Author: Wade Moricle
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Grant Dollar, Business Analyst, Information Analysts Team
Grant Dollar has joined the UIT Information Analysts Team as a business analyst. Before coming to Emory, Grant spent four years working in financial systems at The Home Depot. He came to Emory because he was looking for nonprofit opportunities after his time in the corporate world. Grant grew up in Birmingham, AL, and earned a BS degree in information systems…
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Chella Vaidyanathan, European/World History and Philosophy Humanities Librarian, Emory Libraries
Chella Vaidyanathan (pronounced vied-ya-NAH-thun) joined the Emory Libraries late last year as a history and philosophy humanities librarian. She previously worked for six years at Johns Hopkins University’s Sheridan Libraries, where she served jointly as a liaison librarian in multiple subject areas (history, anthropology, Africana studies, Latin American studies, Islamic studies) and as the curator of 19th-21st…
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Michelle Wilson, Accountant, Business and Administration
Michelle Wilson joined LITS as an accountant in the last half of 2016. Before coming to Emory, she worked at Working Buildings, the company that is currently commissioning the hospital expansion at Emory. Michelle spent four years there, primarily as lead/senior accountant (project set-up, billing, accounts payable and receivable and payroll). Michelle was also an auditor at The Weather…
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Will Wright, Software Engineer II, App Development & Informatics (LITS)
Will Wright comes to Emory as a Software Engineer II, App Development & Informatics (LITS). He previously spent two years as a software engineer in the global services division of Atmospheric & Environmental Research, Inc. (AER) in Lexington, MA. Will is from Georgetown, SC, which he described as “a small ‘low-country’ town, home of a paper mill, steel…
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Diversity and Inclusion Working Group hosts its first seminar
On January 25, the Woodruff Library Diversity and Inclusion Working Group hosted a special talk by Mark Puente, Director of Diversity and Leadership at the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). Held in the Woodruff Library’s Jones Room, the event included discussion about the state of diversity and inclusion initiatives in the broader profession today, and what…
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Teaching Atlanta Digitally event to be held next Friday
The Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS), the Center for Faculty Development and Excellence at Emory (CFDE), and Teaching Atlanta are hosting an event focused on bringing Atlanta-based digital projects into the classroom. The event will be held next Friday, February 3, from 1-4 pm in the Jones Room of the Woodruff Library. This modular half-day symposium…
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Ken Danter, Network Analyst, Network Engineering Run Team
Ken Danter joins Emory as a network analyst after spending two years at Guided Therapeutics as an electronics technician and an optical alignment technician. He also spent over eight years in the U.S. Navy as an aviation electronics technician. Born and raised in Adairsville, GA, Ken received his Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) for routing and switching at Kennesaw State…