Author: Wade Moricle
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Anne Marie Goes to Paris
Anne Marie Alexander (Integration) recently spent a week in the land of bread and butter and wine and sugar – Paris, France! This was her first trip to Paris and exciting because she speaks just enough French to be dangerous. Below are a few of her trip highlights: Favorite attractions: Musée d’Orsay and the Musée…
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Sharon Gregory’s Dad: The Baseball Player
…A pitcher stares into the batter’s box, reading the catcher’s signals, and prepares to deliver his best fastball. One more strike, just one more strike, and we win the game. As the hot Georgia sun beats down, sweat drips from the bill of his cap. Our pitcher takes a glance at the runner on third,…
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Rob Renner, OIT Division Director, Human Resources
Rob has spent 21 years in Human Resources management and comes to Emory from AXIS Capital, where he served as the Assistant Vice President of Human Resources, with primary responsibility for global compensation. Prior to that he worked for 11 years at Cisco Systems where he was the Director of HR for Cisco’s services division,…
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The Emory Undergraduate Experience Discussed
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
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
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
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…