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World Savings merged with Wachovia Corporation in 2006, which was in turn acquired by Wells Fargo in 2008. In 1977 he established the Bernard Osher Foundation, headquartered in San Francisco , which contributes to higher education, the arts, and social services, with education receiving nearly 80 percent of its grants.
Osher was born to a Jewish family [1] and raised in Biddeford, Maine. [2] In 1948, he graduated with a B.A. from Bowdoin College. [3] He spent his early years in southern Maine, owning and running a large hardware store on Main Street in Biddeford as well as a big summer amusement park called Palace Playland in nearby Old Orchard Beach.
Osher may refer to: Osher (name) Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes; Osher Center for Integrative Medicine This page was last edited on 6 ...
She is Dean Emerita of Carnegie Mellon University Libraries (1998-2013). Before coming to Carnegie Mellon, St. Clair held leadership positions at several other universities. [2] St. Clair attended the University of California, Berkeley, receiving a bachelor's degree in English in 1962 and a master's degree in library science in 1963.
The CMU Libraries meets the research, information, and study needs of the students, faculty, and staff of the university, as well as researchers outside the university community. The library building is named after Charles V. Park, who was the library director at CMU from 1931 through 1957.
In 2018, Osher formally turned over the remainder of his and his wife's entire collection to the Osher Map Library, a collection "loosely valued at $100 million." As of 2024, the collection had half a million items with over 75,000 available in digitized format.
Kenneth R. Koedinger (born 1962 in Wisconsin) is a professor of human–computer interaction and psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. [1] [2] He is the founding and current director of the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center. [3] He is widely known for his role in the development of the Cognitive Tutor software.
Amicus usque ad aras is a Latin phrase usually translated into English as "a friend as far as to the altar", "a life-long partner" or "a friend to the very end". [1] The plural of amicus is amici leading to a separate usage of amici usque ad aras. [2] A song of the same name dates to the defunct Yale University Greek organization Phi Theta Psi ...