Diana Carter is now vice president and chief audit and risk officer for Emory University and Emory Healthcare, a role that took effect Feb. 1. She previously served as vice president of risk management and interim chief internal audit officer.
What began as a simple question years ago led to a program through Emory’s Urban Health Initiative known as the Rolling Suitcase Drive. Anyone can donate suitcases to benefit people helped by the Atlanta Mission.
Lauren Klein, whose research focuses on the digital humanities, data science and data studies, has been awarded the Chronos Faculty Fellowship in Emory College of Arts and Sciences.
Emory employee Wade Moricle and his family are awaiting official certification from the Guinness World Records Company for their 625-pound sticker ball. The multiyear project helped them stick together through the pandemic, a cancer diagnosis and treatments.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science has named six Emory faculty members as 2022 Fellows because of their efforts toward advancing science applications.
A Keck Foundation Award will allow Emory physicists Minsu Kim (left) and Justin Burton to explore how microbes adapt to living in the Earth’s atmosphere and the broader role that these organisms may play in the planet’s ecosystem.
Carlos del Rio, an internationally known clinician and epidemiologist, has been named interim dean for Emory School of Medicine. He will begin his appointment on March 1.
An Emory University study shows levodopa, a drug that increases dopamine in the brain, has potential to reverse the effects of inflammation on brain reward circuitry, ultimately improving symptons of depression.
Emory has created residency opportunities for four artists, providing studio space in buildings across from Emory University Hospital Midtown as part of the Midtown Heart of the Arts Residency Program.
Students in Emory political scientist Bernard Fraga’s class worked in real time to crunch midterm election data and translate the numbers into credible analysis ready for the public eye.
Machelle T. Pardue — a translational scientific researcher with a career portfolio of more than $18M in funded work — has been appointed vice chair and director of research for the Department of Ophthalmology/Emory Eye Center.
After working with the Obama Presidency Oral History Project, the LA Lakers and more, scholar Karida Brown is focusing on the Department of Sociology’s research apprentice program, overseeing undergraduate students on a variety of projects.
Simuvaction celebrated its “day of action” at Emory with students from around the world bringing diverse disciplines together to ensure that artificial intelligence is used as a tool to reduce health disparities.
At the invitation of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Emory’s Center for Contemplative Science and Compassion-Based Ethics co-hosted a conference in Dharamsala, India, to highlight programs aimed at ‘educating the heart and mind.’
As Emory community members start the spring semester, COVID-19, influenza, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and other viruses remain prevalent. Here’s what you need to know to start the new year.
The Healthy New You Expo returned Jan. 10 and 12, with employees enjoying exhibits and demonstrations centered on healthier living. See photos and learn about ongoing wellness programs at Emory.
Manoj Jain is the inaugural recipient of the Emory Global Health Institute’s Jeffrey P. Koplan Global Health Award, named in honor of EGHI founder Jeff Koplan. Jain was recognized for his efforts to address tuberculosis in India.
Emory University’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing is launching a Master in Cardiovascular Perfusion Science program with the inaugural cohort slated to start in Fall 2023.
In a career spanning several continents and just as many advanced degrees, Emory cardiologist Azizul Hoque, MD, has made it his life mission to bring as much care to as many people as possible, on a pay scale they can afford. When not practicing cardiology or teaching as a distinguished physician and assistant professor at Emory, for instance, he’s leading a telemedicine healthcare project in the Bangladesh capital, Dhaka, one of the world’s most crowded cities.
A new and improved Trust Line experience from Emory University and Emory Healthcare allows all members of the Emory community to confidentially report ethical concerns.
The nine schools that make up Emory University have plans for new programs, inspiring events and more during the spring semester. Read a roundup of what’s in store.
Baby Julien and Baby Quincy were welcomed to the world just after the calendar rolled over to 2023 — the first babies born at Emory hospitals in the new year.
Winship Cancer Institute researchers and colleagues from several health care systems and universities have discovered a new AI-derived biomarker that uses routine imaging scans to help predict which patients with lung cancer will respond to immunotherapy.
Long recognized for articles and books chronicling the grip of race on the past and present, Carol Anderson explored documentary filmmaking with “I, Too,” which examines what’s at stake for American democracy.
In an award-winning book, “The Anatomy of Loneliness: Suicide, Social Connection, and the Search for Relational Meaning in Contemporary Japan,” anthropologist Chikako Ozawa-De Silva explains social structures fueling the world’s growing epidemic of loneliness and offers a vision for an inclusive society.
