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Emory University, Emory College of Arts and Sciences
Emory College’s Departmental Resources
Anthropology
Biology
Chemistry
Mathematics
Physics
Psychology
Sociology
Resources and Facilities for Proposals
Office
Clinical
Animal
Computer
Scientific Computation
Other
The Center for Science Education
The Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry
Center for Ethics
Emory University Libraries
Schwartz Center for Performing Arts
Emory Visual Arts Gallery
Michael C. Carlos Museum
Theater at Emory
The Emory Dance Company
Oxford College
Core Facilities
The Biomolecular Computing Resource
The Biomedical Imaging Technology Center
Robert P. Apkarian Integrated Electron Microscopy Core
Emory GRA Genome Center
Emory Center for Systems Imaging
Flow Cytometry
Transgenic Mouse and Gene Targeting Core
Emory Service Centers
Other Centers
The Center for Behavioral Neuroscience
The Microchemical Facility
The Confocal Microscopy Facility
The DNA Sequencing Facility
The Emory Positron Emission Tomography Unit
Collegial Support, Career Enrichment Programs, and Organized Peer Groups
Instrumentation, Bridge, Instruction, and Seed (IBIS) Funding Program
Office of Research Funding and Support (ORFS)
Graduate Studies Grant Writing Program
Economics Department Proposal Writing
Center for Faculty Development and Excellence
Emory’s Center for Interactive Teaching
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education
Supervisory Assistance and Guidance
Mentoring Program
Logistical Support, Administrative Management, and Oversight
Office of Research Compliance
IACUC
IRB
ORC
ECAS Office of Faculty
ECAS Office for Research Funding and Support
Checklist for Facilities and Other Resources (NIH)
Emory University, Emory College of Arts and Sciences
Emory College of Arts and Sciences was founded in 1836 in Oxford, Georgia, and is the oldest college of
Emory University. In 1915, Emory University was established in Atlanta with Emory College of Arts and
Sciences as its undergraduate school of arts and sciences. College classes continued to be held at Oxford
until 1919 when the college relocated to the new campus in Atlanta.
Emory University is one of the leading institutions of higher education throughout the country with strong
relationships with prominent public health organizations and agencies. Emory faculty and students have
access to substantial library holdings, computing facilities, technical expertise, and research facilities. Emory
is also a member of the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the
University of Michigan and has full access to many services and resources available within ICPSR. Emory's
main campus covers more than 600 acres in Atlanta, Georgia.
Emory is the third-largest employer in the metro Atlanta area and the largest employer in DeKalb County. As
of September, 2009, total Emory University and Emory Healthcare employees numbered 23,408.
Emory University is comprised of the following schools: Emory College of Arts and Sciences; Goizueta
Business School; Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing; Oxford College; James. T. Laney School of
Graduate Studies; School of Law; School of Medicine; Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing; Rollins
School of Public Health and the Candler School of Theology.
Student Enrollment for the University in fall 2009 was 12,930 (6,980 Undergraduate; 5,950 Graduate and
Professional). Emory College of Arts and Sciences offers 70 majors, 55 minors, and 17 joint concentrations
and 55 minors. Fall 2009 College enrollment was 5,206. Emory College has 542 faculty; 31 academic
departments and 16 academic programs.
The college faculty has published more than 750 books and has been distinguished recipients of the
Pulitzer Prize, the National Humanities Medal, and the National Book Award. Through participation in
interdisciplinary research centers across campus, College faculty bridge traditional barriers between the
disciplines and work together to advance the frontiers of knowledge.
Emory College’s Department Resources
Anthropology
Founded in 1978, the Anthropology department has twenty-three faculty offices, four staff offices and one
office for teaching assistants and graduate students. There are six department laboratories: the
Laboratory for Human Osteology; the Laboratory for Comparative Human Biology; the Laboratory of
Reproductive Ecology and Environmental Toxicology; the Laboratory of Biogeochemical Anthropology;
the Paleolithic Technology Laboratory, and the Laboratory for Darwinian Neuroscience.
Biology
The Department of Biology occupies state-of-the-art laboratories in the O. Wayne Rollins Research
Center. With 250,000 square feet of space, the O. Wayne Rollins Research Center offers research
facilities and offices for the departments of Biochemistry, Biology, Microbiology and Immunology, and
Pharmacology. The presence under the same roof of these various departments is an unusual
circumstance that greatly favors research interactions and enhances programmatic collaborations among
faculty groups.
The O. Wayne Rollins Research Center building contains all of the classrooms and teaching laboratories
used by Biology.
The Health Sciences Library houses the journals, books, and reference materials necessary for the
research and teaching missions of the Department of Biology, the Medical School, and the School of
Public Health.
In addition to the laboratories, there is a temperature-controlled greenhouse managed by the Biology
Department. The greenhouse has a large potting area in which plants can be started.
Many biology department scientists have a subscription to Emory's high performance computer cluster,
which is almost exclusively dedicated to biological research. The cluster has several BLAST databases
installed.
Equipment in the biology department includes a confocal microscope, phosphoimager, XOMAT X-ray film
developer, cold room, culture shakers, spectrophotometer, scintillation and gamma counters.
Chemistry
The Chemistry department is located in the Sanford S. Atwood Chemistry Center and Cherry Logan
Emerson Hall.
