X-Nico

7 unusual facts about Academia


Herbert C. Hoover Building

Also located inside the building is the Commerce Departmental Library (also called the U.S. Department of Commerce Main Library), a Federal Agency Library which is open to the public but is used mainly by Commerce and other federal government employees and academics.

Learned society

Members of these online academic communities, grouped by areas of interests, use for their communication shared and dedicated listservs (for example JISCMail), social networking services (like Facebook, Linkedin) and academic oriented social networks (like Mendeley, Academia.edu).

Sixty Years' War

The term Sixty Years' War is not widely known, and is used primarily by academic historians who specialize in various aspects of the conflict.

The Ghost Club

Formally launched in London in 1862 (attracting some lighthearted ridicule in The Times), it counted amongst its early members Charles Dickens and Cambridge academics and clergymen.

Three Californias Trilogy

In The Gold Coast (1988) we learn about the Southern California of 2027, a dystopian extension of today's Los Angeles and car-oriented architecture, mobility and life-style: "an endless sprawl of condos, freeways and malls." The book describes the life of 27-year-old Jim McPherson, who finds himself caught up in literary and academic interests, anti-weapons-industry terrorism, drugs, parties and casual sex.

Tree of patriarchy

These institutions include education, politics, sciences, arts, and the economy (Johnson, 2013).

Universidad del Valle de México

As a response to the developmental needs of the country, and to the demand for well-prepared professionals, a group of academics and entrepreneurs formed by José Ortega Romero, Ignacio Guerra Pellegaud, Alejandro Pearson, Salvador Camillieri, Jorge Malo and Manuel Olivar, founded the Universidad del Valle de México, as a private alternative for the formation of professionals that Mexico needed.


Academia Desportiva Manthiqueira Futebol

Academia Desportiva Manthiqueira Futebol, commonly known as Manthiqueira, is a Brazilian football club based in Guaratinguetá, São Paulo state.

Academia Mexicana de Genealogía y Heráldica

Since its establishment, delegates from the Academia Mexicana de Genealogía y Heráldica had attended to many international congresses of Genealogy and Heraldry, among others, the most important are the International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences, the Congreso Iberoamericano de las Ciencias Genealógica y Heráldica and the Reunión Americana de Genealogía.

Academia Mihăileană

Like present-day graduates of the French École Normale Supérieure, students who completed courses at Academia Mihăileană only received a certificate that gave them the right to work in the service of the state, in administration, justice or education.

Academia Militar das Agulhas Negras

The Academia Militar das Agulhas Negras (English: Military Academy of the Black Needles - named after the Pico das Agulhas Negras; AMAN) is the biggest among several schools of formation of combatant officers of the Brazilian Army.

Academia Montis Regalis

The Fondazione Academia Montis Regalis is an Italian cultural foundation promoting baroque and classical orchestral training based in the town of Mondovì since 1992.

Academia pro Interlingua

The Academia was a descendant of the Kadem bevünetik volapüka (International Academy of Volapük) created at a Volapük congress in Munich in August 1887.

Alfred Chilton Pearson

At the age of 58, and despite a life spent outside academia, Pearson was elected in 1919 as the Gladstone Professor of Greek at the University of Liverpool, subsequently becoming in 1921 the Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Trinity College.

American Water Works Association

AWWA members include: water utilities, treatment plant operators and managers, scientists, environmentalists, manufacturers, academics, regulators, and others with an interest in water supply and public health.

Auguste-François Maunoury

Auguste-François Maunoury (b. at Champsecret, Orne, France, 30 Oct., 1811; d. Séez, Orne, 17 Nov., 1898) was a Catholic Hellenist and exegete.

Celestyn Myślenta

Celestyn Myślenta (also Mislenski; 27 March 1588 in Kuty (Kutten), Ducal Prussia – 20 April 1653 in Königsberg (Królewiec)) was a Polish Lutheran theologian and rector of the University of Königsberg.

CLARREO

A NASA team led by Langley Research Center with contributions from other NASA Centers, government organizations, academia, and NASA HQ successfully developed a feasible mission concept that achieved all science objectives.

Computer Technology Limited

Such ideas were popular in British computer academia at the time and later were adopted by some US designs such as the Intel 8086.

Conrad Vernon Morton

A revision of the Argentine species of Solanum (Academia Nacional de Ciencias, Córdoba, Argentine, 1976).

Daniel Chandler

In 1989, Chandler returned to academia, joining the Education department at Aberystwyth University.

Davey Winder

After experiments with Prestel, he found an early British online community, CIX in the late 1980s, before direct connections to the internet were cheaply available outside academia, and this provided him with a new social and business life.

Eduard Bomhoff

Bomhoff returned to academia after leaving the government, accepting positions as professor first at the University of Bahrain and later at the University of Nottingham.

Education in Moldova

#Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova (Academia de Studii Economice a Moldovei), Chişinău, str.

Franciszek Kasparek

Franciszek Ksawery Kasparek (Sambor, 29 October 1844 – 4 August 1903, Kraków) was a Polish jurist, professor of law and rector of Kraków University, founder of the first chair in international law in Poland (at Kraków University), and member of the Polish Academy of Learning in Kraków.

