Hailing from Loyola University Chicago, Badia Ahad is an experienced leader focused on providing faculty, students and staff with the resources they need to thrive. She will begin her role at Oxford on Aug. 1.
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Emory College 2022 graduate Daniel Gebrekidan been named a Thomas Pickering Fellow by the U.S. State Department. He credits his time at Emory with opening the path toward a diplomatic career as a way to serve the common good.
Badia Ahad has followed a lifelong pathway of learning and flourishing, from her childhood in Chicago to her research as an English professor, that has led to her new role as dean of Oxford College.
Government careers for Emory students are not uncommon, providing an important avenue to serving others. Even for those who don’t ultimately choose such work, internships at all levels of government prove satisfying and instructive.
Emory paleontologist Anthony Martin sums up a billion years of bioeroders — from microbes to dinosaurs to backyard squirrels in his new book “Life Sculpted: Tales of the Animals, Plants and Fungi that Drill, Break and Scrape to Shape the Earth.”
