Academic historical research supports that the alchemists were searching for a material substance using physical methods.

Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Academic Ranking of World Universities, a ranking with an emphasis on bibliometric data and scientific research, ranked Caltech 6th in the world and 5th in the U. S. for 2011.

* de Pury, Albert, Römer, Thomas, Macchi, Jean-Daniel " Israël constructs its history: Deuteronomistic historiography in recent research " ( Sheffield Academic Press, 2000 )

Academic institutions are subscribing to electronic journals databases, providing research and scholarly writing software, and usually provide computer workstations or computer labs for students to access journals, library search databases and portals, institutional electronic resources, internet access, and course-or task-related software ( i. e. word processing and spreadsheet software ).

Academic programs are supported by a wide variety of electronic and print research resources in the MSVU Library.

In 2007, in honor of Moore's dedication to the Foundation, JDRF created the " Forever Moore " research initiative which will support JDRF's Academic Research and Development and JDRF's Clinical Development Program.

The powers and authority of the faculty are vested in the Academic Council, which is made up of tenure and non-tenure line faculty, research faculty, senior fellows in some policy centers and institutes, the president of the university, and some other academic administrators, but most matters are handled by the Faculty Senate, made up of 55 elected representatives of the faculty.

The Svedberg Laboratory is a university facility that contains the Gustaf Werner cyclotron, which is used for research as well as for proton therapy for the treatment of cancer with close cooperation with the oncology clinic at Uppsala Academic Hospital.

Academic research into wide area networks can be broken down into three areas: mathematical models, network emulation and network simulation.

Academic research has used game theory to explain Congress's incentives to pass the Act.

Academic research is also considered to be an important feature and popular way to gauge the prestige of business schools.

Louisiana Tech is one of only 35 comprehensive research universities in the nation and the only university in Louisiana to be designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education and Research by the National Security Agency ( NSA ) and the United States Department of Homeland Security ( DHS ).

In the 2011 University Ranking by Academic Performance ( URAP ), which rates universities based off their research performance, Waterloo was ranked 185th in the world and tenth in Canada.

Academic activities and industrial applied research are performed mainly in French and English languages.

Academic doctoral research studies and industry-sponsored doctoral research studies can be performed in École Centrale de Lille research labs.

Originally based in the South Academic Block, the university's presence has been expanded to include several other buildings which are home to six different research departments.

The Academic Board advises the Vice-Chancellor and Council on matters relating to teaching, scholarship and research and takes decisions on delegation from Council.

Academic research on wedding economic theory with regulatory activity continues.

; pre – World War II: Academic research in science and engineering is not considered a federal responsibility ; almost all support comes from private contributions and charitable foundations.

Academic members of the Faculty are actively engaged in education and research in areas as diverse as clinical practice, domestic animal health and diseases, food safety, biology and public health.

He was a research associate on the Manhattan Project from 1943-1946, and has been a professor, chair of the chemistry department, dean of the College of Chemistry, Vice Chancellor, and Chair of the Academic Senate at both Berkeley and the entire University of California system.

The first Microsoft web server was a research project at the European Microsoft Windows NT Academic Centre ( EMWAC ), part of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, and was distributed as freeware.

Academic and administrative staff contribute 4, 300 man-labour years of which 2, 500 are in education and research.

Academic Laurie Osborne identifies the direct influence of Hamlet in numerous modern narratives, and divides them into four main categories: fictional accounts of the play's composition, simplifications of the story for young readers, stories expanding the role of one or more characters, and narratives featuring performances of the play.

Academic Scholasticism went into decline in the 1970s when the Thomistic revival that had been spearheaded by Jacques Maritain, Étienne Gilson, and others came to an end.

Academic explanations of ethnic conflict generally fall into one of three schools of thought: primordialist, instrumentalist or constructivist.

This has been redeveloped by Sir Nicholas Grimshaw into an ultra-modern educational building, known as the " New Academic Building " at a total cost of over £ 45 million, and has increased the campus space by.

The Fudan University Library is divided into the China Academic Humanities and Social Sciences Library ( CAHSL ), the National Foreign Textbook Center for East China ( sponsored by the Ministry of Education ), the Documentation and Information Center for Liberal Arts, and the Central Stacks for Foreign Books of Liberal Arts.

Academic year is divided into two semesters: first semester from September until January and second semester from the end of January until July.

" The University has placed a new campus library as its top facility priority, with a goal of developing the current site of Caruthers Hall into a new Academic Commons.

John Carroll University is organized into two schools: the College of Arts and Sciences and the AACSB-accredited Boler School of Business, each defining its own academic programs under the auspices of the Academic Vice President.

Following the meteoric rise to popularity of NAQT, the decline into irrelevance of College Bowl, and longstanding complaints, justified or not, about the difficulty of ACF, a decision was made in 2001 to focus great effort on the accessibility of Academic Competition Federation tournaments.

The university campus ( layout ) occupies a site which is divided into a several sections: the Academic Building, S. H.

Academic degrees in England are usually split into classes: first class ( I ), upper second class ( II: 1 ), lower second class ( II: 2 ) and third ( III ), and unclassified ( below third class ).

Academic buildings are grouped into smaller clusters and quads surrounding the main Quad itself.

Embry-Riddle Worldwide is organized into three divisions: Academic Affairs, Worldwide Online ( which offers degrees through Internet classes ), and the Center for Professional Education ( which offers continuing education credits and non-degree programs ).

Academic activities at the university are divided into three faculties ( Faculty of Health and Social Care, Faculty of Design and Technology, and Aberdeen Business School ).

WLWT and WCET in Cincinnati aired a local It's Academic from the late 1960s into the 1980s.

Academic publishing is the process of placing the results of one's research into the literature.

The Rector is the highest academic authority of a University, serves as a chair of the Academic Council, represents the University in academic and research spheres both domestically and internationally and is entitled to enter into

The university is organized administratively into four divisions: Academic Affairs, Student Affairs, Administration and Finance, and University Advancement.

Normal is split into Normal ( Academic ) and Normal ( Technical ).

Hertfordshire is also the only British new university ( former polytechnic ) to be ranked in the top 503 universities in the world by Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Academic Ranking of World Universities, being ranked equally with 100 other universities in the 402-503 range ( after the first hundred the rankings are divided into large blocks to reflect the more approximate nature of the lower rankings ).

And with the introduction of its Academic Village iniative in 2008, Point Park has evolved into one of the largest investors in Downtown Pittsburgh development.

The Final Grade statement of the student, takes into account the Grades awarded under the category of Integral Items, along with Academic Items.