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unusual facts about National Institute


Charles Bird King

After the administration changed and McKenney left the BIA, the agency donated the Native American portrait collection to the National Institute, but shoddy care and displays kept it from the public eye.



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Abramowitz and Stegun

Abramowitz and Stegun is the informal name of a mathematical reference work edited by Milton Abramowitz and Irene Stegun of the United States National Bureau of Standards (now the National Institute of Standards and Technology).

Adult Learners' Week

Founded and co-ordinated by the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE), Adult Learners' Week in England is backed by thousands of supporters including the European Social Fund, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, Next Step, BBC, Open University and Pearson PLC.

Alexander Vovin

He has also been a visiting professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto (2001–2002, 2008), a visiting professor at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany (2008–2009), and a visiting professor at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL) in Tokyo, Japan in May-August 2012.

Anzac Parade, Sydney

This is due to the lack of rail infrastructure in the area and the Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney Cricket Ground, Randwick Racecourse and the University of New South Wales, Long Bay Gaol and National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) all being located on this road.

Ataol Behramoğlu

In 1984, he began in Paris to participate in the work of Sorbonne’s National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations, at the Center for Comparative Poetry.

Avioane Craiova

During the 1980s, an advanced jet trainer and light attack aircraft IAR-99 was designed in co-operation with the Romanian National Institute for Aerospace.

Barshop Institute

The Interventions Testing Program (ITP) is funded by the Biology of Aging Program of the National Institute on Aging (NIA) to evaluate compounds for their effects on lifespan and age-related biomarkers.

Belgranian National Institute

The Belgranian National Institute (in Spanish, Instituto Nacional Belgraniano) is an institute of Argentina focused in the historiography of Manuel Belgrano.

Bihta

The land price in this small town — 40 km west of Patna — has skyrocketed in the past few years because of the construction of a number of projects in the area, including Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), National Institute of Technology (NIT), Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) Hospital and others.

Daniel A. Vallero

As a leader in engineering ethics, he has served the National Academy of Engineering as a member of the Online Ethics Committee and the Executive Board of the National Institute of Engineering Ethics.

David John Farmer

His practitioner experience included work as a management consultant for the Public Administration Service and for the Jacobs Company (1965-1971), as director of Operations Management and special assistant to the police commissioner in the New York City Police Department (1971-1974), and as a division director in the National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice (1974–1980).

David S. Yost

Dr. Yost has been a consultant to various organizations, including the Rand Corporation, the Hudson Institute, the Ford Foundation, the National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP), Sandia National Laboratories, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Enrique Moles Ormella

In 1936, he was a professor and vice-rector of the Complutense University of Madrid, department head of the National Institute of Physics and Chemistry, the Secretary of the Spanish Society of Physics and Chemistry, a member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences.

Godwin Abbe

He is also a graduate of the United States Army Infantry School Fort Benning, Georgia, Ghana Armed Forces Staff College and the National Institute for Policy and Strategic studies, Kuru.

Grisi siknis

Cases of grisi siknis were registered in Nicaragua in March 2009 in Puerto Cabezas and Siuna where many students of the National Institute of Technology and other schools, suffered attacks.

HHHH

4-H, a U.S. youth organization administered by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture

Humidity Sounder for Brazil

HSB was manufactured by Matra Marconi Space, Limited (MMS), in the United Kingdom under a contract with the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research, INPE.

Institute of Applied Mathematics

The Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (“National Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics”) in Brazil

Insu

Institut national des sciences de l'univers (National Institute for Earth Sciences and Astronomy) of the French Centre national de la recherche scientifique

Islam in France

As of 2008, the French national institute of statistics INSEE estimated that 11.8 million foreign-born immigrants and their direct descendants (born in France) lived in France representing 19% of the country's population.

Jader Barbalho

In 2000, Barbalho was the President of the PMDB party and Senator when a wave of corruption allegations against him took national headlines, involving embezzlement of public funds at the Superintendência de Desenvolvimento da Amazônia (SUDAM - Superintendence for Amazon's Development) development agency and the Instituto Nacional de Colonização e Reforma Agrária (INCRA - National Institute for Colonization and Agrarian Reform).

Jaime Pizarro

On July 30 of 2007 The President of Chile Michelle Bachelet named Jaime Pizarro Sub-secretary of the National Institute of Sports (Chiledeportes), after the resignation of Ricardo Vorpahl.

John Cameron Bell

He also held Postdoctoral positions at the University of Ottawa with Dr. Mike McBurney, and at the National Institute for Medical Research in London, England with Dr. Gordon Foulkes.

