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UP-The Union Pacific Railroad Museum The generous grant allowed Council Bluffs to construct one of the largest Carnegie libraries in the state in the beautiful and unique Beaux Arts style. Flooded with pleas to preserve the Carnegie Library for public use, the City of Council Bluffs challenged the Friends of the Union Pacific Railroad Museum to raise $3.5 million to restore the building and establish a home for Union Pacific's Historical Collection. The restoration of the historic Carnegie Library and the development of the Union Pacific Railroad Museum create a tourist destination in the heart of the Council Bluffs historic district and preserve an important part of the city's rich heritage. www.uprr.com /aboutup/history/museum/index.shtml

Carnegie, David(red) - Boekrecensie.com Carnegie Council on Policy Studies in Higher Education Handbook on Undergraduate Curriculum: A Report for the Carnegie Council on Policy Studies in Higher Education (The Carnegie Council Series) Carnegie Symposium on Cognition 1988 Carnegie-Mellon University) Kurt Vanlehn www.boekrecensie.com /Carnegie,-David%28red%29

The Army Green Uniform - March 1968 Acknowledgment is also made to the members of the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council Advisory Committee on Women's Clothing, who selected Miss Hattie Carnegie as the designer of the present women's uniform and who provided advice and assistance on all elements of the women's uniform design as originally adopted. Recognition is also merited by the members of the National Academy of Science-National Research Council Advisory Committee on Men's Military Clothing, who reviewed all possible approaches to an improved uniform and recommended the color and design which were finally adopted. www.qmfound.com /Army_Green_Uniform.htm

UP-The Union Pacific Railroad Museum The restoration of the historic Carnegie Library and the development of the Union Pacific Railroad Museum create a tourist destination in the heart of the Council Bluffs historic district and preserve an important part of the city's rich heritage. Flooded with pleas to preserve the Carnegie Library for public use, the City of Council Bluffs challenged the Friends of the Union Pacific Railroad Museum to raise $3.5 million to restore the building and establish a home for Union Pacific's Historical Collection. The Union Pacific Railroad Museum complements other local rail attractions, including the Historic General Dodge House, the RailsWest Museum, the Golden Spike monument and the Durham Western Heritage Museum, and it expands on the story of pioneer migration depicted at the National Western Historic Trails Center. www.uprr.com /aboutup/history/museum/index.shtml

Carnegie, Victoria Carnegie's subdivisions had co-incided with Caulfield council's concern with town planning, chiefly brought about by councillor (Sir) Frederick Eggleston (1909-20), and allotments were deliberately large. In May, 1909, the railway station was renamed Carnegie, allegedly with the support of residents and the progress associations who thought it would be an inducement to obtain funds from the American Carnegie Foundation for a library. A large part of pastoral Carnegie was the Leman Swamp, a place for peat extraction and, in 1874, a proposed site for sugar beet processing which needed a reliable water supply. www.arts.monash.edu.au /ncas/multimedia/gazetteer/list/carnegie.html   (415 words)

Carnegie, Victoria Carnegie's subdivisions had co-incided with Caulfield council's concern with town planning, chiefly brought about by councillor (Sir) Frederick Eggleston (1909-20), and allotments were deliberately large. In May, 1909, the railway station was renamed Carnegie, allegedly with the support of residents and the progress associations who thought it would be an inducement to obtain funds from the American Carnegie Foundation for a library. A large part of pastoral Carnegie was the Leman Swamp, a place for peat extraction and, in 1874, a proposed site for sugar beet processing which needed a reliable water supply. www.arts.monash.edu.au /ncas/multimedia/gazetteer/list/carnegie.html   (415 words)

Carnegie Mellon Libraries: History: Pittsburgh History CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH, THE WILLIAM R. A gift from the Board of Public Education to Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh in 1989, the collection is divided into six subgroups: Office of the Board of Public Education (and predecessors), subdistrict school boards, Office of Business Affairs, Office of the Superintendent, and the Pittsburgh Public Schools. Carnegie Mellon faculty, staff, and students can borrow materials by getting a Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh library card at the Main Library lending desk. CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT rq HJ9013.P7 D1 Continues Annual Report of the City Controller. www.library.cmu.edu /Research/Humanities/History/pittsburgh.html   (415 words)

Updates: Buhl Planetarium and Carnegie Library – 2003 December Carnegie Library: Late last year, Carnegie Library tried to sneak a “lease” bill through Pittsburgh City Council that would actually have given them permission to buy Carnegie Library did not attempt to buy from the City and sell-off any library buildings. On November 19, I sent a letter to Carnegie Library President Ellsworth Brown requesting that Carnegie Library comply with the Pennsylvania Right-to-Know Law andrewcarnegie.tripod.com /hazelwood/Update-BuhlCLP.htm   (1259 words)

Carnegie Mellon Press Release: May 6, 2005 Architecture Professor Douglas Cooper has created murals for Frankfurt am Main in Germany, the University Center at Carnegie Mellon and the main lobby of the Philadelphia Courthouse to name a few. PITTSBURGH—Douglas Cooper, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Architecture, recently completed a mural in the lobby of the King County Courthouse in downtown Seattle, Washington. Cooper became involved with the project after he won a King County Arts Council national competition called 4 Culture. www.cmu.edu /PR/releases05/050506_cooper.html   (1259 words)

Carnegie Corporation - Links (Merrill House, 170 East 64th Street, New York NY 10021-7478) Founded in 1914 by Andrew Carnegie, the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to research and education in the field of ethics and international affairs. Carnegie Hero Funds in Europe, established during 1909–11 in France, Germany, Norway, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, and Italy. The Carnegie Foundation is the owner of the Peace Palace at the Hague, which was founded in 1903 with a gift of over one million dollars from Andrew Carnegie. www.carnegie.org /sub/links/other.html   (1259 words)

Fall 2002 Exhibition Archives: Carnegie Museum of Art Mel Bochner, a native of Pittsburgh and graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, is considered a pioneering figure in the Post-Minimal and Conceptual art movements. General support for the museum's exhibition program is provided by The Heinz Endowments and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. A visit to Carnegie Museum of Art's Neapolitan Presepio, a large-scale, elaborate Nativity, has been a Pittsburgh holiday tradition since 1957. www.cmoa.org /exhibitions/archives02fall.asp   (1259 words)

MELTON CARNEGIE MUSEUM The former Carnegie Library was refurbished and opened by Leicestershire County Council in 1977 as the Melton Carnegie Museum. In 1983 the National Museum of Hunting Trust was established, with the hope that, with Melton being a world-renowned centre of hunting -- the Melton building could eventually incorporate material on hunting. The Museum is open from 10.30am to 4.00pm, seven days a week -- closed only on Good Friday, Christmas Day and Boxing Day. www.meltononline.co.uk /pp/gold/viewGold.asp?IDType=Page&ID=552   (1259 words)

Lenore Blum's Home Page At Carnegie Mellon she has been faculty advisor to the Women@SCS and a member of the President's Diversity Advisory Council. Carnegie Mellon University where she is Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science. Architecture Department at Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh at the age of 16. www-2.cs.cmu.edu /%7Elblum   (1259 words)

President Dr. Richard A. Meserve became the ninth president of the Carnegie Institution in April 2003, after stepping down as chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). Meserve serves on the board of directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Universities Research Association, Inc., and on the Council of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Meserve had been a member of Carnegie's board of trustees since 1992. carnegieinstitution.org /president.html   (365 words)

