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EMORY UNIVERSITY Highlights of Excellence and Achievement 1995 |
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o Bradley Currey, Jr. is the newly-elected chair of the Emory University Board of Trustees. President and CEO of Rock-Tenn Company, and a trustee since 1980, Currey chaired the University's $400 million capital campaign. Currey succeeds Robert Strickland, chair of the Board of Trustees since 1979. Strickland spearheaded last year's search that resulted in the appointment of William M. Chace as Emory's eighteenth president. An era in Emory's history ended with Strickland's death in November 1994. o In August 1994 William M. Chace began his tenure as Emory's eighteenth president. In addition to his most recent role as president of Wesleyan University, Dr. Chace has held administrative and faculty positions at Stanford University. Dr. Chace brings to Emory a strong commitment to excellence in teaching and an interest in increasing diversity in university education. o During 1993-94 Provost Billy E. Frye served as Interim President of Emory. As interim president, Dr. Frye encouraged reflection about the University's unique position among U.S. research institutions by initiating University-wide conversations about Emory's strengths and weaknesses and holding the first Emory Symposium. Dr. Frye's commitment to academic integrity and interest in student concerns marked his leadership as interim president and continue in his role as provost. o In 1993 former Emory President James T. Laney left the University to become the US Ambassador to South Korea. As president, Laney oversaw many transformations at Emory, including its transition from a regional institution primarily known for teaching to a national one also known for excellence in research and publication; he further guided Emory as the University became increasingly involved in its greater urban and world communities. o The University has a student body of more than 10,000 and a full-time faculty of more than 1,900. For the first time, Emory is classified as a Research I university by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Emory is so ranked because it receives at least $40 million in federal support and awards fifty or more doctoral degrees every year. o US News & World Report (September 1994) ranked Emory 16th of national universities. Rankings are determined by academic reputation as judged by peer institutions, student selectivity, faculty support, financial resources, and alumni satisfaction. Emory ranked 25th on US News & World Report's list of best values in higher education. o US News & World Report (March 1995) ranked the Goizueta Business School, Emory Law School, and the School of Medicine among the 25 best schools in the nation in their respective graduate fields. Also ranked in the top tier of their respective fields were the School of Nursing, the Department of History, and the Physical Therapy Program. o The 1,130 students entering Emory College in 1994 were chosen from a record number of applicants. The applicant pool, numbering 9,653, showed a 14 percent increase over last year's pool. Early decision applications were up by 27 percent and Emory Scholar applications were up by 20 percent. o Minority students make up over 25 percent of Emory's entering class. Asian Americans comprise 12 percent of the Class of 1998, African Americans comprise 9 percent, and Hispanic students comprise 4 percent. Recently the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education reported Emory as having the greatest percentage increase in African American student enrollment among the US News best 25 universities. Women students make up 51 percent of the class. While the greatest number of students come from the Southeast (44 percent) and Mid-Atlantic states (23 percent), Emory students come from every geographic region in the United States and a number of foreign countries. o The number of minorities and women on Emory's faculty and staff continues to increase, according to the 1994 update of the University's affirmative action plan. From 1992 to 1993, the number of minority and/or women faculty members increased in all ranks. o In Spring 1994 the University held the first Emory Symposium, "Choices and Responsibilities in a Changing University," designed to explore the shape of the University in the next century. About 300 faculty, staff, and students gathered to discuss issues that ranged from the balance between teaching and research to Emory's relationships with external constituencies. o In Fall 1994 Provost Billy E. Frye released his report "Choices & Responsibility: Shaping Emory's Future." The report addresses the future of higher education and of Emory, and identifies major issues emerging from 1993-94 planning discussions that took place among faculty, staff, students, and alumni. A survey of more than 500 people provided data that contributed to the report. The survey was designed to gather views on Emory's strengths, weaknesses, and future direction. o Emory is spending over $100 million on new buildings and research facilities. Among new or planned construction are a business school building ($20 million), public health building ($18.5 million), law library ($12 million), and medical research complex ($24 million). Emory is also building a conference center designed, in part, to accommodate the academic conferences hosted by Emory's medical, business, graduate schools and Emory College. The various construction projects are financed through endowments, bond financing, and private donations. o One of the private donors behind Emory's construction is Ely R. Callaway, '40, whose gift will finance renovations to the former Physics and Humanities buildings. The planned renovations include a connector between the two buildings, allowing increased classroom space as well as faculty and graduate student offices and computer facilities. The buildings will be renamed to honor the Callaway family. o Construction began on the Hugh F. MacMillan Law Library, which will nearly double the size of the current law library. Named for the 1934 law school graduate who donated $2.3 million for the project, the new building will accommodate 400,000 volumes. Completion of the construction is expected by June 1995. o Emory received a $15-million gift from the Woodruff Foundation to build an addition to the General Libraries that will architecturally link Woodruff and Candler libraries. The five-story building will provide an integrated service environment, bringing together librarians, academic computing consultants, and media professionals to support the information needs of students and researchers. o In 1993 Emory received a grant from the Luce Foundation to begin a three-year project to develop the first prototype virtual library that fully considers the governance, organizational, legal, economic, and educational issues involved. Discussions are underway with both Harvard and Yale about collaborating with Emory on this project. Emory's virtual library project is directed by Patricia Battin, the recently retired president of the Commission on Preservation and Access and former vice president for information services and University Librarian at Columbia University. o The market value of Emory's endowment ranked eleventh among the nation's top endowments in 1994. Emory's endowment, totaling $1.8 billion in 1994, placed it above those of Chicago, Duke, the University of Pennsylvania, and Brown. In the fiscal year ending in June 1992, Emory had the highest rate of return on its endowment of any university in the country (32 percent). o Obligations for sponsored research totaled $118 million in 1993-94, including $87 million in federal obligations. Sponsored research obligations have increased by 127 percent since 1987. Emory's research base has been one of the fastest growing among the top 100 research institutions in recent years. o From 1987 to 1994 foundation support at Emory increased 288 percent. Based on 1991-92 figures, the Foundation Center ranked Emory's $17.4 million in foundation support as ninth among top universities, ahead of Yale, Chicago, Washington University, and Duke. In 1993-94 Emory received $27 million in foundation support. o Emory's 14,000 employees make it one of the ten largest private employers in the 18-county Atlanta metropolitan area and the largest private employer in DeKalb County. o The Association of Emory Alumni represents 65,611 alumni living in all 50 states and 94 nations. Six US Senators, 22 members of the US House of Representatives, five Pulitzer Prize winners, 16 Rhodes Scholars, one US Vice President, one Speaker of the House of Representatives, and 32 bishops of the United Methodist Church have graduated from Emory. o The Ethics Center is working to make Emory the first university in the country to develop an approach to practical ethical engagement that connects the work of the professions. The Center examines curricular and extracurricular places where ethical issues are raised and treated and investigates the shaping of a professional identity and ethical standards. o Emory's Office of International Affairs aims to prepare students to live and perform with distinction in the global community. It is committed to greater faculty and student involvement in global scholarship and its application in the international arena. The Council on International Affairs has formulated a strategy and set of actions to help achieve these goals. o Emory's Black Education Network (BEN) was formed to promote the well-being of Emory's African-American community through formal and informal education and internal and external networking. Features of the network include financial planning seminars, a resource/telephone directory, and opportunities for community service.
