43 Facts About Emory University

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

Emory University has nine academic divisions: Emory 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 University has a growing faculty research partnership with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.

Emory University students come from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, five territories of the United States, and over 100 foreign countries.

Emory University is the leading coordinator of the U S Health Department's National Ebola Training and Education Center.

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Emory University has the 15th-largest endowment among U S colleges and universities.

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

Emory University has more than 149, 000 alumni, with 75 alumni clubs established worldwide in 20 countries.

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

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

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

In 1915, Emory College relocated to Druid Hills and was rechartered as Emory 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 University organized a medical unit, composed of medical school faculty and medical alumni, that would be known as Emory 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 University 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 University officially became a coeducational institution in 1953.

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

In 1971, Emory University 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 University'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 University offers highly selective honors programs for high-performing undergraduates in most areas of concentration.

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

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

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

In 2012, following an internal investigation led by Emory Provost Earl Lewis and Jones Day Law Firm, Emory University announced that members of Emory University's Office of Admission and Institutional Research intentionally misreported data concerning entering students' standardized test scores and class rankings between 2000 and 2012 to standard reference sources and third parties who rank colleges and universities.

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

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

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

In 2015, Emory University 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.

Emory University research is heavily funded by the United States Department of Health and Human Services's National Institutes of Health.

In 2015, Emory 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 University-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 University is a global leader in Ebola research and treatment.

In 2015, Emory 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 (TBI).

The 56-acre campus, located 38 miles east of Emory's Atlanta Campus, is home to Oxford College of Emory University and was the site of military headquarters and infirmaries during the American Civil War.

In 1991, Emory University 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 University received the 2008 Presidential Award for General Community Service, which is the highest federal recognition given to higher education institutions for their commitment to community service, service-learning and civic engagement.

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

Emory University 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 University student volunteers participate to help preserve nature trails, create urban farms, as well as restore neighborhood parks.

Emory 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 (VOIS).

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

Emory University has over 13, 200 faculty and staff members and over 133, 000 living alumni.