Dalai Lama

The Dalai Lama has been named as a professor at a leading American private research institution, Atlanta's Emory University, in the first such appointment the Tibetan spiritual leader has accepted. The appointment reflects a partnership between Emory and Tibetan exiles that includes a major project to provide a comprehensive science education curriculum to Tibetan Buddhist monks, the university said Monday.Emory has named the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize laureate a presidential distinguished professor and he will deliver a lecture and take part in a conference on science and spirituality during a visit Oct 20-22,