Stacy Allison ( born 1958 ), a 1975 graduate of Woodburn High School and a 1984 Oregon State University alum, was the first American woman to summit Mount Everest during her second attempt on September 29, 1988.

* Mount Allison University, a university in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada

Mount Allison University was the first university in the British Empire to award a baccalaureate to a woman ( Grace Annie Lockhart, B. Sc, 1875 ).

Mount Allison graduates have been awarded a total of 51 Rhodes Scholarships, the most per capita of any university in the Commonwealth.

Mount Allison is the wealthiest university in Canada on an endowment per student basis.

Mount Allison's origins go back to a boys ' academy founded in June 1839 by a local Methodist merchant, Charles Frederick Allison.

Mount Allison University is a United Church-affiliated, but non-sectarian university which was established at Sackville, New Brunswick on January 19, 1843.

In 1858 an Act of the New Brunswick Legislature authorized the trustees to establish a degree-conferring institution at Sackville, under the name of the Mount Allison Wesleyan College.

In July 1862, the degree-granting Mount Allison College was organised.

Mount Allison was the first university in the British Empire to confer a Bachelor's degree to a woman ( Grace Annie Lockhart, B. Sc.

For nearly a century, Mount Allison functioned as three distinct, mutually enriching parts: the College proper, the Boys ' Academy and the Ladies College.

The Corporate name was changed to University of Mount Allison College in 1886.

Original components of the university included: the Mount Allison Wesleyan Academy for Boys ( 1840 – 1958 ), the Ladies ' College ( 1854 – 1958 ), and Mount Allison College.

Mount Allison College was established in 1862 with degree-granting powers on behalf of the other two.

Springtime in Sackville-a view of Convocation Hall from the swan pond, Mount Allison University.

It was installed on the campus of Mount Allison University in 2003.

By 1920, Mount Allison University had three faculties: Arts, Theology, and Engineering.

At this time the university board and administration decided to reaffirm the traditional aims of Mount Allison in providing a high-quality undergraduate liberal arts education, along with continuing to offer professional programmes in already-established fields.

Mount Allison University was established by the Mount Allison University Act, 1993.

Clara Belle Marshall, from Mount Hanley, Nova Scotia, became the first woman to graduate from Acadia University in 1879.

At a time when scientific research in the United States was still in its infancy, George Ellery Hale, a solar astronomer from the University of Chicago, founded the Mount Wilson Observatory in 1904.

Category: Mount St. Mary's University alumni

Robin Fisher, the academic Vice President of Mount Royal University in Calgary and author of two books on Vancouver, states:

Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta offers a Bachelor of Midwifery program.

Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, was established in 1873 and is locally called The Mount.

Mount Saint Vincent University Entrance from the Bedford Highway, Halifax

Charles Welsford West ( architect ) designed the Romanesque chapel and annex ( 1903 – 05 ) at Mount St. Vincent Academy ( now University ).

It was two years later, in 1914 that the Sisters partnered with Dalhousie University, enabling Mount Saint Vincent to offer the first two years of a bachelors ' degree program to be credited toward a Dalhousie degree.

A new charter was granted in 1966 and the College became Mount Saint Vincent University, bringing forth the establishment of a Board of Governors and Senate.

Mount Saint Vincent University offers 38 undergraduate degrees in liberal arts and sciences and an array of professional programs including Applied Human Nutrition, Business Administration, Child and Youth Study, Public Relations, Science Communication and Tourism and Hospitality Management.

During the 1995 G7 summit, Mount Saint Vincent University awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree to Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Mount Saint Vincent University is also home to the Centre for Women in Business, a not-for-profit university business development centre ( UBDC ), dedicated to assisting with entrepreneurial activities both within the university and throughout Nova Scotia.

* Mount Meru University in Tanzania

Fisher received an at-large bid into the NCAA Division III Tournament, in which they defeated Union College, Springfield College and Rowan University to reach the national semifinals in which they lost to Mount Union College, the defending national champions, by a score of 26-14.

* Mount John University Observatory at Lake Tekapo for optical astronomical research

* August 28 – Elizabeth Ann Seton, co-founder of Mount Saint Mary's University, founder of the Sisters of Charity ( d. 1821 )

* Tilman, H. W., Mount Everest, 1938, Cambridge University Press, 1948.

After the Old City of Jerusalem was captured by the IDF, Rabin was among the first to visit the Old City, and delivered a famous speech on Mount Scopus, at the Hebrew University.

the bulk of which goes to Manhattan's research institutions, including Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Rockefeller University, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Weill Cornell Medical College and New York University School of Medicine.

One of the great upsets in College Bowl history — or indeed, in the history of any intercollegiate competition — came on March 6, 1966, when a small women's college, Agnes Scott College, took on the defending champions from Princeton University, which had challenged and defeated a team from Mount Holyoke College the previous week.

** The Mount Vernon Campus of George Washington University in Washington, D. C.