Call for Proposals: Fall 2025 Community-Engaged Learning Grants 

Application accepted through April 25th, 2025. Reviews begin Monday, April 28th, 2025.

The CFDE announces the availability of the Community Engaged Learning grants. Anyone currently teaching at Emory is eligible, including graduate students, adjunct faculty, visiting faculty, lecturers, and tenure track faculty. Please note that director of engaged learning Vialla Hartfield-Méndez is available for teaching consultations about community engaged pedagogy, syllabus development, partnership cultivation, and general related questions.

Grants may be used to support activities related to well-structured community engaged experiences in courses or academic programs. Proposals should address how community engaged pedagogy is leveraged to assist organizations with addressing critical community needs in the metro Atlanta area. The application requires answers to questions about the relationship with the partner(s) and how the student experience will meet a need identified by the partner, how the experience with partners is integrated into the course, and how reflection about the experience is integrated into the course. Such partners might include neighborhood groups, nonprofit organizations, public agencies or other similar organizations. Proposals may also be submitted for projects that are in the early stages of community partnership development (especially those that include students in the partnership development work) and/or learning experiences for students that prepare them to better engage with community partners.

Community Engaged Learning Grants cover amounts up to $1200 and are intended to support both new or ongoing opportunities for faculty to incorporate community engaged learning (service learning) into their courses or programs. In some cases, grants may be made to support ongoing or existing community engaged learning activities, particularly when those activities grow to involve more students, new partners or communities, or new strategies. If you have questions about what grants may cover please contact Dr. Hartfield-Méndez (vhartfi@emory.edu). For more information and to apply, please visit this webpage.

Seven Emory Faculty Named American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows

Seven members of the Emory faculty have been named by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) as 2024 Fellows. The AAAS selects fellows for their outstanding efforts in the advancement of science based on research, teaching, administration and technology, as well as communicating and interpreting science to the public. Emory’s new fellows join a distinguished list of previous fellows including Thomas Edison, W. E. B. DuBois, retired astronaut Ellen Ochoa and former Secretary of Energy Steven Chu.

The following Emory faculty were selected as 2024 AAAS Fellows: Wilbur Lam (professor, biomedical engineering; professor of pediatrics and co-director of the Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Pediatric Technology Center), David H. Lawson (professor of hematology and medical oncology, Emory School of Medicine), Tené T. Lewis (associate professor, epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health), Anant Madabhushi (professor, biomedical engineering; researcher, Cancer Immunology Program, Winship Cancer Institute; executive director, Emory Empathetic AI for Health Institute), Ilya Nemenman (Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor, physics), Edmund K. Waller (professor, medicine, pathology, hematology, and medical oncology; Rein Saral, MD, Professor in Cancer Medicine, Winship Cancer Institute), and Li Xiong (Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor, Computer Science; professor of biomedical informatics).

The new fellows will be celebrated at a forum in Washington, D.C. on June 7.   

History and the School Prayer Cases 

When the [two Supreme Court cases deciding that official prayer in public schools is unconstitutional due to the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment] were decided in the early 1960s, the Supreme Court had a much different approach to constitutional law generally, and to the Establishment Clause in particular, than it does today. The Court's earlier approach, if you had to characterize it in a single sentence, was really focused on secularism, the idea that the government's speech should be secular, that government institutions should be secular, and so on. So the school prayer cases were decided on that basis: that religion has no place in public life generally and in public schools in particular. Since then, things have gotten more complicated, I would say. The main complications are twofold. One is that the court really had to nuance that view. Even though official public school prayer has been consistently something that the Supreme Court has rejected as being constitutional, various forms of prayer led by students, say, in after school clubs in public schools, the Court has acknowledged that those are protected under the free speech clause. The other thing that's really changed, I think, is the Court's approach to thinking about the establishment clause. There, the Court has really shifted from generalized principles about secularism or separation of church and state to an approach that's more focused on history. How would the founders have understood what an establishment of religion is? How does this current problem relate to that original understanding and the practices surrounding it? . . . The interesting thing about this is that the Court has said [they] want to look at history and historical practices and understandings to think about what the Constitution means. But it might surprise people to know that the history is actually pretty complicated. And there's more there, I think, than people thought, especially as it relates to topics like school prayer or other kinds of compulsory prayer led by the government.       

