Most sources credit St. Louis University's Bradbury Robinson from Bellevue, Ohio with throwing the first legal forward pass.

Sydney Brenner, Jack Dunitz, Dorothy Hodgkin, Leslie Orgel, and Beryl M. Oughton, were some of the first people in April 1953 to see the model of the structure of DNA, constructed by Crick and Watson ; at the time they were working at Oxford University's Chemistry Department.

Hayek's first class at Chicago was a faculty seminar on the philosophy of science attended by many of the University's most notable scientists of the time, including Enrico Fermi, Sewall Wright and Leó Szilárd.

The North Wind began in 1972 as Northern Michigan University's first independent, student newspaper.

After the war, Trudeau continued his studies, first taking a master's degree in political economy at Harvard University's Graduate School of Public Administration.

Brasenose beat Jesus to win Oxford University's first Head of the River ; the two clubs claim to be the oldest established boat clubs in the world.

Six beta-test units of the 1400 workstation were produced, and the first production unit ( SGI's first commercial computer ) was shipped to Carnegie-Mellon University's Electronic Imaging Laboratory in 1984.

Gordon M. Shrum, the University's first chancellor.

* Mary Matilda Winslow-The University's first black female graduate

While the first year of the program is usually devoted to completing the requirements of the core curriculum, the second year provides students with the opportunity to choose from the more than 130 elective courses available at the School and supplement them with more than 4, 000 graduate-level classes from the University's other graduate and professional schools.

Stanford University's own Education Program for Gifted Youth received a generous donation in 2006 and used it to create the first truly complete online high school, with an interactive and advanced program for advanced learners.

The first officially authenticated regularly feasible take-off and landing of a human-powered aircraft ( one capable of powered takeoffs, unlike a glider ) was made on 9 November 1961 by Derek Piggott in Southampton University's Man Powered Aircraft ( SUMPAC ).

His first novel, Trainspotting, was published in 1993, and rumor has it that Welsh wrote it in the breaks while writing his thesis at Heriot-Watt University's Library, second floor.

That same year, Ebert's first book, a history of the University of Illinois titled Illini Century: One Hundred Years of Campus Life was published by the University's press.

He attended the Yale School of Medicine for two years before shifting to Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, from which he graduated first in his class in 1929.

1st Graduate-The University's first graduate, in 1926, was Harriet Dalzell Hester, who went on to become the school's first librarian and an Alamosa County school superintendent.

Incorporation of Rhodes University's former campus in East London in 2004 gave the University an urban base and a coastal base for the first time.

The report's author, Lord Robbins, was later appointed the University's first Chancellor in 1968.

Blue plaque recording the first ever sub-four-minute mile run by Roger Bannister on 6 May 1954 at Oxford University's Roger Bannister running track | Iffley Road Track.

J. Keith Motley, is the University's first African-American chancellor.

In 1939, Evanston hosted the first NCAA basketball championship final at Northwestern University's Patten Gymnasium.

* Eskarina Smith, commonly known as Esk, is the main character in Equal Rites, where she became the Unseen University's first and only known female graduate.

A decade later, it was the home of the University's Public Orator and Vice Principal of Magdalen Hall, Rev.

It was originally opened in 1971 as Scotland's first purpose built arts centre, the brainchild of the University's first Principal, Dr Tom Cottrell, who wanted appreciation of the arts to be literally at the heart of the University's cultural ethos.

The first Chancellor of the new university was Prince Arthur of Connaught and the first Principal ( a position that would be merged with that of Vice-Chancellor in 1948 ) was Professor Jan Hofmeyr Hofmeyr set the tone of the University's subsequent opposition to apartheid when, during his inaugural address as Principal he declared, while discussing the nature of a university and its desired function in a democracy, that universities " should know no distinctions of class, wealth, race or creed ".

He also serves as a special assistant to Queen's University's Principal, Daniel Woolf.

He took office as Principal of the University of Glasgow on 1 October 2003, but attracted much criticism for his handling of the 2006 lecturers ' strike, as well as attempts to close the University's Crichton Campus in Dumfries and for receiving pay rises which were much greater than the rate of inflation.

In 1947, Linebarger moved to the Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC, where he served as Professor of Asiatic Studies.

Although nearing ordination at the Yeshiva University's Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, he transferred to the Jewish Theological Seminary of America ( JTSA ), where he was ordained in 1934 and received the advanced Jewish legal degree of Hattarat Hora ’ ah under the great talmudic scholar Rabbi Professor Louis Ginzberg.

Brzezinski is currently Robert E. Osgood Professor of American Foreign Policy at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, a scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and a member of various boards and councils.

" Streietelmeier was a Professor in Geography and an Editor of the University's " The Cresset.

Albright currently serves as a Professor of International Relations at Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service.

Heyrovský started his university career as assistant to Professor B. Brauner in the Institute of Analytical Chemistry of the Charles University, Prague ; he was promoted to Associate Professor in 1922 and in 1926 he became the University's first Professor of Physical Chemistry.

He was a Professor of English at the University of St Andrews from 1991, becoming Director of the University's Scottish Studies Centre in 1993 until his retirement in September 2008.

He was the University's first Professor of Political Science.

Korten served for five and a half years as a Visiting Associate Professor of the Harvard University's Graduate School of Business where he taught in Harvard's middle management, M. B. A. and doctoral programs.

From 1979 to 1989, Khalilzad worked as an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.

Summers is the Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

From 1998 to 2009, he was the Ronald Reagan Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University's School of Public Policy.

* 1934 Graduate student Charles Coulson ( in 1972 Oxford University's first Professor of Theoretical Chemistry ) completes PhD

He was named to the University's highest academic rank, University Professor, in 1974 and became a Special Service Professor, a title reserved by the Trustees for emeritus faculty who " render special services to the University ", upon his retirement in 1979.

Since 1908 he was already an assistant lecturer in the same department, and immediately after his doctorate he took up the post of Professor of Physiology in the University's School of Veterinary Medicine.

The Japanese army also set up brothels in Rabaul where " perhaps 2, 000 or more women were deceived and forced into prostitution of a most demanding kind ," according to Emeritus Professor Hank Nelson from the Australian National University's Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies ( RSPAS ).

Bleckner is currently a Clinical Professor of Studio Art at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

Dinkins is a Professor in the Practice of Public Affairs at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.

For a while, he also held the University's concise literature course, replacing Professor Ion Bianu.

The following year, the conservatory changed its name to the " Monroe Conservatory of Oratory ," in honor of Charles Emerson's teacher at Boston University's School of Oratory, Professor Lewis B. Monroe.