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  Green College Oxford | Welcome to Green College
Green College is a Graduate College of the University of Oxford.
At the centre of the College is the magnificent Radcliffe Observatory.
Green College is made up of over 300 graduate students in various disciplines including medicine, health, education, welfare, the environment and the social, behavioural and life sciences.
www.green.ox.ac.uk   (263 words)

  
 Green College, Oxford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Green College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
Established in 1979, the college is one of the youngest of the university, and is named after its main benefactors: Dr Cecil H. Green and his wife Dr Ida Green.
Dr Green is a founder of Texas Instruments.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Green_College,_Oxford   (193 words)

  
 Cecil H. Green, Texas Instruments Co-Founder and Honorary Knight of the British Empire, Leaves Legacy of Philanthropic ...
Green's life is the story of an uncommon journey, from nomadic, uncertain early years, to becoming internationally recognized as one of the world's leading philanthropists.
Green were recognized with an unprecedented international tribute for their creative and visionary philanthropy that had a positive effect on the lives of thousands of young people throughout the world.
Green College was the 39th college at Oxford University and the first to be built at Oxford in 200 years.
www.ti.com /corp/docs/press/company/2003/c03018.shtml   (1445 words)

  
 Cecil H. Green, longtime Stanford benefactor, dies at 102
The Greens were the lead donors for the construction of the Cecil H. Green Library, which was the centerpiece of Stanford's second comprehensive university fundraising campaign that raised $304 million during the mid-1970s.
Green served for 26 years on the school's advisory board and was named an honorary consulting professor to the school in 1982.
Green College at Oxford University was named for Cecil Green, and a dozen universities have recognized his contributions with honorary degrees.
news-service.stanford.edu /news/2003/april16/greenobit-416.html   (733 words)

  
 Oxford College | Welcome | History of Oxford
Oxford's unusual relationship as a separate but equal academic branch of a major research university is a byproduct of historical events within the Methodist Church as well as within Georgia's secondary education.
Named Emory College, in memory of Bishop John Emory, Methodist leaders broke ground in 1838 on "virgin soil, in the midst of wide-spread and luxuriant forest of native oaks," according to Alexander Means, professor of natural science and future college president.
Oxford was not a "junior college" in the standard way, but a focused two-year program of general education leading purposefully and directly to the final two years of academic specialization (on the Atlanta campus at either the College, Business or Nursing School).
www.emory.edu /OXFORD/Welcome/history.html   (1459 words)

  
 THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE BOAT RACE, LONDON RIVER THAMES INFORMATION EVENTS AND HISTORY
The Oxford and Cambridge boat race is also part of the social season and is attended by debutantes and society on the social circuit.
Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race (Sunday, 27 March 2005) between eights from the two oldest universities in England takes place annually in late March or early April.
In the past Oxford have had the upper hand but the years from 1993 onwards have seen Cambridge sweep to victory after a six year run of wins by Oxford.
www.solarnavigator.net /history/cambridge_oxford_thames_boat_race.htm   (1726 words)

  
 Dartmouth College ELSI Institute :: Ronald M. Green
Green served as Director of the Office of Genome Ethics at the National Human Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health.
Green's research interests are in genetic ethics, biomedical ethics, and issues of justice in health care allocation.
Green serves on the bioethics committee of the March of Dimes.
www.dartmouth.edu /~ethics/rgreen.html   (349 words)

  
 The Oxford Tradition
A Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and qualified lawyer, Lillian was honored by the University of Nairobi for Distinguished Academic Excellence.
Nick is studying for a DPhil in Philosophy at Oxford and graduated from Rhodes University with a distinction in the subject and the distinguished DCS Oosthuisen Prize.
A former Rhodes Scholar at Green College, Oxford University, a registered GP, and an outstanding immunologist, Mohammad is considered one of the world’s leading young researchers into the HIV virus.
www.oxbridgeprograms.com /programs/oxtrad/faculty.htm   (1678 words)

  
 Philanthropist and MIT benefactor Cecil Green dies at 102 - MIT News Office
Cecil H. Green (S.B. and S.M. 1924), a worldwide philanthropist whose family name graces the tallest building on the MIT campus as well as a women's residence hall and nine endowed professorships, died on April 11 of complications from pneumonia at the age of 102.
In England, Green's philanthropy was responsible for the establishment of Green College at Oxford University.
Green was a member of the MIT Corporation since 1958.
web.mit.edu /newsoffice/2003/green-0430.html   (451 words)

