Midtown. The university operates the Winship Cancer Institute, Emory National Primate Research Center, and many disease and vaccine research centers. Emory University is adjacent to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and is a long-time partner in global and national prevention and research initiatives. The International Association of National Public Health Institutes is headquartered at the university. Emory University has the 15th-largest endowment among U.S. colleges and universities. The university is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". Emory University was elected to the Association of American Universities in 1995.
Emory faculty and alumni include one Vice President of the United States, two Prime Ministers, two Nobel Peace Prize laureates, and a United States Supreme Court Justice. Other notable alumni include twenty-one Rhodes Scholars and six Pulitzer Prize winners. Emory has more than 165,000 alumni.
== History ==
=== Nineteenth century …
