Emory University

Emory University is a private research university in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, founded in 1836 as Emory College by the Methodist Episcopal Church and named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory, with its main campus in the Druid Hills neighborhood about four miles from downtown Atlanta.埃默里大学是位于美国佐治亚州亚特兰大的私立研究型大学，1836 年由美以美会创办，时名埃默里学院，以纪念卫理公会主教约翰·埃默里，主校区位于亚特兰大德鲁伊山（Druid Hills）街区，距市中心约 4 英里。

A member of the Association of American Universities since 1995, it comprises nine schools headed by Emory College of Arts and Sciences, enrolled 15,909 students as of fall 2022, held an endowment reported at 12 billion dollars in 2025, and places 183rd in the 2027 QS World University Rankings.学校于 1995 年加入美国大学协会，现设九个学院，以埃默里文理学院为首，2022 年秋季在校学生 15909 人，2025 年呈报捐赠基金达 120 亿美元，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 183。

History

• Emory College was founded in 1836 in Oxford, Georgia, by the Methodist Episcopal Church and named in honor of the departed bishop John Emory, with Ignatius Alphonso Few appointed as its first president.1836 年，美以美会在佐治亚州牛津镇创办埃默里学院，以纪念已故主教约翰·埃默里，伊格内修斯·阿尔方索·费（Ignatius Alphonso Few）出任首任校长。

• In 1854 the Atlanta Medical College, a forerunner of the Emory University School of Medicine, was founded.1854 年，埃默里大学医学院的前身亚特兰大医学院成立。

• Emory College closed in November 1861 after the American Civil War broke out and all of its students enlisted on the Confederate side, and in late 1863 the campus served first as a hospital and then as headquarters for the Union Army.南北战争爆发后，埃默里学院于 1861 年 11 月关闭，全体学生加入南方阵营从军，1863 年下半年校园先被用作医院，后成为联邦军总部。

• Thirty-five Emory students lost their lives and much of the campus was destroyed in the war, and among the officers it produced was General George Thomas Anderson, who fought in nearly every major battle of the eastern theater.战争中有 35 名埃默里学生丧生，校园大部被毁，学院培养的军官包括乔治·托马斯·安德森将军，他几乎参加了东部战场的每一场大战。

• In 1880 president Atticus Greene Haygood delivered a speech expressing gratitude for the end of slavery, which drew the attention of New York banker George I. Seney, who gave 5,000 dollars to repay debts, 50,000 dollars for construction and 75,000 dollars for a new endowment.1880 年，校长阿提克斯·格林·海伍德发表演说为废除奴隶制致谢，引起纽约银行家乔治·塞内注意，后者捐赠 5000 美元偿债、50000 美元建校、75000 美元设立新基金。

• In the 1880s professor Isaac Stiles Hopkins launched the college's technology department, and in 1888 he became the first president of the Georgia Institute of Technology.1880 年代，教授艾萨克·霍普金斯创办学院技术系，1888 年出任佐治亚理工学院首任校长。

• Yun Chi-ho, a Korean political activist who later wrote the lyrics of the South Korean national anthem, graduated in 1893 as the university's first international student.1893 年，朝鲜政治活动家尹致昊作为学校首位国际学生毕业，他后来创作了韩国国歌《爱国歌》的歌词。

• On 16 August 1906 the Wesley Memorial Hospital and Training School for Nurses, the forerunner of the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, was established.1906 年 8 月 16 日，内尔霍奇森伍德拉夫护理学院的前身威斯里纪念医院暨护士训练学校成立。

• The Candler School of Theology was established in 1914, and the School of Law followed in 1916 as the first law school in Georgia to join the American Association of Law Schools.1914 年康德勒神学院成立，1916 年法学院成立，后者是佐治亚州首个加入美国法学院协会的法学院。

