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  Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art - Facts from the Encyclopedia - Yahoo! Education   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Founded by Peter Cooper, it pioneered in evening engineering and art schools; day schools were added in 1900.
Today it includes schools of engineering, art, and architecture, a division of adult education, and a faculty of humanities and social sciences.
The Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, was founded in 1897 as part of Cooper Union by Sarah, Eleanor, and Amy Hewitt, granddaughters of Peter Cooper.
messenger.yahooligans.com /reference/encyclopedia/entry/CooperUn   (198 words)

  
 Welcome to Cooper Union news -- news for the internal Cooper community
Cooper Union graduating seniors typically win a vastly disproportionate share of the nation's most prestigious academic fellowships and awards, and announcements of this year's awards are now beginning.
The Cooper Union is offering an exciting opportunity for artists to live and work in New York City for four weeks this summer in an intensive, non-credit, studio residency program in painting and drawing.
The School of Art organized a symposium, "Biennial as School" at The Cooper Union, to discuss some of the reasons that motivated the curators of the Manifesta 6, European Biennial of Contemporary Art, to propose an Art School for the Biennale in Nicosia, Cyprus.
www.cooper.edu /administration/pubaff/internal_news/Welcome.html   (3217 words)

  
 New York Architecture Images- SEARCH- lower east side   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Cooperative Village, for example, a 4,500-apartment complex south of the Williamsburg Bridge built as housing for union members, was for decades heavily Orthodox Jewish.
Union leaders gained a new-found appreciation of the capacities of women picketeers, as women were beaten by police and “gorillas”(thugs hired by the employers to menace the strikers) yet returned to the pickets once they were freed from jail and their wounds had healed.
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, a private tuition-free college provided by Peter Cooper to educate workers, opened in Astor Place in 1859, having also incorporated the Female School of Design founded to provide women with an alternative to menial labor.
www.nyc-architecture.com /LES/LES.htm   (4839 words)

  
 WDHOF - Member Biographies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Rena is a fellow of the Geological Society of America and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a life member of the American Academy of Underwater Sciences.
Mel is past president of the Academy of Underwater Arts and Sciences and has been their executive secretary for the past 30 years.
She is a winner of the 1985 NOGI Award for Arts, and she continues to foster marine science education by producing CDs and award-winning videos for regional schools.
www.wdhof.org /biographies.html   (9335 words)

  
 Selected Publications   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The overview is followed by a debate by philosophers of science and then discussion of the scientific foundations of Gaian theory and the particular mechanisms involved.
Interdisciplinary researchers or those in any discipline, be it meteorology, anthropology, agricultural science, astronomy, biology, chemistry, physics, geography, policy analysis, economics, engineering, geology, ecology, or history of climate, are invited to submit articles, provided the articles are of interdisciplinary interest.
This means that authors have an opportunity to communicate the essence of their studies to people in other climate related disciplines and to interested laypersons, as well as to report on research in which the originality is in the combinations of (not necessarily original) work from several disciplines.
stephenschneider.stanford.edu /Publications/Publications.html   (3563 words)

  
 Paul Green Papers Inventory (#3693)
After a year of graduate study in philosophy under Professor Horace Williams in Chapel Hill, Green went to Cornell University for further graduate work and in 1923 became an assistant professor of philosophy at The University of North Carolina.
He was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and of the executive committee of the U. National Commission for UNESCO (1950-52).
Mac, Twentieth Century Fox, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Author's League of America, Frederick Koch Memorial, Forever Growing, Lost Colony, Common Glory, and Hawthorne Tree, and planning for Peer Gynt.
www.lib.unc.edu /mss/inv/htm/03693.html   (3753 words)

  
 New York Colleges and Universities
Art Institute of New York City New York (private)
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art New York (private)
Paul Smith's College of Arts and Sciences Paul Smiths (private)
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Honorary Member of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Science in America, 1988
Conference on the Cultural Scene in the Soviet Union and East Europe, McMaster University, Hamil ton, ON, October 28.
Lecture at the Annual Se- minar of the English Association of McMaster University on "Canadian Fiction and the Art of Film", Hamilton, ON, November 4
www.skvorecky.com /josef_bibliography.htm   (6824 words)

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