Vinton's team also created the Nomes and the Nome King for Disney's " Return to Oz " feature, for which they received an Academy Award Nomination for Special Visual Effects.

He played on the junior varsity football team while at Fresno High School, but frequent fighting and discipline problems caused his parents to enroll him in the San Rafael Military Academy for his senior year.

The company's R & D team spun off to create leading technology company Filmlight which in 2010 received four Scientific Academy Awards.

It was during a tour with his debate team that Tracy auditioned for the American Academy of Dramatic Arts ( AADA ) in New York City.

FilmLight Limited is a digital cinema technology company started in 2002 by the Scientific and Technical Academy Award-winning former Computer Film Company R & D team.

In the series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode " Take Me Out to the Holosuite ", Captain Solok, an Academy classmate and longtime rival of Benjamin Sisko, challenges Sisko and other DS9 personnel to a baseball game against his Vulcan team, the Logicians.

Brown was a well-known member of the London film special effects community, and one of the core team at the Computer Film Company that won a Scientific and Technical Academy Award for developing digital film technology.

At both the 34th Academy Awards ( 1961 ) and the 80th Academy Awards ( 2007 ), Best Director was presented to a co-directing team, rather than to an individual director.

For spring training in 2009, the Somerset Patriots became the first Atlantic League team to hold its spring training in its own locale, at the Jack Cust Baseball Academy in nearby Flemington, instead of the traditional site in Lakeland, Florida.

In 2005 a team from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, led by Dr. René Larsen, studied the map and its accompanying manuscripts to make recommendations on the best ways to preserve the centuries-old parchment.

The first short to team Tweety and the cat, later named Sylvester, was 1947's Tweetie Pie, which won Warner Bros. its first Academy Award for Best Short Subject ( Cartoons ).

She attended Parklane Academy, where she was a cheerleader and a member of the basketball team.

On February 28, 2009, the Green Wave Basketball team won the 3A AHSAA State Basketball Championship by defeating Madison Academy, 72-64.

Alumni of the Edinburgh Academy are known as Academicals, or Accies, a name shared with the Rugby team.

His son, Colonel George R. Grunert ( 1908 – 1969 ), attended the U. S. Military Academy, graduating with the class of 1930 and played on the Army polo team.

The Loud family was kept in the public eye through two televised PBS updates, both filmed by the original Academy Award winning team of Alan and Susan Raymond.

In the field of sports, Stilwell is credited with introducing basketball to the Academy, and participating in cross-country running ( as Captain ), as well as playing on the varsity football team.

* Served as team captain of the U. S. Naval Academy Cross Country team his senior year

In the 1960s, the standard of quality of Palmeiras play – led by the one who would come to symbolize this period of soccer excellence, Ademir de Guia – led the Palestra Italia team to be called the " Academy " of Brazilian football.

The team also received numerous nominations, which include five more Tony Awards, two Academy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards.

Crossroads Charter Academy was distinguished as the first charter school in Michigan to win a state sports championship when the girls ' cross country team won the state finals in 2004.

Major Schmidt is a 1987 graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy where he was the starting goalie on the soccer team.

In 1814 Ampère was invited to join the class of mathematicians in the new Institut Impériale, the umbrella under which the reformed state Academy of Sciences would sit.

He founded the Academy of Naples under Giovanni Pontano and, for his entrance in the city in 1443, had a magnificent triumphal arch added to the main gate of Castel Nuovo.

In 1835 the French Academy sent Antoine on a scientific mission to Brazil, the results being published at a later date ( 1873 ) under the title of Observations relatives à la physique du globe faites au Bresil et en Ethiopie.

From 1899 to 1903, Bartók studied piano under István Thomán, a former student of Franz Liszt, and composition under János Koessler at the Royal Academy of Music in Budapest.

She then studied for two years with the painter Francis Adolf Van der Wielen, who offered lessons in perspective and drawing from casts during the time that the new Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts was under construction.

Beaux began attending the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1876, then under the dynamic influence of Thomas Eakins, whose great work The Gross Clinic had " horrified Philadelphia Exhibition-goers as a gory spectacle " at the Centennial Exhibition of 1876.

For pregnant women, guidelines vary: screening women with age or other risk factors is recommended by the U. S. Preventive Services Task Force ( USPSTF ) ( which recommends screening women under 25 ) and the American Academy of Family Physicians ( which recommends screening women aged 25 or younger ).

In 2003, Morris won the Best Documentary Oscar at the Academy Awards, for his film The Fog of War, about the career of Robert S. McNamara, who was famous for having been the Secretary of Defense who had led the nation into the Vietnam War under Presidents John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, and who was also crucially involved in having helped President Kennedy avoid a Third World War over the issue of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba.

He studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under Christian Schuessele.

" Samuel Smiles stated that he was " the scion of a distinguished Béarnese family "; although it is probable that the poverty of his parents would have excluded him from a learned career if some of the leading Protestants of the district had not charged themselves with the expenses of his education, which was begun under M. Jean de la Placette, the minister of Nay, He studied at Puylaurens, the Academy of Saumur, and the Academy of Sedan, receiving the degree of doctor in theology, it is said, at the age of seventeen.

He was educated at Herborn Academy, studying under Johannes Piscator.

Perhaps the most noteworthy event occurred in 529 when the Neoplatonic Academy of Athens was placed under state control by order of Justinian, effectively strangling this training-school for Hellenism.

He directed Précontinent, about the experiments of diving in saturation ( long-duration immersion, houses under the sea ), and was admitted to the United States National Academy of Sciences.

After taking private composition lessons with Franciszek Skolyszewski, Penderecki studied music at Jagiellonian University and the Academy of Music in Kraków under Artur Malawski and Stanislaw Wiechowicz.

It was the fifth university under the Swedish king, after Uppsala University ( 1477 ), the University of Tartu ( 1632, now in Estonia ), the Academy of Åbo ( 1640, now in Finland ), and the University of Greifswald ( founded 1456 ; Swedish 1648 – 1815, now in Germany ).

He moved to the Academy of Saumur and studied under John Cameron, who ultimately regarded him as his greatest scholar.

Dawning 6000 is currently jointly developed by the Institute of Computing Technology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Dawning Information Industry Company.

He trained under a painting master before coming to the new Royal Danish Academy of Art ( Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi ) in Copenhagen, studying under Johan Edvard Mandelberg and Johannes Wiedewelt.

Among the most influential of these was the Academy of St Martin in the Fields under the baton of Sir Neville Marriner.

These include the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the London Classical Players under the direction of Sir Roger Norrington and the Academy of Ancient Music under Christopher Hogwood, among others.

A Pontifical Academy is an academic learned society established by or under the direction of the Holy See.