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University and music
Ambros studied at the University of Prague and was well-educated in music and the arts, which were his abiding passion.
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.
In 2007, he was elected a member of Royal Swedish Academy of Music, and in 2008 received an Honorary Doctorate from the Stockholm University Faculty of Humanities for contributing importantly both to the preservation and the growth of the Swedish folk music tradition.
* WECR-FM 102. 3 FM is an Adult Contemporary radio station, mostly music, also University of North Carolina Tar Heels sports network, and Carolina Panthers football.
He was posthumously awarded a Doctor of Fine Arts degree by the University of Florida for his influence on American popular music and in its " People in America " radio series about influential people in American history, the Voice of America radio service paid tribute to him, describing how " his influence was so widespread that it is hard to imagine what rock and roll would have sounded like without him.
Cairo has the oldest and largest film and music industries in the Arab World, as well as the world's second-oldest institution of higher learning, al-Azhar University.
The oldest known recordings of computer generated music were played by the Ferranti Mark 1 computer, a commercial version of the Baby Machine from the University of Manchester in the autumn of 1951.
In Japan, experiments in computer music date back to 1962, when Keio University professor Sekine and Toshiba engineer Hayashi experimented with the TOSBAC computer.
Knuth had a difficult time choosing physics over music as his major at Case Institute of Technology ( now part of Case Western Reserve University ).
After studying in Magdeburg, Zellerfeld, and Hildesheim, Telemann entered the University of Leipzig to study law, but eventually settled on a career in music.
* Smith, Gary Scott, Heaven in the American Imagination ( Oxford University Press ; 2011 ) 339 pages ; draws on art, music, folklore, sermons, literature, psychology, and other realms in a study of how Americans since the Puritans have imagined heaven.
In 1431 he donated houses for the Estudo Geral to reunite all the sciences — grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, music and astronomy — into what would later become the University of Lisbon.
She received a bachelor's degree in mathematics, music and education from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
He declined an honorary doctorate of music from University of Cambridge in 1877, but accepted one from the University of Breslau in 1879, and composed the Academic Festival Overture as a gesture of appreciation.
After taking private composition lessons with Franciszek Skolyszewski, Penderecki studied music at Jagiellonian University and the Academy of Music in Kraków under Artur Malawski and Stanislaw Wiechowicz.
Classical music is also well known in Kosovo and has been taught at several music schools and universities ( at the University of Prishtina Faculty of Arts in Pristina and the University of Priština Faculty of Arts at Kosovska Mitrovica ).
Wall grew up in south Los Angeles and then Bremerton, Washington before starting higher education at Seattle Pacific University in 1976, majoring in chemistry and music and later Pre-med with a hiatus of several years working in the university's computing center before being graduated with a self-styled bachelor's degree in Natural and Artificial Languages.
" Prominent internalists included both Lynch and Brodie ; the most vocal externalists included Derek Gatherer, a geneticist from Liverpool John Moores University, and William Benzon, a writer on cultural evolution and music.
In Durham, students of the University of Durham gather on Prebend's Bridge to see the sunrise and enjoy festivities, folk music, dancing, madrigal singing and a barbecue breakfast.
Sensors built into a dance floor at the University of Texas convert dancers ' movements into MIDI messages, and David Rokeby's Very Nervous System art installation created music from the movements of passers-through.
An in-depth Harvard University study found evidence that spatial-temporal reasoning improves when children learn to make music, and this kind of reasoning improves temporarily when adults listen to certain kinds of music, including Mozart ( Rauscher, Shaw & Ky, 1993 ).

University and departments
With its eight faculties and 57 departments, the University of Gothenburg is also one of the most wide-ranging and versatile universities in Sweden.
The Jadavpur campus houses most of the departments of the three faculties — Engineering, Science and Arts — in addition to the Jadavpur University Central Library and the Blue Earth Workshop.
Kista hosts departments of both Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University ( formerly jointly known as " the IT University ").
In addition to all universities in Maharashtra, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda ( Gujarat ), Osmania University ( Andhra Pradesh ), Gulbarga university ( Karnataka ), Devi Ahilya University of Indore and Goa University ( Panaji ) all have special departments for higher studies in Marathi linguistics.
The education and social work departments of the HAN University of Applied Sciences, school for higher-level vocational training are also located in Nijmegen, as are that school's medical departments.
Other anthropology departments, such as that of the University of Washington, offer biomedical tracks within more traditional biological or biocultural anthropology programs.
This is true, for instance, of many departments in the United Kingdom, including the Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Exeter, and the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Leeds.
Currently, there are six colleges, programs, and departments at the University of Tulsa:
The school expanded over the decades, adding programs and departments, to become the present-day Tuskegee University.
It is composed of four departments: The Manchester School of Architecture ( operated jointly with the University of Manchester Faculty of Humanities ); Department of Art ; Department of Design ; Department of Media.
Only the LSE and the University of Glasgow retain separate economic history departments and stand-alone undergraduate and graduate programmes in economic history.
Kaempffert was instrumental in developing close ties with the science departments of the University of Chicago, which supplied much of the scholarship for the exhibits.
With a few exceptions, such as Cornell University, which awards graduate degrees in Regional Science, most practitioners hold positions in departments such as economics, geography, civil engineering, agricultural economics, rural sociology, urban planning, public policy, or demography.
Darmstadt is the site of the Technische Universität Darmstadt, renowned for its engineering departments, and of the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences.
The reforms also separated the medical departments into separate medical schools, such as the Medical University of Vienna.
For its historical impact through the centuries, Cambridge was widely recognized as the most influential European University, one that " continues to play a very particular role for the university consciousness in the world ," Its decision to confer an honorary degree to Derrida was seen as a challenge to the apparent hegemony of the Anglo-American Analytic philosophy over most of the philosophy departments of the Anglophone world.
He returned to academia, enrolling in applied mathematics at Princeton University then shifting departments and receiving a Ph. D. in physics in 1976 under David Gross, the 2004 Nobel laureate in Physics.
As of 2005, the University of Barcelona comprises 100 departments grouped in 18 faculties and two university schools, one school and eight attached schools.
There are two departments of the University of Milan Bicocca located in Monza: the faculty of Medicine and Surgery and the Faculty of Sociology.

