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Traditions renewed at Emory Commencement Weekend

Each of the last five years, at the conclusion of Emory Commencement Weekend, the Emory Alumni Association (EAA), as well as many of the alumni, parents and students taking part, has branded it as the “best ever.” The aftermath of the 2008 celebration is no different.
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Magee keeps generous spirit alive

Rosemary Magee 82PhD has experienced the Emory community as a student, alumna, staff member, faculty member, and now as an administrator. Among other things, she helped build Emory’s summer study abroad program, spearheaded the construction of the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, and for the last four years has served as secretary of the University. She has given a great deal to Emory—and that generous attitude of service hasn’t stopped with her receipt of the 2008 Thomas Jefferson Award.
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Multi-talented Zelkowitz gets McMullan

Emory graduate Rachel Zelkowitz 08C knows a little something about how to meet deadlines. During her four years at Emory, she took on numerous positions with the award-winning Emory Wheel and earned a reputation for grace under fire, high ethical standards, and the warm support of her colleagues.
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Brittain winner a model of engaged scholarship

Putting knowledge into action is an ideal of engaged scholarship that Emory graduate Zain Ahmed 08C lives each day. Ahmed pushes himself to the limit for the greater good, whether it’s in the lab working on intensive organ transplant research, developing programs for an international nonprofit, or tutoring Atlanta-area high school students.
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Earn your stripes

The now-infamous Oxford zebra incident will live long in memory—and on the backs of the Oxford community—with special commemorative T-shirts sold by students Adnan Rashid 08Ox 10C and Katie Larson 08Ox 10C.
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Playing the field in global health

The Internet allows us to check e-mail, blog, and surf endless numbers of websites, but a recent discovery by Emory’s Wendy Darling, web development specialist for Health Sciences Communications, has broadened the realm further by opening the eyes of Emory to some of the most remote destinations on Earth.
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Make Emory history. Again.

Every Emory alumnus is an essential part of the University’s history. Now, through a new project sponsored by the Office of the President, all alumni have the opportunity to contribute to the recording of that history.
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Something fishy going on in Atlanta

The Georgia Aquarium is the largest in the world. It needed to be to accommodate more than 500 Emory alumni visitors who walked through its doors, Friday, May 2, for the largest EAA chapter-driven event in years.
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Who says you can't go home?

What did you do for your summer vacation? Did you go home? That’s what more than 100 alumni did the weekend of June 13–15. “Home,” of course, was their alma mater, Emory. And the occasion was Emory Alumni Leadership Weekend: Building the Network, an ambitious Emory Alumni Association (EAA) effort to bring together many of its most engaged volunteer leaders for three day’s-worth of high-level education, conversation, and fun.
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