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History (from Detroit) --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia Detroit dominated the cultural life of early Michigan, and the multifaceted backgrounds of its population gave it a cosmopolitan atmosphere. History is a science—a branch of knowledge that uses specific methods and tools to achieve its goals. This chance discovery was one of the great events in the history of the world. www.britannica.com /ebi/article-199563?ct=   (842 words)

Reuther Michael Smith CV Lectured on Detroit and Automotive History, and the state of the automotive industry in Detroit. This grant also provided funding for the video documentary, "Forjando una Comunidad: A History of Mexicans in Detroit." Detroit and the Automobile Age, National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminar for Teachers, Madonna College, Livonia, Michigan, June 1999. www.reuther.wayne.edu /staff/mosmith.html   (1931 words)

Carl Owens, African-American artist He was recipient of the 1983 Creative Artists grant from the Michigan Council of the Arts. Carl Owens has exhibited in numerous galleries both nationally and internationally and his art is in the collections of the governments of Zimbabwe, Egypt, Grenada and Zambia. Carl Owens and his art have been featured in a wide range of local and national publications including: The National Leader, Ebony, Essence, New York Society of Illustrators Annual, Art Director, Balalian News, News-week and U.S.A. today. brianowensart.com /article2.html   (1059 words)

University of Michigan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute is located at the university, and huge support was recently given to the life sciences with the establishment of the Life Sciences Institute and the construction of associated facilities. The University of Michigan was one of the nation's first public universities, established in 1817 by the Michigan Territorial legislature on 1,920 acres (776 hectares) ceded through the Treaty of Fort Meigs by the Chippewa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi peoples. Michigan Stadium ("The Big House"), is the largest college football-only stadium in the world, with a capacity of 107,501 and attendance typically exceeding 110,000. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/University_of_Michigan   (4081 words)

Furman University History Department But at the university his heart was always in the classroom where he taught generation after generation the lessons of Southern history and preached to them his own creed of leaving the world a better place than they had found it. Russ Meritt '93 is teaching AP history at the Hammond School in Columbia, S.C. Erin Snyder Shelor '92 is working on her Ph.D. in history at the University of Kentucky. He was increasingly called on for committee service, and in 1968 he became chair of the history department and eventually was elected by his colleagues as chair of the faculty. history.furman.edu /newsletters/1997.htm   (4756 words)

UM-SSW: History of the University of Michigan School of Social Work The University of Michigan School of Social Work began as an undergraduate "curriculum in social work" as part of the BA degree offered in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts in 1921. In 1935, the University created an institute in the City of Detroit offering a graduate program in social work, where a one-year program leading to a master's degree remained until 1951, when the program was reestablished on the Ann Arbor campus as the School of Social Work. The School's intellectual leadership and history of collaboration are best illustrated in its Joint Doctoral Program in Social Work and Social Sciences, the foundations of which were established in 1953, with an interdisciplinary seminar on the research basis for welfare practice, funded by the Russell Sage Foundation. www.ssw.umich.edu /ongoing/fall2001/umhistory.html   (338 words)

:::JUAN COLE:::Political Figure, Professor of History at the University of Michigan, Juan Cole::: At the University of Michigan, I teach courses on the modern history of the Middle East and on South Asia. Juan R. Cole is Professor of Modern Middle East and South Asian History at the History Department of the University of Michigan. 1984-1990 Assistant Professor of History, University of Michigan www.juancole.org   (864 words)

Howard H. Peckham: The Making of The University of Michigan 1817-1992, University of Michigan Press Margaret and Nicholas Steneck are historians at the University of Michigan who currently teach a large and popular undergraduate lecture course on the history of the University of Michigan. Howard Peckham's history of the University of Michigan was published in 1967 to help celebrate the University's 150th anniversary. At the end of the twentieth century, the University of Michigan continues to rank among the nation's leading universities, setting the standard for higher education in the twenty-first century. www.press.umich.edu /titleDetailDesc.do?id=10504   (209 words)

