Computational and life sciences combine disciplines to provide deep insights into complex issues in health care, the environment, and energy, leading to solutions that are realizable in relatively short time frames. Campaign Emory will help create an endowment to establish professorships in this emerging field, create interdisciplinary postdoctoral fellowships, provide student scholarships, and build laboratories to find practical solutions to world problems.
Creativity and the arts touch every corner of campus. Your support will fund scholarships in the arts to attract talented students across the spectrum of programs in theater, dance, music, visual art, and creative writing. Your gift to help endow faculty positions will bring the strongest scholars and creative minds to Emory’s campus for research and teaching. Through your investment in public art, Emory will be enlivened by works of sculpture that inspire dialogue, community, and creativity.
As one of the most aggressive financial aid programs devised by any top national university, Emory Advantage attracts talented students who otherwise would not have considered applying to Emory. Your support will bring these students to Emory College, Oxford College, the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, and Goizueta Business School. It will build a base of annual support for the program and sustain Emory Advantage long-term by establishing a dedicated endowment.
Emory Winship Cancer Institute is poised to join the ranks of the most elite cancer treatment and research facilities in the world. As Emory Winship works to become Georgia’s first National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, Campaign Emory will help recruit and retain the nation’s top experts in prevention, research, and treatment; fund professorships and fellowships to help improve diagnostics, explore genetics, and improve treatments; and support research personnel, lab equipment, clinical trials, and community outreach.
Emory has made a significant investment in its Global Health Institute and already has seen large returns. Campaign Emory will strengthen the University’s efforts to improve health around the world by supporting faculty, students, and alumni in their work to find solutions to critical global health problems. The campaign will fund global health grants, fueling efforts to build health capacity in developing nations and reduce infant mortality rates, among many other priorities. The campaign also will help attract new faculty and fund operations and facilities.
The Institute for Advanced Policy Solutions is designed to forge innovative, evidence-based solutions to key national policy issues such as health care. The mission of the institute is to improve public policy-making through research, education, and technical assistance. The institute serves as a critical hub for broad interdisciplinary research, applied policy development, and public policy training—all focused on scientifically sound, novel solutions to complex problems facing the public, private, and nonprofit sectors.
Emory is committed to using knowledge to improve human well-being and create a better world. The Institute for Developing Nations connects Emory faculty and students with in-country NGOs, scholars, experts, and policy-makers to research pressing international development and human rights problems. Campaign Emory will help build these action-oriented research partnerships, recruit faculty with development expertise, provide international learning opportunities for the Emory community, and extend the University’s reach as a leading global institution.
Emory is working to translate major advances in the neurosciences into improvements in the quality of human life. Campaign Emory will expand research space and bring together neurobiology experts with those in computational sciences, chemistry, anthropology, ethics, religion, the humanities, and the social sciences. Expanded research space will promote collaboration and serve as a beacon for the best neuroscientists in the world. The campaign also will help recruit key faculty and fund compelling interdisciplinary research.
The Emory/Georgia Tech Predictive Health Institute is creating a new model of health care, using science and technology to detect and stop disease before it starts. Campaign Emory will create an endowment that sustains the work of a visionary director to lead these efforts. Gifts to recruit and retain scientists in all disciplines will help the institute define health and learn how to maintain it. Investment in clinical and research space will help accomplish this groundbreaking work.
Emory is becoming one of the world’s premier sites for the study of race and difference. Campaign Emory will expand key programs in civil rights, international inequity, and sexual, gender, and language discrimination. The campaign will provide opportunities to combine informed scholarship with engaged practice, and it will endow faculty positions to ensure ongoing exploration of race and difference. This faculty strength will energize 11 new programs, building engagement on campus and in the wider community.
While reshaping the international study of religions through scholarship and ethical engagement, Emory works to strengthen the contributions of religion to building a civic culture, understanding social and environmental issues, and enhancing the common good. Your gift to Campaign Emory will endow cross-disciplinary professorships in religion and health; religion, conflict, and peace building; religion and the sciences; and religion and sexuality. Your investment also will support fellowships in Emory Graduate School and the Rollins School of Public Health.
Emory works to integrate sustainability into both operations and academics across the University, influencing decisions regarding energy, water, waste, transportation, food, buildings, and green space. Your support will help Emory become a global leader in sustainability research and teaching and promote a healthy, safe, and prosperous campus. Your gift can create an endowment for the initiative director, endow faculty chairs, and support facility enhancements such as pilot projects for renewable energy.
