Texas A&M University (Texas A&M, A&M, or TAMU) is a public, land-grant, research university in College Station, Texas.It was founded in 1876 and became the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System in 1948. As of late 2021, Texas A&M has the largest student body in the United States, and is the only university in Texas to hold simultaneous designations as a land, …

Ellen Ochoa (Los Ángeles, California; 10 de mayo de 1958) es una física, científica y una astronauta de la NASA. [1] [2] [3] Sus abuelos paternos eran mexicanos.[4] [5] Fue la primera mujer de origen hispano en haber viajado al espacio.[6] [7] [8] Es miembro de la Sociedad Americana de Óptica y del Instituto Americano de Aeronáutica y de Astronomía, y ha sido …

Hugo López-Gatell Ramírez (Ciudad de México, 22 de febrero de 1969) es un médico, epidemiólogo, investigador, profesor y funcionario mexicano.Desde el 1 de diciembre del 2018 es titular de la Subsecretaría de Prevención y Promoción de la Salud, en la Secretaría de Salud de México. [1] En 2020 obtuvo relevancia en la vida pública de su país al encabezar las medidas …

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, or colloquially the University of Illinois or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana.It is the flagship institution of the University of Illinois system and was founded in 1867. Enrolling over 56,000 undergraduate and graduate students, the University of Illinois is ...

The Rotunda is a building located on The Lawn on the original grounds of the University of Virginia. Thomas Jefferson designed it to represent the "authority of nature and power of reason" and modeled it after the Pantheon in Rome.Construction began in 1822 and was completed shortly after Jefferson's death in 1826. The campus of the new university was unique in that its …

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the most prestigious and highly ranked academic institutions in the world.. Founded in response to the increasing industrialization of the United …

The High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) was initiated as an ionospheric research program jointly funded by the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Navy, the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). It was designed and built by BAE Advanced Technologies.Its original purpose was to analyze the …

Harvard was established in 1636 in the colonial, pre-Revolutionary era by vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts Bay Colony.In 1638, the university acquired British North America's first known printing press.. In 1639, it was named Harvard College after John Harvard, an English clergyman who had died soon after immigrating to Massachusetts, bequeathed it …

La historia del método científico revela que el método científico ha sido objeto de intenso y recurrente debate a lo largo de la historia de la ciencia.Muchos eminentes filósofos y científicos han argumentado a favor de la primacía de uno u otro enfoque para alcanzar y establecer el conocimiento científico. Algunos de los debates más importantes en la historia del método …

The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego is the southernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California, and offers over 200 undergraduate and graduate degree …

Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.Founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the world.. Chartered by the Connecticut Colony, the Collegiate School was established in 1701 by clergy to educate Congregational ministers …

Louis Pasteur ForMemRS (/ ˈ l uː i p æ ˈ s t ɜːr /, French: [lwi pastœʁ]; 27 December 1822 – 28 September 1895) was a French chemist and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization, the latter of which was named after him.His research in chemistry led to remarkable breakthroughs in the understanding of …

The School of Foreign Service main campus, which is part of the main campus of Georgetown University, is located in the Georgetown neighborhood in Northwest Washington, D.C. In 2005, it opened another campus, the School of Foreign Service in Qatar (also known as SFS-Q or GU-Q), in Qatar Foundation's Education City in Doha, Qatar.Many SFS undergraduates spend a …

Brandeis University / ˈ b r æ n d aɪ s / is a private research university in Waltham, Massachusetts.Founded in 1948 as a non-sectarian, coeducational institution sponsored by the Jewish community, Brandeis was established on the site of the former Middlesex University.The university is named after Louis Brandeis, the first Jewish Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.