February 22, 2023
Don't miss the following in this issue:
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New AV tech joins Student Center team
Layne Weldon joined Student Center Operations and Events (ESCOE) during fall semester as an audiovisual technicial, responsible for providing AV support for students and staff at the student center. She reports to ESCOE associate director Paul Eleazer. Weldon was employed previously as an AV engineer at Georgia State University. She received her bachelor’s in applied computer science and music from Troy University and the University of North Alabama and holds EMC-E-4K and audio certification from Crestron Technical Institute. Weldon’s leisure time interests include cooking, grilling, songwriting, creating music, and enjoying time with her partner Tracy, family, and friends. Please join your colleagues to welcome Layne to the Emory community and the Campus Life team.
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“Ms. T” receives Women of Excellence Award
Patricia Y. Taylor, administrative assistant in Belonging and Community Justice, is receiving a 2023 Women of Excellence Award, presented by the Center for Women at Emory. The Berky Dolores Abreu Spirit Award recognizes a woman in the greater Emory community whose presence has fostered the personal and academic growth of students, faculty, staff, and/or departments. CWE will recognize
eight women at the organization’s 30th Anniversary Celebration featuring the Women of Excellence Awards. The reception begins at 6 p.m., with dinner and awards at 7 p.m., Thursday, March 2, in the Emory Student Center.
Learn more and register.
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Crowder offers Black History 'lesson'
Have you enjoyed the historical profiles of Black folks featured this month in the slide show on video screens in the Emory Student Center and AMUC? Have you learned something new about the rich heritage and countless contributions of Black Americans throughout the nation's history? If your answer is yes to either of those questions, you can thank Bob Crowder, assistant director for facilities with Student Center Operations and Events. A teacher at heart, Crowder assembled the slides as a contribution to Black History Month. By the way, he's also been known to post Black History profiles on Facebook. Thanks, Bob.
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Meet the Class of 2023’s 100 Senior Honorary
Members of the Class of 2023’s 100 Senior Honorary were inducted during a ceremony Feb. 8. These students have been campus leaders, thought provokers, dynamic athletes, academic mentors, and community influencers during their time at Emory. Meet them and be inspired by their impact statements.
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Emory student Maya Wright to compete on ‘Jeopardy!’
Senior Maya Wright will compete in the “Jeopardy! High School Reunion Tournament” beginning Feb. 20. On weekday evenings, watching “Jeopardy!” was routine in Maya Wright’s childhood home. She dreamt of being on the show and has been participating in academic bowls since the fifth grade.
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Extracts from two wild plants inhibit COVID-19 virus, study finds
In laboratory dish tests, extracts from the flowers of tall goldenrod (
Solidago altissima) and the rhizomes of the eagle fern (
Pteridium aquilinum) each blocked SARS-CoV-2 from entering human cells.
Pictured: Emory graduate student Caitlin Risener, first author of the study, gathers tall goldenrod in a field in South Georgia.
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Facing history
During Emory’s 2023 King Week observances, the Office of Spiritual and Religious Life offered students, faculty and staff the unique opportunity to visit the Equal Justice Initiative Legacy Museum and National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Perhaps the most revealing finding of the 2009 MLA report is this: The only men who took longer to attain the rank of full professor than women were men who “were married with wives living and working at other institutions” — that is, men whose wives are subject to the all-encompassing expectations of gendered academic work.
Read more.
(How to access Chronicle of Higher Education)
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If you have suggestions for topics for this newsletter, please email us at:
jbbrown@emory.edu.
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