Emory University
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Emory University is a private
research university in metropolitan Atlanta, located in the Druid Hills
section of unincorporated
DeKalb County
, Georgia
, United States
. The university was founded as Emory College in 1836 in Oxford, Georgia
by a small group of Methodists and was named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory
. A land-grant by Asa Candler
, the president of The Coca-Cola Company
, allowed the small college to move to metropolitan Atlanta in 1915 and become rechartered as Emory University. The university's mission statement is "to create, preserve, teach, and apply knowledge in the service of humanity."
Emory is ranked 20th among national universities in the U.S. News & World Report
. Newsweek
named it one of its 25 "New Ivies" in 2006. The university has nearly 3,000 faculty members; awards and honors recognizing Emory faculty include the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, National Humanities Medal, Guggenheim Fellowship, Fulbright Fellowship, and membership in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences.
The university has nine academic divisions: Emory College of Arts and Sciences, Oxford College
, Goizueta Business School
, Laney Graduate School, School of Law
, School of Medicine
, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing
, Rollins School of Public Health
, and the Candler School of Theology
.
The university has more than two million square feet of building space certified by the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
program and has a commitment to having three-quarters of the food they serve on campus come from local or sustainable sources by 2015. The University holds the distinction of having one of the largest inventories by square footage of LEED-certified building space among campuses in America.
In 1836, a small group of Methodists from Newton County
contemplated the establishment of a new town and college. The town was named Oxford
after the school's prestigious British namesake
, which graduated the two founders of Methodism, John
and Charles Wesley
. The college was named after John Emory
, an American Methodist bishop who inspired them.
Events preceding the chartering of Emory College began in 1783, when the Georgia State legislature provided for the founding of "a college or seminary of learning." However, general support of education in Georgia was meager until the 1830s, when an educational fad in Germany inspired Georgia Methodists to create a school for manual labor. At the Georgia Methodist Conference in 1834, a preacher known as "Uncle Allen" Turner suggested that Georgia Methodists should develop their own school rather than support Randolph-Macon
in Virginia
. As a result, the Manual Labor School was created in Covington, Georgia in 1835.
On December 10, 1836, the Georgia General Assembly
granted the Georgia Methodist Conference a charter to Emory College, named for John Emory
, a popular bishop who had presided at the 1834 conference but had died in a carriage accident in 1835. Two years after the chartering, the college opened its doors, and on September 17, 1838, the college's first president, Ignatius Alphonso Few
, and three faculty members welcomed fifteen freshmen and sophomores.
Emory College imposed a strict environment during most of the nineteenth century. By signing their names into the Matriculation Book, students were bound to obey the "Laws and Statutes of the College," which bound students to their rooms during study hours, and forbade them from leaving the town limits without the president's consent and engaging in immoral activities. Until the presidency of Warren Candler in the 1890s, Emory prohibited intercollegiate sports. He thought the practice "evil, only evil, and that continually," his principal objection being the cost of intercollegiate athletic programs, the temptation of gambling, and the distraction from academics. However, he was not unalterably opposed to athletics, and during his presidency he raised funds for the first gymnasium at Emory and oversaw the creation of the nation's first model intramural program
.
Emory College was closed briefly during the Civil War
. In the autumn of 1861, every student left to fight, and the college's trustees closed for the duration. During the war, the college's buildings saw duty both as a Confederate
hospital and Union
headquarters. When Emory reopened in January 1866, the school's library was destroyed and its small endowment was depleted. Only with the aid of a state grant could students afford to resume their education.
In the years following the Civil War, Emory, along with the rest of the South, struggled to overcome financial devastation.
The first step toward financial stability came in 1880, when Emory President Atticus G. Haygood preached a Thanksgiving Day sermon expressing gratitude for the end of slavery, which captured the attention of George I. Seney, a Brooklyn banker and Methodist. Seney gave Emory College $5,000 to repay its debts, $50,000 for construction, and $75,000 to establish a new endowment. Over the years, Seney invested more than a quarter-million dollars into Emory College, helping to erect the administration building in Oxford that bears his name.
Under President Haygood's direction, Emory College began to offer many technical and professional subjects in addition to courses required for degrees. By the turn of the century, Emory had evolved its traditional liberal arts program into a broad curriculum encouraging students to pursue degrees in science, study in theology and law, and even learning and expertise in technology and tool craft. The technology department was launched by President Isaac Stiles Hopkins, a polymath professor at Emory College, who was later convinced by state legislators to become the first president of what is now the Georgia Institute of Technology
.
The course of Emory's history changed dramatically when, in November 1979, Robert and George Woodruff presented the institution with a gift of $105 million in Coca-Cola
stock. At the time this was the largest single gift to any institution of higher education in American history, and it made a profound impact on Emory's direction in the next two decades, boosting the university to the top ranks of American research universities.
Emory is celebrating its 175th anniversary in 2011. A university committee identified a list of 175 history makers for the occasion. A daily almanac features highlights from Emory's history.
Emory College of Arts and Sciences, established in 1836, offers some five dozen majors. Undergraduates must complete general education requirements that are designed to expose all students to a variety of topics, including physical and social sciences, the humanities, and foreign languages. About two in five students study abroad.
Emory students have been recognized with academic honors such as the Fulbright, Marshall, Mellon, National Science Foundation, Rhodes, Rockefeller and Rotary programs. The campus houses a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest and most prestigious national academic honor society.
The five-year dual-degree program in engineering, offered in collaboration with the Georgia Institute of Technology
, allows Emory students to enroll in engineering classes at Georgia Tech. Students typically graduate with a degree from Emory College or the Goizueta Business School and an engineering degree from Georgia Tech.
For the undergraduate class of 2015, Emory received 17,027 applications. Academically, the incoming freshman class earned an average total SAT score of 2020–2220.
Oxford College (1836 / 1919)
Prospective undergraduates may apply to the Emory College of Arts and Sciences or to Emory's Oxford College
, which is located about 40 miles (64.4 km) from the university's main campus and is the site of Emory’s founding. Oxford, with about 900 students, offers the opportunity to experience a smaller campus community. Typically, students graduate from Oxford after four semesters and continue to the Druid Hills campus, where they may become juniors in Emory College or apply for admission to the Goizueta School of Business or the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing.
For the Oxford class of 2013 (which will go on to receive Emory undergraduate degrees in 2015), 44% of the 4,694 applicants were accepted. The incoming freshman class earned an average GPA of 3.5 in high school.
Goizueta Business School (1919)
Emory's Goizueta Business School
offers an undergraduate Bachelor of Business Administration program, several Master of Business Administration programs, and the option of pursuing a PhD. Rising undergraduate juniors may apply for admission to Goizueta.
Students apply to Goizueta Business school for the junior year of college. There were 317 students admitted to Goizueta Business School’s class of 2011. Its average SAT score was 1371 and its average college GPA is a 3.58.
The two-year full-time MBA program’s class of 2012 is made up of 134 students with an average GMAT score of 680 and an average undergraduate GPA of 3.3. The one-year full-time MBA program's class of 2012 has 39 students with an average GMAT score of 642 and an average undergraduate GPA of 3.4.
Laney Graduate School (1919)
The Laney Graduate School is home to advanced degree programs in more than four dozen specialties, a number of these offered in partnership with the university's other schools.
As of November 2010, 1,917 students were enrolled, 86.7% of which were pursuing a PhD; for the fall 2010 entering class, 14.18% of the 4,796 applicants to a Graduate School PhD program were accepted.
School of Law (1916)
Students in the Emory University School of Law
may earn a Doctor of Law degree (JD), a Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) or one of several dual degrees.
In the 2011-12 school year, 811 students were enrolled in the School of Law. Of the 3,951 applicants for the Class of 2014, 246 enrolled. The median GPA was 3.7 and the median LSAT score was a 165.
School of Medicine (1854)
The Emory University School of Medicine
curriculum was developed for the James B. Williams Medical Education Building that opened in 2007. In addition to the MD degree, the school offers several joint degree and allied health programs.
The School of Medicine received approximately 6,000 applications each year and accepts an average of 132 students. For currently enrolled students, the average GPA is 3.7 and the average MCAT score is 34.
Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing (1905)
The Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing
offers the BSN, a range of MSN degrees and a PhD program. One of these is an Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing and Master of Science of Nursing program. Rising undergraduate juniors may apply for admission to the nursing school.
The School of Nursing currently has 378 students—218 undergraduates, 160 graduate students, and 10 in the doctoral program. For class starting in the fall of 2010, 256 of the 593 applicants were admitted to the undergraduate program and 144 of the 198 applicants were admitted to the masters program. The average GPA for admitted students in the bachelors program is 3.45 and 3.3 for the masters program.
