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For Faculty and Staff of Emory University Thursday, March 2, 2017

COLLABORATION Atlanta Braves and Emory Healthcare announce partnership The Atlanta Braves and Emory Healthcare have announced a new medical partnership that names Emory Healthcare as the official team health care provider of the Atlanta Braves. INNOVATION Emory receives grant to support advancement in humanities doctoral education The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded Emory $1.5 million over five years to expand professional competencies and integrate public scholarship into humanities doctoral training, as well as graduate teaching and research endeavors, at the Laney Graduate School. RESEARCH Protein misfolding may kick-start chemical evolution Alzheimer's disease, and other neurodegenerative conditions involving abnormal folding of proteins, may help explain the emergence of life, according to researchers from Emory and Georgia Tech. SPORTS Men's tennis wins ITA National Indoor Championship The Eagles defeated the University of Chicago on Sunday to win the Intercollegiate Tennis Association National Indoor Championship for the second year in row. COMMUNITY Emory's Greek community grows with new, returning chapters Emory's Greek community welcomed two new chapters in the last year, including the university's first Latino fraternity. Five more Greek organizations are scheduled to return by 2019, setting a record for sororities and fraternities on campus. HISTORY Carlos Museum exhibition shows how a hidden Greece was revealed For 400 years, Greece was a conquered nation ruled by a hostile force. An exhibition at the Carlos Museum shows how intrepid travelers revealed its treasures of art and architecture, which influenced European nations and the United States.

Take Note   Section of Clifton Road closed this weekend for construction Emory Johns Creek Hospital to host blood drive on Monday for Red Cross Month Emory College sociology professor Bin Xu named Public Intellectuals Fellow Emory lawyers win religious freedom appeals court ruling

Emory Insider: Resources   Dining during spring break: Campus dining facilities will operate on a modified schedule from Friday, March 3, through Sunday, March 12. Check out the spring break schedule to find out which venues will be open and their hours of operation.

In The News   Trump's speech: How'd he do? March 1 |  Mark Bauerlein |  CNN Analysis: After a hostile takeover, it's Trump's party now March 1 |  Andra Gillespie |  WXIA-TV 'Wild Nights' offers a history of sleep (and sleeplessness) March 1 |  Benjamin Reiss |  New York Times Monks take days to build a mandala at Oxford, then destroy it in hours March 1 |  Eve Mullen |  Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Featured Events   Atlanta Master Chorale: Shades and Hues Experience a journey through a kaleidoscope of color in this program of music about the living beauty that surrounds us. When: March 4, 8:00 p.m. Where: Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, Emerson Concert Hall Admission: $20; $15 discount categories; $10 students Atlanta Science Festival: Astronaut Mark Kelly Launch rockets on the lawn starting at 5:30 p.m., then hear Kelly's speech kicking off the Atlanta Science Festival at 7 p.m. When: March 14, 5:30 p.m. Where: Glenn Memorial Auditorium Admission: $12 in advance; $8 kids ages 12 and under; $15 at the door WaterHub Tour Get a behind-the-scenes look at Emory's innovative WaterHub. The student-led tours are popular and fill up fast. When: March 15, 1:00 p.m. Where: Emory WaterHub, Peavine Drive Admission: Free

03 March Donations to World Relief When: March 3, 9:00 a.m. Where: Candler School of Theology, Rita Anne Rollins Building, Third Floor Lobby Admission: Free   03 March A Multisensory Internal Model of Gravity and its Role in Spatial Orientation When: March 3, 12:00 p.m. Where: Whitehead Biomedical Research Building, Auditorium Admission: Free   03 March To Write or to Draw? Discussion of Readability Versus Visuality in Postwar Japanese Avant-garde Calligraphy When: March 3, 12:30 p.m. Where: Modern Languages, Room 201 Admission: Free   03 March Candler School of Theology's Black Student Caucus 9th Annual Heritage Ball When: March 3, 7:00 p.m. Where: Cox Hall Admission: $25 individual; $150 8-guest table   04 March Softball: Emory vs. Christopher Newport, double header When: March 4, 1:00 p.m. Where: Emory Softball Field Admission: Free   07 March Baseball: Emory vs. Oglethorpe When: March 7, 2:00 p.m. Where: Chappell Park Admission: Free   07 March The Forced Marriage of Health and Human Rights Issues in the 21st Century When: March 7, 4:00 p.m. Where: Claudia Nance Rollins Building, Auditorium and Plaza Admission: Free   12 March Baseball: Emory vs. Piedmont College When: March 12, 2:00 p.m. Where: Chappell Park Admission: Free   13 March Sex Tourism in Bahia: Ambiguous Entanglements When: March 13, 12:00 p.m. Where: Woodruff Library, Jones Room Admission: Free   13 March Moving Content From Blackboard to Canvas When: March 13, 2:00 p.m. Where: Woodruff Library, Room 314 Admission: Free   13 March Concert: Christopher Paul Stelling, acoustic guitar When: March 13, 7:30 p.m. Where: Oxford College, Williams Hall Admission: Free   14 March Canvas 101 When: March 14, 9:00 a.m. Where: Online Admission: Free   14 March Hospital-based Hand Washing with Soap and Water Treatment Intervention to Reduce Cholera When: March 14, 12:00 p.m. Where: Claudia Nance Rollins Building, Room 1000 Admission: Free   14 March Conceiving Deafness: The Power of Narrative When: March 14, 1:00 p.m. Where: Dobbs University Center, Winship Ballroom Admission: Free   14 March The Evolution of Human Sleep When: March 14, 4:00 p.m. Where: White Hall, Room 207 Admission: Free   14 March Film Screening: "Comfort Women" When: March 14, 6:00 p.m. Where: Candler School of Theology, Rita Anne Rollins Building, Room 252 Admission: Free   14 March Reading: Russian Revolutionary Poetry When: March 14, 6:30 p.m. Where: Modern Languages, Room 201 Admission: Free   14 March How Early Travelers to Greece Viewed the Parthenon When: March 14, 7:30 p.m. Where: Michael C. Carlos Museum, Exhibition Galleries Admission: Free   15 March 2017 Hamilton E. Holmes MD Memorial Lecture: "Healing in the Land is More Than a Slogan" When: March 15, 5:00 p.m. Where: School of Medicine, Room 110 Admission: Free   15 March Film screening: "Wedding Doll" (2015) When: March 15, 7:30 p.m. Where: White Hall, Room 208 Admission: Free   View the Full Emory Events Calendar

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