Newsletter Volume 10 Issue 3 - October 4, 2023 | |
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As mentioned above, the September 26, 2023 Special Colloquium with Timothy Albrecht was wonderfully received by our in-person attendees. However, we must express our apologies to those who tried to attend via Zoom -- The Miller-Ward Alumni building was having audio/visual equipment issues which resulted in the Zoom meeting failure as well as the event not being recorded.
However, all is not lost. You can easily access a number of YouTube videos on "The Magic of Bach's Well Tempered Clavier." Many thanks to Gray Crouse for providing the information below:
There is a collection of short videos that offer Timothy’s commentaries on a prelude or fugue, along with his performance. Those may be found by clicking here.
Performances of sections of Books I and II are in these videos:
Timothy Albrecht Explores the Magic of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: BWV 846-857
Timothy Albrecht Explores the Magic of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: BWV 858-869
Timothy Albrecht Explores the Magic of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier Book II, BWV 870-877
Timothy Albrecht Explores the Magic of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II, BWV 878-885
Timothy Albrecht Explores The Magic of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II, BWV 886-889
Timothy Albrecht Explores the Magic of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier II, BWV 890-893
For those of you who are interested in Timothy’s recent publications:
Exploring the Magic of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier I & II: Short Notes for Performers and Listeners by Timothy Albrecht
Exploring the Magic: Short Notes on the Bach-Busoni Chaconne by Timothy Albrecht
With the following YouTube video:
Bach Busoni Chaconne performed by Timothy Albrecht. Piano: Hamburg Steinway D
More J.S. Bach Magic! Exploring the Chromatic Fantasy & Fugue BWV 903 by Timothy Albrecht
With the following YouTube video:
Timothy Albrecht Performs Bach’s Chromatic Fantasy & Fugue BWV 903
--Gray Crouse
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Lunch Colloquium -- TUESDAY October 10, 2023 | |
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"Novel Therapeutics for Treating Viral Diseases,
Cancer and Neurological Disorders"
Dennis Liotta
Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Chemistry
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
11:30-1:00
Led by Dr. Dennis Liotta, the Liotta Research Group (LRG) is a complex medicinal chemistry organization within Emory University. This talk will start with an overview of the LRG’s earlier success in the antiviral arena and transition into LGR’s recent endeavors in (1) developing novel CXCR4 antagonists as immunomodulators for treating cancer and (2) designing fast-release neurosteroid prodrugs for treating traumatic brain injury.
Part I. CXCR4 antagonists – Pro-angiogenic and immune cells expressing chemokine receptor CXCR4 traffic along concentration gradients of its chemokine ligand CXCL12, which disseminates from stromal niches in lymph nodes, lung, liver, and bone marrow. The CXCR4/CXCL12 axis is hijacked by numerous cancer types characterized by dramatic CXCR4 and/or CXCL12 upregulation. Consequently, CXCR4 antagonists have significant therapeutic potential against cancer progression. In the past decade, the LRG has designed, synthesized, and evaluated over 350 tetrahydroisoquinoline-containing CXCR4 antagonists. Leading this pipeline is EMU-116, which exhibited enhanced pharmacokinetic properties and superior anti-tumor efficacy compared to mavorixafor, a small molecule CXCR4 antagonist studied in clinical trials. Ultimately, our CXCR4 antagonist pipeline has significant potential to deliver the best-in-class CXCR4 antagonist for treating a variety of cancers.
Part II. Neurosteroid prodrugs – Despite tremendous scientific efforts allocated towards the development of pharmacological interventions for reducing the impact of traumatic brain injury (TBI) on public health, none have resulted in an FDA-approved neuroprotective agent. In recent years, neurosteroids, such as progesterone, emerged as promising neuroprotective agents for treating TBI. Unfortunately, previous investigations into the use of neurosteroids for TBI treatment typically required administration in a hospital setting, thus losing valuable time before the treatment could be administered. To address this unmet need, the LRG has developed two generations of progesterone prodrugs having improved aqueous solubility and fast in vivo release rate. Their efficacy was demonstrated in a rat model of acute TBI.
About Dennis Liotta:
Dennis Liotta is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Chemistry and has authored over 300 peer-reviewed publications and is an inventor on over 100 issued U.S. patents. He is also the founding editor-in-chief of an American Chemical Society journal, ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters, which provides a rapid communication venue for reporting important new findings in medicinal chemistry and related fields.
