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Collegiate Gothic
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A form of historicist architecture, it took its inspiration from English Tudor and Gothic buildings. It is for us, as part of our duty as our highest privilege to act, Gothic Revival architecture was used for American college buildings as early as 1829, when Old Kenyon was completed on the campus of Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. Alexander Jackson Daviss University Hall, on New York Universitys Washington Square campus, was another early example, richard Bonds church-like library for Harvard College, Gore Hall, became the model for other library buildings. James Renwick, Jr. s Free Academy Building, for what is today City College of New York, inspired by Londons Hampton Court Palace, Swedish-born Charles Ulricson designed Old Main at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. Richards, architect, Harvard College – Memorial Hall, William Robert Ware and Henry Van Brunt, architects, and Cornell University – Sage Hall, Charles Babcock, architect. In 1871, English architect William Burges designed a row of vigorous French Gothic-inspired buildings for Trinity College – Seabury Hall, Northam Tower, Jarvis Hall – in Hartford, Connecticut. Tastes became more conservative in the 1880s, and collegiate architecture soon after came to prefer a more scholarly, inspired by the architecture of Oxford and Cambridge universities, and historicists but not literal copyists, Cope & Stewardson were highly influential in establishing the Collegiate Gothic style. In 1901, the firm of Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge created a plan for a Collegiate Gothic campus for the fledgling University of Chicago. Some of their works, such as the Mitchell Tower, were copies of historic buildings. George Browne Post designed the City College of New Yorks new campus at Hamilton Heights, Manhattan, the style was experienced up-close by a wide audience at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri. The Worlds Fair and 1904 Olympic Games were held on the completed campus of Washington University. The movement gained momentum when Charles Donagh Maginnis designed Gasson Hall at Boston College in 1908. Ralph Adams Cram designed one of the most poetic collections of Collegiate Gothic buildings for the Princeton University Graduate College, james Gamble Rogerss extensive work at Yale University, beginning in 1917, took historicist fantasy to an extreme. He was criticized by the growing Modernist movement, following McMaster Universitys decision to relocate to Hamilton, Ontario, Canadian architect William Lyon Somerville designed its new campus in the style. These buildings are among the most remarkable yet built in America and they are picturesque also, even dramatic, they are altogether wonderful in mass and in composition. If they are not a constant inspiration to those who dwell within their walls or pass through their quads or their vaulted archways, it is not their fault, the tower has been severely criticized as an archaeological abstraction reared to commemorate contemporary American heroism. The criticism seems just to me, though only in a measure, American heroism harks back to English heroism, the blood shed before Manila and on San Juan Hill was the same blood that flowed at Bosworth Field, Flodden, and the Boyne. Therefore the British base of the design is indispensable, for such were the racial foundations, Collegiate Gothic complexes were most often horizontal compositions, save for a single tower or towers serving as an exclamation
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Blair Hall (1896-97), Princeton University,
Cope and Stewardson, architects.
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"Old Kenyon" (1827-29),
Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio. Architect
Charles Bullfinch designed its steeple.
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University Hall (1833-37),
New York University,
Alexander Jackson Davis, architect.
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Free Academy Building (1847-49),
City College of New York,
James Renwick, Jr., architect.
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Washington University in St. Louis
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Washington University in St. Louis is a private research university located in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Founded in 1853, and named after George Washington, the university has students and faculty from all 50 U. S. states, twenty-five Nobel laureates have been affiliated with Washington University, nine having done the major part of their pioneering research at the university. Washington Universitys undergraduate program is ranked 19th by U. S. News & World Report, the university is ranked 23rd in the world in 2016 by the Academic Ranking of World Universities. Washington University is made up of seven graduate and undergraduate schools that encompass a range of academic fields. To prevent confusion over its location, the Board of Trustees added the phrase in St. Louis in 1976, Washington University was conceived by 17 St. Louis business, political, and religious leaders concerned by the lack of institutions of higher learning in the Midwest. Missouri State Senator Wayman Crow and Unitarian minister William Greenleaf Eliot, grandfather of the poet T. S. Eliot, the universitys first chancellor was Joseph Gibson Hoyt. Crow secured the university charter from the Missouri General Assembly in 1853, early on, Eliot solicited support from members of the local business community, including John OFallon, but Eliot failed to secure a permanent endowment. Washington University is unusual among major American universities in not having had a financial endowment. The institution had no backing of an organization, single wealthy patron. During the three following its inception, the university bore three different names. In 1854, the Board of Trustees changed the name to Washington Institute in honor of George Washington, naming the University after the nations first president, only seven years before the American Civil War and during a time of bitter national division, was no coincidence. During this time of conflict, Americans universally admired George Washington as the father of the United States, the Board of Trustees believed that the university should be a force of unity in a strongly divided Missouri. In 1856, the University amended its name to Washington University, although chartered as a university, for many years Washington University functioned primarily as a night school located on 17th Street and Washington Avenue in the heart of downtown St. Louis. Owing to limited resources, Washington University initially used public buildings. Classes began on October 22,1854, at the Benton School building, at first the university paid for the evening classes, but as their popularity grew, their funding was transferred to the St. Louis Public Schools. Eventually the board secured funds for the construction of Academic Hall, later the university divided into three departments, the Manual Training School, Smith Academy, and the Mary Institute. In 1867, the university opened the first private law school west of the Mississippi River. By 1882, Washington University had expanded to numerous departments, which were housed in buildings across St. Louis
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William Greenleaf Eliot, first president of the Board of Trustees
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Washington University in St. Louis
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The Washington University crest at the entrance to
Francis Field
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Brookings Hall Quad
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Philadelphia
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In 1682, William Penn, an English Quaker, founded the city to serve as capital of the Pennsylvania Colony. Philadelphia was one of the capitals in the Revolutionary War. In the 19th century, Philadelphia became an industrial center. It became a destination for African-Americans in the Great Migration. The areas many universities and colleges make Philadelphia a top international study destination, as the city has evolved into an educational, with a gross domestic product of $388 billion, Philadelphia ranks ninth among world cities and fourth in the nation. Philadelphia is the center of activity in Pennsylvania and is home to seven Fortune 1000 companies. The Philadelphia skyline is growing, with a market of almost 81,900 commercial properties in 2016 including several prominent skyscrapers. The city is known for its arts, culture, and rich history, Philadelphia has more outdoor sculptures and murals than any other American city. Fairmount Park, when combined with the adjacent Wissahickon Valley Park in the watershed, is one of the largest contiguous urban park areas in the United States. The 67 National Historic Landmarks in the city helped account for the $10 billion generated by tourism, Philadelphia is the only World Heritage City in the United States. Before Europeans arrived, the Philadelphia area was home to the Lenape Indians in the village of Shackamaxon, the Lenape are a Native American tribe and First Nations band government. They are also called Delaware Indians and their territory was along the Delaware River watershed, western Long Island. Most Lenape were pushed out of their Delaware homeland during the 18th century by expanding European colonies, Lenape communities were weakened by newly introduced diseases, mainly smallpox, and violent conflict with Europeans. Iroquois people occasionally fought the Lenape, surviving Lenape moved west into the upper Ohio River basin. The American Revolutionary War and United States independence pushed them further west, in the 1860s, the United States government sent most Lenape remaining in the eastern United States to the Indian Territory under the Indian removal policy. In the 21st century, most Lenape now reside in the US state of Oklahoma, with communities living also in Wisconsin, Ontario. The Dutch considered the entire Delaware River valley to be part of their New Netherland colony, in 1638, Swedish settlers led by renegade Dutch established the colony of New Sweden at Fort Christina and quickly spread out in the valley. In 1644, New Sweden supported the Susquehannocks in their defeat of the English colony of Maryland
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From top left, the Philadelphia skyline, a
statue of Benjamin Franklin, the
Liberty Bell, the
Philadelphia Museum of Art,
Philadelphia City Hall, and
Independence Hall
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An 18th century map of Philadelphia.
