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AUTUMN 2010 Raising Hope public health heroes stem the tide of the world’s deadliest diseases Advances Against AIDS | Health Wanted | Campaign Emory: Heartfelt Legacy Where Does Courageous Inquiry Lead? A new book edited by Emory’s Gary Hauk and Sally Wolff King tells the story of a great university’s development as seen through the lives of its people. From sweeping historical narrative to touching personal portraits, forty-four colorful chapters, written by more than sixty contributors, explore the transformation of Emory as it moves into the future. Featuring: Plus, profiles of Emory Marshall Duke on Emory as place and story shapers, including: Arri Eisen on science and religion at Emory Boisfeuillet Jones Bill Fox on the development of Campus Life George Cuttino Mary Odem on the birth of women’s studies Floyd Watkins Willis Hurst on cardiology at Emory Lore Metzger Delores Aldridge on African American studies Elizabeth Stevenson To order Where Courageous April Bogle on the case for law and religion Russell Major Russ Richey on Emory and Methodism Inquiry Leads ($36.95), visit Mark Auslander on African American legacies in Oxford www.bookstore.emory.edu or Nancy Seideman on Lullwater and the “greening” of Emory University call 404.727.6021. and many more AUTUMN 2010 contents VOL. 86, NUMBER 3 FEATURES 20 Lost and Found David Thon 08MPH was seven years old when he and thousands of others embarked on a nightmare trek from southern Sudan to Kenya. Years later, work with The Carter Center brought him back home. BY PATRICK ADAMS 08MPH 25 Positive Signs Even as the HIV/AIDS pandemic continues its stealthy global advance, Emory scientists are striking blows against the virus from all directions. BY MARY J. LOFTUS 31 Health Wanted In impoverished countries like Mozambique, where safe water is scarce and malaria and AIDS claim lives daily, an Emory-based global association—and a Rollins alumna—are helping to establish critical new public health systems. BY MARY J. LOFTUS 38 Shattering Stigma Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter continues her crusade to bring mental illness out of the shadows— and onto equal footing with physical ailments. BY PAIGE P. PARVIN 96G On the cover: A woman prays at Miramar Beach on the Bay of Maputo, Mozambique. Photo by Michael Barrientos. CAMPAIGN CHRONICLE ONLINE AT WWW. EMORY. EDU/ MAGAZINE 42 ANNUAL GIVING HAS NEW THE VISIT 2010 Link to complete NAME AND LOOK multimedia coverage of the events of October 43 EMORY ICON CREATES 17–19, when His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama A HEARTFELT LEGACY returned to campus. 44 DEAN’S FAMILY VACCINE VOLUNTEER Meet Robert CONTINUES SUPPORT Parker, left, who decided to volunteer at Emory’s OF OXFORD COLLEGE Hope Clinic to test a new AIDS vaccine. He shares his story in this audio slideshow. THE WRITER’S WORDS Visit our website for a bonus Q&A with Olga Grushin 93C, whose new book is reviewed on page 14. MOZAMBIQUE: MICHAEL BARRIENTOS/SPECIAL; PATIENT: KAY HINTON AUTUMN 2010 magazine 1 REGISTER 47 Homegrown Talent Emory’s own Indigo Girls found their way back to campus for Homecoming 2010, helping to draw more than 2,500 fans. 48 EMORY EVERYWHERE 50 THE ENGLISH MAJOR 52 ALUMNI INK OF NOTE 58 CODA REFLECTIONS ON AIDS ANN BORDEN ANN 6 College Life Students, faculty, collaboration across disciplines, Atlanta, baseball, and more: what’s important to Robin Forman, new dean of Emory College. (Plus: Welcome, Class of 2014) 8 CAMPUS BEAT THE 16 ISLAMIC CALLIGRAPHY FRESHMAN WITH THE AT THE CARLOS POKER FACE 17 THE PRODUCER 10 FOXES STILL SUPPORT THEIR FAVORITE CAUSE 18 DYNAMIC FORCES ANTI- TOBACCO EFFORTS IN 12 STEP INTO THE NEW CHINA BOOKSTORE 19 HELP FOR ADULTS WITH 14 OLGA GRUSHIN 93C IS THE AUTISM VOICE OF THE PEOPLE 19 PARTISAN POLITICS 15 SUSTAINABLE EFFORTS A GREEN CEMETERY 16 LAW CURRICULUM CHANGES COURSE Editor Associate Editor Emory Magazine Editorial Advisory Board EMORY MAGAZINE (USPS-175- 420) is published quarterly by Paige P. Parvin 96G Mary J. Loftus Emory Creative Group, 1762 Clifton [email protected] [email protected] Arri Eisen Kathy Kinlaw 79C 85T Ex Officio Road, Plaza 1000, Atlanta, Georgia Senior Lecturer, Biology Associate Director, Center 30322. Periodicals postage paid at Art Director Lead Photographer Ron Sauder Atlanta, Georgia, and additional Bridget Guernsey Riordan for Ethics Vice President for mailing offices. 