University of Michigan Flint The history of the University of Michigan-Flint began in 1944, when the Flint Board of Education requested that a University of Michigan Extension Office open in Flint. Cooperation between the community and the University of Michigan brought about the opening of a two-year senior college (located on the land now occupied by Mott Community College) in 1956, which offered baccalaureate degree programs in the liberal arts and sciences and in the professional fields of education and business administration. That same year, University of Michigan President Robben Fleming appointed the first Chancellor of the University of Michigan-Flint, William E. Moran. www.flint.umich.edu /resources/history.php   (677 words)

Campus Information Centers - History of The University of Michigan The University of Michigan's size, complexity and academic strength, its impressive array of resources and opportunities, the quality of its faculty and research institutes---all these elements contribute to the rich environment where students learn and challenge themselves as they come into contact with people, cultures and ideas from all over the world. The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as one of the first public universities in the nation. The University of Michigan boasts of one of the largest health care complexes in the world, the best university library system in the country, and the some of the best computer access for students and faculty of any campus in the world. www.umich.edu /~info/aboutum.html   (804 words)

University of Michigan-Dearborn - Home Page The University of Michigan–Dearborn • 4901 Evergreen Road • Dearborn, Michigan 48128 • www.umd.umich.edu   (13 words)

Find in a Library: History of the University of Michigan. Find in a Library: History of the University of Michigan. WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries. To find a library, type in a postal code, state, province, or country. www.worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/0fa45d5329f57f6c.html   (39 words)

The History of the University of Michigan Observatories From 1852 to the present, the University of Michigan has operated a number of observatories (some in Ann Arbor and others in various parts of the world including South Africa and Chile). Monday, July 4, 2005 4:54 PM This web server is provided by the University of Michigan; the University of Michigan does not permit profit making activity on this web server. For most of that history amateurs have played an important role in the development of these observatories. www.umich.edu /~lowbrows/history   (241 words)

THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN'S RAILROAD The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Campus, operated a railroad from 1915 until 1969. It is a close-up of the Seal on the Cab, clearly indicating that it is the University of Michigan's engine. The New York Central / Michigan Central Railroad ran East-West through Ann Arbor, just North of the Hospital complex and on the South side of the Huron River. members.bellatlantic.net /~vze3p8dp   (3871 words)

UM Detroit Observatory History Learn about the early history of the University of Michigan Detroit Observatory and the people and instruments that made it unique. Tappan was the first President of the University of Michigan, inaugurated in 1852. The Regents of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 www.detroitobservatory.umich.edu /newHistory.html   (745 words)

Michigan State University MSU West Michigan Medical School 'proof of concept'... © 2005 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. Granholm declares November Return to Learn Month in Michigan www.msu.edu   (81 words)

EMU Academic Programs Abroad Eastern Michigan University offers a variety of study abroad programs including travel and study tours, direct exchanges, intensive language and winter break programs. Most programs are open to students from any college or university. We also provide advising and information about study abroad opportunities available through other universities, work or volunteer opportunities abroad and budget travel. www.emich.edu /abroad   (215 words)

University of Michigan Nursing History Society Background: Formed in 1983 with the purpose of engaging in activities directed toward the preservation of the history of nursing at the University of Michigan. 1988, collected respecting nursing history, including class notes, nursing manuals, oral history tapes, and photographs. www.si.umich.edu /HCHS/HCHS-GUIDE/hchs.source1296.html   (55 words)

WWW-VL Medieval Europe The Michigan State University Graduate Student Medieval and Renaissance Consortium, under the sponsorship of ORB, for The World Wide Web Virtual Library History Section. Cambridge History of English Literature: The End of the Middle Ages (Vol. The Maid of Orléans - Cover Page: April '98 Military History Feature www.msu.edu /~georgem1/history/medieval.htm   (891 words)

University of Michigan, Department of History Background: Research papers prepared for classes in history at the University of Michigan, primarily Michigan history class taught by Lewis G. Vander Velde, but also including papers for classes taught by Sidney Fine, Robert Warner, and others. Summary: Topics of papers concern Michigan social and political history; Michigan biography and bibliography; and local community history. www.si.umich.edu /HCHS/HCHS-GUIDE/hchs.source1307.html   (55 words)