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Penn's Treaty with the Indians by
Benjamin West
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Benjamin Franklin, 1777
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Cambridge University
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The University of Cambridge is a collegiate public research university in Cambridge, England, often regarded as one of the most prestigious universities in the world. Founded in 1209 and given royal status by King Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world. The university grew out of an association of scholars who left the University of Oxford after a dispute with the townspeople, the two ancient universities share many common features and are often referred to jointly as Oxbridge. Cambridge is formed from a variety of institutions which include 31 constituent colleges, Cambridge University Press, a department of the university, is the worlds oldest publishing house and the second-largest university press in the world. The university also operates eight cultural and scientific museums, including the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridges libraries hold a total of around 15 million books, eight million of which are in Cambridge University Library, a legal deposit library. In the year ended 31 July 2015, the university had an income of £1.64 billion. The central university and colleges have an endowment of around £5.89 billion. The university is linked with the development of the high-tech business cluster known as Silicon Fen. It is a member of associations and forms part of the golden triangle of leading English universities and Cambridge University Health Partners. As of 2017, Cambridge is ranked the fourth best university by three ranking tables and no other institution in the world ranks in the top 10 for as many subjects. Cambridge is consistently ranked as the top university in the United Kingdom, the university has educated many notable alumni, including eminent mathematicians, scientists, politicians, lawyers, philosophers, writers, actors, and foreign Heads of State. Ninety-five Nobel laureates, fifteen British prime ministers and ten Fields medalists have been affiliated with Cambridge as students, faculty, by the late 12th century, the Cambridge region already had a scholarly and ecclesiastical reputation, due to monks from the nearby bishopric church of Ely. The University of Oxford went into suspension in protest, and most scholars moved to such as Paris, Reading. After the University of Oxford reformed several years later, enough remained in Cambridge to form the nucleus of the new university. A bull in 1233 from Pope Gregory IX gave graduates from Cambridge the right to teach everywhere in Christendom, the colleges at the University of Cambridge were originally an incidental feature of the system. No college is as old as the university itself, the colleges were endowed fellowships of scholars. There were also institutions without endowments, called hostels, the hostels were gradually absorbed by the colleges over the centuries, but they have left some indicators of their time, such as the name of Garret Hostel Lane. Hugh Balsham, Bishop of Ely, founded Peterhouse, Cambridges first college, the most recently established college is Robinson, built in the late 1970s
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Emmanuel College Chapel
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University of Cambridge coat of arms
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Sir Isaac Newton was a student of the University of Cambridge
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Trinity Lane in the snow, with
King's College Chapel (centre),
Clare College Chapel (right), and the
Old Schools (left)
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Princeton University
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Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The institution moved to Newark in 1747, then to the current site nine years later, Princeton provides undergraduate and graduate instruction in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering. The university has ties with the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton has the largest endowment per student in the United States. The university has graduated many notable alumni, two U. S. Presidents,12 U. S. Supreme Court Justices, and numerous living billionaires and foreign heads of state are all counted among Princetons alumni body. New Light Presbyterians founded the College of New Jersey in 1746 in order to train ministers, the college was the educational and religious capital of Scots-Irish America. In 1754, trustees of the College of New Jersey suggested that, in recognition of Governors interest, gov. Jonathan Belcher replied, What a name that would be. In 1756, the moved to Princeton, New Jersey. Its home in Princeton was Nassau Hall, named for the royal House of Orange-Nassau of William III of England, following the untimely deaths of Princetons first five presidents, John Witherspoon became president in 1768 and remained in that office until his death in 1794. During his presidency, Witherspoon shifted the focus from training ministers to preparing a new generation for leadership in the new American nation. To this end, he tightened academic standards and solicited investment in the college, in 1812, the eighth president the College of New Jersey, Ashbel Green, helped establish the Princeton Theological Seminary next door. The plan to extend the theological curriculum met with approval on the part of the authorities at the College of New Jersey. Today, Princeton University and Princeton Theological Seminary maintain separate institutions with ties that include such as cross-registration. Before the construction of Stanhope Hall in 1803, Nassau Hall was the sole building. The cornerstone of the building was laid on September 17,1754, during the summer of 1783, the Continental Congress met in Nassau Hall, making Princeton the countrys capital for four months. The class of 1879 donated twin lion sculptures that flanked the entrance until 1911, Nassau Halls bell rang after the halls construction, however, the fire of 1802 melted it. The bell was then recast and melted again in the fire of 1855, James McCosh took office as the colleges president in 1868 and lifted the institution out of a low period that had been brought about by the American Civil War. McCosh Hall is named in his honor, in 1879, the first thesis for a Doctor of Philosophy Ph. D. was submitted by James F. Williamson, Class of 1877. In 1896, the officially changed its name from the College of New Jersey to Princeton University to honor the town in which it resides
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A commemorative 3-cent stamp from 1953 celebrating the bicentennial of
Nassau Hall
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Seal of Princeton University
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John Witherspoon, President of the College (1768-94), signer of the
Declaration of Independence
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A Birds-eye view of campus in 1906
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Robert S. Brookings
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Robert Somers Brookings was an American businessman and philanthropist, known for his involvement with Washington University in St. Louis and his founding of the Brookings Institution. Brookings was born in Maryland and grew up on the Little Elk Creek in Cecil County and his father died when Robert was only two and money was scarce. After one year of school, Brookings dropped out, at age 17, in 1867, he moved to St. Louis, Missouri to join his brother Harry as an employee of Cupples & Marston, wholesale dealers in household goods. Robert worked as a clerk and also moonlighted as a bookkeeper and he earned $25-a-month as a clerk and $10-a-month as a bookkeeper. Robert practiced sales techniques and convinced Samuel Cupples to give him a salesman position, Robert and his brother decided to start their own firm after four years of experience with Cupples & Marston. Cupples agreed to make Robert a partner instead of him to a new company. By 1872, Robert and Harry Brookings had become partners in the firm, Brookings traveled the country for the company and Cupples dominated the woodenware trade. Brookings became a millionaire by the time he was thirty and was a vice-president at the company, one of Brookings greatest accomplishments was the construction of Cupples Station, which was completed in 1895. Cupples Station had eighteen warehouses designed by William Eames and Thomas Young, a separate endeavor from Cupples & Marston, the Station revolutionized shipping in St. Louis and served as a model for other cities. Building the station required buying eight blocks of property, which brought the company near bankruptcy, no U. S. banks would loan Brookings the money, but a British bank saved him with a $3 million loan. In 1895, Brookings, now secure, decided to focus on charitable. Brookings retired from business at forty-six, Brookings was interested in education as a way of helping others. He toyed with funding his own university, but decided to work with Washington University, Brookings helped transform the small school into a leading university with national prominence. He secured funding for one hundred acres that would become the universitys Hilltop Campus, the universitys administration building, Brookings Hall, is named for him. By 1899, the Universitys endowment was stable, Brookings friends, including William K. Bixby, Adolphus Busch, and Edward Mallinckrodt assisted with the building campaign. All three have buildings named after them on the Washington University campus, Brookings rented out many of the new University buildings for the 1904 Worlds Fair. He also helped Washington Universitys medical school gain prominence and become one of the best in the country, in 1917, President Woodrow Wilson appointed Brookings to the War Industries Board, and later named him chairman of its Price Fixing Committee. In this role, he was the liaison between the U. S. government and many different industries, the boards role was to unify efforts to supply and distribute goods and food for the military
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Robert S. Brookings
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Brookings Hall, often an icon of
Washington University in St. Louis, is named for Brookings
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Steve Fossett