Rollins School of Public Health (1990)
Students in the Rollins School of Public Health
may earn a Master of Public Health, a Master of Science in Public Health or a PhD. The school also offers several dual degree programs as well as distance learning opportunities.
The incoming class of the Rollins School of Public Health has 441 students with an average undergraduate GPA of 3.4 and an average graduate GPA of 3.5.
Candler School of Theology (1914)
The Candler School of Theology
, a United Methodist Church seminary, offers four degrees: Master of Divinity, Master of Theological Studies, Master of Theology, and Doctor of Theology in Pastoral Counseling. Students may also pursue one of several joint degrees.
The School of Theology class of 2010 was composed of 171 students.
In its 2012 rankings of the best colleges and universities in the United States, U.S. News and World Report placed Emory at #20 in the national university rankings, and has ranked Emory as high as #9 in the past. The school is included on The Princeton Review
’s list of the 371 best colleges in the United States and was named one of the publication’s best schools in the Southeast. The 2011-12 Times Higher Education World University Rankings
place Emory No. 75 in the world. In 2011, USA Today
ranked Emory #1 on its list of "The 10 best American colleges for writers". According to Bloomberg Businessweek's 2011 BBA rankings, Emory's Goizueta Business School is ranked at #3, receiving its highest ranking ever on this list.
Many of the graduate schools of Emory University are ranked as some of the best and most competitive in their fields by U.S. News and World Report. For the 2012 list, Rollins School of Public Health was ranked at #6; the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing was ranked at #21; the Goizueta Business School was ranked #23; the School of Law was ranked #30; the School of Medicine was ranked #21 for research and #33 for primary care; the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering (with Georgia Tech) program was ranked #2.
The Emory Pre-College Program offers summer programs for rising high school juniors and seniors. College-bound students may take two-week non-credit courses and six-week credit courses.
Fraternities have existed on Emory's campus as early as 1840. One early chronicler makes the case that Emory's "temple" of the Mystic Seven may have been the first chapter of a national fraternity established anywhere in the South. Today, the Greek-letter sororities and fraternities play an important part in leavening Emory's campus life. For undergraduates, Greek life comprises approximately 30% of the Emory student population. The Office of Greek Life recognizes and regulates on-campus chapters of fraternities and sororities. Fraternities have on-campus housing located on Eagle Row, and Sorority Village, a series of townhouses, faces the fraternity houses. Greek Life is an important social engagement for students, but it is not totally exclusive -- students from different sororities and fraternities regularly socialize, and the college's emphasis on on-campus housing helps students make friends inside and outside the Greek system.
Traditions at Emory include Dooley, the "Spirit of Emory" and the unofficial mascot of the university. Dooley is a skeleton
and is usually dressed in black. The original Dooley was an actual skeleton from a biology/anatomy classroom. The name "Dooley" was given to the unofficial mascot in 1909.
Each year in the spring, during Dooley's Week, Dooley roams Emory's campus, flanked by bodyguards dressed in all black ("Dooley guards") and lets students out of class with unscheduled appearances in classrooms. A spokesperson amongst the bodyguards walks with him to deliver his messages as he never speaks himself. His identity is unknown and how his guards are involved with the tradition is often fodder for campus gossip. He adopts the first name and middle initial of the University's current president; Dooley's current full name is James W. Dooley, after James W. Wagner
. Dooley's Week culminates with Dooley's Ball, a grand celebration that takes place in the center of campus on McDonough Field. A sporting match called The Dooley Cup is played between the university administration and the student government association each spring.
About 25% of Emory students participate in Volunteer Emory, Emory's umbrella community service group. 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 Cares International Service Day brings together students, alumni and other community members to volunteer at a number of projects organized by Emory and its many partners around the city of Atlanta and in cities worldwide.
.
The Student Government Association (SGA) charters and provides most of the funding for other student groups, and represents students' interests when dealing with the administration. The SGA oversees divisional councils, each coinciding with the undergraduate, graduate and professional schools of the university. Notable among these are the College Council (CC) which handles students concerns primarily for the undergraduate body of the Emory College of Arts and Sciences and annually sponsors the State of Race event. The Student Programming Council (SPC) is the school's primary programming organization, responsible for planning five events every year: Homecoming Week, Fall Band Party, Spring Band Party, Swoopstock and Dooley's Week.
The Emory Wheel
, Emory's undergraduate student newspaper, has been continually published since 1919. It is financially independent from the university, covering its costs from self-generated advertising sales. More than 100 students staff The Wheel and its sister magazine, The Hub
, founded in 2005 and published quarterly. WMRE, Emory's student operated radio station, began broadcasting in 1989. Although it was initially only available to on-campus listeners, it now enjoys a worldwide audience.
Emory also has several secret societies—the D.V.S. Senior Honor Society
, the oldest society, founded in 1902; Ducemus; Speculum; the Order of Ammon; and the Paladin Society.
There are more than 50 student organizations dedicated to the arts. Students can explore artistic interests as diverse as architecture, breakdancing, poetry, and improvisational comedy.
Emory routinely hosts arts events in the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts that are open to the Emory and Atlanta communities. Recent performances include Bang on a Can All-Stars (a side project of drummer Glenn Kotche
from the rock band Wilco
), jazz performer Esperanza Spalding
, and New York’s Cedar Lake Dance Company. A program called Creativity Conversations brings artistic minds to campus to discuss art and the creative process. Guests have included Philip Glass
, Jimmy Carter
, Salman Rushdie, and Seamus Heaney
.
Emory ranks among top schools in both the U.S. News & World Report’s rankings of the best national universities and the Directors Cup of the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics for best all-around athletics program.
Emory's 18 varsity sports teams, known as the Eagles, are members of the NCAA’s Division III University Athletic Association (UAA)
.
The intramural sports
program provides an athletic outlet for the entire Emory community. Emory has numerous club sports and a variety of recreational and competitive intramural teams. The Outdoor Emory Organization sponsors weekend trips of outdoor activities such as rafting, rock climbing and hiking.
section of unincorporated
DeKalb County
, Georgia
, a suburban community near Atlanta. Emory’s main campus is about a 15-minute drive from downtown and midtown Atlanta as well as the Buckhead area. The Atlanta metropolitan area, with more than 5.5 million people, is the third largest in the Southeastern United States and the ninth largest in the country.
Atlanta is home to the world headquarters of corporations such as The Coca-Cola Company
, The Home Depot
, AT&T Mobility, UPS
, Delta Air Lines
, and Turner Broadcasting. Atlanta has the country's fourth-largest concentration of Fortune 500 companies, and more than 75 percent of Fortune 1000 companies have business operations in the metropolitan area.
Popular attractions in the Atlanta area include, the world’s largest indoor aquarium, the Georgia Aquarium
, The World of Coca-Cola, the High Museum of Art
and CNN Center
. Atlanta is also home to The Peachtree Road Race, the world’s largest 10k with approximately 55,000 runners, as well as the National Black Arts Festival
, a celebration of African American music, film, visual art, dance and literature, that takes place every summer in Atlanta.
-certified building space among campuses in the United States. New buildings on Emory’s campus must comply with the guidelines set by U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED).
The university also has a policy to preserve more than half the campus as undeveloped green space. For every tree removed for new construction, another must be planted.
Emory is committed to having three-quarters of the food served on campus come from local or sustainable sources by 2015. Emory’s campus has several small educational gardens, where fresh produce is grown. These gardens are meant to increase awareness about local food and remind members of the community that they can reduce fossil fuel use by eating locally. The upkeep of the gardens is the responsibility of members of the Emory community. During the school year, a seasonal farmers market hosts local farmers and vendors.
The Druid Hills campus has a pedestrian-only center. The Cliff shuttle system provides transportation for students, faculty and staff. Alternative transportation is encouraged through initiatives such as Bike Emory and Zipcar, a company that rents cars for short-term use.
Students have the option of completing a minor in sustainability. This includes courses on the social, environmental and economic elements of sustainability, as well as a hands-on component, such as research or an internship.
The Carlos Museum
houses one of the most comprehensive art collections in the Southeast, with works from ancient Egypt
, Near East, Greece
, Rome
, ancient Americas, Africa
, and Asia
. The museum has been adding to its collection since 1876, when a small museum was opened on the Oxford campus. Its permanent collection includes such pieces as an influential statue of Aphrodite
from the first century B.C., which was in two parts until it was fixed by a Carlos employee. One of the most notable exhibitions that the Carlos Museum has had was an exhibition about Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun
("King Tut"), which was on display for the first time in 26 years. Students may visit the Carlos Museum for free. Many of the curators teach courses at the University and faculty in other departments, including dance and physics, often use the museum as part of their curriculum.
Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Library (MARBL)
Emory’s Robert W. Woodruff University Library has been ranked #13 in the nation, according to The Princeton Review
. The library’s tenth floor is home to MARBL, which has rare materials relating to literature, African American history and culture, and Southern and Georgia history. Notable pieces of the MARBL collection include a rare first edition of Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe
, as well as works by Flannery O’Connor, Alice Walker
, Langston Hughes
, W.B. Yeats
, and Seamus Heaney
. All students have complete access to MARBL and members of the public may also use the library. Many of these authors become subjects of exhibitions in Schatten Gallery, which is located on the third floor of Woodruff Library and houses various displays throughout the year.
Lullwater Preserve
Lullwater Preserve features more than 100 acre (0.404686 km²) of green space including woods, walking trails and a lake. The home of the University president and his family, Lullwater House
is located here. The only vehicles allowed are those that have received special permission because they are visiting the president’s house. The property was originally the estate of Walter T. Candler, son of Coca-Cola co-founder Asa Griggs Candler
.
Yerkes National Primate Research Center
The Yerkes National Primate Research Center
is one of only eight National Institutes of Health
–funded national primate research centers. Between its two locations—the main center on Emory’s Druid Hills campus and a secondary location in Lawrenceville, Ga.—the Center has nearly 3,400 nonhuman primates and 13,000 rodents. Since 1930, the Center has been conducting research in the fields of microbiology and immunology, neurologic diseases, neuropharmacology, behavioral, cognitive and developmental neuroscience, and psychiatric disorders. Current research includes developing vaccines for infectious and noninfectious diseases, treating drug addiction, and increase understanding of illnesses such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson's disease
s.
The Carter Center
Emory is partnered with the Carter Center
, a not-for-profit organization founded by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter
to further human rights. Carter usually visits Emory’s campus several times throughout the year. Most notably, he hosts Carter Town Hall, an open-forum event for all first-year students.
The Donna and Marvin Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts
The Donna and Marvin Schwartz Center for Performing Arts
, which reopened in the fall of 2001, hosts professional and student-run performances throughout the year. In addition to various practice facilities and smaller performance spaces, The Schwartz Center now includes Cherry Logan Emerson Concert Hall, which has 825 seats and a large pipe organ.
Winship Cancer Institute
Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University is Georgia’s first and only cancer center designated by the National Cancer Institute
. The Winship Cancer institute was founded in 1937 with a gift from Robert Woodruff, the former president of Coca-Cola, after he lost his mother to cancer that year. For over 65 years, the mission of the Winship Cancer Institute has been to bring together researchers, physicians, epidemiologists, nurses, engineers, and social workers with the goal of preventing, treating, and curing cancer. Divisions at Winship Cancer Intitute include radiation oncology, surgical oncology
, hematology
, and medical oncology. In 2009, Winship Cancer Institute was the first in Georgia to use a new and faster radiation system, called RapidArc, which can reduce treatment times and deliver a complete treatment in a single rotation of the machine around the patient. In 2006, the National Cancer Institute
selected the Emory and Georgia Tech joint research program as one of seven National Centers of Cancer Nanotechnology.
(BA 1965), former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (II)
(BA 1845) former Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court and Bill Haslam
(BA 1980), current Governor of Tennessee. In academia, Isaac Stiles Hopkins (BA 1859) and Robert Stewart Hyer
(BA 1881, MA 1882), first presidents of Georgia Tech
and Southern Methodist University
, respectively. Business alum include former long time President of the Coca Cola Company, Robert Woodruff
, CEO and Chairman of Burger King
, John Chidsey
(MBA, JD), CEO and Chairman of MetLife, C. Robert Henrikson
(JD 1972).
In arts and entertainment, members of the Grammy winning folk rock group The Indigo Girls and Adam Richman
(BA), actor and host of the television show Man vs. Food. Pulitzer Prize
winning writers C. Vann Woodward
(BA 1930), author of The Strange Career of Jim Crow and Dumas Malone
(BA 1910) are also alumni, the latter also being the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
. Medical and scientific alumni include Eugene Stead (BS 1928, MD 1932), founder of the physician assistant
profession and Arnall Patz
(BA 1943, MD 1945), ophthalmology researcher and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient who discovered that oxygen therapy causes blindness in infants. Among notable athletes, Bobby Jones (Law 1929), the only golfer to win a Grand Slam
, founder of the Masters Golf Tournament, and often considered to be one of the greatest golfers of all time.
Distinguished faculty members include former U.S. President Jimmy Carter
, Booker Prize-winning novelist Sir Salman Rushdie, His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama, Pulitzer Prize winning poet Natasha Trethewey
and CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
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research university in metropolitan Atlanta, located in the Druid Hills
Druid Hills, Georgia
Druid Hills is a community which includes both a census-designated place in unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States, as well as a neighborhood of the city of Atlanta. The CDP's population was 14,568 at the 2010 census...
section of unincorporated
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DeKalb County
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, Georgia
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, United States
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. The university was founded as Emory College in 1836 in Oxford, Georgia
Oxford, Georgia
Oxford is a city in Newton County, Georgia, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 1,892. It is the location of Oxford College of Emory University. The entire town is also designated as a shrine of the United Methodist Church. Additionally, Confederate soldiers are...
by a small group of Methodists and was named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory
John Emory
John Emory was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1832.-Early life and family:John was born at Spaniard's Neck, Queen Anne's County, Maryland. His parents were Methodists, his father a jurist who designed him for the law. His mother, however, who had been converted...
. A land-grant by Asa Candler
Asa Griggs Candler
Asa Griggs Candler was an American business tycoon who made his fortune selling Coca-Cola. He also served as the 44th Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia from 1916 to 1919...
, the president of The Coca-Cola Company
The Coca-Cola Company
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, allowed the small college to move to metropolitan Atlanta in 1915 and become rechartered as Emory University. The university's mission statement is "to create, preserve, teach, and apply knowledge in the service of humanity."
Emory is ranked 20th among national universities in the U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report
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. Newsweek
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named it one of its 25 "New Ivies" in 2006. The university has nearly 3,000 faculty members; awards and honors recognizing Emory faculty include the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, National Humanities Medal, Guggenheim Fellowship, Fulbright Fellowship, and membership in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences.
The university has nine academic divisions: Emory College of Arts and Sciences, Oxford College
Oxford College of Emory University
Oxford College is a two-year residential college specializing in the foundations of liberal arts education, and is one of nine divisions of Emory University. The college is located on Emory University's original 1836 campus in Oxford, Georgia, 38 miles east of the main Atlanta campus...
, Goizueta Business School
Goizueta Business School
Goizueta Business School is a private business school of Emory University located in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. It is named after Roberto Goizueta, a former president of The Coca-Cola Company.-Academics:...
, Laney Graduate School, School of Law
Emory University School of Law
Emory University School of Law is a first-tier US law school that is part of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. It is ranked #30 among ABA-approved law schools by the 2012 U.S. News & World Report...
, School of Medicine
Emory University School of Medicine
Emory University School of Medicine, a component of Emory’s Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center, is ranked among the nation’s institutions for biomedical education and research...
, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing
Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing
Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing is the nursing school of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. The school offers degrees for Bachelor of Science in Nursing , Master of Science in Nursing , and Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing ....
, Rollins School of Public Health
Rollins School of Public Health
The Rollins School of Public Health is the public health school of Emory University. Founded in 1990, RSPH has more than 850 students pursuing master's degrees and over 100 students pursuing doctorate degrees...
, and the Candler School of Theology
Candler School of Theology
Candler School of Theology, Emory University, is one of 13 seminaries of the United Methodist Church. Founded in 1914, the school was named after Warren Akin Candler, a former President and Chancellor of Emory University and a Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South...
.
The university has more than two million square feet of building space certified by the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
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program and has a commitment to having three-quarters of the food they serve on campus come from local or sustainable sources by 2015. The University holds the distinction of having one of the largest inventories by square footage of LEED-certified building space among campuses in America.
History
Newton County, Georgia
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contemplated the establishment of a new town and college. The town was named Oxford
Oxford, Georgia
Oxford is a city in Newton County, Georgia, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 1,892. It is the location of Oxford College of Emory University. The entire town is also designated as a shrine of the United Methodist Church. Additionally, Confederate soldiers are...
after the school's prestigious British namesake
University of Oxford
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, which graduated the two founders of Methodism, John
John Wesley
John Wesley was a Church of England cleric and Christian theologian. Wesley is largely credited, along with his brother Charles Wesley, as founding the Methodist movement which began when he took to open-air preaching in a similar manner to George Whitefield...
and Charles Wesley
Charles Wesley
Charles Wesley was an English leader of the Methodist movement, son of Anglican clergyman and poet Samuel Wesley, the younger brother of Anglican clergyman John Wesley and Anglican clergyman Samuel Wesley , and father of musician Samuel Wesley, and grandfather of musician Samuel Sebastian Wesley...