Department of History - University Of South Carolina She is also speaking at an American Historical Association Wingspread Conference in Wisconsin on “Competencies and Credentials in the Training of History Professionals” and participating in a panel discussion at the National Archives during the celebration of its 20th anniversary as an independent agency. From Genoa, where she is the Fulbright Senior Lecturer in American History, Connie Schulz writes that she has given lectures in the American Studies Programs at the University of Catania, (Ragusa Branch) in Sicily, and the University of Leipzig in Germany. Bakke to the University of Michigan Cases," in the Cornell Law Review, Symposium issue on "Revisiting Brown v. www.cas.sc.edu /hist/Newsletter.html   (2408 words)

History Department at the University of Arkansas Professor Gordon received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Michigan in 1987. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ph.D. American University in Cairo, Egypt (Center for Arabic Study Abroad), 1982-83 He joined the University of Arkansas in 1999. www.uark.edu /depts/histinfo/history/gordon/gordon.html   (459 words)

Department of History University of Victoria After graduating in 2000, I spent a year at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) as a postdoctoral fellow and visiting assistant professor. New opportunities for travel enabled me to work as a researcher in Australia in 1993-94, but I quickly grew tired of the hot weather there, and in 1995 I ended up in snowy Edmonton as a doctoral student in Russian and East European history at the University of Alberta. Finally, in 2001 I was thrilled to return to Canada to take up a permanent teaching job at the University of Victoria, located in a city where the weather is neither too hot nor too cold. web.uvic.ca /history/aboutus/faculty/yekelchyk.html   (806 words)

Yale University History of Art Department He has been a Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Rome (1951-52), a Kress fellow at the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence (1967-68), and a fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (1972-73). Professor Gilbert has taught at Emory University, the University of Louisville, Indiana University, Brandeis University, CUNY, and Cornell, and has been on the faculty at Yale since 1981. Professor Gilbert has been visiting professor at the University of Leiden (1974-75), Williams College (1976), and Hebrew University (1985). www.yale.edu /arthistory/faculty/page/gilbertpage.html   (5947 words)

University of Michigan Black History Month Monday February 2, 7:00 pm, Michigan Union Pond Room Presented by Ahmad Rahman, Ph.D. candidate in History Amistad: Facts and Fiction, Dr. Patrick Pieh, Wednesday February 4, 12:00 pm Michigan Union, Pendleton Room www-personal.umich.edu /~kparks/University_of_Michigan_Bla.html   (123 words)

MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY CASE HISTORY The J. Robert Van Pelt Library at Michigan Technological University was seeking a means to obtain better bibliographic control over its documents records and streamline processing. "Records are added to the database in a timely manner."--Sherry Engle, Government Documents Project Librarian, Michigan Technological University Before deciding to subscribe to Shipping List Service (SLS), the Documents Librarian contacted other MARCIVE libraries, Kansas State University and Montana State University, Billings. www.marcive.com /HOMEPAGE/casemitu.htm   (858 words)

Twenty-Five Lectures on Modern Balkan History Lecture No. 1: Introduction to the course: The geography and ethnic geography of the Balkans to 1500 Lecture No. 2: "Asia begins at the Landstrasse:" Comparing Eastern European and European histories www.lib.msu.edu /sowards/balkan   (465 words)

Professor of Modern Middle East History at the University of Michigan, discusses the Iraqi elections and the participation of the Shiites and other political factions. Professor of Modern Middle East History at the University of Michigan, discusses the Iraqi elections and the participation of the Shiites and other political factions. Juan Cole, Professor of Modern Middle East History at the University of Michigan, discusses the Iraqi elections and the participation of the Shiites and other political factions. Information Clearing House has no affiliation whatsoever with the originator of this article nor is Information Clearing House endorsed or sponsored by the originator.) www.informationclearinghouse.info /article7949.htm   (108 words)

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