  
 Oxford University Gazette: Appointments, 25 November 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Green College wishes to appoint a College Accountant who will take overall charge of the management of its finances and financial systems, from preparation of the annual budget to preparation of the annual accounts.
Reporting to the Warden of Green College, the post-holderwill be supported by and manage three other staff with financial duties.
Green College is a young Oxford graduate college committed to growth and facing a challenging building programme.
www.ox.ac.uk /gazette/2004-5/weekly/251104/appts/entry_4.htm   (257 words)

  
 UIC Honors College - Oxford Green College Collaboration   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The UIC Honors College presents a unique program for UIC's best students to experience an outstanding educational opportunity in a challenging and lively environment for one full academic year at Green College at Oxford.
Green College at the University of Oxford was established in 1979.
While pre-eminent in biomedicine, Green College attracts the most talented students, researchers, and Fellows/faculty in all aspects of medicine, health, education, welfare, the environment, and the social, behavioral, and life sciences.
www.math.uic.edu /~lewis/hc/green.htm   (671 words)

  
 Green College Oxford | Introduction
The College is based on the Radcliffe Observatory, the Observer’s House, and the Observatory grounds.
The Observatory was built at the end of the eighteenth century and is one of the important scientific buildings in Oxford.
Following receipt of a benefaction by Dr Cecil Green, the College was able to construct additional buildings on the main site to provide a wide range of additional facilities.
www.green.ox.ac.uk /index.php?id=9   (204 words)

  
 Oxford University Gazette: Appointments, 11 November 2004
Green College invites applications for an additional Tutorial Fellow who will be responsible, with others, for the provision of additional teaching to the ninety or so Clinical Medical Students who are members of the college.
The college provides regular bedside tutorials (with the help of over twenty teaching associates), relevant evening seminars every week, and mock assessments for its clinical students.
Maintained by Oxford University Gazette, revised 11 November 2004.
www.ox.ac.uk /gazette/2004-5/weekly/111104/appts/entry_4.htm   (268 words)

  
 Golders Green College - Oxford Colleges International :: English Courses, Teacher Training Courses in the UK
Golders Green College and the School of English were established in 1941.
The College is famous world-wide for its policy of offering very reasonable fees together with terrific value for money; excellent teachers, many of whom are trained by us, and a great, safe location in which to study.
The College is opposite Golders Green Bus and Tube stations and the West End (centre) is only 15 minutes away by underground.
www.goldersgreen-college.co.uk /main.asp   (196 words)

  
 News
The new University of Oxford Green College Program for UIC Honors College Students announced in the last issue of the COD Alumni News enters its second year under the guidance of Dr. Donald A. Chambers, Center Director and Head of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at UIC.
In addition, Dr. Chambers has accepted the responsibility to be the Green College, Oxford representative in North America and in that capacity attended a gathering of North American Oxonians in New York in March.
In addition, Dr. Srilata Bagchi is serving on the College of Dentistry Human Subjects Research Committee and Dr. Carolyn Bruzdzinski presented an Oral Biology Seminar on “The Regulation and Role of Plasminogen Activation in Tissue Regeneration”.
www.uic.edu /depts/cmbod/news.htm   (936 words)

  
 Reuters Foundation
Fellows have the status of Visiting Scholars at Green College and enjoy access to Oxford University's facilities and resources.
The Programme will be part of the new Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism from September 2006.
Green College is a small, post-graduate college with spacious grounds grouped around the eighteenth century Radcliffe Observatory.
www.foundation.reuters.com /Fellowships/oxford.asp   (207 words)

  
 , director of the Reuters Foundation university fellowship programme at Green College, Oxford. A ... The Good List ...
Linzey argues that centuries of callous indifference to animals is rooted in Christianity and Judaism, and that modern secular attitudes have grown unknowingly from this philosophical base.
The 16-year-old Swindon schoolboy was sitting in a coffee shop in Oxford one day in January when an animal rights demo passed, demanding a halt to work on the university's new biomedical animal-research facility.
The Swiss academic, now living in Oxford since being banned from the US last year, has dedicated himself to work towards the creation of a new European style of Islam which is faithful to its religious principles but embraces intellectual culture.
www.sexualadvance.com /node/1655   (5181 words)

  
 Tax Reform Red Light and Green Light Taxes
Thus, green taxes are seen not as a necessary evil, but a positive instrument for good, in the idealistic spirit of Wm.
The pleasant green villages of Shorewood and Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin are upper-income Milwaukee suburbs that feature detached homes on tree-lined streets, with detached garages, laws against overnight curb parking, a number of lakeshore mansions with parklike grounds, ample public parks, good shopping, and a little industry.
The idea was, and is, to use "Green Light" taxes to intensify the use and settlement of good lands, thus to draw people back in from invading badlands and wilderness lands.
www.progress.org /cg/greenli.htm   (2642 words)

