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The British Heart Foundation was founded in 1961 by a group of medical professionals who were concerned about the increasing death rate from cardiovascular disease. They wanted to fund extra research into the causes, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of heart and circulatory diseases. [7] BHF-funded clinical research
The University of Chicago was an entirely new university founded in 1891, using the same name as a defunct school founded in the 1850s which closed in 1886. See Old University of Chicago. Supporters of a new university raised money, selected a new campus in Hyde Park, and opened its doors in 1890.
Chicago School of literary criticism – group of faculty members at the University of Chicago (R.S. Crane, Elder Olson, Wayne Booth) who founded neo-Aristotelianism [note 1] J. M. Coetzee – 2003 Nobel Prize laureate in Literature; distinguished professor in the Committee on Social Thought
A History of the University of Chicago, Founded by John D. Rockefeller: The First Quarter-Century. Phoenix Book; P542. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-30383-7. Hilliard, Celia (2010). The Prime Mover: Charles L. Hutchinson and the Making of the Art Institute of Chicago. Museum Studies (36.1). New York: The Art Institute of Chicago.
It began construction on its permanent building in 1929, located across the street from First Unitarian Church of Chicago and designed by the same architect. Lombard College building, from an 1876 catalog. Lombard College was a Universalist institution in Galesburg, Illinois, founded in 1853. From the 1880s to 1913 it was the seat of the Ryder ...
Harper founded the nation's first departments of Egyptology and sociology at Chicago and established the University of Chicago Press.He also instituted the nation's first extension school, enabling those who worked during the day to attend classes at night and on weekends.
Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago was founded in 1860 as the Chicago Nursery and Half-Orphan Asylum. In addition to housing orphans and other dependent children, the Asylum provided day care services for working mothers. In 1931, the Chicago Nursery and Half-Orphan Asylum moved into a building at 2800 West Foster Avenue.
In 2000, she and fellow activist Marie J. Kuda co-founded the Jeannette Howard Foster Memorial Sewing Circle and Book Club, dedicated to preserving Chicago lesbian history. [6] Halko was named Woman of the Year by Gay Chicago Magazine in 1988; she was honored by the Illinois Gay and Lesbian Task Force in 1990. In 1996 she was inducted into the ...