Emory University researchers received $518.6 million from external funding agencies in fiscal year 2012. It's the third straight year of greater than half a billion dollars in research funding.

External funding ranged from Gates Foundation support for AIDS vaccine research to National Institutes of Health support to create an Autism Center of Excellence. Research areas receiving major donations range from organ transplants, cardiovascular disease, and cancer genome and drug discovery, to tree extracts, cellular information networks and beneficial bacteria, among many others.

Points of Pride: Breakthrough research | Research: Areas of discovery

There are a lot of benefits to applying early decision to Emory: not least, you'll know early about your college plans! It's a popular choice for our students: more than two in five students in this year's Emory College freshman class were admitted through an early decision option.

Prospective students who apply to Emory College by the Nov. 1 ED1 deadline will receive their decisions on Dec. 15; the ED2 deadline is Jan. 1, 2013 and those decisions are released Feb. 15, 2013. With the first early decision deadline just around the corner, we've put together a few links to make the application process easier. Emory College | Oxford College | Common application

Undergraduate options | Financial aid info | Virtual tours

Emory College of Arts and Sciences is seeking to raise $1 million over the next four years to match a $1 million challenge grant from the Abraham J. and Phyllis Katz Foundation (photo, right) to make the Emory String Quartet in Residence a permanent part of our liberal arts education.

This unique residency -- initiated as a pilot program in 2006 with a gift from late alumnus Cherry Emerson -- is held by the award-winning Vega String Quartet. For more information or to invest in the residency endowment, contact Rhonda Davidson at 404.727.8002 or by email.

Campaign Emory | Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta