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Roman Catholic
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The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church or the Universal Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.28 billion members worldwide. As one of the oldest religious institutions in the world, it has played a prominent role in the history, headed by the Bishop of Rome, known as the Pope, the churchs doctrines are summarised in the Nicene Creed and the Apostles Creed. Its central administration is located in Vatican City, enclaved within Rome, the Catholic Church is notable within Western Christianity for its sacred tradition and seven sacraments. It teaches that it is the one church founded by Jesus Christ, that its bishops are the successors of Christs apostles. The Catholic Church maintains that the doctrine on faith and morals that it declares as definitive is infallible. The Latin Church, the Eastern Catholic Churches, as well as such as mendicant orders and enclosed monastic orders. Among the sacraments, the one is the Eucharist, celebrated liturgically in the Mass. The church teaches that through consecration by a priest the sacrificial bread and wine become the body, the Catholic Church practises closed communion, with only baptised members in a state of grace ordinarily permitted to receive the Eucharist. The Virgin Mary is venerated in the Catholic Church as Queen of Heaven and is honoured in numerous Marian devotions. The Catholic Church has influenced Western philosophy, science, art and culture, Catholic spiritual teaching includes spreading the Gospel while Catholic social teaching emphasises support for the sick, the poor and the afflicted through the corporal and spiritual works of mercy. The Catholic Church is the largest non-government provider of education and medical services in the world, from the late 20th century, the Catholic Church has been criticised for its doctrines on sexuality, its refusal to ordain women and its handling of sexual abuse cases. Catholic was first used to describe the church in the early 2nd century, the first known use of the phrase the catholic church occurred in the letter from Saint Ignatius of Antioch to the Smyrnaeans, written about 110 AD. In the Catechetical Discourses of Saint Cyril of Jerusalem, the name Catholic Church was used to distinguish it from other groups that call themselves the church. The use of the adjective Roman to describe the Church as governed especially by the Bishop of Rome became more widespread after the Fall of the Western Roman Empire and into the Early Middle Ages. Catholic Church is the name used in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church follows an episcopal polity, led by bishops who have received the sacrament of Holy Orders who are given formal jurisdictions of governance within the church. Ultimately leading the entire Catholic Church is the Bishop of Rome, commonly called the pope, in parallel to the diocesan structure are a variety of religious institutes that function autonomously, often subject only to the authority of the pope, though sometimes subject to the local bishop. Most religious institutes only have male or female members but some have both, additionally, lay members aid many liturgical functions during worship services
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Society of Jesus
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The Society of Jesus Latin, Societas Iesu, S. J. SJ or SI) is a religious congregation of the Catholic Church which originated in Spain. The society is engaged in evangelization and apostolic ministry in 112 nations on six continents, Jesuits work in education, intellectual research, and cultural pursuits. Jesuits also give retreats, minister in hospitals and parishes, and promote social justice, Ignatius of Loyola founded the society after being wounded in battle and experiencing a religious conversion. He composed the Spiritual Exercises to help others follow the teachings of Jesus Christ, ignatiuss plan of the orders organization was approved by Pope Paul III in 1540 by a bull containing the Formula of the Institute. Ignatius was a nobleman who had a background, and the members of the society were supposed to accept orders anywhere in the world. The Society participated in the Counter-Reformation and, later, in the implementation of the Second Vatican Council, the Society of Jesus is consecrated under the patronage of Madonna Della Strada, a title of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and it is led by a Superior General. The Society of Jesus on October 3,2016 announced that Superior General Adolfo Nicolás resignation was officially accepted, on October 14, the 36th General Congregation of the Society of Jesus elected Father Arturo Sosa as its thirty-first Superior General. The headquarters of the society, its General Curia, is in Rome, the historic curia of St. Ignatius is now part of the Collegio del Gesù attached to the Church of the Gesù, the Jesuit Mother Church. In 2013, Jorge Mario Bergoglio became the first Jesuit Pope, the Jesuits today form the largest single religious order of priests and brothers in the Catholic Church. As of 1 January 2015, Jesuits numbered 16,740,11,986 clerics regular,2,733 scholastics,1,268 brothers and 753 novices. In 2012, Mark Raper S. J. wrote, Our numbers have been in decline for the last 40 years—from over 30,000 in the 1960s to fewer than 18,000 today. The steep declines in Europe and North America and consistent decline in Latin America have not been offset by the significant increase in South Asia, the Society is divided into 83 Provinces with six Independent Regions and ten Dependent Regions. On 1 January 2007, members served in 112 nations on six continents with the largest number in India and their average age was 57.3 years,63.4 years for priests,29.9 years for scholastics, and 65.5 years for brothers. The current Superior General of the Jesuits is Arturo Sosa, the Society is characterized by its ministries in the fields of missionary work, human rights, social justice and, most notably, higher education. It operates colleges and universities in countries around the world and is particularly active in the Philippines. In the United States it maintains 28 colleges and universities and 58 high schools and he ensured that his formula was contained in two papal bulls signed by Pope Paul III in 1540 and by Pope Julius III in 1550. The formula expressed the nature, spirituality, community life and apostolate of the new religious order, the meeting is now commemorated in the Martyrium of Saint Denis, Montmartre
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John J. DeGioia
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John J. Jack DeGioia became the 48th President of Georgetown University on July 1,2001. He is the first lay president of the school, and in August 2014, DeGioia spent his early years in Orange, Connecticut, and Hanford, California. DeGioia served as an administrator and as a faculty member in the Department of Philosophy before becoming president on July 1,2001. As President, DeGioia recently completed a $1.5 billion fundraising campaign dedicated to enhancing the value of a Georgetown education. In addition to his role as university president, DeGioia is involved in a number of national education organizations, DeGioia also serves on the Division I Committee on Academics for the NCAA, and as a commissioner on the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics. He is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Values and he has been presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Academia by the Sons of Italy, and the “Catholic in the Public Square Award” by Commonweal in 2012. He was also named a “Brave Thinker” by The Atlantic in 2012, and as “Washingtonian of the Year” by Washingtonian magazine in 2008
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Doha
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Doha is the capital city and most populous city of the State of Qatar. Doha has a population of 1,351,000 in a city proper with the close to 1.5 million. The city is located on the coast of the Persian Gulf in the east of the country and it is Qatars fastest growing city, with over 50% of the nations population living in Doha or its surrounding suburbs, and it is also the economic center of the country. Doha was founded in the 1820s as an offshoot of Al Bidda and it was officially declared as the countrys capital in 1971, when Qatar gained independence. As the commercial capital of Qatar and one of the emergent financial centers in the Middle East, Doha is considered a city by the Globalization. Doha accommodates Education City, a devoted to research and education. The city was host to the first ministerial-level meeting of the Doha Development Round of World Trade Organization negotiations. It was also selected as host city of a number of sporting events, including the 2006 Asian Games, in December 2011, the World Petroleum Council held the 20th World Petroleum Conference in Doha. Additionally, the city hosted the 2012 UNFCCC Climate Negotiations and is set to host a number of the venues for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. In May 2015, Doha was officially recognized as one of the New7Wonders Cities together with Vigan, La Paz, Durban, Havana, Beirut, the name Doha may have originated from the Arabic Ad-Dawḥa, the big tree. The reference might be to a prominent tree that stood at the site where the fishing village arose. Alternatively, it may have derived from dohat — Arabic for bay or gulf — referring to the Doha Bay area surrounding the Corniche. The city of Doha was formed after seceding from another local settlement known as Al Bidda, the earliest documented mention of Al Bidda was made in 1681, by the Carmelite Convent, in an account which chronicles several settlements in Qatar. In the record, the ruler and a fort in the confines of Al Bidda are alluded to, carsten Niebuhr, a European explorer who visited the Arabian Peninsula, created one of the first maps to depict the settlement in 1765 in which he labelled it as Guttur. David Seaton, a British political resident in Muscat, wrote the first English record of Al Bidda in 1801 and he refers to the town as Bedih and describes the geography and defensive structures in the area. He stated that the town had recently settled by the Sudan tribe. Seaton attempted to bombard the town with his warship, but returned to Muscat upon finding that the waters were too shallow to position his warship within striking distance. In 1820, British surveyor R. H. Colebrook, who visited Al Bidda and he wrote, The same year, an agreement known as the General Maritime Treaty was signed between the East India Company and the sheikhs of several Persian Gulf settlements
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Qatar
