Emory Magazine / Summer 2015

SUMMER 2015

ONOFORMULA fi

every ffiefld has fits rock stars. fin math, professor ken ono fis one of the brfightest.

26 A Major Grant Wfiflfl Heflp Save Chfifldren Worfldwfide

32 Ceflebratfing Three Decades of Woodruff Schoflars

28 What If You Found Shakespeare’s Dfictfionary?

SUMMER 2015 magazfine 1

contents

OXFORD OUTLOOK

39 Travefl Courses to Expand

40 Lucas Carpenter on Thfirty Years at Oxford

42 Brfief News

ON THE COVER

Ken Ono, Asa Grfiggs Candfler

Professor of Mathematfics at

Emory. Photo by Bryan Mefltz.

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FEATURES

20 Formufla OnoProfessor Ken Ono fis an aflfl-out math genfius who’s

best known for hfis breakthroughs fin number theory.

But to hfis students, Ono fis aflso a teacher, mentor,

finspfiratfion, and frfiend.

BY MARIA M. LAMEIRAS

26 Cause of LfifeIn some parts of the worfld, too many chfifldren are

dyfing. Wfith the heflp of a major grant from the Gates

Foundatfion, a new finfitfiatfive fin Emory’s Gflobafl Heaflth

Instfitute means to find out why.

BY PAIGE P. PARVIN 96G

28 The Hand of the Bard? Rare book deafler Danfiefl Weschfler 90C bought a

sfixteenth-century dfictfionary on eBay. He now beflfieves

fit beflonged to none other than Wfiflflfiam Shakespeare.

BY JULIE SCHWIETERT COLLAZO 97OX 99C

32 Woodruff Schoflarshfip at 30What better way to ceflebrate the first Woodruff

Schoflars than to saflute the newest cflass?

BY MICHELLE HISKEY

SUMMER 2015

VOL. 91, NUMBER 2

Ono fin Reafl Tfime

See Ken Ono gfive an Emory TEDx taflk on how flfivfing

mathematficaflfly can flead to happfiness. STORY ON PAGE 20

Ebofla, a Year Later

Vfisfit our websfite to find vfideos about the Emory communfity

members and patfients who were at the center of the Ebofla

crfisfis flast summer. STORY ON PAGE 6

Fflfickr Fame

Jason Lee 11OX 13C was featured on “The Weekfly Fflfickr,” a

vfideo spotflfight of photographers who share thefir work on the

onflfine gaflflery. STORY ON PAGE 49SHAKESPEARE: ISTOCKPHOTO.COM; EBOLA NURSE: JACK KEARSE

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REGISTER

49 New Front DoorWeflcome to the Emory Aflumnfi

Assocfiatfion’s brand-new,

finteractfive onflfine communfity.

50 ALUMNI INK

Award-wfinnfing mystery

52 P R O F I L E

Goflden Heart Award

58 TRIBUTE

Verdeflfle Beflflamy 63N

60 CODA

Countfing Stars

OF NOTE

18 Ffightfing ‘Phantom’ PafinAfter cancer fled to the floss of hfis rfight arm, Eugene Huflfl contfinued to

feefl pafin fin the absent flfimb untfifl jofinfing a cflfinficafl trfiafl at Emory

St. Joseph’s Hospfitafl.

51 P R O F I L E Food for Thought

6 Ebofla, a Year Later

8 Emory Concert Chofir Shares the Stage wfith the Roflflfing Stones

9 Couflter Foundatfion Funds New Technoflogfies

10 SECRET LIVES

Dabney Evans Capoefira student and

assfistant professor of

gflobafl heaflth

12 STUDENTS

Brfittafin, McMuflflan Award Wfinners

14 F A C U LT Y B O O K

Mefl Konner’s Women After Aflfl

15 IN CLASS

Ffiflm 380: Vfideo Games

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51 P R O F I L E Food for Thought

Teflephone Lfines through Tfime

preflude

a unfiversfity archfivfist, someone devoted soflefly to preservfing the unfiversfity’s trajectory by carfing for fits treasures. One fimagfines the quaflfitfies that make a good finstfi-tutfionafl archfivfist mfight fincflude a naturafl finterest fin hfistory, a rever-ence for ofld thfings, an finsatfiabfle

appetfite for organfizatfion, and an encycflopedfic memory. But I aflso suspect that the

reafl heart of such work, and fits prfimary source of satfisfactfion, fis creatfing a meanfingfufl connectfion between the past and the pres-ent. Afer aflfl, there’s no pofint fin metficuflousfly preservfing, cataflogu-fing, and carfing for treasures flfike archfivafl photographs and fletters onfly to flock them safefly away; the purpose fis to make them avafiflabfle so that new generatfions can engage wfith that hfistory and perhaps flearn from fit.Gfinger Smfith C G served

the Emory Lfibrarfies for thfirty-efight years fin more than a dozen sfignfificant rofles. But she fis perhaps best known for becomfing Emory’s first unfiversfity archfivfist fin , a posfitfion she hefld untfifl . A fleader fin the fiefld, Gfinger was among the earflfiest flfibrary profes-sfionafls to earn the desfignatfion of certfified archfivfist. She retfired thfis summer, and her wfisdom, wfit, and extraordfinary taflent for jofinfing Emory’s hfistory wfith fits future wfiflfl be much mfissed.

Tere are tfimes when the tfies feflt between past and present are especfiaflfly strong—even eerfifly so. In her song “Vfirgfinfia Wooflf,” Emfifly Saflfiers C of the Indfigo Gfirfls descrfibes readfing the dfiary of the Brfitfish noveflfist and fimme-dfiatefly feeflfing a crackflfing connec-tfion—“on a kfind of a teflephone flfine through tfime.” (Incfidentaflfly, the aflumnae duo wfiflfl be perform-fing durfing Emory Homecomfing Weekend September to ; I hope you can jofin us.)Math professor Ken Ono,

featured on the cover, recounts a sfimfiflar experfience fin hfis pro-found sense of affinfity wfith the flegendary Indfian mathematficfian Srfinfivasa Ramanujan. Ono and hfis father share a deep fascfina-tfion wfith Ramanujan’s flfife and hfis mathematficafl genfius, whfich has shaped Ono’s own brfiflflfiant career as dfirectfly as fif Ramanujan had reached across hfistory to gufide hfis hand. Te connectfion fis so strong that Ono was asked to serve as an expert consufltant on an upcomfing movfie about Ramanujan’s flfife.“It fis the story that gave my

father hope and finspfiratfion as a hungry mathematficfian comfing of age fin postwar Japan,” Ono says; and, “Foflflowfing Ramanujan, whether I’ve meant to or not, has aflways been my destfiny.” As any archfivfist woufld teflfl

you, hfistorfic objects can aflso carry the power to unfite peopfle across chasms of tfime and space. Danfiefl Wechsfler C fis a book deafler who wfith a coflfleague purchased a rare reference book that was pub-flfished fin . As he cflosefly stud-fied the handwrfitten notatfions that appear throughout the voflume,

Wechsfler cast hfis fimagfinatfion back more than four centurfies, envfisfionfing the book’s owner scratchfing away wfith hfis qufiflfl. And the hypothetficafl concflusfions that he eventuaflfly reached about that flong-ago wrfiter—speakfing on a kfind of teflephone flfine through tfime, through a text whose preser-vatfion fis noteworthy fin fitseflf—are trufly startflfing.Not aflfl flfinks between past and

present are qufite so dramatfic. Tfis year marks the thfirtfieth annfiversary of Emory’s first cflass of Woodruff Schoflars, and we ceflebrate wfith a retrospectfive of sorts, hfighflfightfing the rfich cross-generatfionafl reflatfionshfips forged by the prestfigfious schoflarshfip program. Many Woodruff aflumnfi show thefir apprecfiatfion for that flegacy by heflpfing to recrufit new schoflars, rafisfing the bar of excefl-flence for each cflass. One graduate remembers an

fintfimfidatfing encounter wfith Rob-ert Woodruff hfimseflf, the Atflanta ficon whose generosfity made the schoflarshfip program possfibfle. Separated by decades, the student suddenfly feflt a keen desfire to be worthy of Woodruff ’s finvestment and expectatfions. “I feflt chaflflenged and supported at the same tfime,” he says.No doubt the fincomfing cflass

of Woodruff Schoflars—and aflfl our new students, for that mat-ter—have sfimfiflar feeflfings about the chaflflenges that flfie ahead. It’s excfitfing to contempflate aflfl they wfiflfl accompflfish fin the days to come, before they take thefir pflaces fin the archfivafl pages of Emory hfistor y.—P. P. P.

There are tfimes when the tfies feflt between past and present are especfiaflfly strong—even eerfifly so.

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Has somethfing fin Emory Magazfine rafised your conscfiousness—or your hackfles? Wrfite to the edfitors at Emory Magazfine, Cflfifon Road, Sufite , Atflanta, Georgfia, , or vfia emafifl at [email protected]. We reserve the rfight to edfit fletters for flength and cflarfity. Te vfiews expressed by the wrfiters do not necessarfifly reflect the vfiews of the edfitors or the admfinfistrators of Emory Unfiversfity.

fletters

(“ ,” sprfing ) and wfiflfl share fit wfith my fourteen-year-ofld daughter. I’m a natfive of Atflanta, and my parents and grandparents grew up fin Lexfington, Georgfia. I apprecfiate you sheddfing flfight on Georgfia’s past.

Tfina Stovaflfl-GooflsbyConyers, Georgfia

“ ” wfinter Emory Magazfine (“We Are Unfited” student demonstratfion) fis great. It shows that Emory students are concerned wfith what fis happenfing fin the worfld. One of the fletter wrfiters safid the students dfid not see the “bfig pficture.” Weflfl, to see the bfig pficture, one must know hfistory and how fit reflates to reflatfions today. You aflso have to factor fin poverty, the flack of job opportunfity, and poor edu-catfion. Te bfig pficture fis the huge gap between the “have nots” and the “haves.” Emory dfid a flot for me. Teachers flfike Bfiflfl Maflflard and Teodore Runyon opened my mfind and fimagfinatfion and prepared me for thfirty years as a coflflege chapflafin and teacher fin two good schoofls.

Taflmage Boyd Skfinner T TRaflefigh, North Caroflfina

(“: -natfing Dfisabfiflfity, Insfide the Cflassroom and Out,” sprfing ) pfiqued my finterest and my hopes. I entered the artficfle expectfing to read of schoflarfly work on access for dfisabfiflfitfies and the work at Emory to broaden understandfing of the experfiences findfivfiduafls wfith dfisabfiflfitfies face. In many regards I was very happy wfith the coverage and the honesty fin the artficfle. However, I was concerned and frustrated that the trufly “finvfisfibfle” fimpafirments; for exam-pfle, autfism spectrum dfisorders and mentafl heaflth fissues such as anxfiety and obsessfive compuflsfive dfisorder, were [onfly brfiefly] men-tfioned. Emory was the pflace where my flove of flearnfing and seekfing to better the worfld was awakened. I hope and expect that the Dfisabfiflfity Studfies Infitfiatfive wfiflfl fincflude these groups fin thefir work, sfince the experfiences and unfique perspectfives of aflfl findfivfiduafls cre-ate an fincflusfive envfironment for aflfl.

Kathryn Shufltz Ransom OX C CNashua, New Hampshfire

, “Invfisfibfle,” fin the recent Emory Magazfine. I was fimpressed wfith the accompflfishments of those who were profifled. I want to offer a perspectfive from someone from a dfifferent era. I graduated from Emory fin . I have had a flfifeflong hearfing floss. It fis profound fin my flef ear; severe fin my rfight ear. Te tfime I was fin schoofl was vastfly dfifferent. Tere was

no ADA. Te cuflture and envfironment were dfifferent. Tere were no resources and no others flfike me. I say thfis wfith the caveat that there may have been, but I was unaware of any. I was gofing to have to survfive usfing my own wfits and figurfing out a way to adapt. It was a tough, bfittersweet tfime for me, a struggfle. I accept responsfibfiflfity for not befing more assertfive and not handflfing fit as weflfl as I woufld have flfiked. Somehow, I managed to

deafl wfith fit and enjoy my career as a flawyer, be actfive fin my communfity, and have a frufitfufl flfife. I am pfleased that the worfld has changed for the better. I am gflad Emory has been fin the mfidst of that.

Gfiflbert Laden C Mobfifle, Aflabama

the great strfides that have been made at flevefl-fing the pflayfing fiefld for students wfith mentafl dfisabfiflfitfies. Unfortunatefly, fit fis a shame that the artficfle mfissed the fact that very flfittfle has been accompflfished on the professfionafl sfide of academfia. Unfiversfity dfisabfiflfitfies offices that routfinefly handfle requests from students have no fidea what to do when a request for accommodatfions fis made from postdocs or professors. Academfia fis, as stated fin the artficfle, an envfironment that aflflows for “seflf-accommodatfion” for many types of mentafl and flearnfing dfisabfiflfitfies by aflflowfing findfivfidu-afls to work toward thefir finterests wfith flexfibfle schedufles. But wfith the rfisfing expectatfions for teachfing, research, and servfice, onfly those who are at peak mentafl functfionfing coufld possfibfly compete for the fewer and fewer ten-ure-flfine posfitfions. Expectfing such hfigh flevefls of performance, executfive functfionfing, and socfiafl skfiflfls shuts out those who struggfle com-pared to neurotypficafl peers, fleavfing behfind

a generatfion of academfics who have much to contrfibute to human knowfledge and flearnfing. Te shame fis that fin many cases current and aspfirfing facuflty members have undfiagnosed and undfiscflosed mentafl heaflth dfisabfiflfitfies, both gofing untreated and unprotected by the Amerficans wfith Dfisabfiflfitfies Act. Recognfizfing and provfidfing support for facuflty and staff wfith hfidden dfisabfiflfitfies woufld be a first step toward makfing progress.

Judd R. C

- -oflogy resfident, I am aflways finterested fin readfing about Match Day (“Te Enveflope, Pflease,” sprfing ). As one who has attended a Match Day, I beflfieve that every student who matched fis gofing to an “esteemed finstfitu-tfion.” For Emory Magazfine to state that some “are gofing to a varfiety of esteemed finstfitu-tfions” and namfing just a few of the resfidency programs shows an educatfionafl bfias and dfimfinfishes the accompflfishments of those stu-dents who dfid not match wfith a program that fis, fin Emory’s vfiew, an “esteemed finstfitutfion.” It woufld have been more approprfiate to flfist each student and the program they matched wfith. Emory shoufld be proud of each student’s match.

Charfles E. Gordon L Wfinter Park, Fflorfida

artficfle on Fahamu Pecou (“More Tan Just a Pretty Pficture,” sprfing ). A former mayor of Atflanta fis fidentfified as Shfirfley Jackson, but I thfink you meant Shfirfley Frankflfin. We Shfirfleys flook out for each other. Tanks for the finterestfing artficfle.

Shfirfley May Banks PH TDecatur, Georgfia

Edfitor’s note: Many thanks to Ms. Banks for brfingfing thfis to our attentfion; we regret the error.


THE BIG PICTURE

Poetry SflamRhythm and rhyme rocked

Emory’s Gflenn Memorfiafl

Audfitorfium on Jufly 15 when

young poets from around

the worfld congregated for a

vfibrant ceflebratfion of words

on openfing nfight of the

efighteenth-annuafl Brave New

Vofices Internatfionafl Youth

Poetry Sflam Festfivafl.

PHOTO BY BRYAN MELTZ


of Note

Eagfles weflcome new athfletfic dfirectorMfichaefl Vfienna has been appofinted as Emory’s Cflyde Partfin Senfior

Dfirector of Athfletfics. Vfienna comes to Emory after 16 years at Saflfisbury

Unfiversfity fin Maryfland. As athfletfics dfirector, Vfienna admfinfistered a

successfufl 21-sport fintercoflflegfiate program wfith approxfimatefly 525

students partficfipatfing fin those varsfity sports. He repflaces Tfim Downes,

who fis now athfletfic dfirector at the Westmfinster Schoofls fin Atflanta.

Duafl degree wfiflfl combfine the spfirfituafl and the practficaflEmory’s Candfler Schoofl of Theoflogy and the Unfiversfity of Georgfia

Schoofl of Socfiafl Work have partnered to offer a duafl master’s degree

fin dfivfinfity and socfiafl work, the first duafl degree to be offered between

the two unfiversfitfies. The Master of Dfivfinfity/Master of Socfiafl Work

program wfiflfl prepare professfionafls to deafl wfith spfirfituafl and practficafl

fissues reflated to agfing, addfictfion, grfief and floss, and other stressors.

ANN BORDEN

TICKER

Ebofla A Year Later

Hospfitafl admfitted the first patfients finfected wfith Ebofla vfirus dfisease to be treated fin the Unfited States, Emory has become a resource for hospfitafls around the worfld, sharfing best practfices for preparedness, preventfion, and treatment of the hfighfly finfectfious dfisease.Members of the mufltfidfiscfipflfinary team that

provfided care for the patfients—two Amerfican medficafl mfissfionarfies who were exposed to the Ebofla vfirus fin Lfiberfia, and two subse-quent patfients—dfiscuss the preparedness and protocofls that fled to thefir successfufl treatment fin the Jufly fissue of PLOS Medficfine, a peer-revfiewed pubflficatfion that fis openfly accessfibfle.“Te many chaflflenges and the strategfic

and tactficafl flessons flearned by Emory physfi-cfians, nurses, facuflty, staff, and admfinfistrators fin treatfing patfients wfith Ebofla vfirus dfisease provfide us an opportunfity to share finformatfion that may heflp others to prepare, prevent, and treat dfifficuflt emergfing dfiseases,” says Davfid S. Stephens, flead author of the artficfle and vfice presfident for research fin Emory’s Woodruff Heaflth Scfiences Center.“Our experfience wfith Ebofla vfirus dfisease

as an academfic heaflth center demonstrates the fimportance of preparatfion, communficatfions, and detafifled fimpflementatfion.”Te authors aflso address Emory’s decfisfion

EMORY TEAM SHARES

LESSONS LEARNED FROM

TREATING FIRST US PATIENTS

to accept and treat the patfients, whfich was made fin coordfinatfion wfith the US Department of State and the Centers for Dfisease Controfl and Preventfion, and was based on medficafl need, Emory’s preparedness, and the potentfiafl to use the experfience to advance knowfledge.As an academfic medficafl center, Emory

benefited from strong programs fin heaflth care deflfivery, quaflfity, finfectfious dfiseases, finfectfion controfl and bfiosafety, fimmunoflogy, vaccfines, bfiodefense, travefl medficfine, emergency medfi-

cfine, and pubflfic heaflth.Emory has contfinued to dfissemfinate best

practfice finformatfion and new knowfledge about the treatment, compflficatfions, and cflfinficafl course of Ebofla; serve as a natfionafl fleader fin educatfion and trafinfing; create new unfiversfity forums; deveflop educatfion materfiafls for resfi-dents, feflflows, and the generafl pubflfic; present cflfinficafl and research findfings; and engage fin the broader poflficy fissues of preventfing and treatfing hfighfly contagfious dfiseases.

‘WE CAN FEAR, OR WE CAN CARE’: As medfia attentfion fintensfified and pubflfic concern about Ebofla

mounted, Emory chfief nurse Susan Grant wrote an op-ed that turned the tfide, educatfing and easfing fears.


of Note

ALUMNA MARIA TOWN IS

THE NEW WHITE HOUSE LIAISON

FOR DISABLED AMERICANS

Websfite refinforces fimportance of vaccfinesResearchers from Emory’s Roflflfins Schoofl of Pubflfic Heaflth, wfith fund-

fing from the Emory Preparedness and Emergency Response Research

Center, devefloped a websfite to educate the pubflfic on prenatafl vac-

cfinatfions, vaccfine safety, and finfant fimmunfizatfions. The websfite, www.

momvax.org, was devefloped by Aflflfison Chamberflafin Abramson 15G

durfing her tfime as a doctorafl student fin epfidemfioflogy.

Bruner to serve on natfionafl cancer boardPresfident Barack Obama appofinted Emory’s Robert W. Woodruff Pro-

fessor of Nursfing Deborah Watkfins Bruner to the Natfionafl Cancer Advfi-

sory Board. Bruner fis assocfiate dfirector of cancer outcomes research

at Wfinshfip Cancer Instfitute and professor of radfiatfion oncoflogy at the

Schoofl of Medficfine. Her research focuses on quaflfity of flfife, symptom

management, and decfisfion makfing for cancer therapfies.

A

s he addressed a gatherfing fin the

East Room of the Whfite House fin Jufly,

Presfident Barack Obama gave a specfiafl

shout-out to Marfia Town 09C, who

jofined hfis staff fin May as an assocfiate

dfirector fin the Whfite House’s Office

of Pubflfic Engagement. (After sfingflfing

out Town as the “fantastfic new dfisabfifl-

fity communfity flfiafison,” the presfident

added, “Yay, Marfia!” to enthusfiastfic

appflause.) In thfis rofle, she wfiflfl focus on

fincorporatfing the needs of peopfle wfith

dfisabfiflfitfies fin admfinfistratfion actfivfitfies.

Aflso fin the room durfing the twenty-

fifth annfiversary ceflebratfion of the

flandmark Amerficans wfith Dfisabfiflfitfies

Act was Rosemarfie Garfland-Thomson,

Emory professor of Engflfish, bfioethfics,

and women’s studfies, and a renowned

dfisabfiflfity schoflar and actfivfist. The

annfiversary event was an unforgettabfle

experfience for both Garfland-Thomson

and Town, who had been a student of

Garfland-Thomson’s at Emory.

“Dfisabfiflfity studfies fintegrated across

the currficuflum fin hfigher educatfion

prepares the next generatfion of fleader-

shfip, flfike Marfia and many other Emory

aflumnfi, to act on dfisabfiflfity equfity and

socfiafl justfice fissues, no matter what

thefir major or finterests are,” Garfland-

Thomson says.

Town, who has cerebrafl paflsy, fis a fuflfl-

tfime, permanent hfire, accordfing to Whfite

House officfiafls. Prfior to jofinfing the presfi-

dent’s staff, Town worked as an advfiser

fin the US Department of Labor’s Office

of Dfisabfiflfity Empfloyment Poflficy, where

she focused on fimprovfing empfloyment

among young aduflts wfith dfisabfiflfitfies.

Before movfing to Washfington to

work fin pubflfic servfice, Town graduated

from Emory wfith a degree fin anthropofl-

ogy. At Emory, Town was a Communfity

and Dfiversfity Feflflow fin the Office of the

Provost where she afided fin oversfight,

poflficy formuflatfion, program deveflop-

ment, and management of the Center for

Women, the Office of Dfisabfiflfity Servfices,

the Office of Unfiversfity-Communfity

Partnershfips, and the Office of Equafl

Opportunfity Programs. She aflso served

as the unfiversfity-wfide Student Govern-

ment Assocfiatfion presfident.

Sfince graduatfing, Town has returned

to campus as a speaker and advocate,

most notabfly as a featured guest durfing

a serfies of events hosted by the unfiver-

sfity’s Dfisabfiflfity Studfies Infitfiatfive.

“You get students fin freshman wrfitfing

semfinars who flearn about dfisabfiflfity stud-

fies, and they can then take that finforma-

tfion to whatever major they choose—

and fit coufld be bfioethfics, fit coufld be

psychoflogy, fit coufld be medficfine—and

flearn to appfly fit there,” Town says.

“So fit’s takfing your dfisabfiflfity studfies

knowfledge that you gafin from the flfiberafl

arts and humanfitfies and, ufltfimatefly,

when you become that professfionafl after

you’ve graduated, you are aware and

your perspectfive fis finformed by fit.”

That perspectfive fis now finformfing

the work of the Whfite House. To quote

the presfident: Yay, Marfia.—P. P. P.

‘Our’ Town

’ accflafimed book, Hfistory on Trfiafl: My Day fin Court wfith a Hoflocaust Denfier, whfich chron-ficfles her exoneratfion by a Brfitfish court fin a sensatfionafl flfibefl trfiafl, fis befing made finto a feature fiflm tfitfled Denfiafl.

Te cast fis notabfle, to put fit mfifldfly: Two-tfime Academy Award–wfinner Hfiflary Swank fis attached to pflay Lfipstadt, and two-tfime Academy Award–nomfinee Tom Wfiflkfinson fis attached to pflay Lfipstadt’s barrfister.“I am deflfighted that thfis

fis comfing to frufitfion,” says Lfipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewfish Hfistory and Hoflocaust Studfies at Emory. “It’s been fin the works for a whfifle, but I never qufite fimag-fined fit woufld come to be.” Adapted for the screen by

Academy Award–nomfinated wrfiter Davfid Hare (Te Reader, Te Hours), the book recounts Lfipstadt’s flegafl battfle for hfis-torficafl truth agafinst Brfitfish author Davfid Irvfing, who sued her for flfibefl when she decflared hfim a Hoflocaust denfier. In the Engflfish flegafl system, the burden of proof fis on the accused, so fit was up to Lfipstadt and her flegafl team to prove the essentfiafl truth that the Hoflocaust happened and Irvfing had manfipuflated data to make hfistory vanfish.Te fiflm wfiflfl be dfirected by Emmy Award–

wfinner Mfick Jackson (Tempfle Grandfin, Te Bodyguard) and produced by Gary Foster and Russ Krasnoff under thefir Krasnoff/Foster Entertafinment banner aflongsfide Shoebox Ffiflms.“To have a scrfipt by Davfid Hare, one of the

great pflaywrfights and screenwrfiters of our tfime, and to be pflayed by Hfiflary Swank, who fis not onfly wfinner of two Oscars but who has an uncanny abfiflfity to ‘become’ the character she fis pflayfing, fis aflfl a bfit more than I ever fimagfined possfibfle,” Lfipstadt says.

EXCUSE ME, DID YOU SAY HILARY SWANK?

T I M E T O

SHINE: Deborah

Lfipstadt (top),

Hfiflary Swank.

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On Stage wfith the Stones

’ . But fif you happen to be the Emory Unfi-versfity Concert Chofir, you just mfight get satfisfactfion.Te group recefived the finvfitatfion of a

flfifetfime when they were asked to sfing backup at the Roflflfing Stones concert on June fin Atflanta. Appearfing before some fify-five thousand fans at Georgfia Tech’s Bobby Dodd Stadfium, a seflect group of Emory sfingers took the stage to perform the ficonfic chofir sequence that flaunches the Stones’ cflassfic “You Can’t Aflways Get What You Want,” one of two encore numbers that cflosed the sofld-out show.As part of thefir “Zfip Code” North

Amerfican stadfium tour, the Roflflfing Stones typficaflfly reach out to communfity chofirs to provfide vocafl accompanfiment on the song.

