LAST REMINDER -- EUEC Faculty and Service Awards

Each year, the Emory University Emeritus College (EUEC) offers two categories of awards: the EUEC Faculty Awards of Distinction and the Distinguished Service Award. Please know we are approaching the deadline to accept nominations for 2023. 

For the 2023 awards, completed nominations must be submitted by no later than 5:00 p.m., Wednesday, March 1, 2023. Please submit nominations by email to Dianne Becht, EUEC Program Coordinator, whose email address is Dianne.becht@emory.edu. 

Please consider nominating one or more of your colleagues. And please know that self-nominations are also permitted and encouraged. Too often, retired faculty are not fully aware of the achievements of their colleagues, and we must rely on self-disclosure. 

The eligibility requirements are as follows: 

 EUEC Faculty Award of Distinction (formerly Distinguished Emeritus/Emerita Award):  

• All retired Emory faculty who have been members of EUEC for at least two years. 
• Significant professional contributions since retirement to Emory University or its affiliated institutions, as well as contributions to local, state, regional, national, or international communities or professional organizations that reflect the “spirit of Emory.”   
• A maximum of four awards are given annually. 
• This award may be conferred only once. 

Distinguished Service Award:  

• All members of the EUEC, including those who have received the Distinguished Faculty Award of Distinction. 
• Membership in the EUEC for at least two years.
• Significant service to Emory University or its affiliated institutions, as well as to local, state, regional, national, or international communities or other organizations that reflect the “spirit of Emory.”  These contributions must have been made since retirement and are beyond those used to support a previous Distinguished Faculty Award. 
• No requirement that an award will be given each year. 

When you make your nomination, please include the following: 

• Name of nominee 
• Department or unit with which the nominee is associated. 
• Contact information (email, phone number, and mailing address of nominee). 
• Name of nominator 
• Department or unit with which the nominator is associated. 
• Contact information (email, phone number and mailing address of nominator). 
• Description of why the nominee should receive this honor, in no more than two pages. Please do not exceed this limit, but be certain to include enough information for the selection committee to make an informed decision. Please include a curriculum vitae if possible. 

Please let us know if you have questions about this process. Thank you in advance for your participation. 

Sincerely,  

Glenn Kellum 

Chair, EUEC Honors and Awards Committee  

Senior Associate Vice President, Retired, Foundation and Corporate Relations

Lunch Colloquium -- TUESDAY, February 28, 2023

“Creating a World-Class African American Archive at Emory"

Curators Randall Burkett and Clinton Fluker

Moderated by Rosemary Magee

For twenty-one years, Dr. Randall K. Burkett served as a driving force in acquiring one of the most extensive archives of African American history and culture among major research universities. These include rare books, manuscripts, serials, photographs, and print ephemera for the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. Burkett focused on building relationships with authors, artists, thought leaders, and their families—who were looking to place their papers with a library that would steward them and provide access to academic researchers and the public.



About Randall K. Burkett and Clinton Fluker:

Dr. Burkett holds a PhD from the University of Southern California where he concentrated on African American religion. Prior to his arrival at Emory, he served as the associate director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University. In 1997, he was hired as Emory’s first curator for African American collections. Burkett played a key role in securing many important acquisitions, including the papers of writers Alice Walker and Pearl Cleage, historian Carter G. Woodson, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the Robert Langmuir African American Photograph collection, and the extraordinary gift by Camille Billops and James Hatch of their priceless collection of rare books, manuscripts, photographs, and oral histories documenting the African American experience.

Following in these footsteps, while developing a singular pathway of his own, the current curator for African American collections at the Rose Library is Dr. Clinton Fluker, an Emory alumnus who previously worked in the Rose Library as a curatorial assistant and in the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship. He has also served as assistant director of engagement and scholarship at the Atlanta University Center’s Robert W. Woodruff Library, where he supervised the Archives Research Center and the Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) Center for Collaborative Teaching and Learning.

Fluker sees his curatorial role as developing dynamic archival collections and innovative programming about African American history and culture. Fluker is the co-editor of The Black Speculative Arts Movement: Black Futurity, Art + Design (2019), a collection that enters the global scholarly debate on the emerging field of Afrofuturism studies. As a visual artist, Fluker had his work included in the New York Live Arts 2020 exhibition, “Curating the End of the World”; his interdisciplinary pieces are presented as meditations on the themes of memory and fragmentation. He is also the co-founder of LiFT Art Salon, a community engagement organization that creatively activates historic venues by collaborating with emerging artists, professionals, and social activists.

Lunch Colloquium -- Tuesday, March 14, 2023

“Artificial Intelligence and How it Shapes Our Lives"

Paul Root Wolpe

Director, Emory Center for Ethics,

Raymond F. Schinazi Distiguished Research Chair in Jewish Bioethics

How does the growth of artificial intelligence affect our lives, our families and communities, our work, our futures? What are the ethical implications of new technologies based on artificial intelligence, and how are we responding to them? In this lecture, Dr. Paul Root Wolpe who directs the Emory Center for Ethics will present for the Emeritus College new insights that we can use to help understand and navigate the ethics of artificial intelligence. He also will help us recognize the challenges—some of them unforeseen—faced by those engaged in designing and managing artificial intelligence systems, including universities. Among questions he will address related to the academic community, Dr. Wolpe will explore with us how artificial intelligence is helpfully complementing, or in some cases competing with, skilled professionals working in certain fields, not only in the sciences but also in the arts and humanities. 



