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Friday, February 6, 2015
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Retired Law Prof. Gifts Law School $1M
admissions
Class of 2019 Breaks Application Record By Annie McGrew Asst. News Editor
By Rupsha Basu News Editor Retired Emory School of Law Professor William J. Carney and his wife, Jane Carney, have donated $1 million to the school’s Center for Transactional Law and Practice, the largest given to the University by a professor, according to Dean of the School of Law and Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law Robert Schapiro. When the School of Law matches these funds with its own fundraising efforts, it will establish the William and Jane Carney Chair of Transactional Law and Practice, to be held by the center’s executive director, who is currently Sue Payne, Schapiro said. “The excitement we feel to have a faculty member invest back into the school is a wonderful thing,” Schapiro said. Transactional law refers to legal practices that deal with negotiating contracts between two or more parties, usually to facilitate business transactions. “That’s an area many law schools have not focused on in years,” Schapiro said, stating his desire to expand Emory’s existing program. Carney, the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law Emeritus, oversaw the foundation of the Center for Transactional Law and Practice in 2007 and also helped hire its first director, according to a Jan. 29 University press release.
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ooley and his bodyguards graced a Founders Day-themed Wonderful Wednesday, which included a photo booth, free food and a horse-drawn carriage. The event, sponsored by the Emory Alumni Association, celebrated the first meeting of Emory’s Board of Trustees on Feb. 6, 1837.
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Emory May Renovate, Demolish New DUC By Sonam Vashi Executive Editor Still early in the process of renovating and replacing the Dobbs University Center (DUC), the University spent the past year directing a feasibility study, a document that represents stakeholder interests and helps inform future decisions, of the new center, according to Vice President for Campus Services Matthew Early. The study, conducted by firm Perkins+Will, issued recommendations ranging from demolishing the west portion of the DUC, which currently contains Dobbs Market, Eagle’s Landing and Mail Services, and renovating the historic east DUC to adding more retail food options and creating an approximately 1,600-person sized event space.
The recommendations and figures in the feasibility study, which is done for every new University project, will not necessarily be implemented, but the study is meant to provide parameters and identify needs for the new center, according to Early. The feasibility study estimated a total project cost of $98 million, but that cost could change throughout the design and construction processes. “Moving forward, money has not been identified for it yet,” Early said. “We’re just looking at, what are our possibilities? We’re trying to come down for what is best.” However, he added that the cost would likely be lower. “The way we translated [the cost forecast] ... I know we can do it for less,” Early said. A timeline for the project could also vary, depending on factors such
as the U.S. economy and logistical problems, Early said. “Our goal is to have a general idea of what a facility will look like ... probably around April or May,” he said. “Then, there is no timeline. It could take years.” The feasibility study projected a potential opening for the new center in spring 2019. During the past year, the feasibility study met with more than 200 people, including more than 100 students, to collect community feedback and suggestions, according to DUC Director Ben Perlman. The study found that the current DUC has a number of mechanical and electrical inefficiencies, lacks accessibility for people with disabilities in some areas and is difficult to navigate.
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Total applications to Emory University’s undergraduate programs have hit an all-time high this year, surpassing 20,000 applications for the Class of 2019, according to a Jan. 29 University press release. Compared with last year, applications to Emory College of Arts and Sciences increased 15 percent to 20,477. Applications to Oxford College increased 30 percent to 9,653. In 2015, Emory College plans to enroll 1,350 students, and Oxford College plans to enroll 490. Assistant Vice Provost for Undergraduate Enrollment and Dean of Admissions John Latting wrote in an email to the Wheel that the admissions numbers this year surprised him, noting that a 15 percent change in applications is unusual at any university. “Assuming no big differences in the mechanism of applying (e.g. a college’s moving to the Common Application) change upward or downward in application volume is typically gradual,” he wrote. “[At] Emory the only significant change to the [application] process this year was moving the Regular Decision deadline earlier by two weeks (from Jan. 15 to Jan. 1) — which we feared could, if anything, depress applications.” There was also an increase in for Early Decision I (ED I) and Early Decision II (ED II) applications, where students are obliged to go to Emory once accepted (ED II indicates applicants apply at a later date than ED I). Emory College received 1,253 ED I applications for the Class of 2019, up 9.6 percent from last year, and admitted 478. Emory College
received 1,244 ED II applications and Oxford College received 639 ED II applications, a record applicant pool for the ED II admission plan for both colleges. These numbers indicate that a higher number of applicants chose Emory as their first choice university this year. Despite being surprised by the significant increase in application numbers, Latting had a few theories on why application numbers increased. Latting wrote that the increase probably had to do with a combination of the actions of the Office of Undergraduate Admission, Emory University in general and of broad economic forces that go beyond the University. “When all those things move in the same direction, it is apparently possible to have a large change in the size of the applicant pool,” Latting wrote. “To be more specific, we are working hard here in Admission to connect with talented and motivated students all over America and the world.” He added that the extensive media coverage for the impressive activity at Emory, including treatment of patients infected with the Ebola virus, may have also helped. He also cited the strengthening of the U.S. economy as another possible factor in the increase in applications. “We should remember, too, that the economy continues to strengthen, and that investment in a high quality college education is very important to students and their families,” Latting wrote. “And Emory’s type of institution — the private, global, selective, American research university — seems to be the most sought after model in the world.”