The Chemistry building contains well-designed undergraduate laboratories and classrooms plus research
facilities that allow more than 150 students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty to investigate the frontiers of
chemistry.
Research facilities for the Chemistry department include:
The Emory University Mass Spectrometry Center provides mass spectrometry services for the University,
including high resolution Electron Impact and high resolution Fast Atom Bombardment to provide
conformation of elemental composition.
The Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Research Facility, located in Atwood Hall, provides
extensive, state-of-the-art facilities in NMR.
Robert P. Apkarian Integrated Electron Microscopy Core: provides investigators from all areas of the
university with instrumentation, technical assistance, as well as training in transmission and scanning
electron microscopy.
The X-ray Crystallography Center provides a variety of X-ray facilities primarily used by the Emory
Chemistry Department.
The Center for Fundamental & Applied Molecular Evolution: Provides DNA sequencing services (Applied
Biosystems Genetic Analyzer 3100) and is equipped with user-accessible, robotic high-throughput
screening equipment (Tecan freedom evo Liquid Handling System, Genetix QPixll colony picker).
The Chemistry Library is located in the Atwood Chemistry building and houses the Chemistry holdings of
the Emory University Library.
Mathematics
The Mathematics department is housed in the new Mathematics and Science Center. The Center’s
facilities include an open Unix computing lab, instructional teaching lab, computing library, research
computing labs and data center. All classrooms are equipped with state-of-the-art AV and computing
tools.
The Mathematics department maintains a shared memory, multi-processor system primarily suited for
multi-threaded, CPU intensive programs. The current hardware bearing the crunch hostname is a Sun
Microsystems SunFire V40z, with 4 Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processors and 32 GB of memory
running linux.
The department also maintains a shared memory, multi-processor system primarily suited for multithreaded, CPU intensive programs. The current hardware bearing the compute hostname is a Sun
Microsystems SunFire V880, with 8 CPUs and 16 GB of memory running solaris.
The department maintains a high performance cluster with 32 nodes and 128 processor cores. Each
node has two dual core AMD 2214 2.2 GHz Opteron CPUs, 4 GB RAM and an 80 GB drive. The nodes
are connected via a High Performance InfiniBand network and also Gigabit Ethernet. The nodes are
running Linux CentOS. The cluster is managed by a head node running Cluster H.Q. and it is using the
Portable Batch System to schedule jobs.
The department also maintains a parallel computing cluster with 32 CPUs and 16 GB of memory split
across 16 identical systems. All nodes use RedHat Linux/Intel for their operating system. Nodes are
interconnected with switched, 100 Mb ethernet. Two build environments are available for MPI programs.
One uses the GNU compiler suite [gcc/g++/g77]; the other uses the Portland Group (PGI) compiler suite.
The department also utilizes workstations from the teaching lab to form a compute grid for off-hour and
weekend use. The pool of nodes normally includes 32 identical systems each with 2 SPARC CPUs; by
arrangement, 16 additional systems could be recruited to bring the total CPU count up to 96.
Data storage for departmental servers and workstations is provided by a 2GB/sec Fiber Channel Storage
Area Network. Currently there is 14TB of disk storage provided by Sun StorEdge T3B and 3511 raid
arrays. The storage is further backed up daily on a set of additional raid disk devices and ultimately
cloned to our QualStar 5244 SAIT tape robot.
The department’s computing lab comprises two, adjoining spaces. The immediate, thirty-two seats are
available to undergraduates for work on computer assignments. A tiered floor, teaching lab adjoins via
restricted access door.
Classrooms are equipped for audio/video presentation using the computer, the document camera,
DVD/VCR, or a user-supplied laptop (A/V/network cabling present). A small, touch-driven display atop the
desk incorporates system power control, input select, audio volume, video mute, screen and shadow
motors, and mode specific functions.
Wired and Wireless Networking: The department is served largely by two, physical networks. Every
faculty office has one active port for a department workstation and one for a personal computer,
connecting to our primary network.
Physics
Facilities of the Physics department are housed in the Mathematics and Science Center and include
general and advanced physics laboratories; optics, analog and digital electronics, and microprocessor
laboratories; and two observational astronomy facilities.
The Cassegrain telescope is a twenty-four-inch research-grade-telescope utilized in advanced
astrophysics and astronomy courses that is fully controlled by a computer system and custom software.
The Telescope Control System is located in a separate room built directly beneath the observatory where
astronomers can work comfortably in all seasons. The Cassegrain is the centerpiece of the physics
department’s new astronomy program and one of the major attractions on campus. There is also a
terminal inside the dome where astronomers work side-by-side with the Cassegrain. The observatory
also includes an observation pad where mounts for 10 smaller telescopes await students throughout the
year.
The other primary facility is the Emory observatory, which houses. Faculty research laboratories and
computer equipment are available to students engaged in research projects in condensed matter
physics, biophysics, and nonlinear dynamics. Other facilities for physics and astronomy include a onehundred-and-eighty-seat lecture and a demonstration theater, a sixty-seat Zeiss Planetarium classroom,
and a sixteen-station computational physics classroom/laboratory.
Psychology
Emory University's Psychology and Interdisciplinary Sciences Building is an 119,000 square foot state-ofthe-art facility. The facility received LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold
certification and offers a variety of specialized spaces for teaching and research.
