"Being innovative and inventive isn't an aspiration; it is an expectation at Emory," the Atlanta university's president writes in a blog post announcing a new "One Emory" strategy.
To that end, the university plans to increase research funding from the current $790 million to $1 billion over the next four years, with a particular focus on artificial intelligence, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.
Among the initiatives: a new PhD program in African American Studies, the creation of an AI-Humanity Initiative, the Emory Climate Research Initiative, and the Arts and Humanistic Inquiry Initiative.
"Emory experts are already working in many areas of climate research, notably the intersection between public health and climate change, but I want to see the university engaged on this issue, which is one of the defining challenges of our era," President Gregory Fenves says in the blog post.
Lisa Thompson, an associate professor working on household air pollution in Guatemala, tells the Journal-Constitution that women in that country cook with unvented wood or coal stoves, which release toxins into the air.
"The people who are most exposed to this air pollution are the women who are cooking and their young children who spend a lot of time at home," she says.
"Now, households
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