• In 1915 Emory College accepted a land grant from Asa Griggs Candler, founder of The Coca-Cola Company, relocated to Druid Hills and was rechartered as Emory University.1915 年，埃默里学院接受可口可乐公司创办人阿萨·坎德勒赠地，迁往德鲁伊山，并改组更名为埃默里大学。

• During the First World War the university organised the Emory Unit, Base Hospital 43, drawn from medical faculty and alumni, which served in Loir-et-Cher, France, from July 1918 to January 1919.第一次世界大战期间，学校组建由医学师生与校友组成的「埃默里队」第 43 号基地医院，1918 年 7 月至 1919 年 1 月在法国卢瓦尔-谢尔省服役。

• In the Second World War the Emory Unit was mobilised again for the North African campaign and Europe, a ship was christened Emory Victory, and enrolment reached two military students for every civilian.第二次世界大战中，埃默里队再次动员，转战北非与欧洲，一艘军舰被命名为「埃默里胜利号」，战时在校生中军用学员与平民学员之比达到二比一。

• Formerly an all-male school, Emory officially became coeducational in 1953, and sororities first appeared on campus in 1959.埃默里原为男校，1953 年正式实行男女同校，1959 年校园首次出现女生联谊会。

• In 1962, in the midst of the civil rights movement, Emory asked the courts to declare unconstitutional the Georgia statute that denied tax exemption to racially integrated private universities, and the Supreme Court of Georgia ruled in the university's favour.1962 年，正值民权运动高潮，埃默里请求法院宣告佐治亚州拒绝向种族融合私立大学授予免税地位的法律违宪，佐治亚州最高法院判埃默里胜诉。

• Marvin S. Arrington Sr., the university's first full-time African American student, graduated from the School of Law in 1967.1967 年，学校首位全日制非裔学生马尔文·阿灵顿从法学院毕业。

• In 1971 Emory established one of the nation's first African American studies programmes and the first of its kind in the Southeastern United States.1971 年，埃默里设立全美首批、美国东南部首个非裔美国人研究项目。

• In November 1979 Robert Winship Woodruff and George Waldo Woodruff donated 105 million dollars worth of Coca-Cola stock, then the largest single gift ever made to an American institution of higher education.1979 年 11 月，罗伯特·伍德拉夫与乔治·伍德拉夫捐赠价值 1.05 亿美元的可口可乐股票，创下当时美国高等教育史上最大单笔捐赠纪录。

• Under fifth president James T. Laney the university's diversity and academic reputation grew, and on 30 March 1983 his friend Kim Dae-jung, then in political exile, spoke on human rights at Emory and accepted an honorary Doctor of Laws, later serving as the eighth president of South Korea and winning the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize.第五任校长詹姆斯·雷尼任内，学校的多元性与学术声誉不断提升，1983 年 3 月 30 日其友人、流亡中的金大中在埃默里发表人权演说并接受荣誉法学博士，金大中后来成为韩国第八任总统并获 2000 年诺贝尔和平奖。

• The graduate school founded in 1919 was renamed the Laney Graduate School in 2009, after Laney had served as United States ambassador to South Korea from 1993 to 1997.1919 年创立的研究生院于 2009 年更名为雷尼研究生院，此前雷尼于 1993 至 1997 年出任美国驻韩国大使。

• In 2005 the university presented its President Medal, conferred only on those whose impact has advanced peace or enlarged cultural achievement, to civil rights activist Rosa Parks.2005 年，学校将仅授予对和平或文化事业有卓著贡献者的校长奖章颁给民权运动活动家罗莎·帕克斯。

• At the 169th commencement in 2014 John Lewis, the only living leader of the civil rights movement's Big Six, delivered the keynote and received an honorary doctorate, and in 2015 the law school received 1.5 million dollars to establish a John Lewis Chair in Civil Rights and Social Justice.2014 年，民权运动「六巨头」中唯一在世的约翰·刘易斯在第 169 届毕业典礼上发表演讲并获荣誉博士学位，2015 年法学院获 150 万美元捐款设立约翰·刘易斯民权与社会公正教席。

