An extraordinary collection of nearly 700 editions of Daniel Defoe's celebrated novel, "Robinson Crusoe," now resides at Emory's Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library (MARBL), thanks to the generosity of Emory alumnus Robert Lovett and his wife, Miriam.

"Robinson Crusoe has inspired plays, operas, a children's book, and served as a moralistic mantra for 19th century empire builders," says Lovett, who co-authored a definitive Crusoe bibliography.

The gift is part of the private support being sought for Campaign Emory.

Emory lands Robinson Crusoe rarities  | Academics: Libraries

Wine, beer, hard cider, whiskey, vodka, gin, tequila, rum. It doesn't matter how the ethanol molecule enters the body. The process of getting drunk is the same.

David Guidot, with the Emory Alcohol and Lung Biology Center at the Atlanta VA Center, studies what happens when getting drunk becomes a habit. As a pulmonologist, he concentrates on the health of drinkers' lungs. "Emory is the hot spot for the alcohol and lung disease connection," Guidot says. "It's an important public health issue."

The Hidden Truth about Alcohol | Research: Health Sciences

Emory Center for Respiratory Health

Melissa Wade says she has never gotten over the social justice movements she experienced in the late 1960s while an Emory undergraduate. Today thousands of adolescents living in the poorest neighborhoods in American cities are glad she didn’t.
 
Wade has directed Emory’s Barkley Forum, one of the nation’s top intercollegiate debate programs, for 35 years. In 1985 she co-founded Atlanta’s Urban Debate League, which helps at-risk students prepare for college.
 
Read more about Wade on the Campaign Emory Web site.

Barkley Forum | Campaign Emory

President's Letter: Emory and the Economy

Two years in the making at Emory, Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database is a new Web-based resource documenting the slave trade from Africa to the New World.

The site "provides searchable information on almost 35,000 trans-Atlantic voyages hauling human cargo," says David Eltis, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of History. Eltis and Martin Halbert, director of digital innovations for Emory Libraries, led the online project.

Scholars will gather here Dec. 5-6 to mark the site's debut at the bicentennial of the end of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

Slave trade site debuts | Community: Presidential Commissions