Graduate students are vital members of Emory’s intellectual community, and their energy and dedication help keep the University vibrant. Through partnerships with schools and programs across campus—and with organizations in the larger community—the Laney Graduate School offers fellowships that engage students in collaborative research and public scholarship. In the biological and biomedical sciences, fellowships support scholars researching everything from the evolution of diseases to the body’s mechanisms for processing nutrients. The Office of University and Community Partnerships provides fellowships for students to conduct research that helps local agencies tackle issues such as affordable housing and community development.
Recruiting the best graduate students is as important—and competitive—as recruiting the best faculty. Your support will enable the school to fund 25 additional graduate fellowships. This critical resource will help the Laney Graduate School attract the brightest minds in higher education, students who will challenge the University’s faculty and help push inquiry into new areas of scholarship.
The graduate school has a long-standing commitment to developing unique programs that address problems facing the larger community. The Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts, for instance, has been creating opportunities to study culture and society across disciplines since 1952. Established four years later, the Graduate Division of Religion comprises scholars from Emory’s professional schools and the college. With faculty in literature, history, political science, and several other disciplines, the doctoral program in women’s studies tackles complex problems such as economic inequality, violence, and racism.
Your gift to establish a new Institute for Advanced Graduate Studies will create a space for collaboration between scholars and leaders from the public sphere. Combining academic expertise with action-oriented expertise, these interdisciplinary teams will pursue solutions to a host of difficult problems, from the AIDS epidemic in southern Africa to poverty in America’s cities.
Many Laney Graduate School alumni go on to teach and conduct research at top-ranked universities across the nation. Others assume corporate leadership roles or work with nonprofits at home and abroad. Still others become government leaders, shaping the global economy and political climate. The single trait that defines the graduate school—alumni, current students, and faculty alike—is its commitment to preparing scholars for lives of leadership and service. Your gift to professional development helps the graduate school support students as they begin to enter their professional fields. Graduate students must become active in broad professional contexts by presenting research at professional meetings, attending special workshops, and more. Professional development support helps them make a mark in their professions at an early stage and places Emory’s excellence in graduate education before peers from around the nation and the world.
Ongoing annual gifts provide critical, flexible support that allows the dean to invest in strategic priorities throughout the year. Pooled with support from dedicated alumni and friends, annual gifts have great impact in addressing immediate needs.