• The City of Atlanta annexed the campus effective 1 January 2018, the largest annexation the city had made in 65 years, after the university formally submitted its petition in 2017.经学校 2017 年正式提交申请，亚特兰大市自 2018 年 1 月 1 日起将校区并入市域，这是该市 65 年来最大的一次合并扩界。

• Gregory L. Fenves, formerly president of the University of Texas at Austin, became the university's 21st president in August 2020.2020 年 8 月，曾任德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校校长的格雷戈里·芬维斯出任第 21 任校长。

• Christopher L. Augostini, previously executive vice president and enterprise chief operating officer, took office as the 22nd president on 1 September 2026, after an interim presidency by Leah Ward Sears.2026 年 9 月 1 日，原常务副校长兼企业首席运营官克里斯托弗·奥戈斯蒂尼就任第 22 任校长，此前由 Leah Ward Sears 担任过渡校长。

Academics

• The university comprises nine schools: Emory College of Arts and Sciences (1836), Oxford College (1836), the School of Medicine (1854), the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing (1905), the Candler School of Theology (1914), the School of Law (1916), the Laney Graduate School (1919), the Goizueta Business School (1919) and the Rollins School of Public Health (1990).学校下设九个学院：埃默里文理学院（1836）、牛津学院（1836）、医学院（1854）、内尔霍奇森伍德拉夫护理学院（1905）、康德勒神学院（1914）、法学院（1916）、雷尼研究生院（1919）、戈伊苏埃塔商学院（1919）与罗琳斯公共卫生学院（1990）。

• Emory is classified among R1 doctoral universities with very high research activity and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.学校位列卡内基分类中「研究活动极高」的 R1 类博士授位大学，并通过南部院校协会认证。

• Emory College of Arts and Sciences awards the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science in departments spanning the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences, and more than 25 per cent of undergraduates take part in an honours programme each year.埃默里文理学院授予文学士与理学士学位，学系覆盖人文、社会科学与自然科学，每年有超过 25% 的本科生参加荣誉项目。

• Oxford College grants an associate degree in liberal arts, and its graduates advance to Emory College of Arts and Sciences, the Goizueta Business School or the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing.牛津学院授予博雅教育副学士学位，毕业生直升埃默里文理学院、戈伊苏埃塔商学院或内尔霍奇森伍德拉夫护理学院完成本科学习。

• The School of Medicine confers the Doctor of Medicine, Doctor of Physical Therapy and Master of Medical Science degrees, with basic science departments from biochemistry to human genetics and clinical departments from anaesthesiology to urology.医学院授予医学博士、物理治疗博士与医学科学硕士学位，基础学系从生物化学到人类遗传学，临床学系从麻醉学到泌尿外科。

• The Goizueta Business School offers the Bachelor of Business Administration, Master of Business Administration, Executive MBA and PhD in Business Administration, while the Rollins School of Public Health, founded in 1990, offers the MPH, MSPH and doctoral degrees.戈伊苏埃塔商学院开设工商管理学士、工商管理硕士、高级工商管理硕士与工商管理哲学博士项目，1990 年创立的罗琳斯公共卫生学院开设公共卫生硕士、公共卫生科学硕士与博士学位项目。

• The Laney Graduate School awards the Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Arts across the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and health fields.雷尼研究生院在人文、社会科学、自然科学与健康领域授予哲学博士与文学硕士学位。

• Emory and the Georgia Institute of Technology run a five-year dual degree programme in engineering, and their joint Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering was ranked first in the United States by U.S. News in 2024.埃默里与佐治亚理工学院合办五年制工程双学位项目，两校共建的 Wallace H. Coulter 生物医学工程系 2024 年被《美国新闻与世界报道》评为全美第一。

• A dual master's degree in social work is offered with the University of Georgia.学校还与佐治亚大学合办社会工作硕士双学位项目。

