The University of Iowa (UI, U of I, UIowa, or simply Iowa) is a public research university in Iowa City, Iowa, United States.Founded in 1847, it is the oldest university in the state and has the second-largest undergraduate enrollment. The University of Iowa is organized into 12 colleges offering more than 200 areas of study and seven professional degrees.

Iowa State University of Science and Technology (Iowa State University, Iowa State, or ISU) is a public land-grant research university in Ames, Iowa.It is the flagship university of the Iowa State University System and has an extension office in all 99 counties of Iowa, which bring Iowa State University research-based educational experiences to Iowans. . It is the largest university in …

Washington commonly refers to: . Washington (state), United States Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States Federal government of the United States (metonym); Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered on Washington, D.C.; George Washington (1732–1799), the first president of the United States; Washington may also refer to:

Economic union, a type of trade bloc; Political union, a type of state which is composed of or created out of smaller states; Personal union, the combination of two or more states that have the same monarch; Poor law union, a former unit of local government in the United Kingdom; Real union, a union of two or more states, which share some state institutions

The Case Western Reserve University shooting took place on May 9, 2003, when Biswanath Halder entered the Peter B. Lewis Building of the Weatherhead School of Management in Cleveland, Ohio where he then killed graduate student Norman Wallace and wounded two professors. Halder took people in the building hostage, and they ran and barricaded …

Many institutions of higher education in the United States maintain financial endowments, sums of money that are invested in stocks, yielding returns that fund a portion of an institution's operational expenses and help ensure that it survives in perpetuity.. U.S. colleges and universities maintain some of the largest endowments in the world, and make up the strong majority of …

University of the Pacific (Pacific or UOP) is a private Methodist-affiliated university with its main campus in Stockton, California, and graduate campuses in San Francisco and Sacramento.It is California's first university, the first independent coeducational campus in California, and the first conservatory of music and first medical school on the West Coast.

Arts, entertainment, and media Films. Live!, 2007 American film; Live, a 2014 Japanese film; Live (Apocalyptica DVD); Music. Live (band), American alternative rock band List of albums titled Live; Extended plays. Live EP (Anal Cunt album); Live EP (Breaking Benjamin EP); Live; Live (The Smithereens EP); CeCe Peniston (EP Live)

Etymology. The word "west" is a Germanic word passed into some Romance languages (ouest in French, oest in Catalan, ovest in Italian, oeste in Spanish and Portuguese). As in other languages, the word formation stems from the fact that west is the direction of the setting sun in the evening: 'west' derives from the Indo-European root *wes reduced from *wes-pero 'evening, night', …

Etymology. The word north is related to the Old High German nord, both descending from the Proto-Indo-European unit *ner-, meaning "left; below" as north is to left when facing the rising sun. Similarly, the other cardinal directions are also related to the sun's position. The Latin word borealis comes from the Greek boreas "north wind, north", which, according to Ovid, was …