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The Faculty Showcase featuring Jericho Brown, Emory professor and Pulitzer Prize winner, along with new Emory faculty, will be held virtually on Monday, Feb. 22, at 4 p.m. Interim Provost Jan Love will provide opening remarks and then nine new faculty members will respond to poems that Brown has chosen to represent Emory’s nine schools and colleges.
All members of the Emory community and general public are welcome. Learn more about the event and register.
To help recently arrived Emory faculty get to know the community and one another in the time of COVID-19 required fresh thinking. The clinking glasses and tempting canapés of an in-person event may make a comeback when it is safe to do so. In the meantime, a creative, communal, virtual event the Faculty Showcase will take place Feb. 22 at 4 p.m. using poetry as its nexus.
Ann Schwartz, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and director of psychiatry residency education, received the Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Award, which recognizes program directors who have fostered innovation and improvement in their residency/fellowship programs and served as exemplary role models for residents and fellows. The award is given to 10 program directors nationwide and is the top honor for a program director.
Sharon Ashley, senior program coordinator for emergency medicine education, received
the Debra L. Dooley GME Program Coordinator Excellence Award. The honor goes to program coordinators in recognition of their in-depth understanding of the accreditation process, excellent communication and interpersonal skills and projects to improve residency programs.
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 and multiple higher education partners as part of the Foundation’s Just Futures initiative.
The project, which will span three years, creates and leverages a national network of college and university-based humanities scholars working in partnerships with community-based organizations to develop research-informed reparation plans for each location.
Emory will be among the network of nine geographically dispersed and organizationally different colleges and universities that will involve community fellows as well as local organizations in a collaborative public history reckoning designed to offer tangible suggestions for community-based racial reparations solutions.
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In the mid-1800s, a new beverage fad took over the United States and Europe. Coca wine was fortified wine infused with coca leaves, i.e., cocaine. According to
The Drinks Business, the stimulating wine drink initially had the approval of everyone from U.S. presidents to Catholic popes. One such wine was made by a Civil War vet named John Pemberton, who had cooked up his brain tonic as a means to kick the nasty morphine habit he d picked up after being injured in the war. His Pemberton s French Wine Coca also contained an extract of the African kola nut, which is chock-full of caffeine, just to give the cocaine a little kick.
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