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

With the fortune he made from business among others he built Carnegie Hall, later he turned to philanthropy and interests in education, founding the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Carnegie Mellon University and the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh.

The Granville Street Baptist Church ( now First Baptist Church ( Halifax )) was an instrumental and determining factor in the founding of the University.

Peter Christian Lutkin, dean of the Northwestern University School of Music, helped popularize a cappella music in the United States by founding the Northwestern A Cappella Choir in 1906.

During his time there, Doppler, along with Franz Unger, played an influential role in the development of young Gregor Mendel, known as the founding father of genetics, who was a student at the University of Vienna from 1851 to 1853.

At the University of Bologna, from its founding in the 12th century until the end of the 20th century, the only degree conferred was the doctorate, usually earned after five years of intensive study after secondary school.

He was the founding dean of the University of Miami School of Environmental and Planetary Sciences in 1964, and held several government positions, including deputy assistant administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency, and chief scientist for the Department of Transportation.

In 1911, Cantor was one of the distinguished foreign scholars invited to attend the 500th anniversary of the founding of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.

Whipple thus became Professor and Chairman of Pathology and the founding Dean of the new School of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Rochester.

Named after American revolutionary, patriot, and founding father George Mason, the university was founded as a branch of the University of Virginia in 1957 and became an independent institution in 1972.

* Carl Ritter ( 1779 – 1859 ), considered to be one of the founding fathers of modern geography and first chair in geography at the Humboldt University of Berlin, also noted for his use of organic analogy in his works.

Scotland advanced markedly in educational terms during the fifteenth century with the founding of the University of St Andrews in 1413, the University of Glasgow in 1450 and the University of Aberdeen in 1495, and with the passing of the Education Act 1496, which decreed that all sons of barons and freeholders of substance should attend grammar schools.

Canadians G. G. Cochran helped in founding Doshisha University in Kyoto, and Davidson McDonald helped in establishing Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo.

In 1962 he was one of the founding members of the University of Sussex and was a Dean between 1965 – 85.

In 1897 the Pender Laboratory was founding at University College, London and Fleming took up the Pender Chair after the £ 5000 was endowed as a memorial to John Pender, the founder of Cable and Wireless.

The remainder of the 19th century saw a relative period of stability, as Islamic, Druze and Maronite groups focused on economic and cultural development which saw the founding of the American University of Beirut and a flowering of literary and political activity associated with the attempts to liberalize the Ottoman Empire.

* 1951 – The 400th anniversary of the founding of the National University of San Marcos is commemorated by the opening of the first large-capacity stadium in Peru.

In their book Liberality of Opportunity, Bruce Mansfield and Mark Hutchinson describe the founding of Macquarie University as ‘ an act of faith and a great experiment ’.

Here he took part in founding Jena University ( 1548 ); opposed the " Augsburg Interim " ( 1548 ); superintended the publication of the Jena edition of Luther's works ; and debated on the freedom of the will, original sin, and, more noticeably, on the Christian value of good works, in regard to which he held that they were not only useless, but prejudicial.

* 1587 – Leiden University Library opens its doors after its founding in 1575.

* The 1303 document founding the University of Rome La Sapienza ( Vatican Secret Archives )

* Earlier graduates include J. C. R. Licklider, pioneer in artificial intelligence ; Charles Nagel, founder of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce ; Julian Hill, co-inventor of nylon ; Clyde Cowan, co-discoverer of the neutrino ; James R. Thompson, Governor of Illinois ; David R. Francis, Governor of Missouri ; William H. Webster, former Director of the FBI ; Edward Singleton Holden, President of the University of California ; Nathan O. Hatch, president of Wake Forest University ; Thomas Lamb Eliot, President of Reed College ; and Abram L. Sachar, founding President of Brandeis University.

Its geography and the founding of Westphalia Vineyards links it to the Missouri Rhineland, extending along the Missouri River valley to the western edges of the St. Louis Metropolitan Area.

In addition, State support came from District 122 Missouri House Representative Mike McGhee, who hosted a meeting with the founding council in its second year.

Van Tompkins was one the “ founding fathers ” of the well known peach orchards of Campbell, Missouri.

Since its founding in 1839 until the formation of the system in 1963, the institution in Columbia was known simply as the University of Missouri.

Wesley Reid Scantlin ( born June 9, 1972 in Kansas City, Missouri ) is a songwriter, lead singer, guitarist and the only remaining founding member of the American post-grunge band Puddle of Mudd.

Baptist Bible College in Springfield, Missouri, has been the flagship school since its founding in 1950, growing to become the world's largest Bible college at its apex in the mid-70's.

The Church of God ( Holiness ) began in 1886 with the founding of a church in Centralia, Missouri.

He was, however, a part of the CLP's leadership from its earliest days, serving as District Secretary of the CLP for the states of Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska from the time of founding.

After exploring parts of Missouri, he is remembered for founding the city of St. Charles in 1769.

Included are the personal libraries of many of the founding fathers of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod and its theologians like C. F. W. Walther.

The program itself is designed to musically retell the history of Blaine, whose founding father was a buffoon incapable of distinguishing the geography of middle Missouri and the Pacific coastline.

Brown became a founding member of the Republican Party in Missouri.

Hearnes also campaigned against the Central Trust Bank of Jefferson City, Missouri ( which since its 1902 founding by Lon Stephens had been the central depository for state funds ), saying that the bank's power was creating an atmosphere where establishment forces would " select rather than elect " a leader.

In accordance with the founding of Sigma Tau Gamma Fraternity at Central Missouri State Teachers College, the fraternity created new chapters on the campuses surrounding teachers colleges ( at the time also called " normal schools ").

Truman State was a founding member of the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletic Association, and becomes the seventh Missouri school to join the GLVC since 1995.

It was for this reason that he transferred to the University of Missouri, which had a writing program, and then to the University of Nebraska, where he was mentored by the founding editor of graduating Prairie Schooner, Lowery C. Wimberley.

He is the founding director of the Bunraku Bay Puppet Troupe, based in Columbia, Missouri, which performs traditional Japanese puppet theater in the United States.

Waddell returned to the United States in 1886, founding a new design company the next year in 1887 and establishing himself in Kansas City, Missouri.

The Golden Republic was an American rock band, originally formed in Kansas City, Missouri in 1999 under the name People by founding members Ben Grimes and Ryan Shank.

Developed in French-settled areas of North America beginning with the founding of Quebec in 1608 and New Orleans, Louisiana in 1718, as well as along the Mississippi River valley to Missouri.

Throughout his political career Austin King also supported the establishment of a college in Richmond, Missouri as well as Columbia College and the 1833 founding of " Columbia Female Academy ", later known as Stephens College.

Governor Stewart championed the founding of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad in northern Missouri, which resulted in the creation of the Pony Express and the rise of Kansas City, Missouri as a metropolitan region.