-- Mark Storslee (associate professor of law, McDonald Distinguished Professor, Emory School of Law), Interactions Podcast, "History and the School Prayer Cases," December 20, 2024. 

Guidance Regarding Federal Award Terminations

Receiving a Notice of Award Termination or stop work order from a federal sponsoring agency is challenging, unfortunate, and complex. The Office of the Senior Vice President for Research, including the Office of Research Administration, provides this guidance and support throughout this process to ensure compliance and facilitate a smooth transition. This internal document will walk you through the steps to take should you receive a Notice of Termination Award. This document consolidates a lot of information, not all of which will apply to everyone. Please reach out to the contacts listed throughout if you have any questions.

Yuki Wang, Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Economics

Yuki Wang is an assistant teaching professor in the Department of Economics, and she also holds positions as the associate editor of Financial Economics Letters, the associate dean of the Office of Undergraduate Admissions at Emory, and visiting economist in the research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.

Wang's research interests include finance, macroeconomics, and financial markets, and her most recent publications can be found in journals such as Computational Economics, Annals of Economics and Finance, and the European Journal of Finance. She has several working and forthcoming papers, including research on how privatization impacts state-owned enterprises, spatial marginal expansion from the perspective of machine learning algorithms, and global warming's effect on household debt.

Wang has been recognized especially for her teaching, receiving the Excellent Teaching Recognition from the Phi Beta Kappa Gamma Chapter of Georgia at Emory. 

Monday, April 14                       

At noon at the Woodruff Library Jones Room, the James Weldon Johnson Institute Colloquium presents Vicente Carrillo, JWJI visiting fellow, who will give a talk titled "The Riddle: Queer Brown Intimacies in the Gentrifying Barrio." For more information, please visit this webpage.

At noon on Zoom, the Global Diabetes Research Center Seminar Series presents William "Troy" Donahoo,professor and chief, Division of Endocrine, Diabetes and Metabolism; Department of Medicine; University of Florida, who will give a talk titled "Fifteen Years of Learning About Diabetes Through Real-World Data." For more information, please visit this webpage. 

At 1 p.m. at the Health Sciences Research Building II room N600 and on Zoom, the Center for Childhood Infections and Vaccines Seminar presents Dariana Torres, PhD Candidate, Biochemistry, Cell and Developmental Biology Program, Emory, who will give a talk. For more information, please visit this webpage. 

At 7:30 p.m. at the Carlos Museum Board Room, the Carlos Reads series presents a discussion of Yaa Gyasi's Homecoming with a discussion led by TK Smith, curator of the Arts of Africa and the African Diaspora. For more information, please visit this webpage.

Tuesday, April 15                    

At 11 a.m. at the Goizueta Business School room W521, the Emory Veterans Employee Network presents a time to meet the new Executive Director of Veteran Initiatives, Major General Matt Smith. For more information, please visit this webpage. 

At 11 a.m. at the Health Sciences Research Building II room N600 and on Zoom, the Children's Heart Research and Outcomes Center Special Guest Seminar presents Kristin Kopperud, science program director, Biological Sciences at International Space Station National Laboratory, who will give a talk titled "Biomedical R&D in Low Earth Orbit and Its Rolein the 4th Industrial Revolution." For more information, please visit this webpage. 

At 11:30 a.m. at the Miller-Ward Alumni House and on Zoom, the Emeritus College Lunch Colloquium Series Sheth Lecture presents John Witte, Jr., Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law, McDonald Distinguished Professor of Religion, Emory University School of Law, who will give a talk titled "Mapping the Field of Law and Religion." For more information, please visit this webpage. 

At 1 p.m. at the Rose Library, the Rose Library Open House Series Miscellaneous Monthly presents archival materials related to the Earth and our relationship with nature. For more information, please visit this webpage.   

At 1 p.m. on Zoom, Emory Libraries presents a Zotero Workshop. 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. 

