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🏊🏼‍♂️ The Emory men’s swimming and diving team has been so successful in gathering national titles that some team members have literal fistfuls of championship rings! 🏆

💛 In the 2023 season, the team captured the NCAA Division III champion title as well as the University Athletic Association (UAA) title. On Monday, July 22, the team was invited to the White House as part of the second-annual College Athlete Day, a celebration of excellence across collegiate sports in all NCAA divisions. 💙

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📸 Photos by Eugene Soh

Emory's Dr. Cassandra Quave is a medical ethnobotanist who's made a career documenting and pharmacologically evaluating plants used in traditional medicine.

Recently she shared the story of the English yew tree and what it tells us about the vast, untapped reservoir of potent chemistry in nature, waiting to be explored.

➡️ The Magic of Nature’s Pharmacy: https://links.emory.edu/XF

Part of being human is to make mistakes and missteps. With faculty, staff and alumni sharing their personal stories, Emory launched “Reframes: Discovering the Possible,” a student-facing project seeking to ignite a campus-wide conversation about embracing the power of reframing unexpected moments in life.

➡️ https://links.emory.edu/Rq

🔆 Spotlight: Barbara Ladd's captivating book "The North of the South: The Natural World and the National Imaginary in the Literature of the Upper South."

✒️The Deep South — and its plantations — has become the primary focus of Southern literary studies. In “The North of the South,” Ladd examines the Upper South, exploring the fluidity of regional boundaries and arguing for greater attention to the impact of its distinctive ecosystems on literature. All the while, she also points out the interconnected ways that the Upper South’s cultural and natural histories are foundational to our national imaginary.

💙 Barbara Ladd is a professor of English at Emory University. She has lectured widely both nationally and internationally on southern literature.

➡️ More about this book and others: https://links.emory.edu/XL

🏆 Rising senior Courtney Fitzgerald, a QuestBridge Scholar, has been named one of 20 Beinecke Scholars nationwide. After conducting extensive undergraduate research, she plans to pursue a PhD in sociology to study how and why we interact with others. Look at you go, Courtney! 💪🏽

➡️ Student researcher profile: https://links.emory.edu/Yp

🌴 Service learning plays a key role in education at Emory University Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing. Recently a group of third-semester MN students spent time in Eleuthera, Bahamas, for a summer immersion program. There they had the opportunity to enhance their nursing education by practicing hands-on care to people in need. Nursing students have been traveling to the Bahamas for more than a decade. 🙌

➡️ Service learning at the School of Nursing:
https://links.emory.edu/Yb

Four Emory Healthcare hospitals have ranked notably in this year’s regional rankings of U.S. News & World Report’s Best Hospitals issue. For the thirteenth year in a row, Emory University Hospital ranked as the No. 1 hospital in Georgia and metro Atlanta in the 2024-25 Best Regional Hospitals rankings.

➡️ Emory Healthcare in the rankings: https://links.emory.edu/Yj

Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University is home to a host of cutting-edge research in artificial intelligence (AI) with the potential to drastically shift how physicians approach cancer care, from diagnosis to treatment to long-term survivorship.

Powerful programs are available to support human eyes, able to recognize patterns, connections and warning signs far below our sensory thresholds.

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Join us in celebrating the remarkable legacy of Dean Jan Love at Candler School of Theology - Emory University! 💙🎉

As she concludes her tenure, we reflect on her transformative leadership that has profoundly shaped theological education and community engagement.

Dean Love's tenure has been marked by a commitment to inclusivity, academic excellence, and spiritual growth, fostering an environment where students and faculty alike thrive. Her impact extends far beyond the campus, influencing dialogue on ethics, justice, and the future of religious scholarship.

➡️ Dean Love's legacy: https://links.emory.edu/Xh

Three structural biologists, whose groundbreaking research has paved the way for novel disease treatments and revealed new insights into the immune system, have been announced as the first recipients of Emory University’s Max Cooper Prize in Immunology.

The $100,000 award, which will be shared equally among the researchers, was named for Dr. Max D. Cooper, a renowned immunologist at Emory, whose discoveries over more than six decades of research fundamentally changed science’s understanding of the adaptive immune system.

➡️ Meet the Cooper Prize winners: https://links.emory.edu/Yk

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🔆 Spotlight: "Abyss" by Pilar Quintana, translated from Spanish by Emory's Lisa Dillman!

✒️ Originally penned by Colombian author Quintana,“Abyss,” offers an unsettling look at a family in Cali, Colombia, from the perspective of Claudia, an eight-year-old girl.

💙 Translator Lisa Dillman is a professor in Emory's Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese. A holder of an M.A. in Literary Translation, the professor has numerous translation credits to her name. In 2016 she took home the fiction award in the Best Translated Book Awards for “Signs Preceding the End of the World" by Mexican novelist Yuri Herrera.

➡️ More about this book and others: https://links.emory.edu/XL

🧒 Emory Autism Center Unveils New Playground Opening! 🧩

The Emory Autism Center celebrated the grand opening of its new playground, designed to promote inclusion and belonging for children with and without autism. A play structure for children ages 1 to 5 includes a ground-level ramp and climbing tunnel to help develop skills and confidence. Larger play elements challenge older children, allowing them to scale heights and choose multiple ways to descend.

The playground is part of the Early Emory Inclusive Pre-School and Pre-K program, pivotal to the center's mission of fostering an authentic sense of belonging throughout the lifespan. Early Emory enrolls 65 children, maintaining a 1:2 ratio of autistic to neurotypical peers.

Read more on the Emory Autism Center here: https://links.emory.edu/Y4

🌍 Here's another example of Emory Oxford abroad! Back in May Dr. Deric Shannon and Dr. Amanda Yu-Nguyen's sociology class traveled to 🇪🇸 Spain with Daphne Orr (International Student Programs) to learn about social structures and wellbeing in different parts of Spain. Looks like they had a great time. 👍🏼

📸 Credit: Oxford student Zoe Grotjan

Wendy Dubin describes having ovarian cancer as not only a physical challenge but an existential crisis that robbed her, in her words, of her soul.

After surviving two occurrences of the cancer, the normally vibrant, active woman was in constant pain, frightened, and demoralized. “I was getting from day to day, but I didn’t feel like I was living,” she says. “I was enduring.”

When she heard about a clinical trial being run at Emory involving psilocybin — the mind-altering compound in “magic mushrooms” — she jumped on it. Dubin describes her as spiritual, emotional, and life changing.

➡️ Therapeutic Psychedelics: https://links.emory.edu/XI

🏛️ Emory's Alumni Memorial University Center (AMUC) has an interesting history. Built in 1950 to honor members of the community the university lost at war, the AMUC was the original Atlanta campus’ student union. In 1985 the building was partially enclosed by the newly built Dobbs University Center. Several years ago, the AMUC was returned to its original status as a standalone building.

➡️ What are your memories of the AMUC?

Global antimicrobial resistance poses and dire and growing threat.

Imagine a time when the drugs doctors have prescribed for years to treat common illnesses no longer work. When everything from a bout of strep throat to wisdom teeth extraction could be lethal. When many of the miracles of modern medicine, from chemotherapy to organ transplantation, are no longer possible.

Experts say that time is approaching if we are not able to restrain the formidable and growing threat of antimicrobial resistance.

➡️ Have we entered the post-antibiotic age? https://links.emory.edu/Xf

🏆 Congratulations to former Emory University men's golfer Jackson Klutznick, who concluded his time in Ireland this past weekend, helping Team USA capture the 2024 Arnold Palmer Cup title at the Lahinch Golf Club.

🌍 The Arnold Palmer Cup has been played annually since 1997 as a means of bringing together the top collegiate players in the world. Teams consist of 12 men's and 12 women's golfers on Team USA and Team International rosters. Klutznick was the lone non Division I representative on Team USA.

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🔆 Spotlight: "One Nation Under Guns: How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy" by Dominic Erdozain, research fellow, Candler School of Theology.

📘 In “One Nation Under Guns,” Erdozain argues that because of parsing legislation on background checks and bans, we fail to ask what place guns should have in a functioning democracy. By taking readers on a historical journey, Erdozain emphasizes how the founding fathers feared individual tyranny as much as royal tyranny. In this text, Erdozain argues that to save our democracy, we must fight for the founders’ true idea of what it means to be free.

➡️ More about this book and others: https://links.emory.edu/XL

📚 Discover engaging summer education programs for the whole family at the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory!

💛 This treasured cultural resource offers a variety of enriching programs for children and families throughout the summer. Some of these include SmARTy packs, family guides, select free Sundays, and a summer reading program.

