Newsletter Volume 9 Issue 19 - June 7, 2023 | |
Lunch Colloquium -- Monday, June 12, 2023 | |
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"The Emerging Science Behind Our Children’s Growth Spurts"
Monday, June 12, 2023
11:30-1:00pm
Michelle Lampl
Professor and Director of Emory Center for the Study of Human Health.
Co-Director of the Emory-Georgia Tech Predictive Health Institute
For more than a century doctors and scholars accepted that children grew like the charts on pediatricians’ walls: slowly and consistently, a little bit every day. These graphs became an iconic model for the biology of how healthy children should grow.
This is however, neither a correct representation of growth biology or the experience of children, who grow erratically and in tandem with other biological episodes in health. Science has lagged behind the observations of generations of wise observers. Grandmothers’ adage that “children wake up taller after a fever” was not recognized for what it truly represented. We will take a look at data providing insights into this emerging science.
About Michelle Lampl:
Michelle Lampl PhD MD is a physician/scientist, academic, and author. She is a distinguished professor and the Director of Emory University’s Center for the Study of Human Health. She is also the co-director of the Emory-Georgia Tech Predictive Health Institute.
Dr. Lampl is internationally recognized for her discovery that children grow by saltation and stasis, a process characterized by sudden jumps in size abruptly interrupting days of unchanging size. The observation that more than 90% of the time healthy infants and children are not growing at all prompted a paradigm shift in the fundamental understanding of normal growth biology and launched a science seeking the mechanisms that control such a process. These studies have significant health implications, and led to collaborations with David Barker and the new field of the developmental origins of health and disease, and a focus on fetal growth with colleagues at the perinatal research branch of NICHD. Dr. Lampl lectures widely internationally and has served as a consultant to a number of panels involved in healthy growth and development including the WHO, NIH, and Gates Foundation. Dr. Lampl earned her MD and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, and she was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2010. Lampl has written and edited four books and over 130 scientific articles.
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Lunch Colloquium -- THURSDAY, June 29, 2023 | |
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“Emory's Memory: Reflections of an Unlikely Alliance”
THURSDAY, June 29, 2023
11:30-1:00pm
Eugene Emory
Professor, Department of Psychology
This talk will discuss Dr. Emory's journey from an abandoned black boy in foster care without any knowledge of his ancestry to a professor who discovered his familial links to John T. Emory after whom Emory University is named.
About Eugene Emory:
Dr Eugene Emory is Professor in Emory’s Department of Psychology, and serves as Director at the Center for Prenatal Assessment and Human Development, Department of Psychology. He is also a Distinguished Professor at Large at Edward Waters University, Jacksonville. He earned a BS at Edward Waters University, an MEd in Educational Psychology at University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, and PhD in Clinical-Developmental Neuro-Psychology at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
He performs neuropsychological assessments and works as a consultant to Dekalb, Gwinnett, Carrolton, and Fulton Counties in Georgia. He’s published extensively on perinatal neurodevelopmental behavior.
In his spare time, he serves on the American Beach Water & Sewer Advisory Board-Nassau County Florida and Commissioner, Gullah-Geechee Historical Corridor Commission, He’s currently working on a renewal project in Unadilla GA where he owns a pecan farm.
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Amy Aidman, Senior Lecturer Emerita from the Emory Film and Media Department and fellow EUEC member, is once again involved with the Atlanta Children's Film Festival and would like to share information on an upcoming event.
In-person & online events taking place June 9 -25, 2023.
The theme this year is Dreams to Action. Join us for workshops, panels, and screenings of fun & educational films made for kids and by kids, from all around the world!
This year in addition to the Emory Film and Media Department, Environmental Sciences and Emory Climate Talks are partnering with the festival. Some amazing submissions regarding climate change and environmental issues are going to be showcased on Family Day.
The 16th annual Atlanta Children's Film Festival is brought to you by Kids Video Connection, an Atlanta-based non-profit that specializes in teaching youth media literacy, communication skills and video production. Learn more at https://kidsvideoconnection.org.
