As a kid, Benedict Bapela developed a fascination with plants' healing properties. More recently, the South African pharmacologist has been using his expertise in medicinal plants with the Emory-South Africa Drug Discovery Training Program, founded by Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Chemistry Dennis Liotta.

Bapela says that with an estimated 24,000 native plant species, most of which have never been studied, South Africa may well be sitting on its own solutions.

Good chemistry: Reinventing drug discovery

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Staff member Jaine Perlman plans to expand an educational food garden to provide more variety and a greater volume of sustainable produce to the animals housed at Yerkes National Primate Research Center. She's one of several winners of the second annual Sustainability Grant Program, one of the ways Emory encourages community members to go green.

Sustainability Grant Program winners

Buildings compete to reduce energy

Sustainability at Emory

Kaia Stern vividly recalls the first time she visited a prison: she walked into a maximum-security facility and saw sunlight reflecting from the shackles around a man's ankles. That vision inspired an exploration of punishment and redemption that led her to pursue a PhD in religion at Emory.

Now Stern's the director of Pathways Home, a national program affiliated with Harvard Law School that helps formerly incarcerated people rebuild their lives. Read more about her story on the Campaign Emory Web site.

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