Baruch College (officially the Bernard M. Baruch College) is a public college in New York City.It is a constituent college of the City University of New York system. Named for financier and statesman Bernard M. Baruch, the college operates undergraduate and postgraduate programs through the Zicklin School of Business, the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences, and the …

Baruch Samuel Blumberg (July 28, 1925 – April 5, 2011), known as Barry Blumberg, was an American physician, geneticist, and co-recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (with Daniel Carleton Gajdusek), for his work on the hepatitis B virus while an investigator at the NIH and at the Fox Chase Cancer Center. He was president of the American Philosophical …

Baruch Kopel Goldstein (Hebrew: ברוך קופל גולדשטיין; born Benjamin Goldstein; December 9, 1956 – February 25, 1994) was an Israeli-American mass murderer, religious extremist, and physician who perpetrated the 1994 terrorist attack, known as the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre in Hebron, killing 29 and wounding 125 Palestinian Muslim worshipers.

Balliol College (/ ˈ b eɪ l i əl /) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. One of Oxford's oldest colleges, it was founded around 1263 by John I de Balliol, a landowner from Barnard Castle in County Durham, who provided the foundation and endowment for the college. When de Balliol died in 1268, his widow, Dervorguilla, a woman whose wealth …

Bernard Mannes Baruch (August 19, 1870 – June 20, 1965) was an American financier and statesman.. After amassing a fortune on the New York Stock Exchange, he impressed President Woodrow Wilson by managing the nation's economic mobilization in World War I as chairman of the War Industries Board.He advised Wilson during the Paris Peace Conference.He made …

Queens College (QC) is a public college in the Queens borough of New York City.It is part of the City University of New York system. Its 80-acre campus is primarily located in Flushing, Queens.It has a student body representing more than 170 countries. Queens College was established in 1937 and offers undergraduate degrees in over 70 majors, graduate studies in over 100 degree …

1769 – Dartmouth College was established by royal charter in present-day Hanover, New Hampshire. 1937 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Japanese forces, capturing the Chinese city of Nanjing, began committing numerous atrocities over the next several weeks, including looting, rape and the execution of prisoners of war and civilians.

Kenneth L. Marcus 1988, founding president of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights under Law, professor at Baruch College; Hamilton Wright Mabie 1867, American essayist, editor, critic, and lecturer; James Ross MacDonald 1944, Winner of the 1988 IEEE Edison Medal; instrumental in building up the Central Research laboratories of Texas ...

Queensborough Community College (QCC) is a community college in Bayside, Queens, New York.One of seven community colleges within the City University of New York (CUNY) system, Queensborough enrolls more than 12,000 students and more than 770 Instructional Faculty.. Queensborough opened in 1959 as a campus of the State University of New York and in 1965 …

Hunter College has its origins in the 19th-century movement for normal school training which swept across the United States. Hunter descends from the Female Normal and High School (later renamed the Normal College of the City of New York), established in New York City in 1870.It was founded by Thomas Hunter, an exile from Ireland because of his nationalist beliefs.