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Points of Pride

• Top Rankings: Emory ranks among the top national universities in U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Colleges," and the university also enjoys top rankings from numerous other reviewers.
• Academic Excellence: The Robert T. (Bobby) Jones Jr. Scholarship and Fellowship programs, named for the celebrated golfer who was a 1929 School of Law graduate, represent a unique exchange program with the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.
• Advancing Sustainability: Emory has one of the largest campus inventories of LEED-certified building space in the nation, as well as what's thought to be the longest-running program of its kind in the country to integrate sustainability into a university curriculum.
• Award-Winning Students: Emory students are well represented among competitive academic honors such as the Fulbright, Goldwater, Marshall, Mellon, National Science Foundation, Rhodes, Rockefeller, Rotary, and USA Today programs.
• Breakthrough Research: Emory is a leader in HIV research. More than nine in 10 HIV patients in the United States who are on lifesaving therapy take Emtriva (emtricitabine) or 3TC (lamivudine), both drugs created at Emory. One of the leading vaccine candidates against HIV was developed at the Emory Vaccine Center and the Yerkes National Primate Research Center.
• Community Life: The campus community received the 2008 Presidential Award for General Community Service, the highest federal recognition given to colleges and universities for their commitment to community service, service-learning and civic engagement. Emory was also named to 2010 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction.
• Distinguished Professors: 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 Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hank Klibanoff.
• Famous Alumni: Emory alumni have included one U.S. vice president, several U.S. senators and representatives, four governors, three ambassadors, one Supreme Court justice, several university presidents, five Pulitzer Prize winners and an astronaut.