💙 The Carlos Museum, home to one of the largest ancient art collections in the Southeast, contains works from around the world. Book-loving kids can join the museum’s summer reading program, “Wrapped up in Reading.” Each year the museum develops a book list, including children’s picture books, young adult books, graphic novels, and more. The Carlos Museum intentionally includes bilingual literature in the selections as well as a range of classic and recently published works.

➡️ Summer @ The Carlos: https://links.emory.edu/XS

Emory physicians once again lead in being recognized in Atlanta magazine’s 2024 “Top Doctors” issue. Physicians within Emory Healthcare, Emory Healthcare Network, Emory medical staff, and faculty and adjunct faculty of Emory University School of Medicine comprise 40% of the list.

➡️ More on Atlanta's "Top Docs": https://links.emory.edu/XU

When undergraduates have the opportunity to engage in research before graduation, they're able to make the most of their years at Emory.

Now in its second year, INSPIRE (INfectious Diseases Summer Program Integrating Research at Emory) offers undergraduate students from across the U.S. the opportunity to participate in infectious disease research through a 12-month mentorship program.

The latest round began May 28 with six students spending 10 weeks on campus to meet and work alongside their Emory faculty mentors.

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Did you or someone you know just run the AJC Peachtree Road Race? Or want to run next year?

The Winship 5K is a Peachtree Road Race qualifying course that starts and ends on the Emory campus and winds its way through the surrounding Druid Hills area. One hundred percent of donations to the charity event go into funding research and novel approaches against cancer at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University.

So why not make the Winship 5K one of the ways you get ready for the big race next 4th of July? Registration is now open!

🏃Winship 5K Run/Walk
Saturday, September 28
Emory University | Atlanta, GA
http://winship5K.emory.edu

For the Fourth of July, a number of students in Emory's Masters of Business for Veterans program shared what the celebration of U.S. independence means to them personally. All are part of the first cohort of this new program at Emory University Goizueta Business School — and all are part of the United States military.

➡️ What the holiday means for Goizueta veterans: https://links.emory.edu/XV

🔆 Spotlight: "The New Brownies’ Book: A Love Letter to Black Families by Karida Brown and Charly Palmer.

✒️ Covered by the New York Times and among Amazon’s picks for best history book, it salutes and updates “The Brownies’ Book: A Monthly Magazine for Children of the Sun,” the first periodical for Black children, which debuted in 1920.

👏 Brown and Palmer’s book is a compendium of Black achievement and creativity as well as a springboard for addressing issues germane to Black children. Palmer and Brown describe it as “a living, breathing mosaic of dreams, aspirations and boundless potential.”

💙 Brown is a professor of sociology for Emory College of Arts and Sciences. The work has earned her a Brown an NAACP Image Award earlier this year.

More about this book and others: https://links.emory.edu/XL

🔆 It’s time to enjoy the sunshine. After all, you deserve it. But don’t forget, your skin deserves some protection because summer gatherings are more fun when we're sun-smart!🔅

➡️ Here Emory Healthcare offers tips to enhance your knowledge about SPF, UV rays, and sunburn treatment. Protect yourself and your loved ones with these helpful tips and insights.

Sunscreen 101: What To Know About SPF, UV Rays and Sunburn Treatment Learn about sun safety and the many ways to protect your skin, including proper sunscreen usage and treating sunburn.

The Emory Pre-College Program is in full swing, with Session B starting today. We're thrilled to welcome these bright and ambitious high school students to campus! Current sophomores and juniors get an an exciting glimpse of academic and/or residential life at a top-ranked national university.

➡️ Emory Pre-College Program: https://precollege.emory.edu

For many kids, summer camp is a chance to eat lots of what they like. Every June, Emory’s Department of Human Genetics hosts a camp for young women who can’t eat what everyone else eats.

Emory Metabolic Camp was designed for young women with PKU (phenylketonuria) or MSUD (maple syrup urine disease), who have to limit their intake of naturally occurring protein to stay healthy. This means no meat, fish, poultry, dairy or even bread.

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🌍 Emory Oxford students recently traveled to 🇬🇧 Oxford, London, and 🇫🇷 Paris to view and learn about the sites of early science communication and scientific societies. Students, part of the "History of the Scientific Research Article since 1665" class, traveled with Dr. Sarah Fankhouser and Dr. Gwendolynne Reid. From learning about the early printing press to visiting the headquarters of Nature Publishing, students were able to have great experiences to last a lifetime!