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Qatar, officially the State of Qatar, is a sovereign country located in Western Asia, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula. Its sole land border is with Saudi Arabia to the south, with the rest of its surrounded by the Persian Gulf. A strait in the Persian Gulf separates Qatar from the island country of Bahrain, as well as sharing maritime borders with the United Arab Emirates. Following Ottoman rule, Qatar became a British protectorate in the early 20th century until gaining independence in 1971, Qatar has been ruled by the House of Thani since the early 19th century. Sheikh Jassim bin Mohammed Al Thani was the founder of the State of Qatar, Qatar is a hereditary monarchy and its head of state is Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. Whether it should be regarded as a constitutional or a monarchy is a matter of opinion. In 2003, the constitution was approved in a referendum. In early 2017, Qatars total population was 2.3 million,313,000 Qatari citizens and 2.6 million expatriates, Qatar is a high income economy and is a developed country, backed by the worlds third largest natural gas reserves and oil reserves. The country has the highest per capita income in the world, Qatar is classified by the UN as a country of very high human development and is the most advanced Arab state for human development. Qatar is a significant power in the Arab world, supporting several rebel groups during the Arab Spring both financially and through its globally expanding media group, Al Jazeera Media Network. For its size, Qatar wields disproportionate influence in the world, Qatar will host the 2022 FIFA World Cup, becoming the first Arab country to do so. A century later, Ptolemy produced the first known map to depict the peninsula, the map also referenced a town named Cadara to the east of the peninsula. The term Catara was exclusively used until the 18th century, after which Katara emerged as the most commonly recognised spelling, eventually, the modern derivative Qatar was adopted as the countrys name. In Standard Arabic, the name is pronounced, while in the local dialect it is, Human habitation of Qatar dates back to 50,000 years ago. Settlements and tools dating back to the Stone Age have been unearthed in the peninsula, Mesopotamian artefacts originating from the Ubaid period have been discovered in abandoned coastal settlements. Al Daasa, a settlement located on the western coast of Qatar, is the most important Ubaid site in the country and is believed to have accommodated a small seasonal encampment. Kassite Babylonian material dating back to the second millennium BC found in Al Khor Islands attests to trade relations between the inhabitants of Qatar and the Kassites in modern-day Bahrain, among the findings were 3,000,000 crushed snail shells and Kassite potsherds. It has been suggested that Qatar is the earliest known site of shellfish dye production, in 224 AD, the Sasanian Empire gained control over the territories surrounding the Persian Gulf
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Geographic coordinate system
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A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system used in geography that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation, to specify a location on a two-dimensional map requires a map projection. The invention of a coordinate system is generally credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene. Ptolemy credited him with the adoption of longitude and latitude. Ptolemys 2nd-century Geography used the prime meridian but measured latitude from the equator instead. Mathematical cartography resumed in Europe following Maximus Planudes recovery of Ptolemys text a little before 1300, in 1884, the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference, attended by representatives from twenty-five nations. Twenty-two of them agreed to adopt the longitude of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, the Dominican Republic voted against the motion, while France and Brazil abstained. France adopted Greenwich Mean Time in place of local determinations by the Paris Observatory in 1911, the latitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle between the equatorial plane and the straight line that passes through that point and through the center of the Earth. Lines joining points of the same latitude trace circles on the surface of Earth called parallels, as they are parallel to the equator, the north pole is 90° N, the south pole is 90° S. The 0° parallel of latitude is designated the equator, the plane of all geographic coordinate systems. The equator divides the globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres, the longitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle east or west of a reference meridian to another meridian that passes through that point. All meridians are halves of great ellipses, which converge at the north and south poles, the prime meridian determines the proper Eastern and Western Hemispheres, although maps often divide these hemispheres further west in order to keep the Old World on a single side. The antipodal meridian of Greenwich is both 180°W and 180°E, the combination of these two components specifies the position of any location on the surface of Earth, without consideration of altitude or depth. The grid formed by lines of latitude and longitude is known as a graticule, the origin/zero point of this system is located in the Gulf of Guinea about 625 km south of Tema, Ghana. To completely specify a location of a feature on, in, or above Earth. Earth is not a sphere, but a shape approximating a biaxial ellipsoid. It is nearly spherical, but has an equatorial bulge making the radius at the equator about 0. 3% larger than the radius measured through the poles, the shorter axis approximately coincides with the axis of rotation
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Education City
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Education City is an initiative of Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development. Education City aims to be instructing students in fields of importance to the Gulf Cooperation Council region and it is also conceived of as a forum where universities share research and forge relationships with businesses and institutions in public and private sectors. Moza bint Nasser was a force behind the foundation and construction of Education City. Education City was launched by Qatar Foundation in 1997, the same year, Virginia Commonwealth University became the first institute to establish itself on its campus. The city was inaugurated in 2003. Six American universities, one British university and one French university have branch campuses at Education City and they are, Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar School of the Arts. Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, the Medical College was established by Cornell University in 2001 and offers a two-year pre-medical program followed by the four-year medical program leading to a Doctor of Medicine degree. TAMUQ was established in 2003 and offers degrees in chemical, electrical, mechanical. As of 2011, it offers a masters degree in chemical engineering. CMU-Q has since 2004 offered undergraduate degrees in business, computer science programs, from Fall 2011, it has recently established a joint program with Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar offering Biological Sciences and Computational Biology. Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar, sFS-Qatar has, since 2005, offered a four-year program leading to a bachelors degree in foreign service. Northwestern University in Qatar began degree programs in journalism and communication in Fall 2008, HEC Paris began offering graduate executive education programs for mid-career and senior executives in 2011. UCL Qatar UCL Qatar arrived in 2011 and offers degree programmes in the areas of archaeology, conservation, cultural heritage. It also has two Qatari universities, Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies, founded in 2007, QFIS initially offered a two-year General Diploma in Islamic Studies. It subsequently established Diploma or masters programs in several fields, including contemporary fiqh, public policy in Islam. Founded in 2010, the university is a member of the Qatar Foundation and it was named after Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, former Emir of Qatar. It has four colleges including College of Science and Engineering, College of Islamic Studies, College of Humanities and Social Sciences and College of Law, other educational centers located at Education City include, Qatar Academy. QA offers an education for boys and girls from preschool to university entrance
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Georgetown Hoyas
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The Georgetown Hoyas are the athletics teams that officially represent Georgetown University in college sports. Part of the NCAAs Division I, the Hoyas field 23 varsity level teams, most of which participate in the Big East Conference. In late 2012, Georgetown and six other Catholic, non-FBS schools announced that they were departing the Big East for a new conference, the rowing and sailing teams also participate in east coast conferences. The mens basketball team is the schools most famous and most successful program, the team name is derived from the mixed Greek and Latin chant Hoya Saxa, which gained popularity at the school in the late nineteenth century. The name Hoyas came into use in the 1920s, most teams have their athletic facilities on the main campus of Georgetown University. The mens basketball team plays most of their games at the Verizon Center in downtown Washington, D. C. Lee Reed took over as the athletic director in April 2010. The University admits that the origin of the term Hoya is unknown. At some point before 1893, and likely before 1891, students versed in classical languages combined the Greek hoia or hoya, meaning what or such, and the Latin saxa to form Hoya Saxa. or What Rocks. This cheer may either refer to the defense of the football team, or to the baseball team. After World War I, the term Hoya was increasingly used on campus, including for the newspaper, hilltoppers was also a name sometimes used for the sports teams. By the fall of 1928, the newspaper had taken to referring to the teams as the Hoyas. This was influenced by a half time show at football games, where the mascot. Georgetowns unique team name has caused opponents to mock Georgetown with chants including Whats a Hoya, harrison High School, located in Kennesaw, Georgia, is the only other institution in the country licensed to share this name. However, Georgetown Preparatory School, which separated from the University in 1927, uses the name Little Hoyas for its sports teams and shares the Universitys blue, Georgetowns nickname is The Hoyas, but its mascot is Jack the Bulldog. Various breeds of dogs have been used by the teams as mascots since the early 1900s. Several notable bull terriers like Sergeant Stubby and Hoya were used at games in the 1920s. However, in 1951, the school suspended its football program because of the increasing cost of the financially and academically
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Research university
