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Columbia University
Columbia University (officially Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City. It was established in 1754 as King's College by royal charter of George II of Great Britain. Columbia is the oldest college in the state of New York and the fifth chartered institution of higher learning in the country, making it one of nine colonial colleges founded before the Declaration of Independence.[6] After the American Revolutionary War, King's College briefly became a state entity, and was renamed Columbia College in 1784. A 1787 charter placed the institution under a private board of trustees before it was renamed Columbia University in 1896 when the campus was moved from Madison Avenue to its current location in Morningside Heights occupying 32 acres (13 ha) of land.[7][8] Columbia is one of the fourteen founding members of the Association of American Universities, and was the first school in the United States to grant the M.D. degree.[7][9]
The university is organized into twenty schools, including Columbia College, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the School of General Studies. The university also has global research outposts in Amman, Beijing, Istanbul, Paris, Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago, Asunción and Nairobi.[10] It has affiliations with several other institutions nearby, including Teachers College, Barnard College, and Union Theological Seminary, with joint undergraduate programs available through the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, University College London,[11] Sciences Po,[12] City University of Hong Kong,[13] and the Juilliard School.[14]
Columbia administers annually the Pulitzer Prize.[15] Notable alumni and former students (counting those from King's College) include five Founding Fathers of the United States; nine Justices of the United States Supreme Court;[16] 20 living billionaires;[17] 29 Academy Award winners;[18] and 29 heads of state, including three United States Presidents.[19] Additionally, 104 Nobel laureates have been affiliated with Columbia as students, researchers, faculty, or staff. Columbia is also second only to Harvard University in the number of Pulitzer Prize winning alumni and former students, with over 100 recipients as of 2015.[20]
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King's College (1754–1784)..
Discussions regarding the founding of a college in the Province of New York began as early as 1704, at which time Colonel Lewis Morris wrote to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, the missionary arm of the Church of England, persuading the society that New York City was an ideal community in which to establish a college;[21] however, not until the founding of Princeton University across the Hudson River in New Jersey did the City of New York seriously consider founding a college.[21] In 1746 an act was passed by the general assembly of New York to raise funds for the foundation of a new college. In 1751, the assembly appointed a commission of ten New York residents, seven of whom were members of the Church of England, to direct the funds accrued by the state lottery towards the foundation of a college.[22]
Classes were initially held in July 1754 and were presided over by the college's first president, Dr. Samuel Johnson.[23] Dr. Johnson was the only instructor of the college's first class, which consisted of a mere eight students. Instruction was held in a new schoolhouse adjoining Trinity Church, located on what is now lower Broadway in Manhattan.[24] The college was officially founded on October 31, 1754, as King's College by royal charter of King George II, making it the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York and the fifth oldest in the United States.[7]
In 1763, Dr. Johnson was succeeded in the presidency by Myles Cooper, a graduate of The Queen's College, Oxford, and an ardent Tory. In the charged political climate of the American Revolution, his chief opponent in discussions at the college was an undergraduate of the class of 1777, Alexander Hamilton.[25] The American Revolutionary War broke out in 1776, and was catastrophic for the operation of King's College, which suspended instruction for eight years beginning in 1776 with the arrival of the Continental Army. The suspension continued through the military occupation of New York City by British troops until their departure in 1783. The college's library was looted and its sole building requisitioned for use as a military hospital first by American and then British forces.[26][27] Loyalists were forced to abandon their King's College in New York, which was seized by the rebels and renamed Columbia College. The Loyalists, led by Bishop Charles Inglis fled to Windsor, Nova Scotia, where they founded King's Collegiate School.[28]
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Students at Pittsburgh Public Schools head back to class under new superintendent
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Century of Enslavement: The History of The Federal Reserve
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What is the Federal Reserve system? How did it come into existence? Is it part of the federal government? How does it create money? Why is the public kept in the dark about these important matters? In this feature-length documentary film, The Corbett Report explores these important question and pulls back the curtain on America's central bank.
Elmira College: Remembering the Past for a Stronger Future
Alpha Phi Alpha
Alpha Phi Alpha is the first Black, inter-collegiate Greek-lettered fraternity. It was founded on December 4, 1906 at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Its founders are known as the Seven Jewels. It employs an icon from Ancient Egypt, the Great Sphinx of Giza, as its symbol. Its aims are manly deeds, scholarship, and love for all mankind, and its motto is First of All, Servants of All, We Shall Transcend All. Its archives are preserved at the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center.
Chapters were chartered at Howard University and Virginia Union University in 1907. The fraternity has over 290,000 members and has been open to men of all races since 1940. Currently, there are more than 730 active chapters in the Americas, Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and Asia.