  
 OUP: Author Biographies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Jeffrey Aronson is Reader in Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Oxford, Honorary Consultant Physician and Consultant Clinical Pharmacologist in the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Trust, and a Fellow of Green College, Oxford.
He is an Examiner in the Fellowship of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of Edinburgh and Ireland and is currently an Examiner in the Intercollegiate Examination in Surgery.
He moved to Oxford in 1995 and is now Professor of Endocrinology at the University of Oxford and Consultant Physician at the Churchill Hospital and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford.
www.oup.co.uk /academic/medicine/handbooks/biogs   (5518 words)

  
 Green College : Oxford University Graduate Studies Prospectus 2007/08
Green College is a graduate college founded in 1979 in beautiful grounds which include the 18th century Radcliffe Observatory (now housing the dining hall, common room and library).
Single rooms are on the main college site or in shared houses in north Oxford (all within a 10 minute walk of college).
College facilities include conversation rooms, lecture theatre, specialised library service; computer, television, photographic, music rooms; bar, multigym, squash court, two all-weather tennis courts and croquet lawn.
www.admin.ox.ac.uk /postgraduate/colleges/gree.shtml   (487 words)

  
 Daphna Baram (biographical details)
She was a fellow of the Reuters Foundation Programme at Green College in Oxford (October 2002-April 2003) and then a Senior Associate Member of St Antony's College, Oxford (June 2003-April 2004) a period in which she wrote Disenchantment: The Guardian and Israel.
In the 1950s, her grandfather, Moshe Baram (1911-1986), was head of the Jerusalem Workers' Council; he also served as a cabinet minister in Yitzhak Rabin's first government.
this October 2004 debate in the Oxford Union where, with Avi Shlaim, she supported the proposition that "American Foreign Policy is the greatest threat to Israel's security" against Greville Janner (Lord Janner) and Benny Morris.
cosmos.ucc.ie /cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/php/authors.php?auid=2052   (265 words)

  
 The Center for Molecular Biology of Oral Diseases: UIC College of Dentistry
Center faculty work within the geographical confines of the Center on the fifth floor of the College of Dentistry building, while others stay within their departmental space using the Center as a resource for intellectual stimulation and collaboration.
In the mid 1990s, the Center's director hosted a conference celebrating the fortieth anniversary of the double helix, a meeting cosponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the Green College, Oxford University, England.
Center faculty collaborate on international research projects with scientists at Oxford University, the University of Graz, University of Vienna, University of Bern, Uppsala Biomedical Center, Uppsala University, and Nihon University, Tokyo.
dentistry.uic.edu /depts/cmbod   (390 words)

  
 Green College, Oxford - Southern England - UK Attraction
Green College is one of the graduate constituent colleges at the University of Oxford.
At the centre of the college is the Radcliffe Observatory, a late eighteenth Century Grade I listed building.
The college teaches a relatively small amount of subjects including medicine and the social sciences.
www.ukattraction.com /southern-england/green-college.htm   (182 words)

  
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Procedure The meeting (attended by all those listed at the beginning of the paper) was held at Green College, Oxford, on 23 March 1990, and chaired by Professor Anthony Clare.
M C Sharpe University Department of Psychiatry Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX Acknowledgments: The conveners wish to thank all the participants and Professor Anthony Clare for his chairmanship.
www.cfids-cab.org /cfs-inform/CFS.case.def/oxford.criteria91.txt   (2137 words)

  
 The Trinity Forum
David Cook is a Fellow of Green College, Oxford and the first Holmes Professor of Faith and Learning at Wheaton College.
He taught for six years at St. John’s College and the University of Nottingham and has been at Oxford since 1979 teaching medical ethics, philosophy, theology, and Christian ethics.
He is founding Director of the Whitefield Institute, Oxford, which funds and supports research in theology, ethics, and education and a Fellow at the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity.
www.ttf.org /index/about/cook   (255 words)

  
 Green College Oxford | 13 Norham Gardens
13 Norham Gardens was one of the finest houses in Oxford when Sir William Osler acquired it in 1907, two years after his appointment to the Regius Professorship of Medicine.
It thus became the home in Oxford of one of the greatest physicians in the history of medicine.
Generous contributions from friends close to Green College, including the McGovern Fund in Houston, Texas, Dr John P. McGovern himself and the Patrick Trust enabled Green College to purchase 13 Norham Gardens, undertake major internal refurbishment and equip and launch the Osler-McGovern Centre.
www.green.ox.ac.uk /index.php?id=65   (264 words)

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