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  University of New England, Maine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The University of New England is an independent, coeducational university with two distinctive campuses in two Maine coastal cities.
U.S. News and World Report has recognized UNE as one of the best regional universities in the Northeastern United States, has ranked the Physician Assistant Program among the top 25 in the nation, and has recognized the College of Osteopathic Medicine for educational excellence in primary care, geriatrics and rural medicine.
By 1961, the College was solely a four-year post-secondary institution, and in 1966, it was fully accredited by the New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/University_of_New_England,_Maine   (1909 words)

  
 University of New England, Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The University of New England (UNE) was originally formed in 1938 as the New England University College, a College of the University of Sydney.
In 2003, UNE became Australia's longest continuous provider of distance education and, with more than 12,000 external students, is still one of Australia's major providers of awards to off-campus students.
Founded by Wade McInerney in 1999, the University of New England Liberal Club (UNELC) is one of the most controversial and high-profile liberal clubs in Australia.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/University_of_New_England,_Australia   (754 words)

  
 University of New England - The New England Instute - Fellows_2
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of California at Davis.
George P. Lakoff, Ph.D., is professor of cognitive linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley.
He is co-founder and associate director of The New England Institute of Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Psychology, and serves as advisor to the dean for faculty research and scholarship.
www.une.edu /nei/fellows2.asp   (5001 words)

  
 Management--The New England Model in Theory and Practice
The University of New England (UNE) began in 1938 as a college of the University of Sydney, becoming an autonomous, degree-granting institution in 1954.
At New England the foundation Vice-Chancellor was Dr. R.B. (later Sir Robert) Madgwick, previously Director of Army Education and a man with a long-standing interest in adult and continuing education.
Universities differ in the extent to which they have encouraged this development, but it is generally true to say that academic staff have been slow to accept resource-based teaching as a satisfactory alternative to lecturing.
www1.worldbank.org /disted/Management/Governance/dual-02.html   (5514 words)

  
 Public Justification
Considering matters from the point of view of the universalizing conception, a regime might be legitimate, for an individual, for the reason that it fairly advances the interests of all as seen from that individual's point of view.
On the other hand, the universalizing conception suggests a discourse between the parties in search of an ideal that each can endorse as a public ideal for the community of which they are members.
The grounding principles for utilitarianism are clearly universalizing in the Barry/Gauthier sense: e.g.
plato.stanford.edu /entries/justification-public   (3354 words)

  
 iParliament :: Marise Payne :: Speeches :: University of New England Golden Jubilee Congratulations
The university itself was originally formed in 1938 and was then known as the New England University College, a college of the University of Sydney.
When we are talking about universities, people often turn to the alumni as a point of reference to determine what sort of past a university might have achieved and perhaps what sort of future a university might achieve.
In fact I asked a friend of mine who is studying there at the moment, a local of the New England area, and she spoke particularly eloquently of the opportunities that the university offers her as a parttime worker, as a mother of three and also as a student of UNE.
www.iparliament.com.au /speech.asp?id=33   (1040 words)

  
 SoS 1997 - Computer-assisted teaching in soil science   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
A basic knowledge of soils is increasingly being required by university students from a variety of backgrounds who are training for a range of professions.
Educational research suggests that multimedia programs could be of value in more effectively teaching the concepts and processes of fundamental soil science to such students because of the medium's combination of interactivity and dynamic visual information with text.
At the University of New England, Australia, one such multimedia program (called "Oz Soils") is being developed, and this article reports the results of an evaluation of the program by means of student questionnaires.
www.hintze-online.com /sos/1997/Articles/Art5   (275 words)

  
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Susan Epperson is the plaintiff of the Epperson vs. Arkansas 1968 Supreme Court decision, which overturned laws preventing the teaching of evolution in public schools and universities, including the law that surrounded the Scopes trial in 1925.
After obtaining a master’s degree in zoology from the University of Illinois, she returned to Arkansas in 1964 to teach 10th grade biology in the Little Rock school system.
The textbook that she was supposed to instruct from included a chapter on evolution that was illegal for her to teach.
www.alaska.edu /litc/WednesdaySched.htm   (280 words)

  
 Study Abroad with The University of New England   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
Founded in 1954, UNE was the first Australian university established outside a capital city.
The University of New England has four faculties: Arts; Economics, Business and Law; Education, Health and Professional Studies; and The Sciences.
So, if you are looking for a university that combines the highest academic standards and industry-valued qualifications with an action packed lifestyle and flexible modes of learning, then UNE is a smart choice.
www.hyperstudy.com /study_abroad/une_study_in_australia   (386 words)

