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The new year is just getting underway, but Emory is already busy with events, including a concert celebrating Chinese New Year on Jan. 22 with the Vega Quartet. Whether you enjoy music, sports or conversations, here’s a sampling of January activities.
On the latest episode of One Big Question, Emory President Gregory L. Fenves talks to Emory College alumnus and columnist Christopher Mims about the global supply chain crisis and how many miles it takes to build a cell phone.
Emory University has been named a 2022 recipient of the Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award, a national honor recognizing colleges and universities that demonstrate an outstanding commitment to diversity and inclusion.
Emory joins national Mellon Foundation research project to address racial reparations
Emory University will be part of a $5 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded to the University of Michigan’s Center for Social Solutions, led by former Emory Provost Earl Lewis, as part of the Foundation’s Just Futures initiative. “Crafting Democratic Futures: Situating Colleges and Universities in Community-based Reparations Solutions” emerges from the Center for Social Solutions’ focus on slavery and its aftermath, and is informed by three generations of humanistic scholarship and what that scholarship suggests for all seeking just futures. More information here.
The team of scholars will be led by historian Carol Anderson, Emory’s Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies and department chair. The team also includes Emory College faculty members Vanessa Siddle Walker, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of African American Studies, and AAS assistant