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Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences

The decision to establish Keck Graduate Institute as a seventh Claremont College met with some opposition, particularly from faculty of the other Claremont Colleges who objected to its lack of tenure, and environmentalists who opposed its plans to build a campus next to the Bernard Field Station, an area of undeveloped scrubland.


1919–20 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team

R. Jerome Dunne was the second leading scorer with 54 points in 12 games on 27 field goals and zero free throws.

1921–22 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team

Arthur Karpus and Jack Williams were lost to graduation and "Duke" Dunne chose to focus on his legal studies rather than play basketball.

Broken windows theory

Critics such as Robert J. Sampson and Stephen Raudenbush of Harvard University see the application of the broken windows theory in policing as a war against the poor as opposed to a war against more serious crimes.

California Hall

It currently houses the University of California Berkeley Chancellor's Office and the Graduate Division.

Daniel Kleppner

Together with Robert J. Kolenkow, he authored a popular introductory mechanics textbook for advanced students.

Fiona Kelleghan

Her critical anthology The Savage Humanists (Robert J. Sawyer Books, 2008) begins with a 17,000-word essay by her describing the movement and its practitioners, and collects stories by Gregory Frost, James Patrick Kelly, John Kessel, Jonathan Lethem, James Morrow, Kim Stanley Robinson, Robert J. Sawyer, Tim Sullivan, and Connie Willis, with introductions to each by Kelleghan.

French Third Republic

The first historian to denounce la décadence concept explicitly was the Canadian historian Robert J. Young, who, in his 1978 book In Command of France argued that French society was not decadent, that the defeat of 1940 was due to only military factors, not moral failures, and that the Third Republic's leaders had done their best under the difficult conditions of the 1930s.

Greg Canfield

Governor Robert J. Bentley appointed Canfield to the Alabama Development Office in July 2011, succeeding Seth Hammett.

Ilyas Kashmiri

During court testimony on 31 May 2011, Headley indicated that he had conducted preliminary research for Kashmiri in a plot targeting Robert J. Stevens, the CEO of Lockheed-Martin, the defence contractor.

James Whitney Dunn

In 1988, he won the Republican nomination to the U.S. Senate, having defeated former U.S. Representative Robert J. Huber, who had left office in 1975.

Joseph Rakowski

During his four month term of office, Rakowski worked with New York City Mayor David Dinkins and New Jersey Attorney General Robert J. Del Tufo to address a problem where trucks full of garbage were being driven from New York City to Jersey City, New Jersey and their full trailers abandoned.

Kikizo

Video Games Daily is home to over 300 interviews with high profile video game industry executives; as of July 2011 it remains the only consumer gaming site in the world to have interviewed all three console platforms' top-level bosses: Satoru Iwata - President of Nintendo Co., Ltd, Kaz Hirai - President and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc and Robbie Bach - Chief Xbox Officer, Microsoft.

Martha Kaplan

Contents: Preface by Marshall Sahlins, Introduction by Martha Kaplan; Original papers by John D Kelly, Andrew Lattas, Deborah McDougall, Martha Kaplan, Daniel Rosenblatt, and Margaret Jolly, with Comments by Robert J. Foster and Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney.

Necker cube

The Necker cube is discussed to such extent in Robert J. Sawyer's 1998 science fiction novel Factoring Humanity that "Necker" becomes a verb, meaning to impel one's brain to switch from one perspective or perception to another.

Order of precedence in British Columbia

# The Chief Justice of British Columbia (Robert J. Bauman)

Richard Arnell

Arnell composed the music for The Land (1942), a 45-minute documentary film directed by Robert J. Flaherty for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Robert Beck

Robert J. Beck (born 1961), scholar of international law and international relations

Robert Behnke

Robert J. Behnke (1929–2013), fisheries biologist and conservationist

Robert Higgins

Robert J. Higgins (born c. 1934), judge and politician in New Brunswick

Robert J. Barham

In 2002, Barham was an unsuccessful candidate for the United States House of Representatives, having lost to Representative Rodney Alexander, now his fellow Republican.

Barham sought to succeed U.S. Representative John Cooksey of Monroe in 2002, when Cooksey made an ill-fated run for the U.S. Senate.