The facility fosters collaboration among psychologists and other scholars at the University, and is now a
part of a campus "Science Commons" with nearby buildings including chemistry, physics and other
natural sciences.
Sociology
The Sociology department is located in Tarbutton Hall on the Emory campus. Sociology department
faculty and students are able to draw on a range of resources in the University and Atlanta area,
including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Carter Center of Emory University,
Institute for International and Comparative Studies, Rollins School of Public Health, Candler School of
Theology, Goizueta Business School, Office of University-Community Partnerships, and Martin Luther
King Center for Nonviolent Social Change.
Resources and Facilities for Proposals
If the agency requires a brief narrative description, the below is a suggested generic template. In most
cases, the investigator’s department will provide the necessary information on office facilities.
Department (sample)
The Department of ___________at Emory University provides an environment that emphasizes research
and scholarship in the areas of _________. The Department has a state of the art computer lab, as well as
significant technical and administrative support. The Department of _________ has a Ph.D. program that
emphasizes _________. The graduate program provides a pool of well-trained research assistants in these
areas. There is a high level of interaction and collaborative research among the research faculty and Ph.D.
students. Office space and computers are provided for all project staff at Emory University. All computers
are equipped with the most recent version of Symantec AntiVirus, word processing, and statistical software.
The PI uses _________ that is designated for the analysis of restricted-access data.
For NIH proposals, a checklist has been developed to assist located here and the following encompasses
the usual facility categories. The extent that the required dimensions for each category are described is at
the discretion of the respective investigator.
Office
To be developed and determined by the respective investigator.
Clinical
Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center
The Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center joins those components of Emory University
concerned with patient care, education of health professionals, research affecting health and illness,
and policies for prevention and treatment of disease.
Its components include the Emory University School of Medicine, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of
Nursing, and Rollins School of Public Health; Yerkes National Primate Research Center; Emory
Winship Cancer Institute; and Emory Healthcare. Emory Healthcare includes: The Emory Clinic, EmoryChildren's Center, Emory University Hospital, Emory University Hospital Midtown, Wesley Woods
Center, Emory University Orthopedics & Spine Hospital and the Emory-Adventist Hospital.
Among Emory’s extensive research facilities are the Woodruff Memorial Research Building, the Rollins
Research Center, the Winship Cancer Institute, the Biomedical/Dental Building, the vaccine research
center, and the Whitehead Memorial Research Building. Emory medicine is well known for its
pioneering treatment and research in specialty areas, including cardiovascular diseases, cancer, renal
diseases, ophthalmology, and geriatrics. As clinicians in Emory’s seven owned or affiliated teaching
hospitals, faculty members are responsible for 2,975 hospital beds and more than 2.2 million patient
encounters annually.
Wesley Woods Center
Founded by the United Methodist Church and Emory University, Wesley Woods Center is a multicenter complex that serves more than 30,000 older adults and chronically ill individuals each year. It is
located just off the main Emory campus. Wesley Woods has a 100-bed geriatric specialty hospital, an
outpatient clinic, a 235-bed nursing care facility, a 150-bed skilled care facility, a 200-unit residential
retirement facility, and a 20-bed assisted-living facility. The center is well known for its inpatient,
outpatient, and partial hospitalization programs in Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease,
Huntington's disease, sleep disorders, and rehabilitation.
Animal
Yerkes Resources and Facilities
The Yerkes National Primate Research Center is an international leader in biomedical and behavioral
research. The center houses nearly 3,400 nonhuman primates and more than 5,000 rodents between
two locations at its main center on Emory's Atlanta campus and its field station in Lawrenceville,
Georgia.
Yerkes has 350 staff members, 150 faculty scientists, 150 graduate and undergraduate students
participating in research programs, and 58 postdoctoral fellows.
The center, as one of only eight National Institutes of Health–funded national primate research centers,
provides specialized scientific resources, expertise and training opportunities.
Recognized as a multidisciplinary research institute, the Yerkes Research Center is making landmark
discoveries in the fields of microbiology and immunology, neuroscience, psychobiology and sensorymotor systems.
Computer
Emory investigators have access to a wide range of computing platforms and environments on campus.
In addition, the university maintains personal computers for investigators with a mix of statistical
software including Microsoft Office, SAS and STATA. There is no charge for access to these services.
All desktop machines are linked to the university intranet with access to the university’s library and
many electronic holdings, and to the world wide web.
Emory University has a distributed information technology environment that provides varying levels of
support, projects, platforms, and services to faculty, students, clinicians, patients, and staff. Providing
University-wide and Healthcare specific services are three IT divisions (Emory Healthcare Information
Services, University Technology Services, and Research and Health Sciences Information Technology)
that report directly into the Office of Information Technology. Local IT departments provide IT support
dedicated to a specific school or a department.
Emory College supports academic computing through its own staff and also through the Academic
Technology Group of University Technology Services.
Office & Department
Scientific Computation
The Cherry L. Emerson Center for Scientific Computation, located in Emerson Hall, provides high
performance computational facilities, expertise and scientific software for the Emory community.
The Emerson Center operates:
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SUN Fire v20z Linux cluster with 26 dual 2.2GHz nodes: 2GB RAM, 73GB disk
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Two IBM SP supercomputers including (a) 15 SMP type of nodes with 58 CPU's, 3.2GB RAM
and 540 GB hard-disks, and (b) 14 thin nodes with 14 CPU's, 4.0GB RAM and 100 GB hard-disks;
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5 IBM RS/6000 server workstations; and
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Origin-3200, and three Octane_2 with two processors and V10-graphic cards each.