  
 Soren Kierkegaard [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
Authorship was both a demonic temptation and a means of self-justification as an exception to the universal demands of society’s ethics.
Marriage is a trope for the universal claims of civic duty.
But he was precipitated into a full frontal attack when the new Bishop Primate, H.L. Martensen, Kierkegaard’s old rival, publicly described the late Mynster as "a witness to the truth." Kierkegaard had respected Mynster as a pastor and a man, but found his administration of the church wanting.
www.iep.utm.edu /k/kierkega.htm   (11257 words)

  
 Chickens orient using a magnetic compass
In the new work, researchers including Rafael Freire from the University of New England (Australia), Wolfgang Wiltschko and Roswitha Wiltschko from the University of Frankfurt, Germany, and Ursula Munro from the University of Technology in Sydney, demonstrated for the first time that birds could be trained to respond to a magnetic direction.
The researchers trained domestic chicks to find an object that was associated with imprinting and was behind one of four screens placed in the corners of a square apparatus, and, crucially, showed that the chicks' direction of movement during searching for the hidden imprinting stimulus was influenced by shifting the magnetic field.
The researchers include Rafael Freire and Lesley J. Rogers of the University of New England in Armidale, NSW, Australia; Ursula H. Munro of the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia; and Roswitha Wiltschko and Wolfgang Wiltschko of the Zoologisches Institut der J.W.Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt Main, Germany.
www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2005-08/cp-cou081705.php   (448 words)

  
 Excellence Australia - Nursing - Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
The University of New England (UNE) is situated in the city of Armidale in Northern New South Wales, Australia.
Armidale is a true university town and UNE is the oldest regional university in Australia.
It was the first university in Australia to conduct nursing education programs.
www.idp.com /excellenceaustralia/nursing/courses/article29.asp   (293 words)

  
 Events at New Mexico State University, April 9-18
New Mexico State University will present a reading by fiction writer Helena Maria Viramontes and NMSU master’s of fine arts fiction student Jill Stukenberg at 7:30 p.m.
Gorman is a professor at the University of New England in Australia and is a member of the World Archaeological Congress Task Force on Space Heritage.
New Mexico State University’s Symphonic Winds Chamber Ensembles will present a collage concert of music with the gems of chamber ensemble literature at 3 p.m.
www.nmsu.edu /~ucomm/Releases/2004/April/apr9_18.html   (704 words)

  
 Law Schools in Australia and New Zealand
IDP recruits for all 39 universities in Australia and is the largest recruiter of international students to Australian institutions.
Murdoch University was founded as a research-based university in 1973, and is a rapidly growing university with over 9,000 students, 7% of whom are undertaking higher degrees by research (80% of whom are PhD students).
The University involves itself both in the teaching of its students and in fostering research activity by staff and postgraduate students.
www.gradschools.com /listings/australia/law_australia.html   (1656 words)

  
 Faculty & Staff: Catsalis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
Graduate Diplomas in Education (University of New England, Australia), 1992, and in Operatic Studies (Sydney Conservatorium of Music), 1993.
In 1990 she attended the International Summer School in Bergamo, Italy, on scholarship, and was chosen as soloist with the Orchestra Stabile di Bergamo for three concert engagements in Northern Italy, playing Shostakovich's 1st piano concerto.
In 1998 she completed a Master of Music (Honours) at the University of New England, specializing in Italian baroque vocal music, after having researched and studied harpsichord in Italy, with the help of a scholarship from the Frederick May Foundation.
www.nccu.edu /artsci/music/Faculty/Faculty_Catsalis.html   (467 words)

  
 winter 2006
His research has taken him from the arid centre of Australia to the coast, China, Japan, Africa, India and Indonesia, and museum collections in many parts of the world.
Peter was fortunate to gain a tenured lectureship at the University of New England in 1981, and has developed undergraduate courses in Human Evolution, Forensic Anthropology and Palaeoanthropology.
In 2002-2003 he was the International research Professor at Tohoku University Medical School in Japan, and is now Professorial Fellow in Palaeoanthropology at the UNE.
darkwing.uoregon.edu /~humanctr/brown.htm   (235 words)

