Newsletter Volume 7 Issue 22 - July 7, 2021 |
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We are very grateful to Gretchen Schulz and Ann Hartle for help with editing and proofing. |
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REMINDERS
Zoom Updates -- Raise/Lower Hand Information
Updates, Participant Function Buttons, etc.
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Nominations Needed - University Senate and Faculty Council
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Interdisciplinary Seminar 2021
Seminar Coordinator, Marilynne McKay, is looking for topic ideas and participants for Fall Semester.
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Lunch Colloquium - Monday, July 12
Andrew Furman
"The Liberal Arts Revisited: The Uses of the Humanities in Medical and Health Education"
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Lunch Colloquium - Monday, July 19
Ciannat Howett
“Emory’s Engagement at the Intersection of Climate Change, Health, and Equity”
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Report - Lunch Colloquium - Monday, June 21
Eri Saikawa
“It All Started with Yak Dung: The Quest for Environmental Justice in Atlanta and Beyond”
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Report - Lunch Colloquium - Tuesday, June 29
Shauna Bowes
“Looking Under the Tinfoil Hat: The Psychological Correlates of Conspiratorial Ideation”
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New Members
Leonard Carlson
Ruth Parker
Don Stein
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Walking the Campus with Dianne
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Zoom Updates -- Raise/Lower Hand Information |
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In order for your Zoom program to function properly and to have the latest function keys, please remember to update your Zoom account. Updates are available quite often -- some will not be much of a change, but others may allow you to have more options, such as backgrounds and function keys that will allow you to easily raise your hand during a Q&A session.
Updates:
The current version of ZOOM is 5.7.1 (note: by the time this newsletter is distributed, there may be an even more updated version!). If you are not currently using the most recent version, you may want to make sure to install the latest update(s).
You can check your version by opening the Zoom App.
If you logged into a Zoom account, whether it's an Emory account or other, when you start the Zoom App you will see something like this:
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Click on your initials in the upper right hand corner and you will get a drop down menu. Scroll down to the "Check for Updates." It will either give you a message indicating you have the latest version or an offering to upgrade. If necessary, click for updates and wait for it to upload.
If you have a version that is not logged into a Zoom account when you start the app, you will see a screen like the following:
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At the bottom of the screen, you will see the version number. As stated earlier, the most recent is 5.7.1 or above. To upgrade from a non-Emory Zoom account, you can go to https://emory.zoom.us/ which will give you the screen below: |
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At the bottom of the above screen you should click on the link "Download Client" and then install the Zoom Client for Meetings, which should be the most up-to-date version.
Useful Functions:
As most of you know, we use the Zoom "Raise Hand" feature for our Q&A sessions. If your Zoom version is relatively up-to-date, this function can be used by locating the "Reactions" icon usually found at the bottom of the screen to the right.
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When you click on the Reactions icon, you will see the following: |
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Also note, that when you click on the Raise Hand, you will then get the option to Lower Hand as pictured below: |
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As you will see, there are many other functions you can use, such as an applause/hand clapping button, thumbs up, yes and no answers, etc. The Emeritus College generally does not use these other functions, but if you are attending Zoom meetings other than our Lunch Colloquiums, you may find them useful.
Hopefully, you will find this information helpful. If you have any questions or need additional information regarding Zoom, feel free to contact us for assistance.
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Nominations Needed - University Senate and Faculty Council |
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We need to elect a representative to the University Senate and Faculty Council for a three-year term that begins Fall 2021. The representative from the Emeritus College is expected to attend all meetings and submit a short report for the newsletter after each meeting. Since we are a voting member of the Senate and Faculty Council, it is important that we continue to have representation. To nominate yourself, please email Ann E. Rogers (ann.e.rogers@emory.edu) or the Emeritus College email (emeriti@emory.edu).
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Interdisciplinary Seminar 2021 |
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One of the programs sponsored by the Emeritus College is a yearly semester-long seminar on topics that span multiple fields. In each case, the intellectual enterprise is very much a cooperative venture, with participants drawn from across the rich array of disciplines to be found at a research university—philosophy and radiology, English and biochemistry, French and immunology, geology and nursing—with representatives of each contributing his or her particular expertise to a mutually beneficial learning experience. The overall goal of the seminars initiated by John Bugge is to foster intellectual stimulation and continued growth in the life of the mind in a truly collegial atmosphere. All EUEC members are welcome to participate.
