Faculty member sews hundreds of masks for Oxford community
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Since pulling his sewing machine out of storage the first week of April, Associate Professor of Linguistics Jack Hardy has made more than 400 face masks for friends (and friends of friends!) in the Oxford community, across the United States, and internationally in Ireland, England, and Germany. After Oxford College made the shift to remote instruction, Hardy realized, when shopping in local stores for necessities and groceries, that more face masks would need to be worn by community members to meet the goal of flattening the curve locally.
Hardy took a sewing class in 2019 at an Atlanta shop where he learned the basics of sewing. Through trial and error in April, he refreshed his knowledge of how to use a sewing machine and taught himself how to make a reusable and sturdy cloth face mask. He focused on designing them to be comfortable, breathable, "cool," and most importantly, not to fog up glasses. Of his bespoke masks, Hardy says, “my primary research is on the writing of different academic disciplines. So, I wanted to celebrate that, and rather than only making tons of blue and yellow Emory masks, that I could make special academic masks for the faculty. So far, I’ve done biology, chemistry, mathematics, environmental science and geology, English, linguistics, language teaching, and African American Studies.”
If people insist on paying him for a mask, Hardy instead encourages donating to a local cause or organization like food banks, homeless shelters, or bail funds. If someone does want a custom mask, they can order 1 yard of their selected fabric and from that yard, he can make about 12-20 masks —giving some to the purchaser and donating the others. He suggests spoonflower.com as a fun website that will custom print and mail fabric.
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Familiar faces from Oxford and Emory University answer the question "Why Vote?"
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Staff and volunteers representing the Emory Votes Initiative and Civic Engagement and Democratic Participation at Oxford College worked this summer to create a video featuring Emory and Oxford deans, professors, staff, and student leaders answering the important question "why vote?"
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Congratulations 2020-2021 Judy Greer Scholarship recipients
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Miles Sterling
Sterling was born in Atlanta and has lived in the area his whole life. Sterling is a politics, philosophy, and law (PPL) and US history double major. After obtaining these degrees, he hopes to go to graduate school and earn his master's degree in teaching. His ultimate career goal is to become either a high school teacher or college professor. Some of the things on campus, and now off campus, that he loves being involved in are being a Learning to Lead teacher, an orientation welcome leader, and a Dooley's Dolls member. He also really enjoyed being a part of the Diversity Ambassador Program (DAP!) last year. Sterling feels, "Oxford has allowed me the chance to express my true self in an accepting and nurturing environment which has in turn impacted the way I see myself and the way I see others. It has allowed me the chance to be a part of and contribute to a larger community that is so much bigger than myself."
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Gracie Wilson
Wilson is a sophomore from Tallahassee, Fla., majoring in psychology and anthropology. She aspires to work in higher education as an educator or mentor. Wilson currently promotes campus conversations about mental health through her role as a podcast host with OxHeard, serves as a peer educator of wellness with Healthy Eagles, works as a Psychology 110 SI, and works as a psychology lab researcher. Wilson is passionate about promoting and discovering new conversations, encouragement, and community around mental well-being, student life, and cooperation. She says, "Oxford has transformed the way I approach and interact with others and their passions in this collective space of a campus family and the ways I have learned to view myself as an active, contributing member of it."
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Oxford highlights 2019-20 retiring faculty
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Two Oxford faculty members retired at the end of the 2019–20 academic year. While the current pandemic prevented the Oxford community from honoring their retirement in person in the spring, their contributions to Oxford’s academic excellence are celebrated. Read more about the teaching careers and Oxford legacies of Camille Cottrell and Patti Owen-Smith.
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James W. Fowler Ethics Event with Ibram X. Kendi: How to Be an Antiracist
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Emory University Center for Ethics presents the inaugural James W. Fowler Ethics Event — a special live webcast featuring a key voice in the conversation about race in America, Ibram X. Kendi. A National Book Award winner, 2019 Guggenheim Fellow, and the founding director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research, Kendi will challenge viewers to move beyond awareness of racism to action that contributes to a just and equitable society.
Moderated by Carol Anderson, the Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies at Emory University and author of White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, this conversation will address systemic racial inequities and injustice in America and explore what is required from all of us to lead to policy change.
The virtual discussion takes place Wednesday, September 16, from 4:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m.
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Oxford Recreation Services weekly activities
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Sign up now to participate in CHL recreation activities available weekly. Scan this QR code to visit the website to sign up for pickle ball, bike rides, singles tennis, and Esports Madden20 and NBA 2k20 on PlayStation and Xbox. Questions or suggestions? Email oxrec@emory.edu.
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Take a Break Tuesdays with Religious and Spiritual Life
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Lecture: Tessa Conroy, "What Does the 1918 Flu Teach Us About the Economic Impacts of COVID-19? The Likeness to and Differences from a Century Ago"
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Southern Circuit Film Series: Coded Bias screening with film's director, Shalini Kantayya, will be present for a Q&A following the screening
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Performance: Emily Wells, "The World is too ____ for You: Queering Dystopia
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Lecture: Tim Wise, "The Pathology of Privilege. Racism, White Denial & the Costs of Inequality"
7:00 p.m.
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