Last year, ballet icon Misty Copeland watched Emory Dance alum Ilo perform their senior honors thesis. Now Copeland has personally invited Ilo to choreograph new work for this year's Joyce Ballet Festival - one of the nation's premier dance shows: https://bit.ly/4pVvo37

Three Emory College professors - physicists Justin Burton and Ilya Nemenman and computational biologist Yana Bromberg - will lead two U.S. Genesis Mission projects to speed scientific discovery. Learn more about the initiative and their work: https://bit.ly/4xndTeR

A team led by Emory biophysist Shashank Shekhar has solved how muscles form at the molecular level and how they maintain their function. The work provides a molecular mechanism for dilated cardiomyopathy, which may help in designing a treatment: https://bit.ly/4pQ9Zs9

Scientists solve mystery of how muscle cells grow and stay healthy

Emory biophysicists unraveled a mystery about muscles that may help in the design of treatments for muscle diseases such as dilated cardiomyopathy, one of the leading causes of heart failure.

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Super fun to see my @emorycollege.bsky.social students present on GenAI vs. the Duplex at #DH2026! I continue to be so impressed by the rich interdisciplinary thinking of Lena Marchese (BA English '27), Elizabeth Garcia (BS CS '26), and TA Brittany Whelan (PhD English '29). Paper dropping soon!

Ben Miller@transitive.bsky.social · last wk.

ChatGPT vs. the Duplex: A Collaborative Student-Centered Inquiry into the Limits of Gen AI's Poetic Capabilities!, Lena Marchese, Elizabeth Garcia, Brittany Whelan, + working with @laurenfklein.bsky.social found Jericho Brown's poetry is resistant to LLM dupes: all repetition, no presence #DH2026

Meet Berl. He’s a little grumbly, sometimes letting loose a gentle “dad curse.” But Berl’s got a heart of gold. What would he do if he saw a dog shivering on the elevated train platform in the rain? Wrap him up in the Morgen Freiheit and bring him home, of course! sunypress.edu/Books/L/Labzik

Emory alumni play an important role in helping our undergrads envision their post-grad lives, like the working producers, writers, editors, agents and executives who visited a spring film course to counsel students making short documentaries: https://bit.ly/4vQh8Ks?

Emory's Department of Economics recently hosted the 2026 North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, highlight its global clout to nearly 600 of the world's economic leaders: https://bit.ly/3Tzxiug

In honor of Disability Independence Day, ECDS is highlighting the Journal of Humanities in Rehabilitation and its Spring 2026 issue, featuring work on disability, care, identity, resilience, accessibility, and equity. Read the latest ECDS blog: scholarblogs.emory.edu/ecds/jhr-exp...

Join us next Wednesday and Thursday for the The Summer Undergraduate Research Experience symposium, featuring more than 130 undergrads sharing their work in oral presentations, posters and performances. Details: https://bit.ly/4yIzjEI

Spending the summer in Atlanta? Check out the 11 Good Things around town that Emory film and media professor, author and curator Gregory Zinman shared with digital magazine ArtsATL: https://bit.ly/4h0ulwt

ICYMI: Tom Gillespie, professor and chair of Emory's Department of Environmental Sciences, weighed in this week with Science Magazine about the discovery of a new monkey species: https://bit.ly/4psSspU

Congrats to James G. Nagy, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor and chair of Emory Department of Mathematics, as the next dean of Emory College of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Nagy starts the one-year role Aug. 10. https://news.emory.edu/stories/2026/07/james-nagy-ecas-dean-announcement

Thirteen recent College graduates - including three Oxford College alumni - will teach English, pursue graduate study and conduct research around the world during the upcoming academic year as Emory's latest Fulbright recipients: https://bit.ly/4bwQqPD

Selected from more than 80 applicants, a dozen Emory students traveled to and across Vietnam this May, examining the country’s diverse religious traditions and finding inspiration for peacemaking as part of the Journeys for Reconciliation program: https://bit.ly/44fFW3k

With just about a week to go in the World Cup, Emory physicians share soccer's impact on the body - and how they work with players to recover and get ready for the next match:

The humanities and social sciences are critical to how we grapple with technology, ethics and our shared future. That's why Emory has launched AMPLIFY grants that fund faculty research that helps address complex challenges while enriching the human experience. Details: https://bit.ly/3QXKo3I

Congrats to Emory professor Erica Armstrong Dunbar on EIGHT Emmy nominations today for the "The Gilded Age!" The historian and NEH Professor in the Humanities already has earned two previous nominations as consultant and executive producer on the show. More on her role: https://bit.ly/4p9QNoZ

Great opportunity to listen in on insights from @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social 👇

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Are you interested in contemporary publishing, texts, and readers? Then you'll love the SHARPIES festival, which kicks off in just two weeks! Registration is still open and free for SHARP members. SHARP membership is 55-100USD. events.zoom.us/ev/Ap9iEZwmC...