. The college was named after John Emory
John Emory
John Emory was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1832.-Early life and family:John was born at Spaniard's Neck, Queen Anne's County, Maryland. His parents were Methodists, his father a jurist who designed him for the law. His mother, however, who had been converted...
, an American Methodist bishop who inspired them.
Events preceding the chartering of Emory College began in 1783, when the Georgia State legislature provided for the founding of "a college or seminary of learning." However, general support of education in Georgia was meager until the 1830s, when an educational fad in Germany inspired Georgia Methodists to create a school for manual labor. At the Georgia Methodist Conference in 1834, a preacher known as "Uncle Allen" Turner suggested that Georgia Methodists should develop their own school rather than support Randolph-Macon
Randolph-Macon College
Randolph–Macon College is a private, co-educational liberal arts college located in Ashland, Virginia, United States, near the capital city of Richmond. Founded in 1830, the school has an enrollment of over 1,200 students...
in Virginia
Virginia
The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...
. As a result, the Manual Labor School was created in Covington, Georgia in 1835.
On December 10, 1836, the Georgia General Assembly
Georgia General Assembly
The Georgia General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is bicameral, being composed of the Georgia House of Representatives and the Georgia Senate....
granted the Georgia Methodist Conference a charter to Emory College, named for John Emory
John Emory
John Emory was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1832.-Early life and family:John was born at Spaniard's Neck, Queen Anne's County, Maryland. His parents were Methodists, his father a jurist who designed him for the law. His mother, however, who had been converted...
, a popular bishop who had presided at the 1834 conference but had died in a carriage accident in 1835. Two years after the chartering, the college opened its doors, and on September 17, 1838, the college's first president, Ignatius Alphonso Few
Ignatius Alphonso Few
-Biography:Ignatius Alphonso Few was born on April 11, 1789 the son of Captain Ignatius Few and Mary Candler in Columbia County Georgia. A historical oddity exists in the life of Emory University in that Emory's founder -Biography:Ignatius Alphonso Few was born on April 11, 1789 the son of Captain...
, and three faculty members welcomed fifteen freshmen and sophomores.
Intramural sports
Intramural sports or intramurals are recreational sports organized within a set geographic area. The term derives from the Latin words intra muros meaning "within walls", and was used to indicate sports matches and contests that took place among teams from "within the walls" of an ancient city...
.
Emory College was closed briefly during the Civil War
American Civil War
The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...
. In the autumn of 1861, every student left to fight, and the college's trustees closed for the duration. During the war, the college's buildings saw duty both as a Confederate
Confederate States of America
The Confederate States of America was a government set up from 1861 to 1865 by 11 Southern slave states of the United States of America that had declared their secession from the U.S...
hospital and Union
Union (American Civil War)
During the American Civil War, the Union was a name used to refer to the federal government of the United States, which was supported by the twenty free states and five border slave states. It was opposed by 11 southern slave states that had declared a secession to join together to form the...
headquarters. When Emory reopened in January 1866, the school's library was destroyed and its small endowment was depleted. Only with the aid of a state grant could students afford to resume their education.
In the years following the Civil War, Emory, along with the rest of the South, struggled to overcome financial devastation.
The first step toward financial stability came in 1880, when Emory President Atticus G. Haygood preached a Thanksgiving Day sermon expressing gratitude for the end of slavery, which captured the attention of George I. Seney, a Brooklyn banker and Methodist. Seney gave Emory College $5,000 to repay its debts, $50,000 for construction, and $75,000 to establish a new endowment. Over the years, Seney invested more than a quarter-million dollars into Emory College, helping to erect the administration building in Oxford that bears his name.
Under President Haygood's direction, Emory College began to offer many technical and professional subjects in addition to courses required for degrees. By the turn of the century, Emory had evolved its traditional liberal arts program into a broad curriculum encouraging students to pursue degrees in science, study in theology and law, and even learning and expertise in technology and tool craft. The technology department was launched by President Isaac Stiles Hopkins, a polymath professor at Emory College, who was later convinced by state legislators to become the first president of what is now the Georgia Institute of Technology
Georgia Institute of Technology
The Georgia Institute of Technology is a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States...
.
The course of Emory's history changed dramatically when, in November 1979, Robert and George Woodruff presented the institution with a gift of $105 million in Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola is a carbonated soft drink sold in stores, restaurants, and vending machines in more than 200 countries. It is produced by The Coca-Cola Company of Atlanta, Georgia, and is often referred to simply as Coke...
stock. At the time this was the largest single gift to any institution of higher education in American history, and it made a profound impact on Emory's direction in the next two decades, boosting the university to the top ranks of American research universities.
Emory is celebrating its 175th anniversary in 2011. A university committee identified a list of 175 history makers for the occasion. A daily almanac features highlights from Emory's history.
Demographics
Emory is home to 7,441 undergraduates and 6,452 graduate and professional students (fall 2011).Colleges and schools
Emory College of Arts and Sciences (1836)Emory College of Arts and Sciences, established in 1836, offers some five dozen majors. Undergraduates must complete general education requirements that are designed to expose all students to a variety of topics, including physical and social sciences, the humanities, and foreign languages. About two in five students study abroad.
Emory students have been recognized with academic honors such as the Fulbright, Marshall, Mellon, National Science Foundation, Rhodes, Rockefeller and Rotary programs. The campus houses a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest and most prestigious national academic honor society.
The five-year dual-degree program in engineering, offered in collaboration with the Georgia Institute of Technology
Georgia Institute of Technology
The Georgia Institute of Technology is a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States...
, allows Emory students to enroll in engineering classes at Georgia Tech. Students typically graduate with a degree from Emory College or the Goizueta Business School and an engineering degree from Georgia Tech.
For the undergraduate class of 2015, Emory received 17,027 applications. Academically, the incoming freshman class earned an average total SAT score of 2020–2220.
Oxford College (1836 / 1919)
Prospective undergraduates may apply to the Emory College of Arts and Sciences or to Emory's Oxford College
Oxford College of Emory University
Oxford College is a two-year residential college specializing in the foundations of liberal arts education, and is one of nine divisions of Emory University. The college is located on Emory University's original 1836 campus in Oxford, Georgia, 38 miles east of the main Atlanta campus...
, which is located about 40 miles (64.4 km) from the university's main campus and is the site of Emory’s founding. Oxford, with about 900 students, offers the opportunity to experience a smaller campus community. Typically, students graduate from Oxford after four semesters and continue to the Druid Hills campus, where they may become juniors in Emory College or apply for admission to the Goizueta School of Business or the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing.
For the Oxford class of 2013 (which will go on to receive Emory undergraduate degrees in 2015), 44% of the 4,694 applicants were accepted. The incoming freshman class earned an average GPA of 3.5 in high school.
Goizueta Business School (1919)
Emory's Goizueta Business School
Goizueta Business School
Goizueta Business School is a private business school of Emory University located in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. It is named after Roberto Goizueta, a former president of The Coca-Cola Company.-Academics:...
offers an undergraduate Bachelor of Business Administration program, several Master of Business Administration programs, and the option of pursuing a PhD. Rising undergraduate juniors may apply for admission to Goizueta.
Students apply to Goizueta Business school for the junior year of college. There were 317 students admitted to Goizueta Business School’s class of 2011. Its average SAT score was 1371 and its average college GPA is a 3.58.
The two-year full-time MBA program’s class of 2012 is made up of 134 students with an average GMAT score of 680 and an average undergraduate GPA of 3.3. The one-year full-time MBA program's class of 2012 has 39 students with an average GMAT score of 642 and an average undergraduate GPA of 3.4.
Laney Graduate School (1919)
The Laney Graduate School is home to advanced degree programs in more than four dozen specialties, a number of these offered in partnership with the university's other schools.
As of November 2010, 1,917 students were enrolled, 86.7% of which were pursuing a PhD; for the fall 2010 entering class, 14.18% of the 4,796 applicants to a Graduate School PhD program were accepted.
School of Law (1916)
Students in the Emory University School of Law
Emory University School of Law
Emory University School of Law is a first-tier US law school that is part of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. It is ranked #30 among ABA-approved law schools by the 2012 U.S. News & World Report...
may earn a Doctor of Law degree (JD), a Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) or one of several dual degrees.
In the 2011-12 school year, 811 students were enrolled in the School of Law. Of the 3,951 applicants for the Class of 2014, 246 enrolled. The median GPA was 3.7 and the median LSAT score was a 165.