o Emory received a second $1.2 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to improve the science education program with the objective of advancing minorities and women in science. The grant-funded program includes a science resource center that provides mentoring, workshops, seminars, and other enrichment activities for students. In the last fiscal year, Emory College obtained nearly $10 million in research support. o Numerous Emory faculty have been recognized for their excellence in scholarship: Fereydoon Family (Physics) won the J.W. Beams Research Medal from the American Physical Society; Jacqueline Irvine (Educational Studies) received an annual achievement award from the American Educational Research Association; Marshall Duke (Psychology) was named 1993 Applied Researcher of the Year by the Association for Applied and Preventive Psychobiology. o Donald Donham (Anthropology) and Joyce Flueckiger (Religion) have won Fulbright awards to pursue research in South Africa and India; Delores Aldridge (Sociology) and David Brown (Art History) won American Council of Learned Society grants. Dan Adame (Health and Physical Education) won a National Institutes of Health grant, and the National Science Foundation awarded grants to Patricia Whitten (Anthropology) and to Dwight Duffus and Vaidy Sunderam (both of Mathematics and Computer Science). o Emory's Center for Soviet, Post-Soviet, & East European Studies was designated as a National Undergraduate Resource Center by the US Department of Education. It is the only National Undergraduate Resource Center in Georgia and one of three in the Southeast. o Emory has been selected as the site of an annual "Race and the Academy" summer institute, funded by Mellon and sponsored by the United Negro College Fund. Directed by Rudolph Byrd (African American Studies and the Institute of Liberal Arts), each summer's institute will encourage approximately twenty-five undergraduates from historically black colleges to commit themselves to careers in research and higher education. o Change magazine ranked Emory's English and History departments twenty-fifth in the nation. Four Emory departments - Political Science, Chemistry, Psychology and Sociology - gained twenty or more points in the Change magazine ranking. o Ulrich Neisser (Psychology) was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Aarhus in Denmark during a convocation held on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Institute of Psychology. o Conjuring Culture, a new book by Thee Smith (Religion), received a "Best Book of the Year" citation by the American Academy of Religion. o Margot Finn (History) received a Shelby Cullen Davis Fellowship at Princeton and Lynna Williams (English) received a University of Texas Ralph Johnson Fellowship in Austin. o Vaidy Sunderam (Mathematics and Computer Science), was recognized by R&D Magazine, a professional journal that reports on technological research and development. He received the "R&D 100" award, given annually to the 100 most innovative technical achievements, for his software package, the Parallel Virtual Machine. o In 1993 Theater Emory was awarded the highest level of recognition by Theater Communications Group, Inc., the national association for professional nonprofit theaters. The award placed Theater Emory in the top rank of American theaters. o Three plays developed at Theater Emory - Body Politic, Many Things Have Happened Since He Died, and The Trap - were chosen by Atlanta critics as the best plays of the 1993/94 season. Five shows developed through Theater Emory's Brave New Work Program were performed at The Alliance, Seven Stages, and Horizon theaters in Atlanta, and at The Image and St. Marks Studio theaters in New York City. The 1993 production of Samuel Beckett's Enough earned an invitation to the Samuel Beckett Festival in The Hague, The Netherlands. o The Honorable Michael Manley, former Prime Minister of Jamaica, served as a visiting professor at Emory. Emory also sponsored lectures by Catherine Belsey, Angela Davis, Martin Duberman, Eric Foner, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Richard Reeves, C. Vann Woodward, and Ruth Westheimer. o Helen Vendler, distinguished critic of American, English, and Irish literature and the A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard, delivered the 1994 Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature. o The studio arts program will meet increasing student interest in the fine arts in its new building. The new building, scheduled for completion in June 1995, will contain increased classroom and studio space, and will also have a gallery to exhibit student works. o The Correspondence of Samuel Beckett project received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew J. Mellon Foundation; the Florence J. Gould Foundation renewed its support for the Beckett project and will support students working on the project in France. Editors Lois Overbeck and Martha Feshenfeld were named exchange scholars of the British Academy. o Emory's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences annually sponsors a required Teaching Assistant Training and Teaching Opportunity (TATTO) program to help better prepare and encourage graduate students to enter teaching careers. Through the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, the US Department of Education awarded $180,000 to support the initial phase of the program. o Writers Larry Brown, John Homan, Dori Sanders, and Louise Shivers were among the writers and students to participate in the Emory Summer Writers Festivals.
