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unusual facts about graduate student



Leon Davidson

While a graduate student at the Columbia School of Engineering, he was personally selected by the Dean, John R. Dunning, to join the Manhattan Project, the US atomic bomb development program.

Winecoff Hotel

Arnold Hardy, a 26-year-old graduate student at Georgia Tech, became the first amateur to win a Pulitzer Prize in photography for his snapshot of a woman in mid-air after jumping from the 11th floor of the hotel during the fire.


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Ancient Qumran: A Virtual Reality Tour

The film and presentation were authored by Robert Cargill, while a graduate student at UCLA and an associate of the Qumran Visualization Project (QVP) directed by UCLA bible scholar William Schniedewind.

Bernard Kettlewell

The book includes the claim that, mostly for shock value, Kettlewell and Helen Spurway, then the graduate student (and later the wife) of J.B.S. Haldane, were known to catch live moths and eat them whole.

Bonnie C. Templeton

She left endowments to Oregon State University to support graduate student research and maintenance of the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology's teaching collection.

Carl Darling Buck

He graduated from Yale in 1886, was a graduate student there for three years, and studied at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens (1887-1889) and in Leipzig (1889-1892).

Charles River Valley Boys

Although the group's membership changed frequently, the core performers of the Charles River Valley Boys in the early years were Eric Sackheim (guitar, mandolin), Bob Siggins (banjo, vocals), and Clay Jackson (guitar, vocals), all students at Harvard, and Ethan Signer (guitar, mandolin, autoharp, vocals), a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Chico Freeman

After graduation, Freeman taught at the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians School of Music in Chicago and started taking classes as a graduate student at Governors State University, earning a master's degree in composition and theory.

Chromatin immunoprecipitation

In 1984 John T. Lis and David Gilmour, at the time a graduate student in the Lis lab, used UV irradiation to covalently cross-link proteins in contact with neighboring DNA in intact living bacterial cells.

Crabtree's catalyst

Crabtree, graduate student George Morris and John Derek Woollins discovered this catalyst in the 1970s while working on iridium analogues of Wilkinson's rhodium-based catalyst at the Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles at Gif-sur-Yvette, near Paris.

English Bards and Scotch Reviewers

It is also referenced in John Edward Williams' novel Stoner in which it is mistaken by an incompetent graduate student as John Keats' work.

Eugene Aserinsky

Eugene Aserinsky (May 6, 1921July 22, 1998), a pioneer in sleep research, was a graduate student at University of Chicago in 1953 when he discovered REM sleep.

Free Burma Coalition

Under the leadership of Zarni, then a graduate student at University of Wisconsin–Madison, it galvanized principally American students, attracted much media attention, and helped force over forty multinational corporations to withdraw from Burma, including ARCO, PepsiCo, and Texaco.

George E. Kimball

He returned to Princeton's chemistry department to be a graduate student on a graduate fellowship and worked under Hugh Taylor.

Giant tube worm

This process, known as chemosynthesis, was first recognized as operating within the trophosome by Colleen Cavanaugh while she was a graduate student.

Graduate student unionization

As of 2007 there are 28 graduate student employee local unions in the United States.

James Hillier

Born in Brantford, Ontario, the son of James and Ethel (Cooke) Hillier, he received a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and Physics (1937), Master of Arts (1938), and a Ph.D (1941) from the University of Toronto, where, as a graduate student, he completed a prototype of the electron microscope that had been invented by Ernst Ruska.

James R. Heath

When Heath was a graduate student at Rice University, he ran the experimental apparatus that generated the first Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the three senior members of the collaboration: Robert F. Curl and Richard E. Smalley of Rice University and Harold Kroto of the University of Sussex.

Jerwin Gaco

After playing collegiately for Polytechnic University of the Philippines (undergraduate) and the De La Salle Green Archers (as a graduate student, for the 2003 and 2004 seasons), he played for the Harbour Centre franchise in the Philippine Basketball League, where he honed his skills as an enforcer.

Joseph Pivato

At the University of Alberta he also met Canadian writers Henry Kreisel and Sheila Watson and began to work on Canadian authors publishing his first critical essay in Canadian Literature No. 58 (1973) while he was still a graduate student.

Josh LaBove

Josh was a graduate student at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire and is now a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography and a lecturer in Continuing Studies at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia.

Judith Pipher

In the late 1960s, she worked as a graduate student of Martin Harwit on a cryogenic rocket telescope experiment.

Krikor Azaryan

He graduated from what is today the Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in Sofia in 1966 and was a post-graduate student in Moscow and Saint Petersburg (then Leningrad) in the Soviet Union.

Laves

Gerhardt Laves (July 15, 1906 - March 14, 1993) a graduate student at the University of Chicago and Yale University doing fieldwork on Australian Aboriginal languages.

Leigh Page

He came to the Sheffield Scientific School “Sheff” at Yale in 1909 as an assistant professor in drawing and graduate student under Henry Andrews Bumstead.

Matthew Dubé

He was one of five current McGill University students, alongside fellow undergraduates Mylène Freeman, Laurin Liu, and Charmaine Borg, and graduate student Jamie Nicholls, elected to Parliament in the 2011 election following the New Democratic Party's unexpected mid-campaign surge in Quebec.

