Studies conducted in 2010 at the University of Derby by Karim Vahed, Darren Parker and James Gilbert found that the Tuberous Bushcricket ( Platycleis affinis ) has the largest testes in proportion to body mass of any animal recorded.

* Solomon Northup, David Wilson, Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, Auburn, N. Y .: Derby and Miller, 1853, at Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina.

* Jones, Michael K .; Underwood, Malcolm G. The King's Mother: Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby, Cambridge University Press 1993 ISBN 0-521-44794-1

The Devonshire Campus of the University of Derby is housed in one of the town's historic buildings.

It became the Devonshire Royal Hospital ( now the Devonshire Campus of the University of Derby ).

The main building and its surrounding Victorian villas are now part of the University of Derby.

The University of Derby is a significant employer.

* The Revd Richenda Leigh – Cathedral Chaplain and Anglican Chaplain to the University of Derby

The British Prime Minister and first chairman of the London County Council, Lord Rosebery, was sent down ( expelled ) from the University of Oxford in 1869 for buying a racehorse and entering it in the Derby − it finished last.

There is no hospital in Uttoxeter, but the surrounding Queen's Hospital in Burton, Stafford Hospital, the University Hospital of North Staffordshire in Stoke-on-Trent and Royal Derby Hospital all serve the town.

In September 2008, Stanley Mitchell, emeritus professor of aesthetics at the University of Derby, published, through Penguin Books, a complete translation, again preserving the Onegin stanzas in English.

She was also the Chancellor of the University of Derby and Patron of the Girls ' Day School Trust.

Category: People associated with the University of Derby

He was educated at Derby School, Christ's Hospital, and University College, London, and also studied at the Sorbonne, Paris, where he took his degree in 1840.

The university's South Campus began offering Wichita State University coursework at a new facility in Derby in January 2008.

Wichita State University's South Campus began offering Wichita State University coursework at a new facility in Derby, Kan., in January 2008.

* University of Derby – formerly the Derbyshire College of Higher Education

Wood was awarded an honorary doctorate for his contribution to music by the University of Derby on 18 January 2008.

Brand delivered a guest lecture on the subject of psychiatric nursing for the University of Derby Psychology Society in 1997 in return for a donation to Derby Rape Crisis.

* Chairman-David B. Smith, Visiting Professor, University of Derby.

Later he studied for a diploma in management studies at the University of Derby in 1997.

Category: Alumni of the University of Derby

Mickleover from May 1964 until June 2007, housed a small campus of the University of Derby which in 2007-8 made way for nearly 700 new homes.

In late 2007 a new scout hut for the 166th Mickleover Scouts was also built on the site of the University Campus ( Derby Campus ).

( Her account was later confirmed by the Scobee-Frazier Expedition from the University of Manitoba in 1951.

They, perhaps, gave the pitch of their position in the preface where it was said that Eisenhower requested that the Commission be administered by the American Assembly of Columbia University, because it was non-partisan.

Another source of intellectual stimulus was opened to her at that time by the founding of Johns Hopkins University within walking distance of home.

Mrs. Sandburg received a Phi Beta Kappa key from the University of Chicago and she was busy writing and teaching when she met Sandburg.

it was visiting University of North Carolina alumni in New York to ask them for contributions to the Graham Memorial Building fund.

S.K. was visiting C.C.B. and, not waiting for breakfast, he was off to the University Club, where he spent hours writing obituaries of living Americans for The Manchester Guardian or The Glasgow Herald.

A professor at the University of Constantinople, where his first course of lectures was on Nietzsche and the `` philosophy of action '', Vincent Berger becomes head of the propaganda department of the German Embassy in Turkey.

In the earlier sessions there was plentiful discussion on the natural law, which Dr. William V. O'Brien of Georgetown University, advanced as the basis for widely acceptable ethical judgments on foreign policy.

His parents talked seriously and lengthily to their own doctor and to a specialist at the University Hospital -- Mr. McKinley was entitled to a discount for members of his family -- and it was decided it would be best for him to take the remainder of the term off, spend a lot of time in bed and, for the rest, do pretty much as he chose -- provided, of course, he chose to do nothing too exciting or too debilitating.

Dr. Gordon N. Ray, Provost, Vice-President and Professor of English in the University of Illinois, was appointed Associate Secretary General.

In 1806 his ambition was realized and he became professor of physics at the Copenhagen University, though not realizing full professorship ( ordinarius ) until 1817.

This measurement was obtained by W. Blumberg of the University of California, Berkeley, by observing the breadth of the free induction decay signal.

The compilation work was undertaken by a number of interested crystallographers in the Department of Mineralogy of the University Museum at Oxford.

The present edition of crystal data was written by J.D.H. Donnay, the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. ( Part 2 ) ) and Werner Nowacki, University of Berne, Switzerland ( Part 1 ) ) with the collaboration of Gabrielle Donnay, U. S. Geological Survey, Washington, D. C..

`` The Groth Institute '', which was established in 1958, is a group activity affiliated with the Physics Department of The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa..

This basic principle, the first in a richly knotted bundle, was conveyed to me by Dr. Henry Lee Smith, Jr., at the University of Buffalo, where he heads the world's first department of anthropology and linguistics.

On December 9, 1862, Sergeant Edwin H. Fay, an unusual Louisianan who held A.B. and M.A. degrees from Harvard University and who before the war was headmaster of a private school for boys in Louisiana, wrote his wife: `` I saw Pemberton and he is the most insignificant puke I ever saw.

When her brother Winslow became a student at Brown University in 1874, she wrote him about a course in history he was taking under Professor Diman: `` What is Prof. Diman's definition of civilization, and take the world through, is its progress ever onward, or does it retrograde at times??

and after 1883, was professor of astronomy at Brown University.

St. Louis U. was to be in action again today with a game scheduled at 4 against Washington University at Ligget Field.