According to an MUM spokesperson, the university has received almost $ 18 million in grant support from the National Institutes of Health in the prior 15 years and " its researchers are strict about scientific standards because they work more often with other, larger universities ".

According to the National Survey of Student Engagement MUM scored in the top 3 % for " active and collaborative learning ", in the top 4 % for " enriching educational experience ", in the top 7 % for " student / faculty interaction ", in the top 8 % for " supportive campus environment and in the top 26 % for " level of academic challenge ".

The MUM website cites high rankings on " benchmarks of effective educational practice " from the NSSE.

The 2002 NSSE survey, which obtained data from 135, 000 students at 613 institutions, shows MUM was in the top 10 % for: active and collaborative learning, supportive campus environment, enriching educational experiences and student-faculty interaction.

In 2002, The Gazette ( Cedar Rapids and Iowa City ) and Chicago Sun-Times reported that although " a few years ago " many " major medical schools " would've " turned up their noses " at the studies MUM was conducting, " things have changed " and MUM has received so many offers that it has " turned away " collaboration proposals from a few institutions.

* Deans, Ashley ( 2005 ) MUM Press, A Record of Excellence, ISBN 0923569375

Beginning in 2005, film director David Lynch began hosting an annual " David Lynch Weekend for World Peace and Meditation " at MUM.

The 4th annual David Lynch Weekend of November 2009 featured Donovan, MUM professor John Hagelin, and the American debut of James McCartney, who performed at the Fairfield Arts & Convention Center.

According to the MUM publication Achievements, total enrollment for 2009 / 2010 was 1, 231, including 276 undergraduate and 955 graduate students.

Before 2009 MUM freshmen and transfer students began their first semester with the 33 lesson SCI course.

John Hagelin, a 37-year old physics professor at Maharishi University of Management ( MUM ), was the NLP candidate for president of the United States in the 1992.

Mike Tompkins, also on the MUM staff, was his running mate.

One way of quantifying the utility of a given pairwise alignment is the ' maximum unique match ' ( MUM ), or the longest subsequence that occurs in both query sequence.

Longer MUM sequences typically reflect closer relatedness.

Maharishi University of Management ( MUM ), formerly known as Maharishi International University, is an American non-profit, university, located in Fairfield, Iowa.

As a result, " many students " were asked to leave the MUM campus for distributing Carlsen's literature with several being suspended and their Golden Dome admission privileges revoked.

In 1995, Maharishi International University changed its name to Maharishi University of Management ( MUM ) to emphasize that gaining deep experience and deep knowledge had a profound practical value in enabling a student to " fully manage " their life.

The university's stabbing incident occurred in 2004, when Shuvender Sem, a student at MUM, attacked two other students in separate instances on the same day.

At that time, MUM had 948 students ( 813 full time ) of whom 78 % were foreign students — the third highest number of foreign students at an Iowa university that year.

In this same year, MUM awarded 125 Masters degrees and 34 Bachelor degrees.

Other members include Ramani Ayer, chairman of The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc., Bevan Morris, Chairman Emeritus of MUM, John Hagelin, " Honorary Chairman ", physicist and MUM faculty member, and Ed Malloy, mayor of Fairfield, Iowa.

Notable past and present faculty at MUM include David Orme-Johnson, Ashley Deans, and Elaine Ingham.

In 2011, MUM was one of more than 1, 000 corporations which requested a waiver to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's requirement to offer maximum payouts of $ 750, 000 per employee.

The " Best Colleges 2010 " Masters Midwest Category of U. S. News & World Report College and University rankings listed Maharishi University of Management as a tier 4 ( lowest ranking ), application deadline as " rolling " and fall admissions selectivity as " less selective " while the U. S. News & World Report, education web page lists MUM as " unranked ".

MUM is committed to achieving the university's goals through Consciousness-Based education ( CBE ) which aims to unfold " creative potential " and create life in harmony with the laws of nature.

During this period, the Haitian National Intelligence Service ( SIN ), which had been set up and financed in the 80s by the Central Intelligence Agency as part of the war on drugs, participated in drug trafficking and political violence.

