The first round of funded programming supported by the Office of the Provost will focus on Asian performance forms; jazz music and the African American experience; documentaries and ethical storytelling; and film and public arts.
The Emory College first-year student is the first Georgia pianist to compete in the national round of the Music Teachers National Association Competition in more than a decade. She competes March 17 and will perform her competition program on campus April 28.
Four outstanding Emory College students representing academic achievement and passionate curiosity across the liberal arts and sciences have been selected to be Bobby Jones Scholars at the University of St Andrews in Scotland.
Miriam Udel, a scholar of Yiddish language, literature and culture, has been awarded the Chronos Faculty Fellowship in Emory College of Arts and Sciences for 2024. The fellowship will help support her upcoming research.
Emory College professor Jo Guldi’s courses are the foundation of a new lab that will mix humanistic questions and machine learning to gain new insight into real-world problems such as climate change.
A new book by faculty member Valerie Babb outlines the sophistication with which LeBron James shapes understanding of our racial landscape and refuses to let others define him.
The Ellmann Lectures — which established Emory’s name in the world of arts and letters — will feature poet Natasha Trethewey and writer Fintan O’Toole, who will honor the 10th anniversary of the death of Seamus Heaney, the first Ellmann Lecturer.
Emory University has joined more than 200 of the nation’s leading AI authorities as a member of the new U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute Consortium.
Gregory Zinman, an acting associate professor of film and media in Emory College, has been selected for an Arts Writers Grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation in support of a book on public art.
A 2021 honors graduate in English and linguistics, Eva Rothenberg has been selected for the 2024 Marshall Scholarship. The competitive award covers up to three years of graduate study in the U.K.
SURE, Emory’s hallmark undergraduate research program during summer break, is expanding access for students in the humanities, arts and social sciences. Applications for 2024 are now open.
A new paper from a team led by Emory sociologist Megan Reed offers new insight into family ties during crises by examining family communication patterns in the early days of COVID-19.
Undergraduates in the “Imagining Democracy” course consider how to motivate disengaged citizens to become involved in the political process. Spearheaded by Carol Anderson and Bernard Fraga, the course is changing the lives of students and the community.
Emory University’s AI.Humanity Initiative continues its upward trajectory in 2023, welcoming new faculty members and launching an AI ethics and policy hiring focus.
Emory College historians Chris Suh and Maria Montalvo will present the semester’s “First Fridays” lectures on topics related to race and social justice.
Support for scholarly and community-building programming underscores the university’s commitment to its strong liberal arts tradition — and to fostering new understandings and expressions of the human condition.
Regular, full-time Emory University faculty are invited to apply for funding for research and scholarly activity during the 2024-25 cycle. Applications are due by Jan. 17, 2024.
The yearlong Humanity in Action fellowship provides young leaders like recent graduate Niara Foster and junior Ansley Langham the opportunity to create unique public projects that stem from their own research.
This summer, the Pathways Center piloted an internship program in LA, offering students the opportunity to get hands-on experience in film and television, learn from experts, connect with Emory alumni and more.
Opening in spring 2024, a new public scholarship center based at Oxford College will help Emory faculty and students effectively translate academic pursuits into the public arena.
Emory’s newest Woodruff Scholars, recipients of the university’s top merit scholarships, bring exceptional academic achievements, leadership and service to the campus community.
The nine schools that make up Emory University have big plans for the 2023-24 academic year. Read a roundup of class stats, new degree programs or initiatives and other things to come.
Emory faculty write and edit dozens of books each year. These 20 are ideal for summer reading, whether you want compelling nonfiction or award-winning novels.
Chris Suh’s selection as a Mellon Emerging Faculty Leader comes just weeks after publishing his first book, charting U.S. ideas about imperialism and race. The award will support his upcoming work, including the hiring of undergraduate researchers.
Interested in expanding your horizons this summer? Listen to podcasts from Emory faculty, staff and students for captivating stories and compelling conversations. Check out new episodes and stay tuned for future releases.
Henry Koskoff and Paula Acocal are this year’s recipients of the prestigious Sudler Prize, which recognizes their remarkable promise in the creative and performing arts.