At 2:30 p.m. at the Math and Science Center room E300, the Physics Department Colloquium presents Shiladitya Banerjee, associate professor, physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, who will give a talk titled "Bacterial Memory and Adaptation in Dynamic Environments." For more information, please visit this webpage.  

At 4 p.m. at Kemp Malone Library in Callaway room N301, the Irish Studies Lecture presents Zachary Leader,professor emeritus, English, University of Roehampton, who will give a talk titled "Richard Ellmann, James Joyce, and Literary Biography." For more information, please visit this webpage.   

At 4 p.m. at the Emory Center for Ethics, the Healthcare Ethics Consortium presents Hilary Mabel, Emory University Center for Ethics, in a Healthcare Ethics Dialogue titled "Moral Distress: Unpacking, Identifying, & Managing a Human Experience." For more information, please visit this webpage.  

At 6:30 p.m. at White Hall room 205, the Institute for Jewish Studies presents a film screening of Bunchi, with a chance to meet the director and producer, Esti Almo Wexler. For more information, please visit this webpage.  

At 7 p.m. at White Hall 208, the department of French and Italian presents a film screening of Dahomey followed by a talk with Mati Diop (French-Senegalese filmmaker). For more information, please visit this webpage. 

At 8 p.m. at the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts Emerson Concert Hall, the Emory Department of Music presents Emory Big Band with Special Guest Patrick Langham. For more information, please visit this webpage. 

Wednesday, April 16

At 10:30 a.m. on Zoom, the Emory Video Production Team presents a drop-in during 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. 

At 11 a.m. at Rita Anne Rollins Building room 252, the Candler School of Theology presents Brian K. Blount, 2024-2025 Alonzo L. McDonald Family Chair on the Life and Teachings of Jesus and Their Impact on Culture, who will give a webinar titled "Before He Was White: Jesus, Mark, and the Politics of Inclusion." For more information, please visit this webpage.  

At 1 p.m. at Woodruff Library room 314, the Library & Information Technology Services presents a workshop titled "How to Read a Research Paper," led by Derek Harootune Otis, student flourishing librarian. For more information, please visit this webpage.  

At 4 p.m. at White Hall room 101, the James Weldon Johnson Institute Book Presentation Series presents Afroalgoritmos by Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro, Puerto Rican novelist, short-story writer and essayist. For more information, please visit this webpage. 

At 7 p.m. online, the Health Storytelling Q&A presents Doctors by Nature by Jaap de Roode, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of biology, Emory. For more information, please visit this webpage. 

At 7:30 p.m. at the Mary Gray Munroe Theater, Theater Emory presents Lysistrata, Or Lucy’s Strategy: Atlanta’s Stolen Erection. For more information, please visit this webpage. 

At 7:30 p.m. at the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts Dance Studio, the Emory Dance Program presents the Emory Dance Company Spring Concert. For more information, please visit this webpage. 

At 7:30 p.m. at White Hall room 208, the Emory Cinematheque Film on Film screening series presents No Bears. For more information, please visit this webpage. 

At 8 p.m. at the Schwartz Center Performing Arts Studio, music at Emory presents Macie Stewart, Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, songwriter, and improviser, who will present a concert. For more information, please visit this webpage. 

Thursday, April 17

At 11:30 a.m. at the O. Wayne Rollins Research Center, the Biology Seminar Series presents Keshav Ramachandra, postdoctoral fellow, Sober lab, Emory Biology, who will give a talk titled "Understanding the brain's control of muscles during precise behaviors" and Stephanie Gutierrez, postdoctoral fellow, Civitello lab, Emory biology, who will give a talk titled "Ecology of copepods and their dynamics responses to environmental factors and Abate treatment." For more information, please visit this webpage. 

At noon at Whitehead Auditorium, the cell and molecular biology department presents Guillaume Chanfreau, professor, chemistry & biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles, who will give a talk titled "Novel insights into Yeast Gene Expression Mechanisms using Oxford Nanopore Long reads RNA Sequencing." For more information, please visit this webpage.  