The Service d ' Intelligence National, nominally a counter-narcotics agency created after the fall of Jean-Claude Duvalier, participated in drug trafficking.

In the decades of 1840 and 1850 Honduras participated in several failed attempts to restore Central American unity, such as the Confederation of Central America ( 1842 – 1845 ), the covenant of Guatemala ( 1842 ), the Diet of Sonsonate ( 1846 ), the Diet of Nacaome ( 1847 ) and National Representation in Central America ( 1849 – 1852 ).

Continuing Polgár's return to competitive chess, in July 2011 she participated in the 39th Greek Team National Championship scoring 3½ out of 4 games.

In late 1954, those who stayed in Cambodia founded a legal political party, the Pracheachon Party, which participated in the 1955 and the 1958 National Assembly elections.

A subsequent investigation by Loch Ness researcher, Steve Feltham, suggests that the object in the water is in fact a fibreglass hump used previously in a National Geographic documentary which Edwards had participated in.

Smith later participated in the postseason for the first time when the Cardinals faced the Atlanta Braves in the best-of-five 1982 National League Championship Series ( NLCS ).

Somali president Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, a decorated war hero that participated in the 1964 border conflict and later led the Somali National Army's ( SNA ) southern front in the Ogaden War.

Anthony participated in every subsequent annual National Women's Rights Convention, and served as convention president in 1858.

In 1952 Adorno participated in a group experiment, revealing residual National Socialist attitudes among the recently democratized Germans.

In that case, Gregory Lee Johnson participated in a demonstration during the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas, Texas.

Plaid has the third-largest number of seats in the National Assembly for Wales, after Welsh Labour and the Welsh Conservative & Unionist Party, and participated with the former in the coalition agreement in the Assembly before the 2011 election.

Hippies were often pacifists, and participated in non-violent political demonstrations, such as civil rights marches, the marches on Washington D. C., and anti – Vietnam War demonstrations, including draft-card burnings and the 1968 Democratic National Convention protests.

" Nouvelle Résistance was also a successor to Jean-François Thiriart's Jeune Europe neo-Nazi Europeanist movement of the 1960s, which had participated in the National Party of Europe, along with Oswald Mosley's Union Movement, Otto Strasser and others.

Following the defeat of the Guominjun in the Anti – Fengtian War Feng Yuxiang participated in the Northern Expedition, Sòng assumed the Chairmanship of Shaanxi province in November 1927 and in April of the same year the head of 4th division under the II Corps of the National Revolutionary Army.

On January 27, 2007, Fonda participated in an anti-war rally and march held on the National Mall in Washington, D. C., declaring that " silence is no longer an option ".

Delegates of the National Liberation Front, or Vietcong, as well as several smaller groups, participated in the creation of the PRG.

Mattei participated in the North Italian military command of the National Liberation Committee (-CLN ) on behalf of the Christian Democrats.

* Deborah Nuckles, US Army veteran NC National Guard, participated in the historical first group of women to undergo tests by the Department of Defense that paved the way for today's women to participate in combat operations.

They have volunteered to visit injured soldiers at military hospitals, and have participated in the " Laying of the Wreath " ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery.

He participated in a 1982 teachers ' strike as a member of the National Trade Union of Research and Higher Education.

Smith participated in the 2011 National Heads-Up Poker Championship, defeating David Williams in the first round and losing in the second round to Andrew Robl.

Eight Army National Guard units ( 103rd Eng Bn, A / 1-104th Cav, 109th FA, 111th Inf, 113th Inf, 116th Inf, 1-175th Inf and 198th Sig Bn ) and one active Regular Army Field Artillery battalion ( 1 – 5th FA ) are derived from American units that participated in the Battle of Brandywine.

Four Army National Guard units ( 113th Inf, 116th Inf, 175th Inf and 198th Sig Bn ) and one active Regular Army Field Artillery battalion ( 1-5th FA ) are derived from American units that participated in the Battle of Yorktown.

A 2007 study of National Science Foundation employees indicated that approximately one-third participated in telework regularly, characterized staff satisfaction with the program, and noted savings in employee time and greenhouse-gas emissions as a result of telework.