December 1, 2021 This is the annual luncheon hosted in December for all Campus Life staff. Due to the pandemic, the event will be held on McDonough Field, with tents and heaters provided. In addition to great food, the event will feature games and prizes. You're invited to wear plaid and the colors of the season if you like. So, let's all join our Campus Life colleagues for plenty of food, fun, and fellowship on this festive occasion, Wednesday, Dec. 8, from noon to 3 p.m. Safety for Our Sisters: Ending Violence Against Native Women The Carlos Museum welcomes Mary Kathryn Nagle, an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation, for a lecture in conjunction with the exhibition Each/Other: Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger. Wednesday, Dec. 1, at 7:30 p.m., Ackerman Hall and on Zoom.
Well-being check-ins available for faculty and staff The Faculty Staff Assistance Program (FSAP) offers individual well-being check-ins for staff and faculty to gauge their emotional health and coping, as well as to identify strategies for enhancing resilience. Previously offered specifically to help faculty and staff prepare for the fall return to campus, the check-ins remain available.
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Emory senior Ahmed Aljohani awarded prestigious Rhodes Scholarship Emory University senior Ahmed Aljohani has been awarded the prestigious 2022 Rhodes Scholarship, which provides all expenses for two or three years of study at the University of Oxford in England.
After Atlanta school board race, Emory sophomore looks to future When Royce Mann told his political science class he was running for office, some weren’t sure he was serious. With the citywide race now behind him, Mann plans to continue his efforts to engage and energize young voters.
Campus counselors are burned out and short-staffed For decades, a growing number of students with psychiatric and neurodiverse histories, conditions, and medications have been enrolling in college. From an access standpoint, that’s been terrific. From a counseling standpoint, however, it has meant a professional state of siege.
Historically Black colleges are top drivers of social mobility, report says Historically Black colleges and universities are better vehicles for social mobility than are other institutions, according to a new report by the United Negro College Fund’s Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute. 50 percent of people who survive covid-19 face lingering symptoms, study finds At least 50 percent of people who survive covid-19 experience a variety of physical and psychological health issues for six months or more after their initial recovery, according to research on the long-term effects of the disease, published in the journal JAMA Network Open.
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