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James Stephen Steve Fossett was an American businessman and a record-setting aviator, sailor, and adventurer. He was the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon, a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Explorers Club, Fossett set more than one hundred records in five different sports, sixty of which still stood at the time of his death. Fossett disappeared on September 3,2007, while flying an aircraft over the Great Basin Desert. Extensive searches proved unsuccessful, and he was declared dead in February of the following year. In September 2008, a hiker found Fossetts identification cards in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, Fossetts only remains, two large bones, were found half a mile from the crash site, probably scattered by wild animals. Fossett was born in Jackson, Tennessee and grew up in Garden Grove, California, Fossetts interest in adventure began early. As a Boy Scout, he grew up climbing the mountains of California, when I was 12 years old I climbed my first mountain, and I just kept going, taking on more diverse and grander projects. Fossett said that he did not have a gift for athletics or team sports. His father, an Eagle Scout, encouraged Fossett to pursue these types of adventures and he became an active member of Troop 170 in Orange, California. At age 13, Fossett earned the Boy Scouts highest rank of Eagle Scout and he was a Vigil Honor member of the Order of the Arrow, the Boy Scouts honor society, where he served as lodge chief. He also worked as a Ranger at Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico during the summer of 1961, Fossett said in 2006 that Scouting was the most important activity of his youth. He made the swim, but was thwarted by a security guard when he arrived, while at Stanford, Fossett was a student body officer and served as the president of a few clubs. In 1966, Fossett graduated from Stanford with a degree in economics, Fossett spent the following summer in Europe climbing mountains and swimming the Dardanelles. In 1968, Fossett received an MBA from the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, where he was later a longtime member of the Board of Trustees. Fossetts first job out of school was with IBM, he then served as a consultant for Deloitte and Touche. Fossett later said, For the first five years of my business career, I was distracted by being in computer systems, and then I became interested in financial markets. Fossett then became a successful salesman in Chicago, first for Merrill Lynch in 1973, where he proved a highly successful producer of commission revenue for himself. In 1980, Fossett began the process that produced his enduring prosperity, renting exchange memberships to would-be floor traders
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Fossett in 2006
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The Spirit of Freedom balloon gondola on display
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Fossett at NASA
Kennedy Space Center 's Shuttle Landing Facility seated in the
Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer cockpit
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Champion 8KCAB Super Decathlon
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Mission control center
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A mission control center is a facility that manages space flights, usually from the point of launch until landing or the end of the mission. It is part of the segment of spacecraft operations. A staff of flight controllers and other support personnel monitor all aspects of the mission using telemetry, the training for these missions usually falls under the responsibility of the flight controllers, typically including extensive rehearsals in the MCC. Prior to liftoff, missions are controlled from the Launch Control Center located at NASAs Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, the MCC also manages the U. S. portions of the International Space Station. European Space Operations Centre is responsible for ESAs satellites and space probes and it is located in Darmstadt, Germany. The Mission Control Center of the Russian Federal Space Agency, also known by its acronym ЦУП is located in Korolyov and it contains an active control room for the ISS. It also houses a control room for the Mir where the last few orbits of Mir before it burned up in the atmosphere are shown on the display screens. Beijing Aerospace Command and Control Center is a center for the Chinese space program which includes the Shenzhou missions. The building is inside a complex nicknamed Aerospace City, the city is located in a suburb northwest of Beijing. America Boeing Satellite Development Center Mission Control Center in El Segundo, California, in charge of several military satellites. Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland provides mission control for the Hubble Space Telescope, lockheed Martin A2100 Space Operations Center in Newtown, Pennsylvania, US. In charge of military satellites. Mercury Control Center was located on the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and was used during Project Mercury, one of its still standing buildings now serves as a makeshift bunker for the media if a rocket explodes near the ground. Mobile Servicing System Control and Training at Saint-Hubert, Quebec, Canada, supports Canadarm2 and dextre robotics operations. Space Systems/Loral Mission Control Center in Palo Alto, California, US, the MESSENGER and New Horizons missions were controlled from the Applied Physics Laboratory near Baltimore, Maryland. Asia ISRO SHAR Mission Control Centre, Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, jAXAs satellite operations are also based here. Europe The ATV Control Centre is located at the Toulouse Space Centre in Toulouse and it is the mission control center for the European Automated Transfer Vehicles, that regularly resupply ISS. The Columbus Control Center at the German Aerospace Center in Oberpfaffenhofen and it is the mission control center for the European Columbus research laboratory at the International Space Station
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International Space Station control rooms in Russia and in the United States.
Mission control center
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Circumnavigation
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Circumnavigation means to travel all the way around the entire planet, or an island, or continent. This article is concerned with circumnavigation of the Earth, the first known circumnavigation of Earth was the Magellan-Elcano expedition, which sailed from Seville, Spain, in 1519 and returned in 1522 after crossing the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. The word circumnavigation is a formed from the verb circumnavigate, from the past participle of the Latin verb circumnavigare. If a person walks completely around either Pole, they cross all meridians, the trajectory of a true circumnavigation forms a continuous loop on the surface of Earth separating two halves of comparable area. A basic definition of a global circumnavigation would be a route which covers roughly a great circle, in practice, people use different definitions of world circumnavigation to accommodate practical constraints, depending on the method of travel. The first single voyage of global circumnavigation was that of the ship Victoria and it was a Castilian voyage of discovery, led initially by Ferdinand Magellan between 1519 and 1521, and then by the Basque Juan Sebastián Elcano from 1521 to 1522. It then continued across the Pacific discovering a number of islands on its way, Elcano and a small group of 18 men were actually the only members of the expedition to make the full circumnavigation. However, traveling west from Europe, in 1521, Magellan reached a region of Southeast Asia, Magellan thereby achieved a nearly complete personal circumnavigation of the globe for the first time in history. In 1577, Elizabeth I sent Francis Drake to start an expedition against the Spanish along the Pacific coast of the Americas, Drake set out from Plymouth, England in November 1577, aboard Pelican, which Drake renamed Golden Hind mid-voyage. In June 1579, Drake landed somewhere north of Spains northern-most claim in Alta California, Drake completed the second circumnavigation of the world in September 1580, becoming the first commander to lead an entire circumnavigation. For the wealthy, long voyages around the world, such as was done by Ulysses S. Grant, became possible in the 19th century, however, it was later improvements in technology and rising incomes that made such trips relatively common. The nautical global circumnavigation record is held by a wind-powered vessel. It can be seen that the route roughly approximates a great circle, in yacht racing, a round-the-world route approximating a great circle would be quite impractical, particularly in a non-stop race where use of the Panama and Suez Canals would be impossible. The second map on the shows the route of the Vendée Globe round-the-world race in red. It can be seen that the route does not pass through any pairs of antipodal points and it is allowed to have one single waypoint to lengthen the calculated track. The voyage followed the North Atlantic Ocean, Equator, South Atlantic Ocean, Southern Ocean, South Atlantic Ocean, Equator, since the advent of world cruises in 1922, by Cunards Laconia, thousands of people have completed circumnavigations of the globe at a more leisurely pace. Typically, these voyages begin in New York City or Southampton, routes vary, either travelling through the Caribbean and then into the Pacific Ocean via the Panama Canal, or around Cape Horn. From there ships usually make their way to Hawaii, the islands of the South Pacific, Australia, New Zealand, then northward to Hong Kong, South East Asia, and India
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Jason Lewis of
Expedition 360 pedaling his boat Moksha on the
River Thames in
London, shortly before completing the first human-powered circumnavigation of the
Earth (2007)
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In 2012, the Swiss boat
PlanetSolar became the first ever
solar electric vehicle to circumnavigate the globe
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A replica of Magellan's
Nao Victoria, the first vessel to circumnavigate the planet
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Washington University Libraries