Proposals are open for Fall 2021 when we hope to be returning live to weekly meetings at the Luce Center. We’d like suggestions for a seminar topic broad enough to stimulate the interest of a variety of emeriti, each of whom will propose a set of readings appropriate to an aspect of the topic from his or her disciplinary perspective, and then take responsibility for informally presenting those readings in one of the seminar sessions and leading the lively discussion that will inevitably follow.
In past years we’ve chosen to focus on books of wide-ranging import (Yuval Harari’s Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind and Robert Sapolsky’s Behave: The Biology of Humans at our Best and Worst); a period of time (“Paradigm shifts in the 20th Century”); and a region of the USA (“The South”). What should be next?
Might Atlanta itself be our focus? I myself confess an interest in “Big Lies and Their Consequences,” a topic that almost every discipline has faced. In 2017 two books addressed America’s fascination with fakery, suspicion, and alternative facts: Fantasyland. How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History by Kurt Andersen and Bunk by Kevin Young, both reviewed by Robert Darnton in NY Review of Books, June 28, 2018. Either of these titles would make for a lively seminar.
Should we perhaps have a look at The 1619 Project and “Critical Race Theory,” topics presently roiling republican legislatures who fear for the nation’s schoolchildren? Or perhaps you’ve come across a good book lately that you think might stimulate discussions with a dozen or so of your emeriti colleagues?
To join the mailing list for discussion of possible topics and further planning, email your name and suggestions to Seminar Coordinator, Marilynne McKay (mmckay@emory.edu). We will schedule the 90-minute Seminar meetings weekly from September to November, and we’d like to have the topic chosen by August 1.
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Lunch Colloquium - Monday, July 12, 2021 |
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“The Liberal Arts Revisited: The Uses of the Humanities
in Medical and Health Education”
Andrew Furman
Professor and Assistant Vice Chair for Faculty Development, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine
Lunch Colloquium - Zoom Meeting
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
This talk will explore the uses of the humanities in medical education from both a pedagogical and an epistemological perspective. After exploring the complementary functions of the sciences and the humanities in medical education, particularly with an eye toward their respective "ways of knowing," the talk will highlight core aspects of a humanities-based epistemology and how these not only enrich and enliven medical training, but are foundational to medical decision-making and praxis. In the historical tradition of Grand Rounds, the talk will then look closely at several works of art to demonstrate these fundamental concepts and how health professionals and students can "use" them.
About Andrew Furman:
Dr. Andrew Furman received his Bachelor of Arts from Williams College, majoring in Religion and the History of Ideas, and his Doctor of Medicine from the Emory University School of Medicine. He did his internship in internal medicine at the University of Washington and his psychiatric residency at Emory, culminating in a chief residency at the Grady Health System.
Dr. Furman is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst as well as a small group advisor in the Emory School of Medicine. He teaches extensively in the School of Medicine—both medical students and psychiatric residents—as well as in the Leadership Development Program of the Goizueta Business School of Emory University and in the Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute. Additionally, he is an affiliated faculty member of the Department of Comparative Literature in Emory College and the Psychoanalytic Studies Program of the Laney Graduate School of Emory University.
His scholarly interests include the uses of the humanities in medical and health education, the development of the medical professional, and psychotherapy and psychoanalytic pedagogy.
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Lunch Colloquium - Monday July 19, 2021 |
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“Emory’s Engagement at the Intersection of
Climate Change, Health, and Equity”
Ciannat Howett
Associate Vice President for Sustainability,
Resilience, and Economic Inclusion
Lunch Colloquium - Zoom Meeting
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
The time is now to address the conjoined issues of climate change, health disparities, and racial equity, issues playing out right here in Atlanta. To deal with the challenges these issues pose, Emory is building on 15 years of leadership in sustainability to launch the Resilience and Sustainability Collaboratory (RSC), a “think and do tank” composed of faculty, community leaders, and corporate partners working together on actionable projects that can be developed and tested here and then scaled up for application regionally, nationally, and internationally. These projects include an RSC Clinic for children suffering mental, physical, and behavioral effects of climate change and Soil-Testing and Community-Engaged Remediation in West Atlanta, a program that environmental scientist Eri Saikawa described to us in a Colloquium earlier this summer. Today, Ciannat will also describe the RSC initiative called The Working Farms Fund, recent recipient of a big USDA grant to support small to mid-sized farms in the Atlanta area. As we’ll hear, it’s through projects such as these that the RSC is helping Emory demonstrate its commitment to social good and positive transformation of the world while living out its commitment to deeper engagement with Atlanta at the same time.
