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  Viktor Hamburger Biography | World of Genetics
Hamburger was educated at home by a private teacher until the age of nine, when he entered the gymnasium, graduating in 1918.
Hamburger, who is Jewish, expected to return to Germany in 1933, but he was notified by German colleagues that he should not return because of the political climate.
Hamburger theorized that there was some kind of communication between the limb and the spinal cord which triggered the production of motor neurons, but his conclusions were based on the principles of embryonic organization which he had learned in Spemann's laboratory.
www.bookrags.com /biography/viktor-hamburger-wog   (1244 words)

  
 Behind the arches: our writer takes a sneak peek into the training grounds of McDonald's franchisees: hamburger ...
Oh, sure, Hamburger University is a stunning campus, nestled in lush oak forests and situated next to a sunlight-dappled lake full of bass and carp, where Canada geese, mallards and teal ducks make their homes.
Inside the university lobby is a replica of founder Ray Kroc's office, and a mini-museum with a timeline of McDonald's history and its significant role in popular culture.
Hamburger University is located on the grounds of the McDonald's headquarters in the affluent and peaceful suburb of Oak Brook, Illinois.
findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0DTI/is_1_34/ai_n15980697   (984 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Hamburger University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census.
Before 1990, it had become accepted fact that the cause of cardiovascular disease was "lesions" (areas of injured tissue) of the coronary and brain artery walls and "plaques" (sticky masses) of "LDL cholesterol" which accumulated there.
But Rath and his collegues at Hamburg University had found that the plaques were not LDL cholesterol but were made from a similar cholesterol-based protein called lipoprotein(a).
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Hamburger-University   (525 words)

  
 Hamburger University - Forbes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Universities, hurting for funds and overwhelmed with waves of new students, face budget crunches all around.
One ACC signature complex is the Vista del Campos Apartments at the University of California, Irvine.
Follett is a quieter operation, seamlessly blending in with the university bookstore.
www.forbes.com /careers/2006/09/14/college-university-outsourcing-lead-careers-cx_ds_college06_0914burger.html   (1223 words)

  
 History of Education: Selected Moments
Hamburger University was designed exclusively to instruct personnel employed by McDonald's Corporation or by McDonald's Independent Franchisees in the various aspects of the business and operations of McDonald's.
The corporate university is most easily defined as an "educational division that functions as the strategic umbrella for a company's total educational requirements for all its employees" (Meister, 1998).
As the popularity of the corporate university continues to explode, and there is more overlap between the philosophies found in the corporate and academic settings, it is unclear whether the corporate education programs are friend or foe to the traditional university.
fcis.oise.utoronto.ca /~daniel_schugurensky/assignment1/1961mcdonalds.html   (1080 words)

  
 Harvard Gazette: A talent for serendipity
Hamburger found that while there are relatively few extant texts from that period that have anything to say about what people felt while looking at an illuminated manuscript or a stained glass window, there are many discussions of imagery in the medieval literature of female monasticism.
Hamburger believes that "The Rothschild Canticles" was created for a wealthy, high-born woman with a sophisticated understanding of mystical theology and visionary experience.
Hamburger hopes that by presenting a complete cross-section of works in various media from the eighth through the 15th centuries, the exhibition will draw other scholars into the discourse.
www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2001/02.08/03-hamburger.html   (1239 words)

  
 CNN.com - China awarded hamburger diplomas - February 3, 2002
The McDonald's Hong Kong university is the food firm's seventh hamburger campus in the world and is designed exclusively to train its personnel on the basics of McDonald's operations.
McDonald’s opens its seventh university to train employees for its expansion in China where the economy is growing rapidly.
The McDonald's university boasts to be able to effectively teach their personnel the basics of McDonald's operations.
edition.cnn.com /2002/BUSINESS/asia/02/01/hk.mcdonalds   (288 words)

  
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The aim of these universities is to increase employee productivity and performance. Motorola is the largest of the corporate universities, with 400 full-time faculty, 800 part-time teachers in 19 countries and over 100,000 students a year, one in five of whom are from other companies.
A 1999 survey of corporate universities found that more than 50 percent of corporate universities surveyed worldwide were planning to use existing or future partnerships with accredited universities to enable them to be able to grant degrees in the fields of business/management, engineering/technical, computer science and finance/accounting.
For universities, they bring in large amounts of revenue. This revenue has become important to universities, particularly government funded universities which have had their funding cut over the last few years in the US and Australia.
www.aph.gov.au /senate/Committee/EET_CTTE/completed_inquiries/1999-02/public_uni/submissions/sub075.doc   (1779 words)

  
 Michael Hamburger
After his return to civilian life, Hamburger set out as a freelance writer, but after marriage in 1951, and the arrival of children, he was obliged to take up an Assistant Lectureship in German at University College, London.
Hamburger's indefatigable work as a translator pioneered a greater understanding of German literature in the anglophone world, and did so at an inauspicious historical moment.
Initially, Hamburger's work presents us with a paradox: a thoroughly European, even cosmopolitan sensibility who is at the same time a nature poet of thoroughly English stamp.
www.interviews-with-poets.com /michael-hamburger/hamburger-note.html   (591 words)