The Atlanta Writers Club recently honored Creative Writing Fellow Sanjena Sathian with the Townsend Prize for Fiction for her novel “Gold Diggers.” Her colleague and fellow novelist Tiphanie Yanique was among the 10 finalists.
In her work on postcolonial and decolonial novels by Caribbean women writers, Alicia Doyen-Rodríguez has been an innovator in the digital humanities who shares that expertise with her students as well as fellow graduate students.
Nicole Felix-Tovar is the student speaker at Emory University’s 2023 Commencement ceremony. A first-generation student, she’s found fulfillment and growth across multiple areas of campus.
Clare McCarthy, an environmental sciences major with a minor in community building and social change, distinguished herself by applying her intellectual gifts as a climate leader both on and off campus.
Jewel Okoronkwo, a neuroscience and behavioral biology major, is well-known around Emory. When students returned to campus after the COVID-19 pandemic, Okoronkwo could be found fostering community and conversation in Asbury Circle.
As most industries rebound from the pandemic, Emory College graduates choosing either jobs or continuing education are achieving great success. For employers, the curricular and co-curricular skills and experiences of Emory’s liberal arts students create a nearly unbeatable combination.
A willingness to explore multiple interests in medicine, public health and computing allowed Emory senior David Goldberg to have an outsized impact on campus and beyond.
Four Emory faculty members have been elected to join the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a prestigious honorary society and a leading center for independent policy research.
Emory College’s Center for Native and Indigenous Studies will deepen the university’s partnership with the College of the Muscogee Nation and expand innovative research and teaching in Indigenous Studies.
The Mellon Foundation has awarded $1.3 million to Emory University and partners to explore how to ethically employ artificial intelligence through the creation of the Atlanta Interdisciplinary AI Network.
Four Emory College juniors join 45 previous Emory recipients of the Goldwater Scholarship, the premier award for undergraduates studying math, natural sciences and engineering.
Launching this fall, the Emory Initiative for Arts and Humanistic Inquiry will support schools in hiring up to 30 new faculty focused on exploring questions central to society and the human experience.
The Pathways Center’s first Career Trek to New York City opened up a world of possibilities for Emory undergraduates through essential alumni connections.
Emory College students are examining the aesthetic of adorableness through the lens of politics, race, gender and disability in the new “cute studies” course this spring.
Emory College students Ben Thomas, Balwant-Amrit Singh, Alicia Yin and Carly Colen will spend the next year studying at the University of St Andrews in Scotland as recipients of the prestigious Robert T. Jones Scholarship.
Dozens of undergraduates from Emory College and Oxford College discovered concrete next steps for their college careers and beyond at the first-ever Sophomore Summit, an intensive two-day retreat.
March brings many opportunities to immerse yourself in the arts across campus, including the Schwartz Center debut of pianist and composer Chad Lawson on March 25. Find an event and mark your calendar.
Carla S. Freeman, interim dean of Emory College of Arts and Sciences, has been named the next director of Emory’s Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry. She will assume leadership of the Fox Center after the next Emory College dean begins later this year.
Emory College junior Hasset Nurelegne is one of only 12 recipients selected to receive the prestigious National Institutes of Health undergraduate scholarship for 2022-23.
New analysis by Emory sociologist Heeju Sohn and colleagues finds undocumented Mexican immigrants who are men and young, single and less educated appear to consistently be at higher risk for deportation even under different presidential administrations and policies.
Senior Maya Wright will compete in the “Jeopardy! High School Reunion Tournament” for the chance to win $100,000 and a spot in the Tournament of Champions.
From film screenings to concerts, theater productions to a jazz festival, February brings a wide range of arts-inspired programs to campus — including a performance by Harlem-based hip hop duo ManKind Music Academy.
Students in Emory political scientist Bernard Fraga’s class worked in real time to crunch midterm election data and translate the numbers into credible analysis ready for the public eye.
After working with the Obama Presidency Oral History Project, the LA Lakers and more, scholar Karida Brown is focusing on the Department of Sociology’s research apprentice program, overseeing undergraduate students on a variety of projects.
Emory College student Alexa Mohsenzadeh, a neuroscience and behavioral biology major, will pursue a master’s degree in Ireland next year as Emory’s first recipient of the prestigious George J. Mitchell Scholarship.