Concert Chofir Dfirector Erfic Neflson, professor of musfic and dfirector of chorafl studfies at Emory, says that an finvfitatfion to perform wfith the flegendary rock-and-roflfl band arrfived fin March under a thfick flayer of confidentfiaflfity.Why Emory? Neflson says he flfikes to thfink

“fit’s because we have a reputatfion as befing one of the finest chofirs fin thfis cfity. Emory has a flong tradfitfion of a reaflfly fine chorafl program, gofing aflfl the way back to the s.”For Concert Chofir Presfident Katfie Bofice

C, a rfisfing senfior majorfing fin psychoflogy and musfic, the experfience was unforgettabfle.“Just knowfing that you are part of thfis

experfience for the audfience—seefing thfis massfive crowd on thefir feet and screamfing and just flovfing fit,” she says. “It reaflfly made us feefl that we were vaflued as artfists.”

Emory Teams wfith Wounded Warrfiors

The Emory Heaflthcare Veterans Pro-

gram has been seflected by the natfionafl

Wounded Warrfior Project (WWP) to

partficfipate fin a first-of-fits-kfind natfionafl

medficafl care network.

Warrfior Care Network

wfiflfl connect wounded

veterans and thefir famfiflfies

wfith findfivfiduaflfized care

for two of the most

commonfly experfienced

wounds from the conflficts

fin Iraq and Afghanfistan:

posttraumatfic stress dfisor-

der (PTSD) and traumatfic

brafin finjury. Emory jofins

Massachusetts Generafl

Hospfitafl, the Unfiversfity of

Caflfifornfia Los Angefles, and Rush Unfiversfity

Medficafl Center fin the network finfitfiatfive.

The more than $15 mfiflflfion grant from

WWP requfires that each of the sfites rafise

$7.5 mfiflflfion over a three-year perfiod.

“Emory fis prfivfifleged to be part of thfis

coflflaboratfive effort to deveflop finnovatfive

approaches to treatfing, and ufltfimatefly

heaflfing, the findfivfiduafls who have made

tremendous sacrfifices fin servfing our

country,” says Presfident James Wagner.

“The bflendfing of expertfise from Emory’s

Veterans Program, fled by Dr. Barbara

Rothbaum, wfith the worfld-cflass cflfinficfians

at our partner finstfitutfions, creates a vast

pflatform for offerfing fleadfing-edge treat-

ment of our servfice members.”

Rothbaum fis the Paufl H. Janssen Chafir

fin Neuropsychopharmacoflogy, professor

fin the Department of Psychfiatry and

Behavfiorafl Scfiences, and dfirector of the

Trauma and Anxfiety Recovery Program

at the Emory Brafin Heaflth Center. She

has specfiaflfized fin research and treatment

of servfice members wfith PTSD for more

than two decades.

EMORY CHOIR ROCKS WITH MUSIC LEGENDS

Emory among fleaders fin finnovatfionEmory fis ranked No. 58 fin the worfld among unfiversfitfies granted US

utfiflfity patents fin 2014, accordfing to a report by the Natfionafl Academy

of Inventors (NAI) and the Inteflflectuafl Property Owners Assocfiatfion

(IPO). The report, based on US Patent and Trademark Office data,

recognfizes the fimportant rofle patents pflay fin unfiversfity research.

Accordfing to the report, Emory was granted 35 patents fin 2014.

Professor’s memofir awarded top flfiterary honorCflfifton Crafis, professor of hfistory and dfirector of the Emory Instfitute of

Afrfican Studfies, earned top honors fin the category of memofir/autobfi-

ography at the 51st-annuafl Georgfia Author of the Year Awards for Hfis-

tory Lessons: A Memofir of Madness, Memory, and the Brafin. The book,

seflected by Lfibrary Journafl as a Best Book of 2014, recounts Crafis’s

flargefly unsupervfised chfifldhood wfith an aflcohoflfic mother fin Loufisfiana.


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seflected to recefive the John Lewfis Feflflowshfip, a new human rfights-focused educatfionafl program flaunched fin partnershfip wfith the Atflanta-based Natfionafl Center for Cfivfifl and Human Rfights (NCCHR) and finternatfionafl educatfionafl organfizatfion Humanfity fin Actfion (HIA).Te new feflflowshfip—named for

cfivfifl rfights ficon, US Representatfive John Lewfis—brought an finaugurafl cflass of thfirty finternatfionafl schoflars to Atflanta for a four-week summer program expflorfing the hfistory and contemporary poflfitfics of dfiversfity and mfinorfity rfights fin the Unfited States.Te Emory students named as

John Lewfis Feflflows fincflude:

Lamfija Grbfic 17C: Born fin Ger-many afer her parents emfigrated from Bosnfia and Herzegovfina, Grbfic fis a doubfle major fin socfioflogy and phfiflosophy. Mahamed Omar 16C: Born fin

Kenya and rafised fin the US, Omar fis majorfing fin poflfitficafl scfience wfith a mfinor fin economfics. Erfica Sterflfing 15C: A recent

aflumna wfith a duafl major fin hfistory and psychoflogy, Sterflfing conducts research for the Georgfia Cfivfifl Rfights Cofld Case Project.

New Technoflogfies, Improved LfivesTHE COULTER FOUNDATION

FUNDS EMORY, GEORGIA TECH

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH

Nfine Emory and Georgfia Tech bfiomedfi-

cafl research projects have been chosen to

recefive fundfing from the Couflter Transflatfionafl

Research Partnershfip Program. The $1.6 mfifl-

flfion fin seed fundfing fis fintended to acceflerate

promfisfing technoflogfies devefloped fin research

flaboratorfies wfith the goafl of fimprovfing

patfients’ flfives. Thfis year’s projects fincflude a

rehabfiflfitatfion devfice for chfifldren, a heart drug

deflfivery catheter, and a dfisposabfle kfit that

checks for anemfia.

The Couflter program, whfich partners

wfith the Waflflace H. Couflter Department of

Bfiomedficafl Engfineerfing at Georgfia Tech and

Emory, provfides annuafl awards to research

teams that deveflop products wfith great

commercfiafl potentfiafl and meet a weflfl-defined

heaflth care need. Each research team pafirs

scfientfists or engfineers wfith physficfians.

Thfis year’s fundfing aflso fincfludes $100,000

contrfibuted by the Atflanta Cflfinficafl and

Transflatfionafl Scfience Instfitute, an Emory-fled

Atflanta research partnershfip.

“We were very happy wfith the number

of good projects we saw durfing thfis year’s

fundfing round,” says Rachaefl Hagan, who

serves as program dfirector for the Couflter

Transflatfionafl Partnershfip Program. More than

fifty appflficatfions were recefived thfis year.

Among the nfine project awardees are

AnemoCheck, a sfimpfle, dfisposabfle, handhefld

bfiochemficafl devfice that fis finexpensfive, accu-

rate, and provfides a quantfitatfive evafluatfion

of anemfia fin fless than two mfinutes; Cardfio-

vascuflar MR Imagfing, a method of upfload-

fing, dfispflayfing, and automatficaflfly anaflyzfing

cardfiovascuflar magnetfic resonance functfion,

vfiabfiflfity, and perfusfion studfies; InvfisfiCoofl, a

gefl to aflflevfiate heat-reflated pafin whfifle not

otherwfise affectfing the effectfiveness of flaser

treatments; and KIDS, a flow-voflume, flow-

error contfinuous renafl repflacement therapy

devfice for pedfiatrfic patfients.

These newfly funded academfic projects

were chosen by a commfittee composed of

Emory doctors, Georgfia Tech bfiomedficafl

engfineers, and technoflogy transfer represen-

tatfives from each finstfitutfion. The other haflf

of the seflectfion commfittee fincfluded findustry

experts, venture capfitafl specfiaflfists, serfiafl

entrepreneurs, and angefl finvestors.

“Sfince our finceptfion, our coflflaboratfive

bfiomedficafl engfineerfing department has flever-

aged academfic, findustry, and donor support

to create some of the best physficfian and

engfineerfing teams fin the worfld,” says Ravfi

Beflflamkonda, chafir of the Couflter Depart-

ment. “Our entrepreneurfiafl spfirfit and cuflture,

combfined wfith the worfld-cflass facfiflfitfies at

Georgfia Tech and Emory, resuflt fin a unfique

envfironment that fosters finnovatfion. We are

fortunate to be abfle to provfide fundfing to

acceflerate the deveflopment of these promfis-

fing bfiomedficafl technoflogfies so they can reach

patfients faster and be successfuflfly transflated

from the flaboratory to cflfinficafl use.”

Emory reflfies on ‘Momentum’ to fund specfiafl projectsEmory has flaunched fits own crowdfundfing sfite, dubbed Momentum,

to support programs, projects, and finfitfiatfives that are meanfingfufl to

members of the Emory communfity and beyond. The projects, man-

aged by the office of Annuafl Gfivfing, wfiflfl typficaflfly have goafls rangfing

from $5,000 to $15,000 and a tfime frame of 30 days to meet the goafl.

Projects are voflunteer drfiven and donatfions are fuflfly tax deductfibfle.

Emory swfimmer wfins natfionafls, trafins for shot at OflympficsEmory senfior Andrew Wfiflson 16C pflaced first fin the 100-meter breast-

stroke wfith a tfime of 59.65 seconds at the 2015 Phfiflflfips 66 USA Swfim-

mfing Natfionafl Champfionshfips fin August. He was the onfly competfitor

out of 83 fin the preflfimfinary round to finfish the 100-meter breaststroke

fin fless than a mfinute. He wfiflfl compete fin the 2016 US Oflympfic Trfiafls fin

both the 100-meter and the 200-meter breaststroke.

WHERE INNOVATION HAPPENS: Erfika Tyburskfi, a

research specfiaflfist fin pedfiatrfic hematoflogy at the Schoofl of

Medficfine, fled the team that devefloped AnemoCheck aflong

wfith Georgfia Tech’s Wfiflbur Lam.


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DAY JOB: Assfistant professor of gflobafl

heaflth fin the Hubert Department of Gflobafl

Heaflth, Roflflfins Schoofl of Pubflfic Heaflth

SECRET LIFE: Avfid practfitfioner of the

Brazfiflfian martfiafl art of capoefira

From the moment Dabney Evans saw capoefira

masters perform the gracefufl, powerfufl

movements of the “game” durfing an exhfibfi-

tfion, she knew she wanted to flearn the

martfiafl art that combfines eflements of dance,

acrobatfics, and musfic.

A seflf-descrfibed “type-A” personaflfity,

Evans admfits that repetfitfive cflasses such as

step aerobfics or spfin cflass coufldn’t command

her attentfion for flong, and the ever-adaptfive

nature of capoefira, as weflfl as fits finternatfionafl

orfigfins, appeafled to her. Unflfike most other

martfiafl arts, there fis very flfittfle contact fin

capoefira. Instead, fit finvoflves a gracefufl, flufid

gfive-and-take—or “questfion and answer,”

accordfing to Evans—between capoefirfistas, fin

whfich each move can be antficfipated and coun-

tered fin numerous ways. Capoefira combfines

dance, acrobatfics, musfic, and a varfiety of kficks

and spfins. Matches between partficfipants are

referred to as “games.” There fis no wfinner or

floser and no way to keep score; capoefira fis

focused on each partficfipant reachfing hfis or her

own personafl best fin the practfice. After efight

years, Evans has reached the sfixth of fifteen

flevefls of capoefira mastery, each represented

by a sfingfle- or mufltficoflored brafided cord worn

around the wafist.

Evans began studyfing capoefira fin 2007, as

weflfl as settfing out to flearn Portuguese wfith

the goafl of vfisfitfing Brazfifl. She travefled there

for the first tfime fin 2008, aflready conversant

wfith the sport and the flanguage. She returned

to the country fin 2009, meetfing and trafinfing

wfith contra mestre, or capoefira master, Davfid

de Lfima. The two qufickfly became frfiends, and

eventuaflfly more; they were marrfied fin 2010,

and de Lfima moved to Atflanta, where the

coupfle opened a studfio caflfled Dance, Ffight,

Pflay fin east Atflanta where they offer cflasses

fin capoefira, Portuguese, and other cuflturafl arts.

HER WORDS: “There are no strfikes or

punches; fif I kfick at you, I am askfing you a

questfion. How you get away from that fis your

answer,” Evans says. “There fis a flow that

happens that fis reaflfly beautfifufl. Peopfle have

one of two reactfions when they see capoefira—

efither ‘I coufld never do that,’ or ‘I’m gofing

to do that.’”

“Capoefira fis not just a physficafl actfivfity.

It creates a sense of communfity, flfike a famfifly.

It fis so much more than a bunch of peopfle

fin a room kfickfing,” she says. “Part of the phfi-

flosophy of capoefira fis that there fis a pflace for

everyone. It fis not necessarfifly about who fis the

strongest or the buffest. Everyone has quaflfitfies

they brfing to the game.”—M.M.L.

DABNEY P. EVANS 98MPH

EVANS: KAY HINTON

SECRET LIVES

Emory rocks Top Docs flfistfingMore than haflf of the physficfians recognfized fin the Jufly “Top Doctors”

fissue of Atflanta magazfine are Emory Heaflthcare doctors, Emory

Heaflthcare Network doctors, or Emory Schoofl of Medficfine facuflty. Thfis

year’s flfist fincfludes 209 Emory physficfians, makfing up 58 percent of aflfl of

the top doctors recognfized fin the fissue. The flfistfing fis based on research

provfidfing finformatfion about educatfion, trafinfing, and specfiafl expertfise.

Emory Unfiversfity Hospfitafl tops Best Hospfitafls flfistfingFor the fourth year fin a row, US News & Worfld Report has ranked Emory

Unfiversfity Hospfitafl (EUH) the No. 1 hospfitafl fin both Georgfia and metro

Atflanta fin fits 2015–2016 Best Hospfitafls gufide. EUH fincfludes EUH at

Wesfley Woods and Emory Orthopaedfics & Spfine Hospfitafl. Emory Safint

Joseph’s Hospfitafl fis ranked 5th fin Georgfia and 3rd fin metro Atflanta.

EUH Mfidtown ranks 11th fin Georgfia and 5th fin metro Atflanta.


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that fis part of the Cancer Genome Atflas Research Network wfiflfl change the way patfients wfith dfiffuse gflfiomas, a form of brafin tumor, wfiflfl be dfiagnosed and treated fin the future. More than three hundred

researchers from forty-four finstfi-tutfions contrfibuted to a moflecuflar anaflysfis of the tumors. Tey found that moflecuflar dfiagnostfics are much more precfise and reproduc-fibfle than flookfing at tfissue under a mficroscope for cflassfificatfion.Tfis fis a major step fin startfing

to cflassfify and treat brafin tumors based on thefir genetfic makeup rather than thefir mficroscopfic appearance, whfich has been the tradfitfionafl dfiagnostfic approach for over a century. Te findfings wfiflfl be pubflfished onflfine fin the New Engfland Journafl of Medficfine.Lead study author Danfiefl J.

Brat, a researcher and neuropa-thoflogfist at Emory’s Wfinshfip Cancer Instfitute, expflafins, “Te use of the bfiomarkers fin the dfiagnosfis of these forms of brafin tumors wfiflfl flead to a much more consfistent manner of dfiagnosfis and patfient management. It wfiflfl aflso aflflow us to finvestfigate these tumors as unfified groups.”

Better Dfiagnosfis of Brafin Tumors Hometown Heroes

EMORY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES

WINS TOP REGIONAL HONORS

-’ Emergency Medficafl Servfice (EEMS), Morgan Tayflor C has seen her share of the unexpected. But nothfing prepared the twenty-year-ofld rfisfing senfior for the shock of befing named Emergency Medficafl Technfi-cfian of the Year at the Regfion III EMS Awards thfis sprfing.Emory EMS Dfirector Rachefl Barnhard

knew the honor was deserved. Sfince Tayflor appflfied to jofin the EEMS as a freshman, Barnhard has watched her grow finto a trusted, taflented student fleader and mentor.“She’s the type of person who takes any

setback and says, ‘What can I flearn from thfis, how can I do better?’ ” Barnhard says. “Patfients flove her and wfiflfl ofen ask fif Morgan can rfide wfith them fin the ambuflance.”Tayflor’s father, W. Robert Tayflor, and her

mother, Kathy Grfiendflfing, are both facuflty members fin the Emory Schoofl of Medficfine. Tfis summer, Tayflor fis workfing as an fintern at the medficafl schoofl’s Office of Research and Strategfic Infitfiatfives. In Aprfifl, she was appofinted chfief of the EEMS, the program’s hfighest-rank-fing student rofle. “Appflyfing for the program was probabfly

one of the best decfisfions I coufld have made,” she says. “I’ve floved the chance to get finvoflved wfith patfient care, to accept responsfibfiflfity for my patfients. I flfike makfing that connectfion.”EEMS, the unfiversfity’s student-operated,

voflunteer emergency medficafl servfices provfider, earned top honors at the Georgfia Regfion III Emergency Medficafl Servfices banquet, garnerfing awards for EMS Servfice of the Year as weflfl as EMT of the Year. Aflex Isakov, execu-tfive dfirector of Emory’s Office of Crfitficafl Event Preparedness and Response (CEPAR), and assocfiate professor and dfirector of the Depart-ment of Emergency Medficfine’s Sectfion of Pre-hospfitafl and Dfisaster Medficfine, was recognfized

as Medficafl Dfirector of the Year.Te Regfion III awards are presented to EMS

professfionafls and programs fin efight countfies throughout the metro-Atflanta regfion. Befing honored amfid a fiefld of fuflfl-tfime pro-

fessfionafl EMS programs was especfiaflfly mean-fingfufl to members of the student-operated servfice—the onfly unfiversfity-based emergency medficafl servfice fin Georgfia, Barnhard says.Aflthough EEMS has won natfionafl recog-

nfitfion among coflflegfiate-flevefl peer servfices, thfis marks the ffirst tfime the program has garnered top recognfitfion among other professfionafl EMS programs fin Georgfia, Barnhard notes. “We’ve been workfing very hard over the

past ffive or sfix years to be better fintegrated wfith EMS programs fin Georgfia—that’s part of why we’re so excfited about these awards,” she says.Founded fin , EEMS fis a unfit of the

Unfiform Dfivfisfion of the Emory Unfiversfity Poflfice Department. The voflunteer force of about forty flficensed Advanced EMTs fis composed aflmost excflusfivefly of undergradu-ate students, who provfide round-the-cflock EMS coverage for the campus and adjacent roads and busfinesses when the unfiversfity fis fin sessfion.—Kfimber Wfiflflfiams

Phfiflanthropy funds trafinfing combfinfing flaw and reflfigfionThe Center for the Study of Law and Reflfigfion at the Schoofl of Law

has recefived a $1 mfiflflfion anonymous gfift to expand trafinfing fin

reflfigfious freedom for flaw students and brfing new schoflarshfip and

fresh vofices to the fiefld. The gfift wfiflfl fund “Restorfing Reflfigfious

Freedom: Educatfion, Outreach, and Good Cfitfizenshfip,” a project

that wfiflfl run for four years, startfing fin September.

Emory remafins one of natfion’s greenest unfiversfitfies Emory ranks among the top 10 “greenest unfiversfitfies” fin the country

for 2015, accordfing to BestCoflfleges.com. Emory pflaced efighth on a

flfist of the top 39 schoofls, drawn from evafluatfions of more than 200

coflfleges and unfiversfitfies. Ratfings are based on academfic currficuflum

and research, campus and communfity engagement, operatfions, and

pflannfing and admfinfistratfion.


AMANDA GARCIA-WILLIAMS

2015 BRITTAIN AWARD WINNER

JOVONNA JONES

2015 MCMULLAN AWARD WINNER

Heflpfing Hand Weflcomfing Heart

of Note STUDENTS

JONES AND GARCIA-WILLIAMS: EMORY PHOTO/VIDEO

, Amanda Garcfia-Wfiflflfiams C devoted her academfic research and communfity servfice to reach-fing others—from encouragfing handwashfing to prevent the spread of dfisease to extend-fing a hand to support those experfiencfing extreme emotfionafl duress.A doctorafl candfidate fin Laney

Graduate Schoofl’s program fin behavfiorafl scfiences and heaflth educatfion, Garcfia-Wfiflflfiams fis the recfipfient of the unfiver-sfity’s hfighest student honor, the Marfion Luther Brfittafin Award, whfich fis presented each year to a graduate who has demonstrated exempflary servfice to both the unfiversfity and the greater communfity. Garcfia-Wfiflflfiams grew up on a

waflnut farm fin Wfinters, Caflfifor-nfia, supported and finspfired by parents who “are aflways tryfing to heflp peopfle fin some way,” she says.Whfifle an MPH student at

Roflflfins Schoofl of Pubflfic Heaflth, Garcfia-Wfiflflfiams worked at the

US Centers for Dfisease Controfl and Preventfion (CDC) fin the Dfivfisfion of Heaflthcare Quaflfity Promotfion, and her master’s thesfis examfined the perceptfions of those askfing and befing asked to perform hand hygfiene among heaflth care workers and the generafl pubflfic.A member of her extended

famfifly dfied by suficfide before Garcfia-Wfiflflfiams entered her PhD program, spurrfing her finterest fin the probflem. Workfing wfith her PhD

advfiser, Nadfine Kasflow, profes-sor of psychfiatry fin the Schoofl of Medficfine, on a campuswfide suficfide preventfion program caflfled Emory Cares U, Garcfia-Wfiflflfiams heflped deveflop a com-prehensfive suficfide preventfion websfite and remafined finvoflved when Emory’s counseflfing center took over the program. “If your gut’s teflflfing you

somethfing fisn’t rfight, don’t be afrafid to ask someone fif they need heflp,” she says. “You may be abfle to heflp them access the resources they need to get out of a dark pflace.”For her dfissertatfion, Garcfia-

Wfiflflfiams researched how coflflege students experfience and respond to suficfidafl peers.Garcfia-Wfiflflfiams has been

accepted finto the cflass of the Epfidemfic Inteflflfigence Servfice (EIS) at the CDC, an eflfite corps of “dfisease detectfives” who finvestfigate outbreaks and other pubflfic heaflth crfises.Garcfia-Wfiflflfiams says her

greatest flesson remafins the generosfity of spfirfit she flearned from her parents. “Everyone can be engaged fin heflpfing peopfle,” she says. “It doesn’t have to be a huge thfing. You just have to try to do somethfing.” —Kfimber Wfiflflfiams

“” fis no stranger to feeflfing flef out, dfifferent, and flonefly. Te fleader and founder of an fimpressfive flfist of Emory organfizatfions and programs, Jones says she struggfled wfith feeflfings that she dfidn’t beflong on and off sfince chfifldhood.“I sometfimes feflt, growfing

up, that I dfidn’t beflong or that peopfle weren’t weflcomfing me. It’s aflways been my mfissfion to make sure others don’t feefl that way,” Jones says. “Part of that fis gettfing peopfle comfortabfle wfith dfissonance, to orfient themseflves around embracfing dfifference and not flettfing fit aflways be a negatfive experfience.“Durfing her tfime at Emory,

Jones devoted herseflf to heflpfing others feefl heard, motfivated, and accepted through her work wfith organfizatfions such as the Center for Women and Bflack Student Unfion. Tfis dedfica-tfion to fincflusfion has heflped make Jones the recfipfient of the Lucfius Lamar McMuflflan Award, whfich recognfizes Emory Coflflege graduates who show extraordfinary promfise for future fleadershfip and rare potentfiafl for servfice to thefir communfity, the natfion, and the worfld. Orfigfinaflfly from Randoflph,

Massachusetts, Jones worked wfith a program caflfled Transfi-tfions durfing hfigh schoofl to heflp first-year mfinorfity students feefl weflcome and comfortabfle. She aflso jofined VISIONS, a Boston-based nonprofit organfizatfion that trafins fin dfiversfity, fincflusfion, and effectfive communficatfion. She now serves on the board of dfirectors and as a youth consufltant.Jones contfinued her personafl

mfissfion at Emory as presfident of the Bflack Student Aflflfiance. In , she heflped found the Bflack

Student Unfion, a space dedficated for bflack student programmfing, organfizfing, and communfity.As a staff fintern at the Center

for Women, Jones spearheaded two programs to engage under-graduate women: I Am Woman, a wfide-rangfing dfiscussfion group; and Eflect Her, a program to address the flow numbers of women servfing fin eflected posfi-tfions fin the Student Government Assocfiatfion.

Jones combfined her extensfive communfity servfice wfith excep-tfionafl academfic achfievement, majorfing fin Afrfican Amerfican studfies wfith a mfinor fin phfifloso-phy. She wfiflfl pursue a master’s degree fin fine arts fin photogra-phy at Georgfia State Unfiversfity thfis faflfl.“I’m finterested fin usfing that

tfime to prepare myseflf for a dfifferent framework for how I thfink about poflficy and fissues,” she says. “Ufltfimatefly I want to take that knowfledge and use fit for nonprofit or poflficy work.” —Megan McRafiney


Senfior Stars

In addfitfion to provfidfing

coverage of Commence-

ment, flocafl NPR-affiflfiate

WABE produced feature

storfies about the research

and servfice projects of two

Emory graduatfing senfiors,

Kwadwo Sarpong 15C

(above, fleft) and Nathanfiefl

Meyersohn 15C.

Focus on Ferguson

Emory’s announcement

that fit woufld hofld a

unfiversfity-wfide, mufltfidfis-

cfipflfinary

course

focused

on the

events fin

Ferguson,

Mfissourfi, wfithfin the

flarger dfiscussfion of race,

poflfitfics, and power fin the

Unfited States, attracted

wfidespread notfice, wfith

coverage from USA Today,

the Assocfiated Press, and

others. The course wfiflfl

focus on the “fimpact of

[Mfichaefl] Brown’s death”

and how fit has affected

“contemporary socfiety,”

Emory Vfice Provost of

Academfic Affafirs and flaw

professor Dorothy Brown

tofld WABE-FM.

Chemfistry Experfiment

The Waflfl Street Journafl

took a flook flast sprfing at

Emory Coflflege’s pflans to

revamp fits chemfistry cur-

rficuflum to

meet the

needs of

students,

and hfigh-

flfight the

thrfiflfl and fimportance of

new dfiscovery. “Instead of

just fintroducfing topfics and

sayfing, ‘Trust me, thfis

fis fimportant, you’flfl need fit

flater,’ ” students can

understand why the

concepts matter, safid

Doug Muflford, dfirector

of undergraduate studfies

fin chemfistry. Emory

recefived a $1.2 mfiflflfion

grant from the Howard

Hughes Medficafl Instfitute

flast year to pursue the

overhaufl.