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Such universities can be recognized by their strong focus on innovative research and the prestige of their brand names. From the late 20th century to the present, U. S. research universities have dominated most international college and university rankings
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Georgetown University
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Georgetown University is a private research university in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D. C. the capital of the United States. Georgetowns main campus is located on a hill above the Potomac River, the campus is identifiable by its flagship Healy Hall, which is a National Historic Landmark. Georgetown offers degree programs in disciplines, enrolling an average of 7,500 undergraduate and 10,000 post-graduate students from more than 130 countries. The university is known for preparing leaders for careers in government. As of 2015, Georgetown produced more diplomats for the U. S, Foreign Service than any other school in the country, and has ranked second in the U. S. by the average number of graduates serving in the U. S. Congress. Georgetown is the oldest Catholic and Jesuit-affiliated institution of education in the United States. The Jesuits have participated in the academic life, both as scholars and as administrators, since 1805, however, the university has always been governed independently of the church. At present, the majority of Georgetown students are not Catholic, Georgetown is home to the countrys largest student-run business, as well as the largest student-run financial institution. Jesuit settlers from England founded the Province of Maryland in 1634, during most of the remainder of Marylands colonial period, Jesuits conducted Catholic schools clandestinely. It was not until after the end of the American Revolution that plans to establish a permanent Catholic institution for education in the United States were realized, Carroll began meetings of local clergy in 1783 near Annapolis, Maryland, where they orchestrated the development of a new university. On January 23,1789, Carroll finalized the purchase of the property in Georgetown on which Dahlgren Quadrangle was later built, future Congressman William Gaston was enrolled as the schools first student on November 22,1791, and instruction began on January 2,1792. During its early years, Georgetown College suffered from financial strain. The Maryland Society of Jesus began its restoration in 1805, and Jesuit affiliation, in the form of teachers and administrators, the school relied on private sources of funding and the limited profits from local lands which had been donated to the Jesuits. To raise money for Georgetown and other schools in 1838, Maryland Jesuits conducted a sale of some 272 slaves to two Deep South plantations from their six in Maryland, ending their slaveholding. In 1844, the received a corporate charter, under the name The President and Directors of Georgetown College. In response to the demand for an option for Roman Catholic students. The U. S. Civil War greatly affected Georgetown as 1,141 students and alumni enlisted in one army or the other, by the time of President Abraham Lincolns May 1861 visit to campus,1,400 troops were living in temporary quarters there. Due to the number of lives lost in the war, enrollment levels remained low until well after the war, only seven students graduated in 1869, down from over 300 in the previous decade
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School of Foreign Service
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The Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service is a school of international affairs within Georgetown University in Washington, D. C. Founded in 1919, SFS predates the U. S, despite its reputation for producing top diplomats, SFS is not exclusively a diplomatic academy and its graduates go on to have careers in a diverse set of private and government sectors. The schools most notable alumni include U. S. President Bill Clinton, CIA Director George Tenet, King Felipe VI of Spain, the School of Foreign Service was established in 1919 by a Jesuit priest Edmund A. Walsh. The main purpose of the founding was to prepare Americans for various international professions in the wake of expanding U. S. involvement in world affairs after World War I. Today, SFS hosts a student body of approximately 2,100 from 80 nations each year and it offers an undergraduate program based in the liberal arts, which leads to the Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service degree, as well as eight interdisciplinary graduate programs. The school has evolved from its emphasis on diplomacy and law to become a center for research. Faculty are today drawn from such as political science, history, economics and cultural studies, as well as from business. The school has about 1,500 undergraduates seeking a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service degree, the undergraduate program is intended to provide a liberal arts education with a focus in international affairs. The STIA program was the first of its kind, harvard and Georgia Tech, among others, now have STIA programs as well. Graduates go on to careers in the public, private, alumni include current, and recent heads of state. The current dean of the school is Joel Hellman. S, to graduate, students must also attain proficiency in at least one modern foreign language, demonstrated through successful completion of a specially-designed oral exam. However, the International Development certificate program, by far the most popular students, has suffered budget cuts in recent years that threaten the future existence of the program. The Georgetown-ESADE Global Executive MBA is an executive MBA program is offered in partnership with the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University, from September 1,2010 Uribe will give seminars and other programmatic activities to students of the universitys Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. While a University-wide endeavor in general, the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and it is also partnered with the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs, which seeks to improve graduate education in international affairs. The school has published the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs semi-annually since 2000, each issue includes a Forum, containing in-depth analysis of particular issues, and nine regular sections. SFS is also home to International Migration, managed by the Institute for the Study of Migration, the School of Foreign Service used to publish the National Security Studies Quarterly, but publication has ceased. In addition to general topics, the journals special focus was military technical issues. In 2012, Foreign Policy ranked Georgetowns masters programs first in the world, the School of Foreign Service main campus is located in northwest Washington, D. C
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Washington, D.C.
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Washington, D. C. formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D. C. is the capital of the United States. The signing of the Residence Act on July 16,1790, Constitution provided for a federal district under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Congress and the District is therefore not a part of any state. The states of Maryland and Virginia each donated land to form the federal district, named in honor of President George Washington, the City of Washington was founded in 1791 to serve as the new national capital. In 1846, Congress returned the land ceded by Virginia, in 1871. Washington had an population of 681,170 as of July 2016. Commuters from the surrounding Maryland and Virginia suburbs raise the population to more than one million during the workweek. The Washington metropolitan area, of which the District is a part, has a population of over 6 million, the centers of all three branches of the federal government of the United States are in the District, including the Congress, President, and Supreme Court. Washington is home to national monuments and museums, which are primarily situated on or around the National Mall. The city hosts 176 foreign embassies as well as the headquarters of international organizations, trade unions, non-profit organizations, lobbying groups. A locally elected mayor and a 13‑member council have governed the District since 1973, However, the Congress maintains supreme authority over the city and may overturn local laws. D. C. residents elect a non-voting, at-large congressional delegate to the House of Representatives, the District receives three electoral votes in presidential elections as permitted by the Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1961. Various tribes of the Algonquian-speaking Piscataway people inhabited the lands around the Potomac River when Europeans first visited the area in the early 17th century, One group known as the Nacotchtank maintained settlements around the Anacostia River within the present-day District of Columbia. Conflicts with European colonists and neighboring tribes forced the relocation of the Piscataway people, some of whom established a new settlement in 1699 near Point of Rocks, Maryland. 43, published January 23,1788, James Madison argued that the new government would need authority over a national capital to provide for its own maintenance. Five years earlier, a band of unpaid soldiers besieged Congress while its members were meeting in Philadelphia, known as the Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783, the event emphasized the need for the national government not to rely on any state for its own security. However, the Constitution does not specify a location for the capital, on July 9,1790, Congress passed the Residence Act, which approved the creation of a national capital on the Potomac River. The exact location was to be selected by President George Washington, formed from land donated by the states of Maryland and Virginia, the initial shape of the federal district was a square measuring 10 miles on each side, totaling 100 square miles. Two pre-existing settlements were included in the territory, the port of Georgetown, Maryland, founded in 1751, many of the stones are still standing
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Qatar Foundation
