Emory University is a private research university in Druid Hills neighborhood in the city of Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The university was founded as Emory College in 1836 in Oxford, Georgia by the Methodist Episcopal Church and was named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory. In 1915, the college moved to its present location in Druid Hills and was replaced as Emory University. The University is the second oldest higher education institution in Georgia and among the fifty oldest private universities in the United States.
Emory University has nine academic divisions: the Emory College of Arts and Sciences, the Oxford College, the Goizueta Business School, the Laney Graduate School, the Law School, the School of Medicine, the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, the Rollins School of Public Health, and the Candler School of Theology. Emory University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Peking University in Beijing, China jointly administer the Department of Biomedical Engineering Wallace H. Coulter. The University operates the Confucius Institute in Atlanta in partnership with Nanjing University. Emory has a growing research faculty partnership with Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). Emory University students come from 50 states, 6 regions of the United States, and more than 100 foreign countries.
Emory Healthcare is the largest healthcare system in the state of Georgia and consists of seven major hospitals, including the internationally renowned Emory University Hospital and Emory University Hospital Midtown. The university operates the Winship Cancer Institute, the Yerkes National Research Center, and many research centers for diseases and vaccines. Emory University is the leading coordinator of the NIAID Host Maliana Host-Pathogen Interaction Center (MaHPIC) and the National Ebola Education and Training Center of the US Department of Health. The University is one of four institutions involved in the NIAID Tuberculosis Research Unit Program. The International Association of National Public Health Institutes is headquartered at the university and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Cancer Society is a national affiliated institution located adjacent to the campus. The university is partnering with the Carter Center.
Emory University is 16th among the list of universities and universities in the United States by endowment, 21st among universities in the world by endowment, 21th among the rank of 'National Universities' and ranked 71st among 'Global Universities' ratings by US. News & amp; World Report's 2018 ranking. Emory University has Carnegie status of Higher Education Institution R1: "highest research activity" and cited for high scientific performance and impact quotes in Leiden Rank CWTS. The National Science Foundation places the 36th university among academic institutions in the United States for research and development (R & D) expenses. Emory University's research is funded primarily by federal government agencies, the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In 1995, Emory University was selected for the Association of American Universities, an association of 62 leading research universities in the United States & amp; Canada.
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History
nineteenth century
Emory College was founded in 1836 in Oxford, Georgia by Methodist Episcopal Church. The college was named in honor of the dead Methodist bishop, John Emory. Little Ignatius Alphonso was the university's first president. In 1854, Atlanta Medical College, a pioneer of the Emory University Medical School, was founded. On April 12, 1861, the American Civil War began. Emory College closed in November 1861 and all of its students were registered on the Confederate side. By the end of 1863, the war came to Georgia and the campus was used as a hospital and later became headquarters for the Union Armed Forces. The university produced many officers who served in the war, including General George Thomas Anderson (1846C) who fought in almost every major battle in the eastern theater. 35 Emory students lost their lives and many campuses were destroyed during the war.
Emory College, like all the Southeastern United States, is struggling to overcome financial collapse during the Reconstruction Era. In 1880 Atticus Greene Haygood, Emory College President, delivered a speech expressing gratitude for the end of slavery in the United States, which attracted the attention of George I. Seney, a New York banker. Seney gave Emory College $ 5,000 to pay off his debts, $ 50,000 for development, and $ 75,000 to form a new donation. In the 1880s, the technology department was launched by Isaac Stiles Hopkins, a polymath professor at Emory College. Hopkins became the first president of the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1888. Emory University's first international student, Yun Chi-ho, graduated in 1893. Yun became an important political activist in Korea and is the author of "Aegukga", the national anthem of the Republic of Korea.
20th century
On August 16, 1906, Wesley Memorial Hospital and Training School for Nurses, later renamed Nell Hodgson Woodruff Nursing School, was founded. In 1914, the Candler School of Theology was founded. In 1915, Emory College moved to Druid Hills and was replaced again as Emory University after receiving a land grant from Asa Griggs Candler, founder of The Coca-Cola Company. The Emory University School of Law was founded in 1916. From the 1920s to the 1970s, Emory University built its reputation as a regional institution offering a solid education in medicine, law, theology, business, and liberal arts.
