August 2018 Archive
![Emory University's Class of 2022, including students from both Emory College and Oxford College, pose together on the quadrangle on Sunday, Aug. 26.](../../../_includes/images/sections/news/class-group-2022.jpeg)
Oxford College | August 28, 2018
Emory University's newest first-year class, including 533 Oxford students, arrived on campus this week, eager to immerse themselves in the undergraduate experience.
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Oxford College | August 27, 2018
Classroom courses translated to real-life experiences for Oxford College students during trips to France, Italy, and Greece.
![M.K. Healy and Lydia Bailey served in Atlanta this summer.](../../../_includes/images/sections/news/bailey-and-healy.png)
Emory University | August 15, 2018
From teaching reading to refugees to drafting policy at City Hall, Emory students spend the summer making an impact in Atlanta.
![Greeters welcome first-year students to campus](../../../_includes/images/sections/news/2018/08/welcome-sign-2017.jpg)
Emory University | August 22, 2018
Later 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.
![Students sit outside the Oxford College Library.](../../../_includes/images/sections/news/princeton-rank-group.jpg)
Emory University | August 8, 2018
Emory 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.
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Oxford College | August 7, 2018
Summer got off to an adventurous start for a handful of current Oxford students and alumni as they visited Vietnam for two weeks.
Oxford College | August 3, 2018
Ken 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.