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Queen's University Belfast has roots in the Belfast Academical Institution, which was founded in 1810 and which remains as the Royal Belfast Academical Institution. [7] The present university was first chartered as "Queen's College, Belfast" in 1845, when it was associated with the simultaneously founded Queen's College, Cork, and Queen's College, Galway, as part of the Queen's University of ...
The institution took root as The Biological Laboratory in 1890, a summer program for the education of college and high school teachers studying zoology, botany, comparative anatomy and nature. The program began as an initiative of Eugene G. Blackford and Franklin Hooper , director of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, the founding ...
School of Biological Sciences may refer to: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory School of Biological Sciences; Irell & Manella Graduate School of Biological Sciences;
The school was formerly named after James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA and then president of the laboratory, shortly after its founding.On July 1, 2020, the board of trustees voted to return the name of the school to the "Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory School of Biological Sciences" because of Watson's views on race.
The Tudor Gothic quadrangle of the former Queen's College, Cork was built by Sir Thomas Deane. The Queen's University of Ireland was established formally by royal charter on 3 September 1850, as the degree-awarding university of the Queen's Colleges of Belfast, Cork, and Galway that were established in 1845 "to afford a university education to members of all religious denominations" in Ireland.
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Queen's Students' Union (QSU) is the official representative body for students at Queen's University Belfast.Membership of the union is automatic and currently totals 24,560, making it one of the largest unions on the island of Ireland and in the United Kingdom. [2]
The School of Biological Sciences first opened in 1965 at the University of California, Irvine and was one of the first schools founded when the university campus opened. The school's founding Dean, Edward A. Steinhaus, [3] had four founding department chairs and started out with 17 professors. [4]