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Child study is the name of the game
Families in the Emory community and throughout metro Atlanta are helping the psychology department’s Child Study Center explore how children learn; what and how they think and remember; and how they change as they grow older.

Travel policy changes on April 1
Emory is changing its policy for booking air travel to improve the overall efficiency, safety and cost effectiveness of its business-related travel.

Report From: The Office of University-Community Partnerships
The Office of University-Community Partnerships helps connect the classroom to the community through a continuum of community-engaged learning, scholarship and service programs.

Take Note
• EmoryCards must be recoded by April
• Energy conservation to benefit Haiti
• Idling policy to protect air quality

Discovery

Water oxidation boosts solar fuel hopes
Emory chemists have developed the most potent homogeneous catalyst known for water oxidation, considered a crucial component for generating clean hydrogen fuel using only water and sunlight.

Intestinal bacteria may be culprit in obesity
Study results, from a team led by Emory pathologist Andrew Gewirtz, strengthen the case that intestinal bacteria can contribute to human obesity and metabolic disease.

Sound Science podcast: A new look at old age
Emory geriatrician Ted Johnson discusses the difference between what is a normal part of aging and what is a common experience of aging.

Paintball colors view of war
The final exhibition of “The Lucid Eye: A Year of Photography at Emory” is “Play War,” Ruth Dusseault’s ongoing series of pictures about the subculture of paintball in suburbia, and the form of mock-war it represents.

‘Losing’ exhibit shows grief’s faces
“The Art of Losing” exhibition of first-edition books, journal entries and artwork opening today at the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library will illuminate grief’s private journey.

Spring into fiction with readings
Events with fiction writers Susan Choi and Antonya Nelson conclude the 2009-2010 Creative Writing Program Reading Series.

Advance Notice
• Employee Town Hall looks ahead
• Observing war’s 7th anniversary
• Foster leads talk on marriage book
• Future of art criticism hosts A. O. Scott

Plan your week
Monday, March 15
Human Rights Week: "Sustainablity and Human Rights." Abdullahi An-Na'im, law, presenting. 6 p.m. Tull Auditorium, Law School. Free.

Tuesday, March 16
“Scratched in Stone: The Isis Temple Graffiti Project.” Jitse Dijkstra, University of Ottawa, presenting. 7 p.m. Free. Tate Room, Carlos Museum.

Wednesday, March 17
Thangka Painting Demonstration. 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Tate Room, Carlos Museum. Free. Also: March 19.

Thursday, March 18
“Communications, Canoes and Communities: Towards a Better Understanding of Cancer Health Disparities.” Cathy Meade, Moffitt Cancer Center, presenting. 4 p.m. Alumni Auditorium, School of Nursing. Free.

Friday, March 19
David Deveau, piano. Noon. Reception Hall, Carlos Museum. Free.

Saturday, March 20
Emory Big Band. 3 p.m. Emerson Hall, Schwartz Center. Free.

Sunday, March 21
“Wonderlands.” Salman Rushdie, Distinguished Writer in Residence, presenting. 5 p.m. Glenn Memorial Auditorium. $10; $5.

For all campus events, visit the Emory Events Calender.

First Person: Tonio Andrade
The associate professor of history reveals the secret of his bicycle commute to work.

Summit emerges on the future of India
Diplomats, academics, journalists and leaders in business and industry will come together at Emory to discuss the emerging economy of India on March 26 at the Emerging India Summit 2010.

Soundbites
• Cardinal Kasper on speaking of God
• ‘Now is the time for women to roar’
• Artists join Rushdie for a look at love

Emory Profile: Dana Wyner
The calm and collected overseer of Eagles at Ease Stress Management Services helps clients bust stress with Wii Fit, biofeedback and other therapeutic tools.

Healthcare launches staff campaign
MyEmory Healthcare, an employee and retiree giving program to support Emory Healthcare’s greatest needs and priorities, offers a powerful way to make a difference by helping strengthen shared vision and meet shared goals.

Questions for…Salman Rushdie
“Of everything to do with the archive, I’m most interested in the way in which the digital material is being treated,” says Emory’s Distinguished Writer in Residence upon the opening of his archive at MARBL.

Young is USA James Baldwin Fellow
Kevin Young, Atticus Haygood Professor of English and Creative Writing, has been named USA James Baldwin Fellow in Literature by a national grant-making and artist advocacy organization.

MyEmory Spotlight: Alex Christian
See where the program coordinator in the Office of Community and Diversity donates and why he believes in it.

Acclaim
Honored this issue are:
• Eric Nelson
• Scott Stewart
• Bernard Flythe
• Kay Fairchild
• Paula Williams
• Julie Shaffer
• Nanette Wenger
• Jack Zupko

New at Emory.edu

Explore the newly redesigned Web site for the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at nursing.emory.edu; access the 2009 Emory University Annual Report at www.emory.edu/president/annual-report and listen to Emory Report Book | Report podcasts compiled for your convenience at www.emory.edu/EMORY_REPORT.