On July 26, 1971, three astronauts embarked on the Apollo 15 lunar mission. The spaceship landed on the moon four days later, becoming the fourth successfully-manned moon expedition. Twelve days after launch, Apollo 15 splashed down in the Pacific Ocean. Aboard the longest crewed Apollo mission at the time was Commander David Scott, father of [...]
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Emory University will rename Longstreet-Means Residence Hall to Eagle Hall and build memorials honoring “enslaved individuals,” University President Gregory L. Fenves announced in a Monday email. The decision followed calls from students over the years to acknowledge the namesakes’ racist histories. In October, Fenves reappointed a University Committee on Naming Honors to review “contested historic [...]
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The Goizueta Business School and the LGBTQ Institute at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights will collaborate to research and help address LGBTQ-related issues impacting people living in Southern states for the LGBTQ Institute/Emory Southern Survey 2021 cycle. This will be a second iteration of a similar survey conducted through a partnership between [...]
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Emory College named historian and filmmaker Malinda Maynor Lowery, a member of the Lumbee Tribe, as the second Cahoon Family Professor in American History. Lowery will become the History Department’s only scholar of the history of Indigenous people in the U.S. Coming from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Lowery has served as [...]
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Emory University President Gregory L. Fenves signed the “Break Free from Plastic” pledge on June 15 after meeting with student leaders of the Plastic Free Emory Project (PFEP). The pledge asks the University to substantially reduce the presence of single-use plastics on the Atlanta and Oxford campuses in a 5-year span. The Emory pledge is [...]
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