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In addition to private funding, it is government-supported and in some ways government-funded. QF has stated an aim to support Qatar on its journey from an economy to a knowledge economy by unlocking human potential. The organizations initiatives are oriented towards education, science and research and it has solicited a number of international universities to establish campuses in Qatar as part of its goal to develop a youth population with the necessary expertise to maintain a knowledge economy. Its main science and research agenda is developing Qatars technological capacity by researching new technologies which can be successfully commercialized, in addition to diversifying the economy, this strategy also helps satisfy Qatars aim of becoming a research and development hub. The foundations social development programs aim to preserve Qatars culture, foster a progressive society, joint venture partnerships in the areas of design, information and communication technologies, policy studies, and event management also contribute to fulfilling the objectives of Qatar Foundation. In primary and secondary education, Qatar Foundation has several initiatives, furthermore, the foundation launched the Academic Bridge Program, a post-secondary school program that helps students transition from high school to university. As a response to declining standardized test scores, Qatar Foundation terminated its partnership with the RAND Corporation in 2013,2002 – Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar opened, offering a two-year pre-medical program and a four-year medical program leading to an MD. 2003 – Texas A&M University at Qatar opened, offering programs in chemical, electrical, petroleum,2004 – Carnegie Mellon University Qatar opened, offering programs in computer science, business, and information systems. 2005 – Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar opened,2008 – Northwestern University in Qatar opened, offering programs in journalism and communications. 2011 – HEC Paris in Qatar launched the first EMBA in the country,2011 – University College London Qatar opened, offering postgraduate qualifications in museum studies, conservation, and archaeology in partnership with Qatar Museums Authority. These centers sit alongside the Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies which began its first graduate classes in the 2007–2008 academic year, an international center for Islamic thinking and dialogue, it aims to produce scholars who are grounded in Islamic faith, practice and civilization. It offers masters degrees in Islamic finance, contemporary Islamic studies, roughly half of these universities students are Qatari, and it is claimed that around 90 different nationalities in total are represented by the students, faculty and staff at the Foundation campus. The Foundation has managed to make an impact within its first decade or so in operation, the authors outline the response to this challenge and strategies to broaden student inquiry without engaging in indoctrination, it said. The summit has been held in Doha since 2009, a program known as the Qatar Science Leadership Program was initiated in 2008 in order to help develop aspiring applied science students. In 2014, the programs first PhD scholar graduated from university, the majority of the universities on Qatar Foundations campus run their own research programs, often collaborating with QFs own applied research bodies. In addition to the university programs, QF has formed international partnerships, including with the Royal Society, stars of Science, a reality TV show was launched in 2009 in order to discover young Arab innovators. The show features Arab innovators who compete to transform ideas into marketable products, a cash prize of $1 million is awarded to the winner. A notable research initiative organized by Qatar Foundation is the Qatar National Research Fund, the QNRF subsidizes competitively selected research by both local and international researchers for projects that adhere to Qatars national research strategy
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Persian Gulf
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The Persian Gulf is a mediterranean sea in Western Asia. The body of water is an extension of the Indian Ocean through the Strait of Hormuz, the Shatt al-Arab river delta forms the northwest shoreline. The Persian Gulf was a battlefield of the 1980–1988 Iran–Iraq War and it is the namesake of the 1991 Gulf War, the largely air- and land-based conflict that followed Iraqs invasion of Kuwait. The gulf has many fishing grounds, extensive coral reefs, and abundant pearl oysters, the body of water is historically and internationally known as the Persian Gulf. Some Arab governments refer to it as the Arabian Gulf or The Gulf, the name Gulf of Iran is used by the International Hydrographic Organization. The Persian Gulf is geologically young, having been formed around 15,000 years ago. Its length is 989 kilometres, with Iran covering most of the northern coast, the Persian Gulf is about 56 km wide at its narrowest, in the Strait of Hormuz. The waters are very shallow, with a maximum depth of 90 metres. Various small islands lie within the Persian Gulf, some of which are the subject of territorial disputes between the states of the region. The International Hydrographic Organization defines the Persian Gulfs southern limit as The Northwestern limit of Gulf of Oman and this limit is defined as A line joining Ràs Limah on the coast of Arabia and Ràs al Kuh on the coast of Iran. The Persian Gulf and its areas are the worlds largest single source of crude oil. Safaniya Oil Field, the worlds largest offshore oilfield, is located in the Persian Gulf, large gas finds have also been made, with Qatar and Iran sharing a giant field across the territorial median line. Using this gas, Qatar has built up a substantial liquefied natural gas, the oil-rich countries that have a coastline on the Persian Gulf are referred to as the Persian Gulf States. In 550 BC, the Achaemenid Empire established the first ancient empire in Persis, consequently, in the Greek sources, the body of water that bordered this province came to be known as the Persian Gulf. In the travel account of Pythagoras, several chapters are related to description of his travels accompanied by the Achaemenid king Darius the Great, to Susa and Persepolis, and the area is described. This water channel separates the Iran Plateau from the Arabia Plate, has enjoyed an Iranian Identity since at least 2200 years ago. Before being given its present name, the Persian Gulf was called many different names, the classical Greek writers, like Herodotus, called it the Red Sea. In Babylonian texts, it was known as the sea above Akkad, the name of the gulf, historically and internationally known as the Persian Gulf after the land of Persia, has been disputed by some Arab countries since the 1960s
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Arab states of the Persian Gulf
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The Arab states of the Persian Gulf are the seven Arab states which border the Persian Gulf, namely Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. This excludes the non-Arab state of Iran, all of these nations except Iraq are part of the Gulf Cooperation Council. Soap operas are important national pastimes in the Persian Gulf Arab region and they are most popular during the time of Ramadan, when families gather to break their fast. Most of these operas are based in Kuwait. Kuwaiti soap operas are the most-watched soap operas in the Persian Gulf region, although usually performed in the Kuwaiti dialect, they have been shown with success as far away as Tunisia. Kuwaiti popular culture, in the form of theatre, radio and television soap opera, darb El Zalag, Khalti Gmasha, and Ruqayya wa Sabika are among the most important television productions in the Gulf region. The inhabitants of Eastern Arabias coast share similar cultures and music such as fijiri, sawt. The most noticeable trait of Eastern Arabias Arabs is their orientation. Maritime-focused life in the small Arab states has resulted in a society where livelihoods have traditionally been earned in marine industries. Before the GCC was formed in 1981, the term Khaleeji was solely used to refer to the inhabitants of Eastern Arabia, historically, Khaleeji meant descendants of Ichthyophagi, the coast-dwelling fish eaters. Geographically, the Arabic-speaking is solely Eastern Arabia, some states are constitutional monarchies with elected parliaments. Bahrain and Kuwait have legislatures with members elected by the population, the Sultanate of Oman also has an advisory council that is popularly elected. Saudi Arabia remains a monarchy with limited political representation. In Qatar, a national parliament has been mooted and is written into the new constitution. Both organizations rank Kuwaits press as the most free of all Arab states of the Persian Gulf and, in fact, Qatar and Oman come in second and third respectively within the regional ranks. All of these Arab states have significant revenues from petroleum, the United Arab Emirates has been successfully diversifying the economy. 79% of UAEs total GDP comes from non-oil sectors, oil accounts for only 2% of Dubais GDP. Bahrain has the Persian Gulfs first post-oil economy because the Bahraini economy does not rely on oil, since the late 20th century, Bahrain has heavily invested in the banking and tourism sectors
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Epistle to the Ephesians
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The Epistle to the Ephesians, also called the Letter to the Ephesians and often shortened to Ephesians, is the tenth book of the New Testament. The main theme of Ephesians is “the Church, which is the Body of Christ. ”As a prisoner for the Lord, then, be completely humble and gentle, be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace, the Church is to maintain the unity in practice which Christ has brought about positionally. According to New Testament scholar Daniel Wallace, the theme may be stated pragmatically as “Christians, maintain the unity practically which Christ has effected positionally by his death. ”Another major theme in Ephesians is the keeping of Christs body pure and holy. Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children, and walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. From Ephesians 4, 17–6,20 the author of the Epistle to the Ephesians gives practical advice in how to live a holy, pure, according to tradition, the Apostle Paul wrote the letter while he was in prison in Rome. This would be about the time as the Epistle to the Colossians. However, many scholars have questioned the authorship of the letter. The first verse in the letter identifies Paul as its author, there are four main theories in biblical scholarship that address the question of Pauline authorship. Robert, and André Feuillet, Sanders, Schille, Brooke Foss Westcott, for a defense of the Pauline authorship of Ephesians, see Ephesians, An Exegetical Commentary by Harold Hoehner, pp 2–61. A second position suggests that Ephesians was dictated by Paul with interpolations from another author, some of the scholars that espouse this view include Albertz, Benoit, Cerfaux, Goguel, Harrison, H. J. Holtzmann, Murphy-OConnor, and Wagenfuhrer. Currently, most critical scholars think it improbable that Paul authored Ephesians, among this group are Allan, Beare, Brandon, Bultmann, Conzelmann, Dibelius, Goodspeed, Kilsemann, J. Knox, W. L. Knox, Kümmel, K and S Lake, Marxsen, Masson, Mitton, Moffatt, Nineham, Pokorny, Schweizer, still other scholars suggest there is a lack of conclusive evidence. Some of this group are Cadbury, Julicher, McNeile, for these reasons, most regard Ephesians to be a circular letter intended for many churches. However, scholars who dispute Pauls authorship date the letter to between 70–80 AD, in the latter case, the possible location of the authorship could have been within the church of Ephesus itself. Ignatius of Antioch himself seemed to be well versed in the epistle to the Ephesians. The major theme of the letter is the unity and reconciliation of the whole of creation through the agency of the Church and, in particular, a general account of the blessings that the gospel reveals. This includes the source of blessings, the means by which they are attained, the reason why they are given