First and Second World Wars
On April 6, 1917, the United States entered the First World War. Emory University holds a medical unit, comprising faculty of medical faculty and medical alumni, which will be known as Emory Unit, Base 43 Hospital. This unit served in Loir-et-Cher, France from July 1918 to January 1919. Emory Unit, Base Hospital 43 were demobilized during the Second World War and served in the North African and European Campaigns. To recognize Emory's participation in the war effort, a ship was named M.S. Emory Victory and presented through World War II and in the Korean War.
In the 1940s, Emory University's students, alumni, and faculty served in the Asia-Pacific War and European theater of World War II. Lieutenant Commander James L. Starnes, a graduate of Emory Law, is a navigational shipwrecker of USSÃ, Missouri and serves as a deck officer during the signing of the Japanese Submission Instrument. Bobby Jones (golfer), served during the Battle of Normandy. Alfred A. Weinstein, a professor of surgery at Emory University School of Medicine, was a prisoner of war of the Japanese Empire between 1942 and 1945. His memoirs of "Barbed Wire Surgeon" are considered one of the best records of allied prisoners. under Japanese detention and highlighting the criminal offenses of the war Mutsuhiro Watanabe. Kiyoshi Tanimoto, who graduated from Candler School of Theology in 1940 and portrayed in John Hersey's Hiroshima (book), was able to arrange for Hiroshima Maiden's reconstructive surgery program based on the associations he made while studying in the United States. Tatsumasa Shirakawa, a Japanese student at Candler School of Theology, was held temporarily until Dean Henry Burton Trimble negotiated his release. Emory helped the country prepare for war by participating in the V-12 Naval Training Program and the Army's Special Training Program, a program designed to complement the strength of officers assigned to the United States Navy and the United States Army. The Candler School of Theology trains people for military chaplains. During the war, university registration boasted two military students for every civilian. Alumni Emory University will continue to serve in the Korean War, Second Indochina War (Vietnam War), Persian Gulf War, Yugoslav War, and Global War on Terrorism.
The history of Emory's journey changed dramatically in November 1979 when Robert Winship Woodruff and George Waldo Woodruff presented the agency with a $ 105 million prize in Coca-Cola stock. At that time, it was the biggest single prize for any higher education institution in American history, and it made a huge impact on Emory's direction in the next two decades, increasing the university to the top of the American research university.
Twenty-first century
As one of the fastest growing research universities in the United States in the 21st century, Emory University has built a national reputation on the strength of academic achievements of its faculty and students, high-ranking professional schools, long-term commitment to the arts and sciences, and more attendance from seventy advanced research centers that address major social issues. Emory has expanded its relationship with the community, creating close relationships with the environment, clinics, hospitals, nonprofit organizations, and meeting rooms of Atlanta. To accommodate its growth, Emory has undergone a physical transformation that enhances classroom and research. The latest additions to the campus include buildings for cancer research, biomedical research, scientific calculations, math and science, vaccine research, and performing arts.
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Academics
Reception Statistics
In 2018, Emory College recognizes 18.5% of its applicants. Applicants received had a median average of 3.91 middle-grade GPA, median SAT score of 1500 (out of 1600) and an average ACT score of 32.7 (out of 36). Newly recognized students include students from 75 countries and 50 states in the US.
Undergraduate school
- Emory College of Arts and Sciences (1836)
The Emory College of Arts and Sciences offers Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) and Bachelor of Science (B.S) academic degrees. Academic Departments including African American Studies, African Studies, American Studies, Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Anthropology, History of Art, Biology, Chemistry, Classical, Comparative Literature, East Asian Studies, Economics, English, Environmental Science, Film & Media Studies, French and Italian Studies, German Studies, Global Health, Culture and Sustainability, History, Human Health, Jewish Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Linguistics, Mathematics and Computer Science, Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies, Music, Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Quantitative Theory and Methods, Religion, Language and Culture Russian and East Asian, Sociology, Spanish and Portuguese, Theater and Dance, and Women Studies, Sex and Sexuality. Confucius Institute, a non-profit public institution affiliated with the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, operates in collaboration with the university at Emory College of Arts and Sciences. The Emory-Tibet partnership was established in 1998.
Emory University offers a five-year double degree program in engineering, in collaboration with the Georgia Institute of Technology. Emory University also offers dual master's degrees in social work with the University of Georgia.
- Oxford College (1836)
Oxford College offers an Associate (A.A.) degree in liberal arts. Students who successfully complete Oxford College go to Emory College of Arts and Sciences to complete their undergraduate education. Academic Department includes Anthropology, Art, Biology, Chemistry, Economics, English, Geology, History, Language, Math & amp; Computer Science, Music, Political Science, Philosophy, Psychology, Physics & amp; Astronomy, Quantitative Theory and Methods, Religion, Sociology, Theater, and Women's Studies.
