All the latest news from Emory University.http://shared.web.emory.edu/news/shared-rss.xmlhttp://shared.web.emory.edu/news/shared-rss.xmlTue, 01 Jun 2010 17:13:47 -0400Cascade ServerThe National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has awarded a five-year, $15.5 million grant to the Emory Vaccine Center to study human immune responses to vaccination. http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2010/08/nih-awards-emory-15-5-million-to-establish-center-for-systems-vaccinology.htmlThu, 12 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2010/08/nih-awards-emory-15-5-million-to-establish-center-for-systems-vaccinology.htmlResearchers at Emory University School of Medicine have identified a potential new strategy for treating fragile X syndrome, the most common inherited cause of intellectual disability.http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2010/08/scientists-identify-new-drug-strategy-against-fragile-x-syndrome.htmlTue, 10 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2010/08/scientists-identify-new-drug-strategy-against-fragile-x-syndrome.htmlKent Alexander will leave Emory University after serving more than 10 years as the University's senior vice president and general counsel to take a position as executive vice president and general counsel at Allscripts, a leading medical software company, the university and the company announced today. http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2010/08/emory-general-counsel-takes-post-in-healthcare-sector.htmlMon, 09 Aug 2010 17:00:00 -0400http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2010/08/emory-general-counsel-takes-post-in-healthcare-sector.htmlIn an effort to digitize its expansive collection of manuscripts, broadsides and personal notes from two leading Roman Catholics of the Victorian era, the Pitts Theology Library is recruiting volunteer transcriptionists to decipher documents and make them accessible to a wider audience. http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2010/08/transcribe-letters-from-the-vatican-.htmlMon, 09 Aug 2010 11:00:00 -0400http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2010/08/transcribe-letters-from-the-vatican-.htmlA study published in the August, 2010, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology shows that abused, suicidal African American women assigned to a culturally informed, empowerment-focused educational group were less depressed and had lower levels of psychological distress than their peers who received usual psychiatric and psychological care in the community. http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2010/08/interventions-show-value-for-abused-suicidal-african-american-women.htmlFri, 06 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2010/08/interventions-show-value-for-abused-suicidal-african-american-women.htmlThe ruling in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, striking down California¿s ban on same-sex marriage, represents the intersection of significant legal and social developments, says Emory University¿s Robert Schapiro, professor of constitutional law, in an analysis of the federal court decision Aug. 4.http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2010/08/prop-8-ruling-represents-significant-legal-social-developments.htmlThu, 05 Aug 2010 16:00:00 -0400http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2010/08/prop-8-ruling-represents-significant-legal-social-developments.htmlResearchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, have discovered a possible new mechanism by which sooty mangabeys, a natural host of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), avoid developing AIDS despite having very high viral loads.http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2010/08/new-insight-into-role-of-t-cells-in-hiv-infections.htmlThu, 05 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2010/08/new-insight-into-role-of-t-cells-in-hiv-infections.htmlThe US Department of Defense Lung Cancer Research Program has given a Clinical Fellow Research Award to Arif Ali, MD, a resident physician at Emory's Winship Cancer Institute and the Department of Radiation Oncology in Emory School of Medicine.http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2010/08/department-of-defense-awards-grant-for-lung-cancer-research.htmlThu, 05 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2010/08/department-of-defense-awards-grant-for-lung-cancer-research.htmlTwo Emory University faculty members have been awarded the distinction of Association for Psychological Science Fellows. Darryl Neill, professor of psychology, and Kim Wallen, the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Neuroendocrinology and a researcher at Emory's Yerkes National Primate Research Center. http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2010/08/emory-researchers-named-fellows-of-the-association-for-psychological-science.htmlThu, 05 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2010/08/emory-researchers-named-fellows-of-the-association-for-psychological-science.htmlDid you know that math has pathological phenomena? A sphere that is behaving particularly badly can grow horns. The demo of the Alexander Horned Sphere was created by Michael Rogers, associate professor of math at Emory's Oxford College, for the Wolfram Demonstrations Project. http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2010/08/when-spheres-go-wild.htmlWed, 04 Aug 2010 08:00:00 -0400http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2010/08/when-spheres-go-wild.htmlEmory Healthcare has been named the title sponsor for Atlanta Motor Speedway's Sept. 5 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series night race, which will be named the "Emory Healthcare 500."http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2010/08/emory-healthcare-named-title-sponsor-for-labor-day-weekend-nascar-event.htmlWed, 04 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2010/08/emory-healthcare-named-title-sponsor-for-labor-day-weekend-nascar-event.htmlFrom fall to spring, Lakshmi Anumukonda is a science teacher at a metro-Atlanta high school. But in the summer, she dons a lab coat and becomes a molecular time traveler.http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2010/08/teaching-evolution-enters-new-era.htmlWed, 04 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2010/08/teaching-evolution-enters-new-era.htmlEmory computer scientists Eugene Agichtein and Qi Guo have developed on online tool that helps predict whether a person intends to buy or to browse by tracking the cursor movements.http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2010/08/mouse-trail-leads-to-online-shoppers.htmlTue, 03 Aug 2010 08:00:00 -0400http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2010/08/mouse-trail-leads-to-online-shoppers.htmlTiny particles of iron oxide could become tools for simultaneous tumor imaging and treatment, because of their magnetic properties and toxic effects against brain cancer cells. In mice, researchers from Emory University School of Medicine have demonstrated how these particles can deliver antibodies to implanted brain tumors, while enhancing tumor visibility via magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2010/08/iron-oxide-nanoparticles-becoming-tools-for-brain-tumor-imaging-and-treatment.htmlMon, 02 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2010/08/iron-oxide-nanoparticles-becoming-tools-for-brain-tumor-imaging-and-treatment.htmlThe latest installment of "Poets In Place," produced by the online journal SouthernSpaces.org, features Emory creative writing professor and 2007 Pulitzer Prize winner Natasha Trethewey in one of the most in depth discussions ever about her work. http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2010/07/natasha-trethewey-interview.htmlFri, 30 Jul 2010 05:00:00 -0400http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2010/07/natasha-trethewey-interview.html