Emory University is a private research university in Atlanta,Georgia. Founded in 1836 as Emory College by the Methodist Episcopal Church and named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory,Emory is the second-oldest private institution of higher education in Georgia.
Shirley Marie Tilghman,is a Canadian scholar in molecular biology and an academic administrator. She is now a professor of molecular biology and public policy and president emerita of Princeton University. In 2002,Discover magazine recognized her as one of the 50 most important women in science.
John Robert Lewis was an American politician and civil rights activist who served in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's 5th congressional district from 1987 until his death in 2020. He participated in the 1960 Nashville sit-ins,the Freedom Rides,was the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from 1963 to 1966,and was one of the "Big Six" leaders of groups who organized the 1963 March on Washington. Fulfilling many key roles in the civil rights movement and its actions to end legalized racial segregation in the United States,in 1965 Lewis led the first of three Selma to Montgomery marches across the Edmund Pettus Bridge where,in an incident which became known as Bloody Sunday,state troopers and police attacked Lewis and the other marchers.
An honorary degree is an academic degree for which a university has waived all of the usual requirements. It is also known by the Latin phrases honoris causa or ad honorem. The degree is typically a doctorate or,less commonly,a master's degree,and may be awarded to someone who has no prior connection with the academic institution or no previous postsecondary education. An example of identifying a recipient of this award is as follows:Doctorate in Business Administration (Hon. Causa).
Rita Frances Dove is an American poet and essayist. From 1993 to 1995,she served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. She is the first African American to have been appointed since the position was created by an act of Congress in 1986 from the previous "consultant in poetry" position (1937–86). Dove also received an appointment as "special consultant in poetry" for the Library of Congress's bicentennial year from 1999 to 2000. Dove is the second African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry,in 1987,and she served as the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2004 to 2006. Since 1989,she has been teaching at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville,where she held the chair of Commonwealth Professor of English from 1993 to 2020;as of 2020 she holds the chair of Henry Hoyns Professor of Creative Writing.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of New York City in the United States,simply known as Mellon Foundation,is a private foundation with five core areas of interest,and endowed with wealth accumulated by Andrew Mellon of the Mellon family of Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania. It is the product of the 1969 merger of the Avalon Foundation and the Old Dominion Foundation. These foundations had been set up separately by Ailsa Mellon Bruce and Paul Mellon,the children of Andrew Mellon.
Don Michael Randel is an American musicologist,specializing in the music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance in Spain and France. He is currently the Chair of the Board of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,a trustee of the Carnegie Corporation,and a member of the Encyclopædia Britannica editorial board,and has previously served as the fifth president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,twelfth president of the University of Chicago,Provost of Cornell University,and Dean of Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences. He has served as editor of the third and fourth editions of the Harvard Dictionary of Music,the Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music,and the Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2002.
Martin Emil Marty is an American Lutheran religious scholar who has written extensively on religion in the United States.
William Gordon Bowen was an American academic who served as the president emeritus of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,serving as its president from 1988 to 2006. From 1972 until 1988,he was the president of Princeton University. Bowen founded the digital library,JSTOR.
Candler School of Theology is one of seven graduate schools at Emory University,located in metropolitan Atlanta,Georgia. A university-based school of theology,Candler educates ministers,scholars of religion and other leaders. It is also one of 13 seminaries affiliated with the United Methodist Church.
Stephen Bowen is an American biologist,educator,and educational administrator. From August 2005 until his retirement in May 2016 he served as the Dean and CEO of Oxford College of Emory University,located in Oxford,Georgia.
Mary Patterson McPherson has served as the president of Bryn Mawr College (1978–1997),the vice president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (1997–2007),and the executive officer of the American Philosophical Society (2007–2012). She is considered to be "a significant figure in American higher education and a leader in the education of women".
Santa Jeremy Ono is a Canadian-American immunologist and academic administrator,currently serving as the 15th president of the University of Michigan since October 2022.
Jere Wade Morehead is the 22nd and current President of the University of Georgia. He continues as the Josiah Meigs Professor of Legal Studies at the University of Georgia's Terry College of Business,and was previously Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost.
Cora Bagley Marrett is an American sociologist. From May 2011 until August 2014,Marrett served as the deputy director of the National Science Foundation.
Grace E. Harris.,was an administrator from Virginia Commonwealth University.
Dwight A. McBride an American academic administrator and scholar of race and literary studies. Since April 16,2020,he has served as the ninth president of The New School. McBride previously served as provost,executive vice president for academic affairs,and Asa Griggs Candler Professor of African American studies at Emory University.
Doug Van Houweling is a professor at the University of Michigan School of Information. He is best known for his contributions to the development and deployment of the Internet. For these accomplishments,he was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2014. He is also the recipient of the EDUCAUSE 2002 Excellence in Leadership Award,the Iowa State University John V. Atanasoff Discovery Award,the Indiana University Thomas Hart Benton Mural Medallion,and an honorary Doctor of Science from Indiana University in May,2017. Van Houweling was the Associate Dean for Research and Innovation from 2010 to 2014. Prior to that,he was the Dean for Academic Outreach and Vice Provost for Information technology at the University of Michigan.
David Wertz Ellis is an American consultant who previously worked as the president and director of the Museum of Science (Boston),interim president of the Boston Children's Museum,and the president of Lafayette College. Since 2002,he has worked in the greater Boston area as a non-profit organization management consultant working mostly with museums and science centers.
