Ahmaud Arbery/Courtesy of Reuters The killing of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old black man who was shot by two white men during his midday run in Brunswick, Georgia, has sparked a nationwide uproar. Emory black students and professors were left reeling as feelings of trauma and agony have resurfaced over another killing of an unarmed black [...]
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Director of the Creative Writing Program and Winship Distinguished Research Professor in Creative Writing Jericho Brown./ Courtesy Emory Photo Jericho Brown, Winship Distinguished Research Professor in Creative Writing and director of the Creative Writing Program, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in poetry on May 4 for his most recent collection, “The Tradition.” This collection was [...]
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Helen Bradshaw, Contributing In the wake of the University’s decision to cancel all Spring 2020 study abroad programs in Italy, all nine Emory students in the country will have left by Friday, according to Associate Dean for International and Summer Programs Sarah Gouzoules. “Due to the challenges of rearranging travel, not all students have been [...]
Read MoreKurupassery Elected RHA President The Residence Hall Association (RHA) announced on Feb. 20 that Akash Kurupassery (22C) was elected RHA president. Kurupassery ran unopposed and collected 83.4% of the vote. Qiao Jiao (22C) was elected executive vice president, obtaining 61.92% of the vote. Emily Wang (23C) did not secure a majority in the election for [...]
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“It begins with having conversations about what it means to be an American,” Pellom McDaniels III told the Wheel about civic education. “We have to have a foundation first, and the foundation comes from understanding what it means to be a citizen.” McDaniels, the curator of African American collections at the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, [...]
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