Applications are now open for this year’s Piedmont Project Faculty Workshop on May 14 & 15, 2025. The Piedmont Project brings together faculty from all of Emory’s schools and colleges to support new courses or course modules that strengthen curricular engagement with issues of sustainability, environmental justice, and urgent societal challenges. Want to be a part of this year’s Piedmont Project? Please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/b728dFPmm7B86Mts8. More details for faculty can be found here.  

Applications are now open for the Piedmont TATTO Fellowship on Sustainability and Curriculum Development (Tuesday, May 13, 2025). This interdisciplinary program is open to graduate students in all disciplines and professional programs who want to expand their teaching repertoire around sustainability, environmental, and social justice issues. Application consists of a 1-2 page description of research and teaching interests and connections to sustainability, environmental, or social justice issues, your past sustainability experience, and the focus of the course syllabus or lab module you would like to develop. Applications should include which particular sustainability issues draw your attention; what past experiences around sustainability or environmental concerns you have had; and the topic of the course syllabus you would like to develop with the help of the fellowship. Submit statement and CV at: https://forms.gle/28ASP7mHJC3KsAft7. More details for teaching students can be found here. 

Deadline Extended! Both applications will be accepted until April 18 2025. Workshops are held in the Luce Center (825 Houston Mill Road), 9:00-5:00, May 14 & 15, 2025 for faculty and May 13 for teaching students.  

Want to know more?

• Browse syllabi / statements from past participants: http://piedmont.emory.edu/syllabi/index.html 
• Explore the Piedmont Project website: https://piedmont.emory.edu/index.html 

Contact members of the planning team:

• Lydia Fort, Theater Studies, lydia.fort@emory.edu
• Kendra Ding, Sustainability and Social Justice Fellow, OSI, jiongchao.ding@emory.edu