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Emory University is a private research university in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It was founded in 1836 as Emory College by the Methodist Episcopal Church and named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory. [18] Its main campus is in Druid Hills, three miles (five kilometers) from downtown Atlanta. [19]
Briarcliff was the mansion and estate of Asa Griggs "Buddy" Candler Jr. (1880–1953), and is now the Briarcliff Campus of Emory University. The estate was built in 1922 on 42 acres on Williams Mill Road, now Briarcliff Road in Druid Hills near Atlanta. Williams Mill Road would be renamed Briarcliff Road in the 1920s after the estate that Asa ...
Emory has received four of the 100 largest donations in higher education history. Emory is the only university with two donations among the fifteen largest in higher education history. These records are tracked by the Chronicle of Higher Education. Many of these donations stemmed from the school's close ties to the Coca-Cola Company and its ...
Timothy Peter Joseph Radcliffe, OP (born 22 August 1945) is an English Catholic priest who served as Master of the Order of Preachers from 1992 to 2001. He is the only member of the order's English Province to hold that office.
The Michael C. Carlos Museum is an art museum located in Atlanta on the historic quadrangle of Emory University's main campus. The Carlos Museum has the largest ancient art collections in the Southeast, [1] including objects from ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Near East, Africa and the ancient Americas.
Opus (pl.: opera) is a Latin word meaning "(a result of) work". Italian equivalents are opera (singular) and opere (plural). Opus or OPUS may refer to:
Emory Healthcare is an American health care system in the U.S. state of Georgia.It is part of Emory University and is the largest healthcare system in the state. [2] It comprises 11 hospitals, the Emory Clinic and more than 250 provider locations. [3]
Candler School of Theology is grounded in the Christian faith and shaped by the Wesleyan tradition of evangelical piety, ecumenical openness, and social concern. Its mission as a university-based school of theology is to educate—through scholarship, teaching, and service—faithful and creative leaders for the church's ministries throughout the world.