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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 the Druid Hills neighborhood, three miles (five kilometers) from downtown Atlanta. [19]
Cartoon from 1922 showing several colleges and universities in the metropolitan area Atlanta, Georgia is home to the largest concentration of colleges and universities in the Southern United States. Two of the most important public universities in Georgia, Georgia Tech and Georgia State, have their campuses downtown. A campus of the University of Georgia's Terry College of Business, that ...
The Emory University School of Medicine is the graduate medical school of Emory University and a component of Emory’s Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center. Emory University School of Medicine traces its origins back to 1915 when the Atlanta Medical College (founded 1854), the Southern Medical College (1878), and the Atlanta School of Medicine (founded 1905) merged.
The school is named after Nell Hodgson Woodruff, wife of long-time president of The Coca-Cola Company Robert W. Woodruff. Mrs. Woodruff left nursing school when she married, but she supported nursing causes throughout her life. [1]
Oxford College of Emory University (Oxford College) is a residential college of Emory University. Oxford College is located in Oxford, Georgia, on Emory University's original campus 38 miles (61 km) east of Emory's current Atlanta campus. It specializes in the foundations of liberal arts education.
Emory University's Goizueta Business School (also known as Goizueta Business School, Emory Business School, or simply Goizueta – pronounced goy-swet-ah) is a private business school of Emory University located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It is named after Roberto C. Goizueta, former Chairman and CEO of The Coca-Cola Company.
One of the oldest museums in Georgia, the museum's collections date back to 1876, when a general museum known as Emory College Museum was established on Emory University's original campus in Oxford, Georgia. After the university was relocated to Atlanta, a small group of professors officially founded the Emory University Museum in 1919.
Briarcliff was the mansion and estate of Asa Griggs "Buddy" Candler Jr. (1880–1953), and is now the Briarcliff Campus of Emory University. The estate was built in 1922 on 42 acres on Williams Mill Road, now Briarcliff Road in Druid Hills near Atlanta. Williams Mill Road would be renamed Briarcliff Road in the 1920s after the estate that Asa ...