• Enrolment stood at 15,909 in fall 2022, comprising 8,155 undergraduates and 7,754 graduate and professional students, and rose to 16,142 in fall 2024, of whom 8,374 were undergraduates.2022 年秋季在校学生 15909 人，其中本科生 8155 人、研究生与专业学生 7754 人，2024 年秋季增至 16142 人，本科生 8374 人。

• The university employed 32,594 staff in 2020, including about 24,000 health care employees of Emory Healthcare, the largest health care system in Georgia with seven major hospitals.2020 年学校有教职工 32594 人，其中约 24000 人为埃默里医疗集团雇员，该集团是佐治亚州最大的医疗系统，下设七家大型医院。

• The library system holds more than 3.9 million print and electronic volumes and over 83,000 electronic journals, is a member of the Association of Research Libraries, and was ranked among the ten colleges with the best libraries in the United States by The Princeton Review in 2012.图书馆系统藏有印刷与电子藏书逾 390 万册、电子期刊逾 83000 种，是美国研究图书馆协会成员，2012 年获《普林斯顿评论》列入全美十佳图书馆大学。

• The Rose Library holds rare materials on literature, African American history and culture, and Southern and Georgia history, including the papers of Flannery O'Connor, Alice Walker, Langston Hughes, Salman Rushdie, W. B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney.罗斯图书馆藏有文学、非裔美国人历史与文化及南方与佐治亚历史的珍稀文献，包括弗兰纳里·奥康纳、艾丽斯·沃克、兰斯顿·休斯、萨尔曼·鲁西迪、叶芝与谢默斯·希尼的文稿。

• In 2021 the university received 894.7 million dollars from external funding agencies, including nearly 600 million dollars from the National Institutes of Health in fiscal 2021, and leads the nation in pre-doctoral fellowships awarded under the NIH Kirschstein-National Research Service Award.2021 年学校获外部机构资助 8.947 亿美元，其中 2021 财年获美国国立卫生研究院资助近 6 亿美元，获该院 Kirschstein 国家研究服务博士前奖学金的人数居全美之首。

• Research platforms include the Winship Cancer Institute, Georgia's first and only cancer centre designated by the National Cancer Institute, the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, one of eight NIH-funded primate centres, the Emory Vaccine Center and the Center for AIDS Research.研究平台包括佐治亚州首个且唯一获国家癌症研究所指定的温希普癌症研究所、美国国立卫生研究院资助的八大灵长类研究中心之一的耶基斯国家灵长类研究中心、埃默里疫苗中心与艾滋病研究中心。

• Emory is a long-time partner of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention next door, having donated 15 acres in 1947 for the CDC headquarters, and the International Association of National Public Health Institutes is headquartered at the university.埃默里与毗邻的美国疾病控制与预防中心（CDC）长期合作，1947 年捐赠 15 公顷土地供其建设总部，国家公共卫生研究所国际协会的总部亦设在校内。

• In 2023 Emory opened Georgia's largest health sciences research building, an eight-storey, 350,000-square-foot complex housing more than 1,000 researchers at a cost of 313 million dollars, and became a founding member of the Global Universities for Societal Impact network.2023 年，埃默里启用佐治亚州最大的健康科学研究大楼，这座八层、35 万平方英尺的建筑耗资 3.13 亿美元，入驻研究人员逾千，同年学校成为全球社会影响大学网络的创始成员。

Campus

• The Atlanta campus covers 631 acres in Druid Hills on a Beaux-Arts master plan by Pittsburgh architect Henry Hornbostel, is heavily forested with pine, maple, oak and magnolia, and is crossed by Peavine Creek.亚特兰大校区位于德鲁伊山，占地 631 英亩，按匹兹堡建筑师亨利·霍恩博斯特尔的美术学院派总平面规划建成，校园松、枫、橡与木兰密布，皮瓦恩溪穿校而过。