Waste Water No More

The Atflanta Journafl-Constfi-

tutfion and WABE-FM hfigh-

flfighted the openfing of the

Emory Waterhub (shown

beflow), the first of fits kfind

fin the natfion. The facfiflfity

cfleans wastewater—up to

400,000 gaflflons a day—

through a soflar-powered

facfiflfity usfing pflants, mficro-

organfisms, and other

treatment methods.

GOT IT COVERED: EMORY IN THE NEWS

of Note RUSHDIE: KAY HINTON; GOT IT COVERED PHOTOS: EMORY/PHOTO VIDEO; ILLUSTRATION: ISTOCKPHOTO.COM

In a study pubflfished fin the

journafl Moflecuflar Psychfiatry,

researchers found that the

omega-3 fatty acfid EPA

(eficosapentataenofic acfid)

appears to boost mood fin

patfients wfith major depressfive

dfisorder (MDD) who have

hfigh finflammatfion flevefls.

“The dfiversfity of both symp-

toms and underflyfing varfiatfions

of the progressfion of major

depressfive dfisorder confounds

the deveflopment of targeted

treatments for the dfisease,”

says study author Mark Hyman

Rapaport, prfincfipafl finvestfigator

and Reunette W. Harrfis profes-

sor and chafir of the Depart-

ment of Psychfiatry and Behav-

fiorafl Scfiences at the Schoofl

of Medficfine. “The dfiscovery

of bfiomarkers that character-

fize subgroups of patfients wfith

MDD fis crfitficafl to the under-

standfing of fits pathogenesfis,

and to the deveflopment of

personaflfized therapfies.”

In a randomfized trfiafl, EPA

was found to be effectfive for

a group of patfients who had

hfigh flevefls of at fleast one of

four markers of finflammatfion

fin thefir bflood.

The authors caflfl the findfing

a proof of concept for the

fidea that antfi-finflammatory

treatments can be effectfive

fin subgroups of patfients

wfith finflammatfion-drfiven

depressfion.

Omega-3 for

Depressfion?

The keynote address at Emory’s 170th

Commencement by outgofing Unfiversfity

Dfistfingufished Professor Saflman Rushdfie was

covered by the Chronficfle of Hfigher Educa-

tfion, NPR, TIME, CNN.com, and other flocafl

and natfionafl outflets fincfludfing the New York

Tfimes, whfich pubflfished thfis excerpt: “The

noveflfist’s job . . . fis to pflunge hfis hands as

deep finto the stuff of flfife as he can, aflfl the

way up to the eflbows, aflfl the way up to the

armpfits, and come up wfith the stuff of flfife:

What’s reaflfly gofing on fin peopfle’s heads,

what musfic fis fin there, what movfies, what

dreams. . . . It’s not such a bad pflan for flfife,

efither. . . . Pflunge fin. Dfive finto the deep end.

Sfink or swfim. Weflfl, fif possfibfle, don’t sfink. If

you flearned anythfing at Emory, you shoufld

have flearned how to stay afloat.”

Rushdfie to

Cflass of 2015:

‘Be Larger than Lfife’


of Note FACULT Y BOOK

, warns Mefl Konner. It’s even better than that. Why shoufld

women embrace ‘mere’ equaflfity when thefir movement fis toward superfiorfity? It fis mafle-ness that has Konner worrfied fin hfis flatest book. And at just thfis startflfing juncture, the

author pauses poflfitefly to flet an audfience of both genders catch thefir breath. As they do, pficture the pages of gender hfistory fflfippfing furfiousfly forward.In Women Afer Aflfl: Sex, Evoflutfion, and

the End of Mafle Supremacy, Konner—an MD and Samuefl Candfler Dobbs Professor fin the Department of Anthropoflogy and the Program fin Neuroscfience and Behavfiorafl Bfioflogy— sees fit aflfl through the flens of bfioflogy.

AND BOY, IT LOOKS BLEAK

Konner announces hfis thesfis wfith a flfight touch, but coflflectfivefly hfis findfings feefl heavy, at fleast as he does the finfitfiafl roflfl caflfl. Wfith mafleness comes a shortened flfife span; hfigher mortaflfity at aflfl ages; an finabfiflfity to reproduce; premature hafir floss; brafin defects resufltfing fin attentfion deficfit, hyperactfivfity, and conduct dfisorder; and an excess of outward and seflf-dfirected aggressfion. Fflfip these flevers, says Konner, and women appear: “Tefir trustworthfiness, reflfiabfiflfity, fafirness, workfing and pflayfing weflfl wfith others, reflatfive freedom from dfistractfing

fimpuflses, and flower flevefls of prejudfice, bfigotry, and vfioflence,” wrfites Konner, “make them bfioflogficaflfly superfior.” HE SAYS; SHE CAN’T

Konner’s bona fides are unassafiflabfle: four decades of teachfing and wrfitfing about medficafl anthropoflogy. Add to these one more: befing the mafle author of a book ceflebratfing women. For, findeed, not everyone armed wfith sfimfiflar knowfledge coufld captafin thfis narratfive. As Konner acknowfledges, “A woman wrfitfing a book about why women are superfior to men can obvfiousfly be accused—however unfafirfly—of specfiafl pfleadfing.”

MORE THAN TWELVE ANGRY MEN

At fleast one revfiewer of the book seemed uneasy wfith Konner’s rejoficfing. As Joanna Scutts of the Washfington Post wrfites, referrfing to Konner’s prevfious fiefldwork wfith the !Kung San, “Before we arrfive at Konner’s femafle-focused utopfia, we need to take a more modest flesson from the !Kung San and aflflow women to be part of the finner cfircfle around the fire, free to speak out even—or especfiaflfly—when fit makes men uncomfortabfle.”Scutts’s musfings, though, are the mfifld stuff.

Te flast flfine of the book jacket reads: “Provoca-tfive and rfichfly finformed, Women afer Aflfl fis bound to be controversfiafl across the sexes.” As Konner acknowfledges on hfis personafl websfite,

the first murmurfings came about afer a short adaptatfion of the book ran fin the Waflfl Street Journafl; hundreds of angry men responded fin a coupfle of days. Hfis wfife, home aflone durfing that perfiod, doubfle-flocked the door. Konner’s edfitor at the Journafl apoflogfized for fafiflfing to finstruct hfim not to read the comments. For hfis part, Konner fis hfidfing fin pflafin sfight, sayfing, “Cflearfly, I’ve touched a nerve, and I’m happy a b o u t t h a t .”

BIRDS DO IT

Konner freefly turns the emotfionafl voflume up and down—up when expressfing “bfio-fantasfies” (“we coufld theoretficaflfly see men fuflfly repflaced or flfiteraflfly kept fin smaflfl numbers for sexuafl servfices”), down when contextuaflfizfing human and anfimafl hfistory of gender reflatfions. He provfides the charmfing flesson that not

aflfl anfimafl marrfiages finvoflve dotfing mothers and worfld-conquerfing fathers. From the cassowary (“a gorgeous flfightfless Austraflfian bfird” whose femafle “fis man-sfized” and fleaves the chfick rearfing to her opposfite-sex counter-part) to Jacanas (another specfies of bfird wfith “hfit-and-run moms”) to bonobos, the sexes ofen don’t pflay to type. In fact, Konner fis not opposed to “bonobfizfing” humanfity. And what woufld that flook flfike? Accordfing to the author, “unshakabfle femafle coaflfitfions . . . and mafles who are not unhappy but never get out of h a n d .”

HERSTORY

Our hfistory aflso takes finterestfing shape fin Konner’s hands. As he consfiders the huntfing-gatherfing era—whfich constfitutes the majorfity of human tfime—men and women’s reflatfions were not far from befing equafl. Tere foflflowed what Konner caflfls “the darker part of hfistory, the thousand of years fin whfich war and preparatfions for war predomfinated. . . . Tfis . . . enabfled men to form coaflfitfions that fuflfly excfluded women for the first tfime and demoted them to a prfivate space away from the pubflfic sphere.” It was not untfifl two centurfies ago, he says, that “women’s vofices began to be heard agafin fin a substantfive way.” Konner fis cflearfly genufine when he taflks

about a future that hfis grandson wfiflfl finhabfit, a “new worfld” that “wfiflfl be better for hfim because women heflp run fit.” If you count down from ffifty, he prom-

fises, fit wfiflfl be here before you know fit. —Susan Carfinfi G I

LLUSTRATION: DON MORRIS

Why Women RufleMEL KONNER TAKES

A STAND FOR

FEMALE SUPERIORITY

IN HIS LATEST BOOK,

WOMEN AFTER ALL


of NoteCLASSROOM: KAY HINTON; GAME CONTROLLER: ISTOCKPHOTO.COM

COURSE DESCRIPTION: What fis a vfideo

game? Is fit best descrfibed as an finteractfive

narratfive that can be anaflyzed accordfing to

the conventfions of flfiterature and fiflm? Or

shoufld fit be thought of as a pflayfufl actfivfity

standfing fin a flong flfine of human games,

from make-beflfieve to chess to Monopofly?

Thfis course serves as an fintroductfion to the

hfistory, theory, form, functfion, and cuflture

of vfideo games. Students perform theoretficafl

and formafl anaflysfis of the varfious genres of

vfideo games over the course of thefir hfistory,

from the first arcades fin the 1970s, to the

home consofles (flfike Atarfi) and home comput-

ers of the 1980s and 1990s, to the networked,

mufltfipflayer, onflfine, and mobfifle games of

today. The focus fis on the aesthetfic strategfies

vfideo games use to actfivate varfious pflea-

sures—corporeafl, finteflflectuafl, narratfive, com-

petfitfive. Dfiscussfions aflso cover the reflatfion

of vfideo games to socfiety, expflorfing gamer/

fan communfitfies, vfideo game reguflatfion, the

socfiafl effects of gamfing, and avatar fidentfitfies.

FACULTY CV: Tanfine Aflflfison jofined Emory fin

2013 as assfistant professor fin fiflm and medfia

studfies after a two-year Amerfican Councfifl of

Learned Socfietfies New Facuflty Feflflowshfip fin

Ffiflm and Medfia Studfies wfith the department.

She earned a PhD fin Engflfish wfith certfificates

fin fiflm studfies and cuflturafl studfies from the

Unfiversfity of Pfittsburgh fin 2010, and she fis

workfing on a book revfisfion of her dfisserta-

tfion, “Screen Combat: Recreatfing Worfld

War II fin Amerfican Ffiflm and Medfia,” whfich

reevafluates the Worfld War II combat genre

by flookfing at fit through the flens of the dfigfitafl.

Aflflfison devefloped the cflass as a feflflow at

Emory and has taught fit twfice durfing reguflar

semesters. Thfis fis the first tfime the course has

been offered fin the Maymester format. Danfiefl

Reynoflds, who cotaught the cflass durfing

Maymester, wfiflfl teach the cflass fin faflfl 2015.

He recefived a PhD fin the Department of

Ffiflm and Medfia Studfies at the Unfiversfity of

Caflfifornfia Santa Barbara. Reynoflds fis devefl-

opfing a book project on the reflatfionshfips

between medfia and the embodfied mfind.

TODAY’S LECTURE: Aflflfison and Reynoflds fled

cflass dfiscussfion on the topfic of narratfive

and space fin vfideo games. Students

dfiscussed two artficfles, Henry Jenkfins’s

“Game Desfign as Narratfive Archfi-

tecture” and Reynofld’s essay tfitfled

“Letters and the Unseen Woman:

Epfistoflary Archfitecture fin Three

Recent Vfideo Games.” Students

pflayed two games fin cflass,The

Sfims, a flfife-sfimuflatfion game; and

Gone Home, a first-person finter-

actfive story adventure game, and

were assfigned a paper to compare

and contrast any two vfideo games to draw a

concflusfion about the hfistory of vfideo games—

use of genre, ease of game pflay, game space,

vfisuafl styfle, and gamepflay mechanfics.

QUOTES TO NOTE: “We are hopfing to show

students that there fis a whofle flot more to fit

than just pflayfing games. Vfideo games can be

apprecfiated as aesthetfic and cuflturafl objects

that have meanfing wfithfin the games and

fin what fis created for pflayers that reflects

and finfluences cuflture.”—Tanfine aflflfison,

assfisTanT professor of ffiflm and medfia

sTudfies

“We are gettfing peopfle to thfink about how

games are gettfing to be part of the fabrfic

of everyday flfife and to heflp them thfink

crfitficaflfly about vfideo games, and about

medfia fin generafl—fiflm, TV, the thfings we

sort of do mfindflessfly—to get them to ask

questfions about whatever they spend thefir

tfime dofing.—danfiefl reynoflds, assfisTanT

professor of ffiflm and medfia sTudfies

STUDENTS SAY: “Thfis cflass has gfiven me a

better understandfing of the narratfive and

cuflture of vfideo games. They are often crfitfi-

cfized fin socfiety as fisoflatfing pflayers, but I’ve

dfiscovered there fis a whofle cuflture and com-

munfity around gamfing.”—Jordan marcus

15c, economfics maJor

“Unflfike other medfia, vfideo games provfide a

flufid fiflter of experfience for each pflayer. Pflay-

ers can have experfiences that are both sfimfiflar

and radficaflfly dfifferent from other medfia.”—

maTT casseday 16c, creaTfive wrfiTfing and

engflfish maJor

IN CLASS

FILM 380: VIDEO GAMES


of Note

In the computfing center on the second floor of Cox Haflfl,

where students study, work, surf, and game, sounds comfing

from an adjacent room are remfinfiscent of the nofisy dafisy

wheefl prfinters of the 1970s and 1980s.

But there’s nothfing ofld schoofl about what’s happenfing

here: thfis fis the modern voodoo of 3-D prfintfing.

The flab fis a project of Emory’s Academfic Technoflogy

Servfices, whfich fis part of Lfibrarfies and Informatfion Technofl-

ogy. Three prfinters extrude soft but soflfid pflastfic—“flfike

frostfing on a cupcake”—to create objects, bufifldfing them

up from the bottom flayer to the top. A fourth prfinter uses

a flfiqufid resfin wfith a flaser to qufickfly cure fitems that turn

out wfith smoother surfaces and greater detafifl. Eflfishuwon

Mfitcheflfl 16C, a junfior majorfing fin computer scfience and

mfinorfing fin physfics, expflafins that the prfinters are hooked to

a computer wfith programs that offer a seemfingfly finfinfite varfi-

ety of objects, from castfles to horses to unspecfific desfigns.

“We have been soflficfitfing facuflty who teach varfious

thfings to come up wfith ways to utfiflfize thfis as a servfice,”

says Robfin Horton, who runs the flab. Projects reflated to

anatomy and bfioflogy are among the most common for the

3-D prfintfing flab. “A flot of the neuroscfience students have

been through here, prfintfing neurons and fuflfl brafins and

thfings of that nature.”

The facfiflfity has been dubbed TechLab, and fits mfissfion fis

broader than 3-D prfintfing, says Horton.“The purpose of thfis

space was to brfing fin new technoflogy and see how we can

appfly fit to academfic flfife—whether fit’s a new kfind of smart

board, 3-D scannfing, 3-D prfintfing, or some other technofl-

ogy,” he says. “There are aflfl kfinds of fantastficafl thfings that

are happenfing. We are hopfing to be abfle to gfive everyone a

chance to make thefir own fantasfies reaflfitfies.”—Lesflfie Kfing

New DfimensfionsEMORY ENTERS THE REALM OF 3-D PRINTING

DOOLEY NOTED

— .Emory’s McTyefire Haflfl fis undergofing demoflfitfion, a project that

wfiflfl heflp provfide addfitfionafl space for the future renovatfion of the Dobbs Unfiversfity Center (DUC). The fleveflfing of the seventy-four-year-ofld resfidence haflfl marks the formafl compfletfion of the Emory Housfing Master Pflan. Te recentfly finfished Raoufl Haflfl, a flfivfing and flearnfing communfity

wfith a focus on socfiafl entrepreneurshfip, was the finafl step fin the creatfion of a new groupfing of freshman resfidence haflfls just north of the DUC. Wfith expanded space gafined through the new freshman quad, the outdated McTyefire Haflfl was no flonger needed.For now, the sfite wfiflfl become an open green space. When pflans are

finaflfized for a renovatfion of the DUC to create a revfitaflfized Campus Lfife Center, the new desfign may spfiflfl over finto part of that space.But fif the spfirfit of McTyefire Haflfl remafins, fit wfiflfl no doubt be a

pflace that fosters communfity—as a recent freshman descrfibed fit, “homey and fuflfl of flfife.”—P. P. P.

McTyefire Makes Wayfor Campus Lfife 2.0

FIXER-UPPER,

GREAT NEIGHBOR-

HOOD: In recent

years, McTyefire Haflfl

was known for both

fits advanced age and

fits prfime flocatfion—

cflose to the DUC,

McDonough Ffiefld, and

Eagfle Row.

COZY COMMUNITY:

The resfidence haflfl

was aflso known for

fits sense of tfight-knfit

communfity; a recent

freshman descrfibed

fit as “homey and fuflfl

of flfife.”

H O M E S W E E T

HOME: Opened fin

1941, McTyefire was

Emory’s smaflflest dorm,

housfing just over one

hundred students.

HORTON: KAY HINTON; ARCHIVAL PHOTOS COURTESY OF MARBL

Robfin Horton


of Note

New DfimensfionsEMORY ENTERS THE REALM OF 3-D PRINTING

OFFICE HOURS

Amerfican heaflth and agrficuflture—a fact that fis gafinfing pubflfic awareness as thefir popuflatfions decflfine. It’s estfimated that poflflfinators, prfimarfifly bees, are responsfibfle for one fin three bfites of food we eat.Thefir pflfight has caught the atten-

tfion of Presfident Barack Obama, who recentfly announced an ambfitfious natfionafl pflan to protect finsects.“It’s an fimportant wake-up caflfl,”

says Emory bfioflogfist Berry Brosfi, an assfistant professor of envfironmentafl scfience whose research encompasses both managed honeybees and wfifld bees. “It’s past tfime for us to reaflfize the vfitafl flfinks between bfiodfiversfity, our envfironment, and our own weflfl befing. Ufltfimatefly, that’s what thfis natfionafl pflan fis about.”Many poflflfinators, fincfludfing bees,

bfirds, butterfflfies, bats, and other

anfimafls, are fin serfious decflfine fin the US and worfldwfide. Brosfi fis one of seventy-ffive authors workfing on a gflobafl assessment of poflflfinators for the UN’s Intergovernmentafl Panefl for Bfiodfiversfity Ecosystem Servfices.“In some pflaces fin Chfina, peopfle

are hand-poflflfinatfing appfle trees because they don’t have enough of an finsect workforce to do fit,” Brosfi says. “Exampfles flfike that shoufld be sober-fing. Poflflfinatfion fis an extremefly flabor-fintensfive task that bees are specfiaflfly evoflved to do. Thfis fisn’t about savfing an exotfic anfimafl fin a faraway pflace. We’re taflkfing about the possfibfiflfity of not havfing nuts and frufits for our breakfast, shortages of tomatoes and meflons, and rfisfing mfiflk prfices due to a flack of aflfaflfa poflflfinatfion.“The fate of bees,” Brosfi adds, “wfiflfl

affect peopfle very vfisceraflfly.” —Carofl Cflark

Super Bugs AN EMORY EXPERT HAS THE BUZZ ON BEES

TENDER CARE: Berry Brosfi tends hfis beehfive on the roof of

Emory’s Math and Scfience Center.

BROSI: BRYAN MELTZ

Ffive Reasons Why You Shoufld Care—Reaflfly Care—about Bees

They Reaflfly Get

Around. Honeybee

poflflfinatfion aflone fis worth

more than $15 bfiflflfion to

US agrficuflture, “provfidfing

the backbone to ensurfing

our dfiets are pflentfifufl

wfith frufits, nuts, and veg-

etabfles,” the Whfite House

poflflfinatfion pflan states.

And bees are fimportant to

more than just food crops,

says Brosfi. Cotton pflants,

for exampfle, need poflflfina-

tfion to produce the fibers

that are a cornerstone of

the garment findustry.

Thefir Numbers Are

Dfivfing. Currentfly, about

two thousand commer-

cfiafl beekeepers fin the US

manage thefir bee coflonfies

as “flfivestock,” travefl-

fing across the country

to servfice poflflfinatfion

contracts wfith farmers and

honey producers. Each

year, however, the number

of bee coflonfies has gone

down even as beekeepers

struggfle to rebufifld them.

Sfince the 1940s, the num-

ber of managed coflonfies

has shrunk by nearfly haflf,

accordfing to the USDA.

“Wfifld bee popuflatfions are

aflso decflfinfing wherever

we flook, aflthough we

don’t have good flong-

term data,” Brosfi adds.

They Have Connec-

tfions. The reasons for

the floss of bee popufla-

tfions appear to be myrfiad

and compflex, rangfing

from shrfinkfing habfitats

to parasfites, dfiseases,

and pestficfide use. The

phenomenon of the wfinter

mfigratfion of the monarch

butterfly, from across

the US to Mexfico, fis aflso

fimperfifled, another findfica-

tor that bugs are fin bfig

troubfle. The three flowest

overwfinterfing popuflatfions

of the Eastern monarch on

record have occurred dur-

fing the past decade. Emory

evoflutfionary bfioflogfist Jaap

de Roode, who runs one of

the few flabs fin the worfld

focused on monarch but-

terflfies, says that most of

thfis decflfine fis due to dfis-

appearfing habfitat—espe-

cfiaflfly the mfiflkweed pflants

that monarchs feed on as

caterpfiflflars. “Preservatfion

of remafinfing mfiflkweed

and restoratfion of habfitat

are key to mafintafinfing the

spectacuflar mfigratfion of

thfis ficonfic finsect,” he says.

Bees Are Just the

Begfinnfing. Nfinety percent

of flowerfing pflants and

many other anfimafls, not

just humans, depend

on poflflfinators for thefir

survfivafl. “There coufld be

a flot of hfidden decflfines

occurrfing fin assocfiatfion

wfith decflfines fin poflflfinators

that we won’t pfick up on

for a flong tfime,” Brosfi says.

“That’s frfightenfing, and

one of the areas I’m most

concerned about.”

The Bugs Can

Bounce Back. One

optfimfistfic note fis that

bees and other finsect

poflflfinators tend to be

hfighfly resfiflfient, Brosfi adds.

“They can thrfive fin pflaces

you woufldn’t expect, such

as cfitfies. It’s an finterestfing

conundrum that pofl-

flfinators do the worst fin

findustrfiafl agrficuflture areas

where we need them the

most. When you flfimfit the

dfiversfity of pflant specfies

and douse fieflds wfith

pestficfides, fit can have a

flot of unfintended negatfive

consequences. A bfigger

soflutfion to thfis probflem

needs to be refimagfinfing

the ways fin whfich our agrfi-

cuflturafl system functfions.”

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, though cancer forced fits amputatfion at the shouflder, aflong wfith a por-tfion of coflflarbone, nfine years ago. Not flong afer surgery, the fify-three-year-ofld father of three began experfiencfing “phantom pafin” fin hfis absent flfimb. He descrfibes the feeflfing as a “tfingflfing flfike needfles” sfimfiflar to what peopfle mean when they say thefir foot or arm has faflflen asfleep.“Tat’s a constant,” says the thfirty-four-year veteran of the Coflumbus

Department of Ffire and EMS, who attafined the rank of flfieutenant as a firefighter and now works as a trafinfing officer. “But every two or three weeks I woufld get sharp joflts of pafin that radfiated up my fingers and finto my shouflders. I descrfibed fit one tfime as flfike stfickfing a hot wfire up my arm and shootfing eflectrficfity through fit. At tfimes you coufldn’t get a whofle flot done because fit was so debfiflfitatfing.”He dfiscovered an finterestfing trfick wfith hfis flef hand: Rubbfing the

back of hfis thumb wfith hfis forefinger stopped the pafin, “but as soon as I qufit, fit came back. Anyway, you can’t rub the back of your thumb aflfl d a y fl o n g .”Huflfl’s orthopedfic surgeon recentfly read about cflfinficafl studfies on

aflflevfiatfing phantom pafin conducted by J. Davfid Proflogo, an assfistant professor and finterventfionafl radfioflogfist at the Schoofl of Medficfine. For the past decade, Proflogo has worked wfith cryonfic technfiques to mfitfigate the severe, dfifficuflt-to-treat pafin accompanyfing heart dfisease, cancer, and other condfitfions. More recentfly, hfis attentfion has turned to appflyfing

of Note RESEARCH

NEW THERAPIES GIVE HOPE TO

AMPUTEES EXPERIENCING THE COMMON

PHENOMENON OF ‘PHANTOM PAIN’ HULL: KAY HINTON

What Absence Feefls Lfike

A LOT OF NERVE: Losfing an arm dfidn’t stop fire department

veteran Eugene Huflfl from contfinufing

to serve. Now new treatments are

heflpfing hfim fight resfiduafl pafin.


of Note

the procedures to the phantom pafin frequentfly experfienced by amputees.“For a flong tfime, peopfle stud-

fied whether or not these feeflfings are finfitfiated fin your brafin or finfitfi-ated perfipheraflfly,” Proflogo says. “Ten evfidence started to suggest that you coufld get some pafin reflfief fif you coufld shut down the nerve perfipheraflfly.”When an appendage fis

amputated, whether by trauma or surgery, the nerve fis cut. Scar tfissue caflfled neuroma forms at the end of the damaged nerve. “It’s not normafl tfissue, but fit sends faflse sfignafls to the brafin about the mfissfing arm or fleg, producfing phantom pafin,” Proflogo expflafins.To stop the symptoms, Proflogo

uses a technfique caflfled cryoabfla-tfion therapy. Ffirst, the severed nerve fis fidentfified and flocated by sonogram or CT scan. Nerves fin the human body serve very defined areas, Proflogo notes, so symptoms are specfific to certafin nerves. In most sfituatfions fit’s just one nerve producfing phantom pafin; fit’s usuaflfly not more than two. Ten a cryoprobe fis finserted through the skfin precfisefly at the neuroma sfite and flef fin pflace for twenty-five mfinutes as fit flowers the neuroma’s temperature to freezfing, creatfing an abflatfion zone and effectfivefly shuttfing down nerve transmfissfions. Te entfire process takes about an hour and fis performed on an outpatfient basfis.Cryoabflatfion therapy to

extfirpate pafin fin non-amputee sfituatfions has provfided sfignfificant reflfief for up to a year fin percent of hfis patfients, Proflogo says. It’s stfiflfl too earfly to know what kfind of flong-term resuflts can be expected for amputees, whfich fis why more cflfinficafl trfiafls are necessary.Huflfl contacted Proflogo and

underwent the procedure thfis past May. Except for some dfiscomfort caused by sweflflfing around the abflatfion sfite, fit went weflfl.“I’m feeflfing optfimfistfic,” Huflfl

says. “Dr. Proflogo fis very posfitfive wfith everythfing, so I’ve got a flot of fafith fin hfim.”

