Emory University

DeKalb County News 10:21 a.m. Wednesday, November 25, 2009 Emory president to advise Obama on bioethics Emory University President James Wagner will serve as vice chairman of a new committee to advise President Obama on bioethics. The...

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...yesterday's creation of his Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. He also named James W. Wagner, president of Emory University, as vice chair. Obama's move was not unprecedented. Bush's council was created in 2001 and...

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...W. Wagner, Vice Chair, Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues James W. Wagner currently serves as the President of Emory University, where he has championed the role of ethics in the mission of the University by...

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...subjects, believing that will help students think more deeply and precisely about everything from history to art. James Roland, an Emory University debate coach, gave the example of a science class where students are assigned to argue...

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...the University of South Carolina, where he also pursued graduate work in art history. He is a graduate of the Archives Institute at Emory University; the Institute for Southern Material Culture at the University of North Carolina/Museum of...

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Atlanta News 10:39 a.m. Monday, November 23, 2009 Emory University's Candler School of Theology and Oxford College received more than $4.25 million from an alumnus' estate, officials announced Monday. Oxford College received $3.35...

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...fact, on the very day that the USDA issued its report, Kenneth Thorpe, chairman of the department of health policy and management at Emory University in Atlanta, released a survey showing that, if present trends continue, 43 percent of...

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...had catheter procedures such as an angiogram, 15 percent had computed tomography or CT scans and 12 percent had a head CT. In August a team at Emory University in Atlanta reported in the New England Journal of Medicine that as many as 4...

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Article Date: 16 Nov 2009 - 1:00 PST Researchers at Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed microscopic polymer beads that can deliver an antioxidant enzyme made naturally by the body into the heart.

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More than 800 Emory University students, alumni and staff members signed up to volunteer throughout Atlanta Saturday as part of the college's annual Emory Cares International Service Day. The volunteers are scheduled to cleanup Oakland...

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