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For Faculty and Staff | Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025

For Faculty and Staff

Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025

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Community

Emory University and Emory Healthcare participate in annual Atlanta Pride Parade

Hundreds of community members and guests from both Emory University and Emory Healthcare marched together in the Atlanta Pride Parade on Sunday, Oct. 12. See photos of the fun.

Research

Fatal attraction: Electric charge connects jumping worm to aerial prey

A tiny worm that leaps high into the air — up to 25 times its body length — to attach to flying insects uses static electricity to perform this astounding feat, Emory physicists have found.

Connections

Students build networks, explore career paths during Sophomore Summit

The annual Sophomore Summit connected 70 second-year students with faculty, alumni and staff to engage in meaningful conversations about their trajectory at Emory and potential careers.

Other news and notes

Celebrate Biketober all month with events, pop-ups and more

Nominate someone you admire for an Emory honorary degree; submissions due by Saturday, Nov. 1

Learn about resources for faculty and staff and read highlights from a conversation with Kevin Moody, senior vice president and chief human resources officer, in the Emory University Staff Council’s newsletter

Shawana Moore inducted as an inaugural fellow by the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health

Upcoming events

image of Rosanne Cash sitting on a bench with her guitar

Ideas Festival Emory, featuring keynote speaker Rosanne Cash

October 18, 10:00 a.m. | Oxford College

"Typewriter Petting Zoo" with Emory Libraries and the Atlanta Typewriter Club

October 22, 1:00 p.m. | Robert W. Woodruff Library, Jones Room

October
15

McDonald Lecture: "Revisiting Modern Christian 'Mysticism': What Did the 20th Century Mean by It, and Why Does It Still Matter?" with Sarah Coakley of Cambridge University

11:00 a.m. | Rita Anne Rollins Building, Room 252, and online

October
15

Film Screening: The Emory Cinematheque presents "Death Race 2000"

7:00 p.m. | White Hall, Room 208

October
16

2025 Howard Thurman Lecture: “The Art and Politics (and Afterlives) of Afro-Protestantism” with Josef Sorett of Columbia University

5:00 p.m. | Candler School of Theology, Rita Anne Rollins Building, Room 252

October
16

Docta Graffiti Artist Exhibition

5:30 p.m. | Oxford College, Humanities Hall, Tarbutton Porch

October
16

Concert: Jazz on the Green

6:30 p.m. | Patterson Green

October
17

Environmental Sciences Seminar: "Imagining Otherwise: Environmental Ethics, Art and Alternative Futures" with artist and philosopher Jonathon Keats

11:30 a.m. | Psychology Building (PAIS), Room 290

October
20

Workshop: "Leadership at the Crossroads of Business and Economics: How Leaders in Business, Technology and Academia Inspire Change"

4:30 p.m. | Atwood Chemistry Center, Room 360

October
28

Advanced Technology Development Center Office Hours

11:30 a.m. | Health Sciences Research Building II, outside Lab2Launch, Room S125

November
7

Emory Atlanta Black Business Institute: "Fill the G.A.P.: Grow, Adapt. Prosper" (registration price increases Oct. 15)

10:00 a.m. | Rollins School of Public Health

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