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1990–The
Center for Ethics in Public Policy and the Professions
is established. |
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1990–The
$40 million O. Wayne Rollins Research Center is dedicated,
doubling the amount of space for life science research at Emory. |
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1990–The
Lullwater Review, an Emory student-run literary
journal, is launched. |
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1990–Emory’s
Division of Public Health becomes its School of Public Health,
the first in Georgia, one of twenty-five nationwide, and one of
eight in private institutions in this country. |
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1991–Emory
fields an intercollegiate baseball team. In 1995, Chappell
Field, Emory’s new baseball stadium, becomes one of the finest
NCAA Division III
facilities of its kind. |
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1992–Former
Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev addresses a record-breaking
audience at Commencement. |
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1992–The
Office of International Affairs is established. |
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1992–The
Women’s Center is established. Kelly Turney, director
of Emory’s Equal Opportunity Programs, writes, “The
opening of the women’s center was significant for many women
around campus because it provided a space for women’s voices
to be valued and heard–for women’s issues to be at the
center rather than the margin. It also provided one of the much
needed places at Emory where constituencies from across the campus
come together, and students, faculty, and staff interact informally.” |
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1994–Emory
is admitted to the Association of American Universities. |
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1994–The
University publishes “Choices and Responsibility: Shaping
Emory’s Future,” a document that examined the crisis
in American higher education and Emory’s role in addressing
issues such as teaching, research, interdisciplinary scholarship,
and community relationships. |
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1995–Emory
hosts President Bill Clinton’s regional economic summit
in Cannon Chapel. |
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1996–The
Olympics come to Atlanta. The University sponsors cultural
events, provides health care, and houses volunteers and more than
two thousand international media representatives. Emory’s
athletic facilities are used for Paralympic events and as training
sites for a number of national Olympic teams. |
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1996–The
Hugh F. MacMillan Law Library is dedicated. |
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1997–The
Roberto C. Goizueta Business School dedicates its new home
on Clifton Road, just three weeks before the death of its namesake,
the chief executive officer of The Coca-Cola Company. |
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1997–Wole
Soyinka ’96H, exiled Nigerian playwright, activist, and
Nobel Laureate, comes to Emory as the Robert W. Woodruff Professor
of the Arts. |
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1998–South
African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu comes to Emory as the
visiting Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Theology. |
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1998–His
Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the XIV Dalai Lama, delivers the
Commencement address and inaugurates the Summer Institute for
Tibetan Buddhist Studies. The Summer Institute is the first
program of the formal partnership between Emory and the exiled
Drepung Loseling Monastery, a major center of Tibetan scholarship. |
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1998–The
Center for Library and Information Resources is dedicated.
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1999–With
an outpouring of public support that raised $2 million in two
weeks, the Michael C. Carlos Museum brings “the
mummies” to Atlanta, securing the acquisition of an eighty-piece
collection of Egyptian funerary art and artifacts. |
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1999–The
University purchases forty-two acres of property, the site of
the former Georgia Mental Health Institute. In partnership with
the Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory plans to develop
a state-of-the-art biotechnology research and development center
on the site, dubbed Emory West.
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