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Tune in tonight at 9:30 for the latest episode of @mygpb's "Your Fantastic Mind," featuring two compelling stories: 🧠An Emory neurosurgeon treating a teenager living with a rare brain condition. 🚜The Emory Farmworker Project bringing care to South Georgia migrant farmers.

𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐇𝐄𝐍𝐑𝐘 🥇🙌🏆 Senior Henry Brandstadter was named the UAA Most Outstanding Performer for both running & field events! It is the first time in conference history that a student-athlete has swept both awards at a single conference meet! #FlyHigher

Henry Brandstadter Sweeps UAA Most Outstanding Performer Awards emoryathletics.com/news/2026/4/30… #FlyHigher

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Last Sunday, @EmoryBasketball's Ben Pearce was presented with the Trevor Hudgins Award at the @smcollegehoops National Awards Show! To watch Ben's acceptance speech, please check out the link here (starts at 1:55.43): youtu.be/vmFoPqp18dU?si… #FlyHigher #d3hoops

We had a great time last night getting a behind the scenes look at Turner Studios in Atlanta. Thank you to the whole “Inside the NBA” team for letting us sit in for the live show and spending some time with our guys afterwards! TCC

@EmoryIAS Congrats, Ololade!

The IAS is proud to announce that graduate student, Ololade Faniyi has been awarded a 2026 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship. Generously supported by the Mellon Foundation and administered by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).

Ten College students and recent alumni - including graduating seniors Madeline Garcia, Tallulah Story and Morgan C. - have won the NSF's coveted Graduate Research Fellowship, which funds high-potential, early-career scientists and engineers. Details: bit.ly/3QYdT4R

As AI disrupts the labor market, Emory continues to stand out for our emphasis on arming grads with adaptability, intellectual curiosity and real-world experience. Forbes has taken notice, naming Emory to its New Ivies list: bit.ly/4cEnSou

Georgia Tech–Emory research team awarded $500K from the @ChanZuckerberg to develop new technologies for imaging living tissues over time and studying how biology changes in real time: bit.ly/4cXEMgU #BiomedicalEngineering

Eagz in the Rankings 🦅😤 Following the UAA Championships, Women’s Tennis climbs to No. 6 in the national rankings! Additionally, Emily Kantrovitz (#8) and Izzy Antanavicius (#9) stand inside the top 10 in the national singles rankings. #FlyHigher

Congratulations to Coach Roderick Stubbs on being named @NJCAA Athletic Director of the Year! As Athletic Director @EmoryOxford, Stubbs has led the dept. to remarkable success while keeping student‑athlete development at the center. 🔗 links.emory.edu/1sL #Emory

Emory's AI.Humanity Conference united experts and community members to explore the potential and challenges of AI’s impact on creativity, medicine, public trust and work - expanding the debate AI's role beyond technical circles into everyday life. bit.ly/4ulq4Y7

Meet Emory student Sydney Holden 🏃🏾‍♀️‍➡️ 👟 A senior competing on the #Emory Women’s Track and Field team, Sydney overcame a major injury that cost her two years of competition, but is now back in the game 🔗 links.emory.edu/sydney #EmoryUniversity #CollegeSports #CollegeTrack

Big congratulations to all of this year’s graduating seniors! A special shoutout to one outstanding graduate, Rahima Mumed, who chose to minor in African Studies. It’s been a privilege to be part of her academic journey, and we can’t wait to see where her talents take her next.

Emory Athletics Banquet Award Winner 🏆 Lastly, the team won the Thomas McDonough Award celebrating the top athletics plays and moments from this past year highlighting the program’s historic season and run to the DIII National Championship game! TCC

𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆. 𝗦𝘆𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘂𝗺 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆. This month, Emory’s John Coppolino IV, Ben Pearce, and Tyson Thomas did something few can claim: they competed in the DIII National Championship game and, in the same breath, launched the inaugural Atlanta Sports Business Symposium. Read the full story 🔗 tinyurl.com/psd2t6j7 #UAA | #StriveTogether | #GoBeyond

What a wonderful example of learning for the future!

@XinruoW Sounds like you aced the (very cool) class, too!

How Emory professor's Economics class helps me ACE the job written task. Recently, I was working through a written assessment for an internship I applied to, and one of the questions made me laugh. It asked: "Why don't companies simply maximize parameters when training AI models?" I laughed not because it's funny, but that I'm confident about the answer. I had literally just covered this in Professor Grennan's @GrennanJill Economics of AI course at Emory University offered by @EmoryEconomics department. The answer connects directly to a framework we've been studying all semester: AI reduces the cost of prediction, and as prediction gets cheaper, the real bottleneck shifts to judgment, data quality, and system design. Scaling parameters indefinitely runs into diminishing returns, exploding costs, and a fundamental mismatch between what a model can optimize and what actually matters in the real world. This directly echoes the tension we discussed around satisficing vs. optimizing, the idea that real decision-makers don't always chase the best possible outcome, because optimization has costs(time, attention, coordination risk, and unpredictability). Companies adopt AI to make smarter decisions at scale, not to run the most expensive possible model. We also talked about how the most valuable complement to cheap prediction isn't more prediction, but it's human judgment such as setting objectives, navigating tradeoffs, and deciding what to optimize in the first place. That's something no parameter count can replace. What struck me most is how naturally classroom economics translated into a real job-setting question. Thus, I highly recommend anyone who's interested in both Economics and AI to take Professor Grennan's class, which bridges what I'm learning in class with where these ideas show up in the real world. It's one of the rare courses that doesn't just teach you what AI is, but it also teaches you how to think about it as an economic force. You leave with frameworks you can actually use: whether that's walking into an internship assessment with confidence, advising a company on where AI creates real value, or simply understanding why the next big AI breakthrough might matter less than who controls the judgment layer around it. If you're at Emory and on the fence, take the class. #Economics #aieconomcis #emoryuniversity #emoryeconomics