Graduates and professional schools
- Emory University School of Medicine (1854)
The Emory University School of Medicine offers Doctor of Medicine (MD), Doctor of Physical Therapy, and a Master of Medical Science degree. Academic departments include Biochemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Informatics, Cell Biology, Human Genetics, Microbiology/Immunology, Pharmacology, and Physiology. Department of Clinical Science including Anesthesiology, Dermatology, Emergency Medicine, Family & amp; Medical Prevention, Gynecology/Obstetrics, Hematology/Medical Oncology, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Ophthalmology, Orthopedics, Otolaryngology, Pathology, Pediatrics, Psychiatry & amp; Behavioral Science, Radiation Oncology, Radiology, Rehabilitation Treatment, Surgery, and Urology.
- Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing (1905)
Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing offers Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN), Master of Science in Nursing, and Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP).
- Candler School of Theology (1914)
The Candler School of Theology menawarkan Master of Divinity (MDiv), Master of Religious Leadership (MRL), Master Agama dan Kehidupan Publik (MRPL), Magister Studi Teologi (MTS), Master of Theology (ThM), Doktor Teologi dalam Pastoral Counseling (ThD), dan Doctor of Ministry (DMin), gelar online.
- Emory University School of Law (1916)
The Emory University School of Law menawarkan Juris Doctor, Juris Master, Master of Laws, dan Doctor of Juridical Science.
- Laney Graduate School (1919)
The Laney Graduate School offers Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Arts degrees.
- Goizueta Business School (1919)
The Goizueta Business School offers Bachelor of Business Administration, Master of Business Administration, Executive Master of Business Administration, and Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration.
- Rollins School of Public Health (1990)
Rollins Public Health School offers Master of Public Health (MPH) and Master of Science (MSc) in Public Health (MSPH) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degrees. Academic Department includes Behavioral Sciences & amp; Health Education, Biostatistics & amp; Bioinformatics, Environmental Health, Epidemiology, Global Health, and Health Policy & amp; Management.
System library
Emory University is a member of the Association of Research Libraries. Emory University's library system includes over 3.9 million print and electronic volumes and 83,000-plus electronic journals. Emory University Library includes Robert W. Woodruff Library, Woodruff Medical Science Center Library, Hugh F. MacMillan and Yuddhishtir Modhwadia Law Library, James S. Guy Chemical Library, Pitts The Theological Library, Goizueta Business Library, Marian K. Heilbrun Music & amp; Media Library, and Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (The Rose Library). The Rose Library contains rare material related to African American literature, history and culture, as well as the history of South and Georgia. Important pieces of this collection include the rare first edition of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, and Flannery O'Connor, Alice Walker, Langston Hughes, W.B. Yeats, and Seamus Heaney.
Specialist subject librarians provide research assistance to every academic department at the university. Annual Robert W. Woodruff The Library Undergraduate Research Award recognizes undergraduate students who make extensive use of Woodruff Library's collections and research resources in their original scholarship and show evidence of critical analysis in their research skills.
In 2012, the Princeton Review ranked Robert W. Woodruff Library among the top 10 "Best College Libraries" in the United States. In 2013, Pitts The Theological Library of the Candler School of Theology was named one of "The World's Most Beautiful College Library."