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Washington University Libraries is the library system of Washington University in St. Louis. The system includes 12 libraries and over 4.2 million volumes, the John M. Olin Library is the central library. It is also a federal depository library and houses over 70,000 microfilms. Built in the early 1960s after a gift from John M. Olin and opened in 1962, in 2004, the Olin Library was rededicated after a comprehensive renovation and an expansion of the main floor. This process took more than three years, the library contains a cafe/coffee shop, study spaces for graduate and undergraduate students, and many general services and administrative offices of the Washington University Libraries. The Washington University Film & Media Archive is an archive is composed of completed films and videos, the archive also holds numerous materials that went into the creation of other works. Opened in the Fall of 2002, the Film & Media Archives first acquisition was the Henry Hampton Collection, for the first time ever, the tens of thousands of materials created by his company Blackside, Inc. during the production process became available for study. It continues to grow, focusing on collecting film archives that examine the social movements of American history and African-American life and culture. In addition to acquiring collections of historical importance, the Archive preserves and organizes these materials, publicizes them. The collection accepts submissions of written testimony, images, and video related to the protests, located on the Washington University School of Medicine campus, Becker Library serves the Washington University School of Medicine, the Barnes-Jewish Hospital, and the St. Louis Children’s Hospital. The mission of the Becker Medical Library is to provide resources and technology in support of the educational, research. The library contains over 146,000 volumes, along with over 9,100 print, shirley K. Baker served as dean of Washington University Libraries from 1989 until her retirement on June 30,2012. Her replacement Jeffrey Trzeciak, who served from July 1,2012 until July 21,2016, the libraries are currently being lead on an interim basis by Marion G. Crain, a Vice Provost and Professor of Law at Washington University. Kenneth and Nancy Kranzberg Art & Architecture Library - serves the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, kopolow Business Library - serves the Olin Business School. Chemistry Library - serves mainly the Chemistry Department and other university science departments, the library provides access to many print and online industry journals, including those published by the American Chemical Society, Elsevier, and Wiley. Ronald Rettner Earth and Planetary Sciences Library East Asian Library - serves the information, the East Asian Library consists almost entirely of materials in the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages, with over 140,000 volumes. Special holdings include the Robert S. Law Library - the law library of Washington University School of Law, contains over 650,000 volumes and volume equivalents. Special collections include the Tyson Collection of 168 Mozart and 100 Beethoven first, gustavus A. Pfeiffer Physics Library - contains book and serial publications supporting the Physics Department
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John M. Olin Library
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East Asian Library reading room on the Danforth Campus
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Academics
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Washington University School of Arts and Sciences
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The current Dean of the Faculty is Barbara Schaal, Mary-Dell Chilton Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, who began her tenure in the 2012-13 Academic year. Of Washington Universitys 11 Fulbright Scholarship recipients in 2011,7 were recent alumni of the College of Arts & Sciences, and 3 were Arts & Sciences graduate students. The College of Arts and Sciences is the largest undergraduate unit at Washington University, undergraduates in the other schools meet general education requirements by taking courses in the College of Arts & Sciences. Many of these students have double majors or minors in an Arts & Sciences discipline as well as in their professional field, beginning with the freshmen of 2001, Arts & Sciences students are required to satisfy the new Discovery Curriculum requirements. Undergraduates at the University are encouraged to participate in faculty research, Research is available in all areas of study in Arts & Sciences, and is available to students as early as their freshman year. An Undergraduate Research Journal is published semesterly, featuring the most outstanding projects from undergraduates, the Office of Undergraduate Research helps students find research opportunities that match their interests. Undergraduates can also apply for grants and awards from the University, leading the College of Arts & Sciences from 1992 to 2011 was Dean James E. McLeod, who died Sept 7,2011, of cancer. McLeod had also served the University as Vice Chancellor for Students since 1995, the Graduate School serves over 1,500 students pursuing masters and Ph. D. degrees. It is ranked highly in terms of time to degree and the rate at which it places its graduates, richard J. Smith is the Dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. University College grants both graduate and undergraduate degrees, offering courses primarily in the evenings for adult and continuing education and it also oversees the primary summer school program for the University. University College is named after the urban adult-education centers founded in the 19th century by Oxford, mark Rollins is the Dean of University College. When the first classes began at Washington University in St. Louis on October 22,1854, as the University grew and added new departments, identical evening courses were offered for the education and training of adult students. The Division of University Extension was created in 1915 to manage part-time programs, University College was created in 1931, and had the power to confer baccalaureate degrees and enroll students in full-time programs. Post-WWII expansion in 1948 saw a University College enrollment of 8,000 students, areas of Study in Arts and Sciences Office of Undergraduate Research
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Arts and Sciences at Washington University
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Olin Business School
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The Olin Business School is one of seven academic schools at Washington University in St. Louis. Founded in 1917, the school was renamed for entrepreneur John M. Olin in 1988. In 2002, an Executive MBA program was established in Shanghai, and Joanne Knight and George and Carol Bauer, and the Charles F. Knight Executive Education and Conference Center, all on the Danforth Campus. Olin has about 19,190 alumni across the world, in the late 2000s, the business school’s endowment rose to $249 million, annual gifts averaged $12 million per year. On July 1,2009, the took over management of the Brookings Institutes executive management program. At Olin, undergraduate students are admitted directly into the BSBA program as freshmen, to graduate, students must complete a minimum of 120 units of coursework. 40% of classes must be outside the areas of business, Olin students can also minor in International Business, the Business of Entertainment, or the Business of Sports Management. Students declare their business administration major during their sophomore year, Olin has four main rounds and after June they have rolling admissions. The MBA curriculum requires completion of 66 credit hours, nearly two-thirds of which are elective courses selected by the student, the fall semester of year one focuses on critical thinking, leadership, career strategy, and the major functional areas of business. Elective courses include courses, six week “mini” courses. Olin MBAs can also take up to nine credits of approved coursework from other programs at Washington University. The schools Executive Programs group is in the Charles F. Knight Executive Education Center on the Danforth Campus, the school also maintains Executive MBA programs in Denver, Kansas City, Missouri, Shanghai, and Mumbai. Specialized Masters business degrees can typically be completed in three semesters, three programs — Master of Science in Supply Chain Management, Master of Science in Customer Analytics, and Master of Science in Finance-Quantitative Finance — hold STEM designations. The Master of Accounting can be structured to meet CPA exam eligibility requirements, the Financial Times ranks Olins MSF program third in the United States and 27th in the world. The PhD program emphasizes economics, quantitative methodology, mentoring by faculty, preparing students for careers in scholarship, there are usually 50 students enrolled in the Ph. D program. A DBA in finance also is offered for individuals pursuing applied research in corporations, banks, government, the Kopolow Business Library offers Dow Jones Interactive, Lexis/Nexis, InfoTrac, and ABI, as well as databases provided by Moodys, Standard & Poors, Hoovers, and Disclosure. The library also receives real-time stock and other information through the Bloomberg. It holds around 30,000 books and subscribes to more than 400 business journals, magazines, the Olin Cup is an annual event held to promote learning and collaboration leading to the creation of new business ventures
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The Knight Executive Education Center is a part of the Olin Business School.
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The Executive MBA Program in Kansas City
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Washington University School of Law
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Washington University School of Law is a private American law school located in St. Louis, Missouri. The law school is one of the seven graduate and undergraduate schools at Washington University in St. Louis, founded in 1867, the School of Law is the oldest continually operating private law school west of the Mississippi River. Originally, the law school was located in downtown St. Louis, but it relocated in 1904 to the Danforth Campus of Washington University in St. Louis, and is housed in Anheuser-Busch Hall. It is ranked 18th among the 203 American Bar Association approved law schools by U. S. News & World Report and its clinical training and trial advocacy programs have consistently ranked in the top ten according to the same source. For the class entering in the fall of 2016, there were 228 matriculants, the 25th and 75th LSAT percentiles for the 2015 entering class were 160 and 169, respectively, with a median of 168. The 25th and 75th undergraduate GPA percentiles were 3.15 and 3.81, respectively, the 2015 edition of U. S. com recently ranked Washington University as number 1 for social life. Most of the students at Washington University School of Law are enrolled in the Juris Doctor program, JD students are required to take 86 semester hours of credit in order to graduate. In the first year of law school all students are required to take one Semester each of Contracts, Property, Torts, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, and Criminal Law. For the entering class of 2016 -2017 all first year students took Civil Procedure in the Spring and it remains to be seen if that scheduling practice will continue in the future. The second and third year offer more flexibility in planning the curriculum as there are only two mandatory classes. In addition to their coursework, many second and third year students participate in moot court, a scholarly publication. For students interested in a more general interdisciplinary course of study, Law for International Students, an LL. M. in Negotiation and Dispute Resolution, an LL. M. in Intellectual Property & Technology Law, and an LL. M. in Taxation. This program is a program designed for non-lawyers. Students in the MLS Program may choose to study the legal system broadly or may choose to pursue focused course of study in a particular area and this program is available to students who have already completed their LL. M. studies. The program does not follow a program format. Rather, the faculty advisor will select the students JSD requirements. Washington University has one of the oldest and largest moot court programs in the country, McGee National Civil Rights, and Wiley Rutledge Moot Court Competitions. Washington University is historically one of the most accomplished American universities in the Jessup International Law Moot Court competition, from 1998-2009, Washington University has advanced from the regional competition to the Sherman & Sterling International Rounds of the competition seven times, a feat only matched by Harvard Law