School of Medicine (1854)
The Emory University School of Medicine
Emory University School of Medicine
Emory University School of Medicine, a component of Emory’s Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center, is ranked among the nation’s institutions for biomedical education and research...
curriculum was developed for the James B. Williams Medical Education Building that opened in 2007. In addition to the MD degree, the school offers several joint degree and allied health programs.
The School of Medicine received approximately 6,000 applications each year and accepts an average of 132 students. For currently enrolled students, the average GPA is 3.7 and the average MCAT score is 34.
Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing (1905)
The Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing
Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing
Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing is the nursing school of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. The school offers degrees for Bachelor of Science in Nursing , Master of Science in Nursing , and Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing ....
offers the BSN, a range of MSN degrees and a PhD program. One of these is an Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing and Master of Science of Nursing program. Rising undergraduate juniors may apply for admission to the nursing school.
The School of Nursing currently has 378 students—218 undergraduates, 160 graduate students, and 10 in the doctoral program. For class starting in the fall of 2010, 256 of the 593 applicants were admitted to the undergraduate program and 144 of the 198 applicants were admitted to the masters program. The average GPA for admitted students in the bachelors program is 3.45 and 3.3 for the masters program.
Rollins School of Public Health (1990)
Students in the Rollins School of Public Health
Rollins School of Public Health
The Rollins School of Public Health is the public health school of Emory University. Founded in 1990, RSPH has more than 850 students pursuing master's degrees and over 100 students pursuing doctorate degrees...
may earn a Master of Public Health, a Master of Science in Public Health or a PhD. The school also offers several dual degree programs as well as distance learning opportunities.
The incoming class of the Rollins School of Public Health has 441 students with an average undergraduate GPA of 3.4 and an average graduate GPA of 3.5.
Candler School of Theology (1914)
The Candler School of Theology
Candler School of Theology
Candler School of Theology, Emory University, is one of 13 seminaries of the United Methodist Church. Founded in 1914, the school was named after Warren Akin Candler, a former President and Chancellor of Emory University and a Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South...
, a United Methodist Church seminary, offers four degrees: Master of Divinity, Master of Theological Studies, Master of Theology, and Doctor of Theology in Pastoral Counseling. Students may also pursue one of several joint degrees.
The School of Theology class of 2010 was composed of 171 students.
Rankings
The Princeton Review
The Princeton Review is an American-based standardized test preparation and admissions consulting company. The Princeton Review operates in 41 states and 22 countries across the globe. It offers test preparation for standardized aptitude tests such as the SAT and advice regarding college...
’s list of the 371 best colleges in the United States and was named one of the publication’s best schools in the Southeast. The 2011-12 Times Higher Education World University Rankings
Times Higher Education World University Rankings
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings is an international ranking of universities published by the British magazine Times Higher Education in partnership with Thomson Reuters, which provided citation database information...
place Emory No. 75 in the world. In 2011, USA Today
USA Today
USA Today is a national American daily newspaper published by the Gannett Company. It was founded by Al Neuharth. The newspaper vies with The Wall Street Journal for the position of having the widest circulation of any newspaper in the United States, something it previously held since 2003...
ranked Emory #1 on its list of "The 10 best American colleges for writers". According to Bloomberg Businessweek's 2011 BBA rankings, Emory's Goizueta Business School is ranked at #3, receiving its highest ranking ever on this list.
Many of the graduate schools of Emory University are ranked as some of the best and most competitive in their fields by U.S. News and World Report. For the 2012 list, Rollins School of Public Health was ranked at #6; the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing was ranked at #21; the Goizueta Business School was ranked #23; the School of Law was ranked #30; the School of Medicine was ranked #21 for research and #33 for primary care; the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering (with Georgia Tech) program was ranked #2.
Community Education
Emory Continuing Education offers certificate programs, computer training, professional development, personal enrichment, and corporate and senior education opportunities for those in the pursuit of lifelong learning, including certification programs, computer training and professional development.The Emory Pre-College Program offers summer programs for rising high school juniors and seniors. College-bound students may take two-week non-credit courses and six-week credit courses.
Residential life
Emory requires its students to live on campus for the first two years of undergraduate life, with defined options for freshmen and sophomores. Juniors and seniors may elect to live off-campus or continue in campus housing.Fraternities have existed on Emory's campus as early as 1840. One early chronicler makes the case that Emory's "temple" of the Mystic Seven may have been the first chapter of a national fraternity established anywhere in the South. Today, the Greek-letter sororities and fraternities play an important part in leavening Emory's campus life. For undergraduates, Greek life comprises approximately 30% of the Emory student population. The Office of Greek Life recognizes and regulates on-campus chapters of fraternities and sororities. Fraternities have on-campus housing located on Eagle Row, and Sorority Village, a series of townhouses, faces the fraternity houses. Greek Life is an important social engagement for students, but it is not totally exclusive -- students from different sororities and fraternities regularly socialize, and the college's emphasis on on-campus housing helps students make friends inside and outside the Greek system.
Dooley
Skeleton
The skeleton is the body part that forms the supporting structure of an organism. There are two different skeletal types: the exoskeleton, which is the stable outer shell of an organism, and the endoskeleton, which forms the support structure inside the body.In a figurative sense, skeleton can...
and is usually dressed in black. The original Dooley was an actual skeleton from a biology/anatomy classroom. The name "Dooley" was given to the unofficial mascot in 1909.
Each year in the spring, during Dooley's Week, Dooley roams Emory's campus, flanked by bodyguards dressed in all black ("Dooley guards") and lets students out of class with unscheduled appearances in classrooms. A spokesperson amongst the bodyguards walks with him to deliver his messages as he never speaks himself. His identity is unknown and how his guards are involved with the tradition is often fodder for campus gossip. He adopts the first name and middle initial of the University's current president; Dooley's current full name is James W. Dooley, after James W. Wagner
James W. Wagner
James W. Wagner has served as the President of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia since 2003. From 2000 to 2003, he served as Provost and interim President of Case Western Reserve University.-Biography:...
. Dooley's Week culminates with Dooley's Ball, a grand celebration that takes place in the center of campus on McDonough Field. A sporting match called The Dooley Cup is played between the university administration and the student government association each spring.
Community service
The university received the 2008 Presidential Award for General Community Service, which is the highest federal recognition given 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's umbrella community service group. 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
Trees Atlanta
Trees Atlanta is a non-profit organization in Atlanta, Georgia, United States that seeks to preserve and protect the city's trees. The group employs a full-time staff of tree-care professionals and maintains an extensive network of volunteers, who work together to enrich the city's quality of life...
, PAWS Atlanta, and Jones Boys and Girls Club.
Emory Cares International Service Day brings together students, alumni and other community members to volunteer at a number of projects organized by Emory and its many partners around the city of Atlanta and in cities worldwide.
Student organizations
Hundreds of student clubs and organizations operate on Emory's campus. These include numerous student government, special interest, and service organizationsCommunity service
Community service is donated service or activity that is performed by someone or a group of people for the benefit of the public or its institutions....
.
The Student Government Association (SGA) charters and provides most of the funding for other student groups, and represents students' interests when dealing with the administration. The SGA oversees divisional councils, each coinciding with the undergraduate, graduate and professional schools of the university. Notable among these are the College Council (CC) which handles students concerns primarily for the undergraduate body of the Emory College of Arts and Sciences and annually sponsors the State of Race event. The Student Programming Council (SPC) is the school's primary programming organization, responsible for planning five events every year: Homecoming Week, Fall Band Party, Spring Band Party, Swoopstock and Dooley's Week.
The Emory Wheel
The Emory Wheel
The Emory Wheel is the student-run newspaper of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. The Wheel is published twice a week, on Tuesday and Friday, during the regular school year, and is updated regularly at its . The sections of the Wheel include News, Editorials, Sports, Entertainment, Arts &...
, Emory's undergraduate student newspaper, has been continually published since 1919. It is financially independent from the university, covering its costs from self-generated advertising sales. More than 100 students staff The Wheel and its sister magazine, The Hub
The Hub (magazine)
The Hub was founded by London-based Tolu Adeko, an entrepreneur with a background in interior design. Launched in September 2009, it is a quarterly magazine covering a range of lifestyle topics including Art & Culture, Design & Interiors, Travel & Leisure, Food & Drink, Entertainment, Fashion &...
, founded in 2005 and published quarterly. WMRE, Emory's student operated radio station, began broadcasting in 1989. Although it was initially only available to on-campus listeners, it now enjoys a worldwide audience.
Emory also has several secret societies—the D.V.S. Senior Honor Society
D.V.S. Senior Honor Society
The D.V.S. Senior Honor Society is an honor society at Emory University in Atlanta. Founded in 1902, D.V.S. admits seven seniors each year based on their campus leadership, dedication to Emory, and academic excellence. It is the oldest of Emory's five secret societies. The other societies are...