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Kappa Sig's New Home
The Kappa Sigma Fraternity on Marquette's campus acquired a new home for their growing chapter. President, Travis Smith and House Manager, Marcus Wendorff discuss what Kappa Sigma's new home will offer to not only them, but the rest of the Marquette community.
State of Democracy: Zephyr Teachout
Can American Democracy Survive Corruption?
Zephyr Teachout is a Professor of Law at Fordham University. An immensely talented and creative scholar, Professor Teachout brings a rich background in laws governing political behavior, both domestically and abroad, as well as the insights of her original work on corruption and its constitutional history.
Teachout is the former National Director for the Sunlight Foundation, and was the Director of Internet Organizing for Howard Dean's Presidential campaign. Most recently she ran against Andrew Cuomo for the 2014 Democratic Party nomination for Governor of New York. Teachout is a political consultant for nonprofits, political campaigns, and citizen journalism. She is the author of Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United.
This lecture is made possible through a generous gift from the Norman M. and Marsha Lee Berkman fund.
Wellesley College Commencement 2016 ( Full-Length)
Wellesley College celebrated its 138th Commencement on Friday, May 27, 2016.
Invocation by Tiffany Steinwert, Dean of Religious and Spiritual Life
Welcome by President H. Kim Bottomly
Student Address by Grace Park '16
Presentation of the Pinanski Prize for Excellence in Teaching
Commencement Address by Lulu Chow Wang '66
Charge to the Class of 2016 by President H. Kim Bottomly
Concentrated Poverty Challenge
Steve Goldsmith, Deputy Mayor, New York City: Many big city mayors inherited concentrations of poverty and had to go to Washington and beg for money, and the situation never got much better.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg visits Berkeley Law
On October 21, 2019, Berkeley Law welcomed Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court of the United States for the inaugural Herma Hill Kay Memorial Lecture.
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Bill Nye: Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation NYC | Talks at Google
Bill Nye author of, Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation in conversation with Vikram (Vik) Bajaj.
Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed in the history of science. Every question it raises leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions. The science of evolution is as expansive as nature itself. It is also the most meaningful creation story that humans have ever found.—Bill Nye
Sparked by a controversial debate in February 2014, Bill Nye has set off on an energetic campaign to spread awareness of evolution and the powerful way it shapes our lives. In Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation, he explains why race does not really exist; evaluates the true promise and peril of genetically modified food; reveals how new species are born, in a dog kennel and in a London subway; takes a stroll through 4.5 billion years of time; and explores the new search for alien life, including aliens right here on Earth.
With infectious enthusiasm, Bill Nye shows that evolution is much more than a rebuttal to creationism; it is an essential way to understand how nature works—and to change the world. It might also help you get a date on a Saturday night.
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Vik is lead scientist of Google[x] Life Sciences' Baseline Study and Nanotechnology Program. He is a (consulting) Associate Professor at Stanford Medical School and an Affiliate Scientist of the University of California, Berkeley, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Revitalizing Syracuse: Community Strategies to Create Wealth
Joe Minicozzi of Urban3, a consulting firm based in Asheville, NC, addressed how public investments in the built environment affect local business decisions and the fiscal health of government. Minicozzi is a native of Upstate New York. Panelists included Andrew Fish of CenterState CEO and Honora Spillane of the Syracuse Industrial Development Agency. This event was co-sponsored by the Syracuse Downtown Committee and the New York State Association of REALTORS.
Rethinking Pei: A Centenary Symposium, Panel 3: Power, Capital, and People
Panel 3 Participants:
Seng Kuan, moderator
Edward Eigen: “I. M. Pei and the ‘Big Plan’: The Several Lives of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum”
André Bideau: “Between the Superblock and the Pyramid. I. M. Pei and Araldo Cossutta at La Défense”
Cole Roskam: “The Fragrant Hill Hotel: Reassessing the Politics of Tradition and Abstraction in China’s Early Reform Era”
Shirley Surya: “Pei's Office and Singapore's Urban Core: Corporate Architecture, Symbolic Aestheticization and Economic Pragmatism”
Kellogg Wong: “I. M. Pei & Partners, the Pei Team, and Singapore”
A two-part symposium examining the work and life of I. M. Pei from multiple vantage points. Organized by the Harvard GSD with M+, Hong Kong, and the Faculty of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong.
