A research university is a university that is committed to research as a central part of its mission. They are the most important sites at which knowledge production occurs, along with "intergenerational knowledge transfer and the certification of new knowledge" through the awarding of doctoral degrees. They can be public or private, and often have well-known brand …

In 1868, the business was founded in Stamford, Connecticut, by Henry R. Towne and Linus Yale Jr., an inventor of the pin tumbler lock.The founding name of the corporation was Yale Lock Manufacturing Co. and later the name was changed to Yale & Towne, basing themselves in Newport, New York... From 1843 to 1857, Yale had registered eight patents, such as pin …

Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing. It is a member of the Association of American University Presses.After the retirement of William P. Sisler in 2017, the university appointed as Director George Andreou.

The Yale-NUS College is a liberal arts college in Singapore which opened in August 2013 as a joint project of Yale University and the National University of Singapore. It is an autonomous college within NUS, allowing it greater freedom to develop its own policies while tapping on the existing facilities and resources of the main university. [70]

The University of Wales (Welsh: Prifysgol Cymru) is a confederal university based in Cardiff, Wales.Founded by royal charter in 1893 as a federal university with three constituent colleges – Aberystwyth, Bangor and Cardiff – the university was the first university established in Wales, one of the four countries in the United Kingdom.The university was, prior to the break up of …

Slippery Rock University, formally Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania (The Rock or SRU), is a public university in Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania.SRU is a member of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE). The university has been coeducational since its founding in 1889. Its campus is on 611 acres (247 ha).

Morgan State University (MSU) is a historically black college in Baltimore, Maryland. It was founded in 1867 as the Centenary Biblical Institute, a Methodist Episcopal seminary, to train young men in the ministry.At the time of his death, Thomas Kelso, co-founder and president of the board of directors, endowed the Male Free School and Colored Institute through a legacy of his …

Employment. UConn Law's two-year bar passage rate was 91.61 percent for the Class of 2017. Ten months after graduation, 90.4 percent of the Class of 2019 was employed. University of Connecticut's Law School Transparency under-employment score is 11.3%, indicating the percentage of the Class of 2016 unemployed, pursuing an additional degree, or working in a …

The Harvard University endowment (valued at $53.2 billion as of June 2021) is the largest academic endowment in the world. Its value increased by over 10 billion dollars in fiscal year 2021, ending in the largest sum in its history. Along with Harvard's pension assets, working capital, and non-cash gifts, it is managed by Harvard Management Company, Inc. (HMC), a …

Alistair Cooke KBE (born Alfred Cooke; 20 November 1908 – 30 March 2004) was a British-American writer whose work as a journalist, television personality and radio broadcaster was done primarily in the United States. Outside his journalistic output, which included Letter from America and America: A Personal History of the United States, he was well known in the United States …

Angelo Bartlett Giamatti (/ dʒ iː ə ˈ m ɑː t i /; April 4, 1938 – September 1, 1989) was an American professor of English Renaissance literature, the president of Yale University, and the seventh Commissioner of Major League Baseball.. Giamatti served as Commissioner for only five months before dying suddenly of a heart attack. He is the shortest-tenured baseball commissioner in …

Virginia Avenel Henderson (November 30, 1897 – March 19, 1996) was an American nurse, researcher, theorist, and writer.. Henderson is famous for a definition of nursing: "The unique function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance of those activities contributing to health or its recovery (or to peaceful death) that he would perform unaided if he …

David William Duchovny (/ d ʊ ˈ k ʌ v n i / duu-KUV-nee; born () August 7, 1960) is an American actor, writer, producer, director, novelist, and singer-songwriter. He is mostly notable for portraying FBI agent Fox Mulder on the television series The X-Files (1993–2002) and writer Hank Moody on the television series Californication (2007–2014), both of which have earned him …

Yale University. David J. Brewer – transferred from Wesleyan University; William Strong; No university legal education. Some justices received no legal education in a university setting, but were instead either trained through apprenticeships or were self-taught, as was common with many lawyers prior to the mid-20th century. James F. Byrnes