Matthew F. Hale

Beginning on July 2, 1999, Smith shot nine Orthodox Jews walking to and from their synagogues in Chicago's West Rogers Park neighborhood, killed two people, including former Northwestern University basketball coach Ricky Byrdsong, in Evanston, Illinois, and a 26-year-old Korean graduate student named Won-Joon Yoon who was shot as he was on his way to church in Bloomington, Indiana.

MINC

MINC ("MINC is not C") is a data specification language written in the mid-1980s by a Princeton University graduate student named Lars Graf.

MIT Mystery Hunt

The Mystery Hunt was started in 1981 by then-graduate student Brad Schaefer.

Murder of Annie Le

She was due to be married on September 13, 2009, in Syosset, New York, to Jonathan Widawsky, a graduate student in applied physics and mathematics at Columbia University.

Oklahoma History Center

Oklahoma's Apollo 11 Moon Rock and Apollo 17 Goodwill Moon Rock- Rose Niang-Casey, a graduate student at the University of Phoenix, and a participant in the “Moon Rock Project”, was assigned the task of hunting down the Oklahoma Apollo 11 Moon rock and Apollo 17 Goodwill Moon Rock; two moon rocks the Nixon Administration gifted to the people of Oklahoma.

One Million Signatures

In October 2008, Esha Momeni, a graduate student of the School of Communications, Media and Arts at California State University, interviewed activists in Tehran for a film as part of her California-based studies.

Patrick C. Fischer

Ted Kaczynski, known as the Unabomber, was a graduate student of mathematics at the University of Michigan, where Fischer's father was a professor.

Paul B. Henry

From 1965 to 1970, while he was a graduate student at Duke, Henry served two stints as a staffer for Congressman John B. Anderson (R-IL).

Phycological Society of America

The Harold C. Bold award, established in 1973, the Bold Award is given for the outstanding graduate student paper(s) presented at the Annual Meeting as determined by the Bold Award Committee.

Primordial soup

A graduate student, Stanley Miller, and his professor, Harold Urey, performed an experiment that demonstrated how organic molecules could have spontaneously formed from inorganic precursors, under conditions like those posited by the Oparin-Haldane Hypothesis.

Rachel Weston

As a graduate student she worked as a research assistant and with the Vermont Commission on Women and United Nations.

Ruslan Pukhov

In 1996-1997 he was a post-graduate student at the Franco-Russian Master d'Etudes Internationales Sciences Po.

Santa Fe Baldy

On June 11, 2009, Santa Fe Baldy was the scene of a helicopter accident that claimed the life of New Mexico State Police Sergeant Andrew Tingwall and University of New Mexico graduate student Megumi Yamamoto.

Simon Shnoll

Study of chemical oscillating reactions conducted under his direction gained prominence to his graduate student Anatoly Zhabotinsky, who investigated in detail the reaction previously discovered by Boris Belousov.

St Edmund's College, Cambridge

The cosmologist Georges Lemaître, the Big Bang theorist, was a former graduate student 1923-24 at the college, supervised by Sir Arthur Eddington.

Steven Gerber

During his years as a graduate student, he wrote serial and non-twelve-tone works, such as the a cappella choral works "Dylan Thomas Settings" and "Illuminations" (Rimbaud), and throughout the remainder of the 1970s most of his works were twelve-tone.

Sun-1

The Sun 1 workstation was based on the Stanford University SUN workstation designed by Andy Bechtolsheim (advised by Vaughan Pratt and Forrest Baskett), a graduate student and co-founder of Sun Microsystems.

The Aesthetics of Rock

He wrote it as an undergraduate at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and as a graduate student at Yale University, from which he was, as he relates in his foreword, "kicked out toot-sweet on my rock-roll caboose" for writing papers with rock-music themes for philosophy classes.

The Plot to Save Socrates

Sierra Waters, a graduate student, receives a copy of a previously unknown dialogue in which Socrates is being offered an escape from his death sentence in ancient Athens by a person named Andros offering to take him into the future and leave a clone behind.

The Rebel Angels

-- Maria calls Parlabane gay when talking to Hollier and he says no, he is not gay but that he is only a sodomite --> with a thundering voice, voracious appetite; Anglican priest and professor of New Testament Greek Simon Darcourt; Maria Theotoky, a graduate student researching Rabelais; Clement Hollier, a frazzled and absentminded professor; and Urquhart McVarish, a greedy and manipulative counterpoint to Hollier.

Verbot

Virtual Personalities, Inc. traces its technology back to Dr. Michael Mauldin's work as a graduate student and post-doctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University; and its artistry back to Peter Plantec's work in personality psychology and art direction.

Viola S. Wendt

She secured a position as a graduate student in English at Radcliffe College (now part of Harvard University) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, after receiving her B.A. degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1928.

White-Chen Catalyst

The White-Chen Catalyst is an Iron based coordination complex named after Professor M. Christina White and her graduate student Mark S. Chen that is now commercially available through Aldrich and Strem.

William S. Rukeyser

He also studied English literature as a graduate student at Christ's College, Cambridge University.

Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages

The WCML also sponsors the Florence Howe Award for outstanding feminist scholarship, and the Annette Kolodny graduate student travel grant.