• Many buildings are faced with multi-hued granite and Spanish Saltillo tile, the Arbor Day Foundation named Emory a Tree Campus USA school in 2015, and the campus holds one of the largest inventories of LEED-certified building space in the United States.许多建筑以多色花岗岩与西班牙萨尔提略瓦片饰面，植树节基金会 2015 年授予埃默里「树木校园」（Tree Campus USA）称号，校园的 LEED 认证建筑面积居全美前列。

• The original campus in Oxford, Georgia, founded in 1836, now serves Oxford College on 56 acres 38 miles east of Atlanta, its Neoclassical and Gothic Revival buildings forming part of the Oxford Historic District listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.1836 年创办的牛津校区今为牛津学院所用，占地 56 英亩，位于亚特兰大以东 38 英里，其新古典主义与哥特复兴建筑 1975 年作为牛津历史区的一部分列入美国国家史迹名录。

• The Druid Hills campus is home to Emory University Hospital, the Michael C. Carlos Museum with the largest collection of ancient artifacts in the Southeastern United States, the Winship Cancer Institute, the Yerkes centre and ten undergraduate residences.德鲁伊山校区设有埃默里大学医院、藏有美国东南部最大古代艺术品收藏的迈克尔·卡洛斯博物馆、温希普癌症研究所、耶基斯中心与十座本科生宿舍。

• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Cancer Society, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and the Emory Point shopping district lie adjacent to the campus.美国疾病控制与预防中心、美国癌症协会、亚特兰大儿童医疗系统与 Emory Point 商业区紧邻校区。

• A 52 million dollar expansion of the Sanford S. Atwood Chemistry Center was completed in 2015, creating a 270,000-square-foot complex of laboratories, teaching space and a chemistry library, backed by a 1.2 million dollar grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.2015 年竣工的桑福德·阿特伍德化学中心扩建工程耗资 5200 万美元，建成 27 万平方英尺的实验室、教学空间与化学图书馆，并获霍华德·休斯医学研究所 120 万美元资助。

• The R. Howard Dobbs University Center of 1986, a postmodern design by John C. Portman Jr., was demolished and replaced by the Emory Student Center, which opened in May 2019 at a cost of 98 million dollars as the first LEED platinum building on campus.1986 年建成、由约翰·波特曼设计的后现代建筑 R. Howard Dobbs 大学中心被拆除，原址新建的埃默里学生中心于 2019 年 5 月启用，造价 9800 万美元，是全校首座 LEED 铂金认证建筑。

• During the 1996 Atlanta Olympics the campus hosted the United States women's gymnastics team, the Magnificent Seven, who won the country's first women's team all-around gold medal, and the Cox Hall Ballroom served as the news centre for the foreign press.1996 年亚特兰大奥运会期间，校区接待了美国女子体操队「Magnificent Seven」，该队摘得美国首枚女子团体全能金牌，考克斯馆舞厅设为外国媒体新闻中心。

Reputation

• Emory places 183rd in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, 108th in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings and in the 101-150 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities.埃默里大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 183，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中位列第 108，在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中处于 101 至 150 区间。

• U.S. News ranked Emory 24th among national universities and 69th among global universities for 2024-2025, and The Wall Street Journal placed it 17th among American colleges in its survey.《美国新闻与世界报道》2024-2025 年度将埃默里列为全美第 24、全球第 69，《华尔街日报》的调查则将其列为全美高校第 17。

• OpenAlex records 235,208 works by the university that have drawn 28,362,679 citations.OpenAlex 收录埃默里论文 235208 篇，被引 28362679 次。

• The university's endowment stood at 12 billion dollars in 2025, the 15th largest among American colleges and universities.2025 年学校捐赠基金达 120 亿美元，居美国高校第 15 位。