Reputation and ranking
Emory University is ranked 21st among national universities in the United States and 71st among global universities by the US. News & amp; World Report , 98th among the global and 19th universities in the United States at Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2017-18. The university is named after the Hidden Ivy and "New Ivy". The University is ranked 17th among US colleges and universities in the Wall Street Journal survey. Business Insider is named Emory among "the top 50 smart universities in America." Emory is considered to have one of the best writing programs in the United States and is ranked 1st among the best colleges and university lists for authors by The Huffington Post and USA Today. Emory University programs are consistently among the most competitive in their fields by the US. News & amp; World Report . In 2015, Department of Biomedical Engineering Department of Wallace H. Coulter was ranked 2nd in the United States for the ninth consecutive year. The Emory University School of Medicine is ranked 23rd Best School of Medical Research in the US by 2015. Rollins Public Health School is ranked 7th among US public health schools by 2015. Emory University School of Medicine Physician Assistant Program occupied ranked 3rd. among physician assistant programs in the United States by 2015. Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing Emory University is ranked 3rd among master's nursing programs and ranked fifth among the US doctoral nursing programs by 2018. The university is ranked # 16 best universities for veterans among national universities. in America
Emory University is ranked 13th in Immunology, 22 in Microbiology, 28 in Psychiatry, 29 in Social Sciences and Public Health, 32 in Clinical Medicine, 37 in Neuroscience and Behavior, 45 in Pharmacology and Toxicology, 50 in Biochemistry, and 67 in Molecular Biology and Genetics in the world by US News and World Report Emory University is ranked 6th among national universities in the United States in Social Psychology, 11 in Behavioral Neurology, 18 in Clinical Psychology, 25 in Political Science, 26 in English, 27 in History, 30 Biological Sciences, 35th in Chemistry, 35th in Sociology, 38 in Psychology, 38 in Statistics, 64 in Economics, 65 in Mathematics, 85 in Physics by US News & amp; World Report . The Emory University School of Law is ranked 19th among US Law Schools by the US. News & amp; World Report . Princeton Review named Emory University Law School as one of the 169 best law schools in the US by 2014. Emory University's Goizueta Business School ranked 19th among the Business Schools in the United States by OUR News & amp; World Report . Bloomberg Businessweek rated the 9th Goizueta Business School BBA Program in the country in 2014. The Economist rated the 13th Goizueta Business School MBA program in the country in the year 2014.
In 2012, following an internal investigation led by Emory Provost Earl Lewis and Jones Day Law Firm, Emory University announced that members of the Emory University Admissions and Research Office are deliberately misrepresenting data about entering the standardized test scores and grade ratings between 2000-2012 to standard reference sources and third-party ratings of colleges and universities. For example, when the office reports that 89% of students graduate in the top 10% of the class, only 75% actually own it. Upon investigation, the persons responsible for reporting errors were dismissed or resigned and the university issued a public apology. The University takes several corrective actions in 2012 and 2013, including the employment of independent data consultants, to ensure accurate data collection and reporting in the future.
Research
Emory University has the Carnegie Institution classification Higher Education RU/VH: "very high research activity". According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, the university is the fifth university in the United States with license revenues per dollar spent on research. The University is the fourth largest contributor in the country with the discovery of new drugs and vaccines among public sector research institutions. Universities allied to essential medicines, Emory 2 rankings among universities in the United States and Canada for global health contributions and research. In 2015, Emory received $ 572.4 million from external funding agencies. Emory University leads the nation in the number of students with a Pre-doctoral Service scholarship from the National Institutes of Health of the Kirschstein-National Research Service Award.
Emory University has a strong partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In 1947, the university donated 15 acres of land to the US Department of Health and Human Services for the construction of the CDC headquarters. The Emory University Prevention Research Center (EPRC) and Emory Injury Control Center are funded by the CDC. The Emory University Community Health Excellence Center, which seeks to improve preparedness and response to health threats in low-income countries, is a five-year, multi-million cooperative program with the CDC and the International Association of National Public Health Institutions (IANPHI). The Emory University Center for Global Safe Water (CGSW), which conducts applied research, evaluation and training to promote global health equity through universal access to clean water, sanitation and hygiene, in collaboration with the CDC. The Emory University Global Health Institute, funded by Bill & amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, partnered with CDC to improve public health infrastructure in low-resource countries. The Emory University Hospital Insulation Unit and Quarantine Station were established by the CDC after the SARS outbreak of 2003. The isolation and treatment facilities at Emory University play an important role in ending the case of the Ebola 2014 virus in the United States. CDC scientists and administrators hold membership and often speak at Vaccine Dinner Club (VDC) Emory University, an association that holds a monthly academic meeting to discuss and advance vaccine research. By 2015, Emory is a member of the CDC Prevention Epicenter Program, a research program in which the CDC Quality Promotion Division (DHQP) cooperates with academic investigators to conduct innovative infection control and prevention research.
In 2015, Emory University, London School of Hygiene & amp; Tropical Medicine, the India Public Health Foundation, and the Indian Institute of Medical Sciences set up a Chronic Conditions Control Center in New Delhi, India. The center aims to improve the prevention and treatment of diabetes, heart disease, cancer, mental health, and injuries in India.