Members of the Emeritus College are invited to participate in the festival, whether through viewing some of the wonderful films online or by attending the festival in-person. This is an opportunity to see films by independent filmmakers from different countries and is a wonderful way to share unique content with grandchildren and other family members.
About Amy Aidman:
Amy studied Broadcasting at the University of Florida, got an MA in Film and Video Production at the University of Michigan, and a PhD in Communications Research at the University of Illinois. Her dissertation looked at preschoolers’ learning from Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. At the University of Illinois and at Emory she taught courses on children and media. Media education and media literacy have been at the heart of what she's done professionally and are still a strong motivation.
At Emory she collaborated with Kids Video Connection (KVC), an Atlanta non-profit that teaches video production and media literacy to underserved youth. The Center for Faculty Development and Excellence funded that collaboration benefitting Emory students and the KVC workshop students. KVC also holds the Atlanta Children’s Film Festival. In 2017, Amy began her involvement with the festival as a judge and since then has joined the Board, becoming Board Chair in the spring of 2020, which dovetailed with her retirement from teaching at Emory.
For information on the film festival, please click here.
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12th Annual Southeastern Pediatric Research Conference
At the Georgia Aquarium
Friday, June 9, 2023, 8am – 5pm EDT
This annual conference brings together clinicians, scientists, and bioengineers to showcase cutting edge child health research. The 2022 conference was attended by more than 350 representatives of our combined institutions–Emory University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, and Morehouse School of Medicine–as well as 14 regional institutions, including Vanderbilt, Duke, and the University of Alabama Birmingham. Our 2023 theme Optimizing Health across the Lifespan through Innovation, Discovery, and Equity, has broad applicability to our audience, as well as industry stake holders.
This event is open to all (public).
The cost is $60.00.
Contact Person: Tracy Willoughby twillo2@emory.edu
Registration / R.S.V.P link: www.eventbrite.com…
For more information: www.pedsresearch.org…
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MUSIC CAMP SPOTLIGHT
20TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL EUPHONIUM TUBA FESTIVAL
Each summer, the Schwartz Center is home to several music camps under the artistic leadership of Emory Department of Music faculty and artist affiliates. For the past 20 years, Emory Euphonium Artist Affiliate Adam Frey has led the International Euphonium Tuba (IET) Festival—hosting more than 150 performers from around the globe.
For its milestone anniversary year, the IET festival runs June 18–24 with a week of concerts, master classes, lessons, camaraderie, and workshops. Experience a different kind of heavy metal music with performers from Norway, England, Switzerland, the US, South America, and more. The public is invited to two free concerts during this summer's festival: Wednesday, June 21, 7:30 p.m., featuring the Georgia Brass Band; and the closing Gala concert on Saturday, June 24, 7:30 p.m., with more than 150 participant performers partnering with the amazing Jaeckel Organ. This tour-de-force sound is not to be missed as you experience the beauty, majesty, and virtuosity of the tuba and euphonium!
The festival welcomes participants who play the tuba and euphonium as a hobby as well as high school and college students. Tuba players are some of the most welcoming people in the world and we just want to share our love of the instrument with you. More information on the IET Festival is available online here.
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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
(June 21, 2023), please contact Dianne Becht Dianne.becht@emory.edu
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Walking the Campus with Dianne | |
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The beautiful fountain from our last walk can be found near our Emeritus College home base. The Warren Fountain is located in the courtyard area of the Miller-Ward Alumni House in front of the Luce Center on Houston Mill Road.
The fountain at the alumni house is named in honor and memory of Martha Malone Warren (1935L) by her family. A native of Monticello, Georgia, Warren completed Emory law school when few women were pursuing the professions. She practiced law for several years with her husband, Julian Benjamin Warren (1931C-34L), and managed several family businesses and a family trust.
I've included three more photos below to show you the entire fountain/pool and to give you an idea of where you can find it at the Miller-Ward building.
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For our next walk, let's find another place to sit and enjoy the campus. This spot is not necessarily as quiet and relaxing as the Warren Fountain...but I do find the chairs extremely comfy and a good place to people-watch.
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