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Emory University is a private research university in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It was founded in 1836 as Emory College by the Methodist Episcopal Church and named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory. [18] Its main campus is in Druid Hills, three miles (five kilometers) from downtown Atlanta. [19]
Completed in early 2003, the Schwartz Center provides a multidisciplinary teaching and performance center for the performing arts programs at Emory including dance, music, and theater. The centerpiece of the center is the 825-seat Cherry Logan Emerson Concert Hall featuring a custom-built Daniel Jaeckel Opus 45 pipe organ with fifty-four stops ...
Emory has received four of the 100 largest donations in higher education history. Emory is the only university with two donations among the fifteen largest in higher education history. These records are tracked by the Chronicle of Higher Education. Many of these donations stemmed from the school's close ties to the Coca-Cola Company and its ...
Emory University and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Druid Hills, Georgia Aerial Image. In the most recent rankings (2024), Rollins was ranked number 3 among accredited schools and programs of public health by U.S. News & World Report, [7] and is one of two schools of public health founded in the past 50 years to be ranked in the top 12.
Emory Williams, Sr. (BA 1932 [36]) – retired corporate executive of Sears Roebuck and civic leader in Chicago, namesake of the Emory Williams Teaching Award at Emory University Robert W. Woodruff (one term as an undergraduate [ 37 ] ) – former president of the Coca-Cola Company , gave over $230 million to Emory University, [ 37 ] namesake ...
Woodruff Library. Emory Libraries is the collective group of academic libraries at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.The libraries include the Robert W. Woodruff Library, Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library, Goizueta Business Library, Hugh F. MacMillan Law Library, Pitts Theology Library, Oxford College Library, and the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library.
George Dewey Yancy (born June 3, 1961) [1] is an American philosopher who is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy at Emory University.He is a distinguished Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College, one of the college's highest honors. [2]
James William Fowler III (1940–2015) was an American theologian who was Professor of Theology and Human Development at Emory University. He was director of both the Center for Research on Faith and Moral Development, and the Center for Ethics until he retired in 2005. He was a minister in the United Methodist Church.