About Emory

About Overview

Emory University is an inquiry-driven, ethically engaged and diverse community whose members work collaboratively for positive transformation in the world through courageous leadership in teaching, research, scholarship, health care and social action.

The university is recognized internationally for its outstanding liberal arts college, superb professional schools and one of the Southeast's leading health care systems.

This is a time of dynamic change on campus, where the future is being guided by an ambitious strategic plan, Where Courageous Inquiry Leads.

Emory maintains an uncommon balance for an institution of its standing: it generates more research funding than any other Georgia university, while maintaining its traditional emphasis on teaching. The university is enriched by the legacy and energy of Atlanta, and by collaboration among its schools, units and centers, as well as with affiliated institutions.

Distinctions

Rankings

  • No. 18 among national universities (U.S. News & World Report)
  • No. 9 for best values among private universities (Kiplinger's Personal Finance)
Faculty

  • Novelist Salman Rushdie
  • His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama
  • Former President Jimmy Carter
  • Natasha Trethewey, 2007 Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry
Research (FY 2008)

  • $411.2 million in total research funding awards
  • $387.5 million in health sciences research funding awards
  • $300.2 million in federal research funding awards
Students

  • 2008 Presidential Award for General Community Service
  • 2008 NCAA Division III National Championship, Emory Eagles women's volleyball
Partnerships

  • U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Grady Memorial Hospital
  • Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
  • The Carter Center
  • Clifton Community Partnership

Faculty Spotlight

Nancy Bliwise

Large classes 101

Quadrangle magazine

Undergraduates enjoy a favorable student:teacher ratio at Emory. At the same time, the large introductory class has its own benefits. Nancy Bliwise teaches two large psychology classes with the help of "the clicker," devices that organize student answers to instructor questions. That allows instructors to track group and individual scores. "I love that part of it," she says. "If I have a student who's regularly having a problem, I'll send an email and say come in and see me."

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Teaching at Emory

Community Spotlight

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Sustainability Initiatives

Emory is offering the opportunity to order fresh organic produce boxes this summer. The boxes, which come in three sizes, contain mainly local and regional produce. The Emory Organic Box Program is designed to connect the community with a source of farm-fresh produce, while supporting local and sustainable farms.

Emory Dining: Organic boxes

Education's Climate Change

Wagner

"American universities should resist the notion that the economic climate today leaves us unable to influence our own destiny," writes Emory University President James W. Wagner, in Emory Edge. "We should become institutions that engage in what our community's vision statement at Emory has dubbed 'courageous inquiry.'"

READ 'EMORY EDGE' STORY: Climate Change in the World of Higher Education

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