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Wayback Machine
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The Internet Archive launched the Wayback Machine in October 2001. It was set up by Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat, and is maintained with content from Alexa Internet, the service enables users to see archived versions of web pages across time, which the archive calls a three dimensional index. Since 1996, the Wayback Machine has been archiving cached pages of websites onto its large cluster of Linux nodes and it revisits sites every few weeks or months and archives a new version. Sites can also be captured on the fly by visitors who enter the sites URL into a search box, the intent is to capture and archive content that otherwise would be lost whenever a site is changed or closed down. The overall vision of the machines creators is to archive the entire Internet, the name Wayback Machine was chosen as a reference to the WABAC machine, a time-traveling device used by the characters Mr. Peabody and Sherman in The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, an animated cartoon. These crawlers also respect the robots exclusion standard for websites whose owners opt for them not to appear in search results or be cached, to overcome inconsistencies in partially cached websites, Archive-It. Information had been kept on digital tape for five years, with Kahle occasionally allowing researchers, when the archive reached its fifth anniversary, it was unveiled and opened to the public in a ceremony at the University of California, Berkeley. Snapshots usually become more than six months after they are archived or, in some cases, even later. The frequency of snapshots is variable, so not all tracked website updates are recorded, Sometimes there are intervals of several weeks or years between snapshots. After August 2008 sites had to be listed on the Open Directory in order to be included. As of 2009, the Wayback Machine contained approximately three petabytes of data and was growing at a rate of 100 terabytes each month, the growth rate reported in 2003 was 12 terabytes/month, the data is stored on PetaBox rack systems manufactured by Capricorn Technologies. In 2009, the Internet Archive migrated its customized storage architecture to Sun Open Storage, in 2011 a new, improved version of the Wayback Machine, with an updated interface and fresher index of archived content, was made available for public testing. The index driving the classic Wayback Machine only has a bit of material past 2008. In January 2013, the company announced a ground-breaking milestone of 240 billion URLs, in October 2013, the company announced the Save a Page feature which allows any Internet user to archive the contents of a URL. This became a threat of abuse by the service for hosting malicious binaries, as of December 2014, the Wayback Machine contained almost nine petabytes of data and was growing at a rate of about 20 terabytes each week. Between October 2013 and March 2015 the websites global Alexa rank changed from 162 to 208, in a 2009 case, Netbula, LLC v. Chordiant Software Inc. defendant Chordiant filed a motion to compel Netbula to disable the robots. Netbula objected to the motion on the ground that defendants were asking to alter Netbulas website, in an October 2004 case, Telewizja Polska USA, Inc. v. Echostar Satellite, No.02 C3293,65 Fed. 673, a litigant attempted to use the Wayback Machine archives as a source of admissible evidence, Telewizja Polska is the provider of TVP Polonia and EchoStar operates the Dish Network
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Georgetown College (Georgetown University)
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Georgetown College, infrequently Georgetown College of Arts and Sciences, is the oldest school within Georgetown University in Washington, D. C. The College is the largest undergraduate school at Georgetown, and until the founding of the School of Medicine in 1850, was the higher education division. In 1821, the school granted its first graduate degrees, though the graduate portion has since divided as the Georgetown University Graduate School of Arts, the previous dean, Jane Dammen McAuliffe, left to become the President of Bryn Mawr College. Alone, the accounts for over 3,200 students,30 academic majors with 23 departments. This forms the core of the undergraduate population, from 1789 until the founding of the School of Medicine in 1850, Georgetown College was the only secondary school at what became Georgetown University. Robert Plunkett, the first president of Georgetown, oversaw the division of the school into three parts, college, preparatory, and elementary, elementary education was eventually dropped by Patrick Francis Healy, and preparatory eventually separated as Georgetown Prep. Over the years many schools have broken off of the College
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McDonough School of Business
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The McDonough School of Business is one of the four undergraduate and one of the five graduate schools of Georgetown University in Washington, D. C. It is named in honor of Georgetown alumnus Robert Emmett McDonough, the school was founded in 1957 as an outgrowth of the School of Foreign Service. On October 7,1998, the School of Business was renamed the McDonough School of Business in honor of alumnus Robert Emmett McDonough after he made a gift of $30 million to the school, in 2009 the McDonough School of Business moved into the newly constructed Rafik B. Hariri Building, named after the late Rafik Hariri, former Prime Minister of Lebanon and father of Georgetown alumnus Saad Hariri, the $82. 5-million privately funded building opened in the summer of 2009. As a Catholic and Jesuit university, Georgetown stresses ethics and social justice in its curriculum, the Georgetown Institute for Consumer Research is one of several academic research centers at the McDonough School of Business. The McDonough School of Business is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, undergraduates work toward a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. The curriculum combines business and liberal arts courses to provide a foundation in critical thinking and reasoning. The primary academic emphasis during the first and second years is the arts, notably economics, government, history, philosophy, English, calculus. Coursework usually shifts to mostly business courses in the junior and senior years, students must complete both 40 courses and 120 semester hours of liberal arts courses, business core courses, courses supporting a major or minor, and free electives. The McDonough School of Business has core courses in the disciplines of accounting, finance, marketing, management. Additionally these themes are supported by the strong support of minor concentrations among nearly 50 liberal arts disciplines. About one third of undergraduates choose to double major, Undergraduate concentrations include accounting, finance, international business, management, marketing, and operations and information management. In the 2013-2014 admission cycle, the 25th and 75th percentiles of the admitted students SAT scores were 650 and 750 for Critical Reading, students also pursue professional degrees, such as Juris Doctor, immediately after graduating. The Undergraduate Program Office and active students provide dozens of activities, many students also have internships in Washington, DC area, usually about 8–12 hours per week, at private equity, investment, and accounting firms, as well as government agencies. The school also offers six-week summer study-abroad programs tailored specifically for students at the University of Oxford, Fudan University in Shanghai. Graduate work offered by the school includes a day and evening Master of Business Administration programs, the Georgetown MBA Full-time Program is a general management program oriented toward those with liberal arts, science, or technical undergraduate degrees. Students who enroll in the 60-credit program typically are mid-level managers with an average of five years of work experience, during the course of the 21-month program, students are required to participate in four one-week residences, of which one is international. Joint degrees are offered combining the MBA with JD, MD, Masters in Public Policy, for the class of 2017, 33% of enrolled students are of international origin and 84% have international professional or academic experience
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Georgetown University School of Medicine
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Georgetown University School of Medicine, a medical school opened in 1851, is one of Georgetown Universitys five graduate schools. It is located on Reservoir Road in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC, Georgetown is the oldest Catholic medical school in the United States. The School is part of the Georgetown University Medical Center, which comprises roughly 80% of the research initiatives occurring at Georgetown University as a whole and it is the closest academic medical center in proximity to the National Institutes of Health. Georgetown and the NIH offer a combined GU-NIH PhD program in research to foster direct collaboration between the neighboring institutions. Technology leading to the introduction of the HPV vaccine, was developed at Georgetown Medical Center by Dr. Richard Schlegel, classes commenced in May 1851 and were only held at night until 1895. In 1898 the Georgetown University Hospital was established, in 1930, classes moved to the main campus. The School of Medicine offers an MD with a Research Track where MD students spend time in the laboratory and this is different from the MD/PhD program, which is longer and requires a PhD thesis. The School of Medicine and the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences cooperate to offer a program that leads to an MD. Research at Georgetown is especially strong in the areas of cancer, other combined degree programs include BA/MD, MD/MBA, and MD/MS. Georgetown University Medical Center comprises the School of Medicine, School of Nursing & Health Studies, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, in 2008, GUMC brought in $132 million in sponsored research funds, most of which was federally funded. Clinical care is provided at Georgetown University Hospital and satellite locations through a partnership with MedStar Health, Georgetown University Hospital Georgetown University School of Medicine Georgetown University Medical Center MedStar Health
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Georgetown Law
