Academic Departments include Behavioral Sciences & Health Education, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Environmental Health, Epidemiology, Global Health, and Health Policy & Management. [89], Subject specialist librarians provided research assistance for every academic department at the university. [148], Students may engage in the performing and fine arts as an area of academic study or as extracurricular activities. The university has one of the largest inventories by square footage of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design-certified building space among campuses in the United States.[137]. Bobby Jones (Law 1929),[182] the only golfer to win a Grand Slam, founder of the Masters Golf Tournament, and regarded as one of the greatest golfers of all time; The university housed international officials and journalists and served as a training facility for Olympians. Kenneth Cole (BA 1976),[190] clothing designer and founder of Kenneth Cole Productions; Peter Buck, guitarist for the band R.E.M. [40] The National Science Foundation ranked the university 36th among academic institutions in the United States for research and development (R&D) expenditures. [56] Kiyoshi Tanimoto, who graduated from the Candler School of Theology in 1940 and is portrayed in John Hersey's Hiroshima, was able to organize the Hiroshima Maidens reconstructive surgery program based on the associations he made while studying in the United States. [34] The university also received a $10.8 million grant over three years from the U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to lead a 10-institution national team developing improved therapeutics and vaccines for multiple strains of Ebola virus. [5], Emory faculty and alumni include two Prime Ministers, nine university presidents, 11 members of the United States Congress, two Nobel Peace Prize laureates, a Vice President of the United States, a United States Speaker of the House, and a United States Supreme Court Justice. [58], In 1971, Emory established one of the nation's first African-American studies programs and the first of its kind in the Southeastern United States. Young John Allen (1858C),[179] American Methodist Missionary in the late Qing Dynasty, China; His memoir, "Barbed Wire Surgeon", is considered one of the finest accounts concerning allied prisoners under Japanese captivity and highlights the abuses of the war criminal Mutsuhiro Watanabe. 54 unique languages were spoken in the enrolling first year class and 101 countries were represented.[71]. Founded in 1836 as "Emory College" by the Methodist Episcopal Church and named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory,[18] Emory is the second-oldest private institution of higher education in Georgia[19] (after Mercer University, founded in 1833). Awards and honors recognizing Emory alumni and faculty include the Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Bancroft Prize, Booker Prize, Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, 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 in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, American Society for Clinical Investigation, National Academy of Sciences, and National Research Council. [130], Emory is a global leader in Ebola research and treatment. 21% of students are Georgia residents, the remaining come from 49 other states, D.C., and more than 100 countries. [156] The center is named in honor of Emory alumnus Alben Barkley, 35th Vice President of the United States. As one of the most popular groups on campus, Volunteer Emory offers dozens of ways to serve the community, working with varied organizations including the Atlanta Community Food Bank, Trees Atlanta, PAWS Atlanta, and Jones Boys and Girls Club. Emory has numerous club sports[169] and a variety of recreational and competitive intramural teams. The award is one of the highest honors presented by Emory. [84] The Emory University library system includes over 3.9 million print and electronic volumes and 83,000-plus electronic journals. 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Emory has never had an intercollegiate football team. [112] Emory University leads the nation in the number of students with Kirschstein-National Research Service Award pre-doctoral fellowships from the National Institutes of Health. The Student Programming Council is the school's primary programming organization, responsible for planning multiple events every year: Homecoming Week, Dooley's week, and a plethora of other events that happen around campus that benefit the students in a proactive way. The Emory University School of Law was established in 1916. [112] In 2015, Emory received a three-year, $2.2 million grant from the CDC to prevent the spread of infectious diseases, including Ebola, in health-care facilities. The center aims to improve the prevention and care of diabetes, heart disease, cancer, mental health, and injuries in India. [43] Emory has more than 149,000 alumni, with 75 alumni clubs established worldwide in 20 countries. [51] Yun became an important political activist in Korea and is the author of "Aegukga", the national anthem of the Republic of Korea.