Galileo affair

La Sapienza's rector, Renato Guarini, has been quoted as stating that the cancellation was a "defeat for the freedom of expression"; former Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi echoed such concerns.

Graham Glover

In 2006, he compiled and edited the book, Essays in Honour of AJ Kerr, a festschrift honouring Kerr's contribution to legal academia in South Africa.

Heinrich Konen

When Konen left academia, he became an advisor in industry, especially for Troisdorfer Werke (Dynamit Nobel AG, a chemical and weapons company whose headquarters was based in Troisdorf).

Hendrik Elias

Elias was a noted academic, holding doctorates in both Law and Philosophy from studies at the Catholic University of Leuven, the University of Paris and the University of Bonn before serving in a number of leading roles in both academia and the law.

Herborn Academy

In 1584 Count John VI of Nassau-Dillenburg founded the Academia Nassauensis as a post secondary institution.

High Performance Computing Act of 1991

President George H. W. Bush predicted that the Act would help "unlock the secrets of DNA," open up foreign markets to free trade, and a promise of cooperation between government, academia, and industry.

Islamic Texts Society

Since its inception, ITS has worked in collaboration with high-ranking scholars who are fully conversant with both traditional Islamic learning and with Western academia, including Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Martin Lings, Timothy Winter (Abdal Hakim Murad), Mohammad Hashim Kamali and Eric Ormsby.

IT portfolio management

Nicholas Carr (2003) has caused significant controversy in IT industry and academia by positioning IT as an expense similar to utilities such as electricity.

John York

York left academia to establish DeYor Laboratories in Boardman, Ohio, a partnership with his father-in-law, Edward J. DeBartolo Sr.

Juan Ramón de la Fuente

Juan Ramón de la Fuente Ramírez (born 5 September 1951 in Mexico City) is a Mexican psychiatrist, academician and politician who served as Secretary of Health in the cabinet of President Ernesto Zedillo (1994–1999) and as rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) from 1999 to 2007.

Kenneth Bainbridge

During those years, he drew the ire of Senator Joseph McCarthy for his aggressive defense of his colleagues in academia.

L. du Garde Peach

From the early 1920s, he began regularly writing humorous pieces for Punch and other magazines, and after a period as a lecturer at the University College of the South West of England (later to become the University of Exeter), Peach left academia to become a full-time writer.

Lucy Dunn

Lucy Dunn is president and CEO of the OCBC- Orange County Business Council, a position she has held since 2005, where she leads a dynamic organization of business leaders, working with government and academia, to ensure the county’s economic prosperity and high quality of life.

Ludwik Leibler

From 1996 to 2003 he was the founding director of a joint laboratory between CNRS and chemical company Elf Atochem (later Arkema) which regrouped researchers from academia and industry.

Michalis Attalides

He is currently the Rector at the University of Nicosia, formerly called Intercollege, in Nicosia, Cyprus, serving on the Council and the Senate of the University.

Microsoft India PL

The company first entered the Indian market in 1990 and has since worked closely with the Indian government, the IT industry, academia and the local developer community to usher in some of the early successes in the IT market.

Nikolai Kondratiev

This rediscovery of Kondratiev in English-speaking academia led to his theories being extended for the first time beyond economics as, for example, political scientists such as Joshua Goldstein and geographers such as Brian Berry extended the concept of Kondratiev long waves into their own fields.

Nostru

Scrisul Nostru was a monthly literary magazine published in Bârlad, Romania by the Academia Bârlădeană.

Graiul Nostru was a monthly literary magazine published in Bârlad, Romania by the Academia Bârlădeană.

Post-Zionism

Post-Zionism refers to the opinions of some Israelis, diaspora Jews and others, particularly in academia, that Zionism has fulfilled its ideological mission with the creation of the modern State of Israel in 1948, and that Zionist ideology should therefore be considered at an end.

Reuben Smeed

He obtained a degree in mathematics and PhD in aeronautical engineering from Queen Mary's College before entering academia as a teacher of mathematics.

Richard Mitchell

Although its circulation was limited, The Underground Grammarian was highly regarded, and, in addition to its academic audience, had a following outside academia that included George Will, Edwin Newman, and Johnny Carson, on whose The Tonight Show Mitchell appeared many times.

Speak Easily

Prof. Post (Buster Keaton) is a shy Classics professor at Potts College, who has lived a sheltered life and has little experience of life outside of academia.

Stratevolve

The company was founded in 2001 by Professor Cliff Bowman and Dr Paul Raspin based on their leading published research and extensive experience of how to develop effective strategy in practice, using insights gained from both the strategy consulting sector and academia.

Walter Flowers

In 1957-58, Flowers continued his graduate studies in international law as a fellow at the University of London.

Warren Sturgis McCulloch

Receiving his MD in 1927 from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, he undertook an internship at Bellevue Hospital, New York, before returning to academia in 1934.

Yvonne Sapia

After working as a newspaper reporter and technical writer, she returned to academia, receiving an MFA in creative writing from the University of Florida in Gainesville.


see also