscript, Unsettling Geographies: Antiblackness, Gendered Violence, and Indigenous Dispossession in Guyana is a critical feminist ethnography that tracks how geographies of racial difference undergird indigenous recognition policies, extractive economies, and neocolonial capitalism, advancing the annexation of indigenous territories and entrenching antiblack logics. Secondly, Unsettling Geographies introduces relational difference, a theoretical framework which captures the social and political entanglements of the afterlives of slavery, conquest, and indentureship and its constitutively gendered and sexualized nature. Her second co-edited and co-authored book, Fugitive Anthropology (forthcoming Fall 2025) examines the embodied limits and generative openings that arise from conducting activist ethnographic research in contexts of colonialism, war and conflict, and racial and gendered violence, particularly for racialized queer, trans and gender expansive researchers. 

In addition to her research, Cordis is deeply invested in cultivating collaborative Black and Indigenous feminist praxis, both in and out of the classroom, to generate more expansive visions of Vlack and Indigenous liberation and autonomy. Critical Black and Indigenous feminisms offer a vital way to analyze movement(s) toward more transformative and decolonial futures, emphasizing how multiple axis of power cisheteropatriarchy, racism, capitalism, and colonialism — work together to structure our societies. In alignment with engaged feminist pedagogy, her research extends to public scholarship engagement, poetry, and creative mediums, with for example, the publication of her co-authored book, Say, Listen: Writing as Care (2023), as a member of the Black|Indigenous 100s Collective. As part of her teaching practice, she aims to incorporate teaching methods that cohere theory and praxis and bring the insights of interdisciplinary anthropological research to students’ embodied lived experience. The classroom, beyond being a site of institutional socialization, is as a space for liberatory transformation, challenging students to not only be cognizant of why social inequities persist, but also to imagine and create pathways toward addressing them in their respective avenues of study/interest. Before arriving at Emory, Cordis taught at Columbia University, Spelman College, and the University of Texas at Austin.

Monday, December 16

At noon on Zoom, the Emory Asian Pacific Islander Desi Employee Network (eAPDEN) presents Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) in the Workplace in which Jane Yang (PhD, psychologist) will give a talk. For more information, please visit this webpage.   

At 1 p.m. at the Health Sciences Research Building II room N457 and on Zoom, the Center for Childhood Infections and Vaccines (CCIV) Seminar presents Monica Cortez, PhD candidate, biochemistry, cell, and developmental biology, Emory, who will give a talk titled "Regulation of SARS-CoV-2 entry by Spike cleaving protease, TMPRSS2." For more information, please visit this webpage.

Tuesday, December 17         

At 9 a.m. on Brainer, Emory HR presents a webinar titled "Strategies for Influencing Others." For more information, please visit this webpage.  

At noon at the Rollins Research Center room 5052, the pharmacology and chemical biology seminar presents Ning Zheng, professor, pharmacology, University of Washington, who will give a talk titled "Targeted Protein Degradation: From Hormones to Therapeutics." For more information, please visit this webpage. 

At 2 p.m. on Zoom, the Goizueta Alzheimer's Disease Research Center presents Emory BrainTalk Live, a weekly webinar of discussions led by expert faculty clinicians. For more information and to register, please visit this webpage.

Wednesday, December 18

At 10:30 a.m. on Zoom, the Emory Video Production Team presents a drop-in in which Emory faculty and staff can ask questions about online video, lighting, audio, equipment, storyboarding, flipped classroom projects, graphic design, visual aids, and other media-related needs. For more information, please visit this webpage.

Thursday, December 19

At noon on Zoom, the Marcus Autism Center Behavioral Mental Health Grand Rounds presents Micah Mazurek, Novartis U.S. Foundation, Professor of Education Clinical Psychologist Director, Supporting Transformative Autism Research, University of Virginia, who will give a talk. For more information, please visit this webpage.

Friday, December 20  

At 8 a.m. at the Arthur M. Blank Hospital South Tower 16th Floor Conference Center (CL. 16403), the Clinical Outcomes Research & Public Health (CORPH) Seminar presents Jeremy Schraw (Baylor College of Medicine) who will give a talk titled "Leveraging Data Science for the Prevention and Cure of Rare Pediatric Diseases." To register, please visit this webpage. 

Saturday, December 21

At 10 a.m. at the Carlos Museum Tate Room, the Artful Stories Reading presents a reading of Steve the Dung Beetle on a Roll by Susan R. Stoltz, for ages 3-4. For more information, please visit this webpage. 

At noon at the Carlos Museum Tate Room, the Artful Stories Reading presents a reading of Steve the Dung Beetle on a Roll by Susan R. Stoltz, for ages 5-6. For more information, please visit this webpage.

Sunday, December 22 - Monday, December 23

No events currently scheduled.

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

Monday, December 16, 2024, Volume 25, Issue 17

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