o In 1994, 1,249 seniors graduated from Emory College (up from 981 in 1993), of whom 1,059 received the B.A. degree and 190 the B.S. Eighty-two students completed honors programs, and among these 35 earned highest honors and 39 high honors. Georgia Gamma of Phi Beta Kappa initiated 98 students, of whom 27 were members of the junior class. o Ten Emory graduate students won Patricia Roberts Harris fellowships: four in chemistry, four in biological and biomedical sciences, and two in mathematics. Five graduate students won Howard Hughes Fellowships, eight earned National Science Foundation awards, and one received a Spencer Foundation Fellowship. There were four graduate students studying abroad with Fulbright scholarships and one international student studying at Emory with the support of a Fulbright. o Emory College senior Stanley Panikowski was one of thirty-two American college students named a Rhodes Scholar in 1993. In 1994 Emory junior Stephen Ho Chen received the Rockefeller Brothers Fund Fellowship for minority students entering the teaching profession. o Four Emory College seniors won Fulbright awards for foreign study in Japan, Yemen, Ghana and Costa Rica. Cori Evans received a Rotary Scholarship for study in France; Rishi Ganti received both a Jacob Javits award and a National Science Foundation Fellowship toward his study in economics at Harvard. Douglas Bowman received an NSF grant for work in mathematics. o In 1994 Emory College senior Bernadette May was named one of twenty students on the USA Today's All-USA Academic First Team. Also the 1994 recipient of the Marion Luther Brittain Award, Emory's highest student honor for service performed without expectation of reward or recognition, May was a Woodruff Scholar and Phi Beta Kappa graduate. o David Purcell, a graduate student in psychology, won the Distinguished Contributions for Applied Psychology or Community Service Award of the American Psychological Association. Purcell serves as current board president of Positive Impact, a local nonprofit program which provides free mental health services to low-income HIV-affected persons. o The Carter Town Hall Meeting continues to draw record attendance; last year 2,200 students and faculty heard former US President Jimmy Carter speak. o Emory Bookstore hosted or co-hosted over twenty-five authors, including Jonathan Berendt, Jimmy Carter, Valerie Eliot, Lady Antonia Fraser, Nobel Prize winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann, and Gloria Steinem. o The International Student and Scholar Programs reported a 25 percent increase in the number of foreign scholars and 15 percent increase in in number of foreign students at Emory. o Hewlitt Fellow and political science graduate student Debbie Davenport was chosen to serve on the US delegation at the renegotiations of the International Tropical Timber Agreement held at the United Nations in Geneva. o Emory College students Eva Hines and Liane Hores took advantage of the Human and Natural Ecology Department's trend toward a more comprehensive and global focus. Hines traveled to Kenya to study wildlife management and Hores worked as manager and supervisor of "Jurassic Summer: Return of the Dinosaurs," an exhibit at the Fernbank Museum of Natural history. o In 1993-94 fraternity and sorority members donated more than $15,057 and 3,440 hours of community service. The Intersorority Council captured nine awards, including the prestigious Gamma Phi Beta Community Service honor, at the annual Southeastern Panhellenic Conference in March. o Fifty-five Barkley Forum tournament debaters won 165 trophies at 32 tournaments in 19 states. Emory was ranked third in the nation by the American Forensics Association.
ROBERTO C. GOIZUETA BUSINESS SCHOOL o In 1994 Emory Business School was renamed Roberto C. Goizueta Business School of Emory University in honor of the chairman of The Coca-Cola Company. The naming followed a $10 million gift from the Woodruff Foundation, pledged toward the construction of a new $20 million business school facility scheduled to open in early 1997. o Both the quality and the diversity of the student body continue to rise. Though nationally the number of students taking the GMAT examination has steadily decreased since 1991, the number of applications to Emory has increased each year. Approximately 37 percent of the entering class are women, 18 percent are international students, and 18 percent are minorities. o U.S. News & World Report ranked Goizueta Business School 23rd among the nation's top graduate schools of business, the second year in a row the school made the best 25 list. Business Week ranked Emory's executive MBA program one of the nation's leading programs in this field and named the daytime program among the "up and coming" U.S. MBA programs. The Economist's "Which MBA?" also profiled the school as one of the top U.S. business schools. o Goizueta Business School received $3 million from the late Daniel Jordan '83 EMBA. His unrestricted gift will support faculty development and academic programs. o Goizueta Business School offers twelve international partnership programs in which 20 percent of MBA students participate. Emory students exchange with students from Spain, Venezuela, Costa Rica, France, Austria, England, Finland, Italy, Mexico, Russia, and Hungary. o The nationally-acclaimed Center for Leadership and Career Studies (CLCS) offers the nation's first and only school for chief executives and emerging leaders of America's most prominent corporations. Since 1989 the "CEO College" has held conferences that have engaged more than 4,000 top leaders in peer-driven sessions addressing themes such as leadership, CEO succession, boards of directors, media, and technology. The Center also conducts research on leadership and is a part of Operation Legacy, which works toward bringing new corporations to Georgia. o The Center for Relationship Marketing (CRM) is a leading force in the development of an emerging marketing paradigm. CRM enriches the working knowledge of practicing managers and university faculty by sharing the latest research findings and best practices methods of relationship marketing. Currently the Center is working with Ernst & Young on a best practices study. o The Executive Development Consortium program is among the innovative nondegree executive education programs created by Goizueta Business School. The program is designed to extend the knowledge and skill base of senior executives by targeting emerging management practices, reinforcing business networks, and engaging executives in learning activities that apply to the workplace.