  
 2005 Build a Better Burger | Rules   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Hamburg cooks experimented with variations on the Russian dish, but their broiled version of beef cooked with onions became the favorite preparation.
The New York Tribune reported that the new sandwich was "the innovation of a food vendor on the pike (midway)." McDonald's research center, Hamburger University, concluded that an anonymous food vendor at the fair was the first to introduce the sandwich to the public.
Hamburger Heaven opened on East 51st Street in New York City and became a favorite hangout of the rich and famous, who were fans of the prime beef burgers and the one-person booths.
www.buildabetterburger.com /timeline.html   (1632 words)

  
 Nuns as Artists: The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent by Dyan Elliott   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Jeffrey Hamburger's Nuns as Artists recreates the context and meaning for a dazzling set of little-known devotional drawings produced in the German Benedictine convent of St Walsburg around 1500.
Hamburger explicates this anomalous imagery by analysing the rose both as a symbol of private prayer (witness the rosary) and as a zone of symbolic contradictions (pain, pleasure, love, suffering, sexuality, spirituality).
Moreover, Hamburger's sensitive exploration of the calculated way images were intended to shape private prayer points to the continuum between ordinary female piety and the extraordinary experiences of the mystic.
www.utpjournals.com /product/utq/691/artists47.html   (704 words)

  
 Hamburger University is McDonald   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Hamburger University is McDonald's worldwide management training center located in Oak Brook, Illinois.
Founded in 1961, Hamburger University's has come a long way since we opened our first training facility in the basement of a McDonald's restaurant in Elk Grove Village, Illinois.
Since that time we've moved Hamburger University twice and watched the size of classes grow from an average size of about 10 to more than 200 per class.
www.1bigmac.com /hamburgeru.htm   (189 words)

  
 Hamburger.html
The recipient of a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1932, Professor Hamburger came to the United States to study at the University of Chicago with Dr. Frank R. Lillie.
Dr. Hamburger is known for his pioneering work in experimental embryology, neuroembryology and the study of programmed cell death, and his work on NGF with Rita Levi-Montalcine and Stanley Cohen.
Professor Hamburger was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, as well as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Sigma Xi and Phi Beta Kappa.
thalamus.wustl.edu /neuroweb/events/Hamburger.html   (225 words)

  
 New Engineer: Corporate Universities
Its 'university' has 400 full-time faculty, 800 part-time teachers in 19 countries and over 100,000 students a year, one in five of whom are from other companies.
This virtual university (without a campus or buildings) was launched in 1998 and involves partnerships with established universities such as Oxford and Cambridge.
Melbourne University Private will be relying on the reputation for academic excellence of Melbourne University to ensure its degrees and certificates are of value: "The quality and integrity of the Melbourne brand is one of our greatest assets".
www.uow.edu.au /arts/sts/sbeder/columns/engcol21.html   (734 words)

  
 The Better Burger Battle
The lack of mention of the invention of the hamburger in the "official" histories of some of these communities is consistent; all the evidence seems to come from interviews long after the event.
The festival in Hamburg, NY, began in 1985 (the alleged 100th anniversary) and has been held since but is down to one day from three and the descendants of the Menches brothers, who still operate a restaurant in Union, OH, will not be at the 1997 festival for the first time.
The hamburger is truly a national sandwich and has its national expression through the two large national franchise chains of MacDonald's and Burger King with thousands of outlets that cover the nation and are expanding internationally.
www.geography.ccsu.edu /harmonj/atlas/burgers.html   (3623 words)

  
 Corporate views of university
The second impetus behind the growth of corporate universities is the realisation that developing people is key to future survival; something which is too important to be delegated to an external organisation.
Hamburger University, located in Oak Brook, Illinois, may not, in the eyes of some, have a great deal of academic credibility, but it is celebrating its 35th anniversary and boasts over 50,000 graduates.
Mention graduating from Hamburger University in McDonald’s and people are impressed; mention it elsewhere and they are still likely to struggle to keep a straight face.
www.managementskills.co.uk /articles/univer.htm   (1201 words)

  
 The Big Apple: Hamburger & Fletcher Davis of Athens, TX ("Original Home of the Hamburger”?)
WHEREAS, A century after the hamburger debuted on the national stage, it has become one of the best-loved foods in America; its economic impact is no less evident than its popularity: the immense volume of the burger business helps to drive the beef and grain industries and supports the employment of a substantial workforce; and
The sandwich was described as the classic greasy hamburger except that it was served with just-out-of-the-oven slices of home-baked bread rather than on a round bun.
And Hamburger University’s conclusion is that an anonymous food vendor at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair was the first to introduce the sandwich to the public and was probably the innovator.
www.barrypopik.com /index.php/new_york_city/entry/hamburger_fletcher_davis_of_athens_tx_original_home_of_the_hamburger   (2088 words)

  
 FT December 2002: Separation of Church and State   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
As University of Chicago law professor Philip Hamburger ably demonstrates in Separation of Church and State, the matter is actually far less benign than the picture the University of Virginia graduates were given.
Hamburger carefully dissects founding-era debates concerning various religious matters, such as clerical eligibility for government office.
Hamburger’s answer is as compelling as it is chilling: anti-Catholic bigotry is what drove the triumph of separation.
www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft0212/reviews/smith.html   (2049 words)

