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Distinguished faculty members include:

  • Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter
  • His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama
  • CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta
  • Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hank Klibanoff
  • Former U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Jeffrey Koplan
  • Booker Prize-winning novelist Sir Salman Rushdie
  • Symphony conductor Robert Spano
  • Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey, 19th U.S. Poet Laureate

Awards and honors recognizing Emory faculty include:

  • Carnegie Scholars
  • Fulbright Fellowship
  • Guggenheim Fellowship
  • National Humanities Medal
  • Nobel Prize
  • Pulitzer Prize
  • U.S. Poet Laureate

Emory's faculty includes:

  • 23 members of the Institute of Medicine
  • 5 members of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 11 members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 30 members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • 1 Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and 2 Howard Hughes professors

Fourteen Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholars, and about one in three of some 150 Distinguished Cancer Clinicians and Scientists, conduct their distinctive work at Emory.

Undergraduates give Emory high marks for quality instruction in their major: 87 percent were "very satisfied" or "satisfied" in the 2012 Emory College Senior Survey.

The National Academy of Inventors named James W. Wagner, president of Emory University, and Raymond I. Schinazi, Frances Winship Walters Professor of Pediatrics at Emory and director of the Laboratory of Biochemical Pharmacology, as Charter Fellows in 2013.

President Barack Obama recognized William Foege, professor emeritus in the Rollins School of Public Health, with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012.

The Georgia Research Alliance named Gary W. Miller, associate dean for research and professor of environmental health at the Rollins School of Public Health, a 2012 Distinguished Investigator. The GRA has named only six Distinguished Investigators in its 22-year history.

Natasha Trethewey, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of English and Creative Writing, serves as the 19th U.S. Poet Laureate. The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer was also appointed Poet Laureate of Mississippi in 2012.

Judith L. Wold, clinical professor for the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, was named the 2012 Georgia Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.

Emory President James W. Wagner received an honorary Doctor of Engineering degree from the University of Notre Dame in 2012.

President Barack Obama appointed Deborah Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies, to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council in 2011.

Peggy Barlett, Goodrich C. White Professor of Anthropology and Sustainable Food Committee chair, received the inaugural Faculty Sustainability Leadership award from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education in 2011.

Evolutionary biologist Jaap de Roode, who focuses on the ecology of insects and parasites, is listed among the 2011 "Brilliant 10," top scientists under 40 recognized by the editors of Popular Science magazine.

Jag Sheth, Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Marketing at the Goizueta Business School, was named to the Business Educators' 2011 "A-List of Management Academics."

Joseph Skibell, Associate Professor of Creative Writing and English, won the 47th Georgia Author of the Year Award for Fiction in 2011 for his novel, A Curable Romantic.

Paul Root Wolpe, director of Emory's Center for Ethics and the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Bioethics, won the 2011 World Technology Award in Ethics, presented by the World Technology Network at the United Nations.

President Barack Obama appointed Emory President James W. Wagner as Vice Chair of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues.