Announcements

Dr. Phillip M. Thompson named as new Executive Director

The Board of Directors of the Aquinas Center of Theology at Emory University is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Phillip M. Thompson as executive director of the Aquinas Center beginning in August. Dr. Thompson currently serves as Director of the Leadership Program in Public Policy at Georgia Tech University. Previously he was Patricia A. Hayes Professor of

Ethics and Director of the Center for Ethics and Leadership at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas. He has a law degree from the University of Georgia and worked as an attorney for nine years. Subsequently, he earned a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He has published in a variety of journals, and his book, Between Science and Religion: How Catholic Intellectuals Engaged Science and Technology in the Twentieth Century, is forthcoming from Rowman and Littlefield.

Dr. Thompson and his family are members of St. Peter Chanel Catholic Church in Roswell.

Correspondence to Dr. Thompson before August should be directed to Mary Alma Durrett at the Aquinas Center, mdurret@emory.edu .

Dr. Phillip M. Thompson