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Georgetown University Law Center is one of the professional graduate schools of Georgetown University, a private research university located in Washington, D. C. Established in 1870, it is the second largest law school in the United States, by average salary, Georgetown Law graduates have ranked 6th in the U. S. In the 2014 edition, Georgetown was ranked the #13 law school in the nation overall, the school also ranked #1 in clinical programs, #3 in international law, #2 in tax law, #4 in trial advocacy, #7 in healthcare law, and #8 in environmental law. The 2014 QS World University Rankings list Georgetown as the 17th-best law school in the world, in its latest ranking, December 2014, Business Insider ranks Georgetown as the 7th best law school in the US. In law professor Brian Leiters most recent law school ranking, Georgetown ranked within the top ten law schools in selectivity, student quality, and Supreme Court clerkship placements respectively. Georgetown Law was ranked 5th in the 2010 Super Lawyers ranking, Georgetown Law receives the most J. D. applications of any law school in the United States. Opened as Georgetown Law School in 1870, Georgetown Law was the first law school run by a Jesuit institution within the United States, Georgetown Law has been separate from the main Georgetown campus since 1890, when it moved near what is now Chinatown. The Law Center campus is located on New Jersey Avenue, several blocks north of the Capitol, the school added the Edward Bennett Williams Law Library in 1989 and the Gewirz Student Center in 1993, providing on-campus living for the first time. The Campus Completion Project finished in 2005 with the addition of the Hotung International Building, Georgetown Laws original wall is preserved on the quad of the present-day campus. In 2010, Georgetown Law was the tenth most selective law school in the United States, for the class entering in the fall of 2016,2,320 out of 9,862 J. D. applicants were offered admission, with 576 matriculating. The 25th and 75th LSAT percentiles for the 2016 entering class were 162 and 168, respectively, the 25th and 75th undergraduate GPA percentiles were 3.52 and 3.86, respectively, with a median of 3.77. In the 2016–17 academic year, Georgetown Law had 1,722 full-time J. D. students and 242 part-time J. D. students. Of the 645 graduates in the Georgetown Law class of 2013,467 held long-term,600 graduates overall were employed,6 graduates were pursuing a graduate degree, and 38 graduates were unemployed. 363 graduates were employed in the sector, with 245 at law firms with over 250 attorneys. 238 graduates entered the sector, with 89 employed by the government,81 employed in public interest positions,57 in federal or state clerkships. 83 graduates received funding from Georgetown Law for their positions, the median reported starting salary for a 2013 graduate in the private sector was $160,000. The median reported starting salary for a 2013 graduate in the sector was $57,408. 238 graduates in the class of 2013 were employed in Washington, DC,144 in New York,12 were employed outside the United States
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Georgetown University School of Dentistry
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The Georgetown University School of Dentistry was the dental school of Georgetown University in Washington, D. C. The school was established in 1901 as a component of the School of Medicine, in 1987, the school stopped accepting new students and was disestablished in 1990. The Washington Dental College and Hospital of Oral Surgery were integrated into the pre-existing School of Medicine as the Dental Department, a three-story annex was added to the Medical School to accommodate the new addition. Two-thirds of the cost of this $5,000 addition was absorbed by the faculty while the remaining third was paid by the medical faculty. The Medical-Dental Building on Reservoir Road was completed in 1930, facilitating growth of both the medical and dental components, in 1951, fifty years from the founding of Georgetowns dental program, the independent School of Dentistry was established. A Naval Reserve Dental Unit was created to study dentistry as performed in the U. S. Navy, throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the Dental School operated several clinics that provided free dental care to patients. The Community Dentistry Programs also sent dental students into the schools and communities of Washington, students could also study abroad in Europe and Latin America to study foreign dental clinical care. By the late 1980s, dental schools nationwide were closing for a number of reasons, price Waterhouse determined that by 1992, the Georgetown University School of Dentistry would be running an annual $3.6 million deficit. On March 19,1987, the Georgetown University Board of Directors voted unanimously to cease the operation of the school, the School of Dentistry shut its doors three years later, graduating its last class in 1990
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Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies
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The Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies is a school at Georgetown University in Washington, D. C. Founded as the School of Summer and Continuing Education in 1956, today SCS enrolls more than 5,000 students annually in all of its programs. The school also offers a Bachelor or Arts in Liberal Studies, a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies, and a Doctorate in Liberal Studies, CCPE also engages corporate and government entities to customize educational offerings to fit specific needs of organizations. Courses are offered at the Georgetown University main campus, the downtown campus in the heart of Washington, DC. Overlooking the idyllic Potomac River in Washington, D. C, Georgetown University was founded in 1789 by Archbishop John Carroll and his staff of Jesuit teachers. The School of Continuing Studies at Georgetown was founded in 1956 as the Georgetown University School for Summer, in the summer of 1974, currently the oldest degree program within the School, Liberal Studies, was launched by Joe Pettit, the dean of the SSCE at the time. SSCE graduated students for the first time in 1975, currently, students can earn a bachelors, masters, or doctoral degree in Liberal Studies. The Doctor of Liberal Studies degree is the first known doctorate of its kind in the world, masters and doctoral candidates can take courses in similar areas, except that graduate courses are not offered in Leadership, Communications, and Urban Analysis and Community Development. Additionally, graduate students may take courses in Islam and Muslim-Christian Relations, Medieval and Early Modern European Studies and it is designed to ensure that graduates enter the workforce prepared for a professional career. Students learn from a team of instructors made up of academic scholars and high-level industry professionals. Additionally, CCPE offers a program in Paralegal Studies, the paralegal program in the District of Columbia approved by the American Bar Association. This summer program gives access to Georgetown professors, experts in a given field. A college preparatory component helps student master college entrance exams, math, students can also take college courses for credit with regular Georgetown students during the summer. SCS also offers a partnership with the Semester in Washington program, moreover, SCS offers non-credit course offerings for former Georgetown faculty, alumni, neighbors and friends over the age of 55 at reduced tuition rates. Kelly Otter, PhD, serves as the Dean of the School of Continuing Studies, Dr. Otter leads SCS into its next era, building on the accomplishments of the school to design and launch innovative educational programs that advance the professional careers of its students. During her tenure at Pitt, she established the online learning platform, PittOnline, as the dean of the School of Continuing Studies, Dr. Rankin oversaw all of Georgetowns professional, summer, and continuing education programs. He is a member of the Deans Council at Georgetown University and oversees accreditation, in addition, he serves as executive director for the SCS Center for Media, Culture, & Social Good. Prior to joining Georgetown, Dr. Robert L. Manuel, PhD, served as associate provost and dean of the School of Continuing Studies until 2012, while at Georgetown, he revamped the Universitys only part-time bachelors degree program and introduced five new masters degree programs at SCS
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McCourt School of Public Policy
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The McCourt School of Public Policy is one of nine schools of Georgetown University in Washington, D. C. The school is based in Old North, the oldest academic building on the main Georgetown University campus, the school is led by Edward B. Montgomery, who became Dean of GPPI in August 2010, montgomery was preceded by interim Dean William T. Gormley. Establishing a public school in Washington, D. C. originated as an idea in the Georgetown University Department of Government. In 1980, the Government Department instituted a program and in 1982 hired two junior faculty members to teach courses in public policy. For the next five years, the Public Policy Program expanded, in 1985, the Government Department hired the first part-time director to help establish the framework for the Public Policy Program. By the late 1980s, enrollment in the program had grown to about 75 students, a Georgetown professor of philosophy and politics. Dr. Campbell was charged with the task of expanding the programs faculty, students. In 1996 the Public Policy Program was renamed the Georgetown Public Policy Institute, Dr. Judy Feder was appointed Dean in 2001. Faculty, applications, enrollment, staff, and facilities all grew under Dr. Feder’s tenure, under the leadership of current Dean Edward B. Montgomery, The McCourt School launched its first year in October 2013, the McCourt School launched the Executive Master in Public Policy Leadership in 2014. The Master of Public Policy is a 48 credit hour program offered as both a two-year full-time and three year evening program, the curriculum of the program teaches the quantitative skills needed to formulate policy solutions with a focus on politics, management, and ethics of development. The Master of Policy Management is a 36-credit hour mid-career degree program focused on analytics, management, the Program is designed for policy professionals with five to seven years of substantial policy and/or management experience. Different institutions send their best employees as fellows to McCourt School, certificate in Educational Leadership and Management is a non-credit professional development certificate designed to help local and state education officials support and lead improvement efforts. The McCourt School is not ranked by the National Research Council because it not have a doctoral program. Georgetown Public Policy Student Association, The Georgetown Public Policy Student Association is the student government of MSPP, the Latin American Policy Association, The Latin American Policy Association was developed in the Spring of 2015. LAPA’s mission is to promote the discussion, debate and analysis of policies, McCourt School Policy Conference, Each year, MSPP students work together to plan an annual public policy conference. The event brings distinguished academics and policymakers to Washington, D. C. to discuss the most pressing, Georgetown Public Policy Review, The Georgetown Public Policy Review is MSPPs nonpartisan, student-run peer-reviewed academic journal
