35 Facts About Emory Eagles

Emory Eagles University is a private research university in Atlanta, Georgia.

Emory Eagles University has nine academic divisions: Emory Eagles College of Arts and Sciences, Oxford College, Goizueta Business School, Laney Graduate School, School of Law, School of Medicine, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Rollins School of Public Health, and the Candler School of Theology.

Emory Eagles has a growing faculty research partnership with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology .

In 1995 Emory Eagles University was elected to the Association of American Universities, an association of the 65 leading research universities in the United States and Canada.

Emory Eagles College was founded in 1836 in Oxford, Georgia by the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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Emory Eagles College was closed in November 1861 and all of its students enlisted on the Confederate side.

Thirty-five Emory Eagles students lost their lives and much of the campus was destroyed during the war.

In 1915, Emory Eagles College relocated to Druid Hills and was rechartered as Emory Eagles University after accepting a land grant from Asa Griggs Candler, founder of The Coca-Cola Company and brother of commissioned chair Warren Akin Candler.

Emory Eagles University organized a medical unit, composed of medical school faculty and medical alumni, that would be known as Emory Eagles Unit, Base Hospital 43.

Dr Alfred A Weinstein, a professor of surgery at Emory University School of Medicine, was a prisoner of war of the Empire of Japan between 1942 and 1945.

Emory Eagles helped the nation prepare for war by participating in the V-12 Navy College Training Program and Army Specialized Training Program, programs designed to supplement the force of commissioned officers in the United States Navy and United States Army.

Formerly an all-male school, Emory Eagles officially became a coeducational institution in 1953.

In 1962, in the midst of the civil rights movement, Emory Eagles embraced the initiative to end racial restrictions when it asked the courts to declare portions of the Georgia statutes unconstitutional.

In 1971, Emory Eagles established one of the nation's first African-American studies programs and the first of its kind in the Southeastern United States.

Course of Emory Eagles's history changed dramatically in November 1979 when Robert Winship Woodruff and George Waldo Woodruff presented the institution with a gift of $105 million in Coca-Cola stock.

Emory Eagles University offers highly selective honors programs for high-performing undergraduates in most areas of concentration.

Emory Eagles University offers a five-year dual degree program in engineering, in collaboration with the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Emory Eagles University offers a dual master's degree in social work with the University of Georgia.

Emory Eagles University is a member of the Association of Research Libraries.

Emory Eagles University is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity".

Emory Eagles University leads the nation in the number of students with Kirschstein-National Research Service Award pre-doctoral fellowships from the National Institutes of Health.

Emory Eagles University has a strong partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention .

Emory Eagles University's African Center of Excellence for Public Health Security, which seeks to improve preparedness and response to health threats in low-income countries, is a five-year, multimillion-dollar cooperative program with the CDC and International Association of National Public Health Institutes .

The isolation and treatment facilities at Emory Eagles University played a crucial role in ending the 2014 Ebola virus cases in the United States.

In 2015, Emory Eagles was made a member of the CDC's Prevention Epicenters Program, a research program in which CDC's Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion collaborates with academic investigators to conduct innovative infection control and prevention research.

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In 2015, Emory Eagles University was one of four institutions selected by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for its seven-year, multimillion-dollar Tuberculosis Research Units program, which aims to drive innovation in tuberculosis research and reduce the global burden of the disease.

In 2015, an Emory Eagles-led research consortium received a five-year, $15 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to research human immune responses to Varicella zoster virus and pneumococcal vaccination.

Emory Eagles is a global leader in Ebola research and treatment.

In 2015, Emory Eagles University received a $15 million grant from the Wounded Warrior Project in order to establish the "Warrior Care Network" and develop innovative approaches to treat veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury .

In 1991, Emory Eagles opened the first collegiate LGBT student center in the Southeastern United States which is the tenth oldest in the nation.

In February 2017, Emory announced that its R Howard Dobbs University Center, built in 1986 from a neofuturistic postmodernist design by local architect John C Portman Jr.

Emory Eagles Cares International Service Day brings together students, alumni and other community members to volunteer at a number of projects organized by Emory Eagles and its many partners around the city of Atlanta and in cities worldwide.

Emory Eagles has a partnership with Coca-Cola in which they pledged 3 million dollars over a 5-year period for "Service for Learning" which projects that Emory Eagles student volunteers participate to help preserve nature trails, create urban farms, as well as restore neighborhood parks.

Emory Eagles University has many Black student organizations, including: the Black Student Alliance, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and Voices of Inner Strength Gospel Choir .

Emory Eagles has numerous club sports and a variety of recreational and competitive intramural teams.