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unusual facts about Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute


Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute

The Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute at Baruch College was founded with the support of Bernard L. Schwartz in 1997 and dedicated to helping faculty integrate communication-intensive activities into course curricula.


1883 eruption of Krakatoa

Krakatoa, East of Java was a film directed by Bernard L. Kowalski and starred Maximilian Schell; the novelization of the same title (New American Library, 1969, ISBN 0-451-03797-9), was written by Michael Avallone.

Bernard Diamond

Bernard L. Diamond (1912–1990), psychiatrist and professor of law and psychiatry at the University of California, Berkeley

Bernard L. Diamond

Due to his significant place in the Sirhan Sirhan trial, he figures prominently into a number of conspiracy theories regarding Robert Kennedy.

Bernard L. Oser

His research during this time focused on biological and chemical assays on vitamins, proteins, and other nutrient; pharmaceutical vitamin fortification, stabilization, and availability; toxicology and safety evaluation of food additives, drugs, pesticides, and related chemicals; and the scientific aspects of food law and regulations.

Prior to receiving his doctorate, he worked during 1920-21 at Jefferson Medical College as an assistant in physiological chemistry and then worked during 1922-6 as a biochemist at Philadelphia General Hospital (both in Pennsylvania).

Bernard L. Schwartz

Bernard Leon Schwartz (born December 13, 1925, Brooklyn, New York) was the Chairman of the Board and CEO of Loral Space & Communications for 34 years, Chairman and CEO of K&F Industries, Inc., and president and CEO of Globalstar Telecommunications.

According to NBC News, from 1992 to 1996 he was the largest single contributor to the Democratic Party.

Ellery Thompson

The Stonington Historical Society ran a major exhibit in 2005 about his life and work, curated by Bernard L. Gordon, who had fished with Thompson on Thompson's ship, the Eleanor.

Francis Fukuyama

Until July 10, 2010, he was the Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy and Director of the International Development Program at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C. He is now Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow and resident in the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University.

Globalstar

The first call on the original Globalstar system was placed on November 1, 1998, from Qualcomm chairman Irwin Jacobs in San Diego to Loral Space & Communications CEO and chairman Bernard Schwartz in New York.


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