, the oldest society, founded in 1902; Ducemus; Speculum; the Order of Ammon; and the Paladin Society.
Arts
Students may engage in the performing and fine arts as an area of academic study or as extracurricular activities. Undergraduates may pursue a major in the 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 more than 50 student organizations dedicated to the arts. Students can explore artistic interests as diverse as architecture, breakdancing, poetry, and improvisational comedy.
Emory routinely hosts arts events in the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts that are open to the Emory and Atlanta communities. Recent performances include Bang on a Can All-Stars (a side project of drummer Glenn Kotche
Glenn Kotche
Glenn Kotche is an American drummer and composer, best known for his involvement in the band Wilco. He was named the 41st greatest drummer of all time by Gigwise in 2008.Prior to working with Wilco, Kotche released a four-track album...
from the rock band Wilco
Wilco
Wilco is an American alternative rock band based in Chicago, Illinois. The band was formed in 1994 by the remaining members of alternative country group Uncle Tupelo following singer Jay Farrar's departure. Wilco's lineup has changed frequently, with only singer Jeff Tweedy and bassist John...
), jazz performer Esperanza Spalding
Esperanza Spalding
Esperanza Spalding is an American multi-instrumentalist best known as a jazz bassist and singer, who draws upon many genres in her own compositions...
, and New York’s Cedar Lake Dance Company. A program called Creativity Conversations brings artistic minds to campus to discuss art and the creative process. Guests have included Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass is an American composer. He is considered to be one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century and is widely acknowledged as a composer who has brought art music to the public .His music is often described as minimalist, along with...
, Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office...
, Salman Rushdie, and Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer. He lives in Dublin. Heaney has received the Nobel Prize in Literature , the Golden Wreath of Poetry , T. S. Eliot Prize and two Whitbread prizes...
.
Athletics
Emory's 18 varsity sports teams, known as the Eagles, are members of the NCAA’s Division III University Athletic Association (UAA)
University Athletic Association
The University Athletic Association is an American athletic conference that competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division III. Member teams are located in Georgia, Illinois, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Ohio, and New York...
.
The intramural sports
Intramural sports
Intramural sports or intramurals are recreational sports organized within a set geographic area. The term derives from the Latin words intra muros meaning "within walls", and was used to indicate sports matches and contests that took place among teams from "within the walls" of an ancient city...
program provides an athletic outlet for the entire Emory community. Emory has numerous club sports and a variety of recreational and competitive intramural teams. The Outdoor Emory Organization sponsors weekend trips of outdoor activities such as rafting, rock climbing and hiking.
Surrounding area
Emory's main campus is located in Druid HillsDruid Hills, Georgia
Druid Hills is a community which includes both a census-designated place in unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States, as well as a neighborhood of the city of Atlanta. The CDP's population was 14,568 at the 2010 census...
section of unincorporated
Unincorporated area
In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not a part of any municipality.To "incorporate" in this context means to form a municipal corporation, a city, town, or village with its own government. An unincorporated community is usually not subject to or taxed by a municipal government...
DeKalb County
DeKalb County, Georgia
DeKalb County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. The population of the county was 691,893 at the 2010 census. Its county seat is the city of Decatur. It is bordered to the west by Fulton County and contains roughly 10% of the city of Atlanta...
, Georgia
Georgia (U.S. state)
Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788...
, a suburban community near Atlanta. Emory’s main campus is about a 15-minute drive from downtown and midtown Atlanta as well as the Buckhead area. The Atlanta metropolitan area, with more than 5.5 million people, is the third largest in the Southeastern United States and the ninth largest in the country.
Atlanta is home to the world headquarters of corporations such as The Coca-Cola Company
The Coca-Cola Company
The Coca-Cola Company is an American multinational beverage corporation and manufacturer, retailer and marketer of non-alcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups. The company is best known for its flagship product Coca-Cola, invented in 1886 by pharmacist John Stith Pemberton in Columbus, Georgia...
, The Home Depot
The Home Depot
The Home Depot is an American retailer of home improvement and construction products and services.The Home Depot operates 2,248 big-box format stores across the United States , Canada , Mexico and China, with a 12-store chain...
, AT&T Mobility, UPS
United Parcel Service
United Parcel Service, Inc. , typically referred to by the acronym UPS, is a package delivery company. Headquartered in Sandy Springs, Georgia, United States, UPS delivers more than 15 million packages a day to 6.1 million customers in more than 220 countries and territories around the...
, Delta Air Lines
Delta Air Lines
Delta Air Lines, Inc. is a major airline based in the United States and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The airline operates an extensive domestic and international network serving all continents except Antarctica. Delta and its subsidiaries operate over 4,000 flights every day...
, and Turner Broadcasting. Atlanta has the country's fourth-largest concentration of Fortune 500 companies, and more than 75 percent of Fortune 1000 companies have business operations in the metropolitan area.
Popular attractions in the Atlanta area include, the world’s largest indoor aquarium, the Georgia Aquarium
Georgia Aquarium
The Georgia Aquarium, located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, at Pemberton Place, is the world's largest aquarium with more than of marine and fresh water housing more than 120,000 animals of 500 different species...
, The World of Coca-Cola, the High Museum of Art
High Museum of Art
The High Museum of Art , located in Atlanta, is the leading art museum in the Southeastern United States and one of the most-visited art museums in the world. Located on Peachtree Street in Midtown, the city's arts district, the High is a division of the Woodruff Arts Center.-History:The Museum was...
and CNN Center
CNN Center
The CNN Center is the world headquarters of the Cable News Network . The main newsrooms and studios for several of CNN's news channels are located in the building...
. Atlanta is also home to The Peachtree Road Race, the world’s largest 10k with approximately 55,000 runners, as well as the National Black Arts Festival
National Black Arts Festival
The National Black Arts Festival was founded in 1987 after the Fulton County Arts Council commissioned a study to explore the feasibility of creating a festival dedicated to celebrating the work of artists of African descent. The study provided compelling reasons why the Atlanta community was the...
, a celebration of African American music, film, visual art, dance and literature, that takes place every summer in Atlanta.
Sustainability
The university has one of the largest inventories by square footage of Leadership in Energy and Environmental DesignLeadership in Energy and Environmental Design
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design consists of a suite of rating systems for the design, construction and operation of high performance green buildings, homes and neighborhoods....
-certified building space among campuses in the United States. New buildings on Emory’s campus must comply with the guidelines set by U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED).
The university also has a policy to preserve more than half the campus as undeveloped green space. For every tree removed for new construction, another must be planted.
Emory is committed to having three-quarters of the food served on campus come from local or sustainable sources by 2015. Emory’s campus has several small educational gardens, where fresh produce is grown. These gardens are meant to increase awareness about local food and remind members of the community that they can reduce fossil fuel use by eating locally. The upkeep of the gardens is the responsibility of members of the Emory community. During the school year, a seasonal farmers market hosts local farmers and vendors.
The Druid Hills campus has a pedestrian-only center. The Cliff shuttle system provides transportation for students, faculty and staff. Alternative transportation is encouraged through initiatives such as Bike Emory and Zipcar, a company that rents cars for short-term use.
Students have the option of completing a minor in sustainability. This includes courses on the social, environmental and economic elements of sustainability, as well as a hands-on component, such as research or an internship.
Buildings
Michael C. Carlos MuseumThe Carlos Museum
Michael C. Carlos Museum
The Michael C. Carlos Museum is an art museum located in Atlanta on the historic quadrangle of Emory University's main campus. The Carlos Museum has the largest ancient art collections in the Southeast, including objects from ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Near East, and the ancient Americas...
houses one of the most comprehensive art collections in the Southeast, with works from ancient Egypt
Egypt
Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
, Near East, Greece
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
, Rome
Rome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
, ancient Americas, Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
, and Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
. The museum has been adding to its collection since 1876, when a small museum was opened on the Oxford campus. Its permanent collection includes such pieces as an influential statue of Aphrodite
Aphrodite
Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation.Her Roman equivalent is the goddess .Historically, her cult in Greece was imported from, or influenced by, the cult of Astarte in Phoenicia....
from the first century B.C., which was in two parts until it was fixed by a Carlos employee. One of the most notable exhibitions that the Carlos Museum has had was an exhibition about Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun
Tutankhamun
Tutankhamun , Egyptian , ; approx. 1341 BC – 1323 BC) was an Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty , during the period of Egyptian history known as the New Kingdom...
("King Tut"), which was on display for the first time in 26 years. Students may visit the Carlos Museum for free. Many of the curators teach courses at the University and faculty in other departments, including dance and physics, often use the museum as part of their curriculum.
Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Library (MARBL)
Emory’s Robert W. Woodruff University Library has been ranked #13 in the nation, according to The Princeton Review
The Princeton Review
The Princeton Review is an American-based standardized test preparation and admissions consulting company. The Princeton Review operates in 41 states and 22 countries across the globe. It offers test preparation for standardized aptitude tests such as the SAT and advice regarding college...
. The library’s tenth floor is home to MARBL, which has rare materials relating to literature, African American history and culture, and Southern and Georgia history. Notable pieces of the MARBL collection include a rare first edition of Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe that was first published in 1719. Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is a fictional autobiography of the title character—a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and...
by Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe , born Daniel Foe, was an English trader, writer, journalist, and pamphleteer, who gained fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest proponents of the novel, as he helped to popularise the form in Britain and along with others such as Richardson,...
, as well as works by Flannery O’Connor, Alice Walker
Alice Walker
Alice Malsenior Walker is an American author, poet, and activist. She has written both fiction and essays about race and gender...
, Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form jazz poetry. Hughes is best known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance...
, W.B. Yeats
William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and playwright, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years he served as an Irish Senator for two terms...
, and Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer. He lives in Dublin. Heaney has received the Nobel Prize in Literature , the Golden Wreath of Poetry , T. S. Eliot Prize and two Whitbread prizes...
. All students have complete access to MARBL and members of the public may also use the library. Many of these authors become subjects of exhibitions in Schatten Gallery, which is located on the third floor of Woodruff Library and houses various displays throughout the year.
Lullwater Preserve
Lullwater Preserve features more than 100 acre (0.404686 km²) of green space including woods, walking trails and a lake. The home of the University president and his family, Lullwater House
Lullwater House
Lullwater House is the president's mansion at Emory University near Atlanta, Georgia overlooking Candler Lake. It was built in 1926 and was the residence of Walter T. Candler, son of Coca Cola founder Asa Griggs Candler. The mansion is in the form of an L, in Tudor-Gothic revival style. The...
is located here. The only vehicles allowed are those that have received special permission because they are visiting the president’s house. The property was originally the estate of Walter T. Candler, son of Coca-Cola co-founder Asa Griggs Candler
Asa Griggs Candler
Asa Griggs Candler was an American business tycoon who made his fortune selling Coca-Cola. He also served as the 44th Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia from 1916 to 1919...
.
Yerkes National Primate Research Center
The Yerkes National Primate Research Center
Yerkes National Primate Research Center
The Yerkes National Primate Research Center, originally established and located in Orange Park, Florida but was later relocated to Atlanta, Georgia at Emory University, is one of eight national primate research centers funded by the National Institutes of Health...
is one of only eight National Institutes of Health
National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health are an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and are the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and health-related research. Its science and engineering counterpart is the National Science Foundation...
–funded national primate research centers. Between its two locations—the main center on Emory’s Druid Hills campus and a secondary location in Lawrenceville, Ga.—the Center has nearly 3,400 nonhuman primates and 13,000 rodents. Since 1930, the Center has been conducting research in the fields of microbiology and immunology, neurologic diseases, neuropharmacology, behavioral, cognitive and developmental neuroscience, and psychiatric disorders. Current research includes developing vaccines for infectious and noninfectious diseases, treating drug addiction, and increase understanding of illnesses such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson's disease
Parkinson's disease
Parkinson's disease is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system...
s.
The Carter Center
Emory is partnered with the Carter Center
Carter Center
The Carter Center is a nongovernmental, not-for-profit organization founded in 1982 by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn Carter. In partnership with Emory University, The Carter Center works to advance human rights and alleviate human suffering...
, a not-for-profit organization founded by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office...
to further human rights. Carter usually visits Emory’s campus several times throughout the year. Most notably, he hosts Carter Town Hall, an open-forum event for all first-year students.
The Donna and Marvin Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts
The Donna and Marvin Schwartz Center for Performing Arts
Donna and Marvin Schwartz Center for Performing Arts
The Donna & Marvin Schwartz Center for Performing Arts is a multi-discipline performing arts facility on the campus of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Completed in early 2003, the Schwartz Center provides a multidisciplinary teaching and performance center for the performing arts programs...
, which reopened in the fall of 2001, hosts professional and student-run performances throughout the year. In addition to various practice facilities and smaller performance spaces, The Schwartz Center now includes Cherry Logan Emerson Concert Hall, which has 825 seats and a large pipe organ.
Winship Cancer Institute
Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University is Georgia’s first and only cancer center designated by the National Cancer Institute
National Cancer Institute
The National Cancer Institute is part of the National Institutes of Health , which is one of 11 agencies that are part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The NCI coordinates the U.S...
. The Winship Cancer institute was founded in 1937 with a gift from Robert Woodruff, the former president of Coca-Cola, after he lost his mother to cancer that year. For over 65 years, the mission of the Winship Cancer Institute has been to bring together researchers, physicians, epidemiologists, nurses, engineers, and social workers with the goal of preventing, treating, and curing cancer. Divisions at Winship Cancer Intitute include radiation oncology, surgical oncology
Surgical oncology
Surgical oncology is the branch of surgery which focuses on the surgical management of cancer.The specialty of surgical oncology has evolved in steps similar to medical oncology, which grew out of hematology, and radiation oncology, which grew out of radiology...
, hematology
Hematology
Hematology, also spelled haematology , is the branch of biology physiology, internal medicine, pathology, clinical laboratory work, and pediatrics that is concerned with the study of blood, the blood-forming organs, and blood diseases...
, and medical oncology. In 2009, Winship Cancer Institute was the first in Georgia to use a new and faster radiation system, called RapidArc, which can reduce treatment times and deliver a complete treatment in a single rotation of the machine around the patient. In 2006, the National Cancer Institute
National Cancer Institute
The National Cancer Institute is part of the National Institutes of Health , which is one of 11 agencies that are part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The NCI coordinates the U.S...
selected the Emory and Georgia Tech joint research program as one of seven National Centers of Cancer Nanotechnology.
Alumni and Faculty
Emory alumni include: Alben Barkley (BA 1900), 35th Vice President of the United States, Newt GingrichNewt Gingrich
Newton Leroy "Newt" Gingrich is a U.S. Republican Party politician who served as the House Minority Whip from 1989 to 1995 and as the 58th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999....
(BA 1965), former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (II)
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (II)
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar was an American politician and jurist from Mississippi. A United States Representative and Senator, he also served as United States Secretary of the Interior in the first administration of President Grover Cleveland, as well as an Associate Justice of the U.S...
(BA 1845) former Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court and Bill Haslam
Bill Haslam
William Edward "Bill" Haslam is the 49th and current Governor of Tennessee. A member of the Republican Party, Haslam was elected to office in 2010...
(BA 1980), current Governor of Tennessee. In academia, Isaac Stiles Hopkins (BA 1859) and Robert Stewart Hyer
Robert Stewart Hyer
Robert Stewart Hyer was an educator and researcher in Texas noted for experimenting with early X-ray and telegraphy equipment. He served as president of Southwestern University before becoming the first president of Southern Methodist University...
(BA 1881, MA 1882), first presidents of Georgia Tech
Georgia Institute of Technology
The Georgia Institute of Technology is a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States...
and Southern Methodist University
Southern Methodist University
Southern Methodist University is a private university in Dallas, Texas, United States. Founded in 1911 by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, SMU operates campuses in Dallas, Plano, and Taos, New Mexico. SMU is owned by the South Central Jurisdiction of the United Methodist Church...
, respectively. Business alum include former long time President of the Coca Cola Company, Robert Woodruff
Robert Woodruff
Robert Woodruff may refer to:* Robert Woodruff , theatre director* Robert E. Woodruff, president of Erie Railroad 1939–1949* Robert W...
, CEO and Chairman of Burger King
Burger King
Burger King, often abbreviated as BK, is a global chain of hamburger fast food restaurants headquartered in unincorporated Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. The company began in 1953 as Insta-Burger King, a Jacksonville, Florida-based restaurant chain...
, John Chidsey
John Chidsey
John W. Chidsey is an American businessman, formerly the Executive Chairman and CEO of the Burger King Corporation. He currently serves as a Director and Member of the Audit Committee for HealthSouth Corporation. He previously served as chairman and chief executive officer for two corporate...
(MBA, JD), CEO and Chairman of MetLife, C. Robert Henrikson
C. Robert Henrikson
Carl "Rob" Robert Henrikson is Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of MetLife, Inc. Henrikson was appointed CEO on March 1, 2006 and Chairman of the Board on April 25, 2006...
(JD 1972).
Adam Richman (actor)
Adam Richman is an American actor and television personality. He was the host of the Travel Channel's eating challenge program Man v. Food and is currently hosting Man v. Food Nation.-Early life and education:...
