Scholarship & Success

The ARCS Foundation Atlanta hosted its annual Scholar Awards Celebration on November 12, honoring exceptional graduate students whose research is driving innovation across Georgia. During the event, Dean Kimberly Jacob Arriola highlighted the profound impact of ARCS support, emphasizing that scientific progress depends on investing in scholars, mentors, and visionary thinkers.​

Why do so many people feel left out of scientific conversations? On Episode 3 of Emory’s Impact in Progress, Laney PhD student Rose Hayes explores this question and shares her mission to craft science messages that truly resonate with the public. Her interdisciplinary work brings together nursing, public health, communication, and community partnerships to rebuild trust in science.

Under Dean Linda McCauley’s leadership, the Emory School of Nursing has earned No. 1 rankings and experienced meteoric growth. As she approaches retirement as dean, she insists: It has been a team achievement, not hers alone.

Dean Linda McCauley of the Emory School of Nursing exemplifies how one person can inspire environmental health action. Her modeled lessons, shared by colleagues and partners, show the difference leadership makes amid global ecological challenges.

Dean Linda McCauley’s colleagues reflect on her wide-ranging influence in nursing and health care, her prolific work in nursing and environmental health research, and her remarkable achievements leading the school.

Dean Linda McCauley’s leadership has been central to the success of the Emory School of Nursing, but she has also taken a system-level perspective, taking actions to strengthen and elevate the nursing profession at large.

Emory’s Graduate Student Government Association is launching a MARTA pilot project to subsidize transit passes. The goal is to ease the financial burden for graduate and professional students and facilitate access to the campus and larger metro community.

Nikki Boon, an Emory neuroscience PhD student, won gold at the Women’s Decathlon World Championships. With it, she earned the official designation of “World’s Greatest Athlete,” complementing her selection as a 2025 NCAA Woman of the Year Top 30 honoree.

This year’s cohort was chosen from the most competitive applicant pool yet. In all, 26 ventures led by founders from six of Emory’s schools and colleges are participating. Learn about this year’s projects — and the students behind them.

Contemporary paintings, photography, sculpture and more by artists working in Africa or within the African diaspora are featured in the exhibit “Insistent Presence,” on view at the Carlos Museum through Dec. 14.

The National Science Foundation’s coveted Graduate Research Fellowships support graduate study for high-potential, early-career scholars across a range of fields. Applications are due in early November, and only first-year graduate students are eligible to apply.

The expansion of The Ridge, which opened to residents in 2024, is officially underway. The second part of the structure will complete the project with 383 additional beds and more community spaces.

Several new programs have emerged around the university this year to further support faculty researchers as they explore innovative ideas. Find out more about each program and how a team approach to encouraging scholarship is making a difference.

The agreement between Emory and Service Employees International Union governing terms and conditions of work for PhD students was ratified Sept. 12 following over a year of collaborative, good-faith negotiations.

Doctoral students spend hours immersed in the intricacies of their research.

Q and A with Marcelitte Failla, Recipient of Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship

The goal of understanding the brain’s complexities has guided decades of groundbreaking biomedical research.

Laney Graduate School (LGS) celebrated an impactful year with the annual Dean’s address and inaugural LGS Awards Ceremony.

Gabrielle Delima, a 5th year Ph.D. candidate in the Microbiology and Molecular Genetics program, emerged victorious with her presentation on “Flu Viruses: Better Together.”

Laney Graduate School (LGS) inducted its newest members into the National Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society and celebrated all Bouchet Scholars at Emory in a pinning ceremony on April 27.

We caught up with Gabrielle Delima, a 5th year Ph.D. candidate in the Microbiology and Molecular Genetics program and the winner of the 2022 3MT competition. Learn more about her research, how she arrived at the topic, and what drew her to Laney Graduate School below!

The new academic year is just around the corner, which means faculty and staff on Emory’s Atlanta and Oxford College campuses are preparing for students’ arrival. Here are eight things you should know before the semester begins.

The American Academy of Nursing will induct 16 members of the Emory community into its 2025 Class of Fellows. The inductees include faculty, alumni and administrators from the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Rollins School of Public Health, Laney Graduate School, and Emory Healthcare.

Representing five of Emory’s nine schools and colleges, these students are working in community to build and scale their business venture ideas, get feedback and present to area businesses and potential investors in late July.

During the 2025 NCAA Division III championship in Geneva, Ohio, Nikki Boon won the women’s heptathlon and Eva Carchidi won the 400-meter dash. Boon and Carchidi’s wins made program history at Emory.

The Provost’s Distinguished Teaching Awards honor outstanding scholars who excel as teachers within formal and informal educational settings. Meet the seven recipients for 2025.

Amita Manatunga, the Donna J. Brogan Professor in Biostatistics at Rollins School of Public Health, has provided impactful mentorship for more than 30 years. She is the recipient of the university’s 2025 Exemplary Teacher of the Year Award.

Using artificial intelligence shortens the time to identify complex quantum phases in materials from months to minutes, finds a new study led by Emory scientists. The breakthrough could speed up research into superconductors.