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Here is your update for April 12, 2023. 
We hope you are enjoying this gorgeous weather, this week!  One way is to come to OLLI, we will be happy to have you in our classrooms. Our new session is off to a good start, and we are seeing more familiar faces back at OLLI this spring session. For those of you finally returning to in-person, welcome back, if you're new to OLLI at Emory, welcome, it's good to have you!  Our instructors love to have their students in the classroom. Also, don't forget, morning coffee is back and the conversations before classes are too! 
 
Check our one-day course and up-coming course listing on our website.
We hope to see you soon at OLLI at Emory! 
Join Emory Medical Students, for their 3rd installment in the 2022-23 Presentation Series. 

Free to OLLI Members
Hypertension: The Risks, Tests, and Drugs

Mon., Apr 24, 1:30PM - 2:30PM
Sign-up here
What’s Happening At Westminster Abbey On May 6
Instructor: Michael McDavid
Tue., May 02, 2023,   1 - 2:30PM
On May 6th a new sovereign will be crowned in that same church as King Charles III. Join us for a look at the history of the British coronation ceremony and the surrounding pageantry. 
If you plan to get up at the crack of dawn to watch the coronation, this lecture should help make your viewing a more educational and pleasurable one. Sign-up here

Acting-Up!
Instructor: Jane Shalhoub

Reader's Theater is a great way to shine the spotlight on the hidden actors in each of us! Monologues, dialogues, 1, 2, + 3 Act plays, famous scenes, familiar and funny scripts and a wonderful way to hear our own, and each other’s voices as we sit together, read our lines, mind our p's and cues, and prepare for a delightful experience in the magical world of play-acting.

Thu 9:45AM - 11:00AM
May 04 - May 25, 2023
Sign-up here. 
Through the Lens of Behavioral Science
Instructor: Shai Robkin
This course explores emerging research into the underlying forces that drive individual and collective societal behaviors, focusing on the work of behavioral economists, social psychologists and neuroscientists. We’ll also examine what behavioral scientists have to say about some of the most important and often divisive issues of the day and their possible implications for public policy. 
Wed. Apr 19 - May 24, 2023
10:00AM - 11:00AM Sign-up here
What's in the news today?
Join instructors, Marty Bennett and Mary Whitman for OLLI course, Issues in the News. Students will discuss political, economic, social and cultural issues in the news. Each week several major and enduring world, national and local issues will be thoroughly examined from multiple perspectives. Students can express themselves openly and confidently, and respectfully learn and understand the complexity of issues.
11:15AM - 12:15PM
May 4 - May 25, 2023
Join OLLI Members in a collaborative meet-up effort, between OLLI at Emory, OLLI UGA and OLLI Kennesaw State.

Spring meet-up at Gibbs Gardens on Thursday, April 13th at 10:30am.  Register here with OLLI so we know who to expect.  Everyone purchases their own ticket online, on the Gibbs Gardens website and we will meet inside the entrance.  Everyone provides their own transportation. Click here for more information. 
Upcoming Courses - These OLLI courses will start soon.
TUESDAYS
Water Aerobics
Off-Site Holbrook Decatur - 10:00AM - 11:00AM - April 18, 2023 to May 23, 2023
What’s Happening at Westminster Abbey on May 6 (Michael McDavid)
Hyflex – One day course - 1:00PM - 2:30PM - May 2, 2023
Technology in the Civil War
Online (Instructor-led) - 1:30PM - 2:30PM - May 2, 2023 to May 23, 2023

WEDNESDAYS
Through the Lens of Behavioral Science (Shai Robkin)
Classroom - 10:00AM - 11:00AM - April 19, 2023 to May 24, 2023
Turning Points in American Women's History
Hyflex - 9:45AM - 11:15AM - May 3, 2023 to May 24, 2023

THURSDAYS
Gibbs Garden OLLI Meet-up, Thurs, April 13, 2023 10:30AM
Off-Site - 10:30AM - 1:00PM - April 13, 2023
Water Aerobics
Off-Site Holbrook Decatur - 10:00AM - 11:00AM - April 20, 2023 to May 25, 2023
ACTING-UP! (Jane Shalhoub)
Classroom - 9:45AM - 11:00AM - May 4, 2023 to May 25, 2023
Issues in the News - World, National, Local (Marty Bennett, Mary Whiteman)
Hyflex - 11:15AM - 12:15PM - May 4, 2023 to May 25, 2023
Technology as We Age: Friend? Foe? Both? (Bonnie Davis)
Hyflex – One Day course - 11:15AM - 12:15PM -May 18, 2023


FRIDAYS
First Aid, CPR, AED (National Safety Council) (Jim Spano)
Classroom - 9:30AM - 2:30PM - April 21, 2023
Defensive Driving Course (National Safety Council)
Classroom - 9:30AM - 2:30PM - May 19, 2023

 
Interested in teaching for OLLI at Emory?  We are currently accepting summer and fall proposals.  If you or someone you know is interested in more information, please contact us at olli@emory.edu or stephanie.tarpley@emory.edu. Online proposal form 
Our mailing address is:
2635 Century Pkwy NE Suite 300 Atlanta, GA 30345
Email: olli@emory.edu
Phone: 404-727-5489

 






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