o With 600 students, Candler is the largest United Methodist seminary in the world. Eighty percent of its graduates become pastors of local churches; eight Candler graduates serve as active United Methodist bishops. o Candler School of Theology has more contributors to the twelve-volume commentary, The New Interpreter's Bible, than any other theological faculty in the world. o Many Candler faculty were recognized for their scholarly excellence this year: Carl Holladay received a Fulbright grant to support his research in Germany; John Snarey won the James D. Moran Award for Exceptional Research in Family Relations and Child Development; James Fowler received the William James Award from the American Psychological Association for his contributions to the psychology of religion, and the Oskar Pfister Award from the American Psychiatric Association for his contributions to the dialogue between religion and psychiatry. Jon Gunnemann was named president of the Society of Christian Ethics; J. Maxwell Miller was named president of the W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem; and Gene Tucker was named president-elect and Carol Newson, secretary-treasurer, of the Society of Biblical Literature. o Candler student Angela L. Cotten was awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies by The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. o Sixteen Candler students participated in regional evangelism seminars in Kenya and Malaysia during the 1993-94 academic year. The seminars were conducted by the World Methodist Evangelism Institute, a cooperative program of the World Methodist Council and Candler School of Theology. o Sixty rising high school seniors from around the country took part in the one-of-a-kind Youth Theology Institute at Candler. During the four-week institute, students from diverse cultural and religious backgrounds read and discussed advanced theology and public policy, participated in community service projects, and questioned professionals from all areas about their faith.
o Several Emory Law School faculty received awards this year. Harold Berman won a national award for pioneering work in law and religion from the Journal on Law and Religion. Kathleen Cleaver received a Bunting Fellowship from Radcliffe College of Harvard University to support her research. o In 1994 and 1995 Emory Law School was ranked among the 25 best law schools in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. o Emory Law School continues to be recognized for its program for courtroom training, the Trial Techniques and Disputes Program, now in its thirteenth year. The program brings over 300 practicing attorneys and judges to the campus as faculty for more than 250 second-year students. Emory's program is the largest and most intensive of its type offered at any U.S. law school. o In 1994 the Law and Religion program of the Emory Law School sponsored a conference on Religious Human Rights in the World Today: Legal & Religious Perspectives. Led by John Witte, Jr., Robitscher Professor of Law, the conference featured keynote addresses by Desmond Tutu, John T. Noonan, and Martin E. Marty of the University of Chicago. o Professor John Witte, Jr. was awarded the United Methodist Church Scholar Teacher Award in 1994. o Emory Law School continues its work with the American Law Center in Moscow in cooperation with the Moscow Law Institute. Established in 1991 the center was the first joint American-Soviet endeavor to offer a comprehensive, independent study program in American law for Soviet lawyers and legal scholars. o A further indication of strengthening global ties is the appointment each semester of a Fellow at the Institute of State and Law, to a visiting faculty position. The current Fellow, Audrey Shugaen, teaches comparative labor law to both law and graduate students. o Besides several foreign students enrolled in the L.L.M. program, Emory Law School has students from Russia, the United Kingdom, Jamaica, Trinidad, the Dominican Republic, and Canada studying for the J.D. degree.
o In 1994-95, 602 students enrolled in Oxford, breaking previous enrollment records. Oxford also set new records for the number of senior inquiries, visits to campus by prospective students, and yield on accepted applications. o Twenty-four percent of Oxford's student body are minorities, and 13 percent are African American. Oxford's support for minority students is evident in its graduation rates for African Americans, which is slightly higher than the rate for white students, and more than twice the national average. o The Oxford College Institute for Environmental Education was, for the second year, fully funded by grants from the Eisenhower Foundation, the Georgia Power Company, and the Georgia Wildlife Federation. Eighteen Georgia biology teachers were enrolled in the summer program conducted by four Oxford biologists. o Oxford received two national awards for its program on alcohol and other substance abuse, one for its Safe Spring Break Campaign and another for its National Collegiate Awareness Week. Oxford was selected for the latter award from a pool of 150 applicants. o Eloise Carter, professor of biology, received the 1993 Association of Southeastern Biologists Meritorious Teaching Award. The award, sponsored by the Carolina Biological Supply Company, is considered the most prestigious award for the Association of Southeastern Biologists.
ROBERT W. WOODRUFF HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER o Research dollars in the Woodruff Health Sciences Center surpassed $100 million for the first time in 1993-94. The Center's $106.6 million was a 6.8 percent increase from the previous year. o In 1993-94 the University's best fund-raising year exclusive of the 1979 Woodruff gift transfer, the Woodruff Health Sciences Center received gifts of $31.4 million, compared with $19 million for the previous year. o For the fifth consecutive year, Emory University Hospital ranked among the top ten heart hospitals in U.S. News & World Report, placing seventh. Also ranked were orthopedics, urology, gynecology, and ophthalmology. Both Emory Hospital and Crawford Long Hospital scored well on the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations surveys, and both received national attention for their case-management programs. o A 1994 study conducted by HCIA/Mercer found Emory Hospital to be among the country's top fifteen major teaching hospitals and one of the 100 hospitals with the best clinical, operational, and financial performance. o McCall's magazine designated Emory one of the top ten medical centers for women, citing its pioneering research and patient care in heart disease. Emory Hospital tied with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center for tenth place in the 1994 edition of The Best Doctors in America, with more than eighty physicians listed. o USA Today ranked Emory University Hospital tenth of the fifteen most-recommended hospitals in the U.S. The rankings are based on a survey of doctors who were asked to assess the clinical abilities of their peers. o In March 1995 the Woodruff Memorial Research Complex was dedicated. The $46 million project includes a new west wing for the former Woodruff Memorial Building. o Emory broke ground for the new Carlos and Marguerite Mason Transplant House, which is designed to provide low-cost lodging for transplant patients and families of patients from Emory, Egleston, Piedmont, and Saint Joseph's hospitals. o The Emory Clinic has become a nonprofit organization, allowing it better to respond to market opportunities. Professor of Medicine Rein Saral took office as the new director. o As part of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center's plan to respond to a changing healthcare environment, The Emory Clinic created a primary-care physician network, the Center for Personal Physicians. Many of these physicians practice at a growing number of satellites throughout greater Atlanta, including some that concentrate on sports medicine, women's health care, spine injuries, and heart problems. o The Emory University System of Health Care has thirty-five affiliates in Georgia and neighboring states, representing a total of forty-seven hospitals. This program provides support to members through educational opportunities, access to academic specialists, clinical support, recruitment assistance, and other services. o A joint program of the School of Medicine and Rollins School of Public Health, the Center for Clinical Evaluation Sciences was begun to develop programs in health evaluation research and to become a resource for other provider organizations. The Center's new director, David J. Ballard, formerly directed the Mayo Clinic's health services evaluation program. o In 1993-94 students from the medical, allied health, nursing, public health, and medical residency programs were selected from the largest applicant pools in their schools' histories. o The schools of medicine, nursing, and public health, Emory University Hospital and The Emory Clinic are planning the Seretean Center for Health Promotion. The Seretean Center will integrate health education, exercise/aerobics, and a primary-care clinic.
