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Light the Torch! Sound the Trumpet! for Emory Commencement Weekend

There is still time for all alumni, staff, faculty, parents, and students to make plans for Emory Commencement Weekend 2007, May 10–14. With five days of activities all over campus, this year's celebration has something for every member of the Emory community. Even mascots.
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Blue and gold make green

Blessings come in unexpected ways when your namesake is an obscure Irish saint. Just ask Ciannat Howett 87C, director of Emory’s sustainability initiatives, who was named after a medieval martyr of Dublin.
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Capitol gains: Korean ambassador hosts largests speaker event of the year

For its final presidential speaker series event of the year, set for April 24 in Washington, a city with so much international culture, it made perfect sense for the Emory Alumni Association (EAA) to take full advantage of its access to the world. Which is exactly what happened. See the photos.
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Capitol gains: Professors press buttons

Emory President Jim Wagner and a slate of Emory's best known and most provocative scholars were out in force April 25 at the National Press Club for a half-day of talks on issues challenging America and the world. Audience members included both the news media and Washington-area alumni. See the photos.
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Norton a service leader and that's no bull

More than 35 years ago, Judge William L. Norton Jr. 42Ox 48C 50L pledged “to do whatever I can for the welfare and benefit of Oxford College,” a pledge he has honored to the fullest. That commitment is why Norton was presented with the Emory Alumni Association's highest award for service, the 2007 J. Pollard Turman Alumni Service Award.
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President Jim Wagner earns Johns Hopkins alumni honor

Alumni awards are always big news at the Emory Alumni Association—even if the recipient isn’t an Emory alumnus and Emory isn’t the awarding institution. Case in point … President Jim Wagner recently received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Johns Hopkins School of Engineering, and on April 30 he traveled to Baltimore to accept it and deliver the awards ceremony’s keynote address.
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Unveiling an author: Emory opens long-sealed Flannery O'Connor letters

In 1955, soon after the publication of A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories, Flannery O’Connor received a letter from a reader in Atlanta who had recognized that her stories were, as the reader put it, “about God.”
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Preparedness office created to respond to 'catastrophic' events

The Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response (CEPAR) is expected to further improve Emory's ability to deliver a coordinated and effective response to catastrophic events. Alexander Isakov, associate professor of emergency medicine in the School of Medicine, began his role as CEPAR director on May 1.
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Time says: de Waal 'shapes our world'

Frans de Waal, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Psychology and director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, is featured in Time magazine's 2007 Top 100: The People Who Shape Our World special issue, which is now available on newsstands.
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Looking Back: March 1957 ... The "beauty" section

Women have a long history as Emory students (such as in the 100-year-old nursing school), but the Class of 1957 was Emory College's first to truly be “coeducational” and include women who had spent four undergraduate years as Emory students. In honor of those graduates—who are celebrating their 50-year reunion this week—EmoryWire's monthly Looking Back feature highlights a piece from the March 1957 edition of The Emory Alumnus (precursor to Emory Magazine).
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