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Connect to the new EAA podcast series

Type the word “podcast” into Google and you get 105 million hits. Type in “EAA podcast” and you get eight—and none of them really have much to do with the Emory Alumni Association (EAA). That lack of recognition may change, though, with the launch of Alumni Leadership: The Campus and Beyond, the EAA’s alumni leadership podcast series now available exclusively on the EAA website.
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The battle for your network stars

Anyone who has considered a career change or run into a career hurdle has heard the statistic—80 percent of jobs come through networking. “Change is the only thing that is guaranteed in our careers these days,” said the EAA's Executive Career Coach Jodie Charlop 82Ox 85C.
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Republic of Georgia draws top official from Emory rolls

Lado Gurgenidze was a standout student when he earned his MBA from Goizueta Business School in 1993. His academic mentor, Jeff Rosensweig, believed that big things lay ahead for the ambitious young man from the Republic of Georgia, and he was right. After making his mark in international business, Gurgenidze was chosen as prime minister of Georgia in November 2007.
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The case for Project Casse
by Robbie Paulsen 10M

After nearly four hours on foot, a man walked into our Emory Medishare mobile clinic at a school in the arid Central Plateau of Haiti holding his limp baby boy, Matheu. The child was unresponsive and though he was breathing shallowly, he was so dehydrated that our pediatricians could not feel a pulse. Suddenly, everybody sprang into action, ready to improvise with our limited resources.
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Emory men take down No. 1 team in nation

The clock struck 00:00 in the P.E. Center on Friday, January 25, and a SportsCenter highlight broke out. Around 100 Emory fans rushed the court to celebrate the Eagles’ 81–76 overtime win over then-No. 1 Rochester, the first time the Emory men had defeated a top-ranked team. The win was definitely the highlight of first-year coach Jason Zimmerman’s inaugural season, but since then, the Eagle men (and Eagle women) have had their ups and downs. So when Emory hits the road this weekend to kick off the second half of the 2007–08 conference schedule, increasing those ups is what the teams are looking toward.
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An uncommon place for MLK Day

To commemorate Martin Luther King Day on Monday, January 21, about 50 members of the Oxford College community—including alumni, students, faculty, and staff—worked alongside Newton County residents and members of the local African American churches to clean up an uncommon place, a predominately African American historic cemetery near Georgia Perimeter College.
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Keeping an eye on New Orleans

The entire third-year residency class of the Emory Eye Center volunteered its time and talents for a day of intense physical work at the recent American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) conference in New Orleans.
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Night never falls on Evening at Emory

To review the history of the Evening at Emory program is to not only peer through a window into the cultural trends of the last half century but also see how they are reflected in the academic world.
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Emory Magazine undergoes online facelift

Emory Magazine’s new designer, Erica Endicott, has been busy. Not only is she putting the finishing touches on the Winter 2008 edition of the publication, she recently redesigned the magazine’s website to offer better navigation, greater accessibility and a more elegant, reader friendly appearance. The website is not only a colorful complement to the award-winning print version, but it also contains web-exclusive content such as University photographer Kay Hinton’s evocative photo essay chronicling Emory’s journey to the Holy Land.