Emerson Center maintains and provides service to more than 30 state-of-the-art application programs,
including:
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Electronic structure codes such as Gaussian, Molpro, Aces_II, Gamess-US, Dalton etc.;
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Biomolecular modeling and visualization codes such as Amber, Sybyl, MacroModel, Molden,
Mathematica, Matlab, etc.;
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Popular databases such as QCLDB, MDL and Cambridge Crystallographic Database.
The latest versions of all system software, compiles (Fortran, C, C++, Java etc.) and libraries (ESSL,
PSSP etc.) are available to Center users.
The Biomolecular Computing Resource (BimCore) is a subscription-based computing support service
for Emory researchers. BimCore provides computational resources, training, and on-call support for
various Bioinformatics software (sequence analysis, genomics, microarray analysis) and Biomolecular
Modeling software (display, modeling, mutagenesis, docking). BimCore actively evaluates current
software packages to create an offering which addresses the needs of faculty, is complete, and
supplies state-of-the-art solutions to Bioinformatics questions.
The BimCore Sequence Analysis Facility supports various genetic data analysis software packages
along with access to a SNPs database and a local BLAST Server. The BimCore Molecular Modelling
Center supports molecular modelling and visualization software packages. The BimCore Microarray
Analysis Facility supports various microarray expression data analysis programs, SAS (a statistical
package) and a database archive.
BimCore collaborates with Biostatisticians from Rollins School of Public Health in initial evaluation,
protocol design and analysis of highthroughput and –omics data.
BimCore has a 128 node High-performance Compute Cluster and a 1024 node Sun Cluster. The
clusters service software in the following areas: neural simulation, imaging and image analysis,
quantum chemistry, molecular dynamics, genomic comparison, statistics, numerical analysis, with
additional programs available on request.
Other
The Center for Science Education (CSE)
The center promotes access, interest and participation in science careers. Our programs bolster
science literacy and provide hands-on research experiences for students and teachers at the
precollege, college and postgraduate levels. Through our student and curriculum development
activities, we integrate research and education and help students explore the vast array of careers
open to individuals with a solid background in science.
The Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry (FCHI)
This center was established from a long-term initiative sparked by grassroots advocacy of faculty
members, forwarded by the Humanities Council, and concluded by a Planning Committee appointed in
fall 2000 by the College and Graduate School Deans. The originators envisioned a Center that
promotes individual research, while also increasing the impact of the humanities across the University
and ultimately on Atlanta, the region, and the nation.
Center for Ethics in Public Policy & the Professions
Scientific and medical researchers face a host of ethical challenges in pursuing their research and
career goals. Since 1992, the Center for Ethics has assisted Emory's research community in meeting
the National Institute for Health's (NIH) requirements for ethics training by offering a short course on the
responsible conduct of scientific research. Entitled Values in Science (VIS), the course addresses a
range of issues, such as data management and fraud, research with human and animal subjects,
conflicts of interest, and authorship attributions. Taught by active researchers in the biological and
biomedical sciences, philosophers, and Center ethicists, VIS uses current case studies faced by
researchers. Each semester the course offers enrollment for approximately fifty doctoral and postdoctoral students in the biological and bio-medical sciences and is also open to university researchers
and interested graduate and professional students. The one-credit-hour course, IBS/CHEM 606, is
offered through the Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences.
Emory University’s Libraries
The University Libraries provide collections and services in support of campus instructional and
research programs.
The nine Emory Libraries are: Woodruff Health Sciences Library, Goizueta Business Library, James S.
Guy Chemistry Library, Math & Science Reading Room, The Marian K. Heilbrun Music & Media Library,
Health Sciences Center Library, Hugh F. MacMillan Law Library, Oxford College Library and Pitts
Theology Library.
The nine Emory Libraries house more than 3.1 million volumes, at least 55,000 of which are electronic.
From the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library -- which holds special collections strong in
modern literature, African American history and culture and the history of Georgia and the South -- to
the Woodruff Health Sciences Library, whose librarians are called upon by medical students and
hospital professional alike -- each library make the system as a whole the intellectual commons of the
campus.
The Donna and Marvin Schwartz Center for Performing Arts
The Schwartz Center is a place where teaching, learning, and performance merge to create a vital arts
presence for the entire community. Since the opening of the Schwartz Center in February 2003, the
arts have assumed a more visible, central place on the Emory campus. The Center is a place where
teaching, learning, and performance merge to create a vital arts presence for the entire community.
Emory Visual Arts Gallery
Emory Visual Arts Gallery exhibits five to seven contemporary art shows each year, including an annual
student exhibition in April. The gallery is a place where innovative work is shown for the benefit of the
university and the larger Atlanta community, with a particular interest in artists whose work may not be
familiar to a regional audience. Programming also includes outstanding lectures, panels, and
screenings by leading artists, curators, and scholars.
Michael C. Carlos Museum
The Carlos Museum is one of the Southeast's premier art museums with major collections of Classical,
Ancient Egyptian, Near Eastern, Ancient American, African, and Asian art, as well as a collection of
works on paper from the Renaissance to the present.
