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Singer, songwriter, dancer and entrepreneur Usher will be the #Emory2025 Commencement speaker on May 12! We look forward to hearing what the Grammy-winning performer has to say before presenting him with an honorary doctor of humane letters: bit.ly/3D6x5af

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Emory's Crystal Sanders has won the 2025 outstanding publication award from the American Education Research Association for her latest book, A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, & the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs." Congrats, Dr. Sanders 👏👏

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Emory College celebrated world-renowned poet and 2025 MacArthur Fellow “genius grant” recipient Jericho Brown with a special reception this week. Brown closed the event a reading of new works, including “Black Dictionary,” his tribute to the late poet Nikki Giovanni.

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Join @emorycollege.bsky.social Comp. Lit. next week for a reading and discussion of Prof. Mendoza-de Jesús' "Catastrophic Historicism" on Thurs. 2/27 and a working seminar on deconstructing historicism on Fri. 2/28 📖 🚧 To RSVP 👉 email [email protected]

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Calling all @emorycollege.bsky.social undergrads in the humanities or humanistic social sciences! 📣 ⁠ The Fox is now accepting Undergraduate Fellowship applications for our 2025-26 research theme "Life/Story" 💫 Learn more and apply before May 1st: bit.ly/432VHLG

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Mark your calendars! 🗓️ On 3/19, @emorycollege.bsky.social ge Prof. Smith-Shomade will join Dr. Nsenga Burton in conversation on her book "Finding God in All the Black Places" at the Auburn Avenue Research Library ✨ ⁠ RSVP here 👉 bit.ly/emory-aarl Start reading #OpenAccess 👉 bit.ly/3EMQ7CR

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Maya Wright 23C, now a graduate student Emory's Rollins School of Public Health, will compete in the “Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament” on Friday (2/21). It will be her third appearance on the show. Go get 'em Maya! We are cheering from here! Details ➡️ bit.ly/4i4snIM

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Happy Valentine's Day from the place with a lockpicking workshop in place of Pont des Arts 💘🔐

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Wonderful news! Congrats, Dr. Gross!

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Meet Emory senior David Lee. He won a gold medal in the World Taekwondo Championships late last year while also leading an Emory Mock Trial team and finishing an honors thesis on Atlanta's Policing Alternatives & Diversion Initiative. Read his story, and see a video of his skills, at bit.ly/4aVIVAs

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Emory's liberal arts excellence puts us among top-tier universities that are emphasizing how a humanities major helps undergraduates build the skills that employers say they want - but aren't seeing often enough. bit.ly/40UgC0A

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#MSUDH #DH folks‼️The Digital Humanities Program is co-sponsoring a talk with Emory University assistant professor Dan Sinykin, "The Sociology of Literature: Big Fiction and the Conglomerate Era." We hope to see you there! Date and Time: Wednesday, Feb. 19th, 4PM-5PM at MSU Wells Hall B342.

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Emory's Pulitzer-Prize winning MacArthur 'Genius' Jericho Brown debuted "Black Dictionary" this week in the New Yorker. The poem weighs how he can be what someone else saw in him, honoring the work of Nikki Giovanni for urging readers on their search for identity and freedom. bit.ly/4k8moon

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Recent Human Health graduate and standout scholar Shraddha Hariharan will share a behind-the-scenes look at #EmoryAtTheSuperBowl tomorrow, as we share how Emory's groundbreaking discoveries are having real-world impacts. Follow along with Shraddha on our Instagram: www.instagram.com/emorycollege

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The Halle Institute is partnering with the Pathways Center to fund and support undergraduate researchers at @emorycollege.bsky.social! Apply by March 31st to receive $3,000-$4,000 for research abroad. Visit halle.emory.edu for more information.

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Black History Month! Many #Emory events are scheduled. In 1969, the newly formed Black Student Alliance protested on the steps of Candler Library for 4 days abt pressing issues. Photo from the 2021 symposium website of “In the Wake of Slavery & Dispossession.” @emorycollege.bsky.social

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Break out of your #Emory bubble. You LIVE here, but might not know much about what is HAPPENING here. Walk over to Glenn Memorial tomorrow evening at 6PM to see what is happening & to hear from the state legislators who REPRESENT you. #gapol #atl @emorycollege.bsky.social

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Former JWJI Emory Fellow Jeremiah Favara will speak at noon Monday on the military's successful efforts to diversity its ranks within the broader dynamics of racial capitalism. The free event in the Jones Room of Woodruff Library includes lunch. RSVP required ➡️ bit.ly/40W2xB6

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A led by Rio Grande so Sul Vice-Governor Gabriel Souza thanked Emory environmental scientist Gonzalo Vazquez-Prokopec this week for his work against the dengue-carrying mosquito that has saved lives there. The work and ongoing collaboration efforts broadens Emory's impact on a global scale

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Emory University Distinguished Professor Deborah Lipstadt antisemitism's threat to democracy. The "primary goal may not be only to spread Jew hatred, but to use Jew hatred to sow societal divisions and make all of us doubt the political health and strength of the democratic world." nyti.ms/4hbbMD9