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Washington University School of Medicine
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Washington University School of Medicine, located in St. Louis, Missouri, is the medical school of Washington University in St. Louis on the eastern border of Forest Park in St. Louis. Founded in 1891, the School of Medicine has 1,260 students,604 of which are pursuing a degree with or without a combined Doctor of Philosophy or other advanced degree. It also offers degrees in biomedical research through the Division of Biology. There are 1,772 faculty,1,022 residents, the clinical service is provided by Washington University Physicians, a comprehensive medical and surgical practice providing treatment in more than 75 medical specialties. Washington University Physicians are the medical staffs of the two teaching hospitals - Barnes-Jewish Hospital and St. Louis Childrens Hospital. U. S. News and World Report ranks the college high and it has been listed among the top ten medical schools since rankings were first published in 1987. The school ranks first in the nation in student selectivity,17 Nobel laureates have been associated with the School of Medicine. 12 faculty members are fellows of the National Academy of Sciences,30 belong to the Institute of Medicine,92 faculty members hold individual career development awards from the National Institutes of Health. 59 faculty members hold career development awards from non-federal agencies,14 faculty members have MERIT status, a special recognition given by the National Institutes of Health that provides long-term, uninterrupted financial support to investigators. 6 faculty members are Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators, Medical classes were first held at Washington University in 1891 after the St. Louis Medical College decided to affiliate with the University, establishing a Medical Department. This especially became a cause for concern after an early 1900s Carnegie Foundation report derided the organization, following a trend in medical education across the country, research and the creation of new knowledge became a stated objective in a 1906 course catalog for the medical department. For Brookings and the University, incorporating the Medical Department into a separate School of Medicine seemed to be the logical step. The first female faculty member seems to have been biochemist and physiologist Ethel Ronzoni Bishop, the Medical School began its escalation from regional renown in the 1940s, a decade when two Nobel Prizes were awarded, in 1944 and 1947, to groups of faculty members. In 1950, a Cancer Research Building was completed, being the first major new building addition to the School of Medicine since its relocation in 1914. Washington University Medical Center comprises 164 acres spread over approximately 17 city blocks, Barnes-Jewish Hospital and St. Louis Childrens Hospital, part of BJC HealthCare, the teaching hospitals affiliated with the School of Medicine, are also located within the medical complex. Many of the buildings are connected via a series of sky bridges, as of 2008, the School of Medicine occupies over 4,500,000 square feet in the entire medical complex. Washington University and BJC HealthCare have taken on many joint venture projects since their collaboration in the 1910s. The Center for Advanced Medicine, completed in December 2001, is one such collaboration, at 650,000 square feet, it is one of the largest single buildings in the Medical Complex
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Barnes-Jewish Hospital, which is affiliated with the Medical School
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George Warren Brown School of Social Work
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The George Warren Brown School of Social Work, often referred to as GWB, the Brown School or simply Brown, is one of the worlds leading schools for the training of social science researchers. The Brown School offers a Master of Social Work, a Master of Public Health, a PhD in Social Work, the social work program is ranked 1st by US News. As one of the units of Washington University in St. Louis. The school was endowed in 1945 by Bettie Bofinger Brown and named for her husband, George Warren Brown, a St. Louis philanthropist and co-founder of the Brown Shoe Company. The school was the first in the country to have a building for the purpose of social work education, the school is housed within Brown, Goldfarb, and Hillman Halls. Many of the faculty have training in social work and public health. 1925 Washington University introduces a social work program under the leadership of Professor Frank Bruno and this program was initially named the Washington University Training Course for Social Workers and was part of the Department of Sociology in the College of Liberal Arts. 1926 The social work training program transfers to the School of Commerce and Finance,1928 The George Warren Brown Department of Social Work is established with monies from the estate of George Warren Brown, a prominent shoe manufacturer. 1937 The Washington University community and alumni of the George Warren Brown Department of Social Work dedicate Brown Hall, Brown Hall is the first building in the nation constructed to house a program of social work education. 1937-1945 Brown Hall is home to the Department of Social Work as well as the departments of history, political science, as the program, grew the school expanded to occupy the entire building. 1945 The University establishes the George Warren Brown School of Social Work as a school with Benjamin E. Youngdahl as its Dean. Years later, the estate of George Warren Brown donated $1 million to the University to create a permanent endowment for the school,1998 The Brown School and Washington University celebrate the dedication of Alvin Goldfarb Hall, a four-story building that doubled the capacity of the school. 2009 The Master of Public Health program enrolls its first class, students are able to obtain a dual degree with the MSW. The Brown School is home to research centers with distinct areas of emphasis. Center for Public Health Systems Science was launched in 2001 and helps create understanding of how policies. The Center translates research results to inform chronic disease prevention policy, Social System Design Laboratory advances the science and field of system dynamics for human services including social work, education, medicine, and public health. Center for Diabetes Translation Research aims to eliminate disparities in Type 2 diabetes by translating evidence-based interventions to high-risk populations, the Centers ultimate goal is to help improve the lives of Latino families in all of the Americas. The center is one of only 11 centers of its kind in the country, the Centers work also explores issues of civic engagement to ensure the people of all ages and economic levels actively participate in our society
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Washington University School of Dental Medicine
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The Washington University School of Dental Medicine was the dental school of Washington University in St. Louis. It operated from 1866 to 1991, over 5,000 dentists were educated at WUSDM. WUSDM was a pioneer in the practice of dental education previously absent in the dental profession. The school was founded by the Missouri State Dental Society and dentist Henry E. Peebles as the Missouri Dental College in 1866, the first dean of the school was Homer Judd. It is the first dental school west of the Mississippi River, in 1892 the Missouri Dental College merged with Washington University in St. Louis, becoming the Dental Department of Washington University. In 1908 the first woman was admitted to study at the university, during the 1970s the University began an experimental three-year DMD curriculum. In 1989 Wash Us Board of Trustees voted to close the School of Dental Medicine, by 1991 the Dental School graduated its 125th and final class. Burstone Thomas M. Graber Wayne A. Bolton, Class of 1950 Benno Lischer, Class of 1900 Earl Emanuel Shepard Thomas Lewis Gilmer, Class of 1882 Robert J. Gorlin
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1893 Freshmen class at the newly merged Dental Department of Washington University
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McDonnell Genome Institute
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McDonnell Genome Institute at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, is one of three NIH funded large-scale sequencing centers in the United States. Affiliated with Washington University School of Medicine and the Alvin J, in 2014, civic leaders and longtime philanthropists Elizabeth H. and James S. McDonnell III pledged $25 million to The Genome Institute, which was renamed the Elizabeth H. McDonnell III Genome Institute at Washington University. In 2016, Dr Richard Wilson and Dr Elaine Mardis, the founding directors, the Cancer Genome Atlas compares DNA sequences of adult cancer patients and their tumors to identify the genetic changes important to cancer. Human Microbiome Project is sequencing the genomes of microbes involved in human health,1000 Genomes Project seeks to catalog the immense human variation written into the genetic code. Washington University Cancer Genome Initiative provides for hundreds of tumor and normal sample genomes to be sequenced, pediatric Cancer Genome Project is a collaboration with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital to identify the genetic changes that give rise to some of the world’s deadliest childhood cancers. Medical Sequencing targets sequences from such as metabolic syndromes and vision-related disorders to help individualize patient treatment. McDonnell Genome Institute employs over 300 full-time faculty and staff from a variety of disciplines, core staff include, Susan Dutcher, Ph. D. Acting Director, Dr. Susan Dutcher is the Interim Director of the McDonnell Genome Institute at Washington University and she is a prominent geneticist and Professor of Genetics at Washington University. Associate Director, Dr. Ley is a hematologist, oncologist, Dr. De Novo Assembly, The De Novo Assembly Group is responsible for taking the sequenced pieces of various species’ genomes and putting them together as contiguously and accurately as possible. Targeted Re-sequencing, The Targeted Re-sequencing Group sequences specific regions of genomes using several different methods including PCR as well as hybrid selection techniques, Transcriptomes, The Transcriptomes Group works on the various aspects of sequencing and analysis of transcriptomes, based on next-generation sequencing of RNA. The McDonnell Genome Institute makes all data available to the research community. Some of this data is preliminary and is subject to omissions, data also changes based on the availability of new data and assembly versions. As per the NHGRI’s data release policy, all users must acknowledge the McDonnell Genome Institute as the data source, McDonnell Genome Institute’s Outreach Department was established in 2003 in response to the National Human Genome Research Institute’s Minority Action Plan. Outreach has hosted thousands of patrons through tours, presentations, science fairs, the department established Opportunities in Genomics Research whose purpose is to increase the number of underrepresented minorities who obtain Ph. D. s in the field of genomics/genetics. Two programs have been implemented under OGR, which provide opportunities for undergraduates. The McDonnell Genome Institute is located on the Washington University School of Medicine campus in St. Louis, Missouri, the McDonnell Genome Institute has a separate data center located across the street at 222 Newstead Avenue. The $20 million,16,000 square-foot data center was built with fully redundant power and cooling systems capable of housing over 100 racks of high-density computation, the data center also houses a legacy 1, 200-square-foot server room equipped with raised floors, redundant power and cooling
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Crow Observatory
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Crow Observatory is a historic observatory housed in Crow Hall on the Danforth Campus of Washington University in St. Louis. The historic telescope is still in use, and the observatory is open to the public, the University purchased the observatorys refractor telescope in 1863. The telescope is named the Yeatman refractor, after philanthropist James Yeatman who donated US$1,500 for its construction, the Yeatman Refractor has an aperture of 6 inches, with lenses made by Henry Fitz & Co. The transit was made in 1882, and the clock was made in 1885, the observatory was originally located on 18th Street in St. Louis City, it was moved with the rest of the University to the Danforth Campus upon the conclusion of the 1904 Worlds Fair. The current observatory dome was built in 1954, when the Yeatman refractor telescope was relocated from where Louderman Hall currently stands, Crow Observatory - Washington University Physics Department
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Danforth Campus
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The Danforth Campus is the main campus at Washington University in St. Louis. Distinguished by its collegiate gothic architecture, the 169-acre campus lies at the boundary of Forest Park. Most of the campus is in an enclave of unincorporated St. Louis County. Immediately to the north across Forest Park Parkway is University City, the construction of Danforth Campus was accelerated through a profitable lease of several buildings to the 1904 St. Louis Worlds Fair. During the fair, Brookings Hall, Busch Hall, Cupples I & II Halls, Francis Field & Gymnasium, Ridgley Hall, Eads Hall, at the fairs conclusion, the newly constructed buildings assumed their original functions as classrooms and administrative offices. Additionally, Francis Field and Gymnasium were converted for use by the Washington University athletic department, the landscape design of the Danforth Campus was created in 1895 by Olmsted, Olmsted, & Eliot, a firm best known for designing New York Citys Central Park. In 1899, after holding a national competition, Washington Universitys administrators selected the Philadelphia firm Cope & Stewardson to design the entire campus. Cope & Stewardson, a known for its mastery of Collegiate Gothic. The plan, modeled after the distinctive quadrangles of Oxford and Cambridge Universities, has guided the construction and expansion of the Danforth Campus to the present day. A large portion of the Danforth Campus is recognized as the Washington University Hilltop Campus Historic District, most of the buildings built between 1902 and the 1950s were designed by Cope & Stewardson and Jamieson and Spearl. Adolphus Busch Hall - Named for Adolphus Busch, co-founder of Anheuser-Busch, Busch Hall served as the Chemistry Building from 1902 until 1950. It was then remodeled into a building, which it currently serves as today. Busch Hall was recently renovated and reopened June 15,2009, Beaumont Pavilion - An outdoor stage that sits in front of Cupples I. It was built in 1965 and was named after Louis D. Beaumont, the stage is used for annual commencement ceremonies, the semesterly W. I. L. D. Concert, as well as other theater productions and concerts. Brookings Hall - The hallmark of Washington University, Named after Robert S. Brookings, it was completed in 1902 and served as the administrative center for the 1904 Worlds Fair. Today, it serves as the Universitys administrative center, South Brookings houses the Admissions Office and the Administrative offices for the College of Arts and Sciences. North Brookings houses the office of Student Financial Services, the office of the Chancellor, Busch Laboratory - Completed in 1959, the lab was built as an extension of Rebstock Hall
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Postcard commemorating the 1904 World's Fair
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Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
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The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum is an art museum located on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis, within the universitys Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. It was founded in 1881 as the St. Louis School and Museum of Fine Arts and it is the oldest art museum west of the Mississippi River. Its collection was formed in part by acquiring significant works by artists of the time. The Museum contains strong holdings of 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century European and American paintings, sculptures, prints, installations, and photographs. The collection also includes some Egyptian and Greek antiquities, Old Master prints, and the Wulfing Collection of approximately 14,000 ancient Greek, Roman, the museum moved to its current home, designed by Pritzker Prize-winner Fumihiko Maki, in 2006. The museum was established in 1881 as part of Washington University in St. Louis, under the name of the St. Louis School, ives served as the museums first director, and during his tenure, the collection focused on contemporary American artists, notably William Merritt Chase. In 1906, the museum was relocated to the Palace of Fine Arts in Forest Park, in that year, the City Museum of Art was formed, and began to acquire works separately from the private university collection. The university collection would remain on loan to the museum until 1960. In 1941, H. W. Janson joined the museum and began to focus on collecting contemporary European artwork, in order to finance this project, he organized the sale of over 600 objects. Notable acquisitions during this period include works by Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, Janson also arranged for a permanent home for the museums collection, and in 1960, the museum moved to Steinberg Hall, located on the main university campus. At this time, the museum was renamed as the Washington University Gallery of Art. Recently, the museum has continued to focus on the acquisition of works, including pieces by Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg. In 2004, the museum was renamed, this time as the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, as a division of the new Sam Fox School of Visual Art. Two years later, in 2006, the moved to a new building adjacent to the old Steinberg Hall. The 65, 000-square-foot expansion was designed by Fumihiko Maki, and is home to the Washington University Art and Architecture library. The Sam Fox School was established in 2005 to link strong studio programs in art and architecture with the resources. Creation of the Sam Fox School follows a nearly $60 million investment in new and renovated art, architecture, the five-building complex includes two new buildings by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Fumihiko Maki, including the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum building. The Sam Fox School is dedicated to the creation, study, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum has four exhibition spaces, the Barney A. Ebsworth Gallery, Garen Gallery, Bernoudy Permanent Collection Gallery, and teaching gallery
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Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers through the Cumberland Gap
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Tyson Research Center
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Tyson Research Center is a 2, 000-acre field station owned and operated by Washington University in St. Louis in the St. Louis, Missouri metropolitan area east of Eureka. The area was used as a storage area during World War II and was purchased in 1968. It is part of the Henry Shaw Ozark Corridor which consists of over 8,000 acres of protected lands and it is a member of the Organization of Biological Field Stations. Tyson Research Center was originally part of the Tyson Valley Powder Plant in World War II and it is currently bordered to the east by Lone Elk County Park, to the west by West Tyson County Park, and to the south by Interstate 44. Primary activities at the Tyson involve ecological research conducted by undergraduate and graduate students, staff, scientific outreach and continuing education programs and university-level courses of instruction are also occasionally held at Tyson. Tyson also has a station and monitors acid rain as part of the National Atmospheric Deposition Program
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Washington University Bears
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The Washington University Bears are the athletic teams of Washington University in St. Louis, located in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Washington University is currently a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the NCAA Division III level, the Bears compete in the University Athletic Association. The Bears have also had 122 Academic All-Americans, in 2014, Josh Whitman was named as the new Director of Athletics. The Athletic Department was previously headed by John Schael who had served as Director of Athletics for 36 years since 1978, in Mens Basketball, WashU repeated as national champions in 2009, defeating Richard Stockton College 61–52. In 2008, WashU defeated Amherst 90–68 to win the universitys first mens national championship. WashU lost to Virginia Wesleyan College in the 2007 NCAA Final Four, seven players have been named as an All-American by D3hoops. com. Chris Jeffries,2003, Troy Ruths,2007,2008, Aaron Thompson,2009 &2010, and Sean Wallis,2009 &2010, Dylan Richter,2012, and Chris Klimek,2014. Going into the 2015-2016 season, Head Coach Mark Edwards has a record of 627-273 for a.697 winning percentage since coming to the Bears, on March 20,2010, WashU defeated Hope College 65–59 in the 2010 national championship game. In 2011 the Bears failed to repeat as champions when they fell in the championship game 64-55 to Amherst College Womens basketball won the DIII championship four straight seasons from 1999-2001, the team was coached by Nancy Fahey from 1986-2017. In addition to the 5 National Championships under Fahey, the Bears have appeared in the NCAA DIII National Tournament 26 straight seasons from 1990-2015, the Bears reached the tournament in 1988 and missed making it in 1989 before starting the current streak. Jeff Stiles has been the coach of the mens and womens cross country teams since 2001. The womens cross country team claimed the 2011 NCAA Division III Championship under Stiles after a finish in 2010. The mens team claimed 3rd place at the NCAA Division III Championship in 2011, in 2007, the women placed third at the NCAA Division III Championship meet. The Bears also ran to third-place finishes at the 2005 and 2004 NCAA Division III Championships, Washington U. came in fourth place at the 2006 NCAA Championships. The women also won their third-straight Midwest Region title in 2007, in 2009, after going unranked all year, the men qualified for the National Championship and finished seventh place at the National meet. Under Stiles, the mens and womens cross country teams have won 16 UAA titles, since 2001, the Bears have also produced 25 All-Americans and 14 Academic All-Americans. The mens roller hockey team began play in 1997-1998. The Washington University in St Louis team finished 4th in the 1998 NCRHA tournament losing the game to UC Santa Barbara Gauchos