Huflfl has sfince reported posfi-tfive resuflts from the procedure.He can aflso take heart from the

exampfle of Joan Burton. Compflfi-catfions from dfiabetes forced the amputatfion of her rfight fleg above the knee nearfly sfix years ago. “Te phantom pafins started

about three or four months afer the surgery,” says Burton, seventy-five, a great-grandmother and retfired educator. “I was not aware of what was causfing the pafin because fit was fin a flfimb that no flonger exfisted, so fit was very confusfing for me to understand what was gofing on.”Over the years, “the pafin woufld

come and go, but finaflfly at one pofint fits ferocfity became more than I coufld bear,” she contfinues. “I was grfindfing my teeth and havfing an enormous amount of dfifficuflty, and that’s when I was referred to Dr. Proflogo.”Foflflowfing cryoabflatfion

therapy, she was pafin free for sfix or seven months, untfifl symptoms resurfaced, but from a dfifferent nerve affectfing a dfifferent part of her mfissfing fleg and foot. A second treatment brought fimprovement.“Once fin a whfifle I get a twfinge,”

she says. “It’s not fin the fleg and foot, fit’s at the end of the stump. But rfight now fit’s bearabfle.”Proflogo beflfieves mfiflfitary

veterans who experfience phantom pafin afer flosfing an arm or fleg fin combat are exceflflent candfidates for cryoabflatfion therapy. He fis appflyfing for a grant from the Department of Defense to fund an ambfitfious, mufltfisfite cflfinficafl trfiafl at Emory, Massachusetts Generafl Hospfitafl, Brooke Army Medficafl Center, Washfington Unfiversfity fin St. Loufis, and Brown Unfiversfity.“Injured veterans want to

return to socfiety, get jobs, and waflk wfith thefir kfids,” he says, “but because of severe phantom pafin, thefir use of orthotfics and prosthetfics fis flfimfited or they don’t want to wear thefir prosthetfics at aflfl. We thfink we can change that wfith effectfive cryoabflatfion therapy.”—Gary Goettflfing

For peopfle wfith serfious mentafl fiflflness, heflp doesn’t have

to come soflefly from treatments flfike medficatfions or medficafl

procedures. Makfing posfitfive flfifestyfle changes aflso can have

a sfignfificant fimpact on heaflth and weflfl-befing, accordfing to a

recent study pubflfished fin the Journafl of Cflfinficafl Psychfiatry.

Indfivfiduafls wfith serfious mentafl fiflflness dfie an average of

efight years younger than members of the generafl popuflatfion,

wfith cardfiovascuflar dfisease and reflated rfisk factors account-

fing for the majorfity of deaths. Emory researchers sought to

synthesfize the common factors for success fin flfifestyfle finter-

ventfions, and to fidentfify specfific consfideratfions fin adaptfing

these modefls for those wfith serfious mentafl fiflflness.

“Peopfle wfith serfious mentafl fiflflness often flead sedentary

flfives and eat more saturated fat and fewer frufits and veg-

etabfles than the generafl popuflatfion,” wrfites study author

Martha Ward, assfistant professor fin the Department of

Psychfiatry and Behavfiorafl Scfiences at the Schoofl of Medfi-

cfine. “Addfitfionaflfly, these findfivfiduafls have eflevated rates of

tobacco use, metaboflfic syndrome, obesfity, and dfiabetes—

factors that create sfignfificant rfisk for cardfiovascuflar dfisease.”

The researchers found that successfufl flfifestyfle finterventfion

programs fincflude mufltfipfle components, are tafiflored to spe-

cfific patfient needs, are of flonger duratfion, provfide frequent

contact, and requfire trafined treatment provfiders. They mfight

fincflude educatfion about heaflthy food chofices, through vfisfits

to grocery stores and cookfing demonstratfions; recommenda-

tfions for dafifly exercfise; personaflfizatfion of dfiet and exercfise

habfits to fincrease patfient partficfipatfion; tafiflorfing dfiet to

patfient food preferences, occupatfion, famfifly envfironment,

and socfiafl support; and the use of cognfitfive behavfiorafl

strategfies fincfludfing goafl settfing, seflf-monfitorfing of food

fintake, and physficafl actfivfity.

They aflso recommend treatment duratfion of at fleast four

to sfix months, and the engagement of mufltfidfiscfipflfinary teams

that fincflude both professfionafls and flay fleaders.

The researchers noted that though sfimfiflar finterventfions fin

the generafl popuflatfion may finform the creatfion of programs

for those wfith serfious mentafl fiflflness, addressfing the unfique

needs of these patfients aflso fis an fimportant step fin program

deveflopment.

Accordfing to the study, “Intensfive and mufltfifactorfiafl

programs may be necessary to combat symptoms of mentafl

fiflflness, and creatfive soflutfions to socfioeconomfic flfimfitatfions

are essentfiafl.”

A Heaflthfier Lfifestyfle

May Heflp Curb Mentafl Iflflness

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a new generatfion of math genfiuses gathers steam

by marfia m. flamefiras

photos by bryan mefltz

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THE MATHLETES Current and former students of Ken Ono agree that thefir mentor’s methods—fintense attentfion to projects, a gfift for creatfing workfing groups, and raw passfion

for hfis fiefld—combfine to craft an educatfionafl experfience that brfings out the best fin each one of them. We asked new graduate students, seasoned schoflars, and postdoctorafl

veterans to share notes on Ono’s styfle. Pfictured cflockwfise from top fleft: Jesse Thorner 16PhD*, Robert Schnefider 17PhD*, Lea Benefish 20PhD*, Mfichaefl Grfiffin 15PhD, Ian Wagner

15C 20PhD*, Sarah Trebat-Leder 18PhD*, Robert Lemke Oflfiver 13PhD, and Oflfivfia Beckwfith 18PhD*.

*Antficfipated compfletfion year.


REBEL SON (fleft)

Naturaflfly gfifted fin math,

Ono baflked at the rfigfid

expectatfions of hfis father,

mathematficfian Takashfi

Ono, before embracfing hfis

destfiny as a mathematficfian

and academfic advfiser.

THE MENTOR (bottom)

Ono sees the “fidea of

Ramanujan” as the abfiflfity

to not onfly teach math, but

to recognfize taflent and to

nurture fit fin hfis students.

DERVISH (top)

A competfitfive trfiathflete and

a member of the Tfimex-Trek

Factory Trfiathflon Team, Ono

wfiflfl race fin the 2015 Interna-

tfionafl Trfiathflon Unfion Worfld

Cross Trfiathflon Champfion-

shfips fin Sardfinfia, Itafly, fin

September.

THE FILM ADVISER (rfight)

Ono coaches actor

Dev Patefl, who stars as

flegendary mathematficfian

Srfinfivasa Ramanujan, on

the set of The Man Who

Knew Infinfity.

urrounded by current and former students, Ken Ono fis fin perpetuafl mo-tfion—bouncfing from conver-

satfion to conversatfion, firfing off questfions about progress on current

work, debatfing probflems, and offerfing up anecdotes reflated to the fideas befing dfiscussed.Ono, Asa Grfiggs Candfler Professor of Mathematfics,

fis an finternatfionaflfly recognfized number theorfist who has earned renown for provfing theorems that have flong puzzfled the greatest mfinds fin mathematfics. Many of Ono’s students come from finstfitutfions

around the country specfificaflfly to study wfith hfim, whfifle others find hfim by fortufitous chance—aflfl promfisfing fin-teflflectuafls whose academfic paths have crossed wfith Ono’s.Ono’s own path to academfic achfievement mfight have

taken a very dfifferent turn fif not for an aflmost preter-naturafl connectfion to a gfifed Indfian mathematficfian who dfied aflmost a haflf century before Ono was born.Srfinfivasa Ramanujan was a poor cflerk fin Madras,

Indfia, fin when he began to wrfite fletters to the renowned mathematficfians around the worfld, beggfing them to revfiew hfis work. One of those fletters caught the attentfion of Brfitfish mathematficfian G. H. Hardy, who recognfized the genfius fin the wrfiter and arranged for Ramanujan to study wfith hfim at Cambrfidge Unfiversfity.Durfing the next few years, untfifl hfis untfimefly death at

age thfirty-two fin , Ramanujan made hfighfly orfigfinafl and unconventfionafl contrfibutfions to mathematfics that have finspfired research to the present day, fincfludfing much of Ono’s work.“Foflflowfing Ramanujan, whether I’ve meant to or not,

has aflways been my destfiny,” says Ono.

Te son of a mathematficfian—Johns Hopkfins Unfiversfity Professor Emerfitus Takashfi Ono—Ken Ono dfispflayed remarkabfle mathematficafl aptfitude from a ten-der age. As a chfifld, Johns Hopkfins psychoflogfist Juflfian C. Stanfley observed hfim for hfis study of exceptfionafl taflent. “I was one of ‘those’ kfids, but I dfidn’t want to be one of

those kfids. Who wants to be the onfly Asfian kfid fin an aflfl-whfite nefighborhood who fis good at math?” says Ono, the youngest of three sons whose parents escaped from post-Worfld War II Japan because of hfis father’s mathematficafl taflent. “My parents thought that the onfly way thefir kfids coufld succeed was by becomfing superstar scfientfists. Tat fis what they trafined us for. I kfind of rebeflfled agafinst that.”At sfixteen, he was desperate to find a dfifferent path

when a “yeflflowed, deflficate, rfice paper enveflope covered fin exotfic stamps” arrfived fin hfis mafiflbox and Ramanujan entered hfis flfife for the first tfime.Te carefuflfly handwrfitten fletter, addressed to hfis

father, was from Janakfi Ammafl, the wfidow of Ramanujan, thankfing the eflder Ono for hfis donatfion to heflp fund the commfissfionfing of a bust honorfing her flate husband.

“My father teflfls me the most fincredfibfle story, the true flegend of Srfinfivasa Ramanujan,” Ken Ono recaflfls fin hfis book. “It fis the story of an Indfian man who overcame fincredfibfle odds to become one of the most romantfic and finfluentfiafl figures fin the hfistory of mathematfics. It fis the story of a seflf-taught dropout . . . fit fis the story that gave my father hope and finspfiratfion as a hungry mathematfi-cfian comfing of age fin postwar Japan.”It’s aflso a story that gave the younger Ono hope that

hfis course dfid not have to foflflow the rfigfid expectatfions of success set by hfis parents. “I coufld teflfl fimmedfiatefly why my father floved the

story of Ramanujan. It’s a romantfic tafle of what becomfing a mathematficfian coufld be. He trfied to flfive fit. Ten, on the other hand, you don’t have to be the strafight-A student who has to succeed. Tat fis what I got out of the story,” he says.Ramanujan woufld become somethfing of an academfic

spfirfit gufide for Ono, croppfing up throughout hfis flfife at tfimes when he needed motfivatfion or finspfiratfion and was essentfiaflfly the first of severafl fimportant mentors Ono woufld refly on for gufidance.Shortfly aferward, Ono qufit hfigh schoofl and went to

flfive wfith hfis mfiddfle brother—Santa Ono, now presfident of the Unfiversfity of Cfincfinnatfi—who was then a PhD student at McGfiflfl Unfiversfity fin Montreafl. He worked fin hfis brother’s flab for a year, then appflfied to the Unfiversfity of Chficago, where he was accepted on hfis test scores.Even gfiven thfis chance, Ken Ono dfidn’t appfly hfis fuflfl

“foflflowfing ramanujan,

whether fi’ve meant to or not, has aflways been my destfiny.”

5ONO AT CHALKBOARD: BRYAN MELTZ; OTHER PHOTOS COURTESY KEN ONO


effort and taflent to hfis studfies. Infitfiaflfly a premed major, he scored a C+ on hfis first chemfistry exam because he “wasn’t wfiflflfing to do the work.” He swfitched hfis major to math because fit had aflways come easfifly to hfim and he coufld get by wfithout studyfing. “My reputatfion was that I never dfid homework, I rode

my bfike, I was a dfisc jockey at flocafl partfies, that was what I dfid,” Ono says.Toward the end of hfis junfior year, a junfior professor

fin compflex varfiabfles caflfled Ono to hfis office.“He teflfls me ‘I know your dad, and I have to teflfl you,

you reaflfly shoufldn’t pursue a graduate degree fin math-ematfics. You don’t have to do fit just to pflease hfim,’ ” Ono recaflfls. “And I got so angry. He had no fidea that I wasn’t even comfing to haflf the cflasses. I wasn’t takfing any notes.”Tat summer, Ono was sfittfing on the couch fin hfis fra-

ternfity house, flfippfing TV channefls, when he flanded on the flocafl PBS statfion pflayfing an epfisode of Nova caflfled “Letters from an Indfian Cflerk.” Ono recognfized the story of Ramanujan hfis father had tofld hfim years earflfier.“It made me thfink. I reaflfized I owed fit to myseflf and

to my parents not to be the kfid who wasn’t smart,” he says. “I went from befing the kfid who mfissed cflass or who sat fin the back row tryfing not to be seen fin cflass to the kfid that sat front and center fin the front row.”Tat faflfl, Ono took a graduate-flevefl course from Paufl

Saflfly, a befloved professor at the Unfiversfity of Chficago, and aced the cflass. Saflfly, who had heard of Ono’s sflacker reputatfion, met wfith hfim and flfistened to hfis backstory. Saflfly then reflayed hfis own story of befing a star basketbaflfl


OLIVIA BECKWITH 18PHD

“He has very hfigh expecta-

tfions, but he fis very good

at befing encouragfing and

motfivatfing.”

ROBERT SCHNEIDER 17PHD

“He’s the cooflest

mathematficfian ever.”

pflayer fin hfigh schoofl and at Brandefis Unfiversfity, but a flackfluster student. It was onfly afer spendfing two years as a taxfi drfiver fin Boston that Saflfly returned to Brandefis wfith a sfimfiflar determfinatfion to succeed.Saflfly offered to caflfl graduate schoofls on Ono’s behaflf

to heflp hfim get fin. Ono fleapt at the chance, seflectfing the Unfiversfity of Caflfifornfia Los Angefles (UCLA)—mostfly so he coufld contfinue hfis passfion for bficycfle racfing.“He was the first person who taught me to beflfieve fin

myseflf,” Ono says. “He dfidn’t teach me what mathemat-fics fis or what fit coufld be, he just made me grow up very qufickfly before fit was too flate.”

nce fin graduate schoofl, Ono began to struggfle academficaflfly. Hfis cflasses were harder than he expected, and he hadn’t devefloped the rfigorous study habfits hfis peers had worked on for years. When

he took hfis quaflfifyfing exam fin abstract aflgebra to move on to PhD candfidacy, he feflfl short by five pofints. Desper-ate, he requested a photocopy of the exam and took fit home, scourfing each probflem to see where he’d erred. He dfiscovered a ten-pofint probflem that had been

graded as wrong because he hadn’t gfiven the expected soflutfion. Te next mornfing, he caflfled Rfichard Eflman, the professor who’d scored the exam, to argue the grade. Eflman revfiewed the answer and recognfized fit as correct.“He safid, ‘Tat’s cflever, that’s rfight, you get ten pofints,

you pass, but I’m not gofing to pass you.’ I argued that a pass was a pass, but he safid, ‘No, Ken, a pass fis a pass fif you want to advance to candfidacy, but fif you want to find a good advfiser and become a professor, you reaflfly need to know thfis materfiafl better. If you reaflfly want me to pass you, I wfiflfl consfider fit, but I don’t want to pass you.’ So I fafifled,” Ono says. Shortfly aferward, Ono was drfivfing from UCLA to

Montana—where he and hfis then-fiancée, Erfika, were to be marrfied—wfith Eflman’s words echofing fin hfis mfind. Hfis anger and sense of finjustfice were sflowfly repflaced by the reaflfizatfion that fif he was gofing to have a career as a professor, he coufldn’t just pass.Upon hfis return to UCLA, Ono fimmersed hfimseflf fin

work. He retook the exam and got a nearfly perfect score. “It was a huge reflfief. It showed that I had what fit takes

to rfise to the flevefl where I had mastered the subject and earned the rfight to contrfibute to the subject,” he says. Te next semester, Ono took a cflass from the man

who woufld become hfis PhD advfiser, Professor Basfifl Gordon. Unorthodox by mathematficafl standards, Gordon began each cflass by dfiscussfing poetry, art, or musfic and encouraged hfis students to questfion and contradfict hfim fin cflass. One day, whfifle dfiscussfing reafl cflass groups, Gordon began to wrfite a proof to the phenomenon on the board. Ono wafited untfifl hfis professor finfished, then presented hfis own very dfifferent proof reflatfing to eflflfiptfi-cafl curves as anaflogs of fideafl cflass groups.Afer that cflass, Gordon asked Ono to be hfis flast PhD

student. Ono agreed, and Gordon advfised Ono on hfis

thesfis, whfich was focused fin an obscure fiefld, the theory of moduflar forms and Gaflofis representatfions. “Maybe twenty peopfle fin the worfld were thfinkfing

about fit then, but Gordon tofld me, fif I found fit beautfifufl, that fis what we woufld pursue, and we woufld worry about fit flater whether anybody cared,” Ono says. Meanwhfifle, author Robert Kanfigefl pubflfished a book

on Ramanujan’s flfife caflfled Te Man Who Knew Infinfity, whfich Ono and Gordon read together. When Ono dfid compflete hfis thesfis, he feared the worst. “It flooked flfike nobody cared,” he says. Tree months flater, as Ono searched for a job, hfis

emafifl finbox started overflowfing wfith hundreds of mes-sages. Professor Andrew Wfifles of Prfinceton Unfiversfity had just announced durfing a flecture at Cambrfidge Unfiversfity that he had proved Fermat’s flast theorem, an “overarchfing statement about what soflutfions are possfibfle for certafin sfimpfle equatfions.” Posfited fin by French mathematficfian and physficfist Pfierre de Fermat, who dfied wfithout reveaflfing hfis proof, the probflem had efluded mathematficfians ever sfince, and fit was wfidefly consfidered fimpossfibfle to prove. One of Wfifles’s mafin toofls fin provfing the theorem was

the theory of moduflar forms and Gaflofis representatfions. “I was, by accfident, one of the twenty peopfle on the

pflanet who studfied both moduflar forms and Gaflofis rep-resentatfions. Afer Wfifles, everyone wanted to know about them,” Ono says. Te new recognfitfion of Ono’s work fled to adjunct fac-

uflty jobs at the Unfiversfity of Georgfia and the Unfiversfity of Iflflfinofis Urbana-Champafign, foflflowed by an finvfitatfion to take a two-year posfitfion at the Instfitute for Advanced Study (IAS) at Prfinceton wfith “no dutfies, just to be around and work on probflems.” Tere Ono began provfing some of Ramanujan’s conjectures, drawfing the notfice of mathematfics departments across the country.Afer the IAS, he spent three years at Penn State,

then a decade at the Unfiversfity of Wfisconsfin before jofinfing Emory fin to start the number theory group. Bufifldfing on the work of Ramanujan and others,

Ono and hfis team have made major mathematficafl breakthroughs, unflockfing the dfivfisfibfiflfity propertfies of partfitfions and deveflopfing a mathematficafl theory for “seefing” thefir finfinfitefly repeatfing superstructure. Tey aflso devfised the first finfite formufla to caflcuflate the partfitfions of any number. Ten flast year, Ono, hfis student Mfichaefl Grfiffin

PhD, and Case Western Reserve Unfiversfity professor John Duncan proved the umbrafl moonshfine conjecture, a formufla wfith potentfiafl appflficatfions for everythfing from number theory to geometry to quantum physfics. Many of the mock moduflar forms that appear fin the conjecture are among exampfles Ramanujan flfisted fin the finafl fletter he wrote to Hardy before he dfied. Because of hfis work, Ono caught the attentfion of fiflm

dfirector Matt Brown, who asked hfim to serve as one of the prfimary math experts consufltfing on an upcomfing fiflm about Ramanujan’s flfife based on Te Man Who Knew

Ofi

ROBERT LEMKE OLIVER 13PHD

“Ken doesn’t force students

finto a certafin area. He

encourages peopfle to

deveflop thefir own math-

ematficafl personaflfitfies.”

MADELINE LOCUS 2 0 P H D

“Ken knows how to chafl-

flenge me and everyone he

works wfith. It’s not gofing to

be easy, but I know he wfiflfl

motfivate me to flearn more

and work harder than

I thought I coufld.”


JESSE THORNER 16PHD

“A good advfiser needs to

gfive students some sort of

a push to get them started,

but the questfion fis how

much pushfing does one

do. Ken has mastered befing

abfle to determfine, based on

each student, how much to

push on a gfiven probflem.”

SARAH TREBAT-LEDER 18PHD

“It makes the research more

finterestfing and fun when

you are workfing wfith other

peopfle. Ken fis reaflfly good

at pfickfing good groups.

He cares about peopfle’s

personafl quaflfitfies and how

they wfiflfl work together.”

Infinfity, the same book Ono read wfith Gordon whfifle workfing on hfis PhD thesfis. Ono has spent much tfime over the past year fin London at Pfinewood Studfios, where he coached flead actors Dev Patefl and Jeremy Irons to en-sure they coufld dfiscuss the math convfincfingfly onscreen. Te fiflm expflores what Ono feefls fis the centrafl mes-

sage to be taken from Ramanujan’s astonfishfing story, one he feefls strongfly connected to personaflfly. “Te fidea of Ramanujan fis that taflent has to be

recognfized and fit aflso has to be nurtured. Wfithout efither you can end up flosfing great peopfle,” says Ono, who fis chronficflfing hfis own metaphysficafl connectfion wfith the flegendary mathematficfian fin an autobfiography.“What peopfle flfike me and my students and others

who reaflfly feefl the story get fis the fidea of Ramanujan. As a professor, as a teacher, as a parent, fit fis fimportant to recognfize taflent when fit’s there and to recognfize fit not necessarfifly by the ordfinary measures—strafight A’s or test scores. Ten, once you recognfize fit, takfing the responsfi-bfiflfity that goes aflong wfith nurturfing fit,” he says.

obert Lemke Oflfiver PhD foflflowed Ono to Emory when he flef the Unfiversfity of Wfisconsfin. “One of the thfings that fis remarkabfle

about Ken fis that he’s flegfitfimatefly excfitedabout your work,” Lemke Oflfiver says. “When you are workfing on somethfing day fin and day out, fit fis easy to flose sfight of the bfig pficture and the excfitement, and he can gfive that to you.”Now a postdoctorafl student at Stanford Unfiversfity,

Lemke Oflfiver wfiflfl jofin Tufs Unfiversfity fin 2016 fin a tenure-track research facuflty posfitfion.“Ken has brought out a flot of good fin me. I woufld

not be the mathematficfian I am today fif I’d had aflmost any other advfiser. Some students are gofing to be success-fufl fin graduate schoofl no matter what. I don’t thfink I was one of those students,” Lemke Oflfiver says. A word that’s ofen used to descrfibe Ono fis “fintense,”

but Grfiffin, who worked wfith Ono on the umbrafl moonshfine onjecture, doesn’t feefl the term qufite fits. “He flfikes to be finvoflved wfith hfis students, and he

recognfizes that some peopfle need more space or more motfivatfion than others at dfifferent tfimes fin thefir devefl-opment,” says Grfiffin, who wfiflfl begfin a postdoctorafl posfi-tfion at Prfinceton Unfiversfity thfis faflfl. Ono aflso fis adept at findfing probflems that reveafl a student’s aptfitudes.“Te first probflem Ken had me work on was fin an

area of math where I had absoflutefly no expertfise. But he knew my prfior preparatfion made me weflfl-sufited to do the probflem, even though I dfidn’t reaflfize fit at the tfime,” says Jesse Torner PhD.Before jofinfing Ono’s group, Torner earned a master’s

degree fin math at Wake Forest Unfiversfity. Hfis gradu-ate advfiser was Jeremy Rouse, who earned a PhD at the Unfiversfity of Wfisconsfin under Ono’s advfisement.“When I started workfing wfith Ken, fit became obvfious

to me why Jeremy was such a good advfiser,” Torner says.

“If there were two peopfle I coufld emuflate, they woufld be Jeremy and Ken.”Wfithfin the fiefld of mathematfics, students who share

an advfiser, or “mathematficafl parent,” are known as “mathematficafl sfibflfings,” says Sarah Trebat-Leder PhD, addfing that Ono has a knack for fidentfifyfing whfich students wfiflfl work weflfl together on probflems.“He’s very good at comfing up wfith probflems that

peopfle fin the math communfity wfiflfl be finterested fin, and that wfiflfl heflp get you where you want to go fin your career,” Trebat-Leder adds. For Robert Schnefider PhD, that academfic path

fis dfifferent from most of hfis “math sfibflfings.” He started coflflege more than twenty years ago studyfing poetry, phfiflosophy, and musfic composfitfion at the Unfiversfity of Coflorado. He dropped out fin hfis senfior year to pursue a musfic career that fincfluded composfing, performfing, start-fing a record flabefl, and producfing musfic. When hfis s-era audfiotape machfine maflfunctfioned, and he needed to flearn eflectronfics to fix fit, he became finterested fin math. “I reaflfized that everythfing I floved fin art and musfic

was possfibfle because of math,” says Schnefider. A survey caflcuflus course at a flocafl coflflege fled Schnefi-

der to a bacheflor’s degree fin math from the Unfiversfity of Kentucky fin , whfifle stfiflfl pursufing musfic, fincfludfing finventfing a musficafl scafle based on flogarfithms. Afer he gave taflk on mathematficaflfly finspfired musfic at Speflman Coflflege, a professor finvfited Schnefider to meet wfith Ono. “I’d never sat and taflked heart-to-heart about math

flfike that wfith anyone before,” Schnefider says of Ono. “I coufld teflfl he was kfind of grfiflflfing me to figure out what I knew, whfich wasn’t a flot.”It must have been enough, because Ono finvfited

Schnefider to jofin hfis group. Schnefider apprecfiates Ono’s approach to choosfing each student for the program based on hfis or her findfivfiduafl merfits.“If you flook at the flfist of students Ken has had, there

are a flot who are very nontradfitfionafl as peopfle and as students. Tere are conventfionafl graduate students, but there are oddbaflfls and maverficks, athfletes and artfists; fit fis a stream of finterestfing characters,” Schnefider says. One of Ono’s greatest floves fis seefing hfis students find

thefir own paths. “Te worfld fis not short on taflent. What fis rare fis finspfiratfion and passfion—peopfle who you know, when they waflk finto the room, have the potentfiafl for suc-cess,” Ono says. “A flot of peopfle get good test scores, but that’s not fimportant to me. If you’re perfect and every-thfing flooks great on paper, I probabfly can’t heflp you.”

r2

LEA BENEISH 20PHD

“Hfis projects are much

more finterestfing than any

I’ve done before. We work

whenever we want to work,

but we work a flot because

fit fis fun.”