• Emory faculty and alumni include two Nobel Peace Prize laureates, Jimmy Carter of 2002 and Desmond Tutu of 1984, while Wole Soyinka, the 1986 Nobel laureate in literature and the first African to win it, served as a distinguished visiting professor, and alumni include twenty-one Rhodes Scholars and six Pulitzer Prize winners.埃默里师生中有两位诺贝尔和平奖得主：2002 年得主吉米·卡特与 1984 年得主德斯蒙德·图图，1986 年诺贝尔文学奖得主、首位获该奖的非洲人渥雷·索因卡曾任杰出访问教授，校友中还有 21 位罗德学者与六位普利策奖得主。

• Programme rankings include the School of Medicine 23rd in research and the School of Law 35th in the U.S. News 2023-2024 listings, the biomedical engineering department first in 2024, and in 2025 the School of Nursing first for both its undergraduate and graduate programmes and the Rollins School of Public Health second.学科排名方面，《美国新闻与世界报道》2023-2024 年度将医学院研究型项目列为第 23、法学院列为第 35，2024 年生物医学工程系列全美第一，2025 年护理学院本科与研究生项目均列第一、罗琳斯公共卫生学院列第二。

• Newsweek named Emory one of the 25 New Ivies in 2006, and the university has also been described as a Hidden Ivy.《新闻周刊》2006 年将埃默里列入「25 所新常春藤」之一，学校亦被称为「隐藏的常春藤」。

• Forbes included Emory among its twenty New Ivies in both 2024 and 2025.《福布斯》在 2024 与 2025 年两度将埃默里列入其 20 所「新常春藤」名单。

• Generous support from the Candler, Woodruff and Goizueta families, whose fortunes trace to The Coca-Cola Company, has earned the university the colloquial nickname Coca-Cola University.坎德勒、伍德拉夫与戈伊苏埃塔三大家族均富源于可口可乐公司，他们的巨额捐赠使埃默里在民间得名「可口可乐大学」。

Student life

• The university's motto, carried on its seal, is the Latin Cor prudentis possidebit scientiam, rendered in English as The wise heart seeks knowledge.校徽上的校训为拉丁文「Cor prudentis possidebit scientiam」，意为「智慧之心寻求知识」（The wise heart seeks knowledge）。

• The school colours are blue and gold, the varsity teams are the Eagles with 18 sports in NCAA Division III and the University Athletic Association, and the mascots are Swoop the Eagle and Dooley the Skeleton.学校代表色为蓝与金，校队「鹰」参加美国大学体育协会第三级联赛与大学运动联盟，共设 18 个项目，吉祥物为「Swoop the Eagle」与「Dooley the Skeleton」。

• The Emory Wheel, the student-run newspaper published twice a week during term since 1919, is editorially and financially independent of the university and staffed entirely by students apart from its general manager.学生报纸《埃默里轮》自 1919 年起在学期内每周出版两期，编辑与财政独立于学校，除总经理外职员全部由学生担任。

• The Barkley Forum Center for Debate Education, named for alumnus Alben Barkley, the 35th vice president of the United States, builds on a debating tradition established in 1837, and its intercollegiate team formed in 1914 has won three National Debate Tournaments and over 25 individual speaker championships.以校友、美国第 35 任副总统阿尔本·巴克利命名的巴克利讲坛辩论教育中心承袭 1837 年开启的辩论传统，其 1914 年成立的校际辩论队三度夺得全美辩论锦标赛冠军，25 人次获最佳辩手荣誉。

• Fraternities have existed on campus since 1840, about twenty per cent of students take part in Greek life today, and the system comprises eight sorority chapters and eleven fraternity chapters.兄弟会自 1840 年起即在校园存在，如今约两成学生参加希腊字母社团生活，体系内含八个姊妹会与十一个兄弟会分会。

• More than fifty student organisations are dedicated to the arts, and the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts hosts events for the campus and the city, with the Creativity Conversations series bringing artists such as Philip Glass, Jimmy Carter, Salman Rushdie, Seamus Heaney and Rita Dove to campus.全校有五十余个艺术类学生组织，施瓦茨表演艺术中心向校园与亚特兰大市民开放演出，「创意对话」系列曾邀请菲利普·格拉斯、吉米·卡特、萨尔曼·鲁西迪、谢默斯·希尼与丽塔·达夫到访。

