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13 hours ago · '68 Leslie K. Hankins (Duke)—professor of English at Cornell College, Virginia Woolf and the Arts '73 Christin J. Mamiya (Yale)—endowed professor of art history at U Nebraska, edited an edition of Gardner's Art Through the Ages '73 John B. Roeder (Harvard)—professor of music at U British Columbia (Canada)
1 hour ago · The event will provide resources to the Architecture, Engineering & Construction community, advocates and policymakers to address the issue of embodied carbon in the built environment and fight ...
13 hours ago · Richard V. Waring, Student Services Chief of Staff for Trident Technical College, Vice President of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce. Manish Sharma, Clinical Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian Queens Chief of Emergency Medicine.
4 hours ago · Cornell’s library publishes a study guide to a 1969 building occupation in which students armed themselves. Harvard offers a social justice graduate certificate.
13 hours ago · Etymology Silicon Valley derives its name from the silicon used in transistors and computer chips, pioneered in the region in the 20th century. "Silicon" refers to the chemical element used in silicon-based transistors and integrated circuit chips, which is the focus of a large number of computer hardware and software innovators and manufacturers in the region.
13 hours ago · Kilachand Honors College. Boston University's honors college matriculated its first class in 2010. In 2011, it was renamed Arvind and Chandan Nandlal Kilachand Honors College following a $25 million donation from alum and billionaire businessman, Rajen Kilachand. The Kilachand Honors College is a university-wide community of faculty and ...
13 hours ago · A major 19th-century engineering achievement was the Crystal Palace, the huge cast-iron and plate-glass exhibition hall built for the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London. Glass and iron were used in a similar monumental style in the construction of major railway terminals throughout the city, including King's Cross station (1852) [28] and ...