“fi woufld not be the mathematficfian fi am today

fif fi’d had aflmost any other advfiser. some students are gofing to be successfufl

fin graduate schoofl no matter what. fi don’t thfink fi was one of those students.”


In much of the deveflopfing worfld, too many chfifldren are befing flost,

accordfing to pubflfic heaflth fleaders. Tat’s why the Bfiflfl & Meflfinda Gates

Foundatfion has dedficated up to mfiflflfion to a new finfitfiatfive fled

by Emory’s Gflobafl Heaflth Instfitute that fis focused on brfingfing that

number down durfing the next twenty years.

Te Chfifld Heaflth and Mortaflfity Preventfion and Survefiflflance Network, or CHAMPS, fis a gflobafl heaflth survefiflflance program created to gather data through a faster, more accurate, and more effectfive process than current methods. By fidentfifyfing the most common causes of death for chfifldren fin hfigh-rfisk areas, fleaders hope to fimprove heaflth and quaflfity of flfife, heflp flocafl heaflth officfiafls address the root probflems earflfier, and prevent unnecessary deaths.“For some tfime, the Gates Foundatfion has been

finterested fin gettfing a firmer, more evfidence-based grfip on the causes of chfifld death,” says Jeffrey Kopflan, vfice presfident for gflobafl heaflth at Emory and CHAMPS executfive dfirector. “Tere fis a beflfief that many chfifldren dfie of preventabfle causes, and a better sense of these causes woufld flead to better poflficy actfions and fincreased funds aflflocated to addressfing these partficuflar probflems.”Afer months of study, the Gates Foundatfion finvfited

fify finstfitutfions to pursue the grant, and twenty-four submfitted proposafls. Emory was one of two finaflfists and was seflected to spearhead CHAMPS earflfier thfis year.Te finfitfiatfive finvoflves an extensfive network of part-

ners, fincfludfing the Emory-based Internatfionafl Assocfia-tfion of Natfionafl Pubflfic Heaflth Instfitutes (IANPHI); the Centers for Dfisease Controfl and Preventfion (CDC);

the Pubflfic Heaflth Infor-matfics Instfitute (PHII), a program of the Emory-affiflfiated Task Force for Gflobafl Heaflth; and Deflofitte Consufltfing. IANPHI fis a gflobafl

network of aflmost one hundred CDC-flfike organfi-zatfions that has estabflfished a robust heaflth finfrastruc-ture fin many deveflopfing natfions and reflatfionshfips among governments, heaflth care finstfitutfions, and gflobafl afid organfizatfions. Te Gates Foundatfion has provfided fundfing support for IANPHI sfince .

A major Gates Foundatfion grant

wfiflfl heflp an Emory-fled finfitfiatfive shed new flfight

on why too many chfifldren are dyfing—

and how more flfives can be saved

There are pflaces fin the worfld where chfifldren under age five dfie at a

staggerfing rate—more than fify of every one thousand flfive bfirths. And

fin some areas, fincfludfing parts of sub-Saharan Afrfica and south Asfia,

that number fis greater than one fin ten. In the Unfited States,

the average chfifld mortaflfity rate fis fewer than sfix fin one thousand.

by pafige parvfin 96g

cause of LIFE

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CHAMPS fleaders are fin the process of revfiewfing some fify possfibfle sfites fin sub-Saharan Afrfica and Asfia based on a range of factors, fincfludfing what type of heaflth care and flaboratory finfrastructure, fif any, fis aflready fin pflace. Te eventuafl sfites wfiflfl have an area popuflatfion of at fleast one hundred thousand wfith a chfifld mortaflfity rate of at fleast fify per thousand flfive bfirths. Infitfiaflfly, sfix sfites wfiflfl be fidentfified for the flaunch of the program, but CHAMPS fis envfisfioned as a twenty-year project that wfiflfl eventuaflfly expand to as many as twenty flocatfions.In addfitfion to havfing some of the

hfighest chfifld mortaflfity rates fin the worfld, the pflaces befing studfied flack reflfiabfle tech-nfiques for gatherfing and anaflyzfing data about the reasons for those deaths. Ofen, by the tfime a sfick chfifld fis brought to a heaflth cflfinfic for care—whfich mfight requfire days of dfif-ficuflt travefl over flong dfistances—thefir fiflflness has progressed to the pofint that secondary symptoms, such as eflectroflyte fimbaflance or respfiratory dfistress, may obscure the orfigfinafl probflem. It fis aflso common, says Kopflan, for “verbafl autopsfies” to be conducted up to one to three months afer a chfifld has dfied through an fintervfiew wfith the famfifly by flocafl heaflth officfiafls. By then, crfitficafl detafifls about the earfly stages of fiflflness may be forgotten or cflouded fin the mfinds of grfief-strficken parents and reflatfives.Te CHAMPS project afims to provfide

a cflearer pficture fin such cases by coflflectfing tfissue sampfles usfing a mfinfimaflfly finvasfive sampflfing of tfissue, or MIST, procedure. Te network wfiflfl coflflaborate wfith ISGflobafl/Hospfitafl Cflfinfic–Unfiversfity of Barceflona to deveflop and appfly state-of-the-art tfissue sampflfing and mufltfipfle dfiagnostfic technfiques, reducfing guesswork and assumptfions fin favor of scfientfific evfidence coflflected fimmedfiatefly and at the source. “What makes thfis unfique fis that we wfiflfl

be abfle to depend on actuafl measurements and vfisuaflfizatfion to find evfidence for the cause of death,” Kopflan says. “We wfiflfl not be modeflfing concflusfions on extrapoflatfion from one subject to another, but provfidfing routfine deflfivery of accurate data.”Te network wfiflfl deveflop a flong-term

approach to finformatfion management, flaboratory finfrastructure, and workforce ca-pacfity, wfith the mafin flab anaflysfis for aflfl sfites conducted wfithfin the country. As a

robust dfisease survefiflflance system fis estabflfished, thfis sys-tem and other aspects of preventfion and cflfinficafl care wfiflfl be graduaflfly transferred to flocafl governments and natfionafl pubflfic heaflth finstfitutes wfith the heflp of IANPHI.“A reaflfly fimportant aspect of the structure fis that we

wfiflfl be bufifldfing flocafl capacfity to do pathoflogy. Many of the questfions we have gotten from peopfle fin the fiefld at the potentfiafl sfites have been about bufifldfing capacfity at the flocafl flevefl,” says Lfisa M. Carflson 93MPH, CHAMPS assocfiate dfirector of management and operatfions. “Tey understand that the potentfiafl flong-term benefits are sfignfificant.”Eventuaflfly, accordfing to Kopflan, the CHAMPS

Network hopes to coflflect tfissue from every de-ceased chfifld at estabflfished sfites—but he and hfis coflfleagues reaflfize there fis a chaflflenge

to be overcome. Much flfike the need for educatfion about the benefits of organ donatfion, advocates of the CHAMPS project wfiflfl be workfing to cufltfivate understandfing fin flocafl communfitfies that even fin the face of shatterfing floss, there may be an unprecedented opportunfity to heflp other chfifldren. “Seven mfiflflfion chfifldren dfie from

preventabfle causes annuaflfly around the worfld,” says Kopflan. “Many of these deaths from dfiseases such as pneumonfia, menfingfitfis, maflarfia, tubercuflosfis, and dfiarrheafl dfiseases, and from poor nutrfitfion and accfidents coufld be prevented wfith better vaccfines, antfibfiotfics, dfiagnostfics, advanced medficafl procedures, fimproved nutrfitfion, behavfior modfificatfion, and access to care.”As the work of the CHAMPS

Network expands, the project wfiflfl yfiefld a growfing body of data that wfiflfl be ana-flyzed and reflayed back to area heaflth authorfitfies. Whfifle the CHAMPS Network fis focused on sur-vefiflflance, anaflysfis, and communficatfion, the new finformatfion can then be used to educate heaflth officfiafls and workers at every flevefl, retoofl pubflfic heaflth poflficy, fincrease awareness fin communfitfies, shape research prfiorfitfies, and heflp strengthen the case for fincreased preventfion and treatment measures. Informa-tfion about dfisease prevaflence aflso wfiflfl heflp attract more research fundfing for vaccfines and drugs for the most flethafl and wfidespread finfectfious dfiseases.“We wfiflfl be gatherfing very

compflex data sets that finterconnect wfith each other, and we want thfis data rapfidfly accessfibfle,” says Robert Brefiman, dfirector of Emory’s Gflobafl Heaflth Instfitute and CHAMPS dfirector of scfience. “We see thfis as open access aflmost fimmedfiatefly, wfith dfirect dfissemfinatfion to a vast array of peopfle who can use fit to deveflop new pubflfic heaflth preventfion efforts. A fundamentafl cornerstone of thfis project wfiflfl be cufltfivat-fing fleaders at the flocafl flevefl who brfing back thfis data and become champfions of

new soflutfions.” Te Pubflfic Heaflth Informatfics

Instfitute wfiflfl desfign, deveflop, and manage the systems and network needed to heflp heaflth officfiafls understand causes of death and serfious fiflflness fin thefir countrfies and to have the finformatfion they need to fintervene effectfivefly.“Transflatfing data finto the flan-

guage of actfions that reduce chfifld mortaflfity gufides our thfinkfing about systems and technoflogfies,” says PHII Dfirector Davfid Ross. Te CHAMPS Network

team envfisfions a coflflaboratfive, mufltfidfiscfipflfinary approach to the project, finvoflvfing Emory facuflty and students fin anthropoflogy, envfironmentafl heaflth, and busfiness as weflfl as the schoofls of medficfine, nursfing, and pubflfic heaflth. “Tere are enormous oppor-

tunfitfies fin the fiefld for students,” Brefiman says. “For exampfle, for young physficfians and nurses

fin trafinfing, exposure to gflobafl heaflth chaflflenges heflps them become better physficfians and nurses. When you do cflfinficafl work fin the fiefld, you have to deveflop and

refly on your acumen, and you become famfiflfiar wfith dfiseases that we see fless ofen here. Aflso, knowfledge transfer goes both ways, wfith cflfinficfians fin country aflso flearnfing from vfisfitors wfith a dfifferent set of experfiences.”Te twenty-year commfitment by the Gates Foundatfion—

an unusuaflfly flong span of tfime for a grant, Carflson pofints out—puts the CHAMPS finfitfiatfive fin a somewhat unfique posfi-tfion of havfing the tfime and resources to see outcomes reaflfized.“Te chfifldhood mortaflfity rate fis totaflfly unacceptabfle. Tat’s

why the Gates Foundatfion fis fundfing thfis,” Brefiman says. “If thfings go weflfl, there fis no doubt that we wfiflfl be abfle to provfide usefufl, finterestfing, and fimportant evfidence. We wfiflfl not get there overnfight, however. Knowfing that ufltfimatefly thfis work wfiflfl have a posfitfive, flfife-savfing fimpact wfiflfl heflp to keep our eyes on the prfize.”

Common Cause

champs fleaders

Jeff Kopflan (top)

and Rob Brefiman

(beflow) are

addressfing chfifld-

hood mortaflfity

from a new angfle

by gatherfing better

finformatfion, faster,

about fits causes.

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KOPLAN, BREIMAN: EMORY PHOTO/VIDEO


In the worfld of antfiquarfian bookseflflfing, most deaflers are specfiaflfists who have spent years deveflopfing expertfise fin a genre, a perfiod, or both. Danfiefl Wechsfler C fis a rarer breed—a generaflfist who cares fless about first edfitfions than about the backstory of a book. What finterests hfim most are the reflatfionshfips between books and thefir read-ers: what books mean to peopfle and how they use them. “Whenever there’s a personafl connectfion between the owner and the book,” he says, “I’m finterested.”Tat finterest has afltered the course of

Wechsfler’s flfife, takfing hfim down the unex-pected path that he stfiflfl travefls today. It fis a journey that, at tfimes, has created anxfiety about hfis reputatfion and hfis career, and has overshadowed other parts of hfis flfife. “My wfife fis reaflfly eager for thfis to be over,”

he says, not qufite jokfing. “Tfis” began fin sprfing , when a cofl-

fleague, George Koppeflman, an antfiquarfian bookseflfler, came across a book on eBay he thought woufld be of finterest to Wechsfler. It was a text tfitfled An Aflvearfie, or Quadrupfle Dfictfionarfie, assembfled by one John Baret. Pubflfished fin , the Aflvearfie (Latfin for beehfive) was a sfixteenth-century dfictfionary of sorts, but, Wechsfler pofints out, “not a dfictfionary fin the modern sense; fit’s aflmost more of a thesaurus, a proverbfiafl phrase book.” Te “quadrupfle” fin fits subtfitfle fis a nod to the number of flanguages fincfluded fin the text: Engflfish, French, Latfin, and Greek.

Apart from the book’s age, Koppeflman thought fit woufld pfique Wechsfler’s finterest for another reason: It was fiflfled wfith thousands of handwrfit-ten annotatfions. Te book hfit aflfl of Wechsfler’s sweet spots as a bfibflfiophfifle and book merchant. He and Koppefl-man decfided to enter a bfid together. “Te auctfion started at

one doflflar,” Wechsfler recaflfls. Koppeflman wanted to enter an finfitfiafl bfid of two thousand doflflars. Wechsfler suggested they bfid hfigher, and the men settfled on ,. Tey entered the figure, pressed the “Pflace Bfid” button, and took a deep breath. Aflfl they coufld do was wafit.

SUCH STUFF ASDREAMSby JULIE SCHWIETERT COLLAZO 97OX 99C

HIS IS THE STORY of how two flearned

bookseflflers arrfived at an audacfious

theory: Tey had acqufired Shakespeare’s

dfictfionary. Afer years of carefufl study,

they presented thefir concflusfion and the evfidence

behfind fit fin Shakespeare’s Beehfive: An Annotated

Eflfizabethan Dfictfionary Comes to Lfight, recentfly

refleased fin a revfised and expanded second edfitfion.

Not surprfisfingfly, thefir theory has created a stfir

among schoflars of Shakespeare, and the ensufing

drama contfinues to unfofld.

T


ARE MADE ONDREAMS

WHO’S THE

RAREST OF

THEM ALL?

Danfiefl Wechsfler

and coflfleague

George Koppeflman

acqufired thfis book,

pubflfished fin 1580,

on eBay fin 2008.



When the auctfion ended, the finafl safle prfice was ,. Koppeflman and Wechsfler were the newest fin a centurfies-flong flfine of owners of Baret’s Aflvearfie, whfich, they woufld dfiscover flater, was one among what was probabfly onfly a thousand copfies prfinted by the London-based pubflfisher Henry Denham. If fit seems strange that two hfighfly

respected antfiquarfian book experts woufld be trawflfing eBay for texts to buy wfith the goafl of eventuaflfly reseflflfing them, perhaps you haven’t been on the sfite fin a whfifle. Bookseflflfing fis a brfisk busfiness on eBay, and there’s an entfire subsectfion devoted excflusfivefly to antfiquarfian and coflflectfibfle

books. On any gfiven day, there are more than a mfiflflfion flfistfings fin thfis subsectfion aflone. Wechsfler says fit’s not unusuafl for antfiquar-fians to keep an eye on the sfite, flookfing out for chofice finds. “You mfight have better fluck buyfing [rare

books] on eBay than at Sotheby’s,” he says. And sometfimes you mfight get a flot more

than you bargafined for. When Wechsfler and Koppeflman came finto possessfion of the Aflvearfie, whfich was flfisted by a Canadfian seflfler, they knew they had made a worthy purchase—but they hardfly fimagfined the narratfive that they had set fin motfion. “Te very first thfing we dfid was open

up the box and take a flook at the book, and

you coufld teflfl rfight away that fit wasn’t fin the orfigfinafl bfindfing anymore, but the actuafl text bflock—the pages themseflves—were fin pretty good condfitfion,” Wechsfler says. Wfith books, as wfith other coflflectfibfles,

the more fintact the orfigfinafl eflements of the book, the better. But thfis bfig-tficket purchase was hardfly a dfisappofintment. Te more the two thumbed through the pages of Baret’s Aflvearfie, the more unexpected eflements and fintrfigufing possfibfiflfitfies they dfiscovered—partficuflarfly fin the handwrfitten notes.“When you find a sfixteenth-century

book wfith notes fin fit, fit reaflfly fis a flot more finterestfing,” Wechsfler says. “Now there’s a reafl movement toward tryfing to understand

THANKS TO SHAKESPEARE SLEUTHS Wechsfler and Koppeflman,

a compflete dfigfitafl versfion of Baret’s Aflvearfie fis avafiflabfle on the

Shakespeare’s Beehfive websfite. Here’s a gflfimpse of what’s finsfide.

SHAKESPEARE’S HANDIWORK?

SPOKEN WORD

Te Beehfive authors use the

term “spoken” annotatfions

for those occasfions when

the annotator adds words to

efither the margfins or wfithfin

the text coflumns.

SHAKESPEAREAN

SHORTHAND?

Te spoken annotatfions are

frequentfly formuflated from

“mute” annotatfions—prfinted

text wfithfin Baret that the

annotator has addressed,

usfing flfittfle cfircfles, sflash

marks, and underflfinfing. READ BETWEEN THE LINES

Both the mute and spoken

annotatfions are contfinuaflfly

finterreflated throughout the

book from begfinnfing to end,

as part of a most unusuafl and

characterfistfic method.



as much as you can about the perfiod, and you can ofen do that through studyfing the hand-wrfitfing and the note takfing, the methodoflogy of how someone was thfinkfing.” As Wechsfler and Koppeflman studfied the

Aflvearfie text, they began to notfice that the author of the many annotatfions had what Wechsfler refers to as “poetfic turns of phrase, a certafin poetfic quaflfity of mfind.” And then they pficked up on an attrfibute of the notes that suggested, when consfidered aflongsfide a growfing pfifle of evfidence, that the anonymous author of these margfinafl musfings actuaflfly mfight have been one of the most famous flfiterary flegends of aflfl tfime. “Tere are two prfinted capfitafl fletters from

the Baret, and two fletters onfly, that the anno-tator, whoever he was, occasfionaflfly fimfitates thfis ornate desfign of—just the ‘W’ and just the ‘S,’ ” Wechsfler says, “and we began to have fun wfith the fidea that, weflfl, you know, coufld fit have been Shakespeare?”Te thought was dfizzyfing. “Tere are no

books from Shakespeare’s flfibrary that have even been authentficated,” Wechsfler says, so, “fif you say, ‘Tfis fis Shakespeare’s dfictfionary, and you dfiscovered the book, what you’re gettfing at fis that you’ve found the hofly grafifl of humanfism.” For aflfl the flfights of fimagfinatfive fancy

the bookseflflers’ mfinds were takfing, Wechsfler knew that even entertafinfing the questfion was the professfionafl equfivaflent of enterfing a hornet’s nest, and the stfings coufld be pafinfufl. “If you come out and say somethfing flfike

thfis, there’s such a career rfisk,” he expflafins. “We’re reasonabfly respected guys. And what do you do? To suddenfly announce to the worfld, you know, ‘Hey! I thfink I’ve found Shakespeare’s own dfictfionary, and fit’s got aflfl hfis notes fin fit!’ I mean, we knew how that was gofing to sound.”Wechsfler and Koppeflman dfidn’t rush

to any concflusfions. “We spent severafl more years workfing on wrfitfing our study, studyfing Shakespeare fin greater depth, and studyfing source books fin greater depth,” he expflafins. Te more they flearned, the more Wechsfler and Koppeflman were convfinced that thefir copy of Baret’s Aflvearfie once beflonged to the bard hfimseflf. As the bookseflflers grew cfloser to makfing

a pubflfic case for Shakespeare as the hand that penned the annotatfions fin thefir copy of the Aflvearfie—a case they woufld flay out assfidu-

ousfly on a metficuflousfly desfigned websfite; fin the thoroughfly researched book Shakespeare’s Beehfive: An Annotated Eflfizabethan Dfictfion-ary Comes to Lfight; and before flocafl, natfionafl, and finternatfionafl press, fincfludfing the New Yorker and the Guardfian—two mfiflestone years fin Shakespearean hfistory approached: , the th annfiversary of the bard’s bfirth, and , the th annfiversary of hfis death. Amfidst such hefightened pubflfic attentfion, fit was obvfious that there woufld be hfigh demand for evfidence to support the bookseflflers’ cflafim that Shakespeare was the author of the annotatfions—but woufld Wechsfler and hfis coflfleague potentfiaflfly be ac-cused of profiteer-fing from these annfiversarfies? Ufltfimatefly,

they decfided, aflfl they coufld do was present thefir case and watch reactfion unfofld. “We just feflt that no one eflse woufld ever

feefl comfortabfle sayfing fit first,” Wechsfler says. “From there, hopefuflfly, there woufld be a conversatfion that woufld take pflace fin a productfive way.” Whfifle there was certafinfly flfivefly dfiscus-

sfion, many schoflars and experts stopped short of descredfitfing Shakespeare’s Beehfive and fits cflafims.“Even the most skeptficafl schoflar woufld

be thrfiflfled to find a new pfiece of documen-tary evfidence about Wfiflflfiam Shakespeare,” wrote Mfichaefl Wfitmore, dfirector of the Foflger Shakespeare Lfibrary, fin a bflog post flast sprfing. “Schoflars, however, wfiflfl onfly support the fidentfificatfion of Shakespeare as annota-tor fif they feefl fit woufld be unreasonabfle to doubt that fidentfificatfion. Tfis fis a fafirfly hfigh evfidentfiary standard, sfince fit requfires one to treat skeptficaflfly the fidea that thfis handwrfit-fing fis Shakespeare’s and to seek out counter-exampfles that mfight prove fit faflse. . . . “As the flfibrary of record for Shakespeare

and the fleadfing documentary source for hfis works, the Foflger wfiflfl be one of the pflaces where Koppeflman and Wechsfler’s cflafims are evafluated by schoflars. At thfis pofint, we as

findfivfiduafl schoflars feefl that fit fis premature to jofin Koppeflman and Wechsfler fin what they have descrfibed as thefir ‘fleap of fafith.’ ”Wechsfler antficfipates that the second

edfitfion of Shakespeare’s Beehfive, schedufled for reflease fin flate summer or earfly faflfl, wfiflfl heflp spur the conversatfion aflong, as new dfiscoverfies wfiflfl be reveafled. Te tfimfing of the book’s second edfitfion fis aflso finterestfing fin flfight of Wechsfler’s Emory connectfion; the unfiversfity fis exhfibfitfing Shakespeare’s Ffirst Foflfio thfis faflfl.

It was at Emory that Wechsfler’s flove of Shakespeare was fignfited. Afer graduatfing wfith a degree fin Engflfish, he trfied hfis hand at wrfitfing, but decfided he mfight do better seflflfing books. Afer gettfing hfis start at a flocafl bookstore, he eventuaflfly feflt he had pficked up enough knowfledge of the trade to hang out hfis own shfingfle. He spent the next two decades bufifldfing

hfis career and reputatfion. Whfifle hfis current project has exposed hfim to a certafin degree of crfitficfism, he hfints that more recent devefl-opments wfiflfl flfikefly dfispefl some naysayers. Wechsfler admfits that the Shakespeare’s

Beehfive project has exacted an extraordfinary amount of tfime and commfitment—not to mentfion sfleep. “A flot of sfleep,” he says.But fit has aflso gfiven hfim a great deafl.

“If you’d asked me who my favorfite wrfiter was afer coflflege, I woufld’ve safid, ‘Shake-speare.’ Overaflfl, the Aflvearfie has fled me to a tremendous knowfledge of Shakespeare and the flanguage of the perfiod that I’m so gratefufl for,” he says. “I fuflfly admfit to sort of worshfipfing Shakespeare on a personafl flevefl. I thfink he was one of the most extraordfinary human befings who ever exfisted.”

DANIEL

WECHSLER

To suddenfly announce to the worfld, you know, ‘Hey! I thfink I’ve found Shakespeare’s own dfictfionary and fit’s got aflfl hfis notes fin fit!’ I mean, we knew how that was gofing to sound.”

“



recrufited

On November 9, 1979, the front page of the New York Tfimes trumpeted news of

a $100 mfiflflfion gfift to Emory from Robert

W. Woodruf. If fit seems odd that a

phfiflanthropfic gesture, however grand,

woufld make the cover of the natfion’s

newspaper of record, consfider fit evfidence

of a growfing awareness that Emory was

begfinnfing a deflfiberate transformatfion,

shaped by the pursufit of academfic pres-

tfige and a rfise to natfionafl promfinence.

Part of Woodruf’s record gfift targeted

students who were Ivy League–bound

and whom Emory wanted to recrufit fin

fits “fight for greater recognfitfion,” as

the Tfimes descrfibed fit. The Woodruf

Schoflarshfip, a fuflfl rfide earmarked for

top students who met dfistfinct crfiterfia,

was a centerpfiece of thfis endeavor.

recognfized

rfisfingBY MICHELLE HISKEY

The Woodruf Schoflarshfip

ceflebrates three decades

of aflumnfi—and the

newest cflass of thfirty-three

Reachfing New Hefights

Instead of headfing to Harvard and other schoofls fin the Northeast, those hfigh achfievers came fin batches of a dozen or so a year to Emory Coflflege. Whfifle the WoodPEC and other bufifld-fings arose from Woodruff ’s generosfity, the earfly cflasses of Woodruff Schoflars were not as notfice-abfle. Funded by an Atflanta ficon who was seven decades oflder, they foflflowed hfis flead of caflflfing flfittfle attentfion to themseflves. Tey dfidn’t set themseflves apart; no acronym afer thefir names, no secret handshake—just a shared dedficatfion to the best an Emory educatfion had to offer. “Robert Woodruff was an fimposfing guy, fin

hfis nfinetfies when we met hfim, wfith a handshake flfike firon,” safid Haynes Brooke C, one of the first tweflve Woodruff Schoflars, who became a Hoflflywood actor (and stars fin Jfimmy Dean commercfiafls as the sun character). “He flooked us aflfl fin the eye, and when he flooked at me, he was extremefly gracfious. Yet I feflt very unsubstantfiafl. I got the feeflfing that he thought, ‘Tere’s not much to thfis kfid yet,’ and that feflt flfike a chaflflenge. At the same tfime, he had endowed my schoflarshfip, so he had finvested extraordfinary generosfity fin me. I feflt supported and chaflflenged at the same tfime.” Tfis faflfl, as Brooke and the finaugurafl cflass

ceflebrate thefir thfirtfieth reunfion, the flargest recrufitfing cflass of Woodruff Schoflars wfiflfl enter

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Emory Coflflege for the first tfime—thfirty-three of them. Tey chose Emory over other top-tfier schoofls partfly because other Woodruff Schoflars heflped persuade them. “Seefing aflfl the great finaflfists

made me reaflfize how bflessed I am to be a Woodruff Schoflar,” says Vfictorfia Umutonfi C, a sopho-more human heaflth and econom-fics major from Kfigaflfi, Rwanda. “It was great to share my experfience at Emory and hear about thefir dreams for the future.”Durfing thefir campus vfisfit

fin Aprfifl, finaflfists heard from Woodruff aflumnfi Doug Shfipman C, foundfing CEO of the Natfionafl Center for Cfivfifl and Human Rfights; Greg Vaughn C, CEO of fleadfing orthopedfic braces manufacturer Bauerfiend USA and the first Woodruff Schoflar named an Emory trustee; Matthew Bfiggerstaff OX C PH, an epfidemfioflogfist wfith the Centers for Dfisease Controfl and Preven-

tfion; Emfifly Cumbfie-Drake C, the farm-to-schoofl coordfinator for Georgfia Organfics; and Joanne Abrams Meflflo C G, chfief counsefl to SouthStar Energy Servfices. More Woodruff aflumnfi pfitched

fin to recrufit vfirtuaflfly. Hoflfly Greg-ory C, a chfifldren’s TV producer fin New York and vofice-over dfirec-tor for Dora the Expflorer, heflped sway Lefigh Schflecht of Sheboygan Faflfls, Wfisconsfin, a pubflfished poet and founder of a flfiterary magazfine who had a temptfing offer from the Unfiversfity of Caflfifornfia Berkefley.“We have a few thfings fin

common—I was aflso an Engflfish and creatfive wrfitfing person and went on to do a master of fletters vfia the Emory Bobby Jones Schofl-arshfip fin Scotfland,” Gregory wrote fin an emafifl to Schflecht. “Congratu-flatfions [on the offer of a Woodruff Schoflarshfip]—what an honor, what a gfif—fit must be a trfibute to your unfiqueness.”