The Carlos Museum provides opportunities for scholars in many disciplines to expand their work and
for students to learn by participating in academically rigorous projects. In addition to holding one of the
most comprehensive art collections in the region, the Carlos is also recognized for presenting one of
the most international and distinguished exhibition calendars of any university museum, operating a
teaching laboratory and conservation center, publishing important scholarly catalogues, developing
highly- regarded educational programs for the University and community, garnering international
publicity, and maintaining the highest professional standards in collections care and exhibition design.
The Carlos Museum collects, preserves, exhibits, and interprets art and artifacts from antiquity to the
present in order to provide unique opportunities for education and enrichment in the community, and to
promote interdisciplinary teaching and research at Emory University.
Theater at Emory
Theater Emory, Emory’s resident professional theater, produces seasons in partnership with the
department and offers undergraduates the opportunity to perform and work with professional actors,
directors, designers, dramaturgs, technicians, and administrators. Highly respected within Atlanta's
theater community, Theater Emory functions as a laboratory in which students work with faculty and
guest artists in theatrical research productions. The Playwriting Center of Theater Emory hosts a
biennial Brave New Works Festival focused on the development of new plays; commissions new
scripts, brings playwrights to campus, and supports the work of playwriting students. Excellent teaching
and mentoring are high priorities for the faculty; interaction occurs in a variety of settings: small classes,
individual consultations, master classes, rehearsals, and performances.
The Emory Dance Company
The dance company produces two performances annually featuring choreography by faculty, guest
artists, and students, as well as interdisciplinary projects performed in a variety of venues.
Oxford College’s Department Resources
The departments of Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Astronomy, and Mathematics are housed in Pierce Hall
on the Oxford campus. The adjacencies of these departments allow for easy interaction of faculty and
students involved in STEM disciplines. We are currently in the planning stages for a new state-of-the-art
science laboratory building at Oxford College.
Biology
Biology has teaching laboratories and undergraduate research spaces. Courses and research in the
department are in the areas of cell biology, genetics, molecular biology, zoology, plant and animal
ecology, and environmental science. An outdoor greenhouse supports the growth and maintenance of
plants used for teaching and research.
Equipment in the biology department includes a PCR thermal cycler, a Kodak Gel Logic 100 Imaging
System, a biological safety cabinet, a CO2 incubator, an phase-contrast tissue culture microscope, high
quality cameras (still and video), centrifuges (micro and clinical), refrigerators, and freezers. This
equipment is used jointly for teaching and research with undergraduate students.
Chemistry
The Chemistry department laboratories are used for general chemistry, organic chemistry, and
undergraduate research. Research in the Chemistry department is focused on the synthesis of
compounds with anti-cancer activity.
Equipment in the chemistry department includes instruments for IR, NMR, AA, UV-VIS
spectrophotometer, glove box, HPLC, capillary and regular GC, microwave synthesizer, rotary
evaporators, a biological safety cabinet, and a CO2 incubator. This equipment is used jointly for teaching
and research with undergraduate students.
Physics and Astronomy
The Physics and Astronomy department is located on the second floor of Pierce Hall. Classrooms and
laboratories are used for teaching and undergraduate research in general physics, modern physics,
biophysics, and astronomy.
Equipment includes a fluorescent inverted microscope with attached camera, a spin coater, a photometer
and several Cassigrain telescopes. This equipment is used jointly for teaching and research with
undergraduate students.
Mathematics
The Mathematics department teaches a variety of courses in pre-calculus, calculus, statistics,
mathematical theory and computer science. The Mathematics department includes a formal Tutoring
Center managed by a faculty member. The Tutoring Center is open to all students in mathematics and is
a very active part of learning in the mathematics department.
Emory Core Facilities
Robert P. Apkarian Integrated Electron Microscopy Core
Merged from the former Integrated Microscopy and Microanalysis Facility and School of Medicine Electron
Microscopy Core, the Robert P. Apkarian Integrated Electron Microscopy Core is a university wide research
resource core located in Cherry L. Emerson Hall on the Emory campus. The IEMC’s operation is monitored
by a User Advisory Committee and the University Core Facility Oversight Committee.
The core provides investigators from all areas of the university with instrumentation, technical assistance, as
well as training in transmission and scanning electron microscopy. In addition to the expertise in overall
electron microscopy methodology, the core is highly regarded for its experience in immuno-electron
microscopy and high resolution cryo-secondary electron imaging. The core produces high quality work and
offers flexible accessibility to meet researchers needs for both small and large research projects.
The Biomolecular Computing Resource (BimCore) at Emory University School of Medicine is a
subscription-based computing support service for Emory researchers. BimCore provides computational
resources, training, and on-call support for various Bioinformatics software (sequence analysis, genomics,
microarray analysis) and Biomolecular Modeling software (display, modeling, mutagenesis, docking).
BimCore actively evaluates current software packages to create an offering which addresses the needs of
faculty, is complete, and supplies state-of-the-art solutions to Bioinformatics questions.