Emory College first-year student Kira Young has applied her longterm interest in mental health to initiatives and advocacy for her peers. She recently won a $10,000 scholarship for her work.
An Emory College of Arts and Sciences pilot features 10 seminars, representing areas of the liberal arts, that will introduce first-year students to flourishing, enabling them to make stronger connections during their learning journey.
On the latest episode of One Big Question, Emory President Gregory L. Fenves talks to bestselling author and creative writing professor Tayari Jones about the power of storytelling.
Using funding and additional training from Microsoft, five students worked with faculty and Neighborhood Nexus this summer on data analysis exploring metro Atlanta's rental housing market. Their analysis allowed them to build a price prediction model.
As the 2022-23 cohort of the Emory Arts Fellows program, artists Tamika Galanis and Davor Vincze will spend the year teaching undergraduate classes and partnering on courses with Emory faculty.
The Emory community joins others around the world in sending well wishes to author Salman Rushdie, whose long relationship with the university includes serving as a distinguished professor, speaking at Commencement and placing his archives here.
Through the SURE program, more than 120 Emory students, plus two dozen others from nearby schools, spent 10 weeks conducting independent research with faculty members across an array of disciplines. Learn more about their projects.
Four Atlanta-area high school students spent two weeks on Emory’s campus this summer, learning about life in college and studying connections between the ancient Mediterranean world and our lives today.
Emory Woodruff Scholar Sarina Adeline McCabe is a creative writing major with a special interest in medicine. As a Knight-Hennessy Scholar at Stanford, she will continue connecting those fields while pursuing a PhD.
Graduating seniors poet Amalia Tenuta and pianist Ssuyuan Wang have been honored for their exceptional contributions to the performing and creative arts on campus.
Jay Desai is known at Emory and through international hackathons for pairing tech skills with a knack for repurposing common materials. The result? Inexpensive inventions that solve sticky medical problems.
As Anya Kasubhai graduates from Oxford College, she is grateful for lessons learned as a student and a leader, and the bonds she’s forged with those who have contributed to her successes.
Receiving the prestigious Beinecke Scholarship will allow Emory College junior Hunter Akridge to pursue a doctoral degree to conduct applied research on how low-wage workers experience technology adoption in the workplace.
The suggestion to explore math and dance concepts in tandem sounded odd — but it led to a solid teaching partnership and new way of helping students visualize complicated mathematics and understand themselves.
The latest initiative from Human Health, which integrates Emory College’s liberal arts excellence with the university’s renowned health sciences, exposes undergrads to the science, policy, ethics and law behind vaccines and drug discovery.
The Goldwater Scholarship is the nation’s top scholarship for undergraduates studying math, natural sciences and engineering. This marks the fourth consecutive year that multiple Emory students have won the award.
Spring semester might be winding down, but Emory Arts still has a full calendar of events to enjoy. Highlights in April include Emory Dance Company’s spring concert and multiple opportunities to learn about and discuss art.
Learn about the outstanding students admitted to the undergraduate Class of 2026, drawn from the most diverse applicant pool Emory’s history.
At Emory, Chris Van Dusen learned to be true to his creative instincts. Years later, those same instincts led him to combine period romance, diverse casting and modern twists to create the powerhouse Netflix series “Bridgerton.”
Faculty members James Abbington and Jesse P. Karlsberg provided expert commentary during Sunday’s White House “Soul of the Nation” gospel concert.
As spring blooms on campus, March brings a full calendar of arts-related events to Emory, including Carlos Museum programs, student musical and theater performances and a concert by contemporary chamber group Unheard-of//Ensemble.
Laila Sabreen has quietly been working on fiction projects while pursuing additional undergraduate research and community service. Her first novel, “You Truly Assumed,” debuted Feb. 8.
Malinda Maynor Lowery, the new Cahoon Family Professor in American History, incorporated debate into her first Emory College course this fall, an effort that drew engagement while honoring the alumna who helped Emory win its first national debate championship.
Neuroscience and human health. Differential mathematics and dance. Atmospheric chemistry and German studies. Through the Learning through Inclusive Collaboration Initiative, students and faculty in paired classes come together to explore real-world problems through interdisciplinary perspectives.
