Emory psychologist Monica Thieu caps off publication of a “buzzy” study on trivia experts by competing in the first-ever “Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament” on Thursday, March 28, hosted by trivia legend Ken Jennings.
Graduating Emory medical students experienced a rite of passage March 15, when they discovered where they are headed next on their journeys to become physicians.
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.
The 2024 IPECP Project Awards prioritize student engagement in interprofessional learning opportunities across Emory’s three health professional schools for medicine, nursing and public health.
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.
Emory University has been a top producer for the Fulbright U.S. Student program, the government’s flagship international exchange program, for eight years running.
What’s hot and what’s not? Ask Yazhuo Zhang, an Emory graduate student of computer science whose insights into web-cache eviction are making waves in the tech world.
The National Science Foundation has awarded $640,000 to William Wuest, Emory professor of chemistry, to further his lab’s development of agrochemicals inspired by compounds found in nature. The goal? To find novel, sustainable ways to combat plant pathogens.
Biomedical graduate students who joined Emory's Biotech Consulting Club met recently to eat, drink, network and swap strategies for exploring careers in the biotechnology business.
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.
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.
A new fund fueled by donors allowed more than 270 students across 47 majors to say “yes” to unique internship experiences — and discover the paths they’re meant to follow along the way.
On Sept. 21, delightful memories surfaced of “The Letters of Samuel Beckett,” the acclaimed project advanced by Emory faculty and students since 1985. The project also looks to the digital future as it takes up residence at the Rose Library.
The Center for AI Learning opened its doors for a lively ribbon-cutting and open house event on September 19, welcoming more than 100 students, faculty, staff and community partners to Suite 217 in the Woodruff Library.
The Hatchery received more than 50 applications for the 16 slots in its 2023-24 Incubator cohort. Learn about the students — and projects — selected from across Emory’s schools.
Emory Vaccine Center researchers have identified a potential Achilles heel within SARS-CoV-2. The vulnerable spot can be targeted with a peptide derived from wild boar, which maintains its antiviral activity across known variants.
For PhD students and postdoctoral fellows working in professor Philip Santangelo’s lab, as well as undergraduates invited to join the audience, Jill Biden’s campus visit proved to be an inspiring, “once-in-a-lifetime” moment.
Experiments show that a tannin found in a plant used by traditional healers in the Amazon inhibits the growth of Candida fungus, opening a new potential path to treat deadly Candida auris.
Begun in 1985, “The Letters of Samuel Beckett” project has achieved a worldwide audience, producing four volumes of selected correspondence. Upcoming events will underscore the project’s continuing life online and in the archives of the Rose Library.
We’re highlighting one exemplary student from each of Emory’s nine colleges and professional schools. From investing in their communities to making new discoveries, these students are ready to take on the world.
The U.S. State Department has selected 17 recent Emory graduates and students as Fulbright finalists to teach English, pursue graduate study and conduct research abroad during the 2023-24 academic year.
Emory biologists solve a mystery about how a common insect acquires a microbe that is essential for its growth. The discovery may help in the control of an agricultural pest.
As summer ends, student founders who participated in The Hatchery's inaugural Summer Incubator program celebrate milestones and look ahead to what’s next in their ventures.
Emory researchers are characterizing a class of enzymes that can confer antibiotic resistance to a range of deadly pathogens. Advanced microscopy techniques yielded the first images of the enzymes in action, offering new clues for how to combat their effects.
Superconductivity is one of the most puzzling and promising of physical states that scientists are unraveling. Emory physicists recently discovered a mechanism for the formation of a particular type of “exotic” high-temperature superconductivity.
Emory biogeochemist Debjani Sihi is working with students on several soil-science projects near campus and around the country, all with the goal of combatting global warming.
Emory biophysicists have gained a new insight about the dynamics of cellular movement, which is key to processes ranging from stem-cell differentiation and wound healing to the development of diseases such as cancer.
Emory’s Next Gen biomedical research internship provides hands-on research experience and works to diversify STEM fields. This year’s program expanded to host more students and offer more lab placements.
Chemist Khalid Salaita received the 2023 Merck Future Insight Prize. The award comes with $540,000 to fund the next phase of his lab’s research into an air sensor that can continuously monitor indoor spaces for pathogens that can cause pandemics.
Marty Levin and Wanda Rushing have established the Levin/Rushing Population and Health Inequalities Research Collaborative Endowment to support Laney Graduate School faculty and doctoral students who are researching demographics and health inequality.
Adelaide Miarinjara is a medical entomologist and a postdoctoral fellow at Emory. Her focus? To unravel some of the mysteries surrounding bubonic plague and its transmission in her homeland of Madagascar.