Atlanta Falcons legend Alge Crumpler must overcome his biggest challenge after retiring from the NFL. After four years of dedication, sacrifice, effort and support by Emory Healthcare, he’s back to living his best life.
As a PhD student, Elizabeth Lonsdorf worked with renowned naturalist Jane Goodall while studying tool use by the Gombe chimpanzees. Now an Emory faculty member, Lonsdorf’s research continues to focus on chimpanzee health and development.
As 2022 winds down, take a look back at 10 of the most-read stories from the Emory News Center — with more headlines so you can delve deeper into this year of ambition, achievement and service.
Emory faculty and staff are frequently recognized for their work locally, nationally and internationally. Read a sampling of recent accolades, including awards for professional contributions and leadership appointments.
While Erick Martínez Juárez was growing up, he and his family received health care through the Emory Farmworker Project. The experience helped inspire him to become a doctor, and on Dec. 16, he shared his story with the Physician Assistant Class of 2022 as their commencement speaker.
Emory’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing celebrated the accomplishments of its students Friday, December 9 during the school’s annual winter graduation events.
Emory’s Office of the Provost will provide up to $1.4 million in funds over the next three years to launch creative projects focused on advancing social justice.
In November, President Gregory L. Fenves and members of Emory senior leadership visited Seoul to strengthen university partnerships and engage with Korea-based alumni.
The Injury Prevention Research Center at Emory University, Grady Health System and collaborators at the University of Michigan have been awarded a five-year, $4.4 million project to continue studying motor vehicle crashes in metro Atlanta that result in injuries treated at Grady.
Returning to the Robert W. Woodruff Library for the first time since the pandemic, Feast of Words, the annual celebration of faculty authors, reinforced Plato’s notion of what books do, which is nothing less than “give life to everything.”
Inspired by a university-wide commitment to address racial and social justice, the Office of the Provost has established a new funding opportunity for faculty research and scholarship aimed at addressing racial inequities.
A new preclinical study recently reported in Science Advances and led by Emory University and UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers suggests that cooling brain tumors to room temperature may extend survival of patients with glioblastoma multiforme.
Emory has joined the Higher Education Leadership Initiative for Open Scholarship, a collective to advance and promote open research and scholarship. Emory’s participation enhances the university’s ongoing work around open access and scholarship.
All Emory University faculty, staff and students on university-sponsored international travel now have access to emotional support services and emergency medical insurance through International SOS, Emory’s medical and security assistance provider.
President’s Humanities Fellows experience the time, space and resources to complete humanities projects, add to the cross-fertilization of humanities research across Emory, mentor graduate students and postdocs, and serve the larger public through seminars and other outreach.
In “Pandemic Reflections,” the Emory University Course for fall 2022, convenor Jodie Guest led undergraduate, graduate and professional students on a journey to discover lessons learned from the HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 pandemics.
Two Emory University academic and research leaders, Ray Dingledine and George Painter, have been selected as 2022 Fellows by the National Academy of Inventors.
Emory College senior Noah Okada is one of only 100 global winners of the new Quad Fellowship, an effort to build a global network of elite thinkers working across science and technology to solve real-world problems.
Test-and-Go COVID-19 testing will be available on Emory campuses starting in mid-December. Anyone in the Emory community is able to access these self-administered PCR tests.
Class of 2022 graduate Rachel Ding will pursue a master’s degree in China next year as a Schwarzman Scholar. She will study global affairs while receiving exposure to Chinese culture, global business networks and leaders.
Through archival research in the Rose Library and other Atlanta repositories, architectural historian Christina Crawford and her students have lifted up Atlanta’s role in the nation’s first two federally-funded housing projects — work that culminated in Georgia Historical Society markers.
Winship breast oncologist Kevin Kalinsky, MD, MS, shared RxPONDER trial results at the 2022 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium showing Black women with HR+/HER2- breast cancer have worse outcomes than other racial and ethnic groups.
With leadership from faculty experts across the university, the Emory Climate Research Initiative will focus Emory’s scholarly efforts to address fundamental challenges posed by climate change.
Doctors from the Emory Heart & Vascular Center are joining forces with the Family Heart Foundation, a leading research and advocacy organization, to find and more widely treat undiagnosed patients living with a common genetic condition that causes the body to produce extremely high levels of unhealthy cholesterol.
With 19 new faculty onboard this fall, Emory’s AI.Humanity initiative is shaping a distinctively Emory vision, culture and infrastructure that helps AI scholars maximize their contributions as researchers, teachers and mentors.
Theoretical chemists at Emory have developed an open-source toolkit that can speed the creation of large, high-quality datasets needed to make advances in everything from renewable energy to human health.