The International Association of National Public Health Institutions is based at the university. The association was hired in 2006 with $ 20 million, a five-year grant through Emory University from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. By 2015, the Emory Global Health Institute and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are made a key partner for the newly created $ 75 million Prevention and Rescue Prevention and Health Prevention and Melinda Gates Foundation (CHAMPS) Fund.
Emory University's research is funded by the National Institutes of Health Ministry of Health and Human Services. The federal agency awarded this university nearly $ 300 million in fiscal year 2015. By 2015, Emory University is one of four institutions selected by the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases for a multibillion-dollar Tuberculosis Research Unit for seven years (TBRU) program , which aims to encourage innovation in tuberculosis research and reduce the global burden of disease. In 2015, the Emory-led research consortium received a five-year, $ 15-million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to examine human immune responses to the Varicella zoster virus and pneumococcal vaccination. The University also received a $ 9 million grant over five years from NIH to support one of three National Center for Collaborative Research in Fragile X syndrome. This grant is an update to Emory's National Fragile Research Center, which has been continuously funded by NIH for more than 10 years. In 2015, the university received a $ 8.9 million grant over five years from NIH National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) to better understand the role of reactive oxygen species and inflammation in blood vessel function and to explore new interventions and preventive approaches to atherosclerosis and aortic aneurysm. By 2015, the university received a $ 8 million grant over five years from NIH to develop and validate a mathematical model of how previous immunities affect immune responses to influenza viruses. The researchers will create and deploy powerful and easy-to-use modeling tools for use by the broader research community in developing more effective vaccines. In 2015, the university received a $ 3.6 million grant over five years from NIH to examine the impact of maternal stress on brain function, development, and behavior on African-American infants, including biochemical connections between the brain and microbioma. In 2015, the university received a $ 3.5 million grant over five years from the NIH National Cancer Institute (NCI) for Information Technology for the Cancer Research award. Winship Cancer Institute and Emory School of Medicine researchers will develop software to help the cancer research community gain new insights from "big data" cancer imaging and develop new open-source cancer research applications. In 2015, the university received a $ 3.4 million grant from the International NIH Collaboration Program for Infectious Disease Research to support a partnership between the Emory Vaccine Center and the International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) in New Delhi, India to study the dengue virus infection in India.
Emory University AIDS Research Center (CFAR) and Emory Vaccine Center are world leaders in AIDS Vaccine Development and HIV Studies Pathogenesis is funded by nine different institutions of the National Institutes of Health and by the Georgia Research Alliance. These centers are among the largest group of academic vaccine scientists in the world and are currently working to develop an effective HIV vaccine. Emory University Researcher Dennis C. Liotta, Dr. Raymond F. Schinazi and Dr. Woo-Baeg Choi discovers Emtricitabine, an NRTI used in HIV treatment. The drug is named one of the world's most important antiviral drugs by the World Health Organization and is included in the List of Essential Medicines Models.
Emory University is a global leader in the research and treatment of Ebola. The University is one of three institutions that successfully treated the medical refugees during 2014 Ebola Outbreak. In 2015, the US Department of Health and Human Services named Emory University as the premier coordinating center for the National Ebola Training and Education Center (NETEC). The University will collaborate with the University of Nebraska Medical Center, the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response on the program, which will receive $ 12 million in funding over the next five years. The program will support the training of healthcare providers and facilities to manage Ebola and other emerging infectious diseases. The goal is to develop metrics to measure facilities and preparedness of health care workers to treat Ebola patients, conduct state assessments and Ebola Regional Treatment Centers, create educational materials related to patient care with Ebola and other special pathogens and offer training and technical assistance. assistance to public health departments and health facilities. The university also received a $ 10.8 million grant for three years from the US Defense Defense Research Agency (DARPA) to lead a 10-agency national team that developed better therapies and vaccines for different types of Ebola viruses. In 2015, Emory received a three-year, $ 2.2 million grant from the CDC to prevent the spread of infectious diseases, including Ebola, at a health care facility.
Emory and the Georgia Institute of Technology have a strong research partnership. In 2015, Emory and Georgia Tech were awarded a $ 8.3 million grant by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to set up a National Exposure Assessment Laboratory. The laboratory will examine the environmental impact of chemicals on the health of children. By 2015, the two universities receive a five-year, $ 2.9 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to create a new, master, and doctorate degree program and concentration in health robotics, which will be the first program of its kind in the Southeastern United States. In 2015, Emory University, Georgia Tech, and Children's Health Atlanta was awarded a four-year, $ 1.8 million grant by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation to expand the Atlanta Cystic Fibrosis Research and Development Program. By 2015, Emory jointly manages the second largest population of cystic fibrosis in the United States. In 2015, Emory and Georgia Tech received a $ 1.6 million grant from the Coulter Translational Research Partnership Program to accelerate nine promising technologies developed in research labs with commercial potential.