He was named recipient of the 2022 Perkin Medal, the highest honor a scientist can receive for contributions to the field of applied chemistry in the U.S. A recipient of several teaching awards, including the Williams Teaching Award and the Thomas Jefferson Award — the highest faculty honor at Emory — Liotta has supervised nearly 300 undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, research scientists and visiting scholars. He is a fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Chemical Society. He was elected to the Medicinal Chemistry Hall of Fame in 2010 and the National Academy of Inventors in 2014.
He served as the associate director of the Emory Center for AIDS Research for over a decade. He is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the National Cancer Institute-Chemical Biology Consortium at Emory. Beyond his roles at Emory, Liotta has, for over two decades, initiated outreach activities to cultivate the next generation of African scientists, providing them with skills required to address healthcare needs in the continent. To further the work, he co-founded the Advancing Healthcare Innovation in Africa program with Emory’s general counsel, Steve Sencer.
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Lunch Colloquium -- Monday, October 23, 2023 | |
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“Growing Institutional Efforts with an Indigenous Approach”
Beth Michel
Senior Associate Dean of Undergraduate Admission
Monday, October 23, 2023
11:30-1:00
Beth Michel will describe Emory’s efforts to increase the visibility, voice, and contributions of Native American people. She will highlight people, departments, and initiatives at Emory that have been and continue to be instrumental in this effort.
She will bring news describing progress of the new Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies, to be launched this fall in Emory College. The Center will advance research, scholarship, teaching, and learning rooted in and related to Indigenous studies.
Michel also will summarize and highlight Emory’s active relationship with the Tribal communities on and off campus including plans for continuing and growing engagement.
Throughout, Michel will incorporate Emory’s history related to Native Americans. Notably, “Emory University acknowledges the Muscogee (Creek) people who lived, worked, produced knowledge on, and nurtured the land where Emory’s Oxford and Atlanta campuses are now located. In 1821, fifteen years before Emory’s founding, the Muscogee were forced to relinquish this land. Emory recognizes the sustained oppression, land dispossession, and involuntary removals of the Muscogee and Cherokee peoples from Georgia and the Southeast.”
About Beth Michel:
Beth Michel is a proud citizen of the Tohono O’odham Nation as well as Hopi and Navajo. She is a Senior Associate Dean of Admission and Lead for Native American Affairs in the Office of Admission. She is a member of Emory’s Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative (NAISI), an ad hoc committee focused on creating awareness of Native American history and contemporary issues as well as increased visibility of the Indigenous campus community. Prior to joining Emory, Michel was an Indigenous evaluator at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity (DNPAO) as a contractor. During her 8 years as a consultant and trusted advisor, she collaborated with more than 30 Tribal health programs and Native-serving organizations to support evaluation design and implementation provided by public health federal funds.
Michel has served in various civic leadership roles including the Chair of Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation for the American Evaluation Association, and currently serving as the Chair of her Tribal Nation’s Institutional Review Board. Michel received a Master of Public Health degree from Rollins School of Public Health and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Arizona.
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Ron Gould
Goodrich C. White Professor Emeritus
Ron recently gave two talks at the University of Pittsburgh:
September 14, 2023
Lecture for students
"Applications of Mathematics to Games and Puzzles"
September 15, 2023
Colloquium
"Have you Ever Meta-Conjectured?"
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Michael Kuhar
Candler Professor of Neuropharmacology, GA Research Alliance Scholar,
Senior Faculty Fellow, Center for Ethics
Congratulations to Michael Kuhar for being selected as the recipient of the 2023 Emory School of Medicine Scientific Integrity Award.
Mike received the award October 3, 2023 at the "Tenth Annual Celebration of Faculty Eminence Ceremony."
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Ann E. Rogers
Director, Emory Emeritus College
Professor, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing
Ann was invited by the DeKalb County School District Speaker Series to give a talk titled, "A Good Night's Sleep," on September 28, 2023.
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Irwin Townsend Hyatt, Jr.
Professor Emeritus of History
Irwin Townsend Hyatt, Jr. passed away Friday, September 15, 2023. The only child of Dr. I. T. Hyatt and Sophia Horne Hyatt, he was born December 14, 1935, at old Piedmont Hospital. Irwin attended R.L. Hope School, where he was the Georgia Spelling Bee Champion. He graduated from the McCallie School in Chattanooga and Emory University, then served four years as a lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps.
After his discharge, Irwin studied East Asian Studies at Harvard University. While still in the PhD. program there, he was recruited by Emory University to develop and teach their first courses in Chinese and Japanese history. Irwin spent the next year studying in Taiwan with his family before returning to Emory. He taught in the history department and served as dean for faculty development for the next four decades. Known by scores of Emory students for his popular course "Heroes and Zeroes: WWII in the Pacific," he is remembered for his sense of humor, his wisdom, eloquence, and his deep affection for students, staff, and colleagues.
