* University Commons – Freshmen – Completed in 1986, and housing approximately 500 students in seven halls ( Amherst, Brunswick, Carroll, Dickenson, Essex, Franklin, and Grayson ).

In 1978 Roy Trubshaw, a student at Essex University in the UK, started working on a multi-user adventure game in the MACRO-10 assembly language for a DEC PDP-10.

Trubshaw converted MUD to BCPL ( the predecessor of C ), before handing over development to Richard Bartle, a fellow student at Essex University, in 1980.

MUD, better known as Essex MUD and MUD1 in later years, ran on the Essex University network until late 1987, becoming the first Internet multiplayer online role-playing game in 1980, when Essex University connected its internal network to ARPANet.

This left MIST, a derivative of MUD1 with similar gameplay, as the only remaining MUD running on the Essex University network, becoming one of the first of its kind to attain broad popularity.

The popularity of MUDs of the Essex University tradition escalated in the USA during the late 1980s when affordable personal computers with 300 to 2400 bit / s modems enabled role-players to log into multi-line Bulletin Board Systems and online service providers such as CompuServe.

Alan Cox had played the original University of Essex MUD, and the gameplay was heavily influenced by it.

In 1974 he briefly moved back to Britain as Professor of Language and Linguistics at Essex University.

* Manuscripts and Woodcuts: Visions and Designs from Bloomsbury – Duke University Libraries Digital Collections Includes 12 woodcuts by Roger Fry and the manuscript of Elizabeth and Essex written in Lytton Strachey's hand with 7 miscellaneous manuscript letters.

In 1978 Roy Trubshaw, a student at Essex University in the UK, created the game MUD ( Multi-User Dungeon ).

( 1999 ): The Polarisation of Elizabethan Politics: The Political Career of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, 1585 – 1597 Cambridge University Press ISBN 0-521-01941-9

He was awarded honorary doctorates by Cambridge University ( 1992 ), Columbia University, The New School for Social Research, the University of Essex, University of Leuven, Williams College and University of Silesia.

Angelopoulos was awarded honorary doctorates by the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium in 1995, by Paris West University Nanterre La Défense, France, by the University of Essex, UK in July 2001, by the University of Western Macedonia, Greece in December 2008, and by the University of the Aegean, Greece in December 2009.

( 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.

In 1999, American Heritage magazine rated Elihu Yale the " most overrated philanthropist " in American history, arguing that the college that would later bear his name ( Yale University ) was successful largely because of the generosity of a man named Jeremiah Dummer, but that the trustees of the school did not want it known by the name " Dummer College ".

, Harvey Mudd College is tied for 14th with Grinnell College, United States Military Academy, and Washington and Lee University among liberal arts colleges in the United States as rated by the U. S. News and World Report and as of 2011, is ranked as the best undergraduate engineering program at a school whose highest degree is a bachelor's or master's by U. S. News & World Report.

The university is rated as the best university in the Netherlands by both the Times Higher Education World University Ranking 2011 and the Shanghai Ranking of World Universities 2012, and ranked as the 12th best European university and the 68th best university of the world by the former ranking and 12th best European university and 53th best of the world by the latter.

* Siberian State Medical University, one of the oldest and highest rated medical schools in Russia.

For example, the highly rated International History department offers a joint MA in International and World History with Columbia University and an MSc in International Affairs with Peking University, with graduates earning degrees from both institutions.

The University was rated first in Scotland for Nursing and Midwifery ; Education ; Sports Studies ; Communication, Cultural and Media Studies.

In recent years it has been rated as one of the world's top 100 universities by the Times Higher Education Table, while the 2011 QS World University Rankings ranked the university 75th overall in the world, and Webometrics Ranking of World Universities ranking Southampton 32nd in the world.

The university has New Zealand's highest average research quality and in New Zealand is second only to the University of Auckland in the number of A rated academic researchers it employs.

In the 2010 Die Zeit ranking, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering related programs of Jacobs University were highly rated with its programs comparing well with those offered at 9 technical universities, lagging only in third-party funding which can be attributed to the young age of the private institution.

The area is popular with families due to the quality of East Lake High School which has managed to rate equivalently with Palm Harbor's University High School ( both A + rated ), despite not having the attraction of an International Baccalaureate program like Palm Harbor University High.

The unofficial Tompkins Table comparing academic performance ranked King's nineteenth out of a total of twenty-nine rated colleges at the University of Cambridge in 2008 ; the college's position has fluctuated between tenth and twenty-first over the years 2000 – 2008.

In 2008 the THE-QS World University Rankings rated University of Liverpool 99th best in the world, and 137th best worldwide in 2009.

Out of 132 universities and colleges, the OU was ranked 43rd in the Times Higher Education Table of Excellence in 2008, between the University of Reading and University of the Arts London ; it was rated highly in specific subjects such as art history, sociology ( below Oxford and Cambridge ) and development studies.

In November 2011, Mount Allison University was ranked the # 1 university in Canada for the 15th time in the primarily undergraduate university category, as rated by Maclean's magazine.

The Guardian University Guide 2008 rated it top in the country for Dentistry and Chemical Engineering, while a majority of its courses were ranked in the top ten or twenty.

* Film and Media Studies also moved up the league tables ; rated by the Times Higher listings as 15th, higher than Oxford University.

In 2005 / 6, De Montfort University was highly rated by both external examiners and the Quality Agency Audit ( QAA ) for its academic planning, staff training and the support given to students.

It is rated 11th in the UK, 33rd in Europe and 99th best university in the world in the 2010 Academic Ranking of World Universities, and 85th-87th by Global University Ranking.

The University of Sheffield is rated 8th in the UK, 18th in Europe and 69th in the world in an annual academic ranking of the top 500 universities worldwide published in August 2010.

The University is rated 12th in the UK, 22nd in Europe and 68th in the world in the Times Higher Education Supplement's November 2007 ranking of the top 100 universities in the world.

Oklahoma State University is one of the highest rated veterinarian colleges in the US.