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Francis Field (St. Louis)
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Francis Field is a stadium at Washington University in St. Louis that was used as the main stadium for the 1904 Summer Olympics. It is currently used by the track and field, cross country, football. It is located in St. Louis County, Missouri on the far edge of the universitys Danforth Campus. Built in time for the 1904 Worlds Fair, the stadium once had a 19,000 person seating capacity and it is one of the oldest sports venues west of the Mississippi River that is still in use. Francis Field now utilizes artificial Field Turf, which can be configured for soccer and football. The 1904 Summer Olympics were given to St. Louis, Missouri as a result of the efforts of David Rowland Francis, for whom the stadium, built in 1902, Francis Fields permanent stands represent one of the first applications of reinforced concrete technology. Both Francis Field and its gymnasium are U. S. National Historic Landmarks, during those games, the stadium hosted the archery, athletics, cycling, football, gymnastics, lacrosse, roque, tug of war, weightlifting, and wrestling events. At some dirt courts located outside the stadium, the events took place. Following the 1904 Olympics, Francis Field became the permanent home of the Bears, the Bears now play in the NCAA as a Division III team. In July 1994, Francis Field served as a centerpiece for the U. S. Olympic Festival as 3,000 athletes were housed on the campus for the top amateur sporting events. In the summer of 2004 Francis Field had its natural grass replaced with artificial FieldTurf, Francis Field is an annual host for the American Cancer Societys Relay for Life event. The Francis Gymnasium was the site of three U. S. presidential debates in 1992,2000, and 2004, plus the vice-presidential debate in 2008. In 1994, the Francis Field was again an Olympic focal point, during both the 1984 and 1996 Olympic Torch relays, the Olympic Flame passed by Francis Field on its way to the site of the Olympic Games. Francis Field hosted the 1986 AAU/USA National Junior Olympic Games, the first and second National Senior Olympic Games, and the 1985 NCAA Division III National Mens Soccer Championship. The stadium was used by the St. Louis Stars soccer team during 1969-1970, and again in 1975-1977, before their 1978 move to Anaheim, California, as they became the California Surf
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Francis Gymnasium
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Francis Gymnasium is a building at Washington University in St. Louis, currently used by the universitys athletics department. It is located in St. Louis County, Missouri, on the far edge of the universitys Danforth Campus. Constructed in 1903, it was built in time for the 1904 Worlds Fair and was used as the indoor venue for the 1904 Summer Olympics. During the Olympics, it hosted the boxing and fencing events, the building was turned over to the Washington University Athletics Department following the Olympics. It is included in the Washington University Hilltop Campus Historic District
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List of Washington University alumni
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The following persons are well-known alumni, living and deceased, of Washington University in St. Louis. Karen Sheriff, president and CEO of Q9 Networks Inc. Louis B, susman, vice chairman of Citigroup Global Markets Jack C. Taylor, founder of Enterprise Rent-A-Car, no.14 on Forbes 400 Richest Americans in 2006 Jim Weddle, artman, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs, and head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs 2007–08 John C. Bates, served as Chief of Staff of the United States Army in 1906, senator from Illinois, 1981–93 Alexander Monroe Dockery, Governor of Missouri, 1901–1905 Leonidas C. Senator from Missouri, 1926–1933 Chic Hecht, U. S, senator from Nevada, 1983–89 Thomas C. Senator from Missouri, 1929–1935 Catherine D. Rothman, Lieutenant Governor of Missouri, 1981–1985 Steven Rothman, senator from Illinois, 1969–1970 Selden P. Spencer, U. S. Senator from Missouri, 2003–2007 Richard B, Bush and George W. Bush, respectively Charley Winner, longtime coach in the National Football League Lewis Wolff, owner of the Oakland Athletics
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William Greenleaf Eliot
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William Greenleaf Eliot was an American educator, Unitarian minister, and civic leader in Missouri. The modernist poet T. S. Eliot was his grandson, Eliot was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts. After attending the Friends Academy in New Bedford, Eliot attended Columbian College in Washington, D. C. Eliot did graduate work at Harvard Divinity School and graduated in 1834. He was ordained a minister of the Unitarian church on August 17,1834, after his ordination, Eliot moved to St. Louis, where he lived for the rest of his life, until 1887. There he founded the Church of the Messiah, the first Unitarian church west of the Mississippi River, today it is called the First Unitarian Church of Saint Louis. He led the congregation from 1834 to 1870, through a period of expansion of the city. In 1861 he was part of a group of men who helped Generals Nathaniel Lyon. He contributed to the development of the Colored Orphans Home, Soldiers Orphans Home, Memorial Home, Blind Girls Home, Womens Christian Home, when Ralph Waldo Emerson visited St. Louis, he had met Eliot and called him the Saint of the West. Eliot had a strong interest in developing educational opportunities in St. Louis and he co-founded Washington University in St. Louis in 1853. He donated funds to its construction and served as its chancellor from 1870 to 1887, in 1859 he founded Mary Institute, a school for girls which he named after his daughter, who died young. It is now part of the co-educational Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School. Eliot was also a writer, publishing Doctrines of Christianity, Lectures to Young Men, Lectures to Young Women, Discipline of Sorrow and these ranged from works of theology in the Unitarian tradition to specific moral advice to young people. In public policy he supported womens suffrage and prohibition of alcohol, Eliot was honored for his civic contributions with a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame. Eliot Unitarian Chapel in Kirkwood, Missouri, is named for W. G. Eliot, the Eliots had 14 children but not all survived to adulthood. Among their children were Rev. Thomas Lamb Eliot, Regent and Trustee of Reed College, dr. Eliot was the brother of Thomas Dawes Eliot, U. S. William Greenleaf Eliots wife, Abigail Adams Cranch, was the daughter of William Cranch, William G. Eliots father, mother, and wife were first cousins of each other. Their mothers were three of the daughters of William Greenleaf Eliot family genealogy including William G. Eliot The Story of Archer Alexander, From Slavery to Freedom, boston, Cupples, Upham and Company, Old Corner Bookstore,1885. Published by First Unitarian Church of St. Louis, St. Louis, William Greenleaf Eliot at Eliot Family Genealogy Scott, Henry Eliot
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History of Washington University in St. Louis
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Washington Universitys origins were in seventeen St. Louis business, political, and religious leaders concerned by the lack of institutions of higher learning in the Midwest. The effort to found the university was spearheaded by Missouri State Senator Wayman Crow and its first chancellor was Joseph Gibson Hoyt. Crow secured the university charter from the Missouri State Legislature in 1853, while Eliot was in charge of raising funds for the university, he accepted the position as President of the Board of Trustees. However, Eliot failed in securing a permanent endowment, in fact Wash U is unique among other American universities, in not having any prior financial endowment to begin with, the school had no religious backing, wealthy patron, or government support. Therefore financial problems plagued the university for decades after its founding. The name of the university was still unclear, in the three following its inspection the university bore three different names. The board first approved Eliot Seminary but this title was replaced in favor of the Washington Institute. Under pressure from Eliot, the Board of Trustees created a task force charged with naming the university, several months later Treats committee proposed naming the University the Washington Institute, after the nations first president George Washington. However in the midst of finance problems the Board of Trustees, voted to name the university the OFallon Institute in order to secure funds from John OFallon, Treat felt the name was unsuitable and persuaded the board to drop the name in favor of the Washington Institute. Naming the University after the nations first president only six years before the American Civil War during a time of national division was no coincidence on the part of Treat. George Washington was universally admired by Americans and hailed as the father of America, Treat felt that the university should be a force of unity in a strongly the divided Missouri. In 1856 the University amended its name to Washington University, although sanctioned as a university, Washington University functioned primarily as a night school located on 17th Street and Washington Avenue, in the heart of the bustling St. Louis Downtown. Once again plagued by the lack of resources, the university was forced to use public buildings, classes began on October 22,1854 at the Benton School building. At first the university paid for the classes, but as their popularity grew. Eventually the board was able to secure funds for the construction of Academic Hall, later the university divided into three departments, the Manual Training School, Smith Academy, and the Mary Institute. In 1867 the university opened the first private law school west of the Mississippi River. By 1882 the university had expanded to numerous departments, housed in buildings spread across downtown St. Louis, Brookings was instrumental in raising money for the university, since Eliot, the primary fundraiser for the university, had died. Washington University spent its first half century in downtown St. Louis bound by Washington Ave. Lucas Place, by the 1890s, due to the dramatic expansion of the Manual School, and a new benefactor in Robert Brookings, the University began to move west