The Woodruff Health Sciences Center’s Office of Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice recently held an open house to highlight exemplary Emory interprofessional educational programs and introduce two new programs for the 2023–24 academic year.
Meet the students — and projects — involved with The Hatchery’s Summer Incubator. From improving wellness to inclusive beauty products, these students are ready to change the world.
Oxytocin, the so-called “love hormone,” plays a key role in the process of how a young zebra finch learns to sing by imitating its elders, suggests a new study by Emory University neuroscientists.
As an advocate for greater representation of gender, racial and ethnic minorities in the nursing field, Audric Donald is primed to be a change agent in health care.
McKenzi Thompson found purpose and direction at Rollins School of Public Health. Now, she’s working to advance reproductive health and justice while also building community wherever she goes.
Leveraging his experiences in rural Alabama and rural Mozambique, John Chancellor has committed his life to family medicine, rural primary care and mental health care while advocating for underserved groups.
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 College juniors join 45 previous Emory recipients of the Goldwater Scholarship, the premier award for undergraduates studying math, natural sciences and engineering.
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.
Using the lab organism C. elegans, Emory physicists develop a model to precisely measure the dynamics of learning, or how learning changes over time.
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.
The IPECP Project Awards provide WHSC faculty with the opportunity to create new or refine existing interprofessional programs across Emory’s three health professional schools and their health care partners.
A new genomic study led by Emory anthropologists finds that Indigenous populations in present-day Ecuador adapted to the tuberculosis bacterium around the time that agriculture began proliferating in the region and thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans.
Emory College alumna Layan Ibrahim has been named to the 2023-24 cohort of Luce Scholars. She will expand her research into neuropsychiatric disorders and the role religious cultures place in diagnosis and treatment.
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.
“Buried Truths,” the award-winning podcast based on Emory’s Georgia Civil Rights Cold Cases Project course, devotes its new season to two 1958 police killings of Black men in Terrell County, Georgia. It will be available starting Feb. 22.
With this year’s Fulbright Award recipients, a total of 135 Emory students have received the award. Find out more about the flagship international academic exchange program and the deadlines for 2023 applications.
In the first major screening of botanical extracts to search for potency against the virus that causes COVID-19, Emory researchers found two common wild plants that inhibit the virus’ ability to infect living cells.
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 senior Noah Okada is one of only 100 global winners of the new Quad Fellowship, an effort to build a global network of elite thinkers working across science and technology to solve real-world problems.
Theoretical chemists at Emory have developed an open-source toolkit that can speed the creation of large, high-quality datasets needed to make advances in everything from renewable energy to human health.
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.
A delegation of Emory students traveled to Egypt to help raise the profiles of youth activists during this year’s United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. They were led by Eri Saikawa, associate professor of environmental sciences.
Emory biophysicists have gained new insight into how actin filaments can form and generate cellular movements. The breakthrough has implications for research ranging from the role of actin in infectious diseases to cancer cell growth.
The program, one of fewer than 60 in North America and the only one in Georgia, turns 10 this year. As demand for this expertise increases, Emory is looking to strengthen support for its students.
New ancient DNA analyses provide the most complete genetic evidence to date for ancient Central American and South American migration routes, while also adding surprising twists in the story of early human settlement of South America.
ORCID iDs are free, easy-to-establish digital identifiers that ensure researchers are credited for their work and help meet new federal requirements. All faculty, postdocs and graduate student researchers should create an ORCID iD and connect it to Emory.
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.
Emory scientists have decoded visual images from a dog’s brain, offering a first look at how the canine mind can reconstruct what it sees. The project was inspired by recent advancements in machine learning and fMRI to decode visual stimuli.
“Consciousness Is Power: A Record of Emory Latinx History,” a pop-up exhibit curated by senior Arturo Contreras, will be on display at the Woodruff Library Sept. 15 to Oct. 15.
Research is an integral part of Emory, from the sciences to the humanities. Read a sample of recent grant awards across campus along with newly published research findings.
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.
The coronavirus variants of concern are emerging from chronic, long-term COVID-19 infections in people who may be immune compromised and unable to clear the virus, suggests research by scientists at Emory and the University of Oxford.
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.
Emory University graduate student Ben Babcock has been selected by the American Society of Hematology to participate as one of seven graduate students in the 2022 ASH Graduate Hematology Award.
Research is an integral part of Emory, from the sciences to the humanities. Read a sample of recent grant awards across campus along with newly published research findings.