Council for Advancement and Support of Education - Carnegie Corporation Awards CASE Grant for African Universities (5/17/05) Washington, D.C.—Carnegie Corporation of New York has awarded the Council for Advancement and Support of Education a $200,000 grant to create advancement programs at six East and West African universities. Council for Advancement and Support of Education - Carnegie Corporation Awards CASE Grant for African Universities (5/17/05) CASE received earlier grants from Carnegie Corporation to fund workshops in 2003 and 2004 for vice chancellors and other senior staff from over a dozen Ghanaian and Nigerian universities. www.case.org /Content/PressRelease/Display.cfm?CONTENTITEMID=5188   (495 words)

Public Campaign -- A New Kind of Reform Politics Carnegie Corporation of New York, Open Society Institute, the Charles H. Revson Foundation and the Solidago Foundation have provided funding. Funding from Carnegie Corporation of New York and Solidago Foundation. in association with Thirteen/WNET New York, and was funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Open Society Institute and the Charles H. Revson Foundation. www.publicampaign.org /publications/trtce/index.htm   (637 words)

Carnegie Painted presented by Carnegie Renaissance Sponsored by Dorothy Kelly, Carnegie council member and longtime fan of Carnegie Park, this award will be given for a painting of the park, either its green areas or its recreational areas. In conjunction with Carnegie's annual Arts and Heritage Festival, "Carnegie Painted" gives visitors to the festival and to the town in general a view of the town they might not have seen as artists exhibit their impressions and renderings of Carnegie's sights and scenes. Sponsored by Andrew Carnegie Free Library and Music Hall, this award will be given to an image of an interior or an exterior of the library or music hall or the grounds. home.earthlink.net /~carnegie.renaissance/CPV.html   (879 words)

Carnegie Endowment - Crisis in Iraq Panelists detailed the options offered in the Carnegie report, "Iraq: A New Approach," which proposes "coercive inspections" in which a multinational military force created by the UN Security Council would enable international inspections teams to operate effectively in Iraq. This Carnegie report released in January, details concerns over Iraq’s weapons capabilities and assesses the status of inspections.To download the report click here. This Carnegie report released in September, helped define the new inspection regime.To read individual chapters or download entire report click here. www.ceip.org /files/Iraq   (879 words)

BUBL LINK: Scottish culture The Scottish Arts Council distributes funding from the Scottish Executive and National Lottery funding received from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport to applicants seeking to conduct research relating to the arts in Scotland. The council supports galleries, festivals, theatres, arts centres, touring companies, contemporary dance, promoters, service organisations, and artist resource centers, as well as providing awards, bursaries, fellowships, travel and research grants to a wide range of artists. Describes the architecture and history of Scottish libraries whose construction was funded by Andrew Carnegie. www.bubl.ac.uk /link/s/scottishculture.htm   (1253 words)

flc5 Collected under the auspices of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. is the Oklahoma State Arts Council collection of 60 audio interviews with Oklahoma The real value in the collection lies in the fact that the State of Oklahoma was just 30 years old. www.ok-history.mus.ok.us /folk/flc4bibliography.html   (1253 words)

FCCV Feline Control Council of Victoria Cats Missison Statement THE FELINE CONTROL COUNCIL OF The Feline Control Council of Victoria Inc. was founded in 1962 to promote in every way the welfare of cats, the general improvement of the standard, breeding and exhibition of cats, plus good sportsmanship among its members * The Largest feline registration council in Victoria with approximately 900 members; and in Australia being second only to the New South Wales Cat Fanciers Association. Miss A. Hall, PO Box 161, Carnegie, Victoria 3163 - (03)9571 3352 www.hotkey.net.au /~fccvic/fccv2a.htm   (284 words)

Carnegie Names Chew, Winter 2001, Seasons Magazine Announcement of the award came Nov. 13 in Washington, D.C., from the Carnegie Foundation--the nation's third oldest foundation--and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, which administers the program. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has named Chew the 200l Alabama Professor of the Year. The Carnegie Award is the latest in a series of honors for Chew. www.samford.edu /pubs/seasons/winter2001/chew.html   (579 words)