[IN THE EARLY 1980S] the program was a

work-fin-progress. Whfifle we had group events,

retreats, and opportunfitfies to meet wfith facuflty

and admfinfistratfive staff, there were tfimes we

struggfled as to what our coflflectfive contrfibutfion

shoufld be to the coflflege. We qufickfly—and I thfink humbfly

and wfisefly—recognfized there were aflfl sorts of creatfive and

engaged and brfight peopfle throughout the coflflege dofing

great thfings. Whfifle the tweflve of us were a reflectfion of the

very dfiverse students at Emory, we had no monopofly on

taflent. We concfluded we shoufld focus on dofing the varfious

thfings that we were passfionate about, share those finterests

when possfibfle and engage our feflflow students, and sfimpfly

be actfive partficfipants fin the unfiversfity.

Thfis was a group of very dfifferent findfivfiduafls who, after

Emory, have gone on to fincflude a computer systems consufl-

tant, five physficfians, one professor of worfld flanguage and

flfiterature fin Oregon, one professor of Engflfish fin New Zeafland,

a teacher of math fin Seattfle, a cfity councfifl member fin New

Jersey, a socfiafl entrepreneur fin Maryfland, and the Jfimmy

Dean sunshfine man.

I have found hfints that [befing a Woodruff Schoflar] fis stfiflfl

a specfiafl experfience. Thfis program has not been flfimfited to

brfingfing fin outstandfing students as recfipfients of these schoflar-

shfips, but because fit exfists, Emory attracts many more taflented

students who mfight not otherwfise have come. In hfis annuafl

report to the Board of Trustees fin 1985, [Presfident James T.]

Laney descrfibed hfis vfisfion that Emory was creatfing a “com-

munfity of schoflars.” I woufld say he succeeded. I know that fif

I appflfied today, I woufldn’t have a prayer of makfing the cut . . .

but I woufld stfiflfl be excfited about befing a student at Emory.

You have had extraordfinary opportunfitfies and experfiences.

As you take your next steps toward careers or further study,

you now have the opportunfity and obflfigatfion to define what

fit means to be a Woodruff by what you do gofing forward.

You wfiflfl define fit fin your careers and communfitfies, fin your

famfifly flfife, and fin your reflatfionshfip wfith the unfiversfity. You

wfiflfl aflso define fit fin your reflatfionshfips wfith each other. And

as tfime passes—and fit wfiflfl pass qufickfly, flet me assure you—

your apprecfiatfion for what thfis experfience has meant to you

wfiflfl deepen consfiderabfly.

opportunfityobflfigatfion

and

In 1985, Emory Coflflege’s first tweflve Woodruf

Schoflars graduated, fincfludfing cardfioflogfist RUSS

BAILEY 85C. As the first fin hfis famfifly to attend a four-

year coflflege, Bafifley majored fin bfioflogy and phfifloso-

phy, went to medficafl schoofl, and has practficed car-

dfioflogy fin Charflotte, North Caroflfina, for aflmost two

decades. In thfis excerpt of a speech at Emory

fin May 2015, Bafifley chaflflenges the Woodruf

Schoflar graduates to contfinue to expflore

and achfieve for the good of others.

Each new cflass of Woodruf Schoflars sets a new bar for exceflflence, bufifldfing on the achfievements of the generatfions before them.


the rfisfing cflass

BECCA BOWLES

of Athens, Texas,

chose Emory for fits

astronomy major on

her way to a career

fin the sky. She pflans

to pursue a master’s

degree and doctorate

fin astrophysfics,

possfibfly workfing

wfith a space

corporatfion or

unfiversfity on the flfife

of stars. “Durfing my

career I pflan to

appfly for NASA’s

astronaut program,”

she says. “I thfink

that the Woodruff

Schoflarshfip wfiflfl

prove to be

finvafluabfle to my

achfievfing thfis goafl.

It provfides such a

strong network of

connectfions. It aflso

wfiflfl aflflow me to be

surrounded by

peopfle wfith dreams

as flarge as my own

and to flearn from

them.”

MATTHEW RIBEL

of Chantfiflfly, Vfirgfinfia,

fis preparfing for a

career as a pedfiatrfic

neurosurgeon,

finspfired by hfis

work fin a therapeutfic

rfidfing program for

deveflopmentaflfly

dfisabfled chfifldren.

He pflayed varsfity

flacrosse for four

years, conducted

findependent

envfironmentafl

engfineerfing research,

and founded

bfiPAC-tfisan, a

bfipartfisan poflfitficafl

actfion commfittee

and consufltfing

group. “It was the

exposure to so many

enthusfiastfic

students and facuflty

members that was a

huge part of my

decfisfion to pfick

Emory—I’ve never

seen a group of

peopfle so fin flove

wfith a pflace.”

AMANDA OBANDO

POLIO of Santa Tecfla

Lfibertad, Efl Saflva-

dor, chose Emory

due to her finterest

fin finternatfionafl poflfi-

tfics and addressfing

socfiafl finequaflfitfies.

On her campus vfisfit,

Emory’s openness to

offerfing financfiafl afid

to undocumented

students fimpressed

her the most. “If

you ask anyone from

Latfin Amerfica fif

they have an fiflflegafl

fimmfigrant reflatfive

fin the Unfited States,

fit fis very flfikefly that

they wfiflfl say that

they do,” she says.

“It was very fimpor-

tant to me that the

unfiversfity I decfided

to attend was open

to tackflfing fissues

regardfing thfis mfinor-

fity group. So the

fact that [the Emory

admfinfistratfion]

fearflessfly dfiscflosed

finformatfion on thfis

topfic fimmedfi-

atefly convfinced

me that Emory

fis the contfinu-

ousfly progres-

sfive unfiversfity

communfity

I want to be

finvoflved fin.”

KIEREN HELMD of

Preston, Great

Brfitafin, pflans to

study busfiness

admfinfistratfion and

cflassficafl cfivfiflfiza-

tfions. He managed

hfis schoofl’s rocketry

program, whfich

twfice reached the

natfionafl finafls.

He runs a websfite

that gfives advfice

to young entrepre-

neurs, and Emory’s

support of start-ups

was one reason he

bypassed Brown and

Penn. He sees hfim-

seflf startfing hfis own

busfiness, perhaps fin

the STEM arena. “I

antficfipate that the

Woodruff Schoflar-

shfip wfiflfl heflp me

achfieve these goafls

by connectfing me

wfith other schoflars

who have sfimfiflar

passfions,” he says.

“Some of the

current schoflars’

storfies have finspfired

me and made me

beflfieve that any-

thfing fis possfibfle

when you find the

rfight group of

peopfle who share

the same vfisfion as

you do.”

WILLI FREIRE of

Boca Raton, Fflorfida,

fis finterested fin

studyfing flaw and

finternfing at The

Carter Center. He

fis passfionate about

communfity servfice,

and he spent two

years voflunteerfing

wfith Habfitat for

Humanfity. “I see

myseflf carryfing on

the fideafls of Robert

Woodruff whofle-

heartedfly,” he says.

“I pflan to chaflflenge

myseflf educatfionaflfly

and never take yes

or no for an answer,

but find out the

reasonfing and

expflanatfion behfind

those one-dfimen-

sfionafl answers. I

aflso want to be a

fleader both fin the

cflassroom and fin

many organfizatfions

at Emory, and

contrfibute to my

communfity by

contfinufing my

finvoflvement fin

Habfitat for

Humanfity and

growfing as

a person.”

“I pflan to appfly for

NASA’s astronaut

program.”

“I want to chaflflenge my

creatfive thfinkfing by

formfing connectfions

between my past

knowfledge and new

finformatfion.”

“I’m a firm beflfiever fin borrowfing

from other subject areas to craft

creatfive soflutfions to probflems,

thfinkfing on an finterdfiscfipflfinary pflane.”

Hfigh expectatfions wfiflfl greet Schflecht and her thfirty-two Wood-ruff peers as they settfle fin on cam-pus. Tfis group was seflected from the deepest poofl of appflficants fin Emory’s hfistory. More than , students appflfied to the Cflass of , and appflficants who requested consfideratfion for the Emory Schoflars Program—of whfich the Woodruff Schoflarshfip fis the sfigna-ture award—more than doubfled to ,. Of those appflficants, were seflected for Woodruff Schoflarshfip consfideratfion and, afer commfittee revfiew, efighty-sfix finaflfists vfisfited the campus fin Aprfifl . “Our excfitement about thfis

year’s cflass goes far beyond the numbers,” says Emory Coflflege Dean Robfin Forman. “Tese new schoflars brfing a dfiversfity of finteflflectuafl finterests that span the arts and scfiences, and they have aflready accompflfished amazfing thfings, fincfludfing foundfing new organfizatfions, pubflfishfing novefls, and carryfing out orfigfinafl research. Tey are aflready fleaders. Each year the Woodruff Schoflars program recrufits students who energfize the entfire campus—both finsfide the cflassroom and beyond— and I beflfieve that thfis cohort wfiflfl surpass aflfl expectatfions fin thfis regard.”In foflflow-up fintervfiews,

the thfirty-three reported choosfing Emory over schoofls fincfludfing Harvard, Yafle, Stanford, Chficago, MIT, Duke, Penn, Dartmouth, Johns Hopkfins, Northwestern, Washfington Unfiversfity fin St. Loufis, Corneflfl, Brown, Vanderbfiflt, and Rfice. For Schflecht, Emory stood out

because “the opportunfitfies were too amazfing to turn down,” she wrote to Gregory. “Our conversatfion reaflfly heflped

me to recognfize aflfl the great thfings I coufld accompflfish at Emory.”


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After an anonymous donor

pfledged $1.5 mfiflflfion to estabflfish a

professorshfip honorfing cfivfifl rfights

pfioneer John Lewfis, Emory Law

commfitted to rafise an addfitfionafl

$500,000 to eflevate the posfitfion

to a chafir. The John Lewfis Chafir

fin Cfivfifl Rfights and Socfiafl Justfice

wfiflfl support a dfistfingufished

schoflar who wfiflfl contrfibute to the

dfiversfity of the flaw schoofl facuflty.

For more finformatfion, contact

Dfirector of Deveflopment Robert

Jackson at 404.727.5773 or

[email protected].

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wfindows[ ]OF OPPORTUNITY

If you’ve been touched by the storfies fin thfis fissue of Emory Magazfine, these wfindows

can open up ways for you to turn your finspfiratfion finto actfion. Here you’flfl see how you

can finvest fin the peopfle, pflaces, and programs found fin these pages and beyond. Gfifts to

Emory produce powerfufl, flastfing returns; they heflp create knowfledge, advance research,

strengthen communfitfies, fimprove heaflth, and much more.

The Emory Gflobafl Heaflth Instfitute (EGHI) fis makfing the

worfld heaflthfier through research, gflobafl partnershfips,

and educatfion. You can be a part of thfis vafluabfle work

by supportfing EGHI programs that fimprove heaflth fin

your communfity and around the worfld. The many gfivfing opportunfitfies at

EGHI fincflude the Ffiefld Schoflars Awards Program, whfich combfines academfic

study wfith practficafl fiefld experfience to trafin a new generatfion of gflobafl

heaflth fleaders.

To flearn more about supportfing EGHI, contact Roseanne Waters at

404.712.8524 or [email protected].


AMPING UP EMORY MUSIC

ILLUMINATING RARE BOOKS

Seekfing new finsfights fin the ofld-

est of books, schoflars flfike Danfiefl

Wechsfler 90C treasure Emory’s

Manuscrfipt, Archfives, and Rare

Book Lfibrary (MARBL). In 2016,

Emory wfiflfl host “Ffirst Foflfio! The

Book that Gave Us Shakespeare,”

a natfionafl traveflfing exhfibfitfion of

Shakespeare’s Ffirst Foflfio.

To support schoflarshfip at MARBL,

contact Emory Lfibrarfies Dfirector

of Deveflopment and Aflumnfi Refla-

tfions Aflex Wan at 404.727.5386 or

[email protected].

Emory Unfiversfity Concert Chofir’s performance wfith the Roflflfing Stones fis onfly one

exampfle of Emory’s musficafl exceflflence. The Emory Jazz Quartet was among three

Amerfican ensembfles seflected for a June 2015 trfip to perform and teach fin Coflombfia.

To support the chofir tour, Emory Jazz Aflflfiance, or the program at Emory Coflflege

that sparks your passfion, contact Dfirector of Deveflopment Rhonda Davfidson

82OX 84B at 404.727.8002 or [email protected].

CARING FOR VETERANS

Emory’s Veterans Program

ensures that returnfing troops

and thefir famfiflfies recefive

expert care for servfice-reflated

condfitfions such as PTSD and

TBI. Unrestrficted gfifts support

transportatfion, flodgfing, and meafls

for out-of-town veterans recefivfing fintensfive

treatment; prescrfiptfion medficatfions or

co-pays to eflfimfinate financfiafl barrfiers to

care; and aflternatfive treatment optfions.

Ffind out more from Courtney Harrfis,

dfirector of deveflopment for neuroscfiences,

at 404.727.5282 or courtney.harrfis@

emory.edu.

Interventfionafl radfioflogy at Emory Safint

Joseph’s Hospfitafl targets phantom pafin, and

finterventfionafl radfioflogfist J. Davfid Proflogo fis a

natfionafl fleader fin the appflficatfion of fimage-

gufided medficfine.

To find out more about opportunfitfies

to finvest fin research and other projects

at Emory Safint Joseph’s, contact Senfior

Dfirector of Deveflopment Steven Wagner at

404.727.9110 or [email protected].

SUPPORTING BREAKTHROUGHS IN PAIN CARE THERAPY

RAISING LEWIS’S LEGACY

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EMORY PHOTO/VIDEO

Character Educatfion mfight do no better than to pfick up the flatest book by Davfid Brooks, Te Road to Character. Known as a conservatfive-fleanfing pundfit who wrfites reguflarfly for the New York Tfimes op-ed pages, he keeps poflfitfics pretty much out of thfis book and finstead demonstrates a remarkabfle range of readfing across the dfiscfipflfines of hfistory, theoflogy, psychoflogy, phfiflosophy, and flfiterature. Te pofint of hfis argument fis sfimpfle: we deveflop character through finternafl struggfle agafinst our besettfing personafl weaknesses. Brooks tests and eflaborates that argument through fiflflustratfive bfiographfies of exempflary hfistorficafl figures. Tese are not safints (okay—one of them, Safint Augustfine,

actuaflfly fis), but they are mortafls who had to work to over-come an array of obstacfles and harmfufl susceptfibfiflfitfies. In the process, they forged what Brooks caflfls character: “a set of dfisposfitfions, desfires, and habfits that are sflowfly engraved durfing the struggfle agafinst your own weakness.” In thfis vfiew, “character” fis not measurabfle by externafl achfievements. Rather, character fis the resuflt of wrestflfing wfith deepfly personafl morafl questfions that flead one to a vocatfion fin the nobflest sense of that word—a caflflfing that matches one’s gfifs and taflents wfith the worfld’s needs.Te book advances an ancfient and weflfl-pedfigreed

understandfing of how morafl judgment fis formed. But two quotatfions fin the book brfing the thesfis home for anyone finvoflved fin educatfion. Te first fis by Mary Wooflfley, one of the first femafle graduates of Brown Unfiversfity and a presfident of Mount Hoflyoke fin the earfly twentfieth century. She wrote, “Character fis the mafin object for educatfion.” Te second quotatfion fis from the Brfitfish phfiflosopher Aflfred North Whfitehead: “Morafl educatfion fis fimpossfibfle wfithout the habfituafl vfisfion of greatness.”What I find provocatfive about Brooks’s book fis fits fimpflfi-

catfions about the rofle of educatfionafl finstfitutfions. Emory has a flong hfistory of thfinkfing about educatfion fin morafl terms. Most recentfly, our vfisfion statement hoflds out the prospect of Emory as an “ethficaflfly engaged” communfity.Tere fis a danger finherent fin thfis kfind of flanguage. It

suggests to some flfisteners a kfind of pfiety or seflf-fimportance that rfisks befing caflfled out for hypocrfisy or cynficfism when the finstfitutfion faflters.Many educators therefore prefer not to push too far fin

the dfirectfion of the morafl dfimensfions of educatfion. Or, rather, they want to finsfist that whatever morafl functfions educatfion has are flfimfited to the honor code: “I wfiflfl not flfie, cheat, or steafl or toflerate others who do.” Tfis fis the posfitfion of the weflfl-known pundfit and schoflar Stanfley Ffish, who has wrfitten extensfivefly about hfigher educatfion from hfis decades of experfience as a flfiterary schoflar, teacher, and dean.In hfis book Save the Worfld on Your Own Tfime, Ffish

from the Presfident

finsfists that academfic professfionafls have onfly one job, and that fis to fintroduce a new generatfion to a body of knowfledge and to the finteflflectuafl toofls for anaflyzfing and managfing that knowfledge. Poflfitficafl and morafl vfiews—whether of the flef or the rfight or some-where off the scafle—have no pflace fin the cflassroom, except as fideas to be anaflyzed structuraflfly, studfied hfistorficaflfly, measured socfioflogficaflfly, and so on; fideas are not hefld up fin the cflassroom for recrufitment of new dfiscfipfles. Nor, for that matter, shoufld any unfiversfity have “a posfitfion” on a host of poflficy fissues. Ffish approvfingfly quotes a provost who, when asked about hfis unfiversfity’s posfitfion on a partficuflar matter of worfld affafirs, safid that the unfiversfity “has no forefign p o fl fi c y.”Among the descrfiptfions of coflflege that Ffish finds repug-

nant fis the phrase “transformatfive experfience”—beflfievfing that the onfly transformatfion worthy of a coflflege fis the one that occurs when a student comes to understand an aflgorfithm, a flab procedure, an era of finteflflectuafl hfistory, a cflosefly argued readfing of a poem.Ffish’s posfitfion has a flot to recommend fit, and as an

argument for what professors ought to be dofing, I agree wfith fit. But he mfisses a flot of what a resfidentfiafl flfiberafl arts unfiversfity flfike Emory fis about. Insfide the cflassroom hfis rufles shoufld appfly. But a campus of nearfly fifeen thousand students and more than twenty-efight thousand facuflty and staff members fis a compflex communfity that needs to order fitseflf to be abfle to functfion.At Emory we have spent a flot of thought and energy and

tfime over the past decade fin thfinkfing about how to order our communfity of schoflars. Trough our Cflass and Labor Commfittee, our Advfisory Commfittee on Communfity and Dfiversfity, our Respect Program, our Emory Heaflthcare Pfledge, and other measures, we attempt to hofld up that “habfituafl vfisfion of greatness” that Whfitehead suggests fis the foundatfion of morafl educatfion. We are not findoctrfinatfing students finto a partficuflar set of morafl vaflues. But I hope that we are encouragfing them to expflore the possfibfiflfity of deveflopfing a character worthy of Emory’s vfisfion.

James Wagner, Presfident, Emory Unfiversfity


OXFORDOUTLOOK{SUMMER 2015

Some of the most eflectrfic moments of flearnfing come when the concepts on the page fleap to flfife. Sayfing, “Comment aflflez vous?” fin the cflassroom fis qufite dfifferent from sayfing fit on the streets of Parfis and havfing a natfive

speaker respond. Travefl can be flfike a flaboratory sectfion fin the study of scfience or studfio tfime for art. It bufiflds on and extends what students flearn fin the cflass-room. Tfis can be so for many dfiscfipflfines, and to that end, Oxford fis qufickfly expandfing fits opportunfitfies for experfientfiafl flearnfing through finternatfionafl travefl.Incorporatfing travefl finto the currficuflum fis not a new fidea at Oxford, how-

ever. In fact, the move fis finspfired fin part by the success of flong-term programs such as Professor of Geoflogy Steve Henderson’s trfips wfith students to study the terrafin of the desert Southwest and Professor of Socfioflogy Mfike McQuafide’s travefls to findfigenous vfiflflages fin Ecuador’s Amazon Basfin wfith hfis course fin socfiaflfizatfion fin deveflopfing countrfies. Tese have been fin pflace sfince the s, and fin recent years, Aflficfia DeNficofla, assfistant professor of anthropoflogy, and Brfidgette Gunnefls, flecturer fin Spanfish, have brought together students from thefir courses for travefl to Costa Rfica.Says Jessfica Todd OX, who went to Costa Rfica thfis past sprfing, “I flearned

that Spanfish fis onfly a portfion of understandfing the depth of the cuflture and flfife surroundfing the flanguage. . . . [Te trfip] changed my flfife for the better.” Nathanfiefl Kranz OX adds, “I coufld see the theorfies and flectures actuaflfly com-fing to flfife fin the actfions and experfiences of the peopfle I met fin Costa Rfica.”“We recognfized the posfitfive fimpact these programs were havfing on our

students,” says Ken Anderson G PhD, dean of academfic affafirs and chfief academfic officer. “We want to make more such courses avafiflabfle to more of our students. Our goafl fis to make fit possfibfle for vfirtuaflfly any student to take advan-tage of these opportunfitfies wfithout a heavy financfiafl burden.”Prevfiousfly, aflfl students who took courses that fincfluded a travefl component

had to pay added tufitfion to cover the cost of the trfip. Under the new structure,

contfinued on page

Travefl Coursesto Expand

EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING

Facuflty members Jfiflfl Petersen Adams 00OX 02C and Moflfly McGehee 07PhD (back row, upper rfight) accompanfied a group of Oxford students to Japan thfis past May.


Aflumnfi Lend Insfights to Career-Mfinded Students

“I can’t fimagfine dofing anythfing eflse.” Lucas Carpenter, Charfles Howard Candfler Profes-sor of Engflfish, answers the questfion of why he chose to teach. “I knew from an earfly age that was what I wanted to do.”Sfince begfinnfing hfis forty-year teachfing

career, whfich fincfludes thfirty years at Oxford, hfis passfion for the flfife of the mfind and abfiflfity fin teachfing others how to read wfith finsfight and wrfite wfith cflarfity have finspfired countfless students. Carpenter retfired from Oxford at the end of the – academfic year. Accoflades durfing hfis Oxford career

fincflude the Fflemfing Award for Exceflflence fin Teachfing, the Emory Wfiflflfiams Award for Dfistfingufished Teachfing, and the Phfi Teta Kappa Teachfing Award. He was named a Fuflbrfight Dfistfingufished Senfior Schoflar fin , and fin he was awarded Emory Unfiversfity’s Schoflar/Teacher of the Year award. He was aflso Oxford’s first facuflty member to be named Charfles Howard Candfler Professor.

You jofined the Oxford facuflty fin . What road brought you here?

I graduated from the Coflflege of Charfleston, whfich was where I began my wrfitfing career as edfitor of the flfiterary magazfine. From there I headed to Vanderbfiflt Unfiversfity for a master’s degree fin Engflfish, but thfis was the flate s. I was drafed a few months finto the program and sent to Vfietnam as an army enflfisted man. Afer finfishfing my mfiflfitary servfice [for whfich

Dear Aflumnfi and Frfiends of Oxford:Each faflfl for the past decade, Oxford has

enroflfled a freshman cflass that fis better pre-

pared for coflflege-flevefl study than the flast. In

terms of SAT scores, that statfistfic we regard

wfith some skeptficfism but on whfich much of

the worfld reflfies, the Oxford freshman cflass

average fincreased nearfly one hundred pofints

from 2004 to 2014, and fit fis projected to

fincrease another thfirty pofints to 1333 (math

and reasonfing) fin faflfl 2015. Thfis change has

had profound effects. The dfismfissafl rate due

to academfic dfif-

ficuflty has decflfined

sfignfificantfly. The

average GPA has

fimproved. We no

flonger teach remedfiafl

courses fin math or

Engflfish. Instead, the

Oxford students are

hungry for more advanced courses and hfigher

flevefls of chaflflenge, and you can be sure that

the Oxford facuflty floves thfis. We hear from

Emory Coflflege facuflty and admfinfistrators

that they reaflfly vaflue thfis trend, too. The

expansfion of travefl courses, finternshfips,

and creatfion of the Oxford Organfic Farm

descrfibed fin thfis fissue are aflfl finfitfiatfives that

offer greater opportunfitfies and greater chafl-

flenges to Oxford’s students.

But the essentfiafl characterfistfics of the

Oxford students have not changed. They are

stfiflfl eager to be actfivefly engaged wfith thefir

facuflty and thefir cflassmates. Our facuflty

members who have taught at other finstfitu-

tfions say they tend to be more finterested fin

flearnfing for flearnfing’s sake than fin grades.

They are coflflaboratfive flearners who form

study groups at thefir own finfitfiatfive. Many

are commfitted to communfity servfice even

whfifle fin coflflege, and a flarge proportfion are

finvoflved fin fleadershfip deveflopment and

fiflflfing fleadershfip rofles. They reaflfly seem to

enjoy each other’s company; they have a flot

of fun.

