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'Tis the season for merry music and celebrations. Emory's December calendar includes plenty of holiday-themed festivities, as well as other exciting musical and dance offerings.
Read MoreA partnership with the Oxford College Organic Farm is part of Emory’s bold commitment to support the next generation of local farmers and provide sustainably grown food for Emory’s campuses.
Read MoreOxford College students examine how three religions helped shape Spanish culture.
Read MoreThe Oxford College Women's Tennis Team recently claimed its fifth consecutive national title. The Eagles secured the NJCAA Division III National Tennis Championship for the sixth time overall.
Read MoreFaculty from multiple departments across Emory met at Oxford College to discuss how the Mellon Humanities Pathways Project and other cross-school collaborations can enhance students' educational experience.
Read MoreOxford College's fall play Men on Boats tells a true(ish) history of a trip to chart the Colorado River from a unique perspective.
Read MoreKen Carter's new book delves into the minds of daredevils.
Read MoreAward-winning filmmaker Martin Doblmeier took his first trip to Oxford College to help make an often-overlooked civil rights icon a little less so.
Read MoreOxford College students interact with their German peers and delve into philosophy.
Read MoreOxford students, faculty, staff and their families gathered in north Georgia for Oxford's annual fall retreat Sept. 13-15.
Read MoreStudent Government Association President Ben Palmer, an Oxford continuee, provided a welcome from Emory students to former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
Read MoreThe newest cohort of Emory Scholars, recipients of the university's top merit scholarships, highlight the outstanding achievements and exceptional promise of the Class of 2023.
Read MoreDavid Gowler, Oxford's Pierce Chair of Religion, will be one of more than 20 Emory faculty participating in sessions at the 2019 AJC Decatur Book Festival, presented by Emory University.
Read MoreBright and talented, Emory's new first-year class arrived on campus this week primed to step into college life. Together, the Class of 2023 comes to Emory representing some of the nation's most promising young scholars.
Read MoreOxford College staff want incoming first-year students to be more connected this academic year with help from a mobile application and a new welcome initiative.
Read MoreRising Emory junior Kasey Cervantes is spending the last weeks of his summer contributing to a database that will help uncover when mosquitoes developed the insecticide resistance that hinders malaria eradication.
Read MoreOxford College students see the political economic realities they discussed in class at work in everyday life.
Read MoreThousands of Atlanta and Oxford student-residents took advantage of the "Don't Dump It, Donate It" campaign by contributing items to recycle, donate or compost when they left campus for the summer.
Read MoreOxford College students visited areas in and around New York City to study various types of street and gallery art.
Read MoreWhen the Oxford College men's tennis team won the NJCAA DIII national championship in May, they celebrated their fifth consecutive victory and set a new division record for most consecutive titles.
Read MoreClara Perez and Katya Bobrek are among six recent Emory College graduates to earn the National Science Foundation's prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship, which supports high-potential, early-career scientists and engineers.
Read MoreOxford alumni Mawuko Kpodo and Andy Paul are among the Emory undergraduates who conducted original research across the humanities.
Read MoreStudents celebrated the completion of their time at Oxford College on May 11 during traditional Commencement ceremonies in Williams Gymnasium.
Read MoreLauded for leadership and organizing service projects, Oxford second-year student Kiarra Harris wants to help others through a career in nursing. Harris is among the exemplary scholars celebrating commencement at one of Emory's nine schools.
Read MoreThe Celebration of Scholarship and Creative Expression (CSCE) library exhibit is an annual opportunity for the Oxford community to share and celebrate the creative and professional works of Oxford faculty and staff.
Read MoreHands-on learning is a hallmark of Emory's Oxford College, where students get the best of both worlds -- a small liberal arts college embedded in a leading research university.
Read MoreEmory University is a top producer nationally of students and recent alumni who receive U.S. Fulbright awards and a leading producer of Peace Corps volunteers, according to rankings in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Read MoreLed by humanities scholar Pablo Palomino, Emory's first free online "Teach-Out" will explore the meaning of "progress" in Atlanta and beyond. It launches April 15 and is available to participants around the world through the Coursera platform
Read MoreThe Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded Emory a $1.25 million grant to support the Humanities Pathways initiative, designed to better prepare students to convert their academic pursuits into meaningful professional opportunities in a rapidly changing world.
Read MoreEmory's Class of 2023 admitted students are ready to shape the future.
Read MoreOxford students spent a week in March partnering with service agencies in New Orleans and Memphis.
Read MorePearl K. Dowe will join Emory University in fall 2019 as Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Political Science and African American Studies with a joint appointment between the university's Oxford College and Emory College.
Read MoreOxford College of Emory University holds commencements exercises each spring to honor Oxford students before they move to Emory University's Atlanta campus.
Read MoreOxford's spring play Ada and the Engine imagines a world where art and information converge.
Read MoreScience and the arts come together at Oxford in a play and interactive gallery that are part of the Atlanta Science Festival.
Read MoreHave you ever wanted to fly around one of your favorite cities or tour a historic art gallery? Oxford students can do just that without leaving campus by using virtual reality (VR).