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Address Bryan Meltz Director of Public Associate Vice President, Contributors Allison Dykes changes may be sent to the Office Programming, Emory Health Sciences Vice President for of Alumni and Development Records, Patrick Adams 08MPH Libraries Communications Alumni Relations 1762 Clifton Road, Suite 1400, Riley Blanton Atlanta, Georgia 30322 or eurec@ Steve Fennessy emory.edu. If you are an individual Susan Carini 04G Gary Laderman Gary Hauk 91PhD Editor, Atlanta Magazine with a disability and wish to acquire Beverly Clark Professor of Religion Vice President and this publication in an alternative for- Laura Douglas-Brown Michelle Ye Hee Lee Deputy to the President mat, please contact Paige P. Parvin Tim Hussey (address above) or call 404.727.7873. 95C 95G Director, Marketing Editor, Emory Wheel No. 111006-1 © 2010, a publica- Maria M. Lameiras tion of Emory Creative Group, a and Communications, department of Communications and Eric Rangus School of Law Marketing. 2 magazine AUTUMN 2010 THE BIG PICTURE 12 Block Buster Bookstore Emory’s new, three-story Oxford Road Building is a place to socialize, sip a Starbucks latte, pick up a best seller at Barnes and Noble, buy a new laptop or a textbook, meet a study group, mingle with potential students, bring the kids for cocoa on a Sunday, get a holiday gift for Mom, or even find a quiet spot to sit and read. Photo by Bryan Meltz. AUTUMN 2010 magazine 3 prelude Walking the Talk When my friend and colleague poverty into entertainment, something that there, we had to walk six hours, almost all Mary Loftus journeyed to Mozambique can be momentarily experienced and then through water,” Thon told Emory Magazine. earlier this year to report on Emory-based escaped from. People think they’ve really Health experts at Rollins and beyond efforts to strengthen public health care ‘seen’ something—and then go back to also make up pieces of the giant puzzle there, she called me from the plane before their lives and leave me, my family, and my representing Emory’s progress in the fight taking off from Hartsfield-Jackson. Travel- community right where we were before.” against AIDS. Collaborative efforts across ing with an international health organiza- Fair enough, and I don’t know anyone the University are helping to slow the tion, she was settling comfortably into her who would set out to be the sort of passive advance of the pandemic, with successes seat, a movie screen in front of her and a “tourist” Odede describes. But I do know on all fronts—in research labs, pharma- glass of wine in her hand. At home, cook- of many at Emory and among our alumni ceutical development, vaccine testing ing dinner and checking science home- who would rather find ways to contrib- clinics, communities in Africa and India, work, I felt a pang of envy. ute—and deal with any accompanying and on American streets. In this issue of On the ground in Mozambique, though, guilt or criticism—than look the other way. Emory Magazine, we feature highlights the setting was literally another world: At the dedication of the new Claudia of the past three decades—including the communities ravaged by malaria and AIDS, Nance Rollins Building at the Rollins AIDS Vaccine 2010 conference taking place poor rural villages, struggling farmers, School of Public Health this month, Presi- here at Emory this month. hungry children, and health clinics with dent James Wagner noted that Rollins now I would be remiss not to offer my usual no running water. Mary wrestled for receives more applications for its global disclaimer: in these few pages we can weeks after her return to reconcile her own health programs than any other public present only a fraction of the thousands comfortable life with the images of hard- health school in the country, and ranks of examples of Emory’s impact on global ship and want she brought home—richly second only to Johns Hopkins in overall health. But I hope that the observations of described in her article on the work of applications. These remarkable statistics storytellers like Mary, Bryan, and another alumna Courtenay Dusenbury 08MPH and are a result of the school’s extraordinary Rollins alum, Pat Adams 08MPH, who the International Association of National growth in scope, resources, global focus, writes about his classmate David Thon, Public Health Institutes (IANPHI). degree offerings, faculty, and space in the might enhance that impact just a little by I heard a similar story just this week thirty-five years since its beginnings; Roll- increasing understanding—not just of the from Bryan Meltz, a University photogra- ins also celebrates twenty years as a school Emory figures but of those they are trying pher, who has gone twice to Haiti since the and fifteen years of Dean James Curran’s to serve.