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Georgetown University Library
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The Georgetown University Library is the library system of Georgetown University in Washington, D. C. The librarys holdings now contain approximately 3.5 million volumes housed in seven university buildings across 11 separate collections, the librarys largest building, the Joseph Mark Lauinger Memorial Library, is located on Georgetowns main campus and holds the majority of the library systems collections. Blommer Science Library is located in the Reiss Science building, on Georgetowns main campus and it stores materials for undergraduate and graduate study in biology, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, and physics. The Woodstock Theological Library is one of the oldest Catholic theological libraries in the United States, the library moved to Georgetown in 1974, accompanying the Woodstock Theological Center, which closed in 2013, although the library remains in existence. The School of Continuing Studies Downtown Library opened with the move of Georgetowns School of Continuing Studies to a new Downtown campus in 2013, the library offers course reserve materials and provides a pickup location for materials from other libraries. The Bioethics Research Library is located on the floor of Healy Hall. Dahlgren Memorial Library provides information and digital services and resources to faculty, staff. Riggs Memorial Library served as the library of Georgetown between 1891 and 1970, until it was replaced by Lauinger Library. Riggs library, which is located on the floor of Healy Hall, is one of the few existing cast-iron libraries in the country. The Williams Law Library is the library of the Georgetown University Law Center. The Wolff International and Comparative Law Library is housed separately from the Williams Law Library in the Hotung International Law Center Building, the Maternal and Child Health Library was founded in 1982 and is part of the Georgetowns National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health. Members may borrow books from libraries in the system and they share off-site storage. Official Website of Georgetown University Library
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Mortara Center For International Studies
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The Mortara Center for International Studies is an academic research center at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. The current Director of the Mortara Center is Associate Professor and Chair of the Georgetown University International Theory, past Directors include Kathleen R. McNamara, John McNeill, Carol Lancaster, Charles Kupchan, and John Ikenberry. Former United States Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is the Michael, the Mortara Center was established through a gift from the Michael and Virginia Mortara Foundation. To realize this mission, the Center organizes and co-sponsors lectures, seminars, the Mortara Center for International Studies was established in 2003 with a gift from the Michael and Virginia Mortara Foundation. At the time of his death in November 2000, Mr. Mortara was president, as an alumnus, Mortara served on the Universitys Board of Directors, recruited Georgetown students to Goldman Sachs, and encouraged the firm to support a variety of projects on campus. Virginia Mortara also has served as a past member of the Georgetown Board of Directors and she currently sits on the School of Foreign Service Visiting Board. The Mortaras elder son is a graduate of the School of Foreign Service class of 2004, the Mortara Center is located at 3600 N Street NW. The Mortara Center oversees the annual Georgetown University Lepgold Book Prize, the prize was created in honor of Joseph S. Lepgold, a Georgetown University Government and School of Foreign Service professor who died in December 2001. The $1,000 prize honors exceptional contributions to the study of international relations, the winning author gives a lecture at the Mortara Center on his or her scholarship. Past speakers have included Lawrence Summers, Samuel P. Huntington, John Ruggie, Robert Rubin, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the Modern International History Lecture features a contemporary historian who presents on an aspect of recent history related to international relations. The inaugural lecture was given by Yale Universitys John Lewis Gaddis in 2006, past lecturers include Paul Kennedy, Niall Ferguson, and Margaret MacMillan. The Illuminati Dinner Series at the Mortara Center is a dinner series where students converse with Georgetowns distinguished visiting scholars. Mortaras research seminars unite faculty and students to new research in academic disciplines of the School of Foreign Service. Research seminar sessions bring together Georgetown faculty, students, and invited scholars from various disciplines to share ideas, critique working papers and these meetings are made possible through partnerships with the Departments of History, Government and the Georgetown Public Policy Institute
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Woodstock Theological Center
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The Woodstock Theological Center was an independent, nonprofit Catholic theological research institute in Washington, D. C. Founded in 1973, the center took its name from Woodstock College, the center was an associate member of the Washington Theological Consortium. Until it closed, the center was housed at Georgetown University, in February 2013, the center announced that it was scheduled to close on June 30,2013, citing a lack of Jesuit staff as a reason
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Kennedy Institute of Ethics
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The Kennedy Institute of Ethics is one of the most prestigious bioethics institutes in the world. Located at Healy Hall, it was established at Georgetown University in 1971 as a center, think tank. Its first director, André Hellegers, said the goal was to bring expertise to the new. The Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation granted $1.35 million to the Institute, contributing to the establishment of its Bioethics Research Library and providing for two Chairs. The Institute was soon in need of financial support, which it received from Georgetown University and by several public, private. The philosopher Tom Beauchamp and the bioethicist Robert Veatch were among the first scholars to join the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, the institute features a top-ranked graduate program in applied ethics. Claire Lademacher, future Princess of Luxembourg, was a scholar for a few months in the fall of 2012. The Bioethics Research Library, founded by André Hellegers and the theology professor LeRoy Walters, was formalized in June 1973, today it contains over 32,000 monographs, covering all fields of bioethics
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Center for Contemporary Arab Studies
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The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University in Washington, D. C. United States is an academic center distinguished by its emphasis on study of the contemporary Arab world. Part of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, CCAS was founded in 1975 and noted scholars Hanna Batatu, previous directors of the CCAS have included Michael C. Hudson, Barbara Stowasser, and Ibrahim Ibrahim, the current director is Osama Abi-Mershed. CCAS offers an MA degree in Arab Studies as well as certificates in Arab Studies to undergraduates, CCAS MA program also has joint degrees with the Law School. MA in Arab Studies students can also get certificates in a number of programs including International Business Diplomacy and Refugee. The Center is funded by the university, by grants, since 1997, CCAS has served as the core of Georgetown Universitys National Resource Center on the Middle East and North Africa, funded by a Title VI grant from the US Department of Education. In addition, the Center hosts endowed chairs from Oman, Kuwait, a number of other private donors support scholarships for students and public lectures and symposium
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Center for International and Regional Studies
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The Center for International and Regional Studies, located in Doha, Qatar, is a center for international and regional affairs. The Center is a part of Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar, the Center works closely with SFS-Qatar Faculty to create research and publications, organize events and manage outreach activities. Founded in 2005, the Center works mainly in four areas, research, events and conferences, outreach and its inaugural director, Mehran Kamrava, still directs the Center as of 2015. The Centers main activities are concentrated on the affairs of the Middle East region. The Center for International and Regional Studies was established in 2005 as an initiative of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar. Since its inception, the Center has been involved in studies and events on international and regional studies with an emphasis on the Persian Gulf. The Center for International and Regional Studies mission revolves around five goals, Providing a platform for scholarship. Promoting the comprehensive examination and interchange of ideas, fostering introspective dialogue among students, scholars and specialists of international affairs. Facilitating the expansion of ideas and knowledge through publishing the results of its research, by financing and hosting conferences and seminars, engaging in outreach activities with a broad array of local, regional and international partners. The purpose of the CIRS research initiative was to determine the economic, political, the initiative also sought to examine the social and cultural inclinations evident throughout society. This multi-disciplinary research project aimed to understand the importance as a cultural and social space by examining the urban setting. CIRS launched this initiative to examine various experiences of transitional justice as they transpire across the region in the post-Arab Spring era. CIRS sponsors events and conferences throughout the year, model United Nations and Monthly Dialogue Series are ongoing events that the Center hosts. This CIRS-sponsored conference is an symposium for high school students to global issues and increase awareness on international politics. High school students from around the world come to Qatars capital city to debate contemporary international politics, following the 2007 annual conference, the Center hosted another one in January 2008. This monthly event hosts scholars from SFS-Qatar and elsewhere in order to discuss their latest academic research, palestinian Businessmen and the British Colonial State 1939-1946” by Dr. Sherene Seikaly. CIRS has published Occasional Papers on a variety of topics since its inception in 2007. Most of the papers are based on topics that are relevant to the Middle East and the Persian Gulf, patricia Fagen, Iraqi Refugees, Seeking Stability in Syria and Jordan CIRS, CIRS Newsletter, September 2007 CIRS, CIRS Newsletter, January 2008