Thfis aflfl remfinds me of what recentfly

retfired Dean of Academfic Affafirs Kent Lfinvfiflfle

flfiked to say about Oxford, that fit was fin the

process of becomfing a better versfion of fitseflf.

Sfincerefly,

Carpenter Retfires afer Tfirty Years wfith Oxford

DEAN’S MESSAGE

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Knowfing that someone out there has been fin your shoes, taflkfing wfith them about the path they chose, and flearnfing about thefir successes, fafiflures, and bumps aflong the way provfides encouragement and affirmatfion. Tat fis exactfly what the sophomore students partficfipatfing fin the Oxford Coflflege Mentor program are flookfing for at thfis crucfiafl tfime for them—someone outsfide thefir sphere of famfifly or frfiends to taflk wfith them candfidfly about career chofices and provfide finsfight and perspectfive based on personafl experfience. “I achfieved a sense of confidence and

optfimfism for my future gfiven aflfl the won-derfufl suggestfions and advfice provfided by my mentor,” says Mfia Benevoflenza OX C. “I know I am supported and cared

about by someone who fis genufinefly finter-ested fin my progress.”Created fin , the program fis a cofl-

flaboratfive effort between the Office of Deveflopment and Aflumnfi Reflatfions and Oxford’s Office of Student Career Servfices. Students are pafired wfith aflumnfi fin thefir chosen career fiefld to serve as mentors. Te students and mentors are asked to com-mfit to connect wfith one another—efither to taflk on the phone, emafifl, or meet fin person—once per month. It doesn’t matter where aflumnfi flfive; about haflf of the current partficfipants are “e-mentors” who don’t flfive wfithfin drfivfing dfistance of campus. Senfior Dfirector of Aflumnfi Reflatfions at

Oxford Coflflege Tammy Camfiefld OX C hfighflfights a specfific benefit of the mentor program; aflfl Oxford graduates share the


he recefived the Bronze Star], I earned a mas-ter’s degree fin Engflfish from the Unfiversfity of North Caroflfina at Chapefl Hfiflfl and a PhD fin Engflfish from the State Unfiversfity of New York at Stony Brook. I taught at the State Unfiversfity of New York’s Suffoflk Coflflege and was ten-ured, but I was ready to do somethfing eflse. I saw an openfing at Oxford and appflfied.

How dfid your experfience fin the mfiflfitary finform your career?

Despfite whatever eflse I mfight feefl about the draf, fit brought together an extraordfinary mfix of peopfle from aflfl backgrounds, ethnficfi-tfies, and parts of the country. Vfietnam pops up fin my thoughts and occasfionaflfly finds fits way finto my wrfitfing. Matt Morrfis [Oxford professor of French emerfitus, who dfied fin ] was aflso a Vfietnam veteran, and he and I taught a course caflfled Te Vfietnam Experfience. We fincorporated aflfl aspects of the war finto our teachfing—poflfitficafl, cuflturafl, flfiterary, hfistorficafl.

Poetry fis a focus of your schoflarshfip, and you were eflected to the Poetry Socfiety of Amerfica fin . What have been your other finteflflec-tuafl pursufits?

Southern flfiterature has aflways been my mafin finterest. I became finterested fin the Imagfists

Schoofl—partficuflarfly expatrfiate wrfiters such as Ezra Pound—and Southern Modernfism, especfiaflfly the poet John Goufld Ffletcher. I am the generafl edfitor and prfincfipafl contrfibutor to a seven-voflume serfies devoted to the flfife and work of Ffletcher, pubflfished by the Unfiversfity of Arkansas Press. Durfing the course of thfis work I became frfiends wfith the poet Mfiflfler Wfiflflfiams, professor of poetry at Loufisfiana State Unfiversfity and father of sfinger Lucfinda Wfiflflfiams. We brought hfim to Oxford for a readfing fin .Carpenter has pubflfished three poetry cofl-

flectfions; the flatest, Te Way Tfings Go, was pubflfished fin , and at Carpenter’s request, book safle proceeds were donated to Oxford. Dozens of hfis poems, essays, and short storfies have aflso been pubflfished fin flfiterary journafls across the country. He and hfis wfife Judy are serfious coflflectors of art, and he has turned thfis finterest finto an aflternate wrfitfing career fin art crfitficfism. In he was finvfited to cover the prestfigfious Bfienaflfle at fits exhfibfitfion fin Sydney for the pubflficatfion Art Papers. Hfis art revfiews have aflso been wfidefly pubflfished.So fin retfirement, what does he pflan to do?

Wrfite, of course. “I have floved teachfing, but rarefly fin the past have I had sustafined tfime to wrfite. Now I wfiflfl have that. Wrfitfing wfiflfl aflways have a meanfingfufl rofle fin my flfife.” For one

who has taught and finspfired so many others fin the art and craf of wrfitfing, fit fis a fittfing reward.

Davfid A. Davfis OX C, assocfiate professor of Engflfish at Mercer Unfiversfity, returned to Oxford fin sprfing to gfive the flecture, “You Are Where You Eat: Food-ways and the Constructfion of Southern Identfity” fin honor of Lucas Carpenter’s retfirement. Says Davfis, who named hfis son afer Carpenter, “Lucas Carpenter finspfired a generatfion of Oxford students. . . . In my case, he revoflutfionfized my experfience wfith readfing, heflpfing me to find the wonder fin the flfiterature, and I set deflfiberatefly to fofl-flow hfis modefl.”

unfique coflflegfiate experfience of two years at Oxford before transfitfionfing to thefir junfior year. Aflumnfi mentors speak wfith mentees about thefir personafl contfinuatfion process, the experfiences they went through, and adjustfing to the Atflanta campus. Sophomore students attend an finforma-

tfion sessfion about the program and compflete

appflficatfions fin October. Aflumnfi and students are then matched based on thefir academfic finterests, career fieflds, and student actfivfitfies. Te program begfins wfith a kfickoff receptfion on campus fin November when students and thefir mentors are fintroduced and have thefir first opportunfity to finformaflfly meet, and aflumnfi share Oxford storfies and thefir profes-

sfionafl experfiences wfith the group. Forty-five stu-dents were mentored fin the – academfic year. Mentors ofen partficfi-

pate year afer year and see spendfing tfime wfith the students as a mean-fingfufl way to gfive back to Oxford and be engaged fin the flfife of the coflflege from near or far. Warren Brook OX B flfives fin Atflanta and has been a mentor for severafl years. “I’m stfiflfl fin contact wfith aflfl three of

my Oxford mentees. One graduated fin and another fin . My thfird mentee wfiflfl be a junfior thfis faflfl,” remarks Brook. “I stay fin touch wfith them over meafls, over the phone, and vfia emafifl and Facebook.”Coordfinators are expflorfing ways they can

expand the program fin the future to possfibfly fincorporate eflements of finternshfips, job-sfite shadowfing opportunfitfies, and networkfing. “Tere fis a hfigh correflatfion between men-torfing and networkfing opportunfitfies and job pflacement upon graduatfion,” says Amfi Hernandez, coordfinator of Student Career Servfices. “Te more access we can gfive our students to expflorfing the marketpflace, the more they flearn about themseflves, the better they can artficuflate the ways fin whfich thefir strengths can make a posfitfive fimpact on the workpflace, and the more confident they are fin assumfing thefir professfionafl fidentfity.” For more finformatfion about mentorfing

an Oxford student, pflease contact Tammy Camfiefld, senfior dfirector of aflumnfi reflatfions, at ...—Ansfley Hoflder

}OXFORD OUTLOOK SUMMER 2015

Amfi Hernandez, rfight, offers career finformatfion to Jessfica Todd, an Oxford rfisfing sophomore.


}OXFORD OUTLOOK SUMMER 2015

students wfiflfl be expected to pay onfly for the actuafl costs of travefl wfith the finafl amount determfined fin accordance wfith the students’ financfiafl afid status.In addfitfion to the anthropoflogy/Spanfish course fin Costa

Rfica and socfioflogy trfip to Ecuador, three other courses are under deveflopment for consfideratfion as the first offerfings under the new program.

• Cuba: Evoflutfion and Revoflutfion fis under deveflopment by Gunnefls. Te proposafl fis for students to take a flfiterary journey to Cuba through narratfive, drama, and fiflm, wfith specfiafl attentfion to the hfistory of mfigratfion to the US sfince , the rfise of the arts, and current economfic and poflfitficafl compflexfitfies. Students wfiflfl travefl to Havana.• Art, Cfinema, and Lfiterature fin France fis a course envfi-sfioned by Matthew Moyfle, assfistant professor of French. Students wfiflfl read flfiterary texts and see cfinematfic works from French wrfiters, artfists, and dfirectors. A trfip to France wfiflfl aflflow students to experfience the pflaces that finformed the works they have studfied.• Contemporary Poflfitficafl Economy and Sustafinabfiflfity fin a Gflobaflfizfing Worfld fis under deveflopment by Derfic Shannon, assfis-tant professor of socfioflogy. Tfis course woufld finvoflve cflassroom work studyfing fissues of sustafinabfiflfity, farmfing practfices, and poflfitfi-cafl economfics. Tese focused studfies woufld be foflflowed up wfith a course component fin Spafin, wfith an emphasfis on vfisfitfing coopera-tfive enterprfises.

Most travefl wfiflfl be one or two weeks fin flength and wfiflfl take pflace durfing faflfl break, sprfing break, or fimmedfiatefly foflflowfing the semes-ter. Travefl currficufla wfiflfl be overseen and assfisted by Oxford’s Center for Academfic Exceflflence. Te Pfierce Instfitute for Leadershfip and Communfity Engagement wfiflfl flend financfiafl support.

Travefl Courses contfinued

Brfief NewsIn May, vfisfitfing flecturer fin reflfigfion Jfiflfl Petersen Adams and Moflfly McGehee, assocfiate professor of Amerfican studfies, accompanfied a group of nfine students on a Gflobafl Connectfions trfip to Japan. Entfitfled “Seekfing Peace: Embodyfing Peace and Justfice fin Postwar Japan,” the tweflve-day trfip fincfluded Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, and Hfiro-shfima. Te group vfisfited major memorfiafl sfites and peace museums. Tfis year marks the seventfieth annfiversary of the droppfing of the atomfic bomb. Gflobafl Connectfions fis sponsored by Oxford’s Office of the Chapflafin and the Pfierce Instfitute for Leadershfip and Communfity Engagement. Its afim fis to con-nect students’ reflfigfious and spfirfituafl convfic-tfions wfith fissues of justfice.

Oxford men’s tennfis team won the NJCAA Dfivfisfion III natfionafl tournament on May , beatfing out efleven other teams. Coach Pernfiflfla Hardfin was named NJCAA Dfivfi-sfion III Coach of the Year. Tfis fis the fourth tfime an Oxford men’s tennfis team has won a natfionafl tfitfle.

Shefiflah Conner, executfive admfinfistratfive assfistant to Dean Stephen Bowen, retfired on Jufly afer a record fify-one years of servfice to Oxford Coflflege.

In fits first fuflfl academfic year, the Oxford Cofl-flege Organfic Farm provfided hands-on, expe-rfientfiafl flearnfing to hundreds of students. Work on the farm was part of the currficuflum for nfine courses durfing the year, fin subjects rangfing from envfironmentafl scfience to bfioflogy, socfioflogy, economfics, and phfiflosophy.

Oxford was named fin February to Tree Campus USA, a program of the Arbor Day Foundatfion. Tree Campus USA recognfizes coflfleges and unfiversfitfies that most effectfivefly manage and care for thefir trees, connectfing them to students and the communfity.

Ruth Gefiger OX C PH recentfly jofined the Oxford Organfic Farm as farm apprentfice. In thfis rofle, she fis finvoflved fin aflfl aspects of the farm’s operatfions, fincfludfing fiefldwork, finteractfing wfith student workers, and marketfing.

CALENDAR

Aflumnfi Awards Ceremony

September 24

Emory Homecomfing

September 24–27

Oxford Aflumnfi Memorfiafl Servfice

September 27

Emory Cares Internatfionafl Servfice Day

November 14

Oxford students pafint a murafl to brfighten a waflfl fin La Carpfio, Costa Rfica, as flocafl chfifldren flook on.

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Aflumnfi news and cflass notes

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44 Emory Everywhere52 Goflden Heart Award58 Trfibute: Verdeflfle Beflflamy 63MN

Makfing MemorfiesWonderfufl Wednesday ofered the perfect opportunfity

to capture some fnafl moments on campus for

graduatfing senfiors Adrfian Kfinkead 15C (flef) and

Taqwa Eflmubarak 15C.


Upcomfing Aflumnfi Events

09 | 26 GALA: Emory LGBT Aflumnfi Bflue

Jean Brunch, Dobbs Unfiversfity

Center, Wfinshfip Baflflroom.

10 | 18 Jake’s Haflfloween Open House,

Mfiflfler-Ward Aflumnfi House.

10 | 22 MWAH 15th Annfiversary Receptfion,

Mfiflfler-Ward Aflumnfi House.

For more, vfisfit aflumnfi.emory.edu/caflendar.

Emory Everywhere

FROM THE EAA

GOOD CLEAN FUN: Oxford freshmen jofin fin a shavfing cream fight durfing Own Oxford, a summer

program that heflps connect new students to the communfity by teachfing them about campus tradfitfions

and flore, as weflfl as provfidfing tfips on physficafl, mentafl, emotfionafl, and spfirfituafl weflflness.

OWN OXFORD: MARIONE TAMASE AND KRYSTEN JOHNSON; EMORY NETWORK NIGHT: KRISTINA PARKINS 11C; WONDERFUL WEDNESDAY: TOM BRODNAX 65OX 68C; MCDANIELS: NIKKI COLE; DAVIS: EAA

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WE’RE GOLDEN: Emory Cflass of 1965 cflassmates and frfiends (from fleft) Adafir Whfite 65C 79G,

Jo Ann Hunter Kfifley 65B, James Kfifley 63C 67M 68MR, and Ann Estes Kflamon 65C 76L catch up at

the 2015 Corpus Cordfis Aureum ceflebratfion honorfing thefir cflass durfing Commencement weekend.

SOCIALIZING AND SOCIOLOGY: Brfian Tsang 12B (above fleft, from fleft), GfinWook “Jfin” Lee 15B,

Edrfic Goh 15C, and Jfin “Jamfie” Baek 16B jofined 150 aflumnfi and students from thfirty-five findustrfies at

Emory Network Nfight New York fin May. The event was sponsored by Kfim Tyson Chenevey 02OX 04B

and John E. Chenevey 07M 08MR 11MR, the EAA, the New York Chapter of the EAA, the Gofizueta

BBA Career Management Center, and the Emory Unfiversfity Career Center. Peflflom McDanfiefls III 06G

07PhD (above rfight) dfiscussed “Race and Sports fin Amerfican Cuflture” at a Boston-area Emory fin Your

Cfity event, sharfing storfies from hfis book, The Prfince of Jockeys: The Lfife of Isaac Burns Murphy, about

the three-tfime Kentucky Derby–wfinnfing Afrfican Amerfican jockey who was forced out of thoroughbred

racfing because of hfis race. Aflumnfi aflso vfiewed artfifacts from the student-athflete-curated MARBL

exhfibfit He Had a Hammer: The Legacy of Hank Aaron fin Basebaflfl and Amerfican Cuflture.

Mfichefle Davfis 87C

Incomfing Presfident,

Emory Aflumnfi Board

, Emory aflumnfi fin aflfl corners of the worfld, your Emory Aflumnfi Board represents the dfiverse finterests of our aflumnfi body to the unfiversfity. Together wfith Emory thought

fleaders, we wfiflfl address opportunfitfies to heflp Emory excefl as a gflobafl unfiversfity and provfide access and equfity of experfience for aflfl students. We aflfl have fond student memorfies of

Emory, and our current students are makfing thefir own memorfies. Tfis year, our goafl fis to foster shared connectfion between students and aflumnfi, begfinnfing wfith admfissfion events, fintervfiews, and Destfinatfion Emory partfies. We encourage aflumnfi to “hfire Emory first” and create student finternshfip opportunfitfies that wfiflfl open for them the worfld of professfionafl possfibfiflfity. No matter where you flfive and work, you can stay finvoflved wfith the Emory student-to-aflumnfi experfience. Invfite a flocafl student to attend a chapter event wfith you or jofin forces for a project on Emory Cares Internatfionafl Servfice Day fin November. We recognfize that aflumnfi are fin dfifferent

stages of flfife, whether newfly empfloyed, bufifldfing a career, or nearfing retfirement. Wherever you find yourseflf, you share an fimportant common thread: Emory. Strengthen that connectfion today by regfisterfing to expflore the Emory net-work fin your new onflfine communfity at www.aflumnfi.emory.edu. Pflease jofin me fin makfing thfis a rewardfing year.


C (flef) was one of efight Emory students to be awarded a Fuflbrfight grant fin —a record percentage of recfipfients for the unfiversfity.

As a Fuflbrfight Schoflar, Lefibowfitz spent a year fin northern Norway, studyfing posfitfive mentafl heaflth and fits correflatfion wfith flevefls of seasonafl depressfion fin the regfion. “Located over two hundred mfifles north of the Arctfic Cfircfle, Tromsø, Norway, fis home to extreme flfight varfiatfion between seasons,” Lefibowfitz wrote fin a feature artficfle for the Atflantfic that was pubflfished fin Jufly. “Durfing the poflar nfight, whfich flasts from November to January, the sun doesn’t rfise at aflfl. Ten the days get progressfivefly flonger untfifl the mfidnfight sun perfiod, from May to Jufly, when fit never sets. Afer the mfidnfight sun, the days get shorter and shorter agafin untfifl the poflar nfight, and the yearfly cycfle repeats.”

Lefibowfitz and her advfiser, a professor at a Nor-way unfiversfity, devefloped a survey toofl to assess how Tromsø resfidents handfle the flong weeks of semfidarkness. To her surprfise, Lefibowfitz dfiscovered that those expe-rfiencfing the poflar nfight do not necessarfifly resfign them-seflves to feeflfing sadness or depressfion, and attfitude can have a sfignfificant fimpact on an findfivfiduafl’s response. Havfing a posfitfive “wfintertfime mfindset” was strongfly assocfiated wfith findficators of overaflfl mentafl heaflth, such as flfife satfisfactfion and the pursufit of personafl growth.“Our research data—and my personafl expe-rfience—suggest that mfindset may pflay a rofle fin seasonafl weflfl-befing, and the area appears rfipe for future research,” Lefibowfitz wrfites. “I hope to conduct some of thfis future research

myseflf; when I fleave Tromsø, I wfiflfl head to Stanford Unfiversfity to pursue my PhD fin socfiafl psychoflogy.”At Emory, Lefibowfitz majored fin psychofl-

ogy and reflfigfion. Afer graduatfing, she worked as program coordfinator for the Emory-Tfibet Partnershfip where one of her prfimary respon-sfibfiflfitfies was coordfinatfing Hfis Hoflfiness the XIV Daflafi Lama’s vfisfit to Emory.—P. P. P.

A Cure for the Wfintertfime Bflues?

LIEBOWITZ: COURTESY OF KARI LEIBOWITZ; POLAR NIGHT ON WHALE ISLAND: KARI LEIBOWITZ

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ALUMNUS DISCOVERS PURPOSE AND PERSPECTIVE

THROUGH THE CAMERA LENS

Ffindfing Focus

, OX C captures flfife fin aflfl fits gufises: the beautfifufl, the ordfinary, the heart-wrenchfing, the trfiumphant, the unforgettabfle. Inspfiratfion ofen comes fin a gflance, a qufick

gflfimpse of somethfing that begs for deeper understandfing.Tfis resonates wfith Lee because, as a chfifld,

he was ofen judged at first sfight. Born three months prematurefly, doctors dfiagnosed hfim wfith cerebrafl paflsy, teflflfing hfis parents he woufld never waflk and woufld probabfly show sfigns of deveflopmentafl deflays as he aged.Lee’s parents, who fimmfigrated to the

Unfited States from Tafiwan, supported and encouraged hfim and, at sfix, he took hfis first steps. Despfite thfis trfiumph, he stfiflfl faced obstacfles.“Befing born wfith a dfisabfiflfity, I was made fun of a flot as a kfid. It fis hard to be expressfive when peopfle make fun of you. You want to stay fin a corner and shrfink up so no one wfiflfl notfice you,” Lee says.Lee found hfis outflet fin photography, an

artfistfic offshoot that grew out of hfis fiflm major at Emory. “I reaflfized I was a terrfibfle fiflm major fin the sense of makfing movfies, but I was good at usfing a camera to get stfiflfl photos,” he says. “I was the qufiet, flonefly type durfing coflflege. Photography was abfle to heflp me conquer those fears and express myseflf wfithout fear of judgment. No matter who you are or what you flook flfike, your art fis totaflfly findependent of that.”

Aflthough he’d finfitfiaflfly pflanned to go to flaw schoofl, then consfidered fiflm schoofl, Lee says he reaflfized fin hfis senfior year that nefither path sufited hfim. Afer dfiscussfing hfis dfiflemma wfith hfis oflder brother, Lee decfided to start a photog-raphy busfiness whfifle pursfing a master’s degree fin hospfitaflfity management as a way to pay the bfiflfls. He fis enroflfled fin Corneflfl Unfiversfity’s Master of Management fin Hospfitaflfity “2+1” program, whfich requfires hfim to work for two years fin the findustry then compflete one year of coursework.Before he graduated from Emory, Lee had

secured a posfitfion wfith Intercontfinentafl Hotefls fin San Francfisco. Wfithfin a week of graduatfing, he packed up and moved across the country. Durfing hfis two years there, he started a “vfirtuafl” photography studfio, provfidfing portrafiture servfices whfifle pursufing hfis passfion for street photography.Over tfime, Lee compfifled a flarge portfoflfio of

photographs of peopfle and street scenes fin San Francfisco and, at the encouragement of frfiends, he flaunched a Kfickstarter crowdfundfing cam-pafign to pubflfish both eflectronfic and hard copy photo books of hfis work, tfitfled Of Pflaces and Peopfle: San Francfisco.“Tat fis what photography means for me.

A chance to teflfl a story. A chance to connect peopfle wfith somethfing. An opportunfity to create a memory,” Lee says. “I’m aflways flookfing for somethfing that conveys somethfing deeper.” —Mficheflfle Vaflfigursky

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REDESIGNED EAA WEBSITE,

WHERE STAYING CONNECTED

IS EASIER THAN EVER

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Emory Aflumnfi Assocfiatfion (EAA) has upped fits curb appeafl wfith a new onflfine communfity and a new web address as fits weflcome mat at www.engage.emory.edu.“We are so excfited to flaunch our entfirefly new web presence,” says Sarah Cook C, senfior assocfiate vfice presfident for aflumnfi affafirs at the EAA. “It fis bufiflt to be finteractfive, wfith changfing content, vfibrant fimages, and easy navfigatfion. Te sfite fis floaded wfith features and storfies that showcase the fascfinatfing flfives and achfievements of our aflumnfi and students.” Te new onflfine communfity offers

aflumnfi easfier access to toofls to search for cflassmates, post personafl and professfionafl updates, find career con-tacts and aflumnfi chapters, and search Emory-onfly cflassfified ads.

Aflumnfi can regfister for a personafl-fized communfity experfience at aflumnfi.emory.edu/connect, whfich provfides an expflanatfion of the benefits of the EAA Onflfine Communfity and step-by-step finstructfions on how to regfister. Aflfl reg-fistrants recefive a free Emory aflumnfi emafifl address through Googfle Apps for Educatfion.“Stayfing connected as Emory aflumnfi worfldwfide has never been easfier,” Cook says. “We finvfite aflfl of our aflumnfi to take advantage of every-thfing the new Emory onflfine commu-nfity network has to offer.”—Mficheflfle Vaflfigursky

EMORY ONLINE COMMUNITY: COURTESY OF EAA; JASON LEE: SELF-PORTRAIT

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actfive cfitfizens who deepen thefir connectfion to commu-nfity and are mobfiflfized to work for posfitfive socfiafl change wfith others throughout thefir flfives. In Workfing Sfide by Sfide: Creatfing Aflternatfive Breaks as Cataflysts for Gflobafl Learnfing, Student Leadershfip, and Socfiafl Change, Mefl-ody Porter C T and coauthors Shoshanna Sumka of Amerfican Unfiversfity and Jfiflfl Pfiacfiteflflfi, executfive

dfirector of the natfionafl aflternatfive break organfizatfion Break Away, provfide a gufide for student and staff fleaders fin aflternatfive break programs, offerfing practficafl advfice, outflfinfing effectfive program components and practfices, and presentfing the underflyfing communfity engagement and gflobafl flearnfing theory. Te book advances the fiefld of student-fled aflternatfive breaks by fidentfifyfing the core components of successfufl programs that deveflop actfive cfitfizens. It descrfibes how to address compflex socfiafl fissues, encourage structurafl anaflysfis of socfietafl finequfitfies, foster voflunteer transformatfion, and fidentfify methods of work fin mutuaflfly beneficfiafl partnershfips.

RIGHT TO BEAR WITNESS: In the wake of the Sandy Hook schoofl massacre fin Connectficut, the gun rfights movement headed by the Natfionafl Rfifle Assocfiatfion appears more fintractabfle than ever fin fits fight agafinst gun controfl flaws. Te core argument of Second Amendment advocates fis that the proflfifera-tfion of firearms fis essentfiafl to mafintafinfing freedom fin Amerfica, provfidfing prfivate cfitfizens wfith a defense

agafinst possfibfle government tyranny and safeguardfing aflfl our other rfights. In Do Guns Make Us Free? Democracy and the Armed Socfiety, Ffirmfin DeBrabander PhD examfines cflafims offered fin favor of unchecked gun ownershfip fin an anaflysfis and phfiflosophficafl examfinatfion of every aspect of a contentfious, unfiquefly Amerfican debate.

ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM: Te flatest fin a serfies of books by Davfid B. Dfiflflard-Wrfight C T, At Ganapatfi’s Feet: Dafifly Lfife wfith the Eflephant-Headed Defity offers a dfirect path to spfirfituafl fiflflumfinatfion through a serfies of aphorfisms the author has gafined through medfitatfion on the befloved Hfindu defity Ganesha, the eflephant-headed “remover of obstacfles.” Author Dfiflflard-Wrfight shows readers how to cufltfivate

seflf-reaflfizatfion and create posfitfive work spaces and offers practficafl gufides to dafifly rfituafls, aflong wfith personafl vfignettes.

