Rankings & Successes: Distinguished Professors
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- Distinguished faculty members include:
- Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter
- His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama
- CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta
- Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hank Klibanoff
- Former U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Jeffrey Koplan
- Booker Prize-winning novelist Sir Salman Rushdie
- Symphony conductor Robert Spano
- Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey
- Awards and honors recognizing Emory faculty include:
- Nobel Prize
- Pulitzer Prize
- National Humanities Medal
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- Fulbright Fellowship
- Carnegie Scholars
- Emory's faculty includes:
- 22 members of the Institute of Medicine
- four members of the National Academy of Sciences
- 10 members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 26 members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and two Howard Hughes professors
- President Barack Obama appointed Emory President James W. Wagner as Vice Chair of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues.
- All members of Emory University's 2,868 regular full-time faculty (2010-2011) hold the highest degree in their field.
- Undergraduates give Emory high marks for quality instruction in their major: 87 percent were "very satisfied" or "satisfied" in the 2010 Emory College Senior Survey.
- Twelve Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholars, and about one in three of some 150 Distinguished Cancer Clinicians and Scientists, conduct their distinctive work at Emory.
- Shoshana Felman, Robert Woodruff Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and French, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010. She joins 10 other Emory academics among the ranks of the academy's fellows, recognized leaders in the academic disciplines, the arts, business and public affairs.
- Rafi Ahmed, director of the Emory Vaccine Center and professor of microbiology and immunology, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2009. He joins two other Emory professors among the Academy's 2,100 members.