The Biomedical Imaging Technology Center (BITC)
The center is housed in approximately 3,000 square feet of space. BITC is a core facility of the School of
Medicine at Emory University. It was recently established to focus on the development and application of
imaging technology, particularly magnetic resonance imaging. The BITC is equipped with a 3 Tesla
Siemens whole-body MR system dedicated to research. In addition, a research agreement was reached
with Siemens Medical System such that we have full access to sequence programming software, technical
details for data manipulation, and necessary technical support. A state-of-art computing facility consisting of
a Linux-based computational cluster, disk RAIDs with a capacity of 2 TB, and an automated backup system,
is established in the BITC. This state-of-the-art hardware setup is augmented with a number of software
packages including Matlab, IDL and Brainvoyager. In addition to the MRI system and computing facility,
peripheral equipment, including computers and software for paradigm generation, setup for stimulus
presentation, devices for recording behavioral data recording and monitoring physiological activities such as
respiration, heart-beat, and EEG, are also available in our center.
Emory GRA Genome Center
The Emory GRA Genome Center (EGC) was set up in spring 2009 to offer the Emory Research
Community the opportunity to use exciting "next generation" sequencing technologies. Funding for
equipment purchases came from the Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) and the Atlanta Clinical &
Translational Science Institute (ACTSI). The EGC currently runs two state-of-the art sequencing
instruments. The Illumina GAII (in April 2009) typically produces 60-80M reads of 18-36 nt in a single flow
cell of 8 lanes (one lane is reserved for controls). Reads can be multiplexed using 12 separate tags.
Longer, paired-end reads runs reading 36 nt from both sides of a DNA fragment are also possible, as are
long-insert libraries of up to 6kb. Input DNA for the GAII is generally 1ug or greater. Typical applications for
the GAII include whole genome resequencing (human, plants, bacteria), RNA-seq, Digital Gene
Expression, MicroRNA and Chip-Seq. The Roche/454 GS-FLX Titanium instrument is capable of
sequencing 300-600 Mb, with reads lengths of 300-450 nt. Reads can be multiplexed using 12 separate
‘MID' tags. Mate pair libraries spanning insert sizes of up to 6 kb can be constructed. A GS-FLX picotiter
plate is divided into 2,4,8, or 16 regions. Applications range from de novo bacteria and viral genome
sequencing, deep-sequencing of PCR amplicons, metagenomics, ancient DNA sequencing and expression
tag sequencing.
Emory Center for Systems Imaging
The Center for Systems Imaging (CSI) is designed to serve and foster interaction among all scientists who
use imaging in their research. By bringing the imaging community together, we expect a synergism that will
be transformative and bring Emory to the forefront in imaging science and associated applications including
neuroscience, molecular biology, predictive health, and cancer research. This integrated but distributed
Center will be dedicated to both animal and human imaging research and sited at the Yerkes National
Primate Research Center, Whitehead Building, Wesley Woods Center, Emory University Hospital, the
Winship Cancer Institute and the new Psychology Building.
Flow Cytometry
The Emory University School of Medicine Core Facility for Flow Cytometry provides analysis and sorting
services to the research community in and around the Emory University Campus. It also provides training
and consultation services to investigators wishing to utilize the Core. Please review our FAQ (frequently
asked questions) for answers to a variety of questions.
Transgenic Mouse & Gene Targeting Core
The Transgenic Mouse and Gene Targeting Core Facility (TMF) is a jointly operated Shared Resource of
the Emory University School of Medicine (SOM) and the Winship Cancer Institute (WCI). It was originally
established in 1998, utilizing funds from both WCI, and the SOM. The core acts to provide both state of the
art equipment and expertise for the generation and characterization of genetically altered mouse models.
The core provides a full range of services in three major categories as outlined below:
Transgenic Production: The core produces transgenic mice via pronuclear microinjection of either plasmid
or BAC DNA constructs into one of two inbred mouse strains (C57BL/6, or FVB). Two founder lines are
guaranteed.
Gene Targeting: The core provides a full range of services for the production of gene-targeted mice utilizing
our stock ES cell line HZ2.2 (129SvEv/TAC). Germline transmission is guaranteed for ES cell projects
performed by the core.
Auxiliary Services. The core provides a number of services for the characterization, maintenance, and
preservation, of novel mouse models. Please see our services section for more details.
Emory Service Centers
BIMCORE
Biomarker Core @ Yerkes
BioMedical Imaging Technology Center (BITC)
Biostatistics Core @ CFAR
Biostatistics Core @ Winship Cancer Institute
Cell Imaging & Microscopy Core
Center for Systems Imaging
Clinical Research Core @ CFAR
Clinical Trials Core @ Winship Cancer Institute
Clinical Virology Lab
Custom Cloning Core Facility
Drug Discovery Core Lab
Emerson Center for Scientific Computing
Emory Biomarker Service Center
Emory Clinical Translational Research Laboratory
Emory GRA Genome Center
Flow Cytometry Core
Genetics Core @ Emory NINDS Neuroscience Core Facilities
Glycomics Center
High Performance Computing Core
Human Tissue & Pathology Core
Imaging Core @ Yerkes
Immunology Core @ CFAR
Mass Spectrometry Center
Microscopy Core @ Emory NINDS Neuroscience Core Facilities
Neuropathology Histochemistry @ Emory NINDS Neuroscience Core Facilities
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Core (NMR)
Pre-Clinical Virology Lab
Proteomics @ Emory NINDS Neuroscience Core Facilities
Robert P Apkarian Integrated Electron Microscopy Core
Rodent Behavioral Core
Social & Behavioral Science Core @ CFAR
Tetramer Core
Transgenic Mouse & Gene Targeting Core
Viral Vector Core @ Emory NINDS Neuroscience Core Facilities
X-Ray & Crystallography Core
The Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, an NSF Science and Technology Center
The Center for Behavioral Neuroscience (CBN) is a new venture that ties Emory to seven other colleges
and universities in the Atlanta area to develop a national resource for inter-disciplinary research and
education in behavioral neuroscience in both humans and nonhumans. The technological targets for this
new Center include the development of digital behavioral technology, cDNA micro-arrays, viral vectors,
small animal imaging (with a 4.7T MRI), and new analytical techniques for human imaging, all directed at
studies of complex behaviors such as aggression, affiliation, reproduction, fear, memory and other cognitive
functions. The educational initiatives of the Center include cross-institutional undergraduate and graduate
education as well as support for post-doctoral fellows and funding for pre-college outreach programs.
