Tag: Emory University
Emory President’s Commentary on the Three-Fifths Compromise Causes Uproar on Campus
James W. Wagner, president of Emory University, has been criticized for using the Constitution's Three-Fifths Clause regarding the counting of slaves as an example of political compromise.
Emory Students to Prepare Exhibit from Historic Collection of African American Photos
Students in the class "Looking at the Familiar: History, Memory, Race, and Visual Culture" will create an exhibit from the university's archive of 12,000 photographs of African Americans from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Vanderbilt University Losing Its Chief Investment Officer
Matthew Wright is stepping down from his post to pursue a new business venture. He guided Vanderbilt's $3.8 billion portfolio through the great recession of 2008-09.
Emory Opens New Archive of African American History to Researchers
The family papers of artist and civil rights activist Edwin Harleston and his wife, photographer Elise Harlston, have been fully archived and are now available to researchers at the university's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library.
Two Black Scholars in New Faculty Posts
Jericho Brown is a new assistant professor of creative writing at Emory University in Atlanta and Nadia Rabesahala Horning was granted tenure and promoted to associate professor of political science at Middlebury College in Vermont.
Emory Students Apologize for Racially Insensitive Television Broadcast
In the satirical segment, viewers were asked to help identify students who "shouldn't be here and are only at the school because of affirmative action."
In Memoriam: Mozella Smith Peterson Galloway, 1951-2012
She was the co-founder and president of the National Black Herstory Task Force, a nonprofit cultural and educational organization dedicated to celebrate and chronicle the lives of women of African descent.
The New Director of the James Weldon Institute at Emory University
Tyrone Forman, a professor of sociology at Emory, replaces the late Rudolph R. Byrd, who founded the institute in 2007.
Emory University Sending More Medical Residents to Ethiopia
Emory University School of Medicine is expanding its study abroad program in Ethiopia to include residents in surgery, pediatrics, dermatology, anesthesiology, pathology, gynecology and obstetrics, family and preventive medicine, and rehabilitation medicine.
Widespread Racial Differences in Who Receives CPR After a Cardiac Arrest
In low-income Black neighborhoods, the odds of receiving bystander CPR were 50 percent lower than in a high-income non-Black neighborhood.
Higher Education Grants of Interest to African-Americans
Here is this week’s news of grants to historically Black colleges and universities or for programs of particular interest to African Americans in higher education.
Papers of Pearl Cleage Housed at Emory University Archives
A graduate of Spelman College, Cleage is best known for her novels What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day and Babylon Sisters.
Emory University Expands Its African Origins Database
Emory has added the names of an additional 80,000 African captives who were victims of the illegal slave trade.
Higher Education Grants of Interest to African-Americans
Here is this week’s news of grants to historically Black colleges and universities or for programs of particular interest to African Americans in higher education.
Five African Americans Appointed to New Posts in Academia
Michael Leo Owens, Karissa A. Moore, Terrance J. Tumey, Maurice Cox, and Kennard Brown are taking on new duties.
Earl Lewis to Lead the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
He is provost and the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of History and African American Studies at Emory University. He will join the foundation in March 2013.
Higher Education Grants of Interest to African-Americans
Here is this week’s news of grants to historically Black colleges and universities or for programs of particular interest to African Americans in higher education.
Emory University Acquires a Vast Archive of Photographs of African Americans
The more than 10,000 photographs, collected by Robert Langmuir of Philadelphia, contain images from the 1840s to the 1970s.
African American Professor Named Poet Laureate of the United States
Natasha Trethewey is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University in Atlanta.
Emory University Opens Its Archives of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
The archive includes materials from 918 boxes documenting the activities of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference from 1968 to 2007.
Emory University Video Series Highlights Lesser Known Events in Civil Rights History
A series of videos entitled "The Hidden History of the Quest for Civil Rights," offers history lessons on lesser known events of the civil rights struggle.
Emory Professor Wins Three Book Awards
Lawrence P. Jackson is honored for his book The Indignant Generation.
Higher Education Grants of Interest to African-Americans
Here is this week’s news of grants won by historically black colleges and universities or for programs of particular interest to African Americans in higher education.
Emory University Research Finds Racial Disparity in Kidney Transplants for Youth
Black youth without health insurance were 59 percent more likely to die than young White patients.
The Papers of Artist John Biggers Have Been Donated to Emory University
Muralist John Biggers founded the art department at Texas Southern University.
Two African Americans Share the Gittler Prize
Professors Frances Smith Foster and Clayborne Carson will share the $25,000 Joseph B. and Toby Gittler Prize from Brandeis University.
Five Honored With James Weldon Johnson Medals
The medals are awarded to individuals with "a deep and unwavering commitment to civil and human rights."
In Memoriam: Rudolph P. Byrd (1953-2011)
A prominent black studies scholar, he authored or edited 11 books.
Three Black Scholars Named to Prestigious Fellowships
Tyrone Forman, Joseph Youngblood II, and Wizdom Powell Hammond are honored with fellowships.
Emory University Study Examines Racial Disparity in Kidney Disease
Kidney failure is four times as likely among African Americans than for whites and greater amounts of protein in urine may be a contributing factor.
Emory University Library Starts New Collection on African Americans in Sports
The Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University in Atlanta has established a new collection on African Americans in sports.