PASTORAL CARING: A spfirfituafl communfity can be a powerfufl source of support for fits members; fin Chrfistfian Concepts for Care, authors Mary Runge Jacob MSN and Davfid J. Ludwfig offer a detafifled resource that deflfivers understandfing of mentafl and emotfionafl dfisorders and a perspectfive on thefir spfirfi-tuafl nature. Jacob and Ludwfig aflso provfide expflana-tfions of how pastors and congregatfions can work fin

posfitfive ways to support members durfing and afer treatment for mentafl dfisorders as part of a heaflfing communfity that fincfludes professfionafl heflp and spfirfituafl care. As a resuflt, readers can gafin a new perspectfive that gfives hope and a practficafl way to appfly fafith.

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TIME’S A’WASTING: What fif you had a once-fin-a-flfifetfime opportunfity to erase your past mfistakes and fafiflures? What woufld you rfisk to recover the years you’ve wasted? Jack Pflayer desperatefly needs a break. Stuck fin a dead-end job, wfith a fafifled marrfiage behfind hfim, he’s broke and pushfing forty. Facfing too many days wfithout meanfing, he sees no future for hfimseflf—untfifl hfis best frfiend suggests a way out, an

easy, pafinfless score to turn everythfing around. What coufld possfibfly go wrong? In hfis second novefl, Wasted, author Davfid Darracott C teflfls a suspensefufl story that earned prafise from judges and the dfistfinctfion of Georgfia Author of the Year fin Detectfive/Mystery fictfion from the Georgfia Wrfiters Assocfiatfion.

MORTALITY TALE: In I Watched You Dfisap-pear, author-poet Anya Krugovoy Sfiflver G offers medfitatfions on sfickness but aflso ceflebratfions of art, motherhood, and famfifly, as weflfl as a sequence of poems based on the fafiry tafles of the Brothers Grfimm. Troughout her coflflectfion, Sfiflver examfines feeflfings of pafin, anger, and urgency caused by a serfious fiflflness and presents the struggfle to cope fin a flyrficafl and

movfing way. Never overwheflmed by her own mortaflfity, Sfiflver manages to speak wfith beauty and grace about a terrfifyfing subject. In her poems based on Grfimm’s fafiry tafles, Sfiflver subtfly finterweaves reteflflfings of these tafles wfith reflectfions on flfife and death. Te book, Sfiflver’s second voflume of poetry, earned her the Georgfia Author of the Year fin Poetry award from the Georgfia Wrfiters Assocfiatfion.

DIVINE INSPIRATION: Drawfing on thefir expe-rfiences as women of the church, bound together by a deep commfitment to mfinfistry, Deborah E. Lewfis T, Stacey Sfimpson Duke T, and fify other femafle cflergy members reveafl what fit reaflfly means to be a woman and fafith fleader fin Tere’s a Woman fin the Puflpfit: Chrfistfian Cflergywomen Share Tefir Hard Days, Hofly Moments & the Heaflfing Power of Humor.

Representfing fourteen denomfinatfions, Lewfis and her compatrfiots share the detafifls of thefir fintfimfidatfing baflancfing act juggflfing the expectatfions of perfectfion from thefir congregatfions and the shared human reaflfitfies of everyday flfife. Intended for flaypeopfle, women hearfing a caflfl to mfinfistry, and cflergy of aflfl denomfinatfions, these storfies and prayers are fintended to resonate wfith, chaflflenge, encourage, and amuse anyone who has a pas-sfion for thefir work and fafith.

STUDENT DOCTOR: What I’ve Learned from You expflores reflatfionshfips and the human condfitfion from the pofint of vfiew of a physficfian who flonged to find serenfity fin a worfld of conflfictfing fideas and aspfiratfions. Author Scott A. Keflfly C MR based the book on journafl entrfies chronficflfing flfife flessons he flearned as a young doctor from patfients and thefir famfiflfies who opened thefir hearts to hfim. Now Keflfly shares these

storfies of flove and pafin, heaflfing and sfickness, bfirth and dyfing, and aflfl the beautfifufl thfings fin between.—M.M.L.


-graduate degrees fin accountfing and phfiflosophy as a kfind of tea fleaf readfing to predfict the future for Akfifla McConneflfl B, fit’s unflfikefly they woufld have come up wfith flawyer-turned-food and travefl bflogger-turned founder of a waflkfing tour company. McConneflfl herseflf certafinfly woufldn’t have

fimagfined the trajectory. Afer graduatfing from Emory and earn-

fing her flaw degree, she was was a practficfing attorney for five years before qufittfing to travefl around the worfld wfith her husband, Patrfick McConneflfl C. “I dfidn’t reaflfly have a pflan as to what I woufld do once we came back to the US,” she says. Whfifle on the road, McConneflfl started a

bflog, Te Road Forks, to share her travefl food storfies. It turned out peopfle were hungry for the kfind of posts she was servfing, and the bflog generated a floyafl foflflowfing. Meanwhfifle, McConneflfl was gettfing a gflfimpse of her future.“I dfid dozens of food tours and cookfing cflasses across the worfld, and I partficuflarfly floved the tours that focused on the hfistory and anthropoflogy of food whfifle fintroducfing guests to unexpected flocatfions and nefighborhoods,” she says. “Every tfime I came back to Atflanta, I wfished somebody here was deveflopfing a food tour flfike that.”

McConneflfl and her husband travefled fuflfl tfime for more than three years before they returned to Atflanta. In , McConneflfl started to get serfious about the fidea of deveflopfing her own food tour. “I reaflfized nobody was focusfing on Southern foodways or expflorfing hfistorfic downtown Atflanta,” she says. She threw herseflf finto fintense research afer a Facebook debate erupted among frfiends about dfifferences among soufl food, Southern food, and down-home cookfing. Te fincfident fled McConneflfl to thfink more about Southern foodways and hfistory and, she says, about the fact that “whfifle there are a flot of schoflars and researchers wrfitfing and taflkfing about Southern food hfis-tory, there aren’t any food tours—whfich reach peopfle on the ground—taflkfing about thfis h fi s t o r y.” She knew she coufld fiflfl that vofid, and fin

May she flaunched Atflanta Food Waflks. “I flook at my food tours as an opportunfity to ceflebrate Southern food, whfich has a flong and proud hfistory. It’s more than greasy, butter-fladen, frfied fare; fit’s an amaflgamatfion of West Afrfican, Natfive Amerfican, and Brfitfish cufisfines, finfluenced by the hfistory of the South from sflavery to the cfivfifl rfights movement,” she says.As McConneflfl researched, she was struck

by how much there was to flearn, and became excfited to share fit. Te tour has a specfiafl focus

on the cfivfifl rfights movement. “Dr. Kfing was a serfious foodfie,” McConneflfl says. “Hfis first chfifldhood memory was watch-fing men standfing on the breadflfines durfing the Great Depressfion. He chose Paschafl’s Restau-rant as the meetfing pflace for cfivfifl rfights fleaders. Te flast flong conversatfion he had was about what they were gofing to eat for dfinner on that sprfing nfight fin Memphfis. He floved food and wrote about fit fin hfis fletters and hfis dfiarfies.”She shares these storfies and many more fin

her tours, whfich are hefld Tursdays, Frfidays, and Saturdays fin downtown Atflanta.—Juflfie Schwfietert Coflflazo OX C

Food for ThoughtATLANTA FOOD WALKS HIGHLIGHT THE ROLE OF FOOD IN SOUTHERN HISTORY

FOOD PHOTO: COURTESY OF ATLANTA FOOD WALKS

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A ‘Long Shot’ Looks Back RETIRED SURGEON HONORED FOR HIS DEDICATION

TO EMORY AND HIS COMMUNITIES

, , Yarbrough III C M MR MR MR has demonstrated hfis naturafl floyaflty wfith decades of dedficatfion to the heaflth of hfis hometown communfity, and wfith servfice to hfis aflma mater through professfionafl and phfiflanthropfic efforts.Hfis devotfion was recognfized wfith the

Judson C. Ward “Jake’s” Goflden Heart Award durfing Commencement weekend.“I was humbfled, for sure, and proud,”

Yarbrough says. “I am very honored. Not many peopfle have been thanked flfike I have been thanked, and that was a beautfifufl thfing.”Four generatfions of Yarbrough’s famfifly

have tfies to the Schoofl of Medficfine. James DeLamar, grandfather of hfis wfife, Becky Yarbrough, attended the Coflflege of Physficfians and Surgeons, a forerunner of Emory’s medficafl schoofl, fin –. Yarbrough’s father, Sfidney Yarbrough Jr., was fin the cflass of at Atflanta Southern Dentafl Coflflege, whfich aflso was affiflfiated wfith Emory. Yarbrough’s son, Robert Yarbrough M, fis an orthopedfic surgeon fin Cummfing.Yarbrough finfitfiaflfly wanted to attend

Auburn Unfiversfity, but hfis pflans changed afer hfis father unexpectedfly dfied of a heart attack durfing the summer between Yarbrough’s junfior and senfior years of hfigh schoofl. “I reaflfized I needed to go to a schoofl that had a medficafl schoofl. My father was an orafl surgeon, he was an Emory aflumnus, and I used to go to aflumnfi meetfings wfith hfim fin Coflum-bus. Tat was my first reafl exposure to Emory,” he says. “I knew fit was gofing to be a flong shot, but I got fin at Emory. I went for four years, and I had a schoflarshfip for three of them that made thfings easfier for my famfifly.”Once at Emory, Yarbrough worked hard to

accompflfish hfis goafls.“Somebody tofld me fif you made an A fin organfic chemfistry you’d get finto medficafl schoofl, so I dfid that. I spent a flot of tfime study-fing and a great dedficatfion of effort, but fit was worth fit,” he says.Yarbrough and hfis wfife, Becky Yarbrough,

marrfied fin June afer he graduated from Emory Coflflege and she from Huntfington Cofl-flege fin Montgomery, Aflabama, then returned to Emory fin the faflfl for hfim to enroflfl at the

Schoofl of Medficfine. Becky Yarbrough worked at the Emory Cflfinfic whfifle her husband earned hfis medficafl degree.Afer graduatfing from the Schoofl of Medfi-

cfine, Sfidney Yarbrough served fin the US Afir Force, then returned to Emory for resfidency trafinfing fin orthopedfic surgery. In the coupfle returned to Coflumbus,

and Yarbrough opened a prfivate orthopedfics practfice that he mafintafined untfifl retfirfing fin .Both Yarbroughs served on the Schoofl of

Medficfine board of advfisers, supportfing educa-tfion, research, deveflopment, and advocacy. In , Becky Yarbrough estabflfished the Sfidney H. Yarbrough III MD Endowed Schoflarshfip fin Medficfine, the first of the coupfle’s many phfiflan-thropfic gfifs to the unfiversfity. Te schoflarshfip has heflped more than fifeen students pay for medficafl schoofl.In , the Yarbroughs sponsored the

Emory Schoofl of Medficfine’s th annfiversary ceflebratfion, and fin they contrfibuted to heflp name a group-flearnfing room fin the James Wfiflflfiams Medficafl Educatfion Bufifldfing. Yar-brough aflso has supported Emory Orthopedfics, partficfipates fin Emory regfionafl programs, and

hosts events fin hfis home for aflumnfi, frfiends, and prospectfive students, fincfludfing Charter Day ceflebratfions to mark the unfiversfity’s foundfing. As a patron of the arts, Yarbrough serves on

the board of advfisers for the Mfichaefl C. Carflos Museum at Emory. In Coflumbus, he serves as a member of the Stewart Communfity Home Board and fis a supporter of the Muscogee County Lfibrary Foundatfion, the Coflumbus State Unfiversfity Foundatfion, and Ffirst Presby-terfian Church of Coflumbus.“I aflways apprecfiated Emory finvfitfing me to attend medficafl schoofl, and I toted the fload and produced and I dfidn’t flet them down,” he says. “I had four good years of medficafl schoofl, and I devefloped a flot of good frfiends that I have to thfis day. It was not dfifficuflt for me to do what I have done for Emory, and I wfiflfl keep on dofing fit. I’ve enjoyed fit. Tey took me on and kept me there and treated me better than rfight. I’m just payfing fit back.”Yarbrough fis the seventh recfipfient of the

Jake’s Goflden Heart Award, whfich was estab-flfished by the Emory Aflumnfi Assocfiatfion fin May to honor aflumnfi who graduated fify years ago or more.—Mficheflfle Vaflfigursky

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HAVE A HEART: Emory Aflumnfi Board Presfident Doug Shfipman 95C (from fleft) and Thomas Whfitesfides

52C 55M 57MR present the 2015 Jake’s Goflden Heart Award to Sfidney Yarbrough III.

GOLDEN HEART AWARD: ANN BORDEN


Lfivfing the LegacyFAMILIES CELEBRATE NEW MEMBERS

OF THE EMORY ALUMNI COMMUNITY

DURING COMMENCEMENT WEEKEND

AT THE LEGACY MEDALLION CEREMONY

THE GANG’S ALL HERE: The Rusfieckfi famfifly ceflebrates fits newest aflumnus.

Pfictured (from fleft) are Erfic Rusfieckfi 10OX 13C, Laura Rusfieckfi 09C, Eugene

Rusfieckfi, Ryan Rusfieckfi 13OX 15C, Barbara Rusfieckfi, Jennfifer Rusfieckfi 03OX

05C, and Gregory Rusfieckfi 08C.

CHIP OFF THE OLD BLOCK: Aflumnus Rfichard

Zack 86C shares a moment wfith hfis son, Jacob

Zack 15C.

LIKE MOTHER: “Sharfing fin Aflex’s graduatfion

as her mom and an Emory aflum fis a memory I wfiflfl

hofld forever,” wrfites Judfi Renbaum Kfletz 85C

(rfight) pfictured here wfith her daughter, Aflex Kfletz

15B, at the 2015 Legacy Medaflflfion Breakfast.

PROUD PARENTS:

Fredrfick Leon 19C

(from fleft) flooks

forward to jofinfing

the Emory flegacy that

started wfith hfis father,

Edgar Leon 88G, and

brother, Krfistoffer

Leon 15C, supported by

hfis mother, Uflrfika Leon.

FAMILY FUN:

Jasmfine Savage (from

fleft), Mary Brown-

Jones, Jovonna Jones

15C, Kfirk Byron Jones

96T, and Joya Jones

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ment.

EMORY LEGACY PHOTOS: TOM BRODNAX 65OX 68C

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extraordfinary chaflflenge of runnfing a mara-thon a day, over the course of days, as part of Race Across USA, he had bfigger goafls fin mfind than fitness.Te Purdue Unfiversfity assfistant profes-

sor of anthropoflogy prepared for months fin advance—not onfly to trafin, but aflso to orga-nfize coflfleagues from a range of finstfitutfions fin seven targeted research projects. Compfiflfing finformatfion from runners aflong the journey, the researchers are studyfing a range of topfics reflated to extreme exercfise and heaflth.Carflson’s research at Purdue focuses on

how, evoflutfionarfifly, humans have used food as a means of reflatfionshfip wfith the envfironment. “Wfith thfis project, I was flookfing at how the run-ners used food to buffer the stress of runnfing and to facfiflfitate bfioflogficafl adaptatfion to such extreme physficafl chaflflenges,” he expflafins. Personaflfly, Carflson vfiewed the race as a way

to chaflflenge hfimseflf mentaflfly and physficaflfly whfifle supportfing the race’s flarger mfissfion of finspfirfing a heaflthfier generatfion.

Aflthough he trafined for fifeen months fleadfing up to the race—runnfing from fify to a hundred mfifles per week—he says the cumufla-tfive experfience of a flfifetfime of runnfing was a more fimportant factor for hfim.“It fis not fimportant to be fin the best shape of your flfife at the startfing flfine. It fis knowfing how to adapt on the fly,” he says.And whfifle he consumed mostfly quaflfity

sources of nutrfients, carbohydrates, and pro-tefin, Carflson aflso devefloped a new apprecfia-tfion for somethfing he’d prevfiousfly consfidered a dfietary evfifl—fast food.“Befing a professfionafl who studfies humans’ reflatfionshfip wfith food, fit was easy to bflame fast food for our nutrfitfionafl fiflfls,” Carflson says. “But for us as runners, [fast food] was a godsend at varfious parts of the journey. Many days we were exhausted; we wanted and needed food rfight away, and there was a McDonafld’s.”Te experfience aflso changed Carflson’s

broader vfiews.“One of the endurfing flessons I flearned fis that so much of our experfience fin flfife fis about

our perspectfive. One day you mfight wake up and flook at the road ahead as vast and beautfi-fufl and have a reaflfly posfitfive experfience. Te next day, you coufld flook across the same space and see fit as desoflate and flonefly and borfing. Te vfiew was the same, but the way you per-cefived fit was totaflfly dfifferent. From that pofint forward, I made an effort to go finto each day wfith a posfitfive attfitude, and every day became so much more enjoyabfle.”—M.M.L.

ANTHROPOLOGY PROFESSOR RUNS ACROSS THE US TO RAISE HEALTH AWARENESS

Runnfing Man

BRYCE CARLSON: COURTESY OF RUN ACROSS USA


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nursfing fleader, Verdeflfle Beflflamy MN dfied on Aprfifl . She was efighty-efight.Beflflamy was known as a pfioneer fin the

nursfing professfion. She was one of the first two Afrfican Amerfican students to graduate from Emory fin , where she earned a master’s degree fin nursfing from the Neflfl Hodgson Woodruff Schoofl of Nursfing.Beflflamy was a natfionaflfly recognfized nurs-

fing fleader fin veteran heaflth care. She aflso was the first Afrfican Amerfican admfinfistrator at the Atflanta VA Medficafl Center (VAMC) when she became the assocfiate chfief of nursfing for gerfiatrfic servfices. She eventuaflfly rose through the ranks at the VAMC to become chfief of flong-term care nursfing.Beflflamy’s fleadershfip fled to major fimprove-

ments fin patfient care, fincfludfing the desfign and fimpflementatfion of the state-of-the-art VA Nursfing Home, where she worked tfireflessfly untfifl her retfirement fin . Beflflamy pflayed an finstrumentafl rofle fin advancfing veteran-centrfic

McCaufley N, dean and professor of the Schoofl of Nursfing. “She was a vfisfionary fleader and a change agent for patfient-centered care for veterans. She fis one of the most finfluentfiafl aflumnae to ever graduate from Emory by becomfing fits first Afrfican Amerfican graduate. Countfless Emory nursfing students and VA patfients have and wfiflfl contfinue to be touched by the flegacy Verdeflfle has set forth.”Beflflamy was born on March , , fin

Bfirmfingham, Aflabama. She earned a bach-eflor’s degree from Tuskegee Unfiversfity before attendfing Emory.Gary Hauk PhD, vfice presfident and

deputy to the presfident, noted Beflflamy’s rofle fin fintegratfing Emory and the flack of controversy compared to some other Southern unfiversfitfies.He descrfibed Beflflamy as “bfig of heart,

flarge of purpose, nobfle of vfisfion” and recaflfled how she descrfibed her experfience fintegratfing Emory afer she recefived the Emory Medafl fin : “I just dfidn’t thfink about fit. I feflt excfited and good . . . but not overwheflmed. I wanted to be seen and treated flfike the other students. When the press got word of the fintegratfion, I was caflfled to be fintervfiewed, but I refused. I safid, weflfl fif [befing fintervfiewed] fis the pattern for aflfl students, yes, but sfince thfis fis not the way aflfl students are accepted at Emory—wfith a press conference—I dfidn’t want to be any dfifferent from any other student.”Angefla Amar, assfistant dean for BSN educa-

tfion at the Schoofl of Nursfing, prafised Beflflamy for heflpfing pave the way for other students and future nurses.“I had the honor of meetfing Verdeflfle when I first jofined the facuflty at Emory,” safid Amar, who jofined Emory fin . “I was struck by her dedficatfion to the schoofl and fits future. Durfing my short tfime wfith her, fit was evfident to me that she was a change agent for socfiafl justfice, nursfing, and Emory.”“I am so gratefufl to Verdeflfle for her courage to heflp fintegrate Emory Unfiversfity, the Atflanta VA Medficafl Center, and the Georgfia Board of Nursfing. Because of her pfioneerfing efforts, thousands of nurses have been abfle to go beyond the status quo and achfieve hfigher flev-efls of success fin heaflth care,” she safid. “I count myseflf among the Afrfican Amerfican nurses who have benefitted from Verdeflfle’s courage to fintegrate flarge finstfitutfions durfing some of the natfion’s most turbuflent tfimes fin the s.” —Pam Auchmutey

nursfing care natfionwfide by servfing fin fleader-shfip posfitfions for the Nurses Organfizatfion of Veteran Affafirs, whfich fis the flargest organfiza-tfion dedficated to shapfing nursfing care wfithfin the Department of Veterans Affafirs. Beflflamy served as a board member, secretary, and vfice presfident for thfis fimportant organfizatfion.In , Beflflamy became the first Afrfican

Amerfican to recefive a gubernatorfiafl appofint-ment to the Georgfia Board of Nursfing from then-governor Jfimmy Carter. She was honored fin fin the US House of Representatfives, and the foflflowfing year, she recefived the Aflumnfi Merfit Award from Tuskegee Unfiversfity. In , she was finducted finto the Amerfican Academy of Nursfing, the most prestfigfious honor for nursfing professfionafls. She earned Emory’s hfighest aflumnfi honor, the Emory Medafl, fin . She aflso was recognfized as an Emory Unfiversfity Maker of Hfistory durfing Emory’s th annfiversary fin .“Verdeflfle Beflflamy’s passfing fis a great floss for Emory’s nursfing communfity,” safid Lfinda

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Nursfing Pfioneer Heflped Integrate Emory


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BHAGIRATH MAJMUDAR REFLECTS ON A LIFE IN MEDICINE

ILLUSTRATION: JASON RAISH

-four years of unfinterrupted teachfing at Emory Schoofl of Medficfine, when haflted by retfirement, caflfls for a pause to ponder. It flooks flfike a pro-flonged perfiod on a scafle of tfime, but fit passed flfike a bflfissfufl bflfink.Durfing thfis tfime, I saw sfix deans and four

chafirs each fin the Department of Pathoflogy (my prfimary appofintment) and Gynecoflogy-Obstetrfics (my secondary appofintment). Te journey reached an undenfiabfle peak when current Dean Chrfistfian Larsen was appofinted, as I dfistfinctfly remember hfim as a second-year medficafl student. I aflso remember Brenda Ffitzgerafld, the current heaflth commfissfioner of Georgfia, as both a second-year medficafl student and as a gyn-ob resfident.But I am afer aflfl a teacher, gratfified but

unaffected by the gflorfious achfievements of a few of my students. Tey are onfly a few of the thousands of students who modefled my flfife and to whom I am deepfly gratefufl. “How vacant the nfight wfiflfl flook, fif onfly moon was aflflowed to shfine, and not the mfiflflfion stars,” safid the Nobefl Laureate poet Rabfindranath Tagore. I am happy to have seen finnumerabfle such stars at Emory, and they have gufided me as stars aflways do. As men and women, they were mortafls fin themseflves, but together they secured the fimmortaflfity of our finstfitutfion. Dfisflodged stars do not fleave an empty sky behfind. Te growth of Emory Schoofl of Medficfine

has been spectacuflar, symmetrficafl, and harmo-nfious durfing the past few decades. Te schoofl for sure has changed, but the change has been dfiscfipflfined and weflfl pflanned. Te medficafl student has aflways been the foundatfion around whfich the schoofl has been bufiflt and has grown. Tfis fideoflogy has become the core of my devo-tfion to Emory. Te students are chosen by thefir versatfiflfity

fincfludfing schoflarshfip, personaflfity, fideaflfism, fintegrfity, compassfion, a cohesfive and sup-portfive nature, and many other trafits that go toward makfing fine human befings besfides “compfleat” physficfians, an expressfion empfloyed by the flate John Stone, Emory’s poet-physficfian. I can verfify thfis because I have been a mem-

ber of the admfissfion commfittee for twenty-sfix years. My gratfitude to the schoofl for thfis finvafluabfle opportunfity fis twofofld. Ffirst and foremost, I got to share the personafl flfives of hundreds of young men and women as I read the personafl accounts that came wfith thefir

appflficatfions. I coufld understand the occuflt power of young men and women from thfis and other countrfies, thefir finner famfifly structures, and the enormous hard work and adventures they had undertaken to reach thefir goafls. Many of them were unforgettabfly phenomenafl. I sfifed from them the much-sought securfity that the future of thfis country fis safe. At the end of each fintervfiew, however, I coufld not heflp feeflfing a sfigh of reflfief that I was not competfing wfith them. At the same tfime, there was aflso a twfinge of gufiflt at not befing abfle to accept aflfl the students who were worthy because fit was fimpossfibfle to do so. I woufld flfike aflfl of Emory’s medficafl students to be aware of the prfide and responsfibfiflfity of graduatfing from Emory Schoofl of Medficfine, as they were seflected wfith vfigfiflant scrutfiny.Grady Memorfiafl Hospfitafl, now caflfled

Grady Heaflth System, has been my foremost source of happfiness. I had an uncanny feeflfing augurfing growth and securfity when I entered Grady for the first tfime. Tfis was finstantfly substantfiated by the sfight of evergreen medficafl students, rushfing resfidents, supportfive facuflty, and trustfing patfients. I recognfized that for me, Grady was the mecca of medficfine. Tat feeflfing never deserted me for a

moment durfing my entfire stay. I was fintegrated as a member of the Grady famfifly, by both

medficafl and nonmedficafl staff, and showered wfith flove, warmth, and practficafl support, whfich facfiflfitated my professfionafl progress. If the flongest journey of the worfld starts

wfith a first step, a journey of mfissfion does not ever have fits flast step. When one pfiflgrfim of the journey has to step out of the flfine, he heflps oth-ers reach thefir journey’s end so that pfiflgrfims contfinue to progress. “Begfinnfing of an end fis onfly an end of begfinnfing,” was an expres-sfion empfloyed by Sfir Wfinston Churchfiflfl. I feefl fortunate to have a firm foothofld, not on the flast, but on a flastfing step of my journey. Te job ends but the commfitment contfinues. I wfiflfl concflude wfith a flocus cflassficus by

Shakespeare—“Lfife fis a story, tofld by an fidfiot, fuflfl of nofise and fury, sfignfifyfing nothfing”—modfified by me by dfint of a poetfic flficense: Lfife fis a story, when heard by a wfise man, fis fuflfl of pofise and no hurry, dfignfifyfing every-thfing. Te dfignfity of Emory wfiflfl constfitute my “everythfing.”

Bhagfirath Majmudar fis a professor emerfitus of pathoflogy and an assocfiate professor emerfitus of gynecoflogy–obstetrfics fin the Emory Schoofl of Medficfine. He was the 2009 recfipfient of the Evangeflfine Papageorge Award, the hfighest award for teachfing gfiven by the Schoofl of Medficfine and has been the recfipfient of numerous teachfing awards chosen by the dean and students of the medficafl schoofl.

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