Monthly Archives: July 2013

The Emory Undergraduate Experience Discussed

Photo of Emory's President Wagner taken from a promotional video

Emory has produced a new video about the transformative impact of an Emory residential, undergraduate, liberal arts education. This presentation was created for the June Board of Trustees meeting and is now publicly available. The video was shot and edited by Ann Borden in Emory Photo Video and features the voices of Emory College of Arts […]

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Predictable Irrationality

Photo of Dan Ariely

The latest in my favorite TED Talks is this amazing speech by Dan Ariely, in which he talks about his behavioral experiments in regards to personal and business ethics. According to Wikipedia, “Dan Ariely is an Israeli American professor of psychology and behavioral economics. He teaches at Duke University and is the founder of The […]

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Luc Survives Savage Obstacle Course

Photo of person doing an obstacle course in the mud

Luciano Dalla Venezia (Integration) took part in the Savage Race on May 11 and will be taking part in the next one as well on October 5. Located at the Moonlight Stables Equestrian Center in Dallas, GA, the Savage Race is an intense 5-6 mile obstacle run with 25 world class obstacles, including mud, fire, […]

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Photo of the Month: Emory Hospital J-Wing

Photo of a hospital construction site

Construction on the new J-Wing of Emory Hospital, which sits close to the North Decatur Building, moves into high gear with a deep excavation that requires occasional blasting. Some 20,000 truckloads of dirt and 65,000 tons of rock will be removed during the excavation for the parking deck, to a depth of 50 to 55 […]

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Kawasaki Presents the “Practitioner’s Road”

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On June 18, 2013, Mark Kawasaki (Integration-ITSMO) was one of the presenters in a global online conference called Tomorrow’s Future Today (TFT). TFT features 24 speakers, with a goal of creating a 24-hour virtual global conference, with each presentation following the sun, live on YouTube. The speakers were selected by popular vote online. This conference, […]

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The Happy Secret to Better Work

In light of current discussion during performance review season, Ted Talk speaker Shawn Achor delivers an inspirational speech that the secret to improved work performance is happiness. This is not surprising to anyone except Achor points out that it is not improved work performance that makes us happier…happiness must come first. According to his bio […]

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Kudos to Tillie Loza

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Mary Kinney (Enterprise Services), Manager of the Coordinator Team, would like to acknowledge Emory Coordinator III Tillie Loza (Enterprise Services) for going above and beyond while supporting Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA). Tillie was prepared to forward a list of fax numbers on Wednesday, June 26 at 5 p.m. Prior to moving the numbers, she […]

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