o The School of Medicine is consistently ranked among the fastest rising in funding, with $79.8 million in research funds in 1993-94; of this amount, $46 million was received from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In 1995, U.S. News & World Report ranked Emory's School of Medicine among the 25 best research-oriented medical schools in the nation. For the 1994 class, about 7,700 students applied for each of the 114 first-year positions. Second-year students had better than a 99 percent pass rate on the National Board Examinations. o After receiving a National Cancer Institute planning grant, Emory recruited Howard Ozer as the first full-time director of the Winship Cancer Center. An expert in the treatment of leukemia and lymphoma, Dr. Ozer will work to continue the growth of the Winship Cancer Center, which is on track to become Georgia's first National Cancer Institute-designated Cancer Center. o Telemedicine at Emory is expanding as Emory participates in the Georgia Statewide Academic Medical System to enhance the quality of medical care state-wide. In addition, Emory is participating in clinical trials with AT&T to develop the ability to communicate images for long-distance diagnosis and treatment planning. o The Melanoma and Pigmented Lesion Center in Emory's Winship Cancer Center opened this year to combine treatment, research, and education in a program that benefits both patients and the community. This multidisciplinary center delivers comprehensive care through its three main patient care areas: dermatologic oncology, surgical oncology, and medical oncology. o Emory established its Nutrition and Health Sciences center to learn more about the complex collaboration among various Atlanta organizations that provide health professionals with information on new nutrition trends. o The Department of Psychiatry received $2 million from the National Institute of Mental Health last year. o A recent $3 million grant from the NIH is allowing the School of Medicine Skin Disease Research Core Center to study cells that line blood vessels. Endothelial cells play critical roles in a multitude of pathologic and physiologic processes, including inflammatory and immunologic processes, thrombosis, and atherosclerosis. o The School of Medicine and Dallas Hall received $10.9 million as a participant in one of the largest women's health studies ever undertaken in the United States: the $625-million Women's Health Initiative. The grant extends over a period of thirteen years. o As clinicians in Emory's six owned or affiliated hospitals, School of Medicine faculty are responsible for 2,800 hospital beds, two million inpatient and outpatient visits, and almost 500,000 emergency visits annually. o The new Emory Center for Reproductive Medicine and Fertility addresses the variety of fertility problems experienced by couples trying to conceive a child. On staff are reproductive endocrinologists, obstetrician/gynecologists, embryologists, andrologists, and counselors. o Urologist and professor Michael Witt performed a new fertility technique called testicular aspiration that allowed a couple to give birth to the second baby ever conceived by this method. o The School of Medicine's Office of Minority Affairs sponsored the Medical Minority Mentoring program to support the first-year minority medical students, who represent over a third of the entering class. o Radiation oncologists at the Winship Cancer Center began using a new, state-of-the-art linear accelerator to administer radiation treatments with more precision to cancer patients. With this new equipment, Emory physicians are able to deliver high doses of radiation that conform specifically to the tumor site while sparing surrounding tissues from radiation damage. o The School of Medicine established the Center for Healthcare Leadership to help healthcare organizations design and implement strategies for managing change in the current healthcare environment. The center provides services to Emory and other organizations including hospitals, insurers, and physician groups.
NELL HODGSON WOODRUFF SCHOOL OF NURSING o Emory named Dyanne D. Affonso to lead the School of Nursing in 1993. Known internationally as a researcher, scholar, and teacher, Dr. Affonso will focus on developing strong community outreach programs. She was recently elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. o Enrollment in the School of Nursing continues to grow with enrollment of 220 undergraduates and 174 graduate students in 1994-95. o In the past two years, the School of Nursing has more than tripled its research funding to $3.3 million. o Members of the dean's advisory council, the Council of Fifty, meet each year to bring the perspectives of both national and local leaders in business and other fields to healthcare issues that affect the curriculum and programs of the school. o The Transcultural and International Nursing Center continues to provide Emory nursing students with culturally diverse educational opportunities both in the United States and abroad. o The school has developed a Nursing Education Partnership Program with Foo Yin College in Taiwan. Students from Taiwan spend five semesters at Emory, covering both the standard nursing curriculum and English language courses. Three graduate students from Ethiopia are also studying in the school. They will complete the requirements for the Master's degree and return to Ethiopia where they will create a baccalaureate nursing program. o The school's partnership projects in the Atlanta community involve students as well as faculty; they include two nurse-managed clinics and new projects with organizations and institutions involving adolescents. o A program operated by Emory nursing students at Fernbank Elementary School was named one of the "100 Best for 1993-94" by the Partnerships in Education Journal. The program began with nursing students offering physical examinations to Fernbank students and has grown to include health-related classroom presentations and in-home health assessments by nursing students. o The school's undergraduates now complete innovative community based projects as a requirement for graduation. This year, forty-three projects were completed and demonstrated in poster presentations at the School.