The Microchemical Facility
This facility was eesigned to provide Emory scientists with access to modern molecular biological
techniques. It contains seven major instrument systems including a DNA synthesizer, peptide synthesizer,
protein sequencer with on-line PTH analyzer, amino acid analyzer, HF peptide cleavage apparatus and
semi-preparative and microbore HPLC. The facility is capable of high sensitivity (femtomole level) protein
and peptide mapping, including microbore and/or capillary liquid chromatography units, capillary
electrophoresis, (Edman-type) protein microsequencing, and triple quadrupole mass spectometry.
The Confocal Microscopy Facility
Located in the Rollins Research Center provides high resolution, digital confocal images of cells. Examples
of applications include localization and co-localization of neural proteins, identification of subcellular
compartments, assays of localization of cellular proteins after different stimuli (e.g. capping of cell surface
proteins when cells are activated).
The DNA Sequencing Facility
This facility is supported and subsidized by the Emory School of Medicine and is equipped with three
Applied Biosystems model 377 automated DNA sequencing machines. This facility provides services to
more than 350 investigators representing more than 125 individual labs at Emory, and is also equipped with
two high quality PE Applied Biosystems PCR machines including one 3600 and the latest 3700 models. The
facility also has a SUN workstation that provides linkage analysis and DNA assembly in a rapid fashion, as
well as an Inherit sequencing analysis system that can be used for robotic, genetic, and linkage analysis.
The Emory Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Unit
The unit is located in the Emory University Hospital, near most Emory research areas, and houses two high
resolution PET scanners, a cyclotron and laboratories for radioligand development and image analysis. The
PET Unit has over 60 ongoing research protocols involving a wide variety of radiotracers for examining brain
metabolism, neurotransmitter systems and functional organization by activation studies.
Collegial Support, Career Enrichment Programs, and Organized Peer Groups
Information on Grant Writing and Grant Preparation Support
Instrumentation, Bridge, Instruction, and Seed (IBIS) Funding Program
The Funding Support Office provides hands on introductions to the freely accessible funding opportunity
resources on a periodic basis, presenting COS, etc.
Office of Research Funding and Support (ORFS)
The Emory College Office for Research Funding Support (ORFS) supports externally funded research and
related activity among Emory College faculty, while promoting College compliance with University and
external research-related requirements. ORFS handles all pre-award functions, including a full range of
support for proposal preparation, and review for compliance with College, University, and agency guidelines
and regulations. ORFS works closely with Finance to ensure smooth pre- to post-award transitions. ORFS
works to foster a grants culture by aiding faculty in appreciation of the benefits of external sponsorship of
their work. It facilitates submission of applications for external support for research and scholarship by
assisting faculty in identification of sources of funding, development of proposals, and submission of
proposals. ORFS also promotes compliance with all policies, regulations, and procedures (including
university, state, federal, individual sponsors) related to research and external funding of Emory College’s
research endeavors. The services of ORFS are available to all Emory College faculty, students, and staff.
Graduate Studies Grant Writing Program
Emory’s James T. Laney School of Graduate Studies offers a Grant Writing Program designed to help with
seeking funding for research and post-doctoral projects. The Program addresses every stage of grant
proposal writing, from developing fundable projects, presenting projects in persuasive ways, to tailoring
proposals to specific funders.
Events in the Grant Writing Program help with issues such as content and organization; interdisciplinary
audiences; succinct but not simplistic writing; and drafting and redrafting proposals. These topics and more
are addressed in a series of events that range from relatively large preliminary sessions to small intensive
workshops for advanced students working with well-developed proposals.
Grant Writing Program events also address using the Laney Graduate School Professional Development
Support funds to lay the foundation for effective grant proposals. These funds offer excellent opportunities
to develop skills and knowledge and to conduct preliminary investigations.
The Program’s website offers a list of current external fellowship and grant notices and an archive of
successful grant proposals written by Emory students.
Economics Department Proposal Writing
The Economics department offers students training in grant writing. Their course “Grant Writing: Theory &
Practice,” reviews historical facts about grant activities; the theory of funded research; the role of
government; and the effect of recent policy changes on research subsidy. Agencies that fund Economics
and sponsored research policies are also discussed. The Economics department’s website also has useful
information to encourage and facilitate proposal writing. Website resources include “How to” References;
Grant Writing Guidelines in the Social and Behavioral Sciences; and tips and information on writing
proposals for faculty and students.