A dozen high school students spent five weeks of their summer shadowing Emory researchers and genetic counselors, getting hands-on experience related to areas of personal interest.
Emory chemists have produced the first full quantum mechanical model of water. The breakthrough yields an open-source, universal tool for studying properties of water.
Sixteen Emory students and recent alumni have been selected as Fulbright recipients for 2022-2023. Emory has been a top-producing Fulbright research institution for six consecutive years.
As a child, Imani C. Wright used art to find her voice. That experience and her observations of women in Costa Rica led her to believe that creating things can ignite well-being and improve quality of life.
Nick Chang, an environmental sciences major known on campus as Salamander Guy, is the first Emory student since 2007 to win a NOAA scholarship that recognizes exceptional undergraduates in a broad range of STEM fields.
Seven Emory College alumni, including five from the Class of 2022, and 11 doctoral students in Laney Graduate School have been selected for the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship.
Results from an Emory lab’s analysis of two human DNA samples from well before the 1492 arrival of Christopher Columbus in the Americas show a surprising connection to ancient individuals from Panama, supporting the theory of separate migrations into South America.
Social impact classes that prioritize stakeholders over shareholders and people over profits made impressions on Ben Feinstein that he intends to carry into his business career — and pass along to others.
Tejas Dave left high-level finance and coding for quantitative analysis behind when he arrived at Emory Law. Now he’s shifting his problem-solving focus to the frontiers of global finance.
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.
Autumn McNeill combines her love of the environment with a social sciences perspective, finding ways to educate or involve others in creating solutions face-to-face and through social media.
As Camille Goldmon graduates with her PhD in history, she leaves a mark on Emory and the community as a groundbreaking researcher, engaging teacher and impactful mentor. Her dissertation examines the Tuskegee Institute's crucial role in the livelihood of Black agrarians.
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.
Learn about nine student projects supported by The Hatchery, Center for Innovation, including closing the diversity gap in cancer research and using Shakespeare to help kids explore emotions.
Research is an integral part of Emory, from the sciences to the humanities. Read a sample of recent grant awards across campus along with newly published research findings.
Emory chemists integrated computer functions into rolling DNA-based motors, the first that combine computational power with the ability to burn fuel and move in an intentional direction. Their work opens new possibilities for miniature, molecular robots.
Students in this semester’s “The Monster in the Library” course were the first to have an intense, individualized experience using the Stoker collection since it was acquired by the Rose Library in 2021.
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.
New analysis shows that monarch butterflies, one of the most iconic insects of North America, are increasingly plagued by a debilitating parasite. The Journal of Animal Ecology published the findings, led by Emory scientists.
Emory scientists have found Heartland virus circulating in lone star ticks in Georgia. Their research adds new evidence for how the tick-borne virus may evolve and spread geographically and from one organism to another.
Emory College students Sean Woo, Sojourner Hunt, Bryn Walker and Channelle Russell will spend a year studying at the University of St Andrews in Scotland as recipients of the prestigious Robert T. Jones Scholarship.
Research is an integral part of Emory, from the sciences to the humanities. Read a sample of recent grant awards across campus along with newly published research findings.
Scientists at Emory have compared the earliest SARS-CoV-2 genetic sequences detected in Georgia with virus sequences and samples from other states to learn where the first COVID-19 infections in Georgia originated.
The U.S. State Department has named Emory a top producer of Fulbright winners. Emory has had 119 students win the Fulbright, the government’s flagship international exchange program, in the last decade.
Annie Li, a senior in Emory College majoring in history and sociology, has been selected for the Marshall Scholarship. The competitive award covers up to three years of graduate study in the U.K.
Chemistry major Pushkar Shinde has built on varied experiences — immune system research, studying ethics and playing on Emory’s tennis team — to carve his own path.
Emory, Gilead and partners are addressing disparities in health care and advancing health equity for those most disproportionately affected by HIV and AIDS in the U.S. South.
Biology major Ahmed Aljohani is Emory’s 21st student to be selected for the Rhodes Scholarship, which provides for study at the University of Oxford in England. Scholars are chosen based on outstanding intellect, character, leadership and service.
Research published by Emory anthropologists scanning grandmothers’ brains while they’re viewing photos of their young grandchildren provides a neural snapshot of the special, intergenerational bond.
An analysis of published studies from a range of biological specialties shows that, when data are reported by sex, critical statistical analyses are often missing and the findings are likely to be reported in misleading ways. Emory neuroscientist Donna Maney is senior author on the study.
Research is an integral part of Emory, from the sciences to the humanities. Read a sample of recent grant awards across campus along with newly published research findings.