Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Associated Press | Anti-Defamation league honors 3 with awards
November 20, 2013
The Stuart Lewengrub Torch of Liberty Award has been given to Emory University President James Wagner for organizing a conference exploring slavery and Emory's connections to it. | The Republic Indiana | Enquirer-Herald Illinois | KTBC-TV Texas | WAGA-TV Atlanta
Associated Press | Immigration activists lock themselves to gate
November 19, 2013
Emory University law professor Kathleen Cleaver said, "When a people or group that lives in somewhat invisibility for whatever reason, when they come out of invisibility and they stand up and they make people acknowledge them, it has two effects: It changes them, but it also changes the discussion. What they're doing is a time-tested technique of opening the political avenues to people who don't have any power." | Atlanta Journal-Constitution | WSB-TV Atlanta | San Francisco Chronicle | St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Bloomberg News | Bond dealer retreat seen in trades shrinking 39%
November 19, 2013
"What's driving a lot of the big trends in this area is the changing cost of dealers holding inventory; the cost has gone up a lot," Oliver Randall, assistant professor of finance at Emory University, said in a telephone interview. "Dealers are not willing to do the size of trades they were before."
Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Candidate planning run for Congress in four states
November 2, 2013
Emory Law Dean Robert Schapiro was among the experts interviewed about whether the U.S. Constitution permits congressional candidates to run in more than one state at a time.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Nursing students raise money to fight Parkinson's disease
November 18, 2013
"Many nursing student associations do service activities and raise money for causes at their own schools, but rarely do they participate in something together," said Tigest W. Teshome, a senior in Emory University's Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing.
Science | A career as a science teacher
November 19, 2013
"Many institutions now hire faculty in the sciences whose primary responsibility is teaching. They have different titles and different contracts," says Patricia Marsteller, who is the director of the Emory College Center for Science Education at Emory University in Atlanta. Emory offers a lecture track: Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, and then Professor of Pedagogy, Practice, or Performance. Duke University and Carnegie Mellon University offer similar tracks.
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