Ieoh Ming Pei is one of the most celebrated yet under-theorized architects of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Although Pei’s six-decade career is mostly identified with his unwavering interest in cultural synthesis and the power of pure geometrical form, his modes of practice demand further investigation of their intertwinement with the multiple historical and discursive moments of modern architecture. The two-day symposium will include panel discussions and scholarly presentations that showcase new research on Pei’s manifold contributions to the built environment. Notable alumni from Pei’s office will discuss the emergence of a new kind of architectural practice in the postwar era. Among the topics to be addressed in the paper sessions are technological innovations with concrete, the glass curtain wall, and structural designs; Pei’s longstanding affinities for China’s landscape and vernacular traditions; his legacy on major urban spaces in Boston and other cities around the world; and the increasingly global and transnational conditions of architectural production that Pei successfully navigated. Organized with M+, the new museum for visual culture being built in Hong Kong, this symposium is part of a yearlong celebration of the 100th birthday of Ieoh Ming (I. M.) Pei MArch ’46. Both I. M. and his wife, Eileen Pei GSD ’44, studied at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, as did their sons Chien Chung (Didi) Pei, AB ’68, MArch ’72, and Li Chung (Sandi) Pei, AB ’72, MArch ’76. Pei was also an assistant professor of architecture at the GSD. In March the GSD held a panel discussion, led by Harry Cobb AB ’47, MArch ’49, which focused on the formative years of I. M. Pei’s career as well as some of his special friendships, influences, and projects.
A second symposium, co-organized by M+ and the Department of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong, will be held in Hong Kong on December 14-15.
These two symposia are made possible with the generous support of the C Foundation.
The Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg at Georgetown
The Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, in conversation with:
Mary Hartnett
Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Wendy W. Williams
Professor Emerita, Georgetown University Law Center
moderated by The Honorable Robert A. Katzmann
Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
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Driver Says She Got Pricey Ticket For Talking On A Phone Tucked In Her Hijab
A motorist said she got a $160 ticket for talking on a cellphone that was tucked inside her hijab. CBS2's Cristy Fajardo reports.
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Voices and Visions Of St. Louis: Past, Present, Future Panel One: The Civil War(s) in St. Louis
From the Civil War to the recent troubles in Ferguson, St. Louis, Missouri is a city that has long been a site for conflict, division, and violence. It also has hosted an array of legal, political, social, and design experiments intended to transcend its contested present and past. With this forum, jointly mounted with the Sam Foxx School of Design at Washington University, we seek to stimulate a conversation about the city’s history and its present conditions, using methodologies and questions drawn from architecture, design, and planning as well as the arts, humanities and social sciences. The aim is to explore and debate issues of injustice, inequality, and racial exclusion in ways that have broader resonance for urban America and will open new terrains for constructive action. Topics include the history of modernist planning, the urban impacts of post-civil war politics and governance, the social and spatial correlates of racial exclusion, and the planning and design responses that have been proposed to counter these conditions.
Open to the public with a keynote on Wednesday evening and subsequent panels showcasing the perspectives of a wide array of actors and institutions who have made cities such as St. Louis what they are today; closing on Friday with an array of GSD-based exhibitions, projects, and presentations from GSD students and faculty.
Organized by Diane Davis, chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard GSD, with:
Eve Blau, adjunct professor, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard GSD
Sylvester Brown, Journalist, St. Louis
Daniel D’Oca, Associate Professor in Practice of Urban Planning, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard GSD; co-founder of Interboro Partners
Adrienne Davis, Vice Provost and William M. Van Cleve Professor of Law at Washington University in St. Louis
Jill Desimini, assistant professor, Department of Landscape Architecture, Harvard GSD
Catalina Freixas, assistant professor of architecture, Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis
Antonio French, Alderman of the 21st Ward, City of St. Louis
Margaret Garb, professor, Department of History at Washington University in St. Louis
Colin Gordon, professor, Department of History at University of Iowa
Toni Griffin, professor, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard GSD
Joseph Heathcott, associate professor of urban studies, The New School/Parsons School of Design
Patty Heyda, assistant professor of architecture and urban design, Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis
Walter Johnson, professor, Department of African and African American Studies, and director of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University
Eric Mumford, Rebecca and John Voyles Professor of Architecture, Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis
Jamilah Nasheed, Missouri State Senator
Jason Q. Purnell, assistant professor, Brown School, and faculty scholar in the Institute for Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis; and head of the “For the Sake of All” initiative
Ken Reardon, director of the Department of Urban Planning and Community Development at University of Massachusetts Boston
M. K. Stallings, Founder of UrbArts
Denise Ward-Brown, associate professor of art, Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis
Michael Willis, Architect, MWA Architects
Heather Woofter, Professor of Architecture and Chair of Architecture, Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.
Grinnell College Commencement 2017 - Full Ceremony
Grinnell College celebrated the class of 2017 on May 22, 2017. Kumail Nanjiani (class of 2001) was the commencement speaker.
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War, Trauma, Art and Healing: A Veteran's Perspective
This panel focuses on the profound impact of trauma and moral injury on members of the military and veterans, and on the value of art as an agent of treatment and healing.