ROLLINS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH o The construction of the Grace Crum Rollins Public Health Building is complete, allowing for increasing growth and strength for the Rollins School of Public Health. Principal research areas of the school include cancer risk and occurrence, AIDS prevention, medical treatment effectiveness, nutrition, infectious disease models, violence prevention, minority health, occupational injuries, and reproductive health. Mrs. Rollins and the O. Wayne Rollins Foundation provided lead gifts for the building. The 140,000-square-foot building is believed to be the most modern public health facility in the world. o Due in part to the resources of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Carter Center, the Rollins School of Public Health occupies a unique position in higher education and in medical research. The school helps to address critical health issues, such as acquired immune deficiency syndrome, mental illness, nutrition, cancer, and environmental pollution. o With $11.3 million in research funding, The Rollins School ranks second among Emory schools in research funding. o Applications for the 1994-95 Master of Public Health program increased by 59 percent, following a 57 percent increase the previous year. Minorities represent 37 percent of applicants; two-thirds of these applicants are African-American. Three of every four applicants are female. o The first group of eleven Humphrey Fellows in Health was hosted in countries as diverse as Ghana, Macedonia, Egypt, Indonesia, and Argentina. Emory is one of only two U.S. universities selected to offer this program. o The Rollins School of Public Health has established three new centers and research initiatives in collaboration with other schools on campus. The Center for Injury Control, bringing together Public Health and Medicine, will focus on the prevention of intentional injuries. It received a $500,000 grant for developing a system to gather information on current levels of knowledge, attitudes, fear, and self-reported use of firearms among youth in the five-county area of metro Atlanta. The Center for Health, Society, and Culture (CHSC) focuses on the social, cultural, political, and economic dimensions of health; the CHSC co-hosted a miniconference on "Family Planning and the Cultural Construction of African Fertility" and sponsored an international workshop on "Tropical Development and the Decline and Resurgence of Malaria." The CHSC involves Public Health, Arts and Sciences, Nursing, Medicine, and the Carter Center. Finally, Public Health and Medicine have jointly created the Center for Clinical Evaluation Sciences to expand health services research on campus. o The Rollins School of Public Health has taken a leadership role in the formation of the Consortium of Public Health, a model program created to improve the effectiveness of community-based public health interventions. o The school's Program against Micronutrient Malnutrition provides a model for international collaborative research and training. With financial support from UNICEF and The World Bank, a partnership has been created with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Carter Center to train representatives from developing countries in the surveillance and elimination of deficiencies of iodine, vitamin A, and iron. This year the program funded a new multicenter Opportunities of Micronutrient program. o In 1993 Associate Dean Richard Levinson (Division of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education) was given the United Methodist Church Scholar/Teacher of the Year Award and was appointed as a Charles Howard Candler Professor.
YERKES REGIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER o The Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center supports biomedical and behavioral investigation throughout the Southeast. Yerkes was established in 1930 and moved to the Emory campus in 1965. o Frederick A. King retired after sixteen years as director of Yerkes. As a tribute to Dr. King's accomplishments while at Emory, the Society for Neuroscience honored him with its Presidential Award. Dr. King's colleagues credit his leadership for developing links between Yerkes and Emory's other divisions as well as his significant contribution to Zoo Atlanta's primate facilities. o Thomas R. Insel became the seventh director of the Yerkes Center in 1994. Dr. Insel came to Emory from his position as a senior scientist at the National Institute of Mental Health, where he was recognized for his research in behavioral neuroscience. Dr. Insel's priorities include the further strengthening of the center's research in the neurosciences and its ties with the University at large. o Yerkes received more than $2.6 million in research funding from the National Institutes of Health and from grants administered by other University divisions. The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Eye Institute, the National Cancer Institute, the National Science Foundation, the American Parkinson's Disease Association, and the Technology and Research Foundation of the Paralyzed Veterans of America are a few of the agencies supporting Yerkes research. In total, the Center received over $12 million in research support. o Last year Yerkes 180 researchers published 313 scientific papers, almost one fourth of all Yerkes papers published in the past decade. o Yerkes was the first research center to show in primate models the value of dopamine-producing implants for the treatment of Parkinson's disease. The center also was the first to show the value of including peripheral nerve tissue in the implants of the dopamine-producing tissue. Findings of the research are being applied to the treatment of human patients at Emory hospital and other medical centers. o Yerkes studies with squirrel monkeys suggest that pharmacological treatment with agents that alter brain serotonin levels may reduce the risk of relapse (or, resumption in the use of cocaine) in people who are trying to abstain from the drug. In another Yerkes study, rhesus monkeys were exposed prenatally to cocaine. Their prenatal and postnatal growth and behavior so far have been normal, calling into question cocaine as the cause of the so-called "crack baby syndrome." o The National Institute of Mental Health awarded one of six national Research Scientist Development Awards to Kim Wallen, associate research scientist at Yerkes Primate Research Center. o Yerkes scientists have disarmed an acutely lethal variant of one of the Simian Immunodeficiency Viruses (SIV) that have been detected in several species of macaque and African monkeys. The nef gene region was eliminated from a clone of a mutated form of the SIV that typically causes rapidly developing and fatal disease in exposed macaque monkeys. These and other findings indicate the nef gene plays a crucial role in disease development and that altering the nef genetic region in the HIV may be one approach in developing a vaccine to protect people from AIDS. o Michael Fritz, former dean of Emory's Dental School and now Charles Howard Candler Professor of Dental Medicine and a Yerkes scientist, developed a technique for regenerating bone in the lower jaw of rhesus monkeys. The results may improve the reconstruction of lower jaw bones for placement of dental implants and the treatment of bony deformities associated with various diseases such as cancer.
LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY o From 1984-85 to 1993-94 expenditures for Emory libraries increased 107 percent. Between 1992 and 1994 Emory's research libraries added over 68,000 volumes, bringing their holdings to over 2.2 million volumes. Emory has a documents collection of national stature that includes comprehensive collections of both United States and United Nations publications. o Emory's Pitts Theology Library is the second largest theology library in North America. o The Pitts Theology Library exhibited a rare collection of art and manuscripts not previously seen outside Germany in an exhibit titled "The Reformation United in Atlanta: Lutherhalle, Wittenberg, and Emory University." The April 1994 exhibit included original 16th-century art, prints, and manuscripts from the Lutherhalle collection in Wittenberg, Germany, displayed with items from the Richard C. Kessler Reformation Collection of Emory University. o The Woodruff Health Sciences Library represents one of the largest and most comprehensive cancer libraries outside NIH and includes the holdings of the American Cancer Society. o Woodruff Library's Special Collections Department recently acquired papers of poet James Dickey, author of the novel Deliverance and the poem "The Strength of Fields," read at the inauguration of President Jimmy Carter. o In July 1993 the academic computing department of the Information Technology Division (ITD) opened its facility in newly renovated Cox Hall. The lab has been used by as many as 35,000 faculty, staff, and students each month during the academic year, and, together with Emory's other computing labs, offers students the use of 122 Macintoshes and 31 IBM computers. Users can access the Internet, the libraries through EUCLID, electronic mail, multiple software for word processing, department-specific educational software, graphics design programs, and spreadsheets. o Every member of the Emory community now has access to the Internet and electronic mail. Among the on-line bulletin boards available to Internet travelers are LearnLink, a student bulletin board; and Emory's contributions to the World Wide Web, including a virtual tour and exhibit from the Michael C. Carlos Museum. Emory's faculty, students, and staff also have exclusive on-line access to the world's largest daily newspaper, U.S.A. Today. o In 1994 Emory implemented on-line schedule change for Emory College, Oxford College, Candler School of Theology, and Goizueta Business School. o Emory students, faculty, and staff use 13,000 telephone lines to process an average of 324,000 calls a day and over 2 million long distance minutes a year. o Emory students can connect to nine local television channels and twenty-seven satellite channels through satellite drops in their residence hall rooms on campus.
CENTER FOR ETHICS IN PUBLIC POLICY AND THE PROFESSIONS o Emory's Center for Ethics in Public Policy and the Professions, founded in 1990, draws members of the Emory community into conversation and debate about issues that affect the common good in the University and in the larger society. To this end it sponsors lectures, forums, and consultations such as the four annual J. Emmett Herndon Lectures in Professional Ethics, the Distinguished Lecturer in Business Ethics, and several public policy and faculty forums each year. The Center is directed by James Fowler. o The Center for Ethics sponsors a clinical ethics dialogue group made up of healthcare and other professionals from Emory and the Atlanta area. It also initiated and continues to be the home of the Georgia Ethics Committee Consortium, a statewide organization of ethics committees from hospitals and other healthcare facilities. o To strengthen the curricular and extracurricular teaching of ethics throughout the University, the Center for Ethics has sponsored programs such as Leadership, Life-Work, and Vocation for undergraduates; courses in values in science for graduate students in the medical and biomedical sciences; a course on ethics and teaching for faculty; and programs within individual schools and departments such as the Nursing Ethics Journal Club. The Center for Ethics has also established a library and resource center to support teaching and research in ethics. o The Center generates interdisciplinary and interprofessional research that strengthens practical engagement of the ethical challenges raised by new technologies, new frontiers of research, globalization, human and economic development, and the changing practices of the professions in the large scale systems in which we work. The Center has Ethics Fellows in perinatal medicine, business, medical education, human development and human rights, and corporate social responsibility.
o The Carter Center is an independently governed part of Emory University dedicated to fighting disease, hunger, poverty, conflict, and oppression through collaborative initiatives in democratization and development, global health, and urban revitalization. The Center was founded by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Rosalynn Carter in 1982 and continues under their leadership. In 1994, the Center became a separately chartered, independently governed member of Emory University to ensure greater permanence to the Center's work. The merger ratifies Emory's continued movement toward stronger ties with the greater Atlanta and international communities. o The Center has monitored multiparty elections in Haiti, Ghana, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Guyana, Zambia, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic. It also has worked in Ethiopia, Zambia, and Guyana to strengthen the economic and institutional foundations of their nascent democracies. o The Carter Center is demonstrating its commitment to health issues across the globe through its campaign to provide strategy and training for the eradication of Guinea worm disease from sixteen African countries, India, and Pakistan. It also has collaborated with the Task Force for Child Survival and Development to lead a strategy that increased the worldwide immunization rate for children from 20 to 80 percent. o The Center supports advances in health care in the United States. It has established a network of faith groups in major U.S. cities to promote preventive health care in their communities and works to erase the stigma of mental illness for the 50 million Americans who experience mental disorders every year. o The Carter Center created The Atlanta Project, a grass-roots effort to fight urban social problems through improvements in health, housing, education, public safety, and community and economic development. o The Carter Center's program to prevent and resolve conflicts worldwide received a $1 million, three-year grant from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, enabling Carter Center staff to begin work in the Baltics. o The Carter Center's Commission on Television Policy in 1991 brings together top executives and policymakers from the United States and the independent states of the former Soviet Union to draft policy options for and encourage the establishment of the free press in countries in transition to democracy. o In 1992 the newly established Council of the International Negotiation Network held its first meeting. This group of world leaders, chaired by President Carter, works to resolve civil conflicts peacefully in areas and countries such as Sudan, Burma, Liberia, Ethiopia, and the Korean Peninsula. Some of the Council's members are Javier Perez de Cuellar, Shridath Ramphal, Marie Angelique Savane, Desmond Tutu, Cyrus Vance, Elie Wiesel, and Andrew Young. o Families in Benin, Ethiopia, Ghana, Sudan, Togo, Nigeria, and Tanzania multiplied their corn and wheat yields with help from the Center. o With Dominique de Menil, the Center established the Carter-Menil Human Rights Prize to honor proponents of human rights around the world. Last year a one-time special award was made to the people of Norway and to the Institute of Applied Social Science in Oslo for their part in facilitating a peace accord between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization. o The Human Rights Program of The Carter Center works behind the scenes to monitor human rights abuses and helps establish institutional protections for human rights worldwide. With the influence of President Carter and Mrs. Carter, the program has brought about the release of political prisoners and the commutation of death sentences.