What a wonderful honor for @binxu013.bsky.social! Congratulations 🎉

American Sociological Association@asanews.bsky.social · last mo.

Congratulations! The American Sociological Association is pleased to share that Bin Xu @binxu013.bsky.social (Emory University) has been named Co-Editor of Sociological Theory. @sociologicaltheory.bsky.social https://bit.ly/44hjaYC  #ASA #sociology #journals

ICYMI: A study from our friends at Emory School of Medicine finds the ovarian hormone estradiol influences women’s brain responses to threat, but traumatic stress can disrupt this regulation. That helps explain women’s increased risk for PTSD: https://bit.ly/4fm2Fkl

Hormone estradiol shapes women’s brain responses to threat after trauma, Emory study finds

An Emory study finds the ovarian hormone estradiol influences women’s brain responses to threat, but traumatic stress can disrupt this regulation, which helps explain women’s increased risk for PTSD.

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Anthony (Tony) J. Martin@ichnologist.bsky.social · 4w ago

Went to see the new traveling exhibit "T. rex: The Ultimate Predator" at Fernbank Museum (Atlanta GA) last week, & surprised to see its gift shop had my book 'Dinosaurs Without Bones' there! Also honored to have my book just above @restingdinoface.bsky.social's 'The Last Days of the Dinosaurs.' 🧪🦖🦕🐾

Happy 91st Birthday to Emory Presidential Distinguished Professor His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama! This video is from Feb. 4, when he discussed Ahimsa (non-violence) with Piramal Foundation, Emory's partner for SEE (Social, Emotional, and Ethical) Learning at Drepung Monastery

As we approach the nation's 250th birthday, University of Pennsylvania political scientist Rogers M. Smith argues in his 2026 James Weldon Johnson Institute Distinguished Lecture that the Declaration of Independence essentially a list of complaints. Full video: https://bit.ly/4oSe6DE

ICYMI: Associate film and media studies professor Jennifer Porst recently co-wrote an op-ed explaining how the Paramount-Warner Bros merger could "devastate" Atlanta's burgeoning entertainment industry: https://bit.ly/4eKyCS0

Six battery electric buses have been humming as part of Emory's fleet, quietly ferrying a portion of Emory shuttles' 2.5 million annual riders around campus and the city: https://bit.ly/4whuXCm

This was a really fun collaboration with the Yap lab at Northwestern @ribo1214.bsky.social. Congrats to Jacob Mattingly who led our structural biology efforts and Anna Lipońska from the Yap lab who performed the virulence assays! @pnas.org @emorycollege.bsky.social

Frances Yap@ribo1214.bsky.social · last mo.

🧪 #MicroSky #RNASky Great collaboration with @dunhamlab.bsky.social lab on solving the unusual hexameric structure of a bifunctional nuclease YhaM in complex with 2 distinct RNA substrates. Check out Dunham's summary at www.linkedin.com/posts/christ...

Our friends at Emory Healthcare will serve as a founding partner and the official healthcare provider of the Arthur M. Blank U.S. Soccer National Training Center just outside of Atlanta: https://bit.ly/4v4avUv

"as we read these books, they did not fill out graphic organizers, hunt around for literary elements, or try to make a closed case about what the text means. Instead, they kept a journal" post45.org/2026/06/fost...

Fostering Adaptive Readers – Post45

Percival Everett’s James is, among other things, a book about how to read well. Everett’s narrator James, his reimagined Jim, is a reader who relates in critical and playful ways with what he reads. H...

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Looking for a book to take along on your travels or staycation this summer? Emory professors are sharing their picks for the books that encompass vivid new worlds: https://bit.ly/43VdDHb

ICYMI: A new two-credit course from Data & Decision Sciences will give all Emory College a non-tech intro to AI: https://bit.ly/3Sn2VXw