Life at Emory

Students, faculty and staff enjoy a welcoming and enterprising atmosphere at Emory. The campus community fosters closeness over time among all who participate in its rich diversity.

The university has distinctive rituals and traditions. For example, a skeleton safeguards Emory spirit, and by tradition there's a soda brand of choice (hint: its headquarters are in Atlanta).

More than two-thirds of undergraduates live on campus, including all first- and second-year students. Faculty and staff have low turnover rates. One in three alumni stays in the Atlanta area.

Life at Emory Spotlight

From Midtown to Africa

Emory Report

"As an ICU nurse, it's expected that once in a while we may have to work in unfamiliar areas," writes D. Dennis Flores, who works at Emory University Hospital Midtown. But "not even in my wildest Florence Nightingale moment did I think that would include international travel. As part of a rotating group of health care personnel from the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, our motley group of three RNs was deployed to Durban, South Africa, to mentor nurses, to assist in the transfer of knowledge and help in capacity building."

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Starring: Emory

Campus Life

Recent Emory College graduates Austin Reynolds and Jeremy White swapped late hours of writing theses for extended nights and long months producing a short film, "The Misadventure" (working title: "Disconnected"). To make the script come alive, they asked for support from the Emory community. "Ninety percent of the cast and crew are Emory-affiliated," Reynolds says. The film is to premiere at Emory this fall.

Arts at Emory