o The Michael C. Carlos Museum is developing one of the most comprehensive art collections in the region and is leading the region in the area of high technology applications. The Museum operates the only objects conservation laboratory south of Virginia, nets close to $500,000, and was the nation's sixth largest recipient of foundation support among museums with $1,745,000 in foundations grants last year. o The Carlos Museum is joining Atlanta to sponsor two exhibitions of Southern art for the 1996 Olympic Games. "Souls Grown Deep" is an exhibit of more than 300 artworks done by more than 40 contemporary African American artists of the Southeast; the other exhibit, "Thornton Dial: Remembering the Road," consists of more than 75 of that artist's relief paintings, works on paper, and sculptures. o Maxwell L. Anderson, director of the Carlos Museum, has received the Commander of the Order of Merit from the Italian Republic for his service in the development of cultural exchanges between Italy and the United States. The Commander of the Order of Merit is the highest Italian honor conferred upon a foreign national. Anderson served as visiting professor at the University of Rome in 1987, and began a project to restore, publish, and display masterworks of ancient art from Italian museums. o The nation's university art museums, with 961 museum members, ranked the Carlos Museum tenth in membership. Despite being closed for some 50 percent of 1993, the museum was the third-largest recipient of admissions income.
o Nine student-athletes earned perfect 4.00 cumulative averages for 1993-94. o In 1993-94 Emory athletes, teams, and coaches received the following athletic and recreation awards: UAA Individual Championship Bob Goeltz Golf NCAA Coach of the Year John Curtin Track NCAA Div. III Championship Women Cross-Country NCAA All-American Chris Williams Track NCAA All-American Regina Robinson Track "Peach of Athlete" Winner Mandy Jackson Basketball/Tennis ITA/Rolex Reg. Championship Travis Saacke Tennis CSCAA Academic All-American Men & Women Swimming/Diving o Emory's baseball team set a record with twenty-nine wins in its fourth season and celebrated its first UAA championship. Pitcher Scott Kramer, an All-American First Team selection, struck out 145 batters to set a national record for season strikeouts. Scott Kramer and his brother Jeff were signed by the Cleveland Indians and the Milwaukee Brewers, respectively. o Emory's baseball team will soon be playing on a new field, Chappell Park. Construction on the $1 million facility is scheduled for completion in December 1995.
o To reduce increasing cost of traditional health care, Emory developed EmoryCare, a managed-care partnership, to provide high-quality, economical medical care to employees. While traditional healthcare costs increase about twenty percent each year, increases under EmoryCare have been significantly less than half that amount. o The Equal Opportunity Programs (EOP) staff and trainers have instructed over 1,300 faculty, staff, and students in preventing sexual harassment. The EOP has published a guide for faculty, staff, and students, outlining federal laws prohibiting sexual harassment and steps to take if harassment occurs. o The Human Resources Division implemented the Front Line Leadership program to provide management skills training to Emory supervisors. o The first management symposium featuring President William Chace, Provost Billy Frye, and Executive Vice President John Temple was attended by over 200 people. o The "Wellness as a Way of Life" program was developed to enhance the quality of life, health and community spirit enjoyed by Emory's faculty, staff, administrators, and students. One event sponsored by the evolving wellness program was the AppleFunRun and AppleFunWalk held at Lullwater Park on Emory Staff Day '94.
o Emory has educated the presidents or former presidents of 130 colleges and universities, including the University of Chicago, Yale University, Duke University, the University of Miami, New York University, Davidson College, and Rhodes College. o Both the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Newt Gingrich, and the senior U.S. Senator from Georgia, Sam Nunn, are Emory alumni. Other members of Congress who are Emory alumni are Tille Kidd Fowler of Florida and Sanford Bishop of Georgia. o Leah Sears-Collins, the only African-American woman to serve as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, is one of over 90 judges who are Emory alumni. o Some of the nation's most distinguished scholars are Emory graduates. Among them are Howard R. Lamar, former acting president and Sterling Professor of American History, Emeritus, Yale University; C Vann Woodward, Pulitzer Prize winner and Sterling Professor of History Emeritus, Yale University; Harold S. Johnston, National Academy of Sciences member and professor of chemistry, the University of California, Berkeley; Eugene A. Stead, Jr., founding member of the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine and Florence McAlister Professor, Emeritus, Duke University; Arnall Patz, chair of ophthalmology and director of the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute, Johns Hopkins University; Norman Giles, Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellow and Callaway Professor of Genetics, The University of Georgia; Louis Harlan, Guggenheim Fellow, Pulitzer Prize winner, and professor of history, the University of Maryland; Catherine E. Rudder, executive director of the American Political Science Association. o Dumas Malone, the late Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Thomas Jefferson, former director of the Harvard University Press, editor-in-chief of the Dictionary of American Biography, and professor of history at the University of Virginia, was a graduate of Emory. o Distinguished business leaders who graduated from Emory include Ely R. Callaway, founder of Callaway Golf; Jimmy Williams, chairman of SunTrust Banks; Harry Saul, founder of Queens Carpet Corporation; Kenneth Cole, founder of Kenneth Cole Shoes; Matt Gold, chairman and COO of Precision Standard; and Rebecca McGreevy, senior vice president of Estee Lauder. o Distinguished members of the press and media who are Emory alumni include Jim Fain, national columnist for Cox newspapers; George Page, Emmy award-winning producer of The Mind and Nature for PBS; Ernie Harwell, longtime voice of the Detroit Tigers and member of the baseball Hall of Fame; and Claude Sitton, Pulitzer Prize-winning former editor of the Raleigh News Observer and correspondent on the civil right movements in the South for The New York Times. o Oxford College graduate and first Benjamin E. Mays Fellow, attorney James O'Neal, founded Legal Outreach, Inc., a not-for-profit organization that teaches legal principles to eighth graders in Harlem. |
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