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Tag: Emory University
News Roundup
Emory University’s Business School Creates $5M Endowment to Increase Graduate Women Enrollment
Educator Rosemary Brown and John Brown, chairman emeritus of Stryker Corporation, donated $5 million to Emory University’s Goizueta Business School with the goal of increasing graduate program enrollment of women. While females earn over half of all undergraduate degrees, only 38% hold an MBA degree, according to the Women’s Leadership Gap. The gift by the […]
July 13, 2021
African-American
Emory University Plans to Address Racially Fraught Past With Name Changes, Memorials and Land Acknowledgements
Emory University announced this week that it will be making several plans to reconcile with its racially fraught past, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. One of these plans include the renaming of several buildings. Emory will rename Language Hall on its Oxford College in honor of the late Horace J. Johnson Jr., who became the first […]
June 30, 2021
News Roundup
Emory University Pledges to Reduce Single-Use Plastics
Emory University is committing to reduce plastic use as President Gregory L. Fenves recently met with leaders of student-led initiative Plastic Free Emory Project and signed the “Break Free from Plastic Pledge,” which entails a five-year plan for reducing unnecessary single-use plastics on Emory’s Atlanta and Oxford campuses. By 2026, Emory pledges to create a […]
June 21, 2021
African-American
Emory University Apologizes to Black Doctor for Race-Based Rejection 60 Years Earlier
Emory University has apologized to gynecologist and obstetrician Dr. Marion Hood, 83, for rejecting him from the medical school six decades earlier because he is Black, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. “I am sorry I must write you that we are not authorized to consider for admission a member of the Negro race. I regret that […]
June 21, 2021
COVID-19
Pandemic Brings Increased Interest to Nursing Profession
In 2020, enrollment in entry-level baccalaureate nursing programs increased by 5.6%. Master’s and Doctor of Nursing practice programs also rose by 4.1% and 8.9%, according to the American Associate of Colleges of Nursing (AACN).
May 19, 2021
News Roundup
Duke Engineering Dean Named Provost of Emory University
Dr. Ravi Bellamkonda, Duke University’s Vinik Dean of the Pratt School of Engineering, will become provost and executive vice president of Emory University. Bellamkonda has served as Emory faculty in the past, serving as chair of Emory and Georgia Tech’s joint department of biomedical engineering from 2013 to 2016. During his tenure at Duke, faculty […]
February 17, 2021
African-American
Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet Reflects on Career Trajectory
Dr. Jericho Brown first learned last week that he had won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry at the very moment that the rest of the world got wind of the exciting news via a virtual announcement.
May 10, 2020
African-American
Dr. Pellom McDaniels, NFL Veteran and Emory Professor, Dies at 52
Dr. Pellom McDaniels III, a National Football League (NFL) veteran and assistant professor of African American Studies at Emory University, died Sunday in Atlanta, reported Oregon Live. He was 52. McDaniels began his athletic and academic career at Oregon State University where he earned accolades playing as a defensive lineman, said a statement on Emory’s […]
April 21, 2020
African-American
‘Protect Students, Faculty and Staff of Color’: Emory U’s Student Newspaper Editorial to Incoming President
An editorial in Emory University’s student newspaper calls on newly-appointed president Gregory Fenves to “protect students, faculty and staff of color.” Fenves, currently president of the University of Texas at Austin, was named Emory president on April 7. He begins his new position on August 1. “As we welcome Fenves to the Emory community and […]
April 19, 2020
COVID-19
Emory University Names Gregory L. Fenves New President
Emory University on Tuesday announced that its board appointed Gregory L. Fenves the institution’s new president. Fenves, who is currently president of the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), will begin his new position at Emory on August 1. He will succeed Claire E. Sterk, who announced her retirement last November after serving as […]
April 7, 2020
News Roundup
Wharton’s New Dean is First Woman, African American to Lead the Business School
The University of Pennsylvania on Wednesday announced a new dean for its famed business school Wharton. Erika H. James will be the first woman dean and the first African American to lead the business school, reported The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Business Journal, respectively. She will assume her new role July 1. James currently […]
February 26, 2020
Students
The Unintentional Foray into the Transformative Experience of Morgan State University
In October of 2018, my colleague, Dr. Janelle L. Williams and I were engaged in collecting data on Black students who were possibly influenced to apply and attend historically Black colleges and universities due to the current social and political climate triggered by the election of the 45th president of the United States.
October 21, 2019
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