About Ciannat Howett:
Ciannat Howett founded Emory’s first Office of Sustainability Initiatives in July 2006 before assuming her current role as Associate Vice President in 2019, managing an enterprise-wide effort to ensure that Emory’s actions and policies support environmental, social, and economic systems that provide a healthy, productive, and meaningful life for current and future generations. She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health and Emory College’s Environmental Sciences Department and a Senior Faculty Fellow with Emory’s Center for Ethics. Ciannat attended Emory as an undergraduate, receiving her B.A. in 1987, and she received a law degree from the University of Virginia in 1992. She practiced environmental law with Kilpatrick Stockton for four years and was Senior Attorney with the Water Enforcement Division the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C. for six years before serving as Director of the Southern Environmental Law Center’s Georgia and Alabama office until 2006. She is a Trustee for the R. Howard Dobbs, Jr. Foundation, the PATH Foundation, and serves on the Advisory Board of Emory Law School’s Turner Environmental Law Clinic and the National Council on Competitiveness. She received the 2002 U.S. EPA Gold Medal for Exceptional Service, the 2004 Environmental Hero Award from The Wilderness Society, the 2010 Pillar of Sustainability Award from EARTH University, the 2013 Outstanding Adjunct Faculty Award from Rollins School of Public Health, a 2014 Award of Distinction from Emory, and a 2020 Woman to Watch award from the U.S. Green Building Council. She is a co-founder of the Greater Atlanta Regional Centre of Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development of the United Nations. She is a frequent regional and national speaker on sustainability issues, and, for four years, was named a “Georgia Super Lawyer” by Atlanta magazine.
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Report - Lunch Colloquium - Monday, June 21, 2021 |
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“It All Started with Yak Dung: The Quest for Environmental Justice
in Atlanta and Beyond”
Eri Saikawa
Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences,
Rollins School of Public Health
At the Lunch Colloquium on June 21, Dr. Eri Saikawa provided us with a glimpse into her multi-pronged investigations into factors that contribute to environmental degradation. She described not only the challenges in measuring and modeling these factors in multi-variate systems, but also the challenges in using this information to encourage changes in human behavior to reduce their adverse impacts. Along the way, she shared some of her personal transformation as a scientist from an office-centered computer modeler to a field researcher, even traveling to remote Himalayan areas to measure the impacts of smoke from yak dung fires in nomad tents on air pollution. In a version of “think globally and act locally,” she is now involved in field research in areas of metro Atlanta where soil contamination in former industrial sites is having an adverse impact on food raised in urban gardens and those who eat it. Fortunately, she is still an expert computer modeler as well as a field scientist so that she can make predictions and impact behaviors based on data generated by her team.
She described three broad areas of research that she and her students and collaborators have worked on: air pollution, climate change, and heavy metal soil contamination.
AIR POLLUTION
Her interest in air pollution stemmed from personal perceptions of increasing pollution in East Asia, especially China. Despite wide recognition that air pollution has serious adverse effects on quality of life, human health, and agricultural yields, it is difficult for scientists to determine the relative effects of specific components of pollutants and those of various kinds of human activity. For example, what are the most important physical factors in polluted air such as ozone, ozone precursors, and particulate matter? Which sectors of society, such as industry, transportation, and residential activities, are more responsible for polluting the air? Computer modelers, using different data sets, arrive at different conclusions.
Because of a grant proposal opportunity, Eri obtained funding to examine the contribution of residential activity on air pollution in Asia. Fortunately, she had a graduate student who loved fieldwork who began the project, but eventually Eri left her computer to travel to the Tibetan plateau to participate in household surveys comparing fuel sources and habits of those engaged in village and nomadic life and measuring pollutants on site. The results showed much higher levels of pollution in nomadic villages where yak dung was the primary fuel source. Pollutants could be especially high when weather was bad and people spent more time inside tents where stoves were not well vented. Garbage burning in rural villages also contributed to poor air quality.
