Emory University named Carlos del Rio (86MR, 88FM), the executive associate dean for Emory at Grady Memorial Hospital, as interim dean for the Emory School of Medicine and interim chief academic officer for Emory Healthcare. Del Rio, who is also a distinguished professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases, will begin his term [...]
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Alexander “Alex” Vallejo, who was a senior at Emory University and is remembered by friends and family as a caring person who never ran out of topics to discuss, died on Sept. 16, 2022 at 22 years old. He is survived by his parents, Cathleen and Vicente Vallejo, and his brother, Andre Vallejo (20C). Alex [...]
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Emory University School of Medicine Dean Vikas Sukhatme, who is also the chief academic officer of Emory Healthcare, announced on Nov. 22 that he will be stepping down from his roles in March 2023. He held both positions for five years. Sukhatme will remain in the School of Medicine community as a full-time faculty member. [...]
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When Sen. Rev. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) addressed a crowd of about 120 members of the Emory University community on Nov. 19, he spoke not only as a senator up for reelection, but also as a proponent of Martin Luther King Jr.’s leadership. Ultimately, Warnock said, he was still the second youngest of 12 kids who [...]
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When the Emory Free Speech Forum (EFSF) began to promote their event with the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism (FAIR) at the Emory University School of Law last month, controversy quickly followed. Within a couple days, EFSF’s fliers about the event — coined “A Pro-Human Approach to Civil Rights” — were met with student-made fliers [...]
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