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Emory's Laney Graduate School Offers an Education that Combines Intellectual Rigor with Interdisciplinary Creativity

The Laney Graduate School is committed to graduate education that provides students with deep expertise in their chosen fields, creativity to cross disciplinary boundaries, and courage to take on the most important and complex problems of our time.

The graduate faculty is a group of distinguished researchers and teachers, dedicated both to advancing inquiry and to teaching the next generation of scholars. The university is right-sized: small enough to allow for meaningful human interactions within and between programs, yet large enough to support a full array of resources and opportunities across a comprehensive intellectual landscape.

At Emory, interdisciplinary training and research is not an occasional event--it is part of the very fabric of graduate education.

The Laney Graduate School brings together faculty from seven schools--Emory College of Arts and Sciences, the Goizueta Business School, the Law School, the School of Medicine, the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, the Rollins School of Public Health, and the Candler School of Theology--into over 40 graduate programs spanning the humanities, social, natural, and biomedical sciences, nursing, public health, and business.

Emory is a genuine community of scholars, a university of manageable size located on a compact and intimate campus. It is a special and creative community where faculty and students from diverse fields really do meet each other with ample opportunity to cross boundaries and exchange ideas.

Graduate education at Emory is not only about rigorous and creative training, but also about the courage to engage with pressing public problems. Emory has a proud tradition of scholarship that reaches outside the university to make a difference in the world, to create new drugs to combat HIV/AIDS, to help us understand and respect the intelligence of animals, to combat the distortions of Holocaust denial, and much more.

Graduate student financial support is generous and lasting. It includes tuition scholarships, subsidized health insurance, and generous stipends. In 2012-13, the minimum fellowship is $18,000 for nine months; many programs and fellowships provide twelve months of support and higher stipend amounts, some more than $30,000. Students' primary task is to grow as committed and creative intellectual leaders, so Emory's support lasts. In most programs, students who make good progress can count on five years of full support, and will find many opportunities to compete for support beyond that.

Graduate education is a stepping stone to a professional career, whether in education, public service, or private enterprise. The Laney Graduate School encourages students to develop professional skills and to engage with broader professional communities.

A groundbreaking graduate student teaching program gives graduate students the pedagogical skills and practical experience to enter teaching professions.

An extensive grant writing program builds the professional skills needed to compete with peers for research funding.

The Laney Graduate School supports and encourages students who need to acquire specialized research skills by traveling to other locations, and who seek to present their research at significant professional conferences.

Career development programs encourage students to take a broad look at post-graduation careers, both inside and outside the academy.

Selected Research Centers and Institutes

Emory brings together an extraordinary set of resources and opportunities, often realized as research centers or institutes with interdisciplinary reach. Some of those include:

Center for Mind, Brain and Culture - fosters inquiry, research, and teaching from multiple explanatory perspectives concerning issues and phenomena associated with mind, brain, and culture and their relations.

Winship Cancer Institute - dedicated to accelerating the discovery of a cure for cancer and to applying this discovery to give people hope.

Emory Center for AIDS Research - one of 18 CFARs across the country that are funded by the National Institutes of Health.

Center for Behavioral Neuroscience - a collaboration between Emory and five other Atlanta universities.

James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference - fosters new scholarship, teaching, and public dialogue that focuses upon the origins, evolution, and legacy of the modern civil rights movement and its points of intersection with other social movements such as the Women's Movement; the Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Transgendered Movement; and the Human Rights Movement.

Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry - serves as a focal point for the humanities as traditionally defined, as well as for all members of university communities who are interested in humanistic topics and approaches.

Yerkes National Primate Research Center - an international leader in biomedical and behavioral research, making landmark discoveries in the fields of microbiology and immunology, neuroscience, psychobiology, and sensory-motor systems.

The Emory Center for Ethics is an international leader in the exploration of ethics. The Center is dedicated to exploring how ethical issues underlie the decisions that shape our minds, lives, and society. The Center is committed to asking tough questions and developing strategies to help enable people and organizations put ethics into practice.

The Carter Center - a world renowned institution committed to advancing human rights and alleviating unnecessary human suffering by sponsoring a wide range of programs from election monitoring to efforts to eradicate diseases afflicting the poor.

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Emory is adjacent to the CDC, and many graduate programs in biomedical and public health areas have close contacts with scientists there.

Emory Is Located in a Thriving City, at the Center of American Culture, and Near Institutions Recognized Worldwide

Contemporary Atlanta has grown to be the ninth largest U.S. metropolitan area, and is an international city with a rich diversity of peoples and cultures. It is a regional center for the growing Southeast U.S. and a hub for commercial and cultural contacts between North and South America.

Only 15 minutes from downtown Atlanta, Emory is located in Druid Hills, a revitalized historic area dominated by single-family homes, located only a short car or bus ride from several centers of urban culture, like Decatur, Buckhead, Midtown, and Inman Park.

Just a little farther afield are the headquarters of other prominent organizations. Atlanta is home to state government, regional centers of the U.S. government, and numerous corporations and organizations, like the American Cancer Society, Care International, CNN, and Coca-Cola.

Atlanta is also a major center for higher education; Emory, the Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia State University, and 16 other colleges and universities make up the Atlanta Regional Council for Higher Education.

Atlanta is a historical center of African-American culture and politics, home to the legacy of perhaps the most transformative social movement in 20th century United States, the civil rights movement. That legacy is a tangible presence in the King Center and the headquarters of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.