Irwin is survived by his wife Margaret; his sons, Townsend and Torrey; his daughter-in-law, Emily Karr; and by his grandsons, Pearce and Philip.
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The Cinematic Worlds of David Lynch: Emory Cinematheque
White Hall 208
301 Dowman Dr
Atlanta GA 30322
Wednesday, October 4, 2023, 7:30 – 10:30pm EDT
The Emory Cinematheque, a series of free professional film screenings offered by the Department of Film and Media and Emory College of Arts and Sciences, is pleased to present “The Cinematic Worlds of David Lynch.” One of the most significant, eccentric, challenging, debated, and multifaceted American filmmakers still working today, Lynch has long operated on the fringes of Hollywood and his directorial career has been marked by several highs and lows. Although none of Lynch’s films have been massive hits, his name alone conjures the surreal peculiarity, dark humor, and ambivalent audiovisual tone defining his cinematic signature, a sensibility and atmosphere that many simply call “Lynchian.”
All screenings are on Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. in White Hall, Room 208. The Cinematheque runs from September 6 until November 30 and is free and open to the public. Unless otherwise noted, all screenings will be 4k restorations on DCP and, unless otherwise noted, introduced by Dr. Holland.
For more information please click here.
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Health Storytelling Author Q&A: Jennifer Lunden
humanhealth.emory.edu…
Thursday, October 5, 2023, 7 – 8pm EDT
Maryn McKenna, award-winning journalist and author and Senior Fellow in the Center for the Study of Human Health, interviews essayist Jennifer Lunden about her new book, "American Breakdown: Our Ailing Nation, My Body's Revolt, and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Who Brought Me Back to Life." While weaving her account of her own mysterious illness with a life of brilliant, bedridden 19th-c diarist Alice James, Lunden illuminates the challenge of diagnosing new diseases, the long neglect of women's health problems, and the toll of chronic illness.
Livestreamed to multiple platforms. Please click here to RSVP for links.
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Winship 5K
Emory University McDonough Field or Virtual
Saturday, October 7, 2023, 8:30 – 11:30am EDT
The Winship 5K Run/Walk event supports Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Winship Cancer Institute works tirelessly to prevent, treat, and cure cancer with a culture that integrates discovery, innovation and caring.
Now in its 13th year, the Winship 5K is a Peachtree Road Race qualifying course that starts and ends on the Emory campus and winds its way through the surrounding Druid Hills area.
There are three ways you can participate:
Join us in person
Participate virtually
Make a gift at winship5k.emory.edu
For more information please click here
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Emory Farmers Market
McDonough Plaza/Field
Tuesday, October 17, 2023, 11am – 2pm EDT
A lively campus community hub of flourishing locally-owned, food-based businesses providing daily and weekly food provisioning for students, faculty, and staff. A forum in which producers and consumers share knowledge and make informed and healthy dietary choices toward a more sustainable food system.
Through a weekly gathering of farmers, chefs, small-scale artisanal businesses, and Emory customers, the Emory Farmers Market fosters educational opportunities and personal relationships through food and supports economic, social, and environmental sustainability.
Emory Farmers Market reserves the right to cancel the market to protect the safety of the vendors and community members under severe weather. We will send out notifications on Instagram before the market Tuesday at 8am at the latest.
Fall vendors include:
Sunshine Farms
Legacy Bakers
Castlerock Honey
Pop’s Produce
Rapid Gourmet
Juiced and Aligned
Shipped Coffee
Rey’s Cuban
Marrakech Express
Pure Bliss
Sweet Sweet Syria
Bake n Jam
Refuge Women’s Network
Marlees Street Eatz
Crepemaster
A Little Leaven Bakeshop
Just Add Honey
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Details and other information, as well as additional campus events, can be found on the Emory Events Calendar.
If you'd like to share an event/program of interest before the next newsletter
please contact Dianne Becht Dianne.becht@emory.edu
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Walking the Campus with Dianne | |
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The campus art from our last walk can be found on the quadrangle side of White Hall (as seen in the photo on the left below).
The sculpture titled "Tower One" was created by Sol LeWitt in 2003, and is made of concrete block, and as mentioned before, can easily be overlooked because it blends in with the architecture of White Hall.
For more information and a short video about the sculpture please click here.
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Let's continue with our exploration of campus art. The next piece is not only art. but a place to rest a bit after a long walk; perhaps not a comfortable place to lounge, but a place to sit, nonetheless!
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