In 2015, Emory University received a $ 15 million grant from the Wounded Soldiers Project to build a "Warrior Care Network" and developed an innovative approach to treating veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI).
In 2015, Emory University and the University of South Florida received a $ 2.5 million grant over five years from the John E. Fogarty International Center (FIC) to study the relationship between communicable disease transmission and agricultural practices.
Campus
The original campus of Emory University was founded in Oxford, Georgia in 1836. The 56 acre campus, located 38 miles east of Atlanta's main Emory campus, is home to the Oxford College of Emory University and is the location of military and hospital headquarters during the American Civil War. Many buildings are designed with Neoclassical architecture and Gothic Awakening architecture. In 1975, the National Register of Historic Places of the United States set the campus as part of the Oxford Historical District.
The main Atlanta Emory campus, founded in the early 20th century on the Beaux-Arts master plan by Pittsburgh architect Henry Hornbostel, covers over 600 acres in the historic neighborhood of Druid Hills in Atlanta. The university campus is heavily forested with pine, maple, oak, and magnolia, and Peavine Creek, a branch of Peachtree Creek, runs through campus. The Arbor Day Foundation named the school Emory a Tree Campus USA in 2015. Many university buildings are designed with multi-colored granite and Spanish Saltillo tiles. The university has one of the largest inventories with a broad measure of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design - a certified building space among campuses in the United States. In 2015, The Best Colleges, a Seattle-based educational rating service, named Emory one of the top ten "Most Amazing Academy Campuses."
This campus is home to Emory University Hospital, Michael C. Carlos Museum, which has the largest collection of ancient artifacts in the United States of the Southeast, the Winship Cancer Institute, the first and only cancer center in Georgia designated by the National Cancer Institute, Yerkes Research Center The National Primate, one of eight national primate research centers funded by the National Institutes of Health, and a number of academic, artistic, medical, and other student facilities. Boarding dorms include Graduate Residency Center, Clairmont Residential Center, Tower Apartments, Alabama Hall, Complex, Dobbs Hall, Holmes Hall, Longstreet-Means Hall, Raoul Hall and Turman Hall. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, American Cancer Society, Atlanta Public Health Hospital Egleston, and Emory Point are located adjacent to the campus.
In 2015, Sanford S. Atwood Chemistry Center's $ 52 million expansion and renovation project is completed. The new 270,000 square foot complex has an art laboratory, an interactive teaching and learning room, and a chemistry library. The completion of this complex is accompanied by a $ 1.2 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to advance and modernize the university's chemical curriculum.
In the Attachment of Candler Library Library Robert W. Woodruff, there is a reproduction of the 1920s Pietro Caproni from Bertel Thorvaldsen's The Triumph of Alexander. Frieze describes Alexander the Great and his troops enter Babylon after their victory over the Achaemenid Empire in the Battle of Gaugamela.
During the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, the university hosted the US Women's Olympic gymnastics team on its main campus. The team, known as Magnificent Seven, won the first gold medal for the United States in all female team competitions. The university houses international officials and journalists and serves as a training facility for the Olympians. Cox Hall Ballroom was transformed into a news center for the outdoor press of the Olympics.
In February 2017, Emory announced that R. Howard Dobbs University Center, built in 1986 from neo-posturistic postmodernist design by local architect John C. Portman, Jr., to become a center for university students/faculty and dining room (Coca-Cola Commons ), will be destroyed and replaced with a $ 98 million College of Life Campus designed by Durham, Duda Paine Architects based in North Carolina. Reasons given for replacement include the inconvenience of food delivery to the dining room, insufficient kitchen facilities, and inadequate fenestrations in the Commons.
Student life
Student body
Emory University's total enrollment for the academic year 2016-2017 is 15,252 students, with 7,916 students and 7,336 graduates and professional students. Students come from 50 states and over 100 countries. The student to faculty ratio is 7: 1, with an average class size of 25 students. Of the 1,389 students in Class 2018, 46% are Caucasians, 31% are Asian, 10% are Black/African American, 9% are Latin/Hispanic, and 3% are not identifiable; 56% were female and 44% were male. Emory University has provided 4.568 degrees during 2014-2015. Of those, 2,366 awards are scholars and 2,202 graduates.
