Faculty Spotlights

Fang Liu uses supercomputers to simulate the structures of molecules and the vast array of interactions that can occur during a reaction. The goal is to make predictions about how a molecule will behave under certain conditions.

Antonio Brathwaite of the Department of Chemistry is principal investigator for the NSF’s Research Experiences for Undergraduates grant. The program will support intensive undergraduate research for up to nine students each summer, starting next year.

Jericho Brown, Emory’s Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing, has been named a 2024 MacArthur Fellow for his poetry “reflecting on contemporary culture and identity in works that combine formal experimentation and intense self-examination.”

The Kelly lab made the breakthrough by developing methods to use spiny mice as a laboratory model for social neuroscience. Aubrey Kelly hopes that their work paves the way for new insights into complex social behaviors in a range of mammals, including humans.

David Barba has been selected as a 2024 Mellon Emerging Faculty Leader. The award will support his latest documentary, which tells the story of three Mexican women brought to the U.S. as children who, after being deported as adults, must rebuild their lives.

The John Simon Memorial Guggenheim Foundation named Emory University ethnobotanist Cassandra Quave a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow. Quave joins 188 distinguished and diverse trailblazers working across 52 disciplines in the class of 2024 Guggenheim Fellows, chosen on the basis of prior career achievement and exceptional promise.

Dr. Rachel Hall-Clifford, an Assistant Professor at Emory University’s Center for the Study of Human Health, has been honored with the 2023 Jeffrey P. Koplan Global Health Award for her significant contributions to global health.

Emory College historians Chris Suh (left) and Maria Montalvo will spotlight their research this fall at Emory College’s “First Fridays” series, monthly lectures that highlight innovative faculty scholarship in a wide variety of topics related to race, ethnicity and social justice.

Dr. Cosmin Pohoata, alongside MIT graduate students Alex Cohen and Dimitrii Zakharov, has achieved a groundbreaking mathematical feat by redefining the concept of the smallest triangle within the Heilbronn triangle problem.

Elaine Walker, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, is this year’s recipient of the Cuttino Award, recognizing a legacy of support and academic excellence that reverberates across the fields of psychology and mental illness research.

Lauren Klein, whose research focuses on the digital humanities, data science and data studies, has been awarded the Chronos Faculty Fellowship in Emory College of Arts and Sciences.

On the latest episode of One Big Question, Emory President Gregory L. Fenves talks to bestselling author and creative writing professor Tayari Jones about the power of storytelling.

Pearl Dowe has been selected as the next vice provost for faculty affairs, Ravi V. Bellamkonda, Emory University provost and executive vice president for academic affairs, announced today.

The ancient DNA lab of Emory anthropologist John Lindo, above, specializes in mapping little-explored human lineages of the Americas.

As Rachelle Spell, this year’s winner of the Cuttino Award for Excellence in Mentoring, prepares to retire, she leaves a legacy of one-to-one guidance at Emory College.

Emory College’s Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas, an anthropologist in the Department of Spanish, will use a prestigious fellowship from the Mellon Foundation to spend the next year studying immigration challenges faced by particularly vulnerable populations.

On Feb. 17, Emory University professor Henry “Hank” Klibanoff and Gabrielle Dudley, instruction archivist in Emory’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, were confirmed by the United States Senate to serve on the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board.

Emory historian Carol Anderson, whose research and award-winning books address the ways racial inequality affects the creation and unraveling of U.S. policy, has been selected for the Joseph B. and Toby Gittler Prize.

Emory historian Daniel LaChance, whose research examines harsh punishment in the United States, has been awarded the Chronos Faculty Fellowship in Emory College of Arts and Sciences.

Kali Gross, professor of African American studies at Emory University, has been named one of 26 recipients of the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship. Each fellow receives $200,000 to fund significant research and writing in social sciences and the humanities that addresses important and enduring issues confronting society.