SCHOOLS AND UNITS
DIGEST MICHAEL C. CARLOS MUSEUM Peter Lacovara, curator of Ancient Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Eastern art, donated an Eighteenth Dynasty Egyptian bowl in memory of Billy Hulse, late husband of former board member Betty Hulse. NELL HODGSON WOODRUFF SCHOOL OF NURSING James G. Wetrich 09EMBA has pledged $100,000 to the School of Nursing to create a scholarship in honor of his wife, Nancy Wetrich, a longtime ICU nurse. The scholarship will support undergraduate nurses who have financial need.
Cyclists have contributed more than $1 million to the Emory Vaccine Center in the past decade.
significant financial responsibilities—the costs of higher education can be even more of a challenge than for traditional students. The Burt Masters Scholars Endowment is Emory’s first endowed student support fund open to nontraditional students in all graduate and professional schools. This creative approach to scholarship funding will offer talented men and women the opportunity to pursue their dreams of additional education, professional advancement, and new careers.
“It’s clear that there is a continuing need to accommodate prospective graduate students.” —mike masters A powerhouse of graduate education, Emory University conferred more than 1,900 advanced degrees last year in business, nursing, medicine, public health, allied health, law, theology, the humanities and social sciences, and the natural, biological, and biomedical sciences. Mike Masters (left) is remembering his father, Burt Masters 82EMBA (right, with Dixie Masters), with a graduate-level scholarship endowment.
Vaccine Bike Rides Generate $1.2 Million Action Cycling’s 2012 AIDS Vaccine 200 bike ride raised $260,000 to support HIV vaccine research at the Emory Vaccine Center, bringing total donations during the past ten years to $1.2 million. The two-day, two-hundred-mile ride drew more than two hundred riders and one hundred volunteers. Beginning at Emory’s School of Medicine, riders biked to Camp Rock Eagle in the Oconee National Forest in one day and returned to Emory the next. “The riders and volunteers participate to honor those who have succumbed to AIDS, to give hope to everyone living with HIV, and to build a community that believes we will defeat HIV. We’ve made the Emory Vaccine Center our primary beneficiary because we know the world-class research done there will help bring about a world without AIDS,” says Bret Busch, president of Action Cycling. The AIDS Vaccine 200 supports many projects at Emory, including the development of one of the world’s first preventive AIDS vaccines being tested in phase II clinical trials, the development of a therapeutic vaccine in early stage clinical testing, and efforts to combat AIDS in Africa through prevention, counseling, and testing. Next year’s ride will take place May 18–19, 2013.
OXFORD COLLEGE Alumni and friends donated funds to name Oxford’s new entrance gate in honor of Clifford A. Bell 46OX 50C. Bell is a charter member of the Oxford Board of Counselors. ROLLINS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH A generous gift from Ruth Katz 77L has established the Ruth Katz Award for Excellence in Health Policy for outstanding MPH students and PhD candidates. SCHOOL OF MEDICINE The Marie and E. R. Snelling Trust has endowed three funds at Emory: the Snelling Cardiac Research Fund and the Snelling Alzheimer’s Fund, both at the School of Medicine, and the Marie and E. R. Snelling Fund at Winship Cancer Institute. WINSHIP CANCER INSTITUTE Winship’s second annual “Win the Fight” 5K on October 13, 2012, welcomed 2,900 runners and raised more than $375,000 for cancer research. YERKES NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER A recent Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant will support HIV/AIDS vaccine research at Yerkes. Private support is critical to supplementing such foundation funding and accelerating the pace of research.
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