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ebola
Emory Trains Ebola Panel Talks Treatment Center Staff Ebola’s Political Impact By Lydia O’Neal Asst. News Editor
The Emory University Hospital team that saved the lives of four Ebola patients last fall began training staff at 48 designated Ebola virus treatment centers from California to Massachusetts in late January. The initiative stemmed from a November contract awarded and funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), according to spokespeople for the CDC and the Emory Hospital. Along with the University of Nebraska Medical Center, which, like the Emory Hospital, treated four Ebola patients last fall, members of Emory’s Serious Communicable Disease Unit (SCDU) traveled in December to these centers to prepare treatment of patients suffering from Ebola, or a similar, future epidemic, according to SCDU Clinical Nurse Specialist Sharon Vanairsdale. “Our biggest principle has been, ‘Yeah, we’re dealing with Ebola now, but how can we be prepared for the next big outbreak?’” Vanairsdale said. She added that while Emory nurses and physicians gave their input at the designated treatment centers, most of the information was relayed — and continues to be relayed — at the Emory Conference Center Hotel and through conference calls with specialists. Emory hosted a pair of two-day training seminars on Ebola pre-
paredness at the Emory Conference Center Hotel, where dozens of physicians representing designated treatment centers attended. Physicians and nurses will hold their third and final seminar on Feb. 9 and 10, according to Vanairsdale. The seminars typically covered such topics as Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) donning and doffing, infection control, staffing and clinical care. “It’s not necessarily, ‘This is what we’ve done wrong,’ but [input on] things that we didn’t have in West Africa because of a lack of manpower and materials,” such as availability of intravenous fluids and dialysis machines, Vanairsdale said, describing the experienced-based conference presentations. In addition to conferences, specialists from the Emory Hospital and the University of Nebraska Medical Center also continue to hold conference calls every Wednesday on such subjects as occupational health and laboratory operations. The first conference call was held on Jan. 21, and last week’s subject involved nursing and the staffing model, according to Vanairsdale. Emory physicians and nurses have already trained around 350 health care providers at 27 of the 48 designated treatment centers, according to Abbigail Tumpey, associate director for Communications
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By Annie McGrew Asst. News Editor Three panelists discussed the economic, political and social impact of the Ebola virus in Liberia on Tuesday, part of a semester-long forum on the virus that began in late January. The panel, titled “Ebola, ‘a Neoliberal Disease?’” and attended by more than 50 people, was organized by the Institute for Developing Nations, the Institute of African Studies and the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing and was held in the Psychology and Interdisciplinary Sciences (PAIS) building. The panelists included Senior Project Coordinator for the Carter Center’s Access to Justice Project in Liberia Pewee Flomoku; Associate Professor of Finance at the Goizueta Business School Jeff Rosensweig and Director of the Center for Faculty Development and Excellence and Professor of African Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
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Emory’s Transportation and Parking Services discontinued the NightOwl shuttle and extended the C Route to 12:30 a.m. due to low ridership. SafeRide gained a second shuttle for its route.
Bus Hours Extended, NightOwl Cancelled By Sarah Husain Contributing Writer
A new Cliff shuttle schedule discontinued the NightOwl, extended service on the C Route to 12:30 a.m. and added one additional SafeRide bus from Thursday through Sunday, the result of customer feedback and the Student Government Association (SGA). The changes went into effect Jan. 20 and were made to reflect customer needs, according to Adele Clements,
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senior director of Transportation and Parking Services. An additional SafeRide bus was added Thursday through Sunday from 11 p.m. to 3 a.m, and the C-Toco Hills route will also now go round trip from Woodruff Circle to Clairmont Campus before heading to Toco Hills from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. Additionally, service was extended on the D Express (DX) and M Route to midnight, and the hours for The Loop were extended to midnight on weekdays, according
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to Clements. “Every semester we go through and look at routes, comments, performance, time of route and on time performance and ridership,” Clements said. Clements explained that ridership was particularly low for the NightOwl. Students chose SafeRide late at night rather than the NightOwl transportation, so resources were reallocated from NightOwl to add
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