Garcia Receives McMullan Award for Service to Emory
College senior Eduardo Garcia has received the Lucius Lamar McMullan Award for his service to the Emory and Atlanta community, the University announced on Tuesday. The McMullan award recognizes a graduating senior who “show[s] extraordinary promise of becoming our future leaders and rare potential for service to their community, the nation and the world,” according to an April 2 Office of Undergraduate Education press release. The winner of the award receives a $25,000 prize to use as he or she wishes. Garcia will officially receive the award at the College diploma ceremony at graduation this May. “I remember that when…
Social Media Impacts Relationships
Nowadays, it’s not just a simple knock on the head. A new study led by U. Oregon graduate student David Howell and his advisors Dr. Li-Shan Chou and Dr. Louis “Lou” Osternig indicates that certain individuals may take longer to recover from concussions than previously thought. The study differentiated symptoms (e.g. headache, memory loss) from their ability to react and multitask, finding that while subjects usually recovered from symptoms between two weeks to a month, the latter left them milliseconds slower, even at the two-month mark. “Even though somebody feels better and they may say, ‘Okay, I’m ready to play,…
BusinessWeek Ranks Goizueta Seventh
The Goizueta Business School’s ranking dropped to seventh from fifth in the annual undergraduate business programs ranking compiled by Bloomberg BusinessWeek. The Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) program is one of just five schools to remain in the top 10 spots for all eight years that the ranking has been in place, according to Senior Associate Dean and Director of the BBA Program Andrea Hershatter. While Hershatter acknowledged the rankings drop, she stressed that statistically every ranking category that the B-School undergraduate program can control has been improving. “Based on the things under our control, everything has been improving, but…
SGA Revamps Thanksgiving Shuttle Schedule
The Student Government Association (SGA) will offer shuttle services to the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport for students going home before Thanksgiving break, but will not be offering shuttles to bring students back to campus from the airport after break. The shuttles will leave from Asbury Circle on Nov. 20 during noon to 7 p.m. and on Nov. 21 from 10 a.m. till 2 p.m. The shuttles will leave every hour on the hour. SGA Chief of Staff and Goizueta Business School junior Matthew Willis — who drafted the bill with SGA President and College senior Ashish Gandhi and College freshman legislator…
Professors Research, Analyze Successful Decision Strategies
The recent departmental changes to the College and Laney Graduate School have come under criticism by some who say the process by which the changes were made was unfair and unclear. Joel Brockner, a professor at the Columbia Business School, devoted 20 years to studying ‘procedural fairness,’ a term he coined for the process of implanting big changes in businesses and organizations. Employees’ reactions to decisions and their support for those decisions are affected not only by the outcome but also by the fairness of the process in deciding the outcome, according to Brockner in a 2008 interview with the…
SGA, Dean Discuss Provost Search
The 46th Legislature of the Student Government Association (SGA) convened for its first open body meeting of the semester Monday night. They discussed the University’s successor for Provost Earl Lewis, who will be leaving his position at the end of this semester. Dean of the College Robin Forman and Assistant Dean for Admission and Student Services Lynell Cadray attended the meeting to listen to the student government members’ ideas regarding what initiatives the next provost should focus on improving during his tenure. Forman mentioned that one of the jobs of the provost is to oversee the deans of each of…
New Platform to Host Student Organizations
The Student Government Association (SGA) and the Office of Student Leadership and Service (OSLS) will launch Community, an online program that aims to help the University better manage student organizations, next month. The program is “built specifically around needs of student organizations,” OSLS Director Matt Garrett wrote in an email to the Wheel. The software will provide a comprehensive student organization event calendar, updates on student organizations’ activities, photo galleries and messaging capabilities, among other features. With the new Community program, students will also be able to find contact information for student organization leaders, according to College senior and SGA…
Cleage Donates Works to MARBL
Nationally-recognized playwright, poet and novelist Pearl Cleage placed her works at the University’s Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Book Library (MARBL), according to an Aug. 28 University press release. Randall Burkett, Emory’s curator of African American collections said in the press release that Cleage’s papers “add luster to our holdings of brilliant African American women writers, artists and activists.” According to the press release, Cleage said she decided to place her papers with MARBL after holding discussions with Burkett and late professor Rudolph Byrd. “Emory was a place that would value the work that I’ve done and make the papers available…
University Shifts to Office 365 for Email
The University’s new email system, Microsoft Office 365, replaced Learnlink for student email and calendar on August 10, but LearnLink remains in use for conferences. All email for students, faculty and staff can now only be accessed using Microsoft Office 365. In addition, students can now link their email accounts on their smartphones. Alan Cattier, director of academic technologies, said that the transition process ran smoother than expected and that the Office of Information Technology has made great progress. Cattier added that the Information Technology (IT) department has received positive feedback from students about the new email system. Some students,…