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Georgetown Institute for Consumer Research
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The Georgetown Institute for Consumer Research is an academic institute within the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University that was founded in 2012. GICR regularly conducts and disseminates experimental and observational research on which consumers are the focus of analysis, GICR seeks to produce insights about consumers to help both consumers and practitioners make better decisions. The current director is Dr. Kurt Carlson, McDonough School of Business, home of the institute, is part of Georgetown University, founded in Washington, D. C. in 1789. The institute shares the university’s mission to produce knowledge and educate leaders to address the most significant challenges and opportunities facing business and society. On a monthly basis the Georgetown Institute for Consumer Research asks consumers what problems they have, the findings from this survey are intermittently compiled into a report on consumer behaviors. The GICR CPS is the survey of its kind, focusing not on consumer behavior or sentiment. This focus stems from the role that problem recognition plays in determining when. It tracks over 250 common consumer problem types organized into 30 plus subcategories, the data from the CPS correlates with Census data on consumer spending. Data from the CPS survey is used to generate and publish a monthly index referred to as the Problem-Driven Consumption Index. The PDCI is a measure of consumers’ future spending, based on the number of problems they have, their likelihood to solve those problems, and consumers capacity to solve problems. The PDCI is composed of three components, the quantity of problems, consumers likelihood to solve problems, and consumers expected spending to solve problems. Each component reflects algorithms used to compile the survey data. In addition to the overall PDCI, analyses are conducted for nine different categories of problems, GICR spending occasion reports are frequently cited in the media. Research briefs contain a summary of a finding from a study on consumer behavior. The Director of GICR is Professor of Marketing at McDonough School of Business, prior to joining Georgetown, Carlson was on the faculty of the Fuqua School of business at Duke University from 2001-2009. Carlson has published extensively on the topic of the development of consumer preferences, though much of his research explores consumer decision making, he also studies how voters, jurors, and managers make decisions. His research has been published in top marketing, psychology, and he has also published a book entitled, Contemporary Brand Management. The GICR Executive Board consists of David Thomas, Dean of the McDonough School of Business, Luc Wathieu, Deputy Dean and Professor of Marketing at the McDonough School of Business
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Center on Education and the Workforce
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The Center on Education and the Workforce is an independent, non-partisan research institute affiliated with Georgetown University in Washington, DC. United States The center does research in three areas with the goal of better aligning education and training with workforce and labor demand. The center uses data from federal and state agencies, and from private data organizations that provide employment projections, population estimates. These include, National Center for Education Statistics, O*NET, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Population Statistics, the center is staffed by senior research economists with backgrounds in education, economics, and issues pertaining to social mobility. The centers director is labor economist Anthony Carnevale, the center published Help Wanted, Projections of Jobs and Education Requirements Through 2018. The report projected education demand for jobs, by industry and occupation, the report predicts that by 2018, 63% of all jobs in the United States will require some form of postsecondary education. Published simultaneously is the same report broken down by state, for all fifty states, the center is funded by grants from the Lumina Foundation for Education and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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Institute for the Study of International Migration
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Institute for the Study of International Migration is a private, research institute located in Washington, DC. ISIM conducts interdisciplinary analysis of issues raised by international migration, conducts research, convenes symposia and conferences on U. S. immigration and refugee law, understanding forced migration and responses to humanitarian emergencies is another important area of its policy research. D. University of Pennsylvania Deputy Director - Andrew Schoenholtz, Ph. D. Brown University Director of Policy Studies - Lindsay Lowell, Ph. D. Brown University Research Director - Elzbieta Gozdziak, Ph. D. Adam Mickiewicz University Senior Associate - Patricia Weiss Fagen, Ph. D, stanford University Senior Fellow - Luca Barbone, Ph. D
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International Law Institute
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The International Law Institute, also known as the ILI, was founded as part of Georgetown University in 1955. The ILI provides training and technical assistance to find practical solutions to the legal, economic and financial problems of developing countries. Since 1983, the ILI has been an independent, non-profit educational institution serving government officials, legal and business professionals and scholars from its headquarters in Washington, D. C. To date, the ILI and its affiliates have trained over 31,000 officials, managers. The ILI is headquartered in Washington, D. C. and has regional centers in Kampala, Uganda, Abuja, Nigeria, Cairo, Egypt, Santiago, Chile, following World War II he returned to Germany to work for the reconstruction of legal education. Professor Kronstein believed that ties between European and American legal systems would facilitate business and trade. The Institutes early years were marked by work and academic exchanges. An early collaborator in this work was Professor Robert Hellawell of Columbia University Law School, the earliest courses offered were Foreign Investment Negotiation and International Procurement. Today the International Law Institute is an independent, not-for-profit organization and it continues to work closely with Georgetown University, as well as with numerous corporations, international organizations, and governments. The International Law Institute publishes numerous publications, the Digest is available both in print and on the State Departments website. Although publication was suspended after 1988, the office resumed publication in 2000 and has since produced volumes covering 1989 through 2008. A cumulative index covering 1989-2006 was published in 2007, and an edition of that index. In addition, the ILI publishes books on international and transnational law, trade, litigation, commercial dispute resolution. Ristau and Michael Abbell, a work designed as a practical guide for attorneys engaged in transnational litigation. The International Law Institute offers courses which cover topics relating to national and international business, investment, two courses are offered- introduction to Legal English and Legal Writing and Orientation to the U. S. The ILI has established an International Trade Law Center to assist countries in participating effectively in the WTO, the Center provides training to participants in government, in business, and in professional practice with respect to the WTO rules, procedures, and practices. The Center is chiefly a teaching institution, the seminars cover the legal structures that underlie arbitration and mediation, as well as an opportunity for participants to take part in mock arbitration and mediation. The Center has developed programs for judges, to assist them in their critical tasks of overseeing and supporting ADR regimes in their countries
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Institute for Law, Science and Global Security
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The Institute sponsors undergraduate and graduate courses and runs a Masters Program in International Law and Global Security. The Institute seeks to inform the policy debate about the nature, role and importance of international law as it connected to issues of science. Most recently, the Institute has begun an initiative in the area of cyber security. The Institute was founded by Professors Christopher C, Joyner and Anthony Clark Arend, and was initially called The Institute for International Law and Politics. It is currently directed by Professor Joyner, and Professor Catherine Lotrionte serves as the Associate Director of the Institute. Amit Yoran, former Chief of the National Cyber Security Division at the Department of Homeland Security, from 2007 to 2009, Brendan P. Geary--currently Associate Attorney at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP--served as the Institutes William V. OBrien Fellow. Institute for Law, Science and Global Security Home Page Video, Cyber Security, Law and Policy, An Integration of Disciplines
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Government Affairs Institute
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The institute trains federal executives in such responsibilities as testifying before Congress and developing budgets. GAI offers a certificate in legislative studies program and conducts a variety of courses on Capitol Hill, Gold, who became GAI Director in 1992. GAI was established in 1965 as part of the executive branchs United States Civil Service Commission, from 1978-84, Elizabeth Duke served as the director of the Government Affairs Institute in OPMs Office of Executive and Management Development. GAI was privatized by the government in 1995 and began its current affiliation with Georgetown University in 1997. GAI consists of the director, assistant director,5 senior fellows, ken Gold, Ph. D. is the Director. The faculty blog GAI On the Hill was established in March 2004 and continues to provide active commentary, some of the faculty are former Congressional Fellows and remain connected with the program. Official site Georgetown Public Policy Institute official site Georgetown University official site