History of Washington University in St. Louis
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William Greenleaf Eliot, first president of the Board of Trustees
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Campus life at Washington University in St. Louis
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Washington University in St. Louis has varied programs and events for students. Washington University has over 300 registered undergraduate student organizations on campus, the Office of Student Activities provides advisors, leadership training, counseling, and other support to the student groups on campus. The University is home to one of the largest collegiate Relay For Life in the country, additionally, there are over 50 community service groups on campus such as a Habitat for Humanity Campus Chapter. There are 10 national fraternities and 8 national sororities on campus,9 of the fraternities have houses on the Danforth Campus, while none of the sororities have houses by their own accord. Approximately 30% of Washington University students participate in Greek Life, Greek Organizations are governed by the principles of Arete, which focuses on Integrity, Loyalty, Philanthropy, Responsibility, Friendship, and Intellectual Curiosity. The Washington University Student Union is the student government of Washington University in St. Louis. Founded in 1967, Student Union carries out three major activities, representing student interests, registering, funding, and supporting student groups and it is divided into three branches, the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches. The Legislative branch includes the Treasury and the Senate, the Treasury of the Student Union hears appeals for finances from various student groups. Approximately 300 student groups on campus are registered SU groups, utilizing a portion of the over $2 million budget. The SU Judicial Branch includes a Constitutional Council comprising a Chief Justice, four Associate Justices, the Election Commissioners also fall under the Judicial Branch of Student Union. SU also publishes Bearings, the student handbook, and its supplemental website. An umbrella organization known as ACAC oversees auditions for its member groups each fall, many of these groups are continually selected for national collegiate a cappella compilations, such as BOCA and Voices Only. Another student-run music group, the Wash U Pops Orchestra, was founded in the 07-08 school year in the spirit of traditional pops orchestras and it has grown significantly enough since founding to have spawned two chamber groups. The full orchestra performs at least once a semester, with the chamber groups performing many smaller gigs both on and off campus. The University also has a Department of Music that, in addition to providing concentrated study for music majors, also provides instrument, there are also a number of instrumental groups and ensembles in which students may participate. Other student organizations, such as the Social Programming Board bring in popular musical acts for Walk In Lay Down and lesser-known independent performers, recent WILD performers include Karmin, Chance the Rapper, Wolfgang Gartner, and Matt Kearney. 75% of undergraduate students choose to live on campus, housing is guaranteed for a student for all four years if a student chooses. Most of the dormitories on campus are located on the South 40, named because of its adjacent location south of the Danforth Campus and it is the location of all the freshman dorms as well as several upperclassman dorms, which are occupied almost exclusively by sophomores
Campus life at Washington University in St. Louis
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The clocktower at the edge of the South 40.
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Mosaic Whispers
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Mosaic Whispers is a Washington University co-ed a cappella group that performs music from a variety of genres. The group has performed on MSNBCs Hardball with Chris Matthews as well as on radio stations such as 93.7 The Bull. The group will be competing in the finals of the 2016 ICCA competition. They have progressed to the level of four ICCA competitions. They have toured nationally, opened for Ben Folds and Straight No Chaser, received a number of CARA nominations, the Mosaic Whispers was founded in 1991 by a group of students and had their first performance together at Washington Universitys Thurtene Carnival. The original roster included P. Daniel Newman, Jason Coryell, Brian Stephenson, Liz Radford, Josh Einsohn, Devorah Rosner, the group has appeared on several compilation a cappella albums, including an appearance on the 2008 Ben Folds Presents, University A Cappella. The Whispers were selected after submitting a video of the group performing Folds’ song “Still Fighting It” to Ben Folds university a cappella competition, the group just released their 10th studio album, Wavelength, in the spring of 2015. The Mosaic Whispers were selected to be featured on the album after submitting a video of the group performing Folds’ song “Still Fighting It” to Ben Folds university a cappella competition, reviews for their rendition of “Still Fighting It” were positive, with the Norwich Bulletin praising their performance. In Spring 2012, The Whispers reached the final-four in a competition to sing with Andy Grammer, the competition, which was 12 days long, consisted of submitting three performance videos, including two Andy Grammer songs. The Whispers arranged and learned the song Fine By Me in 8 hours for their final video submission, while they won the popular vote in their final round, they ultimately lost to the professional a cappella group Six Appeal, who garnered the votes of both TopBlip and Grammer. To gain votes, the Whispers got support of both the newspaper Studlife, and the St. Louis Metro social media staff. In Spring 2012, the Whispers sang Change the World for Bill Nye and Washington Universitys Board of Trustees, as a part of the dedication to WUSTLs new Earth, Planetary, and Space Science Center. Recently, the Whispers sang for the launch of Washington Universitys Leading Together Campaign and they also sang to help the Boatload of Toys fundraiser, a charity event for St. Louis children hosted by 93.7 St. Louis, with Mason and Remy. They have also sung for the WUSTL Founders Day ball on multiple occasions, watercolors I Cant Make You Love Me has been reviewed as a sharply performed, smartly arranged, and emotionally stirring number that made substantial improvements on the original recording. And Nowhere To Go Spin the Bottle has been praised as having Great solos, dont Tell My Parents Throw Your Pennies At Someone Else Vested Interest Against the Grain Defrosted Behind Bars Fix You has been reviewed as a perfect end to a very good album. Page 9 Die Alones soloist Ilana Schwartz has been praised as a specialty, with a uniquely good voice for an Ingrid Michaelson cover Wavelength
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The Mosaic Whispers' annual concert, Splash of Color
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Mosaic Whispers and Ben Folds take a break from recording "
Still Fighting It " for
Ben Folds Presents: University A Cappella!
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Campus Life at Washington University in St. Louis
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Washington University in St. Louis has varied programs and events for students. Washington University has over 300 registered undergraduate student organizations on campus, the Office of Student Activities provides advisors, leadership training, counseling, and other support to the student groups on campus. The University is home to one of the largest collegiate Relay For Life in the country, additionally, there are over 50 community service groups on campus such as a Habitat for Humanity Campus Chapter. There are 10 national fraternities and 8 national sororities on campus,9 of the fraternities have houses on the Danforth Campus, while none of the sororities have houses by their own accord. Approximately 30% of Washington University students participate in Greek Life, Greek Organizations are governed by the principles of Arete, which focuses on Integrity, Loyalty, Philanthropy, Responsibility, Friendship, and Intellectual Curiosity. The Washington University Student Union is the student government of Washington University in St. Louis. Founded in 1967, Student Union carries out three major activities, representing student interests, registering, funding, and supporting student groups and it is divided into three branches, the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches. The Legislative branch includes the Treasury and the Senate, the Treasury of the Student Union hears appeals for finances from various student groups. Approximately 300 student groups on campus are registered SU groups, utilizing a portion of the over $2 million budget. The SU Judicial Branch includes a Constitutional Council comprising a Chief Justice, four Associate Justices, the Election Commissioners also fall under the Judicial Branch of Student Union. SU also publishes Bearings, the student handbook, and its supplemental website. An umbrella organization known as ACAC oversees auditions for its member groups each fall, many of these groups are continually selected for national collegiate a cappella compilations, such as BOCA and Voices Only. Another student-run music group, the Wash U Pops Orchestra, was founded in the 07-08 school year in the spirit of traditional pops orchestras and it has grown significantly enough since founding to have spawned two chamber groups. The full orchestra performs at least once a semester, with the chamber groups performing many smaller gigs both on and off campus. The University also has a Department of Music that, in addition to providing concentrated study for music majors, also provides instrument, there are also a number of instrumental groups and ensembles in which students may participate. Other student organizations, such as the Social Programming Board bring in popular musical acts for Walk In Lay Down and lesser-known independent performers, recent WILD performers include Karmin, Chance the Rapper, Wolfgang Gartner, and Matt Kearney. 75% of undergraduate students choose to live on campus, housing is guaranteed for a student for all four years if a student chooses. Most of the dormitories on campus are located on the South 40, named because of its adjacent location south of the Danforth Campus and it is the location of all the freshman dorms as well as several upperclassman dorms, which are occupied almost exclusively by sophomores
Campus Life at Washington University in St. Louis
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The clocktower at the edge of the South 40.
Campus Life at Washington University in St. Louis
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Academics