Read MoreWith leadership education a core theme of its mission, it's natural that Oxford College would seek out voices of experience to help enrich student perspectives.
Read MoreYoung Oxford graduate Jean Stillwell became part of a code-cracking cadre of U.S. women who helped win World War II.
Read MoreThe Oxford Organic Farm is both a source of fresh, healthy food and an outdoor classroom.
Read MoreAs Atlanta hosts the Super Bowl, Emory's alumni are stepping up in leadership roles, sports doctors are on standby and faculty from philosophy to business are figuring out the fans.
Read MoreThe nine schools that make up Emory University head into the new semester with innovative initiatives, achievements to celebrate and a full slate of engaging speakers and events.
Read MoreOxford College will honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. with a day of service on January 21, the national holiday commemorating King's birth. The following day an evening service in Oxford's Old Church will further celebrate his life, an observance that is also a part of Emory University's King Week.
Read MoreAs 2019 starts, let's take a look back at 20 of Emory University's best photos of the past year. Oxford highlights include our Organic Farm and Oxford alumnus Taos Wynn.
Read MoreGet a glimpse of Oxford life as we reflect on 2018. Celebrate the highlights of this past year that include remarkable student research opportunities and renovations of historic campus buildings.
Read MoreEmory University received a record 1,910 applications for the first round of Early Decision admission, welcoming 559 outstanding students to Emory College and 256 to Oxford College, including a record 32 scholars from the QuestBridge National College Match program.
Read MoreEmory senior Elliot Shuwei Ji, Emory/Georgia Tech dual degree student Veronica Chua and recent alumna Zhongyuan "Echo" Zeng have been selected as Schwarzman Scholars, among only 147 chosen from more than 2,800 applicants around the world.
Read MoreWith a little more than two weeks left until the end of the academic year, Oxford College welcomes the return of several holiday-themed festivities.
Read MoreIn the 167 years since it was built as a space for debate-society meetings, Phi Gamma Hall has taken on many looks and played many roles in the history of Emory. Now, after extensive renovation, the elegantly plain building anchoring the northwest corner of the Oxford College quad has still another incarnation, this time as a space dedicated to academic and public events.
Read MoreThe Oxford College Women's Tennis Team proved that it's not only the third time that's a charm--for the fourth consecutive year, and fifth overall year, the Eagles clinched the NJCAA Division III National Tennis Championship.
Read MoreMeet the 12 employees selected as this year's winners of the Emory University Award of Distinction. Since 1985, the annual awards have recognized staff members who make significant contributions to the Emory community.
Read MoreWith close to 200 Oxford College alumni in Newton County, Ga., and thousands more all over the world, college leaders aim to help connect them with current Oxford students.
Read MoreOxford's fall play The Arsonists is a deadly serious farce.
Read MoreWherever they live, whatever their profession, Emory alumni such as Taos Wynn share a common pursuit: service to their communities.
Read MoreTwo Oxford alumnae, Laura Asherman and Felicia Warren, are among alumni from around the world who were nominated for the 2018 class of Emory Alumni Association's 40 Under Forty.
Read MoreRecent summer days provided a perfect opportunity for Oxford students Justin Burton, Min Ji Choi, and Eden Nitza to make progress on their professional research projects with SURE-Oxford.
Read MoreJust over 100 Oxford students, faculty, staff and their families gathered in north Georgia for Oxford's annual fall retreat Sept. 14-16.
Read MoreGeorgia author and Episcopal priest Barbara Brown Taylor will be the speaker at Oxford College's Samuel W. Mills Peace Lecture on Oct. 2.
Read MoreMuch-anticipated facility will open in 2019
Read MoreOxford College will provide an opportunity to view a documentary film on the Northern Ireland peace process and then hear a panel discussion from notable political figures from that area on Sept. 18.
Read MoreFive Oxford College students are among the newest Emory Scholars, recipients of the university's top merit scholarships.
Read MoreThe nine schools that make up Emory University have big plans for the 2018-19 academic year. Get the stats on their incoming classes, plus a roundup of what's on tap for this semester, including new programs and events.
Read MoreEmory University's newest first-year class, including 533 Oxford students, arrived on campus this week, eager to immerse themselves in the undergraduate experience.
Read MoreClassroom courses translated to real-life experiences for Oxford College students during trips to France, Italy, and Greece.
Read MoreLater this week, first-year students will throng to Emory University's Atlanta and Oxford campuses to move in and begin writing the opening chapter of their own Emory experience.
Read MoreFour Oxford continuees are among nine Emory undergraduates who spent their summer serving in Atlanta.
Read MoreEmory University has been ranked #1 for quality of life, according to the Princeton Review's 27th annual college rankings, "The 384 Best Colleges" guide, based on its nationwide survey of 138,000 college students' ratings of their schools.
Read MoreSummer got off to an adventurous start for a handful of current Oxford students and alumni as they visited Vietnam for two weeks.
Read MoreKen Carter, Oxford's Charles Howard Candler Professor of Psychology, focuses on the psychology of thrill-seeking for his current research. He recently wrote about sensation seekers for Emory Magazine.
