Category: Higher Education

By Emory Univeristy Witnessing the gaps in local medical care in his South Texas border town, Fabian Robles was left with a single, crystallized vision — he would go to college, become a pediatrician, return home and serve his community.  Just how he would pull it off wasn’t so clear. As a high school student […]

By Emory University Science Gallery Atlanta at Emory University will explore the twin themes of addiction and recovery in its inaugural exhibition, topics of particular relevance as mental health concerns climb because of the pandemic. The exhibition titled “Hooked,” is made possible by a $126,500 grant from Science Sandbox, an initiative of the Simons Foundation. […]

By Emory University Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, the Emory University School of Medicine and the Georgia Institute of Technology have received an additional $18.2 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue their verification of COVID-19 diagnostic tests. The funding is from the NIH’s Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) program, an initiative designed to […]

“Buried Truths,” the award-winning podcast based on Emory University’s Georgia Civil Rights Cold Cases Project course, devotes its new season to the killing of Ahmaud Arbery. The seven-episode series, based on research by students and professor Hank Klibanoff, is now available. By Emory University “Buried Truths,” the award-winning podcast based on the Emory College course […]

Featured Image: (L-R) Barbara Johnson, Elizabeth Matthews and Mikisha Johnson. When Elizabeth Matthews (center, pictured with daughter Barbara Johnson, left, and Mikisha Johnson, right) had a stroke, doctors discovered she also had COVID-19. From strokes to mental health, the Emory Brain Health Center is leading research on the neurological effects of the pandemic. By Emory […]

Featured Image: The new Emory Arts and Social Justice Fellows program allows Emory faculty and students to collaborate with Atlanta artists to explore racial injustice and other inequities. Participating artists (clockwise from left) are Olivia Dawson, Shanequa Gay, Ash Nash, Garrett Turner, Fahamu Pecou and Okorie “OkCello” Johnson. By Emory University Amid a groundswell of […]

Featured Image: The Emory team members, from left: Jason Choi, Ali Ahmadvand, Ruixiang Zi, Jinho Choi, Xiangjue Dong, Zihan Wang, Sarah Fillwock, Harshita Sahijwani, Sergey Volokhin, Zihao Wang, James Fince and Chenxi Xu. Not pictured are Han He, Jiaying Lu and Liyan Xu. By Emory University A team of Emory University students won Amazon’s 2020 […]

By Emory University For the ninth year in a row, U.S. News & World Report has ranked Emory University Hospital the No. 1 hospital in Georgia and metro Atlanta in its 2020-2021 Best Hospitals guide. (Emory University Hospital includes Emory University Orthopaedics & Spine Hospital and Emory University Hospital at Wesley Woods.) Emory Saint Joseph’s Hospital ranked No. 2 in […]

By Emory University A newly received landmark donation will play a vital part in the student experience at Oxford College of Emory University and the preservation of its historic campus. The estates of Emy and Duane Blair have given funds to Oxford College in the amount of $8.4 million, the largest individual cash gift in […]

The COVID-19 Health Equity Dashboard, developed by Emory University, allows users to compare counties within the same state, aggregating key metrics that tell a story of a community’s social and economic health. By Emory University Although COVID-19 has swept across the entire country, its burden has not been spread equally. Some communities—particularly those with a large […]