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Cox Hall wins 2016 Building Recycling Competition

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Cox Hall recently won the campus-wide Building Recycling Competition, according to the reigning sustainability employee of the year, Dawn Francis-Chewning. The award was $3,000 that can be put toward sustainable initiatives in the building. Following a successful collaboration to do composting at the Woodruff Library, where Dawn worked with Marc Hardison and Marty Ike to launch the composting […]

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Student Digital Life debuts several services for new academic year

The Student Digital Life (SDL) team presented at this week’s InfoForum regarding a host of new services and student spaces now available for the new academic year. Their work was also featured this week in a Library press release that you can read here. The InfoForum was led by Tara McCurley and featured brief presentations […]

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Gaming support a valuable growing service at Emory

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[Ed. note: This article was written by Haynes Chewning and Tara McCurley.] Gaming is an increasingly important topic in higher education. In the past few years, there have been classes built around specific games or aspects of gaming, as well as existing courses modified to accommodate gaming components. LITS Student Services embraced gaming and hosted […]

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World of Tomorrowland: 3D printing

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LITS Student Services has always stood at the intersection of students and technology. Whether fixing devices students bring to campus or offering a place for them experience something new, Student Services plays an integral role in the experience students have with technology while at Emory. Student Services built its reputation on things like the Student […]

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Dawn Francis-Chewning, Educational Analyst III, Academic Technology Services

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Dawn moves over to STS to be a student-centric advocate. Much of what she will be doing is similar to what she has worked on in the past as she will still be coordinating Back to School and student elections. Before this move, she was a Business Analyst III in ATS. Dawn has been working […]

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What Millennials Taught Me About Being a Leader

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Years ago, when Kim Braxton (Academic Technology Services) transferred to me the supervision of the Computing Center student staff, I welcomed the opportunity to grow professionally. I had no experience supervising or managing staff, but I did have a long history of assuming responsibility for people and processes that dates back to childhood. As children, […]

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Michael Buchmann, STS Coordinator, Academic Technology Services

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Michael will be coordinating Student Technology Services (STS) in the Cox Hall Computing Center. He worked at Apple as a Genius (Apple’s name for a computer hardware and software technician) and technician on Apple devices. Before that he was the customer support manager at a camera repair shop, Camera Repair Japan, in Duluth for four […]

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