  
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The new buildings provided by UNE complement existing infrastructure to create a comprehensive and integrated set of facilities for teaching and research.
It is the only teaching/research complex of this nature based at an educational institution in Australia, and provies the Department of Animal Science and Beef CRC with a unique opportunity to make a major contribution to the meat industries.
The University has a number of properties adjacent to the main campus for commercial scale grazing experiments with sheep and cattle as well as housing for poultry.
ansc.une.edu.au /lii   (473 words)

  
 Andrea C. Schalley - CV
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Cognitive Linguistics, University of New England
Conceptualising Communication (workshop co-sponsored by the ARC Network in Human Communication Science and the Language and Cognition Research Centre), to be held at the University of New England, Australia, December 2005
Founder and organiser of the Colloquium Philologicum, University of Munich, 2002-2003
www-personal.une.edu.au /~aschalle/cv.html   (1014 words)

  
 PacSLRF 2001 - Siegel Plenary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
Understanding and explaining these results is also an important issue for SLA research and I conclude by providing some tentative explanations and suggestions for further research.
For the past 16 years, he has been teaching linguistics at the University of the South Pacific and at the University of New England (Australia), where he is currently Associate Professor.
His recent research has focussed on the role of processes of second language acquisition in the development of pidgins, creoles and other language contact varieties and on the use of these varieties and minority dialects in education.
www.lll.hawaii.edu /pacslrf/siegel.html   (359 words)

  
 Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Change Web page - John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Climates of the Southern Continents fills a significant gap in the climatological literature: comprehensive assessment of the climates of the southern hemisphere.
It is the first book of its type to provide a consolidated view of the climates of southern Africa, Australia, South America and Antarctica, addressing past and future climates as well as those of the present.
Present climates are considered in the first part of the book, to provide a background against which past and future climates can be investigated.
www.wiley.com /legacy/wileychi/egec/hobbs.html   (250 words)

  
 Butler University - About Butler - Campus News
Two science lecturers will speak at Butler University this fall as part of the J. James Woods Lectures in the Sciences and Mathematics Series for 2005—06.
The events are free and open to the public and are held in the Atherton Union Reilly Room at 7:30 p.m.
Monday, Sept. 26 — Peter Brown, associate professor of archeology and paleoanthropology, University of New England, Australia.
www.butler.edu /about/abo_news_story.asp?strBack=/default.asp&iNewsID=742   (293 words)

  
 University English Centres Australia - University of New England
University English Centres Australia - University of New England
The Language Training Centre (LTC) is located in a grand, heritage building, in a peaceful, garden setting, near the centre of Armidale, Armidale is a unique educational centre in Australia - a college town and a centre for elite, private secondary schools.
Experience a regional city, living among typical Australians • Small classes with tuition tailored to individual needs • highly-qualified teachers, modern teaching materials and methods • free email and University Library access • competitive fees • students from all over the world • IELTS Administration Centre (tests administered regularly.
www.ueca.com.au /3centres/act_nsw/UNE.htm   (100 words)

  
 NEW FACULTY APPOINTED TO DAIRY AND ANIMAL SCIENCES DEPARTMENT
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences has announced the recent appointment of Peter R. Tozer to the position of assistant professor of animal science in the Department of Dairy and Animal Science.
Tozer, a native of New South Wales in Australia, comes to the department with a doctorate in agricultural economics from the University of Washington.
aginfo.psu.edu /News/november98/tozer.html   (323 words)

  
 Shafston - Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
The original Kangaroo Point Campus, which is centred on “Shafston House” a heritage-listed building constructed in 1851 - is located on the banks of the beautiful Brisbane River and covers an area of five-acres.
The new purpose-built City Campus is five minutes away in Brisbane’s central business district.
Pathways have been established with Griffith University to give successful students a guaranteed entry to degree studies, often with a full year of academic credit.
www.shafston.edu   (548 words)

  
 Cedar Lodge Motel Armidale NSW Australia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
We are conveniently situated in the centre of town next to Central Park and only a 2 minute walk to the Mall and bus terminal for the University of New England.
Armidale is ideally located mid-way between Sydney and Brisbane on the New England Highway and just over two hours drive to the coast.
Armidale is home to the University of New England - Australia's oldest regional university, the New England Regional Art Museum, and some of Australia's finest private schools.
users.northnet.com.au /~cedarl   (184 words)

  
 SSRN Author Page for John A. Sinden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
University of New England (Australia) - Graduate School of Agricultural and Resource Economics
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papers.ssrn.com /sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=232601   (303 words)

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