  
 Epic Group plc - blended learning and knowledge solutions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Following on from this, a distinction was made between the elitist and the aspirational, with the use of the term 'corporate university' promoting an approach that embraces the diverse aspirations of individuals within a common system very much in the US mould.
A corporate university that truly embraces this ideal can in theory be a very powerful force within an organisation, signalling by its very existence a greater value given to the individual aspirations of its workforce - and by extension, to learning in general.
The founding of a corporate university is symbolic of a new era, and helps to spread a different perception of what the learning is for, and the value it can have not just for the organisation but for the individual.
www.epic.co.uk /epicinternet/content/resources/epic_think_tanks/corp_uni_tank3.htm   (1006 words)

  
 Zoe Newsbrief - Zoe Training and Consulting Resources, Inc.
Corporate universities are usually chartered to implement corporate strategy, using the tools of applied research, internal and external communication, and targeted workforce development.
Sun University, for example, is primarily "virtual." By contrast, Motorola University is geographic and multi-sited, with nearly 30 physical locations around the world including Mexico City, Moscow, Cairo, Bangalore, Shanghai, Sao Paulo, Kuala Lumpur, and Tianjin, China; the flagship university is at corporate headquarters in Schaumburg, Illinois.
Universities are usually costs centers, sometimes supplemented by profit sub-centers that might include event planning, sales of training or other programs, seminars, or publishing.
www.zoetraining.com /newsletters/newsfall2000.htm   (2216 words)

  
 JS Online: Burger U. exhibit is one big Happy Meal
I was walking through Heritage Hall at Hamburger University when I saw the display case for the original Ronald McDonald suit was empty.
In related news, Hamburger University announced the addition of a new class in accounting.
Hamburger University is located on a corporate campus in west suburban Chicago that also includes the McDonald's corporate headquarters and a McStore gift shop.
www.jsonline.com /dd/destmid/feb03/115110.asp   (946 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Hamburger, H. and Lodgher, A. (1992) Semantically constrained exploration and heuristic guidance.
He was an assistant professor and a tenured associate professor in the cognitive sciences at the University of California, Irvine.
Hamburger has published over 50 scientific papers on intelligent tutoring systems, natural language processing, expert systems, theoretical and empirical studies of language acquisition and game theory and its applications, as well as two books on models: on game-theoretic models in the social sciences and on logic and language for computer science.
cs.gmu.edu /faculty/hamburger.html   (805 words)

  
 Hamburger University - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Hamburger University - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Hamburger University contains research on
Hamburger University, Fast facts about Hamburger University and McDonald's.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Hamburger_University   (229 words)

  
 athenstx.org - Content   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The sandwich was described as the classic greasy hamburger except that it was served with just-out-of-the-oven slices of home-baked bread rather than on a round bun.
And Kenneth Lassen complained that “the birthplace of the American hamburger, a tiny restaurant called Louis Lunch, was in danger of being replaced by a twelve-story medical complex.
He would cook hamburgers at picnics but he never reopened his little hamburger joint on the north side of the courthouse square,” said Kindree Miller.
www.athenstx.org /modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=15&page=3   (1636 words)

  
 Intercultural Communications -- Miller
It was a very daring move to take a renowned hamburger joint into a country that views the cow as a sacred animal.
The Hamburger Universities were designed to instruct personnel employed by the McDonald's Corporation or by McDonald's Independent Franchisees in the various aspects of the business and operations of McDonald's.
Today, Hamburger University is located in a 130,000 square foot, state-of-the-art facility on the McDonald's Home Office Campus in Oak Brook, Illinois.
www.wanderinglearner.com /ic/icPeer/Miller/ic2.html   (2251 words)

  
 Training & Hamburger University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Hamburger University is the worldwide management training center for both McDonald's company employees and employees of McDonald's Independent Franchisee organizations.
Forty years and 65,000 graduates into the program, Hamburger U has proven to be everything we imagined – and everything you need to be successful.
Hamburger University is located at 2715 Jorie Blvd., Oak Brook, IL, 60523.
www.mcdonalds.com /usa/work/m_careers/training.html   (423 words)

  
 Training and Development   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
I started at the University of Pittsburgh with a dual major in Interpersonal Communication Theory and Creative Writing (poetry), but since they'd just invented the dual major it wasn't working so well and I managed to transfer to The Ohio State University's Communication Department (which was then in the School of Social Sciences).
Most corporate universities have consolidated all of the training functions that previously existed as separate entities: Technical Training, Software or Data Training, Executive or Management Development, etc. They are "universities" because they incorporate all of the disciplines required by the organization as a whole.
I feel somewhat naive, but I had never heard of the "corporate university" (does that exist here in Canada, or does it come by another moniker?) although I had a gut feeling that there must be a place for someone like me as a "trainer", or facilitator with my qualifications.
www.woodrow.org /phd/WRK4US/WRK4US_Discussion_Index/training_and_development.html   (12785 words)

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