At noon on Zoom, the Marcus Autism Center/Behavioral Mental Healh Grand Rounds presents Aaron Besterman, health sciences associate clinical professor, UCSD Department of Psychiatry, who will give a talk titled "Rare Variants, Real Kids: The Promise and Pitfalls of Genomic Psychiatry." For more information, please visit this webpage.  

At noon at the Woodruff Library Jones Room, the Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies presents Monte Randall, president, College of the Muscogee Nation, and Barbara Krauthamer, dean, Emory College of Arts and Sciences, who will give a talk titled "Higher Ed Leadership: Conversations Across Campuses." To register, please visit this webpage.  

At noon at the Rollins School of Public Health and on Zoom, the RSPH Alumni Board and the Emory Maternal and Child Health Center for Excellence presents Jennifer Rutledge Pettie, CEO Health Equilibrium Group, who will give a talk titled "Maternal Health Metrics: A National Barometer for Equity, Resilience, and National Health Outcomes." For more information, please visit this webpage.   

At noon on Zoom, the Rollins School of Public Health Alumni Board presents a webinar titled "Our Public Health Future Starts Now: The Role of Technology in Our Public Health Future." For more information, please visit this webpage.

At 3 p.m. at the Health Sciences Research Building I room E260 and on Zoom, the Center for Gastroenterology, Endocrinology, & Nutrition Innovation Research in Progress Seminar presents Helaina Huneault (Nutrition and Health Sciences Doctoral Program, Emory University) who will give a talk titled "Precision Nutrition for Pediatric Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD): Addressing the Heterogeneity of MASLD in Children." For more information, please visit this webpage.   

At 4 p.m. at White Hall room 112, the program in linguistics presents Susan Tamasi, teaching professor, Emory Program in Linguistics, who will give a talk titled "Varieties and Varietals: Linguistic Variation as a Reflection of Cultural Change." For more information, please visit this webpage. 

At 4:30 p.m. at the Health Sciences Research Building II room N600, the Department of Medicine presents a Bioentrepreneurship Networking Event. For more information, please visit this webpage. 

At 6:30 p.m. at the Patterson Green, the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts and the music department present Jazz on the Green. For more information, please visit this webpage. 

At 7:30 p.m. at the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts Dance Studio, the Emory Dance Program presents the Emory Dance Company Spring Concert. For more information, please visit this webpage. 

At 8 p.m. at the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts Emerson Concert Hall, the music department presents Emory Wind Ensembles who will give a concert. For more information, please visit this webpage. 

Friday, April 18  

At 8 a.m. at the Health Sciences Research Building II room N600 and on Zoom, the Center for Clinical and Transnational Research Special Guest Seminar presents Michael R. DeBaun, J.C. Peterson Chair in Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt-Meharry Center of Excellence in Sickle Cell Disease, who will give a talk titled "Academic Activism: Choosing the Right Time and the Right Place." To register, please visit this webpage.  

At 11:45 a.m. at the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, the LALXS Workshop presents Pablo Palomino, associate professor, Latin American and Caribbean studies, Oxford College, who will give a talk titled "The History and Uses of 'Global South': A Critical View." For more information, please visit this webpage.  

At noon at White Hall room 200, the Institute of African Studies presents African Studies Undergraduate Student Research Symposium. For more information, please visit this webpage.    

At noon at the Carlos Museum Ackerman Hall, the Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta Cooke Noontime Series presents Vega Quartet Carnegie Hall Preview. For more information, please visit this webpage. 

At noon at the Health Sciences Research Building I room E360 and on Zoom, the Children's Center for Immunitity and Applied Genomics lecture presents Saurabh Mehandru, associate professor, division of gastroenterology, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, who will give a talk titled "B cell Dysfunction and its Targeting in Immune Mediated Diseases." For more information, please visit this webpage.   

At 12:30 p.m. at the Modern Language Building room 330, the German studies department presents a German Studies Showcase Luncheon. For more information, please visit this webpage.  

