August 2019 Archive

Tens of thousands of book lovers are expected to visit Decatur during Labor Day weekend for the 2019 AJC Decatur Book Festival
Emory authors shine at the Decatur Book Festival

Emory University | August 28, 2019

David Gowler, Oxford's Pierce Chair of Religion, will be one of more than 20 Emory faculty participating in sessions at the 2019 AJC Decatur Book Festival, presented by Emory University.

Oxford College welcomed 474 first-year students.
Meet Emory's Class of 2023

Emory University | August 28, 2019

Bright and talented, Emory's new first-year class arrived on campus this week primed to step into college life. Together, the Class of 2023 comes to Emory representing some of the nation's most promising young scholars.

Sophomores welcome first-year students to Oxford's campus.
New initiative aims to welcome students to more events

Oxford College | August 22, 2019

Oxford College staff want incoming first-year students to be more connected this academic year with help from a mobile application and a new welcome initiative.

Emory College junior Kasey Cervantes (center) holds a tiny mosquito specimen like the hundreds he is helping catalog at the Natural History Museum in London. His summer research came about through a collaboration between Emory nursing professor Helen Baker (left) and CDC research entomologist Seth Irish (right). Emory Photo/Video
Emory student travels to London for mosquito research

Emory University | August 15, 2019

Rising Emory junior Kasey Cervantes is spending the last weeks of his summer contributing to a database that will help uncover when mosquitoes developed the insecticide resistance that hinders malaria eradication.