Emory University

Emory University is a private, research university originally founded in Oxford, Georgia, in 1836 by the Methodist Episcopal Church as Emory College.

The college was named after the Methodist Episcopal Church bishop, John Emery. In 1915, the school relocated to its current location in Atlanta and assumed its present name.

Today, Emory University comprises about nine academic divisions, including two undergraduate colleges and some seven graduate and professional schools. Among the best known of the latter are the Goizueta Business School and the Candler School of Theology.

Three of the professional schools—the Emory University Medical School, the Neil Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, and the Rollins School of Public Health—are parts of an umbrella administrative entity known as the Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center (WHSC).

One of the WHSC’s most noteworthy constituent units is the world-renowned—Yerkes National Primate Research Center.

Among many prominent Emory-associated individuals, we may note the following:

• Mathematicians, Raman Parimala, Suresh Venapally, Victoria Powers, Vojtěch Rödl & Ken Ono
• Philosophers, Donald Phillip Verene, Ernst von Glasersfeld & Thomas R. Flynn
• Theologian, Timothy P. Jackson
• Poet, Natasha Trethewey
• Novelist, Carl Hiaasen
• Young adult author, Lauren Kate
• Popular musician, Peter Buck
• Physicist, Eric Weeks
• Chemists, Jennifer M. Heemstra, Huw Davies & Shuming Nie
• Microbiologist, Thomas Milton Rivers
• Immunologists, R. Paul Johnson, Thomas P. Gordon, Shu Hongbing & Edward S. Mocarski
• Pharmacologist, Marion Sewer
• Medical imaging researcher, Elizabeth Krupinski
• Primatologist, Robert Yerkes
• Chimpanzee language researcher, Duane Rumbaugh
• Psychologists, Karl Lashley & Drew Westen
• Historians, C. Vann Woodward, David M. Potter & Jeffrey Burton Russell
• Sociologist, Howard Odum
• Anthropologist, Melvin Konner
• Economist, Jacob Mincer
• Legal and international relations scholars, Harold J. Berman & Mary Louise Dudziak
• Japanologist, Susan Pharr
• Korean political thinker and politician, Yun Chi-ho
• Radio journalist, Kai Ryssdal
• TV journalist, David Brinkley
• Coca-Cola Company President, Robert W. Woodruff
• Nobel Peace Prize laureate, the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso,
• Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Desmond Tutu
• US House of Representatives Speaker, Newt Gingrich
• US Senators Sam Nunn & Zell Miller
• 35th US Vice President (under President Harry Truman), Alben Barkley
• 39th US President, Jimmy Carter