Atlanta Hawks Launch Third Annual ‘Black History Month Assist Challenge’ To Support the Prostate Cancer Foundation
During Tuesday’s game, presented by Emory HEalthcare, the Atlanta Hawks announced the launch of the third annual Black History Month Assist Challenge. The announcement featured Hawks Vice Chairman of the Board and Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Famer Grant Hill and Bradley Carthon, MD, PhD of Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, and detailed the importance of bringing greater awareness to prostate cancer through a video called Uncomfortable Questions.
One in eight men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in his lifetime, and African American men are 76 percent more likely to develop prostate cancer than a Caucasian man.
ATLANTA – During Tuesday night’s Hawks game presented by Emory Healthcare, the Hawks announced the official launch of the third annual Black History Month Assist Challenge. The announcement, featuring Hawks Vice Chairman of the Board and Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Famer Grant Hill and Bradley Carthon, MD, PhD of Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, discussed the importance of bringing greater awareness to prostate cancer through a video called
Uncomfortable Questions. One in eight men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in his lifetime, and African American men are 76 percent more likely to develop prostate cancer than a Caucasian man.
Emory joins national Mellon Foundation research project to address racial reparations
Emory University will be part of a $5 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded to the University of Michigan’s Center for Social Solutions, led by former Emory Provost Earl Lewis, as part of the Foundation’s Just Futures initiative. “Crafting Democratic Futures: Situating Colleges and Universities in Community-based Reparations Solutions” emerges from the Center for Social Solutions’ focus on slavery and its aftermath, and is informed by three generations of humanistic scholarship and what that scholarship suggests for all seeking just futures. More information here.
The team of scholars will be led by historian Carol Anderson, Emory’s Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies and department chair. The team also includes Emory College faculty members Vanessa Siddle Walker, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of African American Studies, and AAS assistant
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Trial results add to uses for Exact Sciences test
The genomic test, known as Oncotype DX, can help predict whether women with certain forms of breast cancer will benefit from chemotherapy and those who won t. The latest trial results extend the test s reach.
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A clinical trial shows that a genomic test from diagnostics company Exact Sciences can help more women with early-stage breast cancer avoid chemotherapy.
The test, Oncotype DX, had already demonstrated its ability to predict whether chemotherapy would benefit women with breast cancer that has not spread to lymph nodes, known as node-negative breast cancer.
Andy Warhol Foundation grant to support book completion
Sergio Delgado Moya, associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese, has been awarded one of the Andy Warhol Foundation’s Arts Writer Grants.
Projects supported by the program address both general and specialized art audiences, from scholarly studies to critical reviews and magazine features. Moya will receive $50,000 to complete his book “An Archive of Violence: The Obscene Visuality of Sensationalism.” The book makes a case for sensationalism as a specific kind of violence that falls on marginalized populations who are marked by gender and class, by race and ethnicity, by dispossession and by sexuality.