José Miguel Barriga Castro

José Miguel Barriga Castro served first as a teacher at the National Institute, a position he held until 1842, when he became judge of Cauquenes.

Lino Sima Ekua Avomo

Sima Ekua Avomo attended the Diplomatic School of Madrid, Spain and the Carlos Lwanga National Institute of Secondary Education in Bata, Equatorial Guinea.

Lujo virus

Its name was suggested by the Special Pathogens Unit of the National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service (NICD-NHLS) by using the first two letters of the names of the cities involved in the 2008 outbreak of the disease, Lusaka (Zambia) and Johannesburg (Republic of South Africa).

Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur

The institute was upgraded to a National Institute of Technology and was declared a deemed university on 26 June 2002 and since then the institute started offering Bachelor of Technology (BTech) degree instead of Bachelor of Engineering degree.

Marc Tucker

He previously served as executive director at Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy; president at the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards; associate director at the National Institute of Education, U.S. Department of Education; and a professor of education at the University of Rochester.

Marvin Dunnette

In addition to 3M, his clients included IBM, Honeywell, Sears, Caterpillar, Ford Motor Company, Office of Naval Research, US Marine Corps, the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, the National Institute on Drug Abuse and others.

Mental Health Act

The National Mental Health Act of 1946, which called for the establishment of a National Institute of Mental Health

National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering

National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering or NIBGE is one of the main biotehnology institutes operated by Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission(PAEC).

NIANP

The National Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology, or NIANP, is located in Adugodi, Bangalore.

Nicaragua National Institute of Information Development

The National Institute of Information Development of Nicaragua; (Spanish: Instituto Nacional de Información de Desarollo de Nicaragua (INIDE)), is responsible for completing censuses and surveys.

Nicolas Beaudan

After spending eight years at the French National Institute of Sport and Physical Education (INSEP), he left in 2004, wanting better results, despite a team gold medal at the European Fencing Championships in 2002.

Nirah

The National institute for research into aquatic habitats - A planned fresh water aquarium in England, to be the world's largest aquarium upon completion.

Olivier Weber

Olivier Weber, born in 1958 in Montluçon, studied economics and anthropology at the University of San Francisco, University of Paris Sorbonne, University of Nice (Ph.D.) and at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, INALCO).

Primate Research Institute

As president of the Science Council of Japan, he sent a letter to Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda recommending the establishment of a national institute for primate studies.

Radio Swan

Cuba responded to the broadcasts by setting up a jamming station to block the transmissions of Radio Swan and initiated La Voz de INRA, or The Voice of INRA which represented the National Institute of Agrarian Reform with an anti-American message.

Randy David

The couple has four children, including broadcast journalist Kara David, UP National Institute of Geological Sciences (NIGS) professor Dr. Carlos Primo David, Nadya Melina David and Jika David.

Rykel de Bruyne

He worked for the "National Institute for Fisheries Research" (Rijks Instituut voor Visserij Onderzoek, RIVO) at the Institute for Marine Resources & Ecosystem Studies, the former "Geological Survey" (Rijks Geologische Dienst), the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris, the National Museum of Natural History in Leiden (Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie) and the Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification (ETI) in Amsterdam.

Sterling Clarren

He has received funding from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the Centers for Disease Control, the Glaser Foundation, and the March of Dimes.

The Infinite Mind

The program was hosted by Frederick K. Goodwin, the former director of the National Institute of Mental Health, and later by best selling author Peter D. Kramer (Goodwin served as guest host on various shows during this time).

Tom Levitt

As one of the few MPs with a qualification in British Sign Language, Levitt was an elected Trustee of the Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID) from 1998 to 2003.

Vesna Pešić

Her many honors include the Award for Democracy of the U.S. National Foundation for Democracy (1993), the W. Averell Harriman Award of the U.S. National Institute for Democracy (1997) from Washington, D.C., USA and the Andrei Sakharov Award from the Norwegian Helsinki Committee and the Sakharov Foundation for Freedom (1997).

Wilbur Breslin

Active in real estate development, leasing and brokerage for over 45 years, Breslin is an active member of the National Association of Real Estate Boards, the National Institute of Real Estate Appraisers, the International Council of Shopping Centers, the National Association of Real Counselors and the National Association of Review Appraisers.

Yaya Coulibaly

Later he studied art at the Bamako National Institute of the Arts, and puppet theatre at the Institute International de la Marionette in France.