• Emory received the 2008 Presidential Award for General Community Service, the highest federal recognition for community service, service-learning and civic engagement in higher education, and runs the Emory Cares International Service Day.埃默里 2008 年获总统普遍社区服务奖，这是美国联邦政府对高校社区服务、服务学习与公民参与的最高表彰，学校并举办「埃默里关怀」国际服务日。

• Student life also includes secret societies such as the Paladin Society, the D.V.S. Senior Honor Society, Ducemus, Speculum and the Order of Ammon, while the Student Government Association charters and funds most student groups.学生生活还包括圣骑士会（Paladin Society）、D.V.S. 高级荣誉会等秘密结社，学生会协会则为多数学生团体注册并拨付经费。

Notable people

• Ignatius Alphonso Few was appointed the first president of Emory College when it opened in 1836.伊格内修斯·阿尔方索·费在 1836 年埃默里学院开办时出任首任校长。

• Isaac Stiles Hopkins, an 1859 graduate who launched the college's technology department, became the first president of the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1888.1859 届校友艾萨克·霍普金斯创办学院技术系，1888 年出任佐治亚理工学院首任校长。

• Yun Chi-ho, the university's first international student, graduated in 1893 and later wrote Aegukga, the national anthem of South Korea.学校首位国际学生尹致昊 1893 年毕业，后创作韩国国歌《爱国歌》。

• Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States and the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, served as a professor at Emory after leaving office.美国第 39 任总统、2002 年诺贝尔和平奖得主吉米·卡特卸任后曾任埃默里大学教授。

• Alben Barkley, a 1900 graduate, was the 35th vice president of the United States and gave his name to the Barkley Forum debate centre.1900 届校友阿尔本·巴克利曾任美国第 35 任副总统，巴克利讲坛辩论中心即以其命名。

• Newt Gingrich, a 1965 graduate, served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.1965 届校友纽特·金里奇曾任美国国会众议院议长。

• Bobby Jones, who earned his law degree in 1929, remains the only golfer to have won a Grand Slam and founded the Masters Tournament.1929 年获法律学位的鲍比·琼斯是唯一赢得大满贯的高尔夫球手，并创办了美国大师赛。

• Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian poet and playwright who became the first African Nobel laureate in literature in 1986, served as a distinguished visiting professor at Emory.尼日利亚诗人、剧作家渥雷·索因卡是首位获诺贝尔文学奖的非洲人（1986），曾任埃默里杰出访问教授。

• Desmond Tutu, the South African anti-apartheid activist and 1984 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was a professor at the university.南非反种族隔离活动家、1984 年诺贝尔和平奖得主德斯蒙德·图图曾任本校教授。

• Salman Rushdie, the Booker Prize-winning novelist whose papers are held by the Rose Library, joined the faculty, as did Natasha Trethewey, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and 19th United States poet laureate, who holds the Robert W. Woodruff professorship.布克奖得主、小说家萨尔曼·鲁西迪曾任教于本校，其文稿藏于罗斯图书馆，普利策奖获奖诗人、美国第 19 任桂冠诗人娜塔莎·特雷思韦亦在校任教，持罗伯特·伍德拉夫教席。

• Lee Hong-koo, a 1959 graduate, served as the 26th prime minister of the Republic of Korea.1959 届校友李洪九曾任大韩民国第 26 任国务总理。

• Han Qide, the Chinese physiologist who has served as vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, studied pharmacology at Emory between 1985 and 1987.中国生理学家韩启德 1985 至 1987 年在埃默里药理系进修，后任全国人大常委会副委员长。

• Ha Jin, the Chinese American novelist who writes in English, taught poetry and fiction writing at the university.华裔美国作家哈金（Ha Jin）曾在本校教授诗歌与小说创作课程。