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Good news of the day: Dozens of Emory scholar-athletes joined with peers from Vanderbilt University last week, breaking bread and uniting to help Atlantans in need as part of a Day of Service honoring the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ➡️ bit.ly/3PSFYGW

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Welcome reception for Emory's Psychoanalytic Studies Program. We have a new leadership structure, upcoming events, and plans for next year. We'd love to see you (faculty, grads, undergrads) at the event and have you involved in programing. @emorycollege.bsky.social

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Patricia Marsteller — our former associate dean of undergraduate research and professor of practice emerita in the Department of Biology — has received the nation’s highest honor for mentors in science and technology ➡️ bit.ly/4gsLafT

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Ice, Ice baby, we’re (still) remote. Yes, Emory will continue to operate remotely on Thursday due to ongoing hazardous weather and roadways. Stay up-to-date with the Emory Safe app or online at links.emory.edu/162

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Emory will continue to operate remotely on Wednesday due to the hazardous combination of snow and cold. Students with in-person classes should contact professors to learn if classes will move online. University updates are at emory.edu and the Emory Safe app

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ICYMI: Emory's Rachel Hall-Clifford and husband Gari Clifford - a medical anthropologist with the College's Center for the Study of Human Health and chair of the Dept of Biomedical Informatics respectively, innovated a device that uses AI to help address maternal health in Guatemala ➡️ bit.ly/3WvN08n

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“Everybody can be great, because anybody can serve.” I’ll have much more to share in the coming days on our #MLKDay service project at King Center — but for now, I am encouraged. @emorycollege.bsky.social

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Emory will move to remote operations on Tuesday, Jan. 21 due to hazardous weather conditions. Students with in-person classes scheduled for Tuesday should contact their professors to learn if the classes will move online. Updates at www.Emory.edu or the Emory Safe app

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While walking across the @emorycollege.bsky.social campus today - the last day of the first week of the semester - looked up & was delighted to see this aerial theropod, just hanging out. To quote Gary Larson, “Birds of prey know they’re cool.”

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Many congratulations to #Emory colleague, Dr. Sharon T. Strocchia, Professor of History. She was selected as the recipient of this year’s Society for Italian Historical Studies Senior Scholar Citation. @emorycollege.bsky.social

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Atheltes from Emory and Vanderbilt have united today for a meaningful Day of Service at Atlanta's Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change. Follow along their activities on our Instagram: www.instagram.com/stories/emor...

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We're excited to share that @emorycollege.bsky.social Professor Ruby Lal will be presenting the 2025 John F. Morgan, Sr. Distinguished Faculty Lecture on 2/4 at 5pm on “Who Decides What History Is?” 💭📜 ⁠ To attend, RSVP here by 1/24: bit.ly/4jur4of

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Scenes from a snow day in Atlanta

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Happy Snow Day! With freezing rain and sleet on the way, Emory campuses will be closed again Saturday. For the most recent updates, visit www.emory.edu or log into the Emory Safe app

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Emory will be closed, and the university will move to remote operations, on Friday, Jan. 10, due to severe weather conditions. Students with in-person classes should contact their professors to learn if sessions will be moved online. Updates at www.emory.edu and the Emory Safe mobile app.

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The Emory community is invited to gather at 10 am at Cannon Chapel to view President Carter's national funeral service. The service for Carter, who served as Emory University Distinguished Professor for more than 40 years, will stream online at cathedral.org/about/state-...

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Faculty: Get up to $30K for your research or creative project - or up to $40K for work with an interdisciplinary colleague - from the University Research Committee. Application, eligibility, submission criteria and additional information: urc.emory.edu. Deadline is Friday, Jan. 17.

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Here's a great opportunity for undergrads to apply for a summer internship at the NIH! Applications are due Jan. 8th. Follow link for more details and to apply: www.nibib.nih.gov/labs-at-nibi...

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The Carter Center invites the public to pay their final respects to President Jimmy Carter between 6 p.m. Sat (1/4) and 6 a.m. Tues (1/7) at its Atlanta campus. MARTA will provide continuous service to the viewing. How to participate: bit.ly/407zBVg Online condolences: JimmyCarterTribute.org.

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The world lost a beacon for justice and human rights with the passing of President Jimmy Carter. At Emory, we lost a beloved friend and partner who helped shape our campus for four decades. bit.ly/41TFAiT

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Further processing the news, I have to think of the many times Jimmy Carter joined faculty @emorycollege.bsky.social to chat with students. Here, a visit to the brilliant @tsasson.bsky.social's class in late 2017. He was 'only' 93 at the time.

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Rest in peace, President Carter. Thank you for your service, to Emory and to the world. "If Jimmy Carter believed in anything, it was in the simple decency of the American people," Emory's Jimmy Carter Professor of History Joe Crespino: bit.ly/4iY8h…

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Let us introduce ourselves by highlighting some of our programs: First up, we are currently accepting applications for some of our Collaborative Research Grants that bring together faculty researchers from Emory University and our partner universities. Learn more: halle.emory.edu/faculty-rese...

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