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8 unusual facts about Emory University


Alternative investment

The Goizueta Business School at Emory University has established the Emory Center for Alternative Investments to provide research and a forum for discussion regarding private equity, hedge fund, and venture capital investments.

Bennett Sims

From 1980 to 1988, Sims held a visiting professorship at Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta.

CASPA

It is currently used by nearly 150 schools, including the top 5 PA Schools: Duke University, Emory University, George Washington University, University of Utah, and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

Chi Beta Phi

However, during the school year 1920-21, an expansion program was inaugurated and three chapters were installed (College of William and Mary, Hampden-Sydney College, and Emory University).

Emory College

Emory College, an academic division of Emory University, located in DeKalb County, Georgia, USA, in the Atlanta area

Oxford College of Emory University, a two-year residential college of Emory University located in Oxford, Georgia, USA.

OpenEpi

The initial development of OpenEpi was supported by a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to Emory University.

Tom Bowl

The Tom Bowl has used this formula ever since although in 2009 invites were extended to six different teams including Emory University which boasts of being undefeated since 1836 because they do not have a football team.


Dennis Choi

Choi arrived at Emory University in August 2007, where he currently serves as the Director of the Comprehensive Neurosciences Center and the Neuroscience, Human Nature, and Society Initiative, both of which are under the umbrella of Emory Healthcare.

Donald Keough

Keough has received various honors in his career, including honorary doctorates from the University of Notre Dame, his alma mater Creighton University, Emory University, Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, and Clark University.

Earl Black

He and his twin brother, Merle Black, a professor at Emory University, have written several books on the politics of the South and the United States as a whole.

EPSCI

Some of the most recognizable partners for exchanges are McGill University, Emory University, Keio University, Queen's University, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, IE Business School, UNC Chapel Hill, Bocconi Milan, and UNSW Sydney.

Georgia Rail Passenger Program

The Athens route will connect nine of Georgia's colleges and universities, including Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia State University, Emory University, Georgia Gwinnett College, and the University of Georgia.

Georgia's 4th congressional district election, 2006

Merle Black, a political science professor at Emory University in Atlanta, expressed a similar sentiment, "An incumbent who is forced into a runoff is a serious sign of weakness.

Historians of American Communism

The General Organizing Board of the new organization approved by the April 2, 1982, meeting consisted of Hyman Berman of the University of Minnesota; Lowell Dyson of Alexandria, Virginia; Max Gordon of New York City; John Earl Haynes of Washington, D.C.; Harvey Klehr of Emory University; and William Pratt of the University of Nebraska.

Huey Richardson

Richardson returned to college and earned his master's degree in business administration from Emory University in Atlanta in 2000, and currently works as a financial analyst for Merrill Lynch in New York City.

James F. Jones

Jones holds Master's and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University, a Master's degree from Emory University and a Bachelor of Arts and GDIship from the University of Virginia, from which he graduated cum laude; while at Virginia he was assistant director of the Virginia Glee Club.

Joel Bowman

Joel Mark Bowman is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Theoretical Chemistry at Emory University.

Jonathan Goldberg

Jonathan Goldberg is a literary theorist; formerly the Sir William Osler Professor of English Literature at Johns Hopkins University, he is currently Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of English at Emory University where he directed Studies in Sexualities from 2008-12.

Jonathan Simons

At 41 years old, Simons was recruited by the Georgia governor Roy Barnes and the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation of Atlanta to be the Founding Director of the Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University.

Joseph M. Hendricks

He attended Mercer University as an undergraduate, obtained a Master of Divinity degree at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, a Doctor of Law degree at Atlanta Law School and a Doctor of Philosophy degree at Emory University.

Julius Thompson

He teaches British Literature, American Literature, and Creative Writing courses at Redan High School as well as more Writing courses at Emory University during the evening.

Just Hear It

Just Hear It was founded in 2008 in Los Angeles, California by USC student Nicolae Ivanescu and Emory University student Cosmin Panait.

Kathleen Neal Cleaver

After graduating, Cleaver worked for the law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, and followed this with numerous jobs including: law clerk in the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia, the faculty of Emory University in Atlanta, visiting faculty member at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City, the Graduate School of Yale University and Sarah Lawrence College.

Master of Sacred Music

These programs are located at the Boston University School of Theology, College of Jewish Music's H.L. Miller Cantorial School, Duquesne University, Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion's School of Sacred Music, Emory University, Southern Methodist University, the University of Notre Dame and Yale University's Institute of Sacred Music.

Maury Klein

He earned a B.A. degree from Knox College in 1960 and went on to graduate work at Emory University, where he picked up an M. A. degree in 1961 and a Ph. D. in history in 1965.

Michelle Izmaylov

She is a medical student who currently attends the Vanderbilt School of Medicine as a Cornelius Vanderbilt Scholar after graduating from Emory University in May 2013 with a BS degree (having double majored in Chemistry and Biology).

Vestavia Hills High School

She is one of ten coaches honored by having a debate round in the Barkley Forum for High Schools at Emory University named after her.

Vojtěch Rödl

Vojtěch Rödl is a Czech mathematician, currently the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor at Emory University, Atlanta, known for his work in combinatorics.

WEAS-FM

callsign meaning = The WEAS callsign was originally licensed to Decatur, Georgia, home to two schools:
Emory and Agnes Scott|

William C. Roberts

In 1954, Roberts graduated early from Southern Methodist University with a bachelor's degree in the arts, having been accepted to Emory University's School of Medicine.


see also

Criticism of marriage

John Witte, Jr., Professor of Law and director of the Law and Religion Program at Emory University, argues that contemporary liberal attitudes toward marriage produce a family that is "haphazardly bound together in the common pursuit of selfish ends" exactly as prophecized by Nietzsche.

CSLR

Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University School of Law in Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Druid Hills, Georgia

Public bus transportation is provided by the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, while Emory University runs an extensive fleet of shuttles, called the "Cliff".

Emily Saliers

Saliers has co-written a book with her father, Don Saliers, a retired theology professor at Candler School of Theology at Emory University, called A Song to Sing, a Life to Live: Reflections on Music as Spiritual Practice.

Felman

Shoshana Felman, Woodruff Professor of Comparative Literature and French at Emory University

Frank Alexander

Frank S. Alexander, professor of law at the Emory University School of Law

Jacob Broughton Nelson

Over the next few years, he oversaw the chartering of Phi Kappa chapters at the Emory University Academy in Oxford, Georgia (Gamma Beta) and at the Gulf Coast Military Academy in Gulfport, Mississippi (Mu Theta).

Kenneth W. Stein

In 1997, Stein was a recipient of the Emory Williams teaching award, given as a highest honor of excellence in teaching at Emory University.

Michael C. Carlos Museum

Through research and collaboration with Emory University medical experts, museum scholars were able to identify the mummy as pharaoh Ramesses I.

Robert E. Webber Institute for Worship Studies

Faculty members hold positions at such schools as the University of Notre Dame, Duke Divinity School, Wheaton College (Illinois), the Candler School of Theology at Emory University, Northwestern College, College of the Ozarks, Indiana Wesleyan University, the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University, Reformed Theological Seminary, and Northern Seminary.

The President's Council on Bioethics

James W. Wagner, the president of Emory University, was appointed vice chairperson.