Robert J. Breckinridge

Robert Jefferson Breckinridge, Jr. (1833 – 1915), Confederate Congressman and colonel in the Confederate Army

Robert J. Burkhardt

After the death of Thorn Lord in 1965 he was selected as chairman of the New Jersey Democratic State Committee where he played a significant role in planning the 1967 Glassboro Summit Conference between President Lyndon B. Johnson and Soviet Union Premier Alexei Kosygin.

Robert J. Cleary

In February 2006, in the wake of a police investigation codenamed Operation Slapshot, National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman announced that the NHL had retained Cleary to conduct its own investigation into the involvement of Rick Tocchet, an assistant coach for the Phoenix Coyotes, in an illegal bookmaking ring.

Robert J. Corbett

He was elected as a Republican to the 76th United States Congress in 1938, but was unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1940.

Robert J. Cottrol

Cottrol holds a chair in the George Washington University (GWU) Law School and is also a professor of history and sociology at GWU.

Robert J. Desnick

He completed an internship and a residency in pediatrics at the University of Minnesota Hospitals and joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota, where he rose to the rank of Associate Professor of Cell Biology and Genetics and Pediatrics.

Robert J. Grant

Before becoming Director of the U.S. Mint, Grant was the Superintendent of the Denver Mint.

Robert J. Lurtsema

Ottorino Respighi's Ancient Airs and Dances Suite and one of Giovanni Gabrieli's triple brass quintets were among his opening themes.

Robert J. Marshall

During his leadership, he played a pivotal role in the merger of his Lutheran Church in America with the American Lutheran Church and the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches to form the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

In 1988, building on the outreach and dialogue that Marshall had worked on, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America was formed by the merger of the relatively liberal Lutheran Church in America with the more conservative American Lutheran Church and Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches.

Robert J. McIntosh

In 1956, McIntosh was elected as a Republican from Michigan's 7th congressional district to the 85th United States Congress, serving from January 3, 1957 to January 3, 1959.

Robert J. O'Conor, Jr.

O'Conor was a federal judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas.

Robert J. O'Neill

War, strategy, and international politics : essays in honour of Sir Michael Howard edited by Lawrence Freedman, Paul Hayes, and Robert O'Neill (1992) ISBN 0-19-822292-0

Robert J. Otterman

Robert J. Otterman is a former member of the Ohio House of Representatives, representing the 45th District from 2001–2008, when he was replaced by his son, John Otterman.

Robert J. Pera

In June 2012, Pera agreed in principle to purchase the majority share of the Memphis Grizzlies NBA franchise from Michael Heisley.

Robert J. Rodriguez

Prior to being elected to the New York State Assembly, Rodriguez served as the chairman for Manhattan Community Board 11.

Robert J. Sinclair

Some 250,000 of the Saab 900 convertible were sold (including the NG900) over the succeeding two decades.

Robert J. Sullivan, Jr.

He ran ads featuring Gailard Sartain that attacked his opponents 'career politician' background.

Robert J. Walker

However, due to his support of the Union during the Civil War, the Texas Legislature withdrew the honor and honored Samuel Walker, a Texas Ranger, instead.

Robert Lang

Robert J. Lang (born 1961), American origami theorist and physicist

Rubinstein

Robert J. Rubinstein, Social entrepreneur and founder of the TBLI group

Three Laws of Robotics

In a 2007 guest editorial in the journal Science on the topic of "Robot Ethics," SF author Robert J. Sawyer argues that since the military is a major source of funding for robotic research it is unlikely such laws would be built into their designs.

Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences

She was succeeded as dean by psychologist Robert J. Sternberg, formerly the IBM Professor of Psychology and Management at Yale University.

United States Senate election in New York, 1992

The Democratic primary campaign featured State Attorney General Robert Abrams, former U.S. Congresswoman and 1984 vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro, Reverend Al Sharpton, Congressman Robert J. Mrazek, and New York City Comptroller and former Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman.

Utah Constitutional Amendment 3

On December 20, 2013, federal judge Robert J. Shelby of the U.S. District Court for Utah struck down Amendment 3 as unconstitutional under the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the U.S. Constitution.

Vaughn Walker

After clerking for United States District Court for the Central District of California Judge Robert J. Kelleher (1971–72), he practiced in San Francisco at Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro.

Zack Milkovich

Although John Otterman, and his father, Robert J. Otterman had held the Akron seat for years, Milkovich won an upset victory in the 2010 primary.


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