University and may
`` Surprised and pleased '', Students Holmes and Hunter may enter the University of Georgia this week.
Finally, we may also mention the several members of the self-consciously `` neoliberal '' movement that developed at the University of Chicago and is heavily indebted philosophically to the creative work of Alfred North Whitehead.
Another experiment funded by the National Institutes of Health and conducted in 2007 at the Duke University in Durham, North Carolina suggests a different view, " that altruistic behavior may originate from how people view the world rather than how they act in it ".
In addition, higher education may be pursued at The University College and The Law School.
Some research carried out at the University of Kent, UK suggests people may be influenced by conspiracy theories without being aware that their attitudes have changed.
They believe that the star, dubbed the " Champagne Supernova " by University of Oklahoma astronomer David R. Branch, may have been spinning so fast that centrifugal force allowed it to exceed the limit.
As an incentive to students, University Scholars receive a free tuition, a laptop, a " cultural passport " that offers free or reduced-admission to various cultural institutions and venues in New York City, and a $ 7500 expense account that may be used for research and / or study abroad.
According to a study at the University of Texas, ClearType " may not be universally beneficial ".
Recent discoveries by the American University in Cairo of mummified dachshund-like dogs from ancient Egyptian burial urns may lend credibility to this theory.
In 2011, Nicholas V. Cozzi, of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, concluded that INMT, an enzyme that may be associated with the biosynthesis of DMT and endogenous hallucinogens, is present in the human pineal gland, retinal ganglion neurons, spinal cord, and central nervous tissues.
Poe may have become engaged to Sarah Elmira Royster before he registered at the one-year-old University of Virginia in February 1826 to study languages.
The University Council is informed of the running of the university by the College at least twice a year and may advise the College as it sees fit.
Professor Mark Horton of Bristol University said that " this may prove to be the oldest complete remains of an English royal.
Scientists at the Earth Institute of Columbia University have analyzed data from 1950 to 2004 and suggest that ENSO may have had a role in 21 % of all civil conflicts since 1950, with the risk of annual civil conflict doubling from 3 % to 6 % in countries affected by ENSO during El Niño years relative to La Niña years.
Certain of his film related material and personal papers are contained in the Wesleyan University Cinema Archives to which scholars and media experts from around the world may have full access.
Hakka cuisine, or Kejia cuisine, is the cooking style of the Hakka people, who originated in the southeastern Chinese provinces of Guangdong and Fujian, but may also be found in other parts of China and in countries with significant overseas Chinese communities .< ref > Linda Lau Anusasananan, < i > The Hakka Cookbook: Chinese Soul Food from Around the World </ i > ( University of California Press, 2012 )</ ref > There are numerous restaurants in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore serving Hakka cuisine.
In September 2006, new claims that the Ivory-billed Woodpecker may not be extinct were released by a research group consisting of members from Auburn University in Alabama and the University of Windsor in Ontario.
Dr. Geoffrey E. Hill of Auburn University and Dr. Daniel Mennill of the University of Windsor have revealed a collection of evidence that the birds may still exist in the cypress swamps of the Florida panhandle.
Research conducted in 2003 at Emory University, Georgia, USA, involving Capuchin Monkeys demonstrated that other cooperative animals also possess such a sense and that " inequity aversion may not be uniquely human " indicating that ideas of fairness and justice may be instinctual in nature.
In late 2005, researchers at the University of Melbourne speculated that the perentie ( Varanus giganteus ), other species of monitor, and agamids may be somewhat venomous.
The University is accredited by a professional organization such as the Dietitians of Canada and the university's graduates may subsequently become registered dietitians.
In 1956, Paul Kuroda of the University of Arkansas postulated that a natural fission reactor may have once existed.

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