April is Earth Month!

This month-long celebration of the planet aims to further the Earth Day history of environmental activism. The health of the planet directly affects the health of people, and small changes in our daily life really can make a difference. While celebrating the Earth this month, take time to sign petitions, call your representatives, and reexamine your own actions.

Marvelous Mondays Speaker Series with Kelsey Waidhas

RCE Greater Atlanta will discuss the history of The Atlanta Regional Commission's Green Communities Program, introduce its climate action new ventures, and discuss tools that practitioners can use to exert change at a local level. The talk will be followed by a Q&A session

4+1 MS in Environmental Science Information Meeting

The Department of Environmental Sciences (ENVS) is excited to announce the expansion of the 4+1 MS to majors throughout Emory College. Previously restricted to students majoring in ENVS, students who are interested in interdisciplinary research that combines their current major with research being conducted by faculty in ENVS are encouraged to attend the information meeting to find … Continue Reading →

17th Annual Hamilton E. Holmes Memorial Lecture

Virtual Discussion

This talk will discuss the role of race in recruitment, selection, and ultimate job choice. It will benefit students to understand how race-ethnicity has relevance for applicant screening and their own screening of employers.  

Emory Community Conversation

Digital Conversation via Zoom

Dr. Valerie Babb and Dr. Jessica Lynn Stewart will lead us in a conversation on the construction of race, the difficulties individuals experience with Black versus African American, intraracial dynamics, and the many intersections of the Black identity. Join us for this honest conversation.

Xenophobia in America

Zoom

  The United States is known as a nation of immigrants. But as award-winning author and historian Erika Lee will discuss in our next colloquium, the US is also a nation of xenophobia. An irrational fear, hatred, and hostility toward immigrants has been a defining feature of our nation from the colonial era to the … Continue Reading →