Emory Report

for Faculty & Staff | October 12, 2026

Former Sen. Jeff Flake inspires bipartisan dialogue with visit to Emory

Jeff Flake, former U.S. senator from Arizona and ambassador to Turkey, visited Emory in September to talk with students about bipartisan leadership and his career in public service at a fireside chat with Joseph Crespino, Emory’s Jimmy Carter Professor of History. It was the inaugural event for the newly launched Center for Civic Reasoning.

students at an Emory Pride Festival

Candler course looks at how the queer community is revolutionizing theology

“Queer Theology and Queer Ethics,” taught by Craig Ford at Candler School of Theology, invites students to examine how queer theory and LGBTQ+ experiences can challenge and expand traditional approaches to theology and Christian ethics.

two women surgeons wearing blue scrubs in the OR

Winship surgeon performs Georgia’s first robotic nipple-sparing mastectomy outside a clinical trial

Clara Farley, a breast surgical oncologist at Winship Cancer Institute, served as Emory’s principal investigator during the clinical trial and is one of only 25 surgeons nationwide selected for the rollout after the robotic surgical approach earned FDA approval.

The projected image of a white woman with wavy red hair gazing off to the side is projected onto the side of a tall building. A gibbous moon is visible in the night sky, and below the building, groups of people walk by on a concrete walkway lit by streetlights or sit on a triangular patch of greenspace.

Works of art from High Museum hit city’s largest screen

Off the Wall @ 725 Ponce, a public art initiative curated by Emory film professor Gregory Zinman, presents “Just Breathe” — artworks from the High Museum projected onto an eight-story building in Midtown Atlanta.

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Jazz as storytelling

Source:Psychology Today

What is the pneumonic plague?

Source:NPR

Helping others linked to younger-looking adult brains, even after accounting for health and lifestyle

Source:Medical Xpress

Emory University’s children’s book collection gives snapshots of past, present

Source:11 Alive

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