Read MoreSummer's slower pace offers the perfect time to relax with a good book, and Emory authors like Oxford Associate Professor of Philosophy Erin Tarver have you covered. Add Tarver's new book on American sports fandom to your summer reading list.
Read MoreHalf of today's jobs may not exist in 20 years, so Emory must prepare students to succeed by emphasizing skills such as learning how to learn, flexibility and empathy, President Claire E. Sterk explains in a new video.
Read MoreJust because most Oxford College students take a break from their normal classes over the summer, doesn't mean the campus isn't filled with people.
Read MoreThe National Science Foundation has awarded coveted Graduate Research Fellowships to Tristan Yates and Liz O'Gorman, who just graduated from Emory College with honors with degrees in neuroscience and behavioral biology.
Read MoreStudents celebrated the completion of their time at Oxford College on May 12 during traditional Commencement ceremonies on the Oxford quad.
Read MoreThe campus of Oxford College is small, but for the past two years it has been a large stage where Willis Hao has demonstrated the remarkable range of his talents as an actor, dancer, scholar and leader.
Read MoreThe annual recognition of Oxford College graduates will take place Saturday, May 12, at 10:00 a.m. on the Oxford quad.
Read MoreSix seniors will graduate with honors in physics, having conducted rigorous research as expansive as hints of what happens around the universe's dying stars and as minute as the molecular mechanisms telling our cells what to do.
Read MoreProfessor of Sociology Mike McQuaide retires at the end of May, leaving a four-decade legacy of impact on the lives of his students and on Oxford College as a whole.
Read MoreCoursera courses give students worldwide the chance to learn from Emory faculty about topics that highlight the university's commitment to helping humanity, including civil rights, understanding violence, examining addiction, responding to health emergencies, and more.
Read MoreThe Oxford College Research Scholars Program affirms Oxford's commitment to student research in the first two years of college. Oxford Research Scholars assist faculty with research projects and receive academic credit.
Read MoreFor some students at Oxford College, traveling to Georgia to attend school is an adventure in itself. But for a handful of Oxford students experiencing a spring-break trip to Cuba was a once-in-a-lifetime affair.
Read MoreInspired Performance, a multi-media display of the creative and professional works of nearly 40 Oxford College faculty, staff, and emeritus faculty, is currently on display in the Oxford College Library.
Read MoreThe Interdisciplinary Humanities Conference explored the vitality and creative breadth of humanistic inquiry, as faculty, students and university leaders gathered to discuss the growth of interdisciplinary scholarship at Emory and ways to help it flourish.
Read MoreEmory University has received a record 27,982 applications to be part of the Class of 2022, a 16 percent jump from the previous year.
Read MoreOxford College will hold a special observance on Wednesday, April 4, in tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. and in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of his assassination on April 4, 1968.
Read MoreIn her newly published book, Patti Owen-Smith explores contemplative practices in the higher-education classroom and makes a case for its place within the framework of the scholarship of teaching and learning.
Read MoreThe Pierce Visiting Scholar program is an exchange between Oxford College and Oxford University. This year, Oxford welcomes anthropologists David Gellner and Dolores "DP" Martinez to campus as the 2018 scholars.
Read MoreThe Atlanta Science Festival is headed to Oxford College for the second consecutive year and is growing with two special events.
Read MoreOxford College of Emory University holds commencements exercises each spring to honor Oxford students before they move to Emory University's Atlanta campus.
Read MoreThrough panels featuring Emory's Mellon Faculty Fellows and discussions with Emory deans and senior leadership, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Conference will explore interdisciplinary humanities and the liberal arts throughout Emory's colleges, graduate and professional schools.
Read MoreA generous gift from alumnus Hugh Tarbutton Jr. 84Ox will establish the Tarbutton Leadership Fellows Program at Oxford College, Dean Douglas Hicks announced today. Tarbutton Jr. gave the donation in memory of his father, Hugh Tarbutton Sr. 52Ox 55B.
Read MoreOxford's Erin Tarver is one of five Emory scholars who are blurring lines, bridging disciplines, and pushing boundaries.
Read MoreOxford College recently hosted a campus-wide grand opening for the newly renovated Pierce Hall.
Read MoreThe Emory community gathered Feb. 12 to celebrate the 109 faculty members across the university who authored or edited a total of 115 books last year.
Read MoreAre leaders born, or are they made? In other words, can leadership be taught? These are the questions an internationally known scholar will grapple with in an upcoming appearance at Oxford College.
Read MoreSome students run to a big city to attend college, but Daniel Liu looked for a quieter life while in school to help him focus on his studies and sports.
Read MoreExciting projects and meaningful relationships at Emory will be celebrated Feb. 7-8 with a 24-hour online fundraising challenge.
Read MoreA new multimedia exhibition at the Oxford College Library sheds light on the time after World War II and proves how some topics can transcend time.
Read MoreWith a nod to the past, present and future, Founders Week kicks off Feb. 6 with a Distinguished Faculty Lecture presented by acclaimed Emory historian Carol Anderson.
Read MoreA winter wonderland greeted Oxford students expecting to start their first day of spring semester.
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