President Joseph R. Biden has nominated alumna Elizabeth Prelogar to become the next solicitor general at the U.S. Department of Justice. She has served as acting solicitor general since January.
Emory faculty and staff are frequently recognized for their work locally, nationally and internationally. Read a sampling of recent accolades, including awards for professional contributions and leadership appointments.
Emory faculty and staff are frequently recognized for their work locally, nationally and internationally. Read a sampling of recent accolades, including awards for professional contributions and leadership appointments.
Faculty Showcase, a Feb. 22 virtual event celebrating new Emory faculty, features professor and Pulitzer Prize winner Jericho Brown, who will read poems reflecting Emory’s nine schools and then engage with new faculty representing those units.
Emory’s new Arts and Social Justice Fellows program brings together Emory students and faculty members with Atlanta artists to explore how creative thinking and expression can inspire change.
A groundbreaking effort within Emory College of Arts and Sciences brings books by humanities faculty to wider audiences through open access publication, making the works freely available online to anyone in the world with internet access.
Woodruff Debate Scholars Grace Kessler and Eu Giampetruzzi gained notice during their first season as a debate team, accumulating enough points to battle for the national title in the National Debate Tournament next March.
Research is an integral part of Emory, from the sciences to the humanities. Here’s a sample of recent grant awards across campus along with newly published research findings.
Six Atlanta artists came into Emory classrooms this semester, working with faculty to help students translate their learning into creative action and activism in the name of social justice. Learn about the work they created in an online showcase Dec. 15.
Combining the humanities with the cutting-edge field of data science, an innovative Emory College course examines how turning text into data can lead to new insights on topics ranging from poetry to social media posts.
Living through a pandemic affects people in many different ways. Read or listen to stories about dealing with COVID-19, or become part of Emory’s history by sharing your own experiences through the new “Stories from the Pandemic” website.
Professors Dan Sinykin and Lauren Klein are pioneers in the emerging field of applying quantitative methods to literary analysis. Their work uses computers to help spot patterns in massive amounts of literature, unearthing never-told stories.
The border that split post-war Germany has long fascinated scholars who explored its impact on the Communist East. Emory historian Astrid Eckert's new book flips that narrative, examining the lasting consequences for what was West Germany.
With experience honed as a writer for NBC's 'The Blacklist' and shows on Netflix and BBC America, creative writing professor T Cooper guides students in the highly collaborative craft of writing TV scripts.
Award-winning poet and essayist Claudia Rankine will deliver the next series of the Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature at Emory University Nov. 7-9, 2019.
Alec Russin was only a toddler when he lost his father in the Sept. 11 attacks. Now he's the first recipient of a special Emory scholarship created to help the children of alumni who felt the impact most.
Visitors to the Carlos Museum can watch conservators as they work to restore the "Cosmic Man" this month. Learn more about the treatment process at a special program on Thursday, Sept. 19.
Sophomore Dayra Leal Sanchez spent her summer teaching at Camp PEACE, a program for children impacted by violence. She was one of 13 Emory Scholars who worked with local nonprofits through Emory's Scholarship and Service Program.
The newest cohort of Emory Scholars, recipients of the university's top merit scholarships, highlight the outstanding achievements and exceptional promise of the Class of 2023.
"Buried Truths," a podcast led by Emory professor Hank Klibanoff based on his work with students in Emory's Georgia Civil Rights Cold Cases Project, is nominated for the Peabody Awards, which celebrate compelling stories in broadcast and digital media.
The National Jewish Book Awards honored professor Eric L. Goldstein and alumna Samira K. Mehta in the American Jewish Studies category, while the Los Angeles Times Book Prize has honored professor Tayari Jones in fiction and professor Ruby Lal in history.
Christell Victoria Roach, winner of this year's Hurston/Wright Foundation Award for College Writers, finds inspiration for her poetry through research in Emory's extensive archives on African American history and culture.
At Emory, theater majors are not just acting. They are building cross-disciplinary skills that enhance performance in almost any career pursuit. In Emory's versatile theater program, you could say the career's the thing.
The Emory Center for Digital Scholarship will use a $260,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to publish digital and print editions of widely popular but currently inaccessible American Protestant songbooks.