Although they could document the effects of this human behavior on air quality, changing that behavior was challenging. Yaks are considered sacred and their dung is certainly useful. Nomads say they are used to the smoke and it doesn’t bother them. Thus Eri learned first-hand the challenge of coming into a community from outside and encouraging changes that involve cultural beliefs.
AGRICULTURAL EMISSIONS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
The many sources of pollutants from agricultural activity and their complex interactions make research in this field extremely challenging too. The Saikawa lab has chosen to focus on the contribution of nitrous oxide. There are lots of natural sources of nitrous oxide, so teasing out the anthropogenic contribution from agriculture is difficult. With lots of complex computer modeling and multiple data sets, findings indicate that the largest increase in nitrous oxide in South Asia in recent years is from agricultural use of nitrogen fertilizer. In collaboration with UGA scientists, the Saikawa team is now doing field research to see if agricultural techniques like living mulch and cover crops can reduce need for the use of nitrogen fertilizers. They are finding that living mulch improves nitrogen fixation, but it also causes an increase in carbon in the soil and some increase in carbon emissions.
Once again, the conclusions of such studies are that it’s complicated. In environmental sciences, changing one variable can have consequences for another factor and assessing the overall impact of a change is challenging. To follow climate talks at Emory, go to https://climatetalks.emorydomains.org
HEAVY METAL SOIL CONTAMINATION AND URBAN AGRICULTURE IN WEST ATLANTA
Urban agriculture is being encouraged in metro Atlanta, especially in “food desert” areas, but there is concern about heavy metal contamination in soils near previous industrial sites. Lead contamination is of particular concern, especially since there is no safe level of exposure for children. Multiple adverse health effects are irreversible, including reduced intellectual development. At present, there are no requirements for soil testing for urban gardens, and there is resistance to voluntary testing in the local communities largely due to distrust of government. There is concern that government agencies might use radical remediation methods, including tree and soil removal. But lead has been found in so many soil samples from the area known as West Atlanta that Emory’s testing program and EPA testing have both expanded there. The Saikawa lab and Rollins School of Public Health are working to build trust and encourage soil testing, especially in areas where there is slag from industrial waste. They are investigating phytoremediation techniques. Greenhouse experiments with various plants grown in contaminated soil are showing some promise in reducing lead contamination in the soil. There is a web site with detailed information on this local effort: https://atlsoilsafety.com. Also of interest is a WABE interview about the project: https://www.wabe.org/these-emory-researchers-are-knocking-on-doors-across-atlantas-westside-to-warn-about-lead-contamination//
Throughout Eri’s account of these three approaches to environmental issues, there is a pattern of overwhelming complexity, both in data gathering and analysis and in the challenges of translating findings into human behavioral modification. Thankfully there are researchers who remain undaunted by the challenges—researchers like our own Eri Saikawa.
--Marianne Skeen
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Report - Lunch Colloquium - Monday, June 29, 2021 |
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“Looking Under the Tinfoil Hat: The Psychological Correlates of Conspiratorial Ideation”
Shauna Bowes
PhD Candidate, Clinical Psychology, Graduate Practicum Student,
The Nia Project
“Conspiracy theories are seemingly all around us, and they take many forms,” states Shauna Bowes, a rising fifth year PhD candidate in Clinical Psychology at Emory University. Ms. Bowes spoke to the Lunch Colloquium on Tuesday, June 29. She noted that conspiracy theories are pervasive, timely, and consequential and may be universal and a part of human psychology itself. Although many see conspiracy theories as rare and representative of a marginal minority, one half of all surveyed Americans believe in at least one conspiracy theory.
The focus of her presentation was on the psychological constructs and motivations associated with conspiratorial ideation. In her research, she asks two specific questions: Who are the conspiracy theorists and why are conspiracy theories so compelling? To address these questions, she has pursued two studies, one focused on the personological and psychopathological correlates of conspiratorial ideation (the “who” question) and the other on meta-analysis of relevant data (addressing both the “who” and the “why” of conspiratorial ideation).
Historically, there has been an emphasis on the intersection between conspiracy theories and abnormal psychological processes in a small minority of individuals. Current research suggests that there are, in fact, five specific personality disorder dimensions that are positively associated with conspiratorial ideation: negative affect, detachment, antagonism, disinhibition, and psychoticism. Narcissism and psychopathy are also correlates as are the internalizing factors of depression, anxiety, and anger.
