Emory College was founded in 1836 in Oxford, Georgia by the Methodist Episcopal Church. Oh Episcopal, that’s right they mean Knights Templar Emory University is a private research university in metropolitan Atlanta, located in the Druid Hills section of unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The university was founded as Emory College in 1836 in Oxford, Georgia by the Methodist Episcopal Church and was named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory. In 1915, the college relocated to metropolitan Atlanta and was rechartered as Emory University after accepting a land grant from Asa Griggs Candler, founder of the The Coca-Cola Company. In 1947, Emory University donated 15 acres of its land to the United States Department of Health and Human Services for the construction of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters. Emory University has nine academic divisions: Emory College of Arts and Sciences, Oxford College, Goizueta Business School, Laney Graduate School, School of Law, School of Medicine, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Rollins School of Public Health, and the Candler School of Theology. Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology have a strong research partnership and jointly administer the Emory-Georgia Tech Predictive Health Institute and the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering Program with Peking University in Beijing, China. Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technologys combined annual research expenditures exceed $1.25 billion. The Michael C. Carlos Museum is an archeology museum located at Emory Universitys main campus. The Carlos Museum has the largest collection of ancient artifacts in the Southeastern United States, including objects from ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Near East, Africa and the ancient Americas. The Museums collections comprise more than 16,000 works, and the facility attracts 120,000 visitors annually. In 1999, the Carlos Museum purchased an unidentified male mummy that some thought could be a New Kingdom pharaoh. Through research and collaboration with Emory University medical experts, museum scholars were able to identify the mummy as Ramesses I (1295–1294 BC), the founding Pharaoh of Ancient Egypts 19th dynasty.The museum returned the mummy to Egypt in 2003 as a gift of goodwill and international cultural cooperation. Notable alumni and faculty Main article: List of Emory University people George Thomas Anderson (1846C), American Civil War General, Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg Edward Lloyd Thomas (c.1850C), American Civil War General, Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg Claudius C. Wilson (1851C), American Civil War General, Siege of Vicksburg and Battle of Chickamauga Young John Allen (1858C), American Methodist Missionary in the late Qing Dynasty China, played an instrumental role in influencing missions that ultimately established Christianity in Korea. Isaac Stiles Hopkins (1859C), 1st President of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Warren Akin Candler (1875C), President of Emory University, Brother of Asa Griggs Candler, the founder of The Coca-Cola Company. Robert Stewart Hyer (1882MA), Founder of the Southern Methodist University Yun Chi-ho (1893C), Author of Aegukga, the national anthem of the Republic of Korea. Charles Howard Candler Sr. (1898C 1942H), Second President of The Coca-Cola Company (1916-1923) Alben Barkley (1900C, 1949H), 35th Vice President of the United States Thomas Milton Rivers (1909C), Director of the Rockefeller Institute, The father of modern virology. Robert W. Woodruff (1910C), President of The Coca-Cola Company (1923-1954), Transformed Coca-Cola into the worlds most recognizable brand. Dumas Malone (1910C), Pulitzer Prize for History, Presidential Medal of Freedom. Ernest Cadman Colwell (1923C, 1927PhD), President of the University of Chicago (1945-1951) Bobby Jones (1929JD), The only person to achieve Grand Slam, founder of the Masters Golf Tournament, and often considered as the greatest golfer of all time. Arthur Hollis Edens (1928C,1938MA), 3rd President of Duke University C. Vann Woodward (1930), Bancroft Prize, Pulitzer Prize for History David M. Potter (1932C), Pulitzer Prize for History Kiyoshi Tanimoto (1940C), Hibakusha portrayed in John Herseys Hiroshima (book) and organizer of the Hiroshima Maidens reconstructive surgery program. Ely Callaway Jr. (1940C), Founder of the Callaway Golf Company Howard Lamar (1945C, 1975H), 21st president of Yale University Lewis Roger Slaton (1949JD), District Attorney Fulton County, Georgia, convicted Wayne Bertram Williams in 1982 for Atlanta Child Murders Claude F. Sitton (1949C), Pulitzer Prize for Commentary Journalism Lee Hong-koo (1959C), 26th Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea Han Wan-Sang (1967C,PhD), President of the Korean Sociological Association, President of the Republic of Korea National Red Cross, Deputy Prime Minister of South Korea Kim Dae-Jung (1983H), 8th President of the Republic of Korea James T. Laney, 17th President of Emory University, United States Ambassador to Korea from 1993 to 1997. Frank Main (1989C), Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting Young-Ihl Chang (1987PhD),19th President of the Presbyterian College and Theological Seminary, Republic of Korea Bernice Albertine King (1990JD), Civic Leader and American Minister, Youngest child of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King. Fala Chen (2005C), Chinese American Actress Tom Brokaw (2005H), Author of The Greatest Generation (1998), Peabody Award (1989) and Presidential Medal of Freedom (2014). Vicente Fox Quesada (2009H), 55th President of Mexico Arnold Schwarzenegger (2010H), Austrian American Actor and Philanthropist. 38th Governor of California from 2003 until 2011. Robert Spano (Distinguished Residence) Music Director of the Brooklyn Philharmonic, Current Music Director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Jimmy Carter (Professor), 39th President of the United States Tenzin Gyatso (Professor), XIV Dalai Lama William Foege Professor Emeritus, Rollins School of Public Health, American epidemiologist credited for the global eradication of Smallpox.
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