Art
Students may engage in performing arts and fine arts as academic fields of study or as extracurricular activities. Undergraduate students may pursue majors in performing arts (dance, theater, or music) or in film studies, art history, visual arts, or creative writing. Graduate programs in art history, film studies, and music are offered. There are over 50 student organizations dedicated to the arts. Students can explore diverse artistic interests such as architecture, breakdance, poetry, and improvisational comedy. Emory regularly hosts art events at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts which is open to the Emory and Atlanta communities. Recent performances include Bang on a Can All-Stars (side project drummer Glenn Kotche from rock band Wilco), jazz players Esperanza Spalding, and New Cedar Lake Dance Company in New York. A program called Creativity Conversation brings artistic thought to the campus to discuss art and creative processes. Guests include Philip Glass, Jimmy Carter, Salman Rushdie, Seamus Heaney and Rita Dove. Rita Dove also gave a keynote address on Emory's 2013 Commencement.
Athletics
Emory ranks among the top schools in both US. News & amp; Rank World Report's from the best national university and the Directors Cup from the National Association of Collegiate Athletics Director for the best all-around athletic program. The Emory championship 18 sports team, known as the Eagles, is a member of the Association of Athletics University of the NCAA Division III (UAA). However, Emory does not have an inter-college football team.
Barkley Forum
The Barkley Forum Center for Debate Education is an inter-university debate organization at Emory University. The center is named in honor of Emory alumni, Alben Barkley, 35th Vice President of the United States, and directed by James Herndon. Melissa Maxcy Wade was the previous director until 2015. The debate was established at the university in 1837 and the inter-university debate team was formed by Nolan A. Goodyear in 1914. The Emory's Barkley Forum debate team has won 3 National Debate Tournaments and over 25 individual champion speakers appreciation.
Community services
The University received the 2008 Presidential Award for Public Service, which is the highest federal recognition granted to higher education institutions for their commitment to community service, service learning and civic engagement. About 25% of Emory students participate in Volunteer Emory, Emory umbrella community service group. As one of the most popular campus groups, Volunteer Emory offers many ways to serve the community, working with diverse organizations including the Atlanta Food Community, Trees Atlanta, PAWS Atlanta and Jones Boys and Girls Club. Emory Cares International Service Day brings together students, alumni and other community members to volunteer on a number of projects organized by Emory and its many partners around the city of Atlanta and in cities around the world.
Newspapers
The Emory Wheel is a student newspaper run by Emory University. The Wheel is published twice a week, on Tuesdays and Fridays, during regular school year, and updated regularly on its website. Serving Emory communities as early as 1919, Editorials and editors financially and financially from the University. His staff were made up entirely of students, with the exception of the general manager, who oversaw advertising and whose salary was paid by the newspaper.
Program abroad
Through the International Program Center Abroad, Emory University students can study in over 40 countries at the best academic institutions in the world including the National University of Singapore, the Kyoto Consortium for Japanese Studies, Nanjing University, the University of Oxford, Imperial College London, the School of Oriental and African Studies , Yonsei University, Trinity University of Dublin, St. John's University. Andrews, University of Melbourne, University of Amsterdam, University of Cape Town, and Tel Aviv University.
Home life
Brotherhood had existed on the Emory campus in early 1840. An early chronicler makes the case that Emory's "temple" of Mystic Seven may be the first chapter of a national fraternity founded anywhere in the South. Today, Greek letters and associations play an important role in reducing the life of the Emory campus. For students, Greek life consists of about 30% of Emory's student population. The Office of Greek Life recognizes and organizes chapters of brotherhood and association on campus. The Brotherhood has housing on campus located in Eagle Row, and Sorority Village, a series of townhouses, facing fraternal homes. Greek life is an important social engagement for students, but not entirely exclusive - students from societies and fraternities regularly socialize, and campus housing emphasis on campus helps students make friends inside and outside the Greek system. Intramural Sport Program provides an athletic outlet for the entire Emory community. Emory has many sports clubs and various intramural leisure and competitive teams. The Outdoor Emory Organization sponsors weekend trips for outdoor activities like rafting, rock climbing and hiking.