[52][53]. Hundreds of student clubs and organizations operate on Emory's campus. [163], Fraternities have existed on Emory's campus as early as 1840. The Cox Hall Ballroom was transformed into a news center for the Olympic foreign press. [44][45][46], Emory College was founded in 1836 in Oxford, Georgia by the Methodist Episcopal Church. [141] The completion of the complex was accompanied by a $1.2 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to advance and modernize the university's chemistry curriculum. The university produced many officers who served in the war, including General George Thomas Anderson (1846C) who fought in nearly every major battle in the eastern theater. [63], The course of Emory's history changed dramatically in November 1979 when Robert Winship Woodruff and George Waldo Woodruff presented the institution with a gift of $105 million in Coca-Cola stock. Arnall Patz (BA 1943, MD 1945),[185] , [123][124], In 2015, Emory University, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, the Public Health Foundation of India, and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences established the Center for Control of Chronic Conditions in New Delhi, India. [22][23] The university operates the Confucius Institute in Atlanta in partnership with Nanjing University. [42] The federal agency awarded the university nearly $300 million in the fiscal year of 2015. [91], In 2012, the Princeton Review ranked the Robert W. Woodruff Library among the top 10 "Best College Libraries" in the United States. [29], Emory Healthcare is the largest healthcare system in the state of Georgia[30] and comprises seven major hospitals, including the Emory University Hospital and Emory University Hospital Midtown. [152][153][154] Rita Dove also gave the keynote address at Emory's 2013 Commencement. [104] The university has been named both a Hidden Ivy and a "New Ivy. [35] In 2015, an Emory-led research consortium received a five-year, $15 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to research human immune responses to Varicella zoster virus and pneumococcal vaccination. [127] The university also received a $9 million grant over five years from the NIH to support one of three national Centers for Collaborative Research in Fragile X syndrome. [107], In 2012, following an internal investigation led by Emory Provost Earl Lewis and Jones Day Law Firm, Emory University announced that members of Emory University's Office of Admission and Institutional Research intentionally misreported data concerning entering students' standardized test scores and class rankings between 2000 and 2012 to standard reference sources and third parties who rank colleges and universities. [50] Many of the buildings were designed with Neoclassical architecture and Gothic Revival architecture. [38], Emory University has the 15th-largest endowment among U.S. colleges and universities. [194], Distinguished faculty: Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States;[195] Sir Salman Rushdie, Booker Prize-winning novelist;[196] Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize recipient;[197] William Foege,[198] tenth Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director; Nathan McCall, New York Times bestselling author;[199] James T. Laney,[200] 17th President of Emory University, United States Ambassador to Korea from 1993 to 1997; Natasha Trethewey, Pulitzer Prize winner;[201] and US Poet Laureate and Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN chief medical correspondent. [150] There are more than 50 student organizations dedicated to the arts. The 56-acre campus, located 38 miles east of Emory's Atlanta Campus, is home to Oxford College of Emory University and was the site of military headquarters and infirmaries during the American Civil War. Academic departments include Biochemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Informatics, Cell Biology, Human Genetics, Microbiology/Immunology, Pharmacology, and Physiology. Formerly an all-male school, Emory officially became a coeducational institution in 1953. Students who successfully complete Oxford College advance to Emory College of Arts and Sciences to complete their undergraduate education. The Candler School of Theology trained men for military chaplaincy. Emory University organized a medical unit, composed of medical school faculty and medical alumni, that would be known as Emory Unit, Base Hospital 43. [143], In February 2017, Emory announced that its R. Howard Dobbs University Center, built in 1986 from a neofuturistic postmodernist design by local architect John C. Portman Jr., to house the university's main student/faculty center and dining hall (Coca-Cola Commons), would be demolished and replaced with a new $98 million Campus Life Center, designed by Durham, North Carolina-based Duda Paine Architects. [108] For example, while the office reported that 89% of its students graduated in the top 10% of their class, only 75% actually had. [112] In 2015, the university received a $3.6 million grant over five years from the NIH to examine the effects of maternal stress on brain function, development, and behavior in African-American infants, including the biochemical connection between the brain and the microbiome. A program called Creativity Conversations brings artistic minds to campus to discuss art and the creative process. [116] 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 safe water, sanitation, and hygiene, works in collaboration with the CDC. Seney gave Emory College $5,000 to repay its debts, $50,000 for construction, and $75,000 to establish a new endowment. [142], During the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, the university hosted the United States Olympic women's gymnastics team on its Atlanta Campus.