" In 2006, the state with the largest number of students enrolled was South Carolina, but many of these were married students who had moved from other parts of the country to attend the University.

MIT retaliated in April 2006, when students posing as the Howe & Ser ( Howitzer ) Moving Company stole the 130-year-old, 1. 7-ton Fleming House cannon and moved it over 3000 miles to their campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts for their 2006 Campus Preview Weekend, repeating a similar prank performed by nearby Harvey Mudd College in 1986.

Since 2006, the College has guaranteed housing for students during their freshman and sophomore years.

; Honors Horizon: The Honors Horizon program ( started in September 2006 ) is aimed at bachelor students who are interested in introducing a multidisciplinary component into their program.

In 2006 they were students in Paris.

Edition for students in 2006, ISBN 3-16-149158-0.

In 2006 he then attempted to pass the First Employment Contract ( CPE ) through a vote by emergency procedure, but that it was met by students and unions ' protests.

( Grading had previously been " pass / no record " all freshman year, but was amended for the Class of 2006 to prevent students from gaming the system by completing required major classes in their freshman year.

As of 2006, it had 17, 627 students and 4, 336 staff.

However, using data from an internet survey based experiment performed in 2006 on a random sample of 574 adult university students, a study was conducted that examined public approval for the use of racial profiling to prevent crime and terrorism.

As a result of studies showing the effects of sleep deprivation on grades, and the different sleep patterns for teenagers, a school in New Zealand, changed its start time to 10: 30 a. m., in 2006, to allow students to keep to a schedule that allowed more sleep.

In March 2006, SFU approved an affiliation agreement with a private college for international students to be housed adjacent to its Burnaby campus.

For example, the Trade and Technician Skills Institute in Brisbane, ( from 1 July 2006 ), specialises in automotive, building and construction, manufacturing and engineering, and electrical / electronic studies for students throughout Queensland.

In 2006 it accepted a smaller proportion of students from state schools ( 39 %) than any other Cambridge college, and on a rolling three-year average it has admitted a smaller proportion of state school pupils ( 42 %) than any other college at either Cambridge or Oxford.

In 2006, Yale and Peking University ( PKU ) established a Joint Undergraduate Program in Beijing, an exchange program allowing Yale students to spend a semester living and studying with PKU honor students.

The 2006 US reality series Knight School focused on students at Texas Tech University vying for a walk-on ( non-scholarship ) roster position on the school's men's basketball team under legendary coach Bob Knight.

Later in 2006, Hanks produced the British film Starter for Ten, a comedy based on working class students attempting to win University Challenge.

In 2006, the Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS and Baltic Countries organized over 500 public Seders throughout the Former Soviet Union, led by local rabbis and Chabad rabbinical students, drawing more than 150, 000 attendees in total.

Junior colleges have expanded rapidly in response to demand and in 2006 enrolled around 27 % of all tertiary students.

In 2006, in the Florida case Frazier v. Alexandre, a federal district court in Florida ruled that a 1942 state law requiring students to stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the U. S. Constitution.

At the end of 2006, there were 2, 812 international students studying at Fudan University, ranked number 2 in the nation.

By 2006, 3. 5 million students were participating in on-line learning at institutions of higher education in the United States.

* 2006 – NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.

JPL has been recognized four times by the Space Foundation: with the Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award, which is given annually to an individual or organization that has made significant contributions to public awareness of space programs, in 1998 ; and with the John L. " Jack " Swigert, Jr., Award for Space Exploration on three occasions – in 2009 ( as part of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Team ), 2006 and 2005.

Odyssey aided NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which reached Mars in March 2006, by monitoring atmospheric conditions during months when the newly arrived orbiter used aerobraking to alter its orbit into the desired shape.

* 2006 – The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.

* " Larklight " ( 2006 ), a story by Phillip Reeve is set in the 18th century, where Mars is inhabited by an elven race, which formerly commanded great space empires.

A spectacular find in 2006 was the richly detailed bronze and silver brooch ( fibula ) modeled with the figure of Mars, on which Quintus Sollonius, a Gaul to judge by his name, had carefully punched his name before he lost it in the early second century ; nothing comparably fine has been recovered along the Wall.

In 2006 the Viking 1 lander was imaged on the Martian surface by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

In 2006 the NASA Mars Exploration Rover Spirit labeled one of the hills explored " Zhongsan ".

Mars Hill Mountain underwent a wind power project in the fall of 2006.

An IMAX documentary about the success of the Mars Exploration Rovers was released in 2006, titled Roving Mars and used exclusive data from the Rovers.

* Life on Mars ( TV series ), a British television series broadcast from 2006 to 2007

* Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter — NASA orbiter, entered Martian orbit March 10, 2006

In 2006, TV series Life on Mars, William Matheson portrays Marc Bolan, circa 1973, in a bar in Manchester.

* Biker Mice from Mars ( 2006 )

File: Champ de Mars from the Eiffel Tower-July 2006 edit. jpg | Champ-de-Mars view from the top of the Tour Eiffel

The Original Mars bar in " Believe " packaging was sold in the UK from 18 April 2006 until the end of the 2006 FIFA World Cup in July.

Like the " Believe " packaging sold in the UK in 2006, " Original Mars " was also shown in smaller print.

*" Un Mars, et ça repart " ( A Mars, and you're off again )-France ( late 1990s and renewed from 2006 )

* Postcards from Mars: The First Photographer on the Red Planet by Jim Bell ( published November 2006 ; ISBN 0-525-94985-2 )