(BA), actor and host of the television show Man vs. Food. Pulitzer Prize
Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
winning writers C. Vann Woodward
C. Vann Woodward
Comer Vann Woodward was a preeminent American historian focusing primarily on the American South and race relations. He was considered, along with Richard Hofstadter and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., to be one of the most influential historians of the postwar era, 1940s-1970s, both by scholars and by...
(BA 1930), author of The Strange Career of Jim Crow and Dumas Malone
Dumas Malone
Dumas Malone was an American historian, biographer, and editor noted for his six-volume biography on Thomas Jefferson, for which he received the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for history...
(BA 1910) are also alumni, the latter also being the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Presidential Medal of Freedom
The Presidential Medal of Freedom is an award bestowed by the President of the United States and is—along with thecomparable Congressional Gold Medal bestowed by an act of U.S. Congress—the highest civilian award in the United States...
. Medical and scientific alumni include Eugene Stead (BS 1928, MD 1932), founder of the physician assistant
Physician assistant
A physician assistant/associate ' is a healthcare professional trained and licensed to practice medicine with limited supervision by a physician.-General description:...
profession and Arnall Patz
Arnall Patz
Arnall Patz was an American medical doctor and research professor at Johns Hopkins University. In the early 1950s, Patz discovered that oxygen therapy was the cause of an epidemic of blindness among some 10,000 premature babies. Following his discovery, there was a sixty percent reduction in...
(BA 1943, MD 1945), ophthalmology researcher and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient who discovered that oxygen therapy causes blindness in infants. Among notable athletes, Bobby Jones (Law 1929), the only golfer to win a Grand Slam
Grand Slam
Grand Slam may refer to:-Card games:* In the game of contract bridge a bid to win all the tricks of that hand. By extension, the taking of all the important elements in an endeavour.-Equestrianism:...
, founder of the Masters Golf Tournament, and often considered to be one of the greatest golfers of all time.
Distinguished faculty members include former U.S. President Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office...
, Booker Prize-winning novelist Sir Salman Rushdie, His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama, Pulitzer Prize winning poet Natasha Trethewey
Natasha Trethewey
Natasha Trethewey is an American poet who won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for her 2006 collection, Native Guard.Trethewey was born in Gulfport, Mississippi. She earned the A.B. in English from the University of Georgia, an M.A. in poetry from Hollins University, and an M.F.A. in poetry from...
and CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
Film
- Some scenes of the 2011 film Hall Pass, a comedy that stars Owen WilsonOwen WilsonOwen Cunningham Wilson is an American actor and writer, known for his roles in the films The Haunting, The Royal Tenenbaums, Zoolander, Meet the Parents, Wedding Crashers, You, Me and Dupree, Bottle Rocket, the Cars series, The Darjeeling Limited, Marley & Me, Midnight in Paris, Shanghai Noon,...
as a man whose wife allows him to have an affair and was directed by the Farrelly brothersFarrelly brothersPeter John Farrelly and Robert Leo "Bobby" Farrelly, Jr. , professionally known as the Farrelly Brothers are screenwriters and directors of ten comedy films, including There's Something About Mary; Dumb and Dumber; Kingpin; Hall Pass; Me, Myself & Irene; Shallow Hal; Stuck on You; Osmosis Jones;...
, were shot outside the Alpha Tau OmegaAlpha Tau OmegaAlpha Tau Omega is a secret American leadership and social fraternity.The Fraternity has more than 250 active and inactive chapters, more than 200,000 initiates, and over 7,000 active undergraduate members. The 200,000th member was initiated in early 2009...
and Kappa Alpha OrderKappa Alpha OrderKappa Alpha Order is a social fraternity and fraternal order. Kappa Alpha Order has 124 active chapters, 3 provisional chapters, and 2 commissions...
fraternity houses on Emory’s Eagle Row. - The 2007 documentary about former president Jimmy CarterJimmy CarterJames Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office...
, Jimmy Carter: Man From Plains, features a scene of Carter being interviewed by the editor in chief of Emory’s student newspaper, The Emory WheelThe Emory WheelThe Emory Wheel is the student-run newspaper of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. The Wheel is published twice a week, on Tuesday and Friday, during the regular school year, and is updated regularly at its . The sections of the Wheel include News, Editorials, Sports, Entertainment, Arts &...
. - The novel Into the Wild by Jon KrakauerJon KrakauerJon Krakauer is an American writer and mountaineer, primarily known for his writing about the outdoors and mountain-climbing...
and subsequent film by the same title are about 1990 Emory College of Arts and Sciences graduate Christopher McCandlessChristopher McCandlessChristopher Johnson McCandless was an American hitchhiker who adopted the name Alexander Supertramp and hiked into the Alaskan wilderness in April 1992 with little food and equipment, hoping to live for a time in solitude...
, who gave away his possessions and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness after graduation. Production of the 2007 film brought its director and writer, Sean PennSean PennSean Justin Penn is an American actor, screenwriter and film director, also known for his political and social activism...
, to Emory’s campus, and some footage for the movie was filmed during the 2006 Commencement ceremonies. - For the 2005 film version of The Dukes of HazzardThe Dukes of HazzardThe Dukes of Hazzard is an American television series that aired on the CBS television network from 1979 to 1985.The series was inspired by the 1975 film Moonrunners, which was also created by Gy Waldron and had many identical or similar character names and concepts.- Overview :The Dukes of Hazzard...
, the crew visited Oxford CollegeOxford College of Emory UniversityOxford College is a two-year residential college specializing in the foundations of liberal arts education, and is one of nine divisions of Emory University. The college is located on Emory University's original 1836 campus in Oxford, Georgia, 38 miles east of the main Atlanta campus...
to pay homage to the television series on which it was based. The first episode of the series featured a car jump with Oxford College’s Seney Hall in the background. The jump was also featured in the opening credits of the series. - The 2005 independent film Kathy T (also known as Kathy T Gives Good Hoover), about a college student whose life becomes more exciting after he reads some graffiti about Kathy T and decides to track her down, was written and directed by Emory University professor of film studies Ken Lieberman. Lieberman shot many scenes in a residence hall and fraternity house on campus and primarily used Emory students for extras.
- All of the colleges and universities featured in the 2000 comedy Road TripRoad TripRoad Trip is a 2000 American comedy film written by Todd Phillips and Scot Armstrong and directed by Todd Phillips.-Plot :The movie begins with Barry giving a tour of the University of Ithaca to some prospective students...
, which is about a college student and some of his friends who drive to Texas to prevent his girlfriend from watching an explicit video of him with another girl, are fictional. Many scenes that took place on these campuses, particularly the University of Ithaca, were shot on Emory’s campus.
Television
- Scenes for The CWThe CW Television NetworkThe CW Television Network is a television network in the United States launched at the beginning of the 2006–2007 television season. It is a joint venture between CBS Corporation, the former owners of United Paramount Network , and Time Warner's Warner Bros., former majority owner of The WB...
television show The Vampire DiariesThe Vampire DiariesThe Vampire Diaries is a young adult vampire horror series of novels written by L. J. Smith. The story centers around Elena Gilbert, a high school girl torn between two vampire brothers. The series was originally a trilogy published in 1991, but pressure from readers led Smith to write a fourth...
were shot in Oxford CollegeOxford College of Emory UniversityOxford College is a two-year residential college specializing in the foundations of liberal arts education, and is one of nine divisions of Emory University. The college is located on Emory University's original 1836 campus in Oxford, Georgia, 38 miles east of the main Atlanta campus...
’s Hoke O’Kelley Library. - Scenes from The Simple Life of Noah DearbornThe Simple Life of Noah DearbornThe Simple Life of Noah Dearborn is a 1999 made-for-television film, first broadcast on 9 May 1999 on CBS. This movie stars Sidney Poitier as the title character, a rural Georgia carpenter, Noah Dearborn...
, a 1999 made-for-TV movie about a 91-year-old carpenter that must protect his land from being turned into a strip mall were shot on Emory University’s Druid Hills campus.
Further reading
- "Emory University", in New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved July 1, 2006.
- "Emory University", in Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, ed. C. R. Wilson and William Ferris (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989).
- English, Thomas H. Emory University 1915–1965: A Semicentennial History. Atlanta: Emory University, 1966.
- Gleason, Jan. "Emory ranked 9th-best national university by U.S. News & World Report magazine" in Emory Report 50, no. 1 (1997).
- Hauk, Gary S. A Legacy of Heart and Mind: Emory since 1836 (Atlanta: Emory University, developed and produced by Bookhouse Group, Inc., 1999).
- Young, James Harvey. "A Brief History of Emory University", in Emory College Catalog 2003–2005 (Atlanta: Emory University Office of University Publications, 2003), 9–15.