In study 1 Ms. Bowes had two goals, the examination of the relations between multiple indices of psychopathology and conspiratorial ideation and clarification of the domain and facet level associations of general personality traits with conspiratorial ideation. Results of this study indicated that traits associated with psychopathology are strongly associated with conspiratorial ideation. However, general personality traits were weak correlates. The research indicates low levels of fairness, modesty, humility, altruism, inflexibility, prudence, diligence, inquisitiveness, and social self-esteem might offer a “personological recipe” for a tendency to attach to causal narratives that account for one’s distress and resentment. However, it is still unclear as to how personality predicts conspiratorial ideation. Ms. Bowes argues that a closer examination of the facets of personality traits might be important and cautions that it might not be any one factor that causes risk for conspiratorial ideation.
Her Study 2 is an ongoing synthesis of the large body of literature addressing the “why” of conspiratorial ideation. In other words, what makes conspiratorial theories so popular with individuals? Ms. Bowes has noted that there are three motivations working in this sphere: epistemic (the motive to understand our world and find closure, predictability, certainty, and complexity); existential (threats of losing personal meaning, powerlessness, and confronting information that challenges our sacred beliefs); and social (the need for acceptance and status and the need to see ourselves and others in our in-group positively as well as valorization of the in-group, right-wing authoritarianism, and social-dominance orientation).
Ms. Bowes suggests that there has been little integration of the research, resulting in differing understandings of specific psychological correlates associated with conspiratorial ideation. She calls for a refinement of theoretical frameworks that would bring together the “who” and the “why” to identify causal mechanisms. What does seem robust in the research is that dimensions of psychopathology measured were all significantly correlated with conspiratorial ideation suggesting that conspiracy theories are partially abnormal. Normal range personality trait correlates were weak. What Ms. Bowes’ research suggests is that individuals with conspiratorial ideation tend to be socially detached, impulsive, antagonistic, depressed, hostile, aggressive, odd, and low in humility.
In addressing the “why” question, Ms. Bowes has found that all epistemic factors (reliance on intuitive process, low rationality and openness, susceptibility to illusory patterns, and low complexity) were strongly correlated to conspiratorial ideation The existential factors (high need for safety, anxiety, threat sensitivity, and anomie) were also strong predictors of such ideation. Social threat (the perception that one’s out-group is out to get you and distrust of others) were the strongest positive correlates.
Ms.Bowes offered us her “takeaways.” All motivational domains are important in understanding the psychological nature of those who hold conspiracy theories. However, there was heterogeneity within motivational domains. Conspiracy theories are seductive to those who impulsively latch on to beliefs and strive to maintain them, lack the cognitive resources to differentiate strong from weak evidence, perceive non-randomness in randomness, feel powerless and distressed, view themselves and their in-groups with undue confidence, and view out-groups as threatening and inferior.
Ms. Bowes ended her presentation with a question: How do we move toward a comprehensive theoretical account of conspiratorial ideation? She offers several suggestions. Close attention to development in the context of conspiratorial ideation is an important factor in understanding how such ideations are born and progress in those of various age groups such as children and adolescents. She suggests that consideration be given to necessary vs. sufficient constructs that cause conspiratorial ideation. She believes that research must examine statistical interactions and the possibility that a combination of constructs explains conspiratorial ideation. And she closed with a call for theory formation that will be instrumental in enabling interventions that might lead to a decrease in conspiratorial ideations. After all, don’t we want to remove those tinfoil hats from as many heads as possible?
--Patti Owen Smith
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The members listed below have recently been awarded Emeritus status. |
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Leonard A. Carlson, Associate Professor Emeritus of Economics
Dr. Carlson received his PhD from Stanford University in 1977. He was appointed to the Emory faculty in 1975 as an Assistant Professor of Economics in the School of Business Administration. Dr. Carlson pioneered the application of economic analysis to the study of the impact of federal policy on Native American nations in the late 19th and 20th centuries. He has also applied economic theory to study issues in labor economics and the economic history of the southern United States. The total number of Emory students enrolled in courses Dr. Carlson taught is an astounding 7,307!
Personal comment: The last year has been a strange way to end a career. I haven't seen more than two or three of my colleagues in person since March of 2020. Emory suddenly switched to remote learning halfway through the Spring 2020 semester, which I, like many others, had never done before. Lecturing via Zoom is okay, but it is harder to get to know your students and administering tests and grading via Zoom is something I will not miss.