About Paul Root Wolpe:

Dr. Paul Root Wolpe is the Raymond F. Schinazi Distinguished Research Chair in Jewish Bioethics; a professor in the departments of medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry, neuroscience and biological behavior, and sociology; and the director of the Center for Ethics. 

His publications span the fields of sociology, medicine, and bioethics, and he has contributed to a variety of encyclopedias on bioethical issues. A futurist interested in social dynamics, Dr. Wolpe focuses on the social, religious, ethical, and ideological impact of medicine and technology on the human condition. Considered one of the founders of the field of neuroethics, which examines the ethical implications of neuroscience, he also writes about other emerging technologies, especially artificial intelligence.

A dynamic and popular speaker internationally, Dr. Wolpe has been chosen by the Teaching Company as a "Superstar Teacher of America," and his courses are distributed internationally on audio and videotape. He has won the World Technology Network Award in Ethics, has been featured in a TED talk, and was profiled in Atlantic Magazine as a "Brave Thinker of 2011." Dr. Wolpe is a contributor to broadcast and print media, as well as having been featured on 60 Minutes and profiled in the Science Times of the New York Times. 

Bianchi-Bugge Excellence Awards

The Bianchi-Bugge Excellence Awards are named in honor of Eugene Bianchi, Professor Emeritus of Religion (1930-2022) and John Bugge, Professor Emeritus of English (1941-2018), co-founders of the Emory University Emeritus College.

Applicants may request non-renewable, twelve-month grants up to $2,000 to cover expenses incurred in pursuit of a broad range of activities, including, among others, research and writing, lecturing, training, development of teaching materials, and presentations at academic conferences, as well as presentations at public and related events in the community.

Applications, which are due March 28, 2023, are open to all retired members of the Emory University Emeritus College. Recipients of the award, selected from among the applicants, will be made by the Emeritus College Honors and Awards Committee.

Among criteria for selection, special consideration, to the extent possible, will be given to proposals describing projects exemplifying Gene Bianchi’s dedication to human endeavors that “promote the public good,” a sentiment shared and encouraged equally by his longtime colleague John Bugge. To promote the public good, as a practical matter, Bianchi believed in our seeking work, professional and personal, that can help aid society in overcoming its sometime “negative tendencies” and lead “toward personal and collective peace,” shaped by commitment to caring, compassion, empathy, and selflessness.

Applicants should submit the following:

1) A letter of application (limited to two pages) that describes in some detail the project to be undertaken - its purpose, the means of achieving that purpose, and its relevance to the applicant's own personal and professional development

2) a simple budget (1 page) that estimates costs and explains how requested funding would be employed; and

3) an up-to-date curriculum vitae (limited to two pages) that specifically highlights activities undertaken since retirement. 

The criteria for selection will include:

• The potential the project shows for promoting the public good
• The relationship of the proposed project to the applicant's demonstrated qualifications
• The projected value of the project to the applicant's field or discipline
• The feasibility of completing the project within the term of the Award
• The pertinence of the project to resources readily available to the applicant

Grant recipients will be asked to agree to the following conditions: 

• Submission of a written report to the Awards and Honors Committee after completing the term of the Award, but no later than September 30^th of the year following the award
• Formal acknowledgment of the Bianchi-Bugge Award and the Emory University Emeritus College in any published work that results

Preference will be given to those who have not been previous recipients of the award.

Applications should be mailed to The Awards and Honors Committee of the Emory University Emeritus College at The Luce Center, 825 Houston Mill Road, Atlanta, GA 30329, or sent by email to emeriti@emory.edu. As noted above, applications must be received by March 28, 2023.



Member Activities

Ron Gould

Goodrich C. White Professor Emeritus

Ron is at it again!

On Monday, February 13, 2023 Ron gave a Zoom presentation for the National Museum of Mathematics (in New York City) entitled "Finding Advantage in Blackjack." 

The talk described the mathematics

needed to use card counting to your advantage.

Marilynne McKay

Professor Emerita of Dermatology

Marilynne is a long-time admirer of Sherlock Holmes. She belongs to the Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes (ASH) and the Baker Street Irregulars (BSI), two societies based in New York. This year Stimulating Medicine: More Doctors in the Sherlockian Canon, was announced as the most recent book in the BSI Sherlockian Professions series. Marilynne's lead chapter, “The Scarlet Thread of Venery,” describes nineteenth century medicine and explores the prevalence of syphilis in the American West and the London of Sherlock Holmes. Marilynne’s colloquium on “Doctors in the Sherlockian Canon” was recorded in November 2016 and is available on the EUEC website. 

I'm sure many of you recognized the Lullwater House from our last walk. This beautiful building is what President Fenves and his wife call home. The house is located within Lullwater Preserve and sits proudly, and beautifully, at the top of the hill in the middle of the preserve. It was built in 1926 as the residence of Walter T. Candler, son of Coca-Cola founder Asa Griggs Candler. The mansion is in the form of an L, in Tudor-Gothic revival style. The architects were Ivey and Crook.

To view a short video about the house please click here.



For our next walk let's look on the bright side....old, new, traditional and modern, lights! Most of these are better viewed at night, but some are just as interesting during the day, too.

Where will you find these on the Emory campus?