An example of a more definite class bias is noted in proceedings of the Commission on the Financing of Higher Education sponsored by the Association of American Universities and supported by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation.

Secretary of State Dean Rusk, a former Rhodes Scholar and Mills College dean, has headed the Rockefeller Foundation and in that role expended large sums for international cultural exchange.

He obtained funding from the Rockefeller Foundation in New York and founded the 6th Section of the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, which was devoted to the study of history and the social sciences.

He spent the war in the United States, where he was supported by the Rockefeller Foundation and Guggenheim Foundation.

Its new building, constructed with funds from the Rockefeller Foundation, was opened by Hilbert and Courant in 1930.

The German American Rockefeller family's Rockefeller Foundation made a large donation enabling the development of a new dedicated building for the institute, along Kraepelin's guidelines, which was officially opened in 1928.

He became a Doctor of Medicine and Chemistry in Prague in 1929, went to Johns Hopkins University on a Rockefeller Foundation Scholarship in 1931 and then went to McGill University in Montreal where he started researching the issue of stress in 1936.

With a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, Hoover set up health units to work in the flooded regions for a year.

IALA also received support from such prestigious groups as the Carnegie Corporation, the Ford Foundation, the Research Corporation, and the Rockefeller Foundation.

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* 1913 – New York Governor William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $ 100 million donation from John D. Rockefeller.

A recent Rockefeller Foundation Study found that music majors have the highest rate of admittance to medical schools, followed by biochemistry and the humanities.

The Radio Project was a social research project funded by the Rockefeller Foundation to look into the effects of mass media on society.

In 1937, the Rockefeller Foundation started funding research to find the effects of new forms of mass media on society, especially radio.

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Frisch received a fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation to visit the United States in 1927.

He was the first director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research ( 1901 – 1935 ) and a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation.

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In June 1914 John D. Rockefeller, Jr. hired him as a Director of the Rockefeller Foundation in New York City, heading their new Department of Industrial Research.

Using the remainder of the Rockefeller funds, Williams moved to New Orleans in 1939 to write for the Works Progress Administration ( WPA ), a federally funded program begun by President Franklin D. Roosevelt which was created to put people back to work and helped many artists, musicians and writers survive during the Great Depression.

An $ 858 million capital campaign funded the 2002-2004 expansion, with David Rockefeller donating $ 77 million in cash.

John D. Rockefeller sought out and funded Farrand to design planting plans for subtle carriage roads at Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island, Maine, near her Reef Point home ( c. 1930 ).

Muncie was lightly disguised as " Middletown " by a team of sociologists, led by Robert and Helen Lynd, who were only the first to conduct a series of studies in Muncie — considered a typical Middle-American community — in their case, a study funded by the Rockefeller Institute of Social and Religious Research.

Partially funded by John D. Rockefeller and others, the train carried supplies, passengers, and ore up and down the Stilly Valley.

The US $ 8. 5 million purchase was then funded by his father, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who donated it to the city.

In the 20th century American philanthropy matured, with the development of very large private foundations created by titans of industry — Rockefeller, Ford, Carnegie, et al .— and later in the century with the professionalization of the field led and funded by those great foundations.

Another program, the Emergency Rescue Committee was also partly funded with Rockefeller money ; this effort resulted in the rescue of some of the most famous artists, writers and composers of Europe.

* McGill University-The Rockefeller Foundation funded the Montreal Neurological Institute, on the request of Dr. Wilder Penfield, a Canadian neurosurgeon, who had met David Rockefeller years before.

The Rockefeller Foundation, funded Nazi racial studies even after it was clear what this research was being used to rationalize the demonizing of Jews and other groups.

The Rockefeller Foundation did not alert “ the world to the nature of German science and the racist folly ” that German anthropology promulgated and Rockefeller funded for years after the passage of the 1935 Nuremberg racial laws.

He lived in China until the age of 15, where his father, John Black Grant, was the first professor of Public Health at the Rockefeller Foundation funded Peking Union Medical College.

The synthesizer was funded with a large grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.

He became a Director of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Union Medical College in Beijing ( a teaching hospital funded by the Rockefeller Foundation ), President of the Chinese Society of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and worked as secretary to the medical committee of the Lord Mayor's Fund for the Relief of Distress in China.

Rockefeller funded the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center at a critical juncture of its early development.

Rockefeller also funded controversial, though peer reviewed and not-disproven, research of the PEAR lab-dealing with consciousness-based physical phenomena.

The Peking Union Medical College was founded in 1906 by the American and British missionaries and funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.

In 1924, funded by a Rockefeller fellowship, Struik traveled to Rome to collaborate with the Italian mathematician Tullio Levi-Civita.

Initially supported by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, BPC is now funded by assessments on property and businesses adjacent to the park, and by revenue generated from events held at the park.

He was immediately hired as pastor of a Baptist church whose most famous member was John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who then funded the Riverside Church in Manhattan's Morningside Heights area overlooking the Hudson River, where Fosdick became pastor as soon as the doors opened in October 1930, prompting a Time Magazine cover story on October 6, 1930 ( pictured ).

Rockefeller had funded the nation-wide distribution of Shall the Fundamentalists Win ?, although with a more cautious title, The New Knowledge and the Christian Faith.

After its closure as an active Air Force base in the early 1970s, an ambitious plan by former Governor Nelson Rockefeller to greatly expand and develop the airport led to a bitter and protracted struggle with local landowners that led to reforms in the state's eminent domain laws but no actual development of the land acquired.