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South's Scott receives prestigious award


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South s Scott receives prestigious award
Isaiah Scott
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ATLANTA 21st Century Leaders, a Georgia-based non-profit youth leadership and talent development program for high school students from diverse backgrounds, announces the top 21 youth leaders selected for its annual signature event, Georgia Youth Leadership Awards, presented by WarnerMedia, to be held March 25 online via EventLab, an Atlanta-based virtual event platform. 
21st Century Leaders (21CL), in partnership with the event corporate sponsors and partners, brings together business and civic leaders to raise support for 21st Century Leaders year-round leadership programs while also recognizing 21 outstanding high school students throughout Georgia who have ....

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Acclaim: Recent honors for Emory faculty and staff


Beck appointed to named chairmanship
Allen D. Beck, director and chair of Emory Eye Center, has been appointed the F. Phinizy Calhoun, Sr. Chair in Ophthalmology. Beck joined the glaucoma section of Emory Eye Center in 1994 and was named director of glaucoma services in 1999. He was named interim director and chair of Emory Eye Center in 2016 and was appointed chair in 2019.
Eckert honored for recent book on West Germany
Astrid M. Eckert’s new book “West Germany and the Iron Curtain: Environment, Economy and Culture in the Borderlands” has won several recent honors. These include the Hans Rosenberg Book Prize, awarded by the Central European History Society for the best book in the field published by a North American resident in 2019; the 2020 German Academic Exchange Service/German Studies Association (DAAD/GSA) Book Prize for the best book in history or social sciences; and the 2020 Smith Award by the European History Section of the Southern Historical Assoc ....

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Research roundup: Recent grants and publications for Emory faculty and staff


Andy Warhol Foundation grant to support book completion
Sergio Delgado Moya, associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese, has been awarded one of the Andy Warhol Foundation’s Arts Writer Grants.
Projects supported by the program address both general and specialized art audiences, from scholarly studies to critical reviews and magazine features. Moya will receive $50,000 to complete his book “An Archive of Violence: The Obscene Visuality of Sensationalism.” The book makes a case for sensationalism as a specific kind of violence that falls on marginalized populations who are marked by gender and class, by race and ethnicity, by dispossession and by sexuality. ....

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