Volume 75
Number 4


The Lord of Misrule

Emory Medalists

Enigma: The Haunting of Uppergate House

The Emory Century

Wonderful Woodruffs
The Ubiquitous Woodruff
Living up to the Legacy
The Return of the
Bright Brigade

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE EMORY CENTURY
BRICKS AND MORTAR
DIVERSITY
EMORY TRADITIONS
FOUNDING SCHOOL
GIANTS
RESEARCH & SCHOLARSHIP
STUDENTS
TURNING POINTS
EMORY AND
THE WORLD

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE EMORY CENTURY
BRICKS AND MORTAR
DIVERSITY
EMORY TRADITIONS
FOUNDING SCHOOL
GIANTS
RESEARCH & SCHOLARSHIP
STUDENTS
TURNING POINTS
EMORY AND
THE WORLD

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 
 
1990–The Center for Ethics in Public Policy and the Professions is established.
   
  1990–The $40 million O. Wayne Rollins Research Center is dedicated, doubling the amount of space for life science research at Emory.
 
  1990–The Lullwater Review, an Emory student-run literary journal, is launched.
  1990–Emory’s Division of Public Health becomes its School of Public Health, the first in Georgia, one of twenty-five nationwide, and one of eight in private institutions in this country.
 
  1991–Emory fields an intercollegiate baseball team. In 1995, Chappell Field, Emory’s new baseball stadium, becomes one of the finest NCAA Division III facilities of its kind.
 
  1992–Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev addresses a record-breaking audience at Commencement.
 
  1992–The Office of International Affairs is established.
  1992–The Women’s Center is established. Kelly Turney, director of Emory’s Equal Opportunity Programs, writes, “The opening of the women’s center was significant for many women around campus because it provided a space for women’s voices to be valued and heard–for women’s issues to be at the center rather than the margin. It also provided one of the much needed places at Emory where constituencies from across the campus come together, and students, faculty, and staff interact informally.”
 
 
 
 
 
  1994–Emory is admitted to the Association of American Universities.
  1994–The University publishes “Choices and Responsibility: Shaping Emory’s Future,” a document that examined the crisis in American higher education and Emory’s role in addressing issues such as teaching, research, interdisciplinary scholarship, and community relationships.
 
 
  1995–Emory hosts President Bill Clinton’s regional economic summit in Cannon Chapel.
  1996–The Olympics come to Atlanta. The University sponsors cultural events, provides health care, and houses volunteers and more than two thousand international media representatives. Emory’s athletic facilities are used for Paralympic events and as training sites for a number of national Olympic teams.
 
 
  1996–The Hugh F. MacMillan Law Library is dedicated.
  1997–The Roberto C. Goizueta Business School dedicates its new home on Clifton Road, just three weeks before the death of its namesake, the chief executive officer of The Coca-Cola Company.
 
  1997Wole Soyinka ’96H, exiled Nigerian playwright, activist, and Nobel Laureate, comes to Emory as the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of the Arts.
 
  1998–South African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu comes to Emory as the visiting Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Theology.
 
  1998–His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the XIV Dalai Lama, delivers the Commencement address and inaugurates the Summer Institute for Tibetan Buddhist Studies. The Summer Institute is the first program of the formal partnership between Emory and the exiled Drepung Loseling Monastery, a major center of Tibetan scholarship.
 
 
 
  1998–The Center for Library and Information Resources is dedicated.
  1999–With an outpouring of public support that raised $2 million in two weeks, the Michael C. Carlos Museum brings “the mummies” to Atlanta, securing the acquisition of an eighty-piece collection of Egyptian funerary art and artifacts.
 
 
 

1999–The University purchases forty-two acres of property, the site of the former Georgia Mental Health Institute. In partnership with the Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory plans to develop a state-of-the-art biotechnology research and development center on the site, dubbed Emory West.

 
 
 
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