I am honored to have had such a long career at Emory. It is a career that I could not have imagined as a child growing up in Los Angeles. My father worked in manufacturing airplanes and neither of my parents had graduated from high school, yet there was never a doubt in their minds that I would go to college.
There have been amazing changes and a lot of ups and downs over the years. When I came to Emory in 1975, the Economics Department had seven members, all from the US, and the department was housed in the Business School. We taught only undergraduates and MBA students. Now there are 33 faculty members from many countries, a PhD program, and we are housed in the College of Arts and Sciences. There are undergraduate and graduate students from every continent except Antarctica and it is an exciting and inspiring place to teach. I can really say that it's been an honor and privilege to work with so many smart faculty, students, and staff over the years. Thank you.
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Ruth Murphy Parker, MD, MACP, Professor Emerita of Medicine
I did not really envision retirement coming now, and the pandemic has influenced my thinking (as it has everyone’s) on so many levels. After 33 years on the SOM faculty with an office and clinical work only ever being at Grady, I transitioned to a much reduced “Consultant” status from “Regular status.” I will continue working on some projects/grants that are funded but will no longer do any clinical work. I was honestly humbled and honored, and surprised to receive this year’s Jefferson Award. I so admire many prior recipients I’ve known over the years.
I look upon my 33 years as a faculty member, privileged to call the Grady campus my ‘home base', with much gratitude. I found an amazing opportunity to learn and grow from patients, colleagues, and students. Cleaning out my office of 33 years (which honestly has taken me 6 weeks!) is such a reflective time to revisit my passions for decades of exploring health literacy and the intersection of humanities and health. I will continue writings and projects related to both. In addition, as a life-long athlete, I also plan to see if I can again "compete" in sports! I’m off to San Diego for the USTA Open mother/son national tennis tournament in June, and that is a "bucket lister" for me…as I love sports and have played tennis for over 50 years.
I’m honored to bear an “Emerita” title and look forward to continued conversations and projects with colleagues.
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Donald G. Stein, PhD, Asa Griggs Candler Professor Emeritus of
Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology
Dr. Stein received his PhD from the University of Oregon in 1965. He was appointed to the Emory faculty in 1995 as Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Psychology and Neurology. Don was later a professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine and served as its Director of the Brain Research Laboratory focusing on recovery of function after stroke and traumatic injury to the brain (TBI). His research team was one of the first to demonstrate sex differences in the outcome of severe cortical injury, findings which led to decades of research on neurosteroid actions in brain repair. His research on the use of progesterone for the treatment of TBI and stroke led to national and international clinical trials that are continuing to this day. More recently, he has been collaborating with colleagues at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles using progesterone to treat the lung pathology caused by COVID-19 infection. Dr. Stein was honored by Emory’s School of Medicine with a Distinguished Professor, Distinguished Lectureship Award and the “Gamechanger Award.” Don has published 450 scientific papers and books in the field of brain repair and related areas. His book Brain Repair (Oxford University Press) with colleagues Bruno Will (France) and Simon Brailowsky (Mexico) was translated into 5 languages. Don always thought that part of the scholarly mission was to be engaged in both the graduate and undergraduate programs of the university and he has continued with this engagement up to the present time. Indeed, the teaching and participation of students in all aspects of his career has been the most personally gratifying.
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Walking the Campus with Dianne |
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Our last walk took us to a place you wouldn't expect to find on a university campus...a bowling alley! This fun spot can be found at the Emory Conference Center Hotel, 1615 Clifton Road.
Wisteria Lanes is a private, retro-styled bowling alley located in the south wing lobby level of the hotel. This unique venue features six full-service lanes, a video gaming station, large screen televisions, billiard tables, and shuffleboard. There is even a small lounge area that serves food and beverages. The bowling alley is available for corporate events and Emory groups.
As far as I know, this is the only Atlanta hotel that features a bowling alley.
Before the pandemic hit, I had the opportunity to enjoy this fun place at an event hosted by the Provost Office. Maybe we should have a future Emeritus gathering in this spot?
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For our next walk, let's visit a place that may not be as fun as our previous spot, but is part of a very necessary area of the campus. |
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Where will you find these on the Emory campus? |
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Emory University Emeritus College
The Luce Center
825 Houston Mill Road NE #206
Atlanta, GA 30329
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