Carnegie Corporation - Carnegie for Kids The Church Peace Union which was established in 1914 and renamed the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs in 1986, was endowed with about $2 million. Carnegie Hall, a concert hall located in New York City opened in 1891 and is still in use today. Founded in 1910 with $10 million from Carnegie, the Endowment is the oldest public policy institution in the United States concentrating on issues of war and peace. www.carnegie.org /sub/kids/legacy.html   (829 words)

American Attitudes on Bases Threatens Central Asian Peace - Council on Foreign Relations Council Experts are based in the Council’s New York and Washington offices. Anatol Lieven, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has already noted a softening of American criticisms of human rights abuses in Uzbekistan, where we currently base roughly 1,500 troops and where 6,500 political prisoners are often kept in what a United Nations Rapporteur has called "cruel, inhuman and degrading" conditions. According to reports, the Pentagon is considering transforming temporary military bases in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan into what the Defense Department calls "lily pads" – permanent bases from which American commanders could rapidly deploy mobile, expeditionary forces. www.cfr.org /publication.html?id=6480   (829 words)

Fall 2002 Exhibition Archives: Carnegie Museum of Art Mel Bochner, a native of Pittsburgh and graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, is considered a pioneering figure in the Post-Minimal and Conceptual art movements. General support for the museum's exhibition program is provided by The Heinz Endowments and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. A visit to Carnegie Museum of Art's Neapolitan Presepio, a large-scale, elaborate Nativity, has been a Pittsburgh holiday tradition since 1957. www.cmoa.org /exhibitions/archives02fall.asp   (881 words)

www.GovExec.com - Print Page: : Outside Experts : : Jared Cohon (3/1/04) Carnegie Mellon has 9,500 students, more than 3,900 staff, much government funding, and a great track record in computer-security research. When he was governor of Pennsylvania, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge worked with Cohon and other university leaders to grow companies and jobs from the universities' research centers. He and his panel will also ensure that the university sector is heard when officials are debating such security measures as additional visa restrictions on foreign students, and restrictions on the easy exchange of information among leading-edge researchers, he said. www.govexec.com /story_page.cfm?articleid=27849&printerfriendlyVers=1&   (291 words)

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Carnegie, Victoria Carnegie's subdivisions had co-incided with Caulfield council's concern with town planning, chiefly brought about by councillor (Sir) Frederick Eggleston (1909-20), and allotments were deliberately large. In May, 1909, the railway station was renamed Carnegie, allegedly with the support of residents and the progress associations who thought it would be an inducement to obtain funds from the American Carnegie Foundation for a library. A large part of pastoral Carnegie was the Leman Swamp, a place for peat extraction and, in 1874, a proposed site for sugar beet processing which needed a reliable water supply. www.arts.monash.edu.au /ncas/multimedia/gazetteer/list/carnegie.html   (415 words)

dp Several local community organizations are partnering with the university and the library to stage the Deliberative Poll, including the World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh, The League of Women Voters (Pittsburgh Chapter), Global Connections of Pittsburgh, Chatham College's Pennsylvania Women in Politics and Public Policy and the Department of Social and Decision Sciences (CMU). Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon 's Institute for the Study of Information Technology and Society (InSITes) and The Center for the Advancement of Applied Ethics (CAAE) Expert panelists, community leaders, and a host of representatives from the media attended this convocation hosted by Carnegie Mellon and the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. caae.phil.cmu.edu /caae/dp   (415 words)

Carnegie Mellon Libraries: Research: University Archives: Walter Van Dyke Bingham Collection Walter Van Dyke Bingham (1880-1952) pioneered in psychological research at Carnegie Institute of Technology during the early decades of the twentieth century. Bingham began working at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1915 as founder and director of the Division of Applied Psychology. From 1946 to 1948, Bingham was chairman of the Council of Advisers to the Director of Personnel and Administration of the Army's General Staff. www.library.cmu.edu /Research/Archives/UnivArchives/BinghamAid.html   (1063 words)

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