At 1 p.m. at Callaway room N301, the English department presents Alan Rice, director of the University of Central Lancaster Research Centre in Migration, Diaspora and Exile and Co-Director of the Institute for Black Atlantic Research, who will give a talk titled "Fighting Jim Crow in Britain: A Transatlantic Interpretation of the Battle of Bamber Bridge (1943)." For more information, please visit this webpage. 

At 2 p.m. at Callaway room S109, the comparative literature department presents Comparative Literature Honors Showcase. For more information, please visit this webpage. 

At 4 p.m. at Woodruff Library Jones Room, the Center for Faculty Development presents A Panel Discussion Session on "Navigating Teaching in the US: Perspectives Shared by Emory's advanced PhD Candidates." For more information, please visit this webpage.    

At 4 p.m. at White Hall room 102, the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative presents a film screening of La Rebelión de las Flores, with a discussion with its writer Moira Millán. For more information, visit this link.

At 7:30 p.m. at the Mary Gray Munroe Theater, Theater Emory presents Lysistrata, Or Lucy’s Strategy: Atlanta’s Stolen Erection. For more information, please visit this webpage. 

At 7:30 p.m. at the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts Dance Studio, the Emory Dance Program presents the Emory Dance Company Spring Concert. For more information, please visit this webpage.

Saturday, April 19

At 10 a.m. at the Carlos Museum Art of the Americas galleries, the Artful Stories Reading Series presents Tiny Bird: A Hummingbird’s Amazing Journey by Robert Burleigh and illustrated by Wendell Minor. For more information, please visit this webpage.  

At 11 a.m. at the Midtown Art Walk, the Emory Arts and Social Justice Program presents a Celebration of Earth Day: Midtown Earth Day Market. For more information, please visit this webpage.  

At 11 a.m. at the High Museum, the Emory Arts and Social Justice Program presents Oasis @ High Museum, featuring a performance by T. Lang and Adam Mirza, ASJ faculty fellows. For more information, please visit this webpage.  

At 1 p.m. at Carlos Museum Ackerman Hall, the Asian Arts at Emory series presents a Performance for Families: Javanese Shadow Puppetry with the Emory Gamelan Ensemble. For more information, please visit this webpage.

At 2 p.m. at the Carlos Museum, the Carlos Museum Student Guide Tour presents Portrayals of Divinity and the Union of Human and Divine with Caroline and Art in Conflict + Compromise with Asmita Lehther Gray. For more information, please visit this webpage. 

At 4 p.m. at Carlos Museum Ackerman Hall, the Emory Gamelan Ensemble presents Shadow Puppetry Theater. For more information, please visit this webpage.

At 7:30 p.m. at the Mary Gray Munroe Theater, Theater Emory presents Lysistrata, Or Lucy’s Strategy: Atlanta’s Stolen Erection. For more information, please visit this webpage. 

At 7:30 p.m. at the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts Dance Studio, the Emory Dance Program presents the Emory Dance Company Spring Concert. For more information, please visit this webpage. 

At 8 p.m. at the Schwartz Center Performing Arts Studio, the music department presents StageWorks 2025, a variety of selections from opera and musical theater. For more information, please visit this webpage.  

Sunday, April 20 

At 2 p.m. starting at the Carlos Museum rotunda, the Carlos Museum presents a Sunday Public Tour, a docent-led tour free with museum admission. For more information, please visit this webpage. 

Monday, April 21

At noon at the Woodruff Library Jones Room, the James Weldon Johnson Institute Colloquium presents Rosa O'Connor Acevedo, JWJI visiting fellow, who will give a talk titled "Racial Long Durée: A Fractured Ontology." For more information, please visit this webpage. 

At 3 p.m. online, Emory Human Resources presents a health webinar titled "Staying Healthy as a Family." For more information, please visit this webpage.   

At 4 p.m. at the Psychology and Interdisciplinary Sciences Building room 290, the Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture lecture presents Katherine Kinzler, professor of psychology, the University of Chicago, who will give a talk titled "How You Say It: Language and sociocultural learning." For more information, please visit this webpage. 

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

Monday, April 7, 2025, Volume 25, Issue 30

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