Student organization
Hundreds of clubs and student organizations operate on the Emory campus. This includes many student governments, special interests, and service organizations. Association of Student Government Associations (SGAs) and provides most of the funds for other student groups, and represents student interest when dealing with administration. SGA oversees the board of divisions, each coinciding with undergraduate, postgraduate and university professionals. Notable among these is the College Council (CC) which addresses students' concerns primarily for the body of scholars from the Emory College of Arts and Sciences and annually sponsors the State of Race event, and the BBA Council conducts similar activities for the Goizueta BBA Business School Program. Student Programming Council (SPC) is the main programming organization of the school, which is responsible for planning five events each year: Mudik Week, Fall Band Party, Spring Band Party, Swoopstock and Dooley's Week. Emory also has several secret societies - the Paladin Society, D.V.S. Senior Honor Society, Ducemus, Speculum, and The Order of Ammon. Emory has a partnership with Coca-Cola in which they pledged $ 3 million over a 5-year period for "Learning Services" projecting that Emory student volunteers participate to help preserve natural footprints, create urban farming, and restore environmental gardens.. Emory University also has many Black student organizations, including: Black Student Alliance, National Association for the Strengthening of Color People (NAACP), and the Voice of the Inner Power of the Gospel Choir (VOIS).
Famous alumni and faculty
Emory University has more than 13,200 faculty and staff and over 133,000 live alumni. Awards and honors recognizing Emory alumni and faculty including the Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Bancroft Prize, Booker Prize, Lenore Marshall Poetry Award, National Humanities Medal, Peabody Award, Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, Guggenheim Fellowship, Fulbright Fellowship , American Mathematical Society Fellowship, MacArthur Fellows Program, Rhodes Scholarship, Marshall Scholarship, and membership at the American Academy of Arts and Science, Carnegie Foundation for Teaching Progress, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, American Society for Clinical Investigations, National Academy of Sciences, and Research Council National.
Leading Alumni: Alben Barkley (BA 1900), 35th Vice President of the United States; Isaac Stiles Hopkins (1859C) and Robert Stewart Hyer (BA 1881, MA 1882), founders of the president of the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Southern Methodist University, respectively; Young John Allen (1858C), American Methodist Missionary at the end of the Qing Dynasty, China; Thomas Milton Rivers (1909C), Director of the Rockefeller Institute; Ernest Cadman Colwell (1923C, 1927PhD), President of the University of Chicago; Bobby Jones (Law 1929), the only golfer to win the Grand Slam, the founder of the Masters Golf Tournament, and is considered one of the greatest golfers of all time; Ely Callaway Jr. (1940C), Founder of Callaway Golf Company; Ernie Harwell (1940C), baseball announcer for the Detroit Tigers; Arnall Patz (BA 1943, MD 1945), ophthalmologist and Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient; Lewis Roger Slaton (1949JD), District Attorney, Fulton County, Georgia; Lee Hong-koo (1959C), 26th Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea; Newt Gingrich (BA 1965), 58th Speaker of the House of Representatives; Sonny Carter, NASA astronaut, crew member of the STS-33 Shuttle Shuttle (1969C); Peter Buck, guitarist for the band R.E.M.; Kenneth Cole (BA 1976), clothing designer and founder Kenneth Cole Productions; Christopher McCandless (1990C), wild Alaskan adventurer and the main subject of Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild; Fala Chen (2005C), American Chinese Actress; Kirsten Haglund (2013C), Miss America 2008; Duncan L. Niederauer, Chief Executive Officer of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).
Honorary Alumni: Kim Dae-jung, South Korean President-8; Vicente Fox, Former President of Mexico; Mikhail Gorbachev, Former President of the Soviet Union, Nobel Peace Prize recipient; Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-American actor, 38 Governor of California; Tom Brokaw, American journalist, author of The Greatest Generation (1998); John Lewis, "Big Six" leader of the Civil Rights Movement; Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Emmy Award-winning filmmaker; Hugh Thompson Jr., a US Army officer who ended the My Lai Massacre.
Special Faculty: Jimmy Carter, President of 39 United States; Sir Salman Rushdie, Award-winning novelist Booker; Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama; Desmond Tutu, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize; William Foege, Center 10 for Disease Control and Prevention; Nathan McCall, New York Times bestselling author; James T. Laney, Emory University's 17th President, US Ambassador to Korea from 1993 to 1997; Natasha Trethewey, Pulitzer Prize winner; and the US Recipients and Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN medical correspondent.
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External links
- Official website
- Emory Athletics website
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