Center for Faculty Development and Excellence (CFDE)
The Center for Faculty Development and Excellence supports the work of the office of the Vice Provost of
Academic Affairs in encouraging faculty development and excellence, particularly through the sponsoring of
faculty programs in teaching, writing, research and institution building.
As a centralized clearinghouse for faculty development, CFDE includes support for teaching, research, and
administrative activities at Emory.
Author Development Program
The program assists professors with many types of author development issues by supporting the
development of faculty members as authors in the changing landscape of academic publishing today. Any
full-time faculty member in any of Emory’s nine schools can call an editor to schedule a consultation on
writing and publishing issues.
Academic Exchange
The Academic Exchange is a forum for Emory faculty work, life, and thought. A print publication, issued six
times per year, consists of critical reporting and faculty-written opinion essays on topics of importance in
Emory’s intellectual community and governance. A weekly electronic newsletter, the AEWeekly, offers
supplementary news on people and events of interest to Emory’s intellectual community, and the Academic
Exchange website provides original content, including podcasts and other multimedia features, not found in
the print publication. The Academic Exchange also sponsors a number of small faculty-centered events on
campus throughout the year.
University Research Council
This council provides funds that are intended to help researchers achieve short-term research goals that
can be accomplished in one year. These projects often provide preliminary data needed for extramural grant
applications. Grants are peer reviewed and ranked for quality and impact. URC grants are not intended as a
continuing source of funding.
Administrative Consultations
CFDE provides consultations with faculty to assist in a complementary way addressing specific faculty
related challenged with the curriculum, involved with the Academic Leadership Program, and programs
available in Human Resources.
Technology Resources
The Center for Faculty Development and Excellence works in collaboration with Emory’s Center for
Interactive Teaching (ECIT) and Academic Technology Services (ATS) to serve the technology needs of
Emory’s faculty. Throughout the semester and during summer break, ECIT offers workshops on a variety of
topics related to teaching with technology.
Interdisciplinary Seminars offered
The Gustafson Seminar on the Realities of Race
Public Health & Religion
Seminar on Public Scholarship
Piedmont Project
Emory's Center for Interactive Teaching - ECIT
ECIT partners with faculty, staff, and students; and provides expertise, training and support for creating
technology-enhanced materials. Additionally, ECIT supports student training for the completion of digital
media assignments. The Center's resources are available to all members of the Emory University
community.
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD)
The Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network in Higher Education is devoted to
improving teaching and learning in post-secondary education. Founded in 1975, POD provides its members
with personal and academic relationships that are essential for professional growth.
Supervisory Assistance and Guidance
Mentoring Program
Associate Dean Michael Elliott has implemented a mentoring program for early stage investigators or those
new to research project development.
Logistical Support, Administrative Management, and Oversight
The Office of Research Compliance serves as a resource to the Emory research community for a variety
of training and education needs.
IACUC
The Emory Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee is a research oversight committee charged with
the responsibility of ensuring the proper care, use and humane treatment of animals used in research,
testing and education.
IRB
The Emory Institutional Review Board (Accredited by the Association for the Accreditation of Human
Research Protection Programs, Inc.) facilitates ethically-responsible human subjects research by assuring
the rights and welfare of study participants.
ORC
The Emory Office of Research Compliance assists researchers by providing regulatory education, guidance,
policy development and implementation, and a range of other areas of support. ORC was created to ensure
Emory University complies with the various federal, state and local regulations impacting research.
Institute for Comparative and International Studies (ICIS)
Is dedicated to the advancement of comparative and international scholarship and education, ICIS
develops, sponsors, and administers collaborative projects with Emory faculty and departments in Arts and
Sciences.
ECAS Office of Faculty
This office oversees the hiring process and the tenure and promotion process for faculty in the Arts and
Sciences as well as faculty development initiatives in the College. It serves as the College office liaison to
the College Tenure & Promotion Committee and to the College Affirmative Action Committee.
ECAS Office for Research Funding and Support
This office works to increase the profile of the research and scholarship of Emory College faculty, staff, and
students. It coordinates development and submission of proposals for research support from external
sponsors and works to promote compliance with the policies, regulations, and procedures that govern
research-related activities.
Checklist for Facilities and Other Resources
Did your resources describe the types of facilities being used in this project in terms of the
four required dimensions as depicted in the matrix below?
Facility
Categories
Capacities
Pertinent
Capabilities
Relative
Proximity
Extent Available
to Project
Laboratory
Animal
Computer
Office
Clinical
Other Resources
Did you describe how the scientific environment will contribute to the probability of success
of the project?
Did you describe ways in which your proposed studies will benefit from unique features of
the scientific environment or subject populations, or will employ useful collaborative
arrangements?
If you are an Early Stage Investigator, did you describe the institutional investment to your
success in terms of resources such as the following?

classes,
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travel,
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training;
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collegial support such as career enrichment programs,
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assistance and guidance in the supervision of trainees involved with the ESI’s
project,
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and availability of organized peer groups;
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logistical support such as administrative management and oversight and best
practices training;
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and financial support such as protected time for research with salary support.
If your project involves multiple performance sites, did you describe resources available at
each site